Marco Walker

Walker started his youth football with local club FC Bellach. From 1983 with he was with FC Solothurn, FC Grenchen, again Solothurn and Bettlach, before signing his first professional contract in 1988 with FC Grenchen in the second tier of Swiss football. He played for Grenchen for two seasons before moving on again. During the pre-season to the 1990–91 Nationalliga A Walker signed for FC Lugano one division higher. Walker also played two seasons for Lugano. Walker joined FC Basel's first team for their 1992–93 season under head-coach Friedel Rausch. After playing in four test games Walker played his domestic league debut for his new club in the opening match of the season, an away game on 18 July 1992 as Basel were defeated 0–1 by Grenchen. Due to injuries Walker only played 16 domestic league games in that season. The following season Walker was a regular in the starting eleven. He scored his first goal for his club on 28 August 1993 in the home game in the St. Jakob Stadium as Basel won 2–0 against CS Chênois. During Basel's 1993–94 season his team mates were the likes of Swiss international goalkeeper Stefan Huber, defenders Massimo Ceccaroni, Reto Baumgartner and Samir Tabakovic, the midfielders Mario Cantaluppi, Martin Jeitziner, Admir Smajić and Ørjan Berg and the Swiss international striker Dario Zuffi. Together they won the promotion/relegation group and as Nationalliga B champions thus won promotion to the top flight of Swiss football, after six seasons in the…

In 1995, Walker's good form for FC Basel earned him a call-up to the Swiss national team. He made his national debut in the European Championship qualifier against Turkey on 25 April 1995. The match ended with a 1–2 defeat. Between June 1996 and November 1997 he played another nine games for his country.

From 2005 to 2008 he worked as an assistant manager of FC Basel's U18 squad. In 2007, he became assistant manager at FC Concordia Basel alongside his job at FC Basel where he worked as a fitness coach in various FCB junior teams. But on 16 January 2009, he was appointed as Christian Gross' assistant at FC Basel. Gross was sacked soon after, however, and Thorsten Fink replaced him. Walker then became fitness coach and was still a part of the first team staff. In July 2014, he was appointed as talentmanager for FC Basel. He worked in this position for one year, before he in July 2015 became assistant manager of FC Biel-Bienne. But as Urs Fischer was appointed as Basel first team manager, Walker returned to the club as his assistant. On 18 May 2018 it was announced, that Walker would be the assistant manager of FC Aarau for the 2018/19 season. Walker decided to resign for personal reasons already on 10 September 2018. On 21 March 2019, he was appointed as manager of BSC Old Boys. In the summer, in advance to the 2020–21 season Walker was appointed as head-coach for FC Naters. On 16 March 2021 he was hired by FC Sion. He was fired by Sion on 7 October 2021 after a 2–6 loss to Zürich. Sion only achieved two ties in the last 5 games under Walker's helm and allowed 15 goals in those games. On 21 February 2022, he was announced as assistant coach of brand new FC Basel coach Guille Abascal, replacing Boris Smiljanic.