swiss football player and coach

Urs Fischer ( born 20 February 1966 ) is a swiss former football player and current coach of Union Berlin. [ 1 ]

Playing career [edit ]

During his playing career, Fischer only played for two clubs : FC Zürich and FC St. Gallen. He was captain of both teams and, with 545 caps, is the record player in the swiss Super League. He started his career in the youth department of FC Zürich and played his first gear game as professional 7 April 1984 aged 18 in a 1–6 loss against FC Sion. [ 2 ] His only title is the winnings of the swiss Cup 2000. Fischer played four national caps for Switzerland under coach Ulrich Stielike.

Coaching career [edit ]

Fischer leave office playing professional football in 2003. He then coached the U-14, U-16 and U-21-teams of FC Zürich. After a short spell as the assistant director of Bernard Challandes in 2007-2008, he returned to the U-21. When Challandes was sacked, Fischer was appointed as caretaker 17 April 2010 and after three games, which he all lost, became permanent wave coach. He finished the 2010–11 season with FC Zürich second behind FC Basel. He was sacked by FC Zürich in 2012 following a poor league finish up, his successor Rolf Fringer would not last much longer, with a fellow coach under Fisher in Urs Meier being brought in to coach FC Zürich for the remainder of 2013. [ citation needed ] On 18 June 2015, Basel announced that Urs Fischer had signed a biennial shrink as first team director. [ 3 ] On 10 April 2017, the newly established FC Basel management announced that they would not extend the compress with him as head coach. [ 4 ] Fischer was announced as fresh lead coach of 2. Bundesliga slope 1. FC Union Berlin on 1 June 2018, signing a biennial contract with the club. [ 5 ] In his first season with the cabaret, he led Union to a historic promotion in Bundesliga after a third gear target finish, which enabled them to participate in the promotion play-offs, where they beat VfB Stuttgart on away goals. [ 6 ] In December 2020, he signed a condense propagation, keeping him at the club until 2023. [ 7 ] In the 2020–21 season, he led Union to a seventh target finish, thus qualifying for the inauguration UEFA Europa Conference League edition .

managerial statistics [edit ]

As of match played 18 December 2021[8]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team From To Record
Zürich 19 April 2010 12 March 2012 83 38 19 26 146 108 +38 0 45.78
Thun 1 January 2013 17 June 2015 112 46 30 36 158 137 +21 0 41.07
Basel 18 June 2015 2 June 2017 102 68 20 14 234 105 +129 0 66.67

1. FC Union Berlin 1 June 2018 present 139 55 44 40 206 179 +27 0 39.57
Total 436 207 113 116 744 529 +215 0 47.48

Honours [edit ]

As player [edit ]

Zürich

As coach [edit ]

Basel

References [edit ]