Paul Fischli (born 6 May 1945) is a Swiss former football player and

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. He played as a defender throughout the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

Career

As a sixteen-year-old, Paul Fischli played his debut in the FC Glarus first team in the third amateur division. The team were promoted to the 2. Liga at the end of the season. Fischli started playing semi-professionally in 1965 with FC Young Fellows Zürich in the Nationalliga B (later renamed Challenge League). Young Fellows were promoted at the end of the season to the Nationalliga A (later renamed Swiss Super League). Fischli played for Young Fellows for three years, but the team was relegated at the end of the 1967–68 season and the club sold the entire team. Fischli signed for

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in August 1968. He became an integral part of the Basel team alongside the likes of René Hasler,

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and

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and went on to win five League titles and two Swiss Cups between 1968 and 1979.
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in 1981 and retired as player in 1982, aged 37. He remained at the club as first team manager for a short while.

Honours

Basel *

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1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democrat ...

* Swiss Cup: 1975 * Swiss League Cup: 1973 Aarau * Swiss League Cup: 1982

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fischli, Paul 1945 births Living people Swiss men's footballers Swiss football managers FC Basel players FC Aarau players FC Aarau managers SC Young Fellows Juventus players Men's association football defenders People from Glarus