Maurizio Jacobacci (born 11 January 1963 in Bern) is a Swiss professional

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manager and former player.

Playing career

As a player, Jacobacci was a pacy winger who played over 300 games in the top Swiss league for eight different clubs. After starting out in the neighbourhood clubs Bethlehem and Bümpliz, he made the step up to the city's most important football club, Young Boys (YB), where he made the leap to the 1st team in 1978 and was active in it for five years. He won the Swiss championship 1987 with Neuchâtel Xamax. For Xamax he scored in a 2–0 victory in a

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quarterfinal home victory against

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Managerial career

Right at the end of his playing career in 1995, Jacobacci started his coaching career at the amateur level team of AS Origlio. For the next two decades, Jacobacci was head coach in lower league teams with a stint as assistant coach at Grasshoppers from 2000 to 2003 where he helped the team to win the Swiss championship twice. After a first short spell as head coach at Super League club

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in 2007–08, he was able to work for a longer time successfully at SC Kriens and FC Schaffhausen. With the latter club he managed to achieve two promotions in a row from the 4th to the 2nd tier of Swiss football. 2016 saw his first job abroad at Wacker Innsbruck. After four more engagements in Switzerland at FC Wil, a second tme at FC Sion, then Bellinzona and

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, he coached

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in France, CS Sfaxien in Tunisia and 1860 Munich in Germany. 1860 Munich started the 2023–24 season with a win against 1. FC Stockheim in the Bavarian Cup. He was sacked in December 2023.

Personal life

The son of Italian immigrants, Jacobacci grew up in the Swiss federal city of

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. He has two children and three grandchildren. His partner Ilona Hug is the ex-wife of K-1 world champion Andy Hug.

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* 1963 births Living people Footballers from Bern Swiss people of Italian descent Swiss men's footballers Men's association football forwards Swiss Super League players Swiss Challenge League players BSC Young Boys players FC Bern managers Vevey-Sports players Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players AC Bellinzona players FC Wettingen players Servette FC players FC St. Gallen players FC Lausanne-Sport players Swiss football managers Swiss Super League managers Swiss Challenge League managers Ligue 2 managers 3. Liga managers FC Chiasso managers SR Delémont managers FC Baden managers FC Wil managers FC Vaduz managers FC Sion managers SC Kriens managers FC Schaffhausen managers FC Wacker Innsbruck (2002) managers AC Bellinzona managers FC Lugano managers CS Sfaxien managers TSV 1860 Munich managers Grenoble Foot 38 managers Swiss expatriate football managers Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein Expatriate football managers in Liechtenstein Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate football managers in Austria Swiss expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate football managers in France Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Tunisia Expatriate football managers in Tunisia Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate football managers in Germany 20th-century Swiss sportsmen {{Switzerland-footy-forward-stub