Scott Chipperfield

Scott Chipperfield
Personal information
Full name Scott Kenneth Chipperfield[1]
Date of birth (1975-12-30) 30 December 1975
Place of birth Wollongong, Australia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Left Midfielder
Youth career
Bellambi Rosellas
Tarrawanna
Fernhill
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2001 Wollongong Wolves 131 (50)
2001–2012 FC Basel 269 (69)
2012–2014 FC Aesch
National team‡
1998–2010 Australia 68 (12)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24:00, 29 April 2012 (UTC).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 24:00, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield (born 30 December 1975 in Sydney,[2] New South Wales) is an Australian football (soccer) player who played as a midfielder for Wollongong Wolves, FC Basel, FC Aesch and Australia. His 2010 FIFA World Cup profile describes him "as a talented attacker with great physical ability and an eye for goal."[3] He is also known for his versatility in playing in both right and left midfield and as a left sided defender.

Personal life

Chipperfield was born to Kenneth and Dale Chipperfield in Wollongong, New South Wales. He is of English descent and holds dual Australian-Swiss citizenship, having lived in Switzerland since signing for FC Basel in 2001. He has said that he would be willing to return to Wollongong to play in the future, should a bid to gain a Wollongong based team in the A-League be successful.[4] As a boy, Chipperfield supported Liverpool. During his playing days at Wollongong he worked as a School Bus driver part-time.[5]

Club career

Wollongong Wolves

Chipperfield began his professional career at Wollongong Wolves in 1996 and was a vital member of the team that won the National Soccer League twice in a row, in 2000 and 2001, and the Oceania Club Championship in 2001. He scored the winning goal in the final of the Oceania Club Championship, as Wollongong Wolves defeated Tafea of Vanuatu 1–0. He twice won the Johnny Warren Medal for the most outstanding player in the Australian domestic season and gained interest from European clubs. He had an unsuccessful trial at English First Division side Bolton Wanderers in the winter of 2000.

FC Basel

In the Summer of 2001 Chipperfield joined Swiss Super League club FC Basel. He helped Basel win the league title (their first in 22 years) and the Swiss Cup in his first season in Switzerland. The following season, he was an important member of the team as Basel reached the Second Group Stage of the 2002/03 UEFA Champions League, notching up wins against MŠK Žilina, Celtic, Spartak Moscow, Deportivo de La Coruña and Juventus on the way. In 2003 he won his second gold medal in the Swiss Cup. In the 2004 and 2005 seasons he won his second and third League Championship titles with the club.

At the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Chipperfield played an integral role in the Australian midfield and defence, he was considered to be one of Australia's best players at the tournament. Therefore, he was subject to an unsuccessful bid by Charlton Athletic to obtain his services. But in July 2006 FC Basel announced that he had signed a three-year contract extension. At the end of this season Chipperfield played in the Cup Final in the Stade de Suisse and he received his third Cup Medal as Basel beat FC Luzern 1:0.

Chipperfield won the national Double for the second time in 2008, it was his fourth Cup title and his fourth League title. As Basel qualified for the UEFA Champions League, after a six-year absence, in 2008, Chipperfield was one of only three survivors of the squad that competed in the competition in 2003, the other two being Ivan Ergić and Benjamin Huggel. On 13 September 2008, he came on as a substitute for Orhan Mustafi during Basel's 2–0 defeat of FC Lucerne at St. Jakob-Park, to make his 200th league appearance for Basel. He also scored the second goal of the match. In January 2009, he was set to sign for Hertha BSC Berlin of the German Bundesliga, but the move fell through on the advice of medical staff.[6]

At the end of the 2009–10 season and 2009–10 Cup campaign Chipperfield achieved his third Double with the club. In April 2011 the club announced a further one-year contract extension.[7] To that date he had played 367 competition games for the club, scoring 83 goals. At the end of the 2010–11 season Chipperfield won his sixth League Championship title.

In the 2011–12 FC Basel season Chipperfield suffered injuries and therefore only played five games in the League season 2011–12 and three in the Swiss Cup 2011–12, scoring his only goal of the season in the first round away tie against FC Eschenbach on 17 September.[8] Chipperfields last game was in the 1:1 away draw on 11 December 2011 against Neuchâtel Xamax. At the end of the 2011–12 season he won his fourth Double, the League Championship title[9] and the Swiss Cup[10] with Basel.

On 18 May 2012 FC Basel announced on their homepage that the contact with Chiperfield would not be extended.[11] He is the Basel all-time record holder of titles with the club, with seven Swiss National League A/Super League and six Swiss Cup honours.

FC Aesch

On 1 June 2012 it was announced he had signed a short term contract to play for Illawarra Premier League club Tarrawanna.[12][13] Nevertheless, after a few weeks a move to the Swiss club FC Aesch was revealed by various media and confirmed.

International career

Chipperfield played his debut game for Australia in the Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane as a substitute during the 3:1 win against Fiji on 25 September in the 1998 Oceania Nations Cup. He scored his first goal for the national team in the game against the Cook Islands just three days later, it was the eleventh goal of the game as Australia won 16:0.

He is perhaps best known in Australia for his loyal and somewhat unexpected appearance at the 2002 OFC Nations Cup in New Zealand, a tournament which was marred by the financial turmoil of the then Soccer Australia. The non-existent financial contribution meant that the Australian players had to pay their own way to get to New Zealand. Chipperfield became the only one of Australia's large European contingent to answer the call and perform for his country in their time of need.

Chipperfield was selected to represent Australia at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, and was part of the team that defeated Uruguay in a playoff in November 2005 to qualify for the FIFA World Cup in Germany. On 12 October 2009, Chipperfield announced his intention to retire from the national team immediately after the 2010 World Cup.[14] After the final group game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup against Serbia, which Australia won 2–1, Chipperfield announced his retirement from international football.[15]

National team statistics

[16]

Australia national team
YearAppsGoals
199831
199900
200071
200194
200252
200330
200461
2005112
200690
200720
200831
200950
201050
Total6812

International goals

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 28 September 1998 Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia  Cook Islands 11–0 16–0 1998 OFC Nations Cup
2 3 June 2000 Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, Papeete, Tahiti  Solomon Islands 0–1 0–6 2000 OFC Nations Cup
3 28 February 2001 Estadio El Campín, Bogotá, Colombia  Colombia 3–2 3–2 Friendly
4 9 April 2001 BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia  Tonga 1–0 22–0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
5 20–0
6 16 April 2001 BCU International Stadium, Coffs harbour, Australia  Samoa 8–0 11–0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
7 8 July 2002 Ericsson Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand  New Caledonia 0–3 0–11 2002 OFC Nations Cup
8 0–5
9 31 May 2004 Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia  Tahiti 9–0 9–0 2004 OFC Nations Cup
10 9 February 2005 ABSA Stadium, Durban, South Africa  South Africa 1–1 1–1 Friendly
11 21 June 2005 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, Australia  Solomon Islands 5–0 7–0 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
12 10 September 2008 Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan  Uzbekistan 0–1 0–1 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Club

Wollongong Wolves
FC Basel

International

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. Retrieved 2010-07-13.
  2. ↑ FFA – Socceroo profile
  3. ↑ "Player Profile". fifa.com. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  4. ↑ "FFA plan to entice Socceroos". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 May 2006.
  5. ↑ http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/worldcup/family-chipperfield.shtml
  6. ↑ http://www.goal.com/en/news/15/germany/2009/01/22/1073063/scott-chipperfield-not-signing-for-hertha-berlin
  7. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2011). "Chipperfield ein weiteres Jahr beim FCB". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2011-04-22.
  8. ↑ Weber, Dominik (2011). "FCB startet erfolgreich in den Schweizer Cup: 4:0-Sieg in Eschenbach" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  9. ↑ "Jetzt hat Basel den Titel auf sicher" (in German). football.ch. 2012. Retrieved 2012-04-29.
  10. ↑ "Matchtelegram FC Basel 1893 5:3 FC Luzern" (in German). football.ch. 2012. Retrieved 2012-05-16.
  11. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2012). "Die Zeit von Scott Chipperfield beim FC Basel 1893 geht zu Ende" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2012-05-18.
  12. ↑ http://au.sports.yahoo.com/news/article/-/13836513/socceroos-pair-loom-for-west-sydney/
  13. ↑ http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/ex-socceroo-scott-chipperfield-returns-home-hoping-to-finish-career-in-a-league-with-sydney-club/story-e6frf4gl-1226379758731
  14. ↑ Smithies, Tom (12 October 2009). "Socceroo Scott Chipperfield to quit international football". The Advertiser.
  15. ↑ http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/272672/Mixed-Zone-Australia
  16. ↑ Scott Chipperfield at National-Football-Teams.com
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