Dereck Kutesa

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Dereck Kutesa
Personal information
Full name Dereck Germano Kutesa
Date of birth (1997-12-06) 6 December 1997 (age 26)
Place of birth Geneva, Switzerland
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Servette
Number 17
Youth career
0000–2013 Servette
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–2016 Servette 19 (0)
2016–2018 FC Basel 4 (0)
2016 → Servette (loan) 0 (0)
2017–2018 → FC Luzern (loan) 11 (1)
2018–2019 St. Gallen 39 (4)
2019–2022 Reims 42 (2)
2021–2022 → Zulte Waregem (loan) 29 (3)
2022 Reims II 1 (0)
2022– Servette 72 (11)
International career‡
2012 Switzerland U15 3 (0)
2012–2013 Switzerland U16 6 (1)
2013–2014 Switzerland U17 12 (0)
2014 Switzerland U18 1 (0)
2015 Switzerland U19 5 (0)
2016–2017 Switzerland U20 9 (1)
2018 Switzerland U21 3 (0)
2024– Switzerland 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21 September 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 24 March 2024

Dereck Germano Kutesa (born 6 December 1997) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a winger for Servette and the Switzerland national team.

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Club career

Kutesa played his youth football by Servette and advanced through all the ranks. On 18 October 2013 he signed his first professional contract, a three-year deal, but he remained with their U-21 team. During the 2014–15 season he was called up to their first team and had four appearances with them in the Challenge League, the second tier of Swiss football. At the end of the season Servette were second in the table, but they did not obtain a license for the 2015-16 Challenge League season because they did not provide necessary financial documents and guarantees. Servette was therefore relegated to the Promotion League, the third tier.

On 30 December 2015 Kutesa signed for Basel on a three-and-a-half-year contract. He prepared himself for the second half of the season in January with Basel and was loaned back to his regular club Servette until the end of the season. With Kutesa's help they achieved immediate promotion.

On 1 July 2016 Kutesa joined Basel's first team for their 2016–17 season under head coach Urs Fischer. After playing in five test games Kutesa played his debut for the club in the Swiss Cup away game in the Herti Allmend Stadion on 18 September 2016 as Basel won 1–0 against Zug 94. [1] He played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game in the Rheinpark Stadion on 5 March 2017 as Basel played a 1–1 draw with Vaduz. [2] Under trainer Urs Fischer Kutesa won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the 2016–17 season. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total. [3] They also won the Swiss Cup for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the club's history. Kutesa played in two of the cup games. [4]

On 14 September 2017, Basel announced that they were loaning out Kutesa to FC Luzern, until the end of the 2017–18 Swiss Super League season, so that he could gain more first team playing experience. [5] Following this loan period he returned to Basel. But on 5 July 2018 he transferred to St. Gallen. [6] During his short period with the club, Kutesa played a total of nine games for Basel without scoring a goal. Four of these games were in the Swiss Super League, three in the Swiss Cup and nine were friendly games. [7]

During summer 2018, on 5 July, Kutesa transferred to St. Gallen, where he stayed for just one season, in which he played a total of 45 competitive games for FCSG. In these he scored five goals and made five assists. On 27 August 2019 the club announced that he was transferring to French team Stade de Reims in the Ligue 1. [8]

On 25 August 2021, he joined Zulte Waregem in Belgium for a season-long loan. [9]

On 30 August 2022, Kutesa returned to Servette and signed a three-year contract. [10]

International career

Kutesa is of Angolan descent. [11] [12] He participated in the 2014 UEFA European Under-17 Championship with the Switzerland national under-17 football team.

He made his debut for the senior Switzerland national team on 26 March 2024 in a friendly against the Republic of Ireland. [13]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 21 September 2024 [14]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueNational cup [lower-alpha 1] League cup [lower-alpha 2] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
FC St. Gallen 2018–19 Swiss Super League 35420–2 [lower-alpha 3] 0394
2019–20 Swiss Super League4000––40
Total39420–20434
Reims 2019–20 Ligue 1 1411021–172
2020–21 Ligue 128110–2 [lower-alpha 3] 0311
Total422202120483
Zulte Waregem (loan) 2021–22 Belgian Pro League 29321––314
Servette 2022–23 Swiss Super League29342––325
2023–24 Swiss Super League36441–14 [lower-alpha 4] 1546
2024–25 Swiss Super League7411–4 [lower-alpha 5] 1126
Total721194–1829917
Career total182201552122222128
  1. ↑ Includes Swiss Cup, Coupe de France, Belgian Cup
  2. ↑ Includes Coupe de la Ligue
  3. 1 2 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. ↑ Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, six appearances in UEFA Europa League, four appearances in UEFA Conference League
  5. ↑ Two appearances in UEFA Europa League, two appearances and one goal in UEFA Conference League

International

As of match played 24 March 2024 [14]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Switzerland 202410
Total10

Honours

Basel

Servette

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  2. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (5 March 2017). "FC Vaduz - FC Basel 1:1 (1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Marti, Casper (2017). "Der Saisonabschluss im Zeitraffer". FC Basel 1893. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Swiss football: FC Basel wins 3-0 over Sion in Geneva; police extra vigilant after game". allaboutgeneva.com. 25 May 2017. Archived from the original on 17 May 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
  5. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (14 September 2017). "Dereck Kutesa wechselt leihweise zum FC Luzern". Dereck Kutesa on loan to FC Luzern (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 16 November 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  8. ↑ "Dereck Kutesa verlässt den FCSG". Dereck Kutesa leaves FCSG (in German). fcsg.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  9. ↑ "Dereck Kutesa gaat ALL-IN voor Essevee" (in Dutch). Zulte Waregem. 25 August 2021.
  10. ↑ "DERECK KUTESA DE RETOUR AU SERVETTE FC" (in French). Servette. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "FCSG-Spieler Dereck Kutesa: "Basel bleibt Basel, das kann mir niemand nehmen"" (in German).
  12. ↑ "Interview Dereck KUTESA" (in French).
  13. ↑ "Republic of Ireland v Switzerland game report". ESPN. 26 March 2024.
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  15. ↑ "2024 Schweizer Cup Final". Schweizer Cup (in German). Retrieved 26 September 2024.


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