Ex-Bundesliga professional
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Former Bundesliga professional Steven Zuber will compete in the Swiss league for the first time in more than eleven years. From January 2025, the 33-year-old striker will play for FC Zurich, which he chose “despite many other offers from abroad”. The former Frankfurt, Hoffenheim and Stuttgart player explained: “I see great potential at FCZ and am sure that we will be successful together.”
At Letzigrund, Zuber signs a contract until 2026 and costs the FCZ a transfer fee, as the 56-time national player still has a valid working document at AEK Athens. Zuber moved there in 2021, initially on loan and later permanently, which gave Eintracht Frankfurt a total transfer fee of 2 million euros. In 2020, the SGE paid 3 million euros to Hoffenheim, which in turn transferred 3.9 million euros to CSKA Moscow in 2014. A loan to VfB Stuttgart cost the Kraichgauer 600,000 euros.
Zuber made more appearances than at any other club in Zurich at the Grasshopper Club, where the Winterthur-born player had been trained since 2006. Starting with his departure from Zurich in 2013, he has already generated transfer proceeds of more than 13 million euros up to his current move to the city rivals. In Athens, Zuber won the Greek championship title with AEK 2023.