Historic coup for ex-BVB keeper Roman Bürki’s brother | OneFootball

For seven years, Swiss goalkeeper Roman Bürki — most recently here in an interview — was under contract with BVB and spent most of that time between the posts. For five and a half of those seven years, he was Borussia Dortmund’s first-choice goalkeeper, before moving to St. Louis City in MLS in 2022. Meanwhile, back in his homeland, his brother Marco is making waves and has achieved a historic success.

Unlike Roman Bürki, born in 1990, Marco Bürki does not play in goal. However, the younger brother of the former BVB keeper, born in 1993, is also mainly tasked with preventing opposition goals. Marco Bürki plays as a center-back and has been a professional since 2012. He initially spent six years at Young Boys Bern, though he never truly made his breakthrough there. Across those six seasons, Marco Bürki made just 29 appearances in the Super League, Switzerland’s top division.

He then spent two years in Belgium with SV Zulte Waregem, where things went a bit better, followed by one season with FC Luzern. When Marco Bürki joined FC Thun in 2021, the club was only in the second division. For many years after the introduction of the Super League in 2003, Thun had been a regular presence in the top flight.

From 2020 until last season, however, the club went through a dry spell in which it remained second-tier and usually only narrowly missed out on promotion. But now a regular starter there and also involved in the promotion achieved in 2024/25 — and by now even the team captain: Marco Bürki.

Bürki’s brother achieves historic success in Switzerland

But a simple promotion would hardly be worth reporting if FC Thun had not followed it up with a genuine feat, something very rarely seen anywhere in professional football.

As a newly promoted side, Thun won the Swiss championship this season. They had held top spot in the table since matchday eight and did not let it slip even during a weaker spell toward the end of the campaign. The closest challenger, FC St. Gallen, ultimately finished an incredible fourteen points behind Thun, which meant that FC Thun Berner Oberland, to give the club its full name, had already been confirmed as champions very early on.

In all the decades before, a promoted team had won the Swiss title only once, long before the introduction of the Super League. In 1951/52, Grasshopper Club Zürich had managed the same feat that FC Thun achieved this year, which is why the accomplishment of the brother of Borussia Dortmund’s former goalkeeper can rightly be described as historic.

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