Thomas Bickel
Personal information
Date of birth (1963-10-06) 6 October 1963
Place of birth Aarberg, Switzerland
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1985 Biel-Bienne 29 (6)
1985–1988 FC Zürich 92 (19)
1988–1995 Grasshoppers 198 (24)
1995–1997 Vissel Kobe 75 (21)
Total 394 (70)
International career
1986–1995 Switzerland 52 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Thomas Bickel (born 6 October 1963) is chief scout for FC Zürich and a former Switzerland national football team midfielder.

He was capped 52 times including three games at the 1994 FIFA World Cup and scored five goals for the Switzerland national team between 1986 and 1995.[1]

Working mostly as an entrepreneur in gastronomy after his career, he returned to football for good in 2013 as head of scouting at FC Zürich where he had started his professional career as a player in 1985. From 2016 to 2020 he was part of the club management as head of the sport department. Subsequently he returned to his former role as head of scouting.[2]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[3]
Club Season League
DivisionAppsGoals
Biel-Bienne 1984–85 Nationalliga B 296
Zürich 1985–86 Nationalliga A 303
1986–87 298
1987–88 338
Total 9219
Grasshopper Zürich 1988–89 Nationalliga A 242
1989–90 302
1990–91 331
1991–92 317
1992–93 323
1993–94 297
1994–95 192
Total 19824
Vissel Kobe 1995 Football League 256
1996 3012
1997 J1 League 203
Total 7521
Career total 39470

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[3]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Switzerland 198651
198760
198850
198910
199041
199170
199251
199330
1994112
199550
Total525

References

  1. Thomas Bickel Statistics FIFA. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  2. Dubach, Matthias (17 July 2020). "FCZ-Bickel akzeptiert seine Degradierung" (in German). Blick. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  3. 1 2 Thomas Bickel at National-Football-Teams.com


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