Alexander Frei

438 appearances across 9 clubs

Career record

Alexander Frei is a forward, born 15 July 1979, listed at 180 cm, and holds Switzerland citizenship. The club record here runs 1993–2013 across 9 clubs, 438 appearances and 215 goals.

The longest stay was FC Sion, 4 years from 1993 to 1997. FC Basel accounts for the most football: 103 appearances of the 438 on record. The best scoring rate came at FC Basel — 72 in 103, a goal every 1.4 games. Across 20 years there were 8 moves, roughly one every 2.5 seasons. At senior international level the record is 86 caps and 42 goals.

ClubYears AppearancesGoals
FC Sion1993–1997
FC Basel1997–1998111
FC Thun1998–1999326
FC Luzern1999–20005317
Servette FC2000–20036436
Stade Rennais F.C.2003–200610047
Borussia Dortmund2006–20097434
Borussia Dortmund II2008–200912
FC Basel2009–201310372

International record

TeamYears CapsGoals
Switzerland national under-19 association football team1996–199743
Switzerland national under-21 football team1999–2000199
Switzerland men's national football team2001–20118642

His clubs, in this archive

The archive covers 3 of the seasons Alexander Frei spent at Borussia Dortmund, 2006/07 to 2008/09. Their best finish in those years was 6th in 2008/09 and their worst 13th in 2007/08, averaging 48 points a season. Those placings are recalculated from the individual results rather than copied from a table, so they can be read against any other club on this site.

SeasonCompetition PositionPoints
Borussia Dortmund, 2006/07–2008/09
2006/07Bundesliga9th of 1844
2007/08Bundesliga13th of 1840
2008/09Bundesliga6th of 1859

Only the seasons this archive holds are listed — it begins in 2000/01 and covers league matches in the five competitions named above, so a career that started earlier or ran through other leagues shows a gap here rather than a blank.

How this page is put together

The career table above is the structured record held on Wikidata under a public-domain licence, read once and cached, not queried while you are reading. The player is bound to that record by date of birth rather than by name: a name search returns the wrong Klose and three different Robinhos, and a page carrying somebody else’s links cannot afford that.

Compare any two clubs he played for with the head-to-head tool, or read the records these seasons feed into.

Frequently asked

When and where was Alexander Frei born?

15 July 1979, and holds Switzerland citizenship.

Which clubs did Alexander Frei play for?

9 on record: FC Sion, FC Basel, FC Thun, FC Luzern, Servette FC, Stade Rennais F.C., Borussia Dortmund, Borussia Dortmund II….

How many of those seasons are in this archive?

3 of them, at 1 club. The archive runs from 2000/01 and covers the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, so seasons outside that window or in other leagues are not counted.

How long did the career last?

From 1993 to 2013 on the club record here, 20 years across 9 clubs in 1 of the five leagues this archive covers.

Which competitions can this site say anything about?

Bundesliga. Those are the ones his clubs played in during the seasons the archive holds; the rest of the career is listed above but has no placings beside it.

Where do these figures come from?

The career record is the structured data held for this player on Wikidata, which is public-domain. The league placings and points beside it are not: those are recalculated here from every individual result in the archive, which is why they can be compared with any other club or season on this site.