Samuele Campo

Samuele Campo (born 6 July 1995) is a Swiss footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.[1]

Samuele Campo
Campo with Basel in 2019
Personal information
Full name Samuele Campo
Date of birth (1995-07-06) 6 July 1995
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Basel
Number 10
Youth career
0000–2015 Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2018 Lausanne-Sport 57 (11)
2018– Basel 19 (4)
National team‡
2011 Switzerland U16 2 (0)
2013 Switzerland U18 3 (2)
2013–2014 Switzerland U19 6 (1)
2015 Switzerland U20 3 (0)
2016 Switzerland U21 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:00, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 October 2016

Club career

Campo is a youth exponent from FC Basel. He made his Swiss Super League debut playing with FC Lausanne-Sport on 31 July 2016 against FC Thun.[2]

On 27 December 2017, FC Basel announced that Campo would return to the club, signing a four and a half year contact dated up until June 2022.[3]

Under trainer Marcel Koller Basel won the Swiss Cup in the 2018–19 season. In the first round Basel beat Montlingen 3–0, in the second round Echallens Région 7–2 and in the round of 16 Winterthur 1–0. In the quarter finals Sion were defeated 4–2 after extra time and in the semi finals Zürich were defeated 3–1. All these games were played away from home. The final was held on the 19 May 2019 in the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Bern against Thun. Albian Ajeti scored the first goal, Fabian Frei the second for Basel, then Dejan Sorgić netted a goal for Thun, but the end result was 2–1 for Basel.[4] Campo played in two cup games and scored a goal in the match against Echallens.

International career

Campo is of Italian descent.[5] He was a youth international for Switzerland.[6]

Honours
Basel
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References
  1. "Switzerland - S. Campo - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  2. "Lausanne-Sport vs. FC Thun - 31 July 2016 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
  3. FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Der-FCB-verpflichtet-Samuele-Campo". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  4. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Thun 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  5. "Samuele Campo". weltfussball.com.
  6. uefa.com. "Samuele Campo – UEFA.com". Uefa.com.


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