Timm Klose

Timm Klose (born 9 May 1988) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back, most recently for Championship club Bristol City and the Switzerland national team.

Born in Frankfurt to a German father and Swiss mother, he was raised in Switzerland from the age of five.

Klose started his youth football with local amateur club BSC Old Boys in 1993.

In the summer of 2003, he moved to FC Basel youth, but returned after one year.

He advanced to the OB first team, who played in the fourth tier of the Swiss football league system, for the 2006–07 season and in that season the team became division champions and won promotion.

In the summer 2007 he again moved to FCB and joined their U-21 team, also third tier, under coach Patrick Rahmen.

The team became division (group2) winners in the 2007–08 season, and became Swiss champions at U-21 level.

A year later, in the 2008–09 season, they became division (group2) winners and Swiss champions at the U-21 level again.

During his two seasons with the team he played 47 games and scored three goals.

After playing in the youth teams of BSC Old Boys and FC Basel, he moved to FC Thun in 2009, and two years later joined the German club 1. FC Nürnberg.

Klose had played in four test games for Basel's first team and wanted to advance to them for their 2009–10 season, but Basel's new head coach was Thorsten Fink and he wanted Klose to wait another year.

Klose decided to move on.

Murat Yakin was appointed as new head coach of FC Thun in summer 2009 and one of his first actions was to acquire the services of Basel's U-21 team captain Nicolas Schindelholz and their central defender Klose, both of whom failed to advance to first team.

The team played in the second tier and Klose achieved 29 league and three cup appearances during the 2009–10 Challenge League season.

They were division champions and won promotion.

Klose scored one goal during the 4–0 home win over FC Gossau on 5 December.

In his second season with the club, Thun managed to finish 5th in the 2010–11 Super League season and thus earned the Qualification to 2011–12 Europa League second qualifying round.

He made 30 league appearances that season, scoring three times.

Klose made his full international debut for Switzerland in 2011 and was capped 17 times.

On 28 May 2011, he left Thun for 1. FC Nürnberg on a three-year deal for around €400,000.

He made 13 league appearances from August to November, and then 8 from March to May with the reserves in the Regionalliga Bayern; he scored the only goal on 8 May against FC Ingolstadt 04 II.

The following season he returned to the first team and scored twice in 32 Bundesliga appearances.

He also played for the Switzerland Olympic team at London 2012.

He played for VfL Wolfsburg from 2013 until he joined Norwich in 2016, where he has since made over 100 appearances.

In January 2022, Klose signed for EFL Championship side Bristol City.

After departing Bristol City, Klose retired from playing and began coaching Basel's under-21 side.

On 1 July 2013, Klose signed for VfL Wolfsburg on a four-year contract.

He was sent off on his Wolfsburg debut, a 2–0 away defeat to rivals Hannover 96 on 10 August, and only played 9 more league games throughout the season, with just 4 more as a starter.

However, he played the full 90 minutes as Wolfsburg won the DFB-Pokal for the first time with a 3–1 victory over Borussia Dortmund on 30 May 2015.

On 18 January 2016, Klose signed for Premier League side Norwich City on a three-and-a-half-year contract for an undisclosed fee.

He made his debut on 2 February in a 3–0 home loss to Tottenham Hotspur, and totalled ten games for the relegated Canaries, scoring to open a 3–2 win over Newcastle United at Carrow Road on 2 April.

In 2018–19, Klose played 31 times as Norwich won the EFL Championship and scored four goals, including both of a 2–1 win at Nottingham Forest on 20 October 2018.

He signed a new three-year contract on 20 May 2019, tying him to the club until 2022.

Klose suffered a posterior cruciate ligament injury to his right knee on 27 August 2019, as Norwich were eliminated from the EFL Cup by Crawley Town.

He did not return until the following 19 June, when he played a 3–0 home loss to Southampton following the COVID-19 hiatus.

Eight days later, he was sent off for the first time for Norwich, when he pulled down Odion Ighalo in a 2–1 home extra-time loss to Manchester United in the sixth round of the FA Cup.

On 7 October 2020 FC Basel announced that they had reached an agreement with Norwich and that Klose had signed in on a loan contract until the end of the season.

After playing in two test games Klose played his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game in the Stadion Wankdorf in Bern on 21 November 2020 as Basel were defeated 1–2 by Swiss reigning champions Young Boys.

He scored his first goal for his club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 9 December 2020.

It was the first goal of the game and Basel went on to win 4–2 against Sion.