Christian_Fassnacht
Christian Fassnacht
Swiss footballer (born 1993)
Christian Andreas Fassnacht (born 11 November 1993) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a right winger for EFL Championship club Norwich City and the Switzerland national team.[3]
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Fassnacht playing for Young Boys in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Christian Andreas Fassnacht[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1993-11-11) 11 November 1993 (age 30)[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Right winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Norwich City | ||
| Number | 16 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014 | Tuggen | 17 | (10) |
| 2015–2016 | Winterthur | 47 | (11) |
| 2016–2017 | Thun | 35 | (10) |
| 2017–2023 | Young Boys | 182 | (58) |
| 2023– | Norwich City | 30 | (6) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2018– | Switzerland | 19 | (4) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:35, 18 February 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:31, 4 June 2023 (UTC) | |||
Young Boys
Fassnacht was part of the Young Boys squad that won the 2017–18 Swiss Super League, their first league title in 32 years.[4] He played an important role for the club during the title winning season, scoring 11 league goals.[5]
On 3 October 2019, Fassnacht scored a late goal deep into second-half stoppage time to give Young Boys a 2–1 home win over Rangers in the Europa League group stage.[6] On 25 February 2021, he scored in Young Boys' 2–0 second-leg victory over Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League Round of 32, securing passage into the Round of 16 for the first time in club history.[7]
Norwich City
On 25 July 2023, he departed Young Boys after six years at the club to join Norwich City,[8] reuniting with his former head coach David Wagner.
On 12 August, he scored his first goal for Norwich City in a 4–4 draw against Southampton.[9]
Fassnacht made his debut with the Switzerland national team (he never represented Switzerland before at any level) in a 2–1 away loss against Belgium.[10] In 2021 he was called up to the national team for the 2020 UEFA European Championship, where the team created one of the main sensations of the tournament reaching the quarter-finals.[11]
Club
- As of match played 17 February 2024[12]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[lower-alpha 1] | League cup[lower-alpha 2] | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Tuggen | 2014–15 | Swiss Promotion League | 17 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 18 | 11 | ||
| Winterthur | 2014–15 | Swiss Challenge League | 13 | 2 | — | — | — | 13 | 2 | |||
| 2015–16 | Swiss Challenge League | 34 | 9 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 37 | 9 | |||
| Total | 47 | 11 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 50 | 11 | ||||
| Thun | 2016–17 | Swiss Super League | 35 | 10 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 36 | 10 | ||
| Young Boys | 2017–18 | Swiss Super League | 34 | 11 | 6 | 1 | — | 9[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 49 | 14 | |
| 2018–19 | Swiss Super League | 35 | 11 | 4 | 0 | — | 8[lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 47 | 11 | ||
| 2019–20 | Swiss Super League | 30 | 7 | 6 | 3 | — | 8[lower-alpha 5] | 2 | 44 | 12 | ||
| 2020–21 | Swiss Super League | 36 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 12[lower-alpha 6] | 4 | 49 | 15 | ||
| 2021–22 | Swiss Super League | 18 | 11 | 1 | 0 | — | 9[lower-alpha 4] | 1 | 28 | 12 | ||
| 2022–23 | Swiss Super League | 29 | 8 | 4 | 2 | — | 1[lower-alpha 7] | 1 | 34 | 11 | ||
| Total | 182 | 58 | 22 | 7 | — | 47 | 10 | 251 | 75 | |||
| Norwich City | 2023–24 | Championship | 30 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 35 | 6 | |
| Career total | 311 | 94 | 30 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 10 | 390 | 112 | ||
- Includes EFL Cup
- Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, five appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
- Appearance in UEFA Europa Conference League
International
- As of match played 4 June 2023[13]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2018 | 3 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 1 | |
| 2021 | 10 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 4 | |
- Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Fassnacht goal.[14]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16 November 2019 | Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar |  Gibraltar | 3–0 | 6–1 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualification |
| 2 | 3 June 2021 | Kybunpark, St. Gallen, Switzerland |  Liechtenstein | 2–0 | 7–0 | Friendly |
| 3 | 4–0 | |||||
| 4 | 9 October 2021 | Stade de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland |  Northern Ireland | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification |
Young Boys
- Swiss Super League: 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20,[15][16] 2020–21,[17] 2022–23
- Swiss Cup: 2019–20, 2022–23[18]
Individual
- "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Switzerland (SUI)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 28. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- "Christian Fassnacht" (in German). Swiss Football League. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
- "C. Fassnacht". Soccerway. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- "Soccer - Young Boys end 32-year wait for Swiss title and end Basel dominance". Reuters. 28 April 2018.
- League, Swiss Football. "Torschützen - Swiss Football League". www.sfl.ch. Archived from the original on 9 July 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
- "Young Boys' Christian Fassnacht jolts Rangers' hopes with late winner". The Guardian. 3 October 2019. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- "Leverkusen 0-2 Young Boys". UEFA. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
- "Christian Fassnacht wechselt zu Norwich City" [Christian Fassnacht transfers to Norwich City] (in Swiss High German). Young Boys. 25 July 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- "Southampton 4-4 Norwich City". BBC. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- "Belgium 2-1 Switzerland: Romelu Lukaku scores twice as hosts win in Brussels". BBC Sport. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- https://www.uefa.com / uefaeuro-2020 / match / 2024485 - switzerland-vs-spain / lineups /? iv = true
- "C. Fassnacht". Soccerway. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- Christian Fassnacht at National-Football-Teams.com
- "Christian Fassnacht". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- "Young Boys wins Swiss league title in 54th week of season". Washington Post. Associated Press. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- "Young Boys seal third straight Swiss title". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
- "Young Boys win fourth straight Swiss league title". Yahoo. 18 April 2021. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- "Schweizerischer Fussballverband - Statistik und Resultate". www.football.ch (in German). Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- "SAFP Golden 11 2019". Golden11. 30 January 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- "SAFP Golden 11 Winners 2020". Golden11. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- "Das SFL-Team der Saison 2022/23" (in German). Swiss Football League. 29 June 2023.
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