Thomas Bickel

Thomas Bickel

Personal information
Date of birth	(1963-10-06) 6 October 1963 (age 61)
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
		Division	Apps	Goals
Biel-Bienne	1984–85	Nationalliga B	29	6
Zürich	1985–86	Nationalliga A	30	3
	1986–87		29	8
	1987–88		33	8
	Total		92	19
Grasshopper Zürich	1988–89	Nationalliga A	24	2
	1989–90		30	2
	1990–91		33	1
	1991–92		31	7
	1992–93		32	3
	1993–94		29	7
	1994–95		19	2
	Total		198	24
Vissel Kobe	1995	Football League	25	6
	1996		30	12
	1997	J1 League	20	3
	Total		75	21
Career total			394	70

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[3]

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Switzerland	1986	5	1
	1987	6	0
	1988	5	0
	1989	1	0
	1990	4	1
	1991	7	0
	1992	5	1
	1993	3	0
	1994	11	2
	1995	5	0
Total		52	5

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. Thomas Bickel at National-Football-Teams.com

External links

• Thomas Bickel – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Thomas Bickel at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)