André Abegglen (7 March 1909 – 8 November 1944) was a Swiss football player and manager. As a forward he played for Grasshopper Club Zürich, the French club FC Sochaux-Montbéliard and the Swiss national team, for whom he appeared in two

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. He is the brother of Max Abegglen and Jean Abegglen, both players of the Swiss national team. He died in 1944, at the age of just 35.

Club career

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champion in 1934–35 and 1937–38, and was the top goalscorer of the former, with 30 goals in 28 appearances.

International career

On 2 November 1930, Abbeglen scored his first and last hat-trick for Switzerland in a Friendly against the

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. He was the shared top goal scorer of the 1931-32 Central European International Cup with 8 goals, alongside

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. With 12 goals in the Central European International Cup, he is the third highest scorer in the competition's history, only behind the likes of Ferenc Puskas(15) and

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(17), both of Hungary. He played in the

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, scoring one goal, and in the

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, where he scored three goals against

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, one in the round of 16 that ended in a 1–1 draw and two more in the replay, won by Switzerland 4–2. In total, he scored 29 goals in 52 matches for the Swiss team.

International goals

:''Switzerland score listed first, score column indicates score after each Abegglen goal.

Honours

Club

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Ligue 1: *Champions (2): 1934–35 and 1937–38

Individual

*Top goalscorer of the

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with 30 goals *Top goalscorer of the

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with 8 goals

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* * 1909 births 1944 deaths Swiss men's footballers Switzerland international footballers FC Sochaux-Montbéliard players Ligue 1 players Grasshopper Club Zürich players Servette FC players FC La Chaux-de-Fonds players 1934 FIFA World Cup players 1938 FIFA World Cup players Swiss football managers FC Sochaux-Montbéliard managers Servette FC managers FC La Chaux-de-Fonds managers People from Neuchâtel Association football forwards Sportspeople from the canton of Neuchâtel {{Switzerland-footy-forward-stub