Dario Zuffi

Playing career

Zuffi played his youth football with the local Winterthur team FC Töss. In 1983 he moved across town to join FC Winterthur's first team and signed his first professional contract for the 1983–84 Nationalliga A season. He prolonged the contract and he played with Winterthur for two seasons before he moved on. In the off-season before the 1985–86 Nationalliga A season Zuffi transferred to BSC Young Boys. From an early point in his career with YB, Zuffi showed tremendous skill and helped the team to win the Swiss Football Championship that season, personally scoring 15 goals. As a result of this performance, Zuffi received the 'Rookie of the Year' award during the 1985–86 season. In the 1986–87 season Zuffi and YB advanced to the final of the Swiss Cup. This was played in the Wankdorf Stadium on 8 June 1987. Zuffi scored the first goal of the game and YB went on to win 4–2 against Servette after extra time. Zuffi played six seasons for YB. In the 1988–89 season, he was joint second on the Top Scorers list with Kubilay Türkyılmaz (Bellinzona) both with 19 goals, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Servette FC) won the title. In the 1990–91 season, Zuffi topped the Top Scorers list with a grand total of 17 goals. Zuffi then transferred to FC Lugano for the 1992–93 season. In this season Zuffi contributed to the team reaching the final and winning the Swiss Cup. The following season, Zuffi moved home to the town of Oberwil and signed for FC Basel, who at that time played…

Zuffi has three sons, Sandro, Luca, and Nico. Luca Zuffi plays for FC Basel, Sandro and Nico play for SC Young Fellows Juventus in Zürich.

Young Boys

Nationalliga A: 1985–86 Swiss Cup: 1986–87 Swiss Super Cup: 1986 Swiss Football Championship top scorer: 1991 Lugano

Swiss Cup: 1992–93 Basel

Nationalliga B: 1993–94