Thomas Schweizer (born 13 September 1967) is a German former professional

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who played from the late 1980s until the early 2000s. He played mainly in the position as striker, but also as

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Career

Schweizer played his youth football with

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and in 1996 he advanced to their first team. He played for them for five seasons in the

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. Schweizer joined

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been Swiss national champions 20 times, Swiss Cup winners 13 times, and ...

for their 1991–92 season under head coach Ernst August Künnecke. After playing in seven test games Schweizer played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the

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on 24 July 1991 as Basel played a 1–1 with Yverdon-Sports. He scored his first goal for them in the same match. He stayed with the club just thus one season and during this time Schweizer played a total of 52 games for Basel scoring a total of nine goals. 34 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, four in the

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and 14 were friendly games. He scored four goals in the domestic league, two in the cup and the other three were scored during the test games. Following his time with Basel, Thomas Schweizer returned to his club of origin

, but he played only one game with them, before being loaned out to

Chemnitzer FC Chemnitzer Fußballclub e.V. is a German association football club based in Chemnitz, Saxony. The club competes in Regionalliga Nordost, the fourth tier of German football. The roots of the club go back to its establishment as Chemnitzer BC 193 ...

for the rest of the 1992–93 2. Bundesliga season. After this season he transferred to

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and played a number of seasons with other non-league clubs before ending his active football career in 2002.

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Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017–2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schweizer, Thomas Living people 1967 births Footballers from Freiburg im Breisgau German men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Men's association football forwards Swiss Super League players 2. Bundesliga players SC Freiburg players FC Basel players Chemnitzer FC players Freiburger FC players Bahlinger SC players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland