Louis Crayton

Early years

Crayton started his career playing for St. Joseph Warriors in Liberia before moving to his first Swiss club, Luzern in 1997. He left the club in 1998 to spend two seasons as back-up keeper at Grasshoppers Zürich until 2000 before going on to spend one half-season apiece at FC Schaffhausen, in the third tier, and FC Wangen bei Olten, in the second tier, in 2000 and 2001. He then moved to YF Juventus and spent the 2001–02 season with the club, in the third tier, before going on to spend the 2002–03 season at Zug. For Zug he was also selected to take the spot kicks, which he did on four occasions successfully. In the summer of 2003, he moved to Concordia Basel, in the second tier, and spent two seasons with the club as first-choice goalkeeper.

Basel

On 27 June 2005 it was announced that FC Basel had signed a three-year contract with Crayton as reserve goalkeeper behind first-choice keeper Pascal Zuberbühler. He joined Basel's first team during their 2005–06 season under head coach Christian Gross, who had started his seventh season with the club in that position. After playing in eight test games, Crayton played his debut for the club in a Swiss Cup away game in the Stadion Schützenmatte on 22 October 2005 as Basel won 6–1 against local amateur club Old Boys. Crayton spent the rest of his first season with Basel on the bench as a backup, because Zuberbühler played in all the other competitive matches. To the beginning of their 2006–07 season…

Having spent so much time playing for various clubs in Switzerland between 1997 and 2008, Crayton now also holds Swiss citizenship.