2012–13 Grasshopper Club Zürich season

Grasshopper Club Zürich

2012–13 season
Chairman	André Dosé
Manager	Uli Forte
Stadium	Letzigrund, Zurich, Switzerland
Super League	2nd
Swiss Cup	Winner
Top goalscorer	Izet Hajrović (8)
Highest home attendance	18'400 2 December 2012 v Zürich (league)
Lowest home attendance	4'050 4 May 2013 v Servette (league)
Average home league attendance	8'600
←  2013–14 →

Review and events[]

The 2012–13 Swiss Super League began with a 0-2 loss against FC Sion. After this defeat the Grasshoppers remained unbeaten for twelve consecutive matches and goalkeeper Roman Bürki was able to set a new all-time record in keeping a clean sheet in Swiss football. He remained unbeaten for 659 minutes.^[1]

On May 20, 2013 the Grasshoppers won the 2012–13 Swiss Cup by a 5-4-victory on penalties against FC Basel. It was Grasshoppers 19th title in this competition and their first since 1994.

Matches[]

Legend[]

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches[]

Preseason[]

Mid-season (fall)[]

Winter break[]

Mid-season (spring)[]

Tournaments[]

3-Städte-Turnier Uster[]

Game duration 45 min

Tournament Horgen[]

Game duration 45 min

Hallenmasters 2013[]

Game duration 2x12 min (indoor tournament)

Super League[]

Kickoff times are in CET

League results and fixtures[]

League table[]

Results summary[]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
36	20	9	7	48	32	+16	69	11	4	3	25	13	+12	9	5	4	23	19	+4

Swiss Cup[]

Kickoff times are in CET

Squad[]

Squad, matches played and goals scored[]

No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of birth (age)	at GCZ since	Signed from	SL matches	SL goals	Cup matches	Cup goals
Goalkeepers
1	Roman Bürki		GK	(1990-11-14) 14 November 1990 (age 31)	2011	Young Boys	34	0	4	0
18	Davide Taini		GK	(1976-12-07) 7 December 1976 (age 45)	2011	Wil	2	0	2	0
33	Andreas Hirzel		GK	(1993-03-25) 25 March 1993 (age 28)	2012	Aarau	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	Willian Rocha		CB	(1989-04-01) 1 April 1989 (age 32)	2013	Sport Recife	2(3)	0	0	0
3	Stéphane Grichting		CB	(1979-03-30) 30 March 1979 (age 42)	2012	Auxerre	33	0	6	1
4	Milan Vilotić		CB	(1986-10-21) 21 October 1986 (age 35)	2012	Red Star Belgrade	31	2	5	0
5	Michael Lang		CB	(1991-02-08) 8 February 1991 (age 30)	2011	St. Gallen	33	3	5	0
13	Taulant Xhaka		CB	(1991-03-28) 28 March 1991 (age 30)	2012	Basel	19(6)	0	2(2)	0
19	Daniel Pavlović		CB	(1988-04-22) 22 April 1988 (age 33)	2011	Kaiserslautern	22(1)	0	4	0
22	Gianluca Hossmann		CB	(1991-03-25) 25 March 1991 (age 30)	2006		1	0	0	0
29	Levent Gülen		CB	(1994-02-24) 24 February 1994 (age 27)	2012		0	0	0(1)	0
34	Moritz Bauer		CB	(1992-02-25) 25 February 1992 (age 29)	2010		11(2)	0	3(1)	0
Midfielders
6	Vero Salatić		MF	(1985-11-14) 14 November 1985 (age 36)	2012	AC Omonia	31	3	5	0
7	Steven Zuber		MF	(1991-08-17) 17 August 1991 (age 30)	2006	Winterthur	30(2)	5	4	1
8	Amir Abrashi		MF	(1990-03-27) 27 March 1990 (age 31)	2012	Winterthur	22(5)	3	5(1)	0
10	Shkëlzen Gashi		MF	(1988-07-15) 15 July 1988 (age 33)	2012	Aarau	17(11)	4	4(1)	1
11	Frank Feltscher		MF	(1988-05-17) 17 May 1988 (age 33)	2011	Bellinzona	14(20)	1	5(1)	8
14	Izet Hajrović		MF	(1991-08-04) 4 August 1991 (age 30)	2000		32(2)	8	2(2)	2
27	Mergim Brahimi		MF	(1992-08-08) 8 August 1992 (age 29)	2001		0(16)	3	1(3)	0
28	Toko Nzuzi		MF	(1990-12-20) 20 December 1990 (age 31)	2003		22(4)	2	2(1)	1
32	Mohamed Coulibaly		MF	(1988-08-07) 7 August 1988 (age 33)	2011	Dornach	0(5)	0	0	0
Forwards
9	João Paiva		ST	(1983-02-08) 8 February 1983 (age 38)	2011	Luzern	2(10)	0	2(1)	4
15	Nassim Ben Khalifa		ST	(1992-01-13) 13 January 1992 (age 30)	2012	Young Boys	26(7)	5	2(1)	0
17	Anatole Ngamukol		ST	(1988-01-15) 15 January 1988 (age 34)	2013	Thun	13(3)	5	3	1
25	Endogan Adili		ST	(1994-08-03) 3 August 1994 (age 27)	2003		0(1)	0	1	0
35	Orhan Mustafi		ST	(1990-04-04) 4 April 1990 (age 31)	2011	Basel	0(4)	0	0(1)	0

Last updated: 2 June 2013

Note: Numbers in parenthesis denotes substitution appearances.

Players in italic left the club during the season

Transfers[]

Summer Transfers in
Name	Nationality	Position	Type	Moving from
Milan Vilotić		CB	Transfer	Red Star Belgrade
Shkëlzen Gashi		MF	Transfer	Aarau
Stéphane Grichting		CB	Transfer	Auxerre
Vero Salatić		CB	Transfer	AC Omonia
Andreas Hirzel		GK	on loan	Aarau
Nassim Ben Khalifa		ST	on loan	BSC Young Boys
Raphael Spiegel		GK	loan return	SC Brühl
Steven Lang		MF	loan return	Lausanne
Charyl Chappuis		MF	loan return	Locarno
Josip Colina		CB	loan return	Lugano

Summer Transfers out
Name	Nationality	Position	Type	Moving to
Raphael Spiegel		GK	Transfer	West Ham United
Davide Callà		MF	Transfer	Aarau
		GK	Transfer	FC Wettswil-Bonstetten
Sehar Fejzulahi		MF	Transfer	Aarau
Davor Landeka		MF	Transfer	Široki Brijeg
Daniël de Ridder		MF	Transfer	Heerenveen
Paulo Menezes		CB	Transfer	Lugano
Iacopo La Rocca		CB	Transfer	Western Sydney Wanderers
Marco Kehl		CB	Transfer	Lugano
Bruno Bertucci		CB	Transfer	Neftchi Baku
Josip Colina		CB	Transfer	unknown
Charyl Chappuis		MF	on loan	Lugano
Steven Lang		MF	on loan	Servette FC
		MF	loan return	Winterthur
Boris Smiljanić		CB	retired
Ricardo Cabanas		MF	retired

Winter Transfers in
Name	Nationality	Position	Type	Moving from
Anatole Ngamukol		ST	Transfer	Thun
Willian Rocha		CB	on loan	Sport Recife
Charyl Chappuis		MF	loan return	Lugano

Winter Transfers out
Name	Nationality	Position	Type	Moving to
Endogan Adili		MF	Transfer	Basel
Charyl Chappuis		MF	Transfer	Buriram
Orhan Mustafi		ST	on loan	Wil

Coaching staff[]

Position	Staff
Manager	Uli Forte
Assistant coach	Zoltan Kadar
Fitness coach	Alex Kern
Goalkeeper coach	Christoph Born

Sources[]