Bruno Sutter (born 16 April 1977) is a retired

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who played as a

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Career

Club career

Sutter spent his early years until he was 16, at FC Tössfeld in

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, after which he moved to FC Oerlikon and a year later to Swiss 1. Liga club

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. After only one season, Sutter joined

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in the Nationalliga A for their 1995–96 season under head coach

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, signing his first professional contract. Sutter played his debut for his new club in the home game in the

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the

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match on 24 June 1995. He was substituted in during the 69th minute as Basel won 1–0 against

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. After playing in one test game and another three Intertoto Cup matches, he played his domestic league debut for the team in the home game on 19 July as Basel won 2–1 against Sion. During his first league matches he was used as a substitute, but by the end of August he advanced to become a regular in the starting formation. He scored his first goal for the club in the home game on 19 November. It was the first goal of the match as Basel won 2–1 against

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. Staying with the club for two seasons Sutter played a total of 86 games for Basel scoring a total of four goals. 61 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, five in the

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, five in the

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and 15 were friendly games. He scored all four goals in the domestic league. After that, Sutter played for several clubs in Switzerland, including

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and

FC Lugano FC Lugano is a Swiss professional football club based in Lugano. The club was refounded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its origina ...

. In 2003 he went to

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. There, as with all of his clubs, he became an important player on the team and played in numerous games for the team. In August 2006 he went to

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. With Vaduz he was promoted to the Axpo Super League for the 2008/09 season, a year later the team was relegated again. Sutter was also one of the best players in the

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and was considered a racker in Switzerland.

Coaching and later career

In the 2010/11 season, Sutter said goodbye to professional sports and moved to the 3rd division of the Winterthur district club SC Veltheim, where he played for one season. He then joined FC Linth 04 in the summer 2011 as a player-assistant coach, where his younger brother, Tobias Sutter, also was playing. He then returned to SC Veltheim for the 2012/13 season, also as a player-assistant. He then joined FC Töss in the summer 2013, where he has also worked as an assistant coach since 2016. On 18 June 2017 the club confirmed that he had retired as a player.BY, BY BRUNO – MIR WERDET DICH VERMISSÄ!
fctoess.ch, 18 June 2017

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutter, Bruno 1977 births Living people Sportspeople from Langenthal Footballers from the canton of Bern Men's association football midfielders Swiss men's footballers FC Basel players FC Zürich players FC Schaffhausen players FC Lugano players FC Wil players FC St. Gallen players FC Vaduz players SC Young Fellows Juventus players Swiss expatriate men's footballers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein