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{{short description|Swiss footballer (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Alexandre Rey
| fullname = 
| image = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1972|9|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]], Switzerland
| height = 1.76 m
| position = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| currentclub = 
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1991–1994
| years2 = 1994–1996
| years3 = 1996–1997
| years4 = 1997–2001
| years5 = 2001–2002
| years6 = 2002–2006
| clubs1 = [[FC Sion|Sion]]
| clubs2 = [[FC Basel]]
| clubs3 = [[FC Sion|Sion]]
| clubs4 = [[Servette FC|Servette]]
| clubs5 = [[FC Luzern]]
| clubs6 = [[Neuchâtel Xamax]]
| caps1 = 65
| caps2 = 61
| caps3 = 5
| caps4 = 132
| caps5 = 16
| caps6 = 122
| totalcaps = 401
| goals1 = 23
| goals2 = 15
| goals3 = 0
| goals4 = 54
| goals5 = 5
| goals6 = 49
| totalgoals = 146
| nationalyears1 = 1998–2005
| nationalteam1 = [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland]]
| nationalcaps1 = 18
| nationalgoals1 = 5
}}

'''Alexandre Rey''' (born 22 September 1972) is a Swiss former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[striker (association football)|striker]] during the 1990s and 2000s. He is best known for his spells at [[Servette FC]] and [[Neuchâtel Xamax]].

==Club career==
Born in [[Sion, Switzerland|Sion]], Rey played his youth football and began playing football professionally in 1991 with local club [[FC Sion]], helping the club win the [[Swiss Cup]] in 1991 and the Swiss championship in the [[1991–92 Nationalliga A|1991–92 Nationalliga A season]].<ref name="rsssf-Switzerland 1991/92">{{cite web | first = Erik | last = Garin | author-link = | year =2006 | url = https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwit92.html | title = Switzerland 1991/92 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation | access-date = 2021-11-16}}</ref>

Rey joined [[FC Basel]]'s first team for their [[1994–95 FC Basel season|1994–95 season]] under head coach [[Claude Andrey]]. After playing in seven test games, Rey played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game in the [[St. Jakob Stadium]] on 27 July 1994 as Basel were defeated 1–0 by [[FC Lugano|Lugano]].<ref name="fcb-achiv-1994/95-FCB-Lugano">{{cite web | first = | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | author-link = | date = 27 July 1994 | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=21612 | title = FC Basel - FC Lugano 0:1 (0:0) | format = | work = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | access-date = 2021-11-16}}</ref> He scored his first goal for the club on 21 September in the home game against his former club [[FC Sion|Sion]], but this did not help the team, as Basel lost the game 2–1.<ref name="fcb-achiv-1994/95-FCB-Sion">{{cite web | first = | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | author-link = | date = 1 September 1994 | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=21622 | title = FC Basel - FC Sion 1:2 (0:0) | format = | work = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | access-date = 2021-11-16}}</ref> In the Swiss Cup round 3 match on 23 September 1995, Rey scored a hattrick within 40 minutes of the match against FC Subingen. In fact, he scored four goals as Basel won 6–1 to continue to the next round.<ref name="fcb-achiv-1995/96-cup-Subingen-FCB">{{cite web | first = | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | author-link = | date = 23 September 1995 | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?command=detail&id=10762 | title = FC Subingen - FC Basel 1:6 (1:3) | format = | work = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | access-date = 2021-11-16}}</ref>

He stayed with the club for two seasons and during this time Rey played a total of 89 games for Basel scoring a total of 32 goals. Sixty-one of these games were in the [[Swiss Super League|Nationalliga A]], 6 in the Swiss Cup, 4 in the [[1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup]] and 18 were friendly games. He scored 16 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the Cup, 2 in the [[UEFA Intertoto Cup|UIC]] and the other 9 were scored during the test games.<ref name="fcb-achiv-Alexandre Rey">{{cite web | first = | last = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | author-link = | year = 1996 | url = https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/spieler?command=detail&id=195 | title = Alexandre Rey - FCB statistic | format = | work = | publisher = Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” | access-date = 2021-11-16}}</ref>

He returned to Sion ahead of the 1996–97 season. Although he was a success during his first spell at the club, Rey struggled to win a place in the starting eleven, playing just five games in six months, and left for [[Servette FC]] in January 1997. He was a major hit at Servette, playing the best football of his career and earning a call-up to the [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland squad]]. After making 132 appearances and scoring 54 goals for the club, Rey left to join [[FC Luzern]] in January 2001. He signed for [[Neuchâtel Xamax]] the following January and proved to be a good signing as he went on to score almost fifty goals for the club before his retirement in 2006.

==International career==
Rey was [[Cap (football)|capped]] 18 times for the [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland national team]], scoring five goals. He made his international debut as a substitute against [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] at the [[Stadium Puskás Ferenc|Ferenc Puskás Stadium]] in [[Budapest]] on 18 November 1998. He went on to make another fourteen appearances for Switzerland between then and 2001 when he was no longer included in the squad. He made a comeback to the national team when he replaced the suspended [[Alexander Frei]] and scored a hat-trick in the match against the [[Faroe Islands national football team|Faroe Islands]] on 4 September 2004.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Sources==
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. {{ISBN|978-3-7245-2305-5}}
* [https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/home Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage]

==External links==
* {{NFT|8458}}

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[[Category:1972 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Footballers from Sion, Switzerland]]
[[Category:Swiss men's footballers]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:Switzerland men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Swiss Super League players]]
[[Category:FC Sion players]]
[[Category:FC Basel players]]
[[Category:Servette FC players]]
[[Category:FC Luzern players]]
[[Category:Neuchâtel Xamax FCS players]]