Stéphane Henchoz

Stéphane Henchoz
Personnel
birthday	7th September 1974
place of birth	Billens ,  Switzerland
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1992-1995	Neuchâtel Xamax	91 (1)
1995-1997	Hamburger SV	49 (2)
1997-1999	Blackburn Rovers	70 (0)
1999-2005	Liverpool FC	135 (0)
2005	Celtic Glasgow	6 (0)
2005-2006	Wigan Athletic	26 (0)
2006-2008	Blackburn Rovers	12 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1993-2005	Switzerland	72 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2009-2010	FC Bulle
2015-2019	Neuchâtel Xamax (Assistant Trainer)
2019	Neuchâtel Xamax
2019	FC Sion
2020–	Neuchâtel Xamax
1 Only league games are given.

Stéphane Henchoz (born September 7, 1974 in Billens ) is a former Swiss football player and current coach .

Henchoz played in the central defender position . He was one of the first Swiss footballers to prevail at a top European club. At Liverpool FC he formed the central defense together with the Finn Sami Hyypiä from 2000 to 2004 . After a short trip to Scotland to Celtic Glasgow , he played in the English Premier League for Wigan Athletic for the 2005/06 season before moving to Blackburn Rovers in the summer of 2006 . There, however, he only played twelve league games in two years and mainly had to contend with injuries. As a result, the club management released him on May 19, 2008. In October 2008, Henchoz ended his career.

He ran 72 times for the Swiss national football team and played at the European Championships in 1996 and 2004. In qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he was no longer considered. In 2001 and 2002 Henchoz was voted the best Swiss footballer abroad.

At the beginning of the 2009/10 season, Stéphane Henchoz was signed as coach of the Swiss first division club FC Bulle .

In the 2018/19 season he was on the sidelines for the first time at Neuchâtel Xamax in the Raiffeisen Super League . When he switched to league rivals FC Sion in the 2019/20 season, he inherited the released Murat Yakin . On November 3, 2019, Henchoz resigned from the coaching post at FC Sion after a series of defeats. He returned to Xamax in July 2020.

Web links

• Stéphane Henchoz on the Swiss Football League website
• Stéphane Henchoz in the database of weltfussball.de