Renato Steffen

Renato Steffen

Steffen with BSC Young Boys
in September 2014
Personal information
Full name Renato Steffen
Date of birth (1991-11-03) 3 November 1991
Place of birth Aarau, Switzerland
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
Basel
Number 11
Youth career
1998–2004 FC Erlinsbach
2004–2007 Aarau
2007–2011 SC Schöftland
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2012 Solothurn 27 (8)
2012–2013 Thun 19 (4)
2013–2016 Young Boys 67 (16)
2016– Basel 27 (9)
National team
2015– Switzerland 5 (0)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 29 October 2016.

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 27 November 2016

Renato Steffen (born 3 November 1991) is a Swiss footballer who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League. He is a left-footed winger.[1]

Club career

Youth football

Steffen played his youth football with local club FC Erlinsbach. He played three years in the Aarau U-14 and U-16 youth teams. He then transferred to SC Schöftland and spent another four years with them.

Solothurn and Thun

Steffen played amateur football in the 1. Liga Classic for FC Solothurn. After one season he transferred to FC Thun in July 2012[2] and made his professional debut on 2 September 2012 in the game against Servette FC. He scored 4 goals in 19 games for Thun in the 2012–13 Swiss Super League that season.

Young Boys

At the end of that season Steffan was sold for €500.000 to BSC Young Boys. Here he signed a four-year deal in Bern.

Basel

During the 2015–16 Super League winter break, on 12 January, FC Basel announced that Steffan had signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with them.[3] Steffan played his first team league debut for Basel on 7 February, coming in as a substitute in the 74 minute, in the home game against Luzern. He scored his first goal for his new club, the final goal of that match in the 85 minute and Basel won the game 3–0.[4] Under trainer Urs Fischer Steffan won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the season. For the club it was the seventh title in a row and their 19th championship title in total.[5]

International career

Steffan has played twice for Switzerland.

Honours

FC Basel

References

  1. http://www.footballdatabase.eu/football.joueurs.renato.steffen.173928.en.html
  2. Wäfler, Alexander (2012). "Unerschrocken in einer neuen Welt". Bernerzeitung. Retrieved 2012-10-20.
  3. FC Basel 1893 (2016). "Renato Steffen wechselt zum FC Basel 1893". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2016-01-12.
  4. Caspar Marti (2016). "Der FCB started mit einem 3:0-Sieg in die Rückrunde". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2016-02-07.
  5. Marti, Casper (2016). "Es ist vollbracht ! Der FCB ist zum 19. Mal Meister". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2016-04-30.


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