Christian Schwegler

Personal information
Full name	Christian Schwegler
Date of birth	(1984-06-06) 6 June 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Ettiswil, Switzerland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Club information
Current team	Red Bull Salzburg
Number	6
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003-2005	FC Lucerne	95	(0)
2005	Arminia Bielefeld	7	(0)
2006-2009	BSC Young Boys	105	(1)
2009-	FC Red Bull Salzburg	58	(1)
National team‡
2003-2006	Switzerland U-21	6	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19 March 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 June 2009

Christian Schwegler (born 6 June 1984 in Ettiswil) is a Swiss footballer. He plays for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga as defender.

He started with FC Luzern in the Swiss Challenge League (2nd division) and went on to Arminia Bielefeld in Germany but after one half of the season he went back to Switzerland. There he played for BSC Young Boys Bern. In 2009 he signed with FC Red Bull Salzburg where he played regularly as right defender. He is known for his long throw-ins (up to 35 meters).During the match versus SV Mattersburg on 27th March 2010 he shot his first goal for Salzburg. In the first half of the 2010/11 season he was injured and could not play the rest of the year.

Christian Schwegler has a younger brother who is also a professional footballer playing for Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga.

• Austrian Champion
  • 1x with FC Red Bull Salzburg (2010)

• Red Bull Salzburg profile Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
• football.ch profile
• Guardian Football Stats Archived 2012-10-02 at the Wayback Machine

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