Justin Hammel

Swiss footballer (born 2000)

Justin Hammel
Personal information
Full name	Justin Pete Hammel
Date of birth	(2000-12-02) 2 December 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth	Basel, Switzerland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Grasshoppers
Number	71
Youth career
2016–2017	Old Boys
2017–2020	Basel
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2017–2020	Basel II	3	(0)
2020–2022	Lausanne-Ouchy	50	(0)
2022–	Grasshoppers	25	(0)
International career^‡
2021-	Switzerland U21	3	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 December 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15:10, 15 June 2022 (UTC)

Justin Pete Hammel (born 2 December 2000) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss club Grasshopper Club Zürich.^[1]

Career

Lausanne-Ouchy

A product of FC Basel's academy, he joined Stade Lausanne-Ouchy in the Swiss Challenge League for the 2020–21 season as third goalkeeper.^[2] He quickly rose to the position of being Lausanne-Ouchy's first choice between the posts and was capped 21 times in his first season in the Swiss Challenge League. In the following season, he wrote history to become the only goalkeeper of the Swiss Football League to provide two assists in one game, in a 5:0 home victory over SC Kriens.^[2] He played a total 29 matches for Lausanne-Ouchy that season and held nine clean sheets.^[1]

Grasshopper Club Zürich

On 15 June 2022 he signed for Grasshopper Club Zürich in the Swiss Super League, as second goalkeeper behind Portuguese goalkeeper André Moreira.^[1] He made his first appearance for Grasshopper in the first round of the Swiss Cup on 20 August 2022 against FC Wettswil-Bonstetten in a 4–0 away win.^[3]

Following Moreira's injury in an away match against his boyhood club FC Basel, he made his league debut after coming on in the 25th minute of the game.^[4] His debut would not be very successful, as the team lost the match 1–5 and he directly caused Basel's third goal when he collided with his own defender in an attempt to clear a high ball. As Moreira's injury was serious,^[5] he continued to make league appearances for the remainder of the year, playing a further eight league games and managing one clean sheet, a 1–0 home win against Basel.^[6]

Following Moreira's departure from the club at the end of the season, he was promoted to the team's first goalkeeper.^[7]

International career

Hammel made his debut for the Switzerland U21 team in the 2023 Euro U21 qualifier against Gibraltar U21 and held a clean sheet in the 4:0 victory. He has since played two more games for the Switzerland U21, another 4:0 win against Gibraltar and a 0:1 away victory against Wales, and as such has not yet conceded a goal in international games.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "GC ZURICH SIGN GOALKEEPER JUSTIN HAMMEL". gcz.ch. 2022-06-15. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
^ ^a ^b "Justin Hammel sorgt für SFL-Premiere". gcz.ch. 2021-09-30. Retrieved 2022-06-15.
^ "Schweizerischer Fussballverband - Statistik und Resultate". football.ch. Swiss Football Association. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ "Matchdetail - Swiss Football League". sfl.ch. Swiss Football League. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ "André Moreira has to take a long break". gcz.ch. 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
^ Justin Hammel at Soccerway
^ "GC Zurich signs two goalkeepers for the 1st team". Grasshopper Club Zürich. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
^ "Schweizerischer Fussballverband - Team". football.ch. Swiss Football Association. Retrieved 2022-06-15.