Alexandre Quennoz (born 21 September 1978) is a former

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football player, who last played as a defender for

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club

Neuchâtel Xamax , neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier , twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (Fra ...

Football career

Born in

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, Quennoz played his youth football and started his career at local club

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. He advanced to Sion's first team in 1996 under head-coach

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and during his first season he had five appearances for them, as they topped the table to become Swiss champions. During the next season Quennoz advanced to become a regular starter under new head-coach

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. Quennoz played three seasons for Sion before he moved on. Quennoz joined

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's first team for their 1999–2000 season under new head-coach

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. After playing in four test matches and four games in the

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Quennoz played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game on 31 October 1999 as Basel played a 2–2 draw with

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. In his first season with Basel Quennoz played in just eight league matches, but then he advanced to become a regular starter. In their FC Basel's 2001–02 season Quennoz was first choice right back and won the double (league and cup) with the club and advanced to the final of the

, but here they suffered defeat,

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won 5–2 on aggregate. The following season Basel were runners-up in the league, but they were able to repeat the cup victory as Basel beat Xamax 6–0 in the final. Quennoz scored his first goal for his club on 19 October 2003 in the

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away game as Basel won 4–1 against

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. In their 2003–04 season and 2004–05 season Quennoz and Basel were able to win the domestic league championship another two times. Quennoz played for Basel for seven season, but during the last two he was no longer regular player and therefore he decided to move on. Between the years 1999 and 2006 Quennoz played a total of 243 games for Basel scoring a total of three goals. 98 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, 14 in the

, 10 in the Champions League, nine in the

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, 11 in the

and 101 were friendly games. He did not score a goal in the domestic league, but one in cup and the other two were scored during the test games. In 2006 Quennoz joined

on a free transfer in search of first-team football. Xamax had just suffered relegation and were strengthening their squad in an attempt to regain promotion to the top flight. This attempt was achieved, as division champions Quennoz and Xamax won promotion. Quennoz played for Xamax for three years. His last game before retirement was in the 3–1 home win on 24 May 2009 against

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. Quennoz played nine games for the Swiss national U-21 football team.

Private life

Since his retirement he is working for an assurance company. In July 2017 Quennoz was appointed as coach by

for the U18 team. On 5 June 2020 the club announced that Quennoz was to become the coach for their U21 team.

Honours

Sion *

Champion: 1996–97 Basel *

Champion: 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05 *

Winner: 2001–02, 2002–03 Neuchâtel Xamax *

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Champion and promotion: 2006–07

References

Sources

* * Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Quennoz, Alexandre 1978 births Living people Swiss men's footballers FC Basel players FC Sion players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players Men's association football defenders Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players Sportspeople from Sion, Switzerland Footballers from Valais