Stefan Bützer (born 17 September 1965) is a

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retired

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who played in the 1980s and 1990s as

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. Bützer played for his youth football with

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and advanced to their first team in the summer of 1984. He played two season for YB and in the

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season he played in 26 of the 30 league matches, scoring two goals, as they won the Swiss championship. He then moved on. Bützer joined

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's first team for their 1986–87 season under head-coach

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. After playing in eight test games, Bützer played his domestic league debut for his new club in the first game of the season, on 9 August 1986, away from home as Basel were defeated 1–3 by Sion. Bützer scored his first goal for his club on 21 March 1987 in the away game in the

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and it was the winning goal in the last minute of the match as Basel won 1–0 against his former club Young Boys. At the end of the following

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season, under manager

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, Bützer and his team suffered relegation and he left the club. In his two-season Bützer played a total of 94 games for Basel scoring a total of 15 goals. 65 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, three in the

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and 26 were friendly games. He scored eight goals in the domestic league, one in the

and the other six were scored during the test games. Following his time with Basel, Bützer played six seasons for

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. He then played two seasons for

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before he returned to Locarno for another three seasons before ending his active playing career.

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* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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