Years Team Name Didier Gigon 1986-1988 FC Biel-Bienne Role Footballer | 1988-1991 Neuchatel Xamax 1991-1993 Lausanne Sports | |
Date of birth (1968-03-10) 10 March 1968 (age 47) Place of birth Biel/Bienne, Switzerland | ||
Didier Gigon (born 10 March 1968 in Biel/Bienne) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s 1990's and early 2000s.
Gigon started playing professionally with his local side FC Biel-Bienne in 1986 before moving to Neuchâtel Xamax in 1988. In 1991, he signed for Lausanne Sports then moved on to FC Basel in 1993. Two years later, he returned to Neuchâtel Xamax where he played for three seasons. During the 1998/99 season he played for Sing Tao of Hong Kong and Portugal's F.C. Alverca and returned to Switzerland late in the season to play for Neuchâtel Xamax for a third time. Etoile Carouge signed him in 2000 and he retired in the summer of 2001.
He earned one cap for the Swiss national team in 1990.
3x Vice-Champion de Suisse / Switzerland 1x Finaliste de la Coupe de Suisse / Swiss Cup Finalist 2x Vainqueur de la Coupe de la Ligue Winner of League Cup 1x Promotion en Ligue Nationale A Promotion to LNA (first division)
Equipe nationale Suisse / Swiss national team 1989 International A à 21 ans International A team at 21 1x International A 1989-1991 2x International B 4x International U21 3 buts | goals
EUROPACUP GAMES
1988 Neuchâtel Xamax – Galatasaray (TR) 1990 Neuchâtel Xamax – Malmö (S) Neuchâtel Xamax – Tromso (NOR) Neuchâtel Xamax – Goteborg (S) Neuchâtel Xamax – Estrella Amadora (POR) 1991 Lausanne Sports – Norkopping (S) Lausanne Sports – Lech Poznan (P) Lausanne Sports – La Gantoise (B) 1992 Lausanne Sports – Sparta Prague (TCH) Lausanne Sports – Admira Wacker (A) Lausanne Sports – Siofok (H) 1994 Bâle – Karlsruhe (D) Bâle – Real Madrid (E) Bâle – Stuttgart (D) Bâle – Freiburg (D) Bâle – Strasbourg (F) Bâle – Kaiserslautern (D) 1995 Neuchâtel Xamax – Etoile Rouge Belgrade (SER) Neuchâtel Xamax – AS Rome (I) 1996 Neuchâtel Xamax – Famagusta (CHY) Neuchâtel Xamax – Dynamo Kiev (UKR) Neuchâtel Xamax – Hambourg (D) Neuchâtel Xamax – Helsingborg (S) 1997 Neuchâtel Xamax – Tiligul Tiraspol (MOL) Neuchâtel Xamax – Viking Stavanger (S) Neuchâtel Xamax – Inter de Milan (I) 1999 Neuchâtel Xamax – Shelbourne (IRL) Neuchâtel Xamax – Vasas Budapest (H)
Formation entraîneur de football / football coach courses 1998 Training course Barcelona B 2000 Diplôme football base 2003 Diplôme C entraîneur/éducateur sportif 2004 Diplôme B UEFA entraîneur/coach 2009 Diplôme B+ UEFA entraîneur/coach elite women 2014 Diplôme B+ UEFA entraîneur/coach elite men