Bernt Haas

Bernt Haas (Template:IPA; born 8 April 1978) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a right-back. He is the sporting director of FC Schaffhausen.

Club career

Haas was born in Vienna, Austria. He played his early youth football with local club FC Freienbach before he moved to the youth department of Grasshoppers Zurich. Aged just 16 years he signed his first professional contract and advanced from the U-21 team to GC first team under head coach Christian Gross during the 1994–95 Nationalliga A season. Haas played his debut on 31 May 1995 as GC won an away game 3–1 against Lausanne-Sport. At the end of the season he won the Swiss Championship. Haas play his Champions League debut on 1 November 1995 as GC played a goalless draw against Ajax.<ref name="Uefa-CL-1995/96-GC-Ajax">Template:Cite web</ref> Haas played with GC for seven seasons before moving to England to join Premier League club Sunderland in August 2001.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Despite making 27 appearances for the club in 2001–02, he did not play for Sunderland during the following season and was loaned out to FC Basel.

On 30 August 2002, it was announced that Haas had joined Basel's first team during their 2002–03 season under head coach Christian Gross, who in the meantime had moved on.<ref name="fcb2">Template:Cite web</ref> Haas played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 11 September 2002 as Basel won 7–1 against Wil.<ref name="fcb-achiv-">Template:Cite web</ref> Basel advanced to the group stage and they ended this in second position behind Valencia, but ahead of Liverpool and Spartak Moscow to advance to the second group stage. They ended this in third position behind Manchester United and Juventus, but ahead of Deportivo La Coruña.<ref name="swissinfo.ch-2003-03-18-Basel bow out of Europe – for now">Template:Cite web</ref> Haas scored his first goal for the club on 8 March 2003 in the home game as Basel won 2–0 against Servette.<ref name="fcb-achiv-2002/03-F-FCBServette">Template:Cite web</ref>

Although Basel had a buy out option in the loan contract, Hass decided he wanted to return to England. During his 10 months with the club he played a total of 43 games for Basel scoring that one goal. 22 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, four in the Swiss Cup, 11 in the Champions League and six were friendly games.<ref name="fcb-achiv-Bernt Haas">Template:Cite web</ref>

Haas joined West Bromwich Albion in 2003,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and was a regular at right-back as Albion were promoted back to the Premier League. He scored with a superb volley in the 2–0 League Cup win against Manchester United,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> having already scored in an earlier round against Brentford.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He also scored once in the league against Crewe.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> However, he found his chances limited in the top-flight, and left the club by mutual consent on 21 January 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The following day he signed for SC Bastia in France, whom he played for prior to joining 1. FC Köln.

After just one season at Cologne, he joined Swiss Super League club FC St. Gallen in 2007. But injuries obstructed his progress. The career of the strong right-back ended in some doctor's room in St. Gallen. Cartilage damage and osteoarthritis in the knee.<ref name="BaZ-2016-Haas-Spieler Spielerberater Sportchef">Template:Cite web</ref>

International career

Haas played for the Switzerland national team at Euro 2004 and was sent off in the match against England.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Post-retirement

Following his retirement in 2010, Haas decided to go self-employed and became a player consultant. He functioned as director of football for Liechtensteiner club FC Vaduz from 2015 until 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He remained living in Wollerau and commuted the 40 minutes by car to the Principality.<ref name="BaZ-2016-Haas-Spieler Spielerberater Sportchef" />

Between 2020 and 2022, he functioned as Sporting Director at Swiss Challenge League side FC Schaffhausen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> On 7 September 2023, he was fined 2,000 Template:CHF for his role in Schaffhausen fielding ineligible players during the 2021–22 season.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> That season's top scorer Joaquín Ardaiz and his fellow Uruguayan Agustín González had made appearances in 21 games without a valid work permit.

On 1 July 2022, he was appointed sporting director of his former club Grasshopper Club Zürich.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He was dismissed from this position on 27 March 2024.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

On 3 March 2025, he returned to the sporting director position at Schaffhausen.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Personal life

He has a twin sister named Dina, once a talented sports photographer and well known in the football business.<ref name="BaZ-2016-Haas-Spieler Spielerberater Sportchef" />

Haas once worked as a model for Armani.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Grasshoppers	1994–95	Swiss Super League	2	0
	1995–96		20	0
	1996–97		29	1
	1997–98		27	2
	1998–99		28	1
	1999–2000		16	1
	2000–01		25	1
	Total		147	6
Sunderland	2001–02<ref>Template:Soccerbase season</ref>	Premier League	27	0	1	0	1	0	–		29	0
	2002–03<ref>Template:Soccerbase season</ref>		0	0
	Total		27	0
Basel	2002–03	Swiss Super League	22	1
West Bromwich Albion	2003–04<ref>Template:Soccerbase season</ref>	First Division	36	1	1	0	5	2	–		42	3
	2004–05<ref>Template:Soccerbase season</ref>	Premier League	10	0	0	0	0	0	–		10	0
	Total		46	1	1	0	5	2	0	0	52	3
Bastia	2004–05	Ligue 1	4	0
	2005–06	Ligue 2	12	1
	Total		15	1
1. FC Köln	2006–07<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	2. Bundesliga	19	0	3	0	–		–		22	0
St. Gallen	2007–08	Super League	1	0
	2008–09	Swiss Challenge League	0	0
	Total		1	0
Career total			277	9

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year<ref>Template:NFT player</ref>

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Switzerland	1996	1	0
	1998	3	0
	1999	3	1
	2000	2	0
	2001	2	0
	2002	7	0
	2003	6	2
	2004	11	0
	2005	1	0
Total		36	3

Scores and results list Switzerland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Haas goal.

List of international goals scored by Bernt Haas

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Template:Abbr
1	Template:Dts	Spyros Louis Stadium, Athens, Greece	Template:Fb	1–0	1–1	Friendly	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2	Template:Dts	Nova Gorica Sports Park, Nova Gorica, Slovenia	Template:Fb	2–0	5–1	Friendly	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
3	Template:Dts	Stade de Genève, Lancy, Switzerland	Template:Fb	1–0	3–2	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying	<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Honours

Grasshoppers

• Swiss Championship: 1994–95, 1995–96, 1997–98, 2000–01

FC Basel

• Swiss Cup: 2003

Sources

• Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. Template:ISBN
• Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

External links

• Template:Soccerbase