FC Gossau

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FC Gossau

Full name

Fussballclub Gossau

Founded

1906

Ground

Gemeindesportplatz
Gossau SG
(Capacity 4,700)

Chairman

Alex Bühler

Manager

Vlado Nogic

League

Swiss Challenge League





Home colours





Away colours

FC Gossau is a Swiss football (soccer) club from the city of Gossau in the canton of St. Gallen. The club currently plays in the Challenge League, the second-highest level of Swiss football.

1 History
2 Current squad
3 Notable former players
4 External links

[edit] History

After its foundation in 1906, FC Gossau spent the first 65 years of its history in almost entire unimportance. This changed in 1971 when they advanced for the first time to the 1. Liga (third level) by a 3-0 victory against FC Widnau. Between 1975 and 1978, they even managed to reach the promotion to the second level (NLB). Changeful years followed, the Club played mostly in the 1. or 2. Liga.

After another relegation to the 2. Liga in 1987, Roger Heri composed a new team and induced the "second bloom" of the FC Gossau in the nineties. In 1992, they achieved the promotion to the 1. Liga, after victories against FC Solothurn and FC Monthey they even got to the second level in 1993. Despite of the fact that there were seven clubs which had to relegate, they managed to remain in the NLB because they defeated FC Chiasso in the play-offs. However, in the following season they failed to avoid the relegation. Under the management of Heinz Bigler, the team defeated Ascona and AC Bellinzona in the play-offs and made it to reascend to NLB.

However, the last second level membership of FC Gossau so far (season 1996/97) lasted merely one season. While heading the table after the fifth matchday, the team afterwards fell back to the last place but one until winter break. Neither a change of manager nor the engagement of several new players caused the looked-for staying in the league. Thereafter, FC Gossau played with changing successes in the 1. Liga until 2006/2007 when they managed to reach the promotion again.

The club hit the headlines when they defeated the favourite FC St. Gallen in the Swiss Cup by 2-0 in 2007.

[edit] Current squad

As of 2008-04-17^[1]^[2]

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tobias Sutter
2	DF	Diego Büchel
3	DF	Philip Züger
4	MF	Christian Böhi
5	MF	Nehim Jakupi
7	FW	Anes Zverotić
8	MF	Marcel Zaugg
9	DF	Ifraim Alija
10	MF	Thomas Knöpfel
11	FW	Safet Etemi
12	MF	Mato Bajusic

No.	Position	Player
13	MF	Mario Bigoni
14	FW	Roger Gmünder
15	DF	Ralph Bühler
16	MF	Valmir Pontes Arantes
17	DF	Marc Lütolf
18	GK	Darko Damjanović
19	MF	Begat Bushati
20	FW	Zahir Idrizi
21	DF	Alexandre Edilson de Freitas
23	MF	Francesco Di Frisco
24	DF	Jean-Pierre Tcheutchoua
25	MF	Jorge Ariel Fernandez