Scott Chipperfield

Scott Kenneth Chipperfield (born 30 December 1975) is an Australian 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."[2] He is also known for his versatility in playing in both right and left midfield and as a left sided defender.

Scott Chipperfield
Personal information
Full name Scott Kenneth Chipperfield[1]
Date of birth (1975-12-30) 30 December 1975[1]
Place of birth Wollongong, Australia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Left Midfielder
Youth career
Bellambi FC
Tarrawanna Blueys
Fernhill Foxes
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–2001 Wollongong Wolves 131 (50)
2001–2012 FC Basel 269 (69)
2012 Tarrawanna Blueys
2012–2014 FC Aesch
2019 Bellambi FC 12 (6)
National team‡
1998–2010 Australia 68 (12)
Teams managed
2017–2018 FC United Zürich (assistant)
2018 FC Luzern Frauen
2018– Illawarra Stingrays
* 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)

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.[3] As a boy, Chipperfield supported Liverpool. During his playing days at Wollongong he worked as a school bus driver part-time.[4]

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.

In early June 2001, Perth Glory announced that Chipperfield would be joining them for the 2001–02 NSL season, however he signed for FC Basel before his Wollongong Wolves contract expired at the end of the month.[5][6]

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 Luzern 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 of the German Bundesliga, but the move fell through on the advice of medical staff.[7]

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.[8] 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.[9] 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[10] and the Swiss Cup[11] with Basel.

On 18 May 2012 FC Basel announced on their homepage that the contact with Chipperfield would not be extended.[12] 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 Blueys FC.[13][14][15] 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 Europe-based 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.[16] 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.[17]

Career statistics

Club
As of 19 December 2018[18]
Club Season League[lower-alpha 1] Cup[lower-alpha 2] Continental[lower-alpha 3] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Wollongong Wolves FC1996–97National Soccer League 164——164
1997–98National Soccer League 2913——2913
1998–99National Soccer League 273——273
1999–2000National Soccer League 3513——3513
2000–01National Soccer League 2417—7103127
Wollongong Wolves total13150—71013860
FC Basel2001–02Swiss Super League 336—6[lower-alpha 4]1397
2002–03Swiss Super League 223—7[lower-alpha 5]0293
2003–04Swiss Super League 317—4[lower-alpha 6]1358
2004–05Swiss Super League 265—10[lower-alpha 7]0365
2005–06Swiss Super League 285—11[lower-alpha 8]1396
2006–07Swiss Super League 366—9[lower-alpha 9]1457
2007–08Swiss Super League 167—5[lower-alpha 10]0217
2008–09Swiss Super League 2512—6[lower-alpha 11]13113
2009–10Swiss Super League 2613117[lower-alpha 12]13415
2010–11Swiss Super League 214108[lower-alpha 13]2306
2011–12Swiss Super League 601150121
FC Basel total270683278835178
Total401118328518489138
  1. National Soccer League and Swiss Super League statistics include final series/final round matches
  2. Includes the Swiss Cup only
  3. All appearance(s) in O-League for Wollongong or UEFA Champions League for Basel, unless where noted
  4. 6 appearances and 1 goal in UEFA Intertoto Cup
  5. Includes 1 appearance in UEFA Champions League Qualifying match
  6. 4 appearances in UEFA Europa League
  7. 2 appearances in UEFA Champions League Qualifying and 8 appearances in UEFA Europa League
  8. 2 appearances in UEFA Champions League Qualifying, and 9 appearances and 1 goal in UEFA Europa League
  9. 2 appearances in UEFA Europa League Qualifying, and 5 appearances and 1 goal in UEFA Europa League
  10. 2 appearances in UEFA Europa League Qualifying and 3 appearances in UEFA Europa League
  11. Includes 2 appearances in UEFA Champions League Qualifying
  12. UEFA Europa League: Includes 4 appearances and 1 goal in Qualifying
  13. Includes 3 appearances and 1 goal in Qualifying, and 1 appearance and 1 goal in UEFA Europa League

International

[19]

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

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
128 September 1998Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane, Australia Cook Islands11–016–01998 OFC Nations Cup
23 June 2000Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, Papeete, Tahiti Solomon Islands0–10–62000 OFC Nations Cup
328 February 2001Estadio El Campín, Bogotá, Colombia Colombia3–23–2Friendly
49 April 2001BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia Tonga1–022–02002 FIFA World Cup qualification
520–0
616 April 2001BCU International Stadium, Coffs Harbour, Australia Samoa8–011–02002 FIFA World Cup qualification
78 July 2002Ericsson Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand New Caledonia0–30–112002 OFC Nations Cup
80–5
931 May 2004Hindmarsh Stadium, Adelaide, Australia Tahiti9–09–02004 OFC Nations Cup
109 February 2005ABSA Stadium, Durban, South Africa South Africa1–11–1Friendly
1121 June 2005Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney, Australia Solomon Islands5–07–02006 FIFA World Cup qualification
1210 September 2008Pakhtakor Markaziy Stadium, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Uzbekistan0–10–12010 FIFA World Cup qualification
Correct as of 13 January 2017[20]

Honours

Wollongong Wolves

Basel

Australia

Individual

References
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  2. "Player Profile". fifa.com. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
  3. "FFA plan to entice Socceroos". The Sydney Morning Herald. 27 May 2006.
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  6. Everill, Ben (29 June 2001). "Wolves Can't Miss As Chipps Goes Swiss". Illawarra Mercury. John Fairfax Group. The 25-year-old quit Wollongong for National Soccer League rivals Perth Glory last month, with a clause in his contract that he would be free to leave Perth if he signed with a European club before the end of June.
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  9. Weber, Dominik (2011). "FCB startet erfolgreich in den Schweizer Cup: 4:0-Sieg in Eschenbach" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 19 September 2011.
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