Marco Forrer

Marco Forrer
Date of birth	July 18, 1996
place of birth	Steckborn , Switzerland
Size	192 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	defender
number	# 33
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 2013	EHC Winterthur
2013-2015	EV train
2015-2018	HC Davos
since 2018	Friborg-Gottéron

Marco Forrer (born July 18, 1996 in Steckborn ) is a Swiss ice hockey player who has been under contract with Friborg-Gottéron in the National League since 2018 . His younger brother Sandro is also a hockey player.

Career

Forrer started his career with the youngsters at EHC Winterthur and went through all ages before moving to the elite juniors of EV Zug in 2013 . In the middle of the 2015/16 season , the defender was loaned to HC Davos , where he subsequently played his first NLA games. At the end of the season it was finally given entirely to the Bündner . Again came Forrer some inserts in the highest league in Switzerland but spent the majority of the season with HC Thurgau in National League B .

After three years at HC Davos Forrer moved to Friborg-Gottéron , where he met his younger brother Sandro .

International

From the 2011/12 season, Forrer played for various junior teams in the Swiss national team . He made his first appearance at a major event at the 2017 U20 World Cup in Canada, where he and his team finished in seventh place.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	team		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2011/12	EHC Winterthur	Elite Jr. B		12	1	2	3	14th		3	0	0	0	0
2012/13	EHC Winterthur	Elite Jr. B		34	2	12	14th	18th		5	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	EV train	Elite Jr. A		32	2	7th	9	28		9	0	5	5	2
2014/15	EV train	Elite Jr. A		37	1	10	11	20th		11	1	3	4th	12
2014/15	Argovia Stars	1st League		8th	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	EV train	Elite Jr. A		13	0	4th	4th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HC Davos	Elite Jr. A		5	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HC Davos	NLA		16	1	1	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	HC Davos	NLA		19th	0	2	2	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Hockey Thurgau	NLB		20th	0	1	1	10		2	0	0	0	2
2017/18	HC Davos	NL
Elite Jr. B overall				46	3	14th	17th	32		8th	0	0	0	4th
Elite Jr. A overall				87	4th	22nd	26th	60		20th	1	8th	9	14th
NLA / NL total				35	1	3	4th	8th		-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented  Switzerland  at:

• World Junior A Challenge 2015
• U20 World Junior Championship 2016

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2015	Switzerland	WJAC	2nd place		4th	0	0	0	2
2016	Switzerland	U20 World Cup	9th place		6th	0	1	1	0	−3

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Marco Forrer at eurohockey.com
• Marco Forrer at eliteprospects.com (English)