Adrian Kunz (born 7 July 1967) is a Swiss former

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and an ex-manager of several Swiss clubs, most recently

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side FC Wohlen in 2011–12. Kunz played as a forward in a playing career that included spells at domestic clubs such as

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and

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, as well as two seasons at German side

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Club career

Kunz started his career with Neuchâtel Xamax in the 1987–88 season. He made nine appearances in his first season as Xamax finished as league champions of the Nationalliga A, the country's top division. The following season, Kunz played five league games for Xamax and also made his debut in Europe, coming on as a late substitute for Philippe Perret in Xamax's 5–0 second-leg defeat to Turkish giants

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on 9 November 1988 in the second round of the competition, a defeat that meant Xamax were eliminated on aggregate. Kunz left for

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of the Nationalliga B midway through the season, and scored five times in thirteen games for his new club, with Bulle finishing fifth in the league. The 1989–90 season saw greater success for both player and club; Bulle finished as runners-up of the Nationalliga B West but ended up missing out on promotion by five points, while Kunz scored 15 goals in 32 league appearances, making him the joint-third top scorer in Bulle's promotion group. Kunz also netted 15 times in the following season, but did so in three fewer league games as Bulle slipped to eighth in the Nationalliga B, narrowly avoiding relegation to the third tier. Scoring six times in just ten games, Kunz was the second-top scorer in Bulle's relegation group, beaten only by teammate Andre Magnin. With Bulle in decline, Kunz joined top-flight side

ahead of the 1991–92 campaign. Ironically, Kunz found playing time easier to come by at his new, more successful club, playing all but three of 36 league games as the club finished in fourth place. The forward also scored twelve league goals – almost a quarter of Young Boys' collective tally for the season. Although Young Boys enjoyed more success in the 1992–93 season, finishing as league runners-up, Kunz only managed to score six goals in 32 appearances. However, Kunz recovered to score 13 league goals for the club in the 1993–94 campaign, ending the season as the Swiss top-flight's joint-fifth top-scorer and recording the league's joint-third highest assist count in the first stage of the season. With Young Boys slipping to a disappointing sixth-placed finish, Kunz transferred to third-placed

in time for the 1994–95 season. He played for

between 1997 and 1999, winning the 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Honours

Neuchâtel Xamax *

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: 1987–88 * Swiss Super Cup: 1987 FC Sion *

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: 1994–95 Werder Bremen *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kunz, Adrian Living people 1967 births Swiss men's footballers Men's association football forwards Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players BSC Young Boys players FC Sion players SV Werder Bremen players FC Zürich players FC Aarau players Bundesliga players Swiss football managers FC Wohlen managers FC Thun managers FC Fribourg managers 20th-century Swiss sportsmen