Rolf Bucher (born in 1957) is a Swiss retired footballer who played in the 1970s. He played mainly as midfielder.

Rolf Bucher
Personal information
Full name Rolf Bucher
Date of birth 1957
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1975–1978 FC Basel 11 (0)
1978–1979 FC Grenchen 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bucher came from their youth team and joined FC Basel's first team in their 1975–76 season under head-coach Helmut Benthaus. After playing in three test games, Bucher played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 8 May 1976 as Basel were defeated 1–5 by Sion.[1] Bucher played mainly with the reserve team this and in the next season, in which he also played two games in the Cup of the Alps and three test games.

In Basel's 1977–78 season Bucher was mainly on the substitute bench. He played one game over 90 minutes and was substituted in on a number of occasions. Between the years 1975 and 1978 Bucher played a total of 27 games for Basel, without scoring a goal. 11 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, one in the Swiss League Cup, two in the Cup of the Alps and 13 were friendly games.[2]

After his time with Basel Bucher moved on to play for Grenchen in the National B, the second tier of Swiss football.

References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Sion - FC Basel 5:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rolf Bucher - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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