Pirmin Schwegler (born 9 March 1987) is a retired Swiss

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

Career

Schwegler began his career with

FC Luzern Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne (german: Luzern). It is best known for its professional football team, which plays in the Super League, the top tier of the Swiss football league syste ...

. In summer 2005, he joined Young Boys. After just one year with Young Boys he signed with

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, th ...

. On 18 July 2009, after three years with the "Werksclub", Schwegler signed with

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The team is currently playing in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the Germa ...

. Schwegler, wearing the captain's armband for three years at Frankfurt, left the club in the 2014 summer transfer to join fellow Bundesliga side

TSG Hoffenheim Turn- und Sportgemeinschaft 1899 Hoffenheim e.V., or simply TSG 1899 Hoffenheim or just Hoffenheim () is a German professional football club based in Hoffenheim, a village of Sinsheim municipality, Baden-Württemberg. Originally founded in 1899 ...

on a three-year deal. He signed for Australian club

Western Sydney Wanderers Western Sydney Wanderers Football Club (colloquially known as Western Sydney, or simply as Wanderers) is an Australian professional soccer club based in the Western Sydney region of Sydney, New South Wales. It competes in the country's premier ...

, on a one-year deal, for their upcoming 2019–20 season. Schwegler retired from football at the end of the

2019–20 A-League The 2019–20 A-League, also known as the 2019–20 Hyundai A-League for sponsorship reasons, was the 43rd season of national level soccer in Australia, and the 15th since the establishment of the A-League in 2004. The regular season commenced o ...

in August 2020.

Personal

He is the brother of

Christian Schwegler Christian Schwegler (born 6 June 1984) is a former footballer from Switzerland who played as defender. Career Christian joined Red Bull Salzburg during the summer of 2009 from Young Boys Bern for a fee of €0.6m. During the Red Bulls' 6–1 w ...

. When he was 16-months-old, he was diagnosed with leukaemia. He was initially only given a 10% chance of survival. Doctors at the University of Bern Hospital's children's ward, led by Dr. Annette Ridolfi Luthy, fought to save him. The chemotherapy was successful but Schwegler had to go back to the clinic for regular check-ups throughout his childhood.

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* * 1987 births Living people Swiss men's footballers BSC Young Boys players FC Luzern players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players Eintracht Frankfurt players TSG 1899 Hoffenheim players Hannover 96 players Western Sydney Wanderers FC players Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Switzerland men's youth international footballers Switzerland men's under-21 international footballers Switzerland men's international footballers 2010 FIFA World Cup players Place of birth missing (living people) Swiss Super League players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players A-League Men players Swiss-German people Men's association football midfielders Footballers from the canton of Lucerne {{Switzerland-footy-midfielder-stub