2005–06 Grasshopper Club Zurich season

Grasshopper Club Zürich
2005-06 season
ManagerSwitzerland Hanspeter Latour (until 3 January)
Bulgaria Krasimir Balakov (from 16 January)
StadiumHardturm
Swiss Super League4th
UEFA CupGroup stage

During the 2005–06 Swiss football season, Grasshopper Club Zürich competed in the Swiss Super League.

Season summary

Manager Hanspeter Latour left in early January to take charge of German club Köln. Bulgarian legend Krasimir Balakov was appointed to replace him. Balakov led the Zürich club to 4th place, one place lower than the previous season.

First-team squad

Squad at end of season[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Switzerland SUI Fabio Coltorti
2 DF Latvia LVA Igors Stepanovs
4 DF Switzerland SUI Roland Schwegler
5 DF Morocco MAR Tariq Chihab
6 MF Switzerland SUI Gerardo Seoane
7 FW Senegal SEN Demba Touré
8 MF Switzerland SUI Michel Renggli
9 FW Switzerland SUI André Muff
10 FW Brazil BRA Eduardo
11 FW Brazil BRA Rogério
13 DF Switzerland SUI Luca Denicolà
14 MF Switzerland SUI Dušan Pavlović
17 MF Dominican Republic DOM Vladimir Peralta
18 GK Liechtenstein LIE Peter Jehle
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF Colombia COL Alexander Viveros
20 FW Brazil BRA Leandro Fonseca
23 MF Spain ESP Raúl Cabanas
24 DF Switzerland SUI Kim Jaggy[notes 1]
26 MF North Macedonia MKD Aleksandar Mitreski
27 DF Switzerland SUI Kay Voser
29 DF Switzerland SUI Marc Lütolf
30 MF Brazil BRA António dos Santos
31 FW Switzerland SUI David Blumer
32 DF Switzerland SUI Scott Sutter[notes 2]
33 DF Peru PER Leonel Romero[notes 3]
34 MF Switzerland SUI Antonio Aiello
35 MF Switzerland SUI Vero Salatić[notes 4]

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
3 DF Switzerland SUI Igor Hürlimann (to Neuchâtel Xamax)
15 MF Switzerland SUI Ricardo Cabanas[notes 5] (to Köln)
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Uruguay URU Horacio Peralta
— GK Switzerland SUI Eldin Jakupović[notes 6] (to Thun)

Results

UEFA Cup

Second qualifying round

11 August 2005 Grasshoppers Switzerland 1–0 Poland Wisła Płock Hardturm, Zürich
19:30 Eduardo 68' Report Referee: Duarte Gomes (Portugal)
25 August 2005 Wisła Płock Poland 3–2 Switzerland Grasshoppers Kazimierz Górski Stadium, Płock
18:00 Gęsior 35', 38'
Zilić 69'		 Report António 30'
Eduardo 83'		 Referee: Egill Mar Markusson (Iceland)

3–3 on aggregate, Grasshoppers win on away goals

First round

15 September 2005 Grasshoppers Switzerland 1–1 Finland MyPa Hardturm, Zürich
19:30 Salatić 1' Report Marco Manso 19' Referee: Dougie McDonald (Scotland)
29 September 2005 MyPa Finland 0–3 Switzerland Grasshoppers Pohjola Stadion, Vantaa
18:30 Report Touré 75'
Salatić 80'
Rogério 86'		 Referee: Vitaliy Godulyan (Ukraine)

Grasshoppers won 4-1 on aggregate.

Group stage

20 October 2005 Grasshoppers Switzerland 0–1 England Middlesbrough Hardturm, Zürich
21:00 Report Hasselbaink 10' Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Espen Berntsen (Norway)
3 November 2005 Litex Lovech Bulgaria 2–1 Switzerland Grasshoppers Lovech Stadium, Lovech
16:00 Novaković 13'
Sandrinho 81'		 Report António 90' Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Georgios Kasnaferis (Greece)
30 November 2005 Grasshoppers Switzerland 2–3 Ukraine Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Hardturm, Zürich
20:45 Touré 85'
Renggli 90'		 Report Nazarenko 39'
Kravchenko 61'
Mykhaylenko 84'		 Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Edo Trivković (Croatia)
15 December 2005 AZ Netherlands 1–0 Switzerland Grasshoppers Alkmaarderhout, Alkmaar
20:45 Koevermans 70' Report Attendance: 8,153
Referee: Hervé Piccirillo (France)

References

  1. ^ "FootballSquads - Grasshoppers - 2005/06". footballsquads.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-08-07.

Notes

  1. ^ Jaggy was born in Varen, Switzerland, but also qualifies to represent Haiti internationally and would make his international debut for Haiti in 2011.
  2. ^ Sutter was born in Enfield, England, but also qualifies to represent Switzerland internationally through his father and represented them at U-21 level before making his international debut for Switzerland in September 2010.
  3. ^ Romero was born in Peru, but also qualifies to represent Switzerland internationally and would represent them at U-20 level.
  4. ^ Salatić was born in Zvornik, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), but was raised in Switzerland and represented them at U-19, U-20, and U-21 level, and has expressed interest in representing Serbia or Bosnia and Herzegovina internationally.
  5. ^ Cabanas was born in Zürich, Switzerland, but also qualifies to represent Spain internationally and has represented Galicia in unofficial matches.
  6. ^ Jakupović was born in Prijedor, Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina), and represented them at U-21 level, but was raised in Switzerland and represented them at U-21 level before making his international debut for Switzerland in August 2008.