Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1963-01-11)11 January 1963 (age 62) | ||
Place of birth | Bern, Switzerland | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1978–1983 | Young Boys | ||
1982 | →FC Bern (loan) | ||
1983–1984 | Vevey-Sports | ||
1984–1987 | Neuchâtel Xamax | ||
1987–1989 | Bellinzona | ||
1989–1990 | FC Wettingen | ||
1990–1992 | Servette | ||
1992–1993 | St. Gallen | ||
1993–1994 | Lausanne-Sport | ||
1994–1995 | Bellinzona | ||
Managerial career | |||
1997–1999 | FC Mendrisio | ||
1999–2000 | Chiasso | ||
2003–2004 | SR Delémont | ||
2005 | FC Baden | ||
2005–2006 | FC Wil 1900 | ||
2006–2007 | FC Vaduz | ||
2007–2008 | FC Sion | ||
2008–2011 | SC Kriens | ||
2011–2016 | FC Schaffhausen | ||
2016–2017 | FC Wacker Innsbruck | ||
2017 | FC Wil | ||
2017–2018 | FC Sion (U21) | ||
2018 | FC Sion | ||
2019 | Bellinzona | ||
2019–2021 | Lugano | ||
2021 | Grenoble | ||
2022–2023 | CS Sfaxien | ||
2023 | 1860 Munich | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Maurizio Jacobacci (born 11 January 1963 in Bern) is a Swiss professionalfootballmanager and former player.
As a player, Jacobacci was a pacy winger who played over 300 games in the top Swiss league for eight different clubs. After starting out in the neighbourhood clubs Bethlehem and Bümpliz, he made the step up to the city's most important football club,Young Boys (YB), where he made the leap to the 1st team in 1978 and was active in it for five years. He won the Swiss championship 1987 withNeuchâtel Xamax. For Xamax he scored in a 2–0 victory in aUEFA Cup quarterfinal home victory againstReal Madrid.
Right at the end of his playing career in 1995, Jacobacci started his coaching career at the amateur level team of AS Origlio. For the next two decades, Jacobacci was head coach in lower league teams with a stint as assistant coach atGrasshoppers from 2000 to 2003 where he helped the team to win the Swiss championship twice. After a first short spell as head coach at Super League clubFC Sion in 2007–08, he was able to work for a longer time successfully atSC Kriens andFC Schaffhausen. With the latter club he managed to achieve two promotions in a row from the 4th to the 2nd tier of Swiss football. 2016 saw his first job abroad atWacker Innsbruck. After four more engagements in Switzerland atFC Wil, a second tme at FC Sion, thenBellinzona andLugano, he coachedGrenoble in France,[1]CS Sfaxien in Tunisia and1860 Munich in Germany.[2] 1860 Munich started the2023–24 season with a win against 1. FC Stockheim in theBavarian Cup.[3] He was sacked in December 2023.[4]
The son of Italian immigrants, Jacobacci grew up in the Swiss federal city ofBern.[5] He has two children and three grandchildren. His partner Ilona Hug is the ex-wife of K-1 world championAndy Hug.
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