Bruno Berner

Grasshoppers

Berner started his children's football with local club FC Glattbrugg and in 1992 he moved to the youth department of Grasshopper Club Zürich continuously advancing through the ranks. In the 1997–98 Nationalliga A season, he advanced from their U-21 team to their first team under head coach Rolf Fringer and they won the Swiss championship. In January 2000, Berner was loaned out to Real Oviedo, but he returned four months later. He won the championship a second time with GC at the end of the 2000–01 season. Berner had 28 appearances, scoring one goal. In the 2001–02 season GC were runners-up.

SC Freiburg

In 2002 Berner went to Germany, transferred to SC Freiburg in the 2. Bundesliga. At the end of the 2002–03 season Berner and Freiburg were division champions and secured promotion. Freiburg finished the 2003–04 Bundesliga season in 13th position, but after the 2004–05 Bundesliga season, the team was in last position and suffered relegation.

FC Basel

On 23 June 2005, it was announced that Berner had joined FC Basel from SC Freiburg. He joined Basel's first team during their 2005–06 season under head coach Christian Gross, who started his seventh season with the club in that position. The two knew each other from Berner's early days by GC. After playing in seven test games, Berner played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the Stade Municipal on 6 August as Basel won 2–1 against Yverdon-Sport. Berner was injured in…

Berner made his international debut for Switzerland in a 2–1 win over Austria on 15 August 2001. He was a participant in the 2004 UEFA European Championship, but was an unused substitute in all three Group B matches. Despite being hopeful of winning his place back in the national team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Berner was not among the 23 players selected on 11 May 2010.

Between November 2016 and June 2017, Berner was the first team manager of Swiss club FC Tuggen. In June 2017, Berner left FC Tuggen to take up the role of first team manager at Swiss Challenge League club SC Kriens. In the 2021–22 season, he coached the U-19 and U-20 teams of the Swiss national team. On 30 May 2022, he was confirmed as the head coach of newly promoted FC Winterthur, replacing Alex Frei. On 9 June 2023, he was appointed as the new head coach of his childhood club Grasshopper Club Zürich, for the next two year. At the time of his departure from Winterthur, he still had one year left on his contract, but neither club made the details of this appointment public. Following a poor run of form following the winter break in 2024, he was finally dismissed from his position on 9 April 2024. In his final 13 games, all played in 2024, Grasshoppers only managed two wins and three draws. As a result, the team slipped from eight to eleventh place in the league, which puts them on the relegation playoff spot. On 23 June 2025, he joined Macarthur FC as assistant to head coach Mile Sterjovski. Berner and Sterjovski had previously played together at FC Basel. On 28 April 2026, he was announced as the new head coach of Swiss Challenge League side Neuchâtel Xamax for the upcoming season. He will take up his duties starting on 1 June 2026.

Grasshoppers

Nationalliga A: 1997–98, 2000–01 SC Freiburg

2. Bundesliga: 2002–03 Leicester City

League One: 2008–09