Massimo Colomba

As a child Colomba played in the youth teams of his local side FC Villars-sur-Glâne. In 1995, he moved to Fribourg and played one year for FC Richemond and one for FC Beauregard. Colomba began his professional career with Neuchatel Xamax in 1997. He was their reserve goalkeeper for three years and first-choice keeper during the 2000–01 and 2001–02 seasons. At the beginning of the 2002–03 season he joined FC Aarau and was the club's first-choice goalkeeper. On 26 April 2003 he scored his first and only goal for Aarau in the match against FC St. Gallen. He played in Aarau until the 2007/08 season. Because he was usurped by Ivan Benito he left the club at the end of the season and joined Grasshoppers Zürich as understudy to Eldin Jakupović. On 16 June 2009, he joined FC Basel as reserve goalkeeper, behind first choice keeper Franco Costanzo, on a three-year contract. Colomba joined Basel's first team for their 2008–09 season under head coach Christian Gross. After four appearances in test games, Colomba played his domestic league debut for the team in the away game in the Letzigrund on 16 August as Basel were defeated 1–3 by his former club Grasshopper Club. As Costanzo suffered an injury in October, Colomba replaced him successfully for four months. Basel joined the 2009–10 UEFA Europa League in the second qualifying round. Basel advanced to the group stage, in which despite winning three of the six games the ended in third position and were eliminated. They finished four…

Basel

Swiss Super League champion: 2010, 2011 and 2012 Swiss Cup winner: 2010 and 2012 Uhrencup winner: 2011