Alfred Bickel

Alfred Bickel

Personal information
Date of birth	(1918-05-12)12 May 1918
Place of birth	Eppstein, German Empire
Date of death	18 August 1999(1999-08-18) (aged 81)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1935–1956	Grasshopper Club Zürich	405	(202)
International career
1936–1954	Switzerland	71	(15)
Managerial career
1958–1960	Grasshopper Club Zürich
1963–1964	Grasshopper Club Zürich
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alfred Bickel, also referred to as Fredy Bickel (12 May 1918 – 18 August 1999) was a Swiss football player and coach. He played as a forward for local club Grasshopper Club Zürich and the Switzerland national team, participating with the latter in the World Cup finals of 1938 and 1950.

He played 405 matches and scored 202 goals in the Swiss first division from 1935 to 1956,^[1] a period during which he won 7 league titles and 9 cup titles with Grasshopper.

He was a member of the Swiss national team from 1936 to 1954, earning 71 caps and scoring 15 goals,^[2] including one in their first-round victory over Nazi Germany in the 1938 World Cup. He was the first player in World Cup history to score against the country of his birth; the only other player to have done so was Breel Embolo, also for Switzerland, against Cameroon in 2022.^[3]

Bickel is one of only two footballers ever to participate in World Cups before and after World War II, the other being Sweden's Erik Nilsson.^[4]

Awards
Preceded by Josef Stalder	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1953	Succeeded by Ida Bieri-Schöpfer

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