CHF 11.3M
Operating Revenue 2025
Bottom of the Super League. GC has the thinnest revenue base in the league.
The new old GC. 140 years, 27 league titles, 19 cup victories - Grasshopper Club Zürich belongs in Zurich hands. Hoppers and new partners are bringing GC home together: 20,000+ Hoppers carry the identity and a blocking minority; strategic investors provide the long-term capital. Two pillars, one club, no patron.
If we want to talk honestly about GC, we have to know the numbers. Here are three from the official Swiss Football League financial overview for 2025 - we hide none of it.
Bottom of the Super League. GC has the thinnest revenue base in the league.
The largest loss in the league. More than double the second-worst figure.
The thinnest cushion of any club not already in the red.
Source: Swiss Football League - Financial overview for fiscal year 2025 (reporting date 30 June or 31 December 2025), in thousand CHF, excluding player transfers.
LAFC has publicly stated: they are open to a sale. Two years during which the announced investment program was never delivered. And GC management has started asking fans what they believe in. This is our moment.
According to Swiss Football League financial data, GC is posting a loss of around CHF 15 million per year - CHF 1.5 million more than in 2024. GC needs a sustainable solution, not more rescue rounds.
The announced investment program was never implemented - neither sportingly nor structurally did the hoped-for growth materialize. The owners themselves have since admitted: the path taken is no longer viable.
"We are open to a sale of GC." - LAFC, following the fan protests in April 2026. Hoppers have been waiting two years to hear those words. Now they're here.
A Blick poll of 3,500 participants makes it clear: the overwhelming majority of Hoppers want GC back in Swiss hands. Only 9% would keep LAFC. That is the mandate.
Tom E. Griffith - an English silk-merchant student - founded us in 1886 in Zürich. We played in blue and white because those are the colors of this city. History doesn't end just because an investor grows tired.
Tom E. Griffith founds Grasshopper Club Zürich on September 1. Blue and white from the city coat of arms, the grasshopper as the club's emblem. The first football club in the city, the second oldest in Switzerland - an idea that would endure.
First Swiss champion in club history. Followed by 1900 and 1901 - GC shapes what Swiss top-flight soccer means from the very beginning.
The start of a cup dynasty. By 1946 the Hoppers had claimed eleven cup wins - including four in a row (1940–1943). The cup became GC's trophy par excellence.
On April 28, 1929, the Hardturm Stadium opens - the home ground whose heart beats for the club for 78 years. Also a venue for the 1954 FIFA World Cup. The Hardturm becomes synonymous with GC - home to generations of Hoppers.
Three times in seven years GC wins both the league title and the cup in the same season. A dominance under legendary coach Karl Rappan that the club would build on further with additional doubles - eight in total throughout its history.
51,000 spectators at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern watch GC in the deciding match against FC Basel - 4:3 after extra time, the 16th league title under coach René Hüssy. After a 15-year wait, a night no one forgets - and the foundation for the golden eighties.
In the 1977/78 season GC reaches the UEFA Cup semifinal against SEC Bastia - the best international result in club history. The Hoppers only exit on away goals; the club competes at the top level in Europe.
In the second round of the European Cup of Champions, GC hosts the Spanish record holders at Hardturm - and wins 2:0 against Real Madrid on November 1, 1978, in front of 28,000 fans, both goals scored by Claudio Sulser. After the 1:3 in the Bernabéu (Sulser goal in the 59th minute), the aggregate is 3:3 - GC advances on away goals, knocking Real Madrid out of European competition. Only Nottingham Forest, the eventual cup winners, stop the Hoppers in the next round. One of the greatest European nights in Swiss football history.
1982, 1983, 1984: GC becomes champion three years in a row - with three different coaches. Timo Konietzka claims the title in 1982, Hennes Weisweiler the double in 1983 (he passes away shortly afterward), Miroslav Blažević completes the hat-trick in 1984. An era that lives on in collective memory.
GC qualifies for the Champions League two years running. In 1995/96 Zürich faces Ajax, Real Madrid, and Ferencváros in the group stage; in 1996/97 they face Ajax, Auxerre, and Glasgow Rangers. The Hoppers test themselves against Europe's elite - and in 1996/97 beat Ajax, Auxerre, and Rangers at Hardturm.
May 31, 2003, Neufeld Stadium, Bern: GC beats Young Boys 4:2 and seals the 27th and most recent league title - led by top scorer Richard Núñez (27 goals) and Mladen Petric (13). What came after: changing owners, many transitions, no consistent plan. But the Hoppers never disappeared - they were waiting.
1:1 after extra time, 4:3 on penalties against FC Basel at Stade de Suisse - GC brings the cup back to Zürich. To this day, the last major trophy. A title that proves: GC can still do it.
LAFC opens the door. We walk in. Not as buyers alone, but together with investors who want to strengthen GC rather than own it. Hoppers become owners - finally on record, too.
We think in decades, not seasons. By 2036, Grasshopper Club Zürich will have established itself as a sportingly, financially, and culturally sustainable and resilient institution - one of Switzerland's most beloved sports brands. This through exemplary youth development, a profitable transfer policy, an attractive and effective playing philosophy, efficient commercial management, and deep regional and national roots. GC needs at least ten years - we will give them to it.
The academy as the sporting heart. Identity over mercenary culture - the youth teams carry the first team.
Develop talent, build value, sell smartly. The club finances itself through its own efforts - not from the pocket of a single patron.
27 league titles, 19 cup victories, two Champions League group stages. Success on the pitch - consistently sporting, culturally independent.
Anchored in Zürich, connected across Switzerland. One of the country's most beloved sports brands - carried by Hoppers, supported by strategic partners with heart for the club.
The Hoppers buy back GC - with shares, votes, and identity. Strategic partners with heart for the club secure ongoing operations and finance the sporting investments needed for the climb. Hoppers and investors decide together - a partnership model at eye level with a clear division of responsibilities, built for the next decades.
The model is proven - a Swiss club of the same tradition has been running it successfully for years, with a balanced budget and full regional roots. We are adapting it one-to-one for GC.
Remains in place. Holds brand rights, tradition, club name - inalienable.
Runs the sporting operations. Ownership: one half held by the investor holding, the other half by the parent club and approx. 20,000+ Hoppers small shareholders. This creates a broad base without concentrating power.
A joint-stock company in which four to ten entrepreneurs, family offices, and foundations with ties to GC join forces. It holds a strategically decisive 49.6% stake in the club company - shaping, defining, co-determining. This is where investment goes to move GC forward sportingly and to secure the club's identity for the next generation.
The investor holding is internally bound by a shareholders' agreement: shares may only be transferred to individuals or entities that are committed to the club and its vision for the long term. This creates a stable, long-term-oriented ownership circle - no revolving door for speculators. Sporting ambition and entrepreneurial reliability, contractually enshrined.
Investors shape sport and budget. Full seats on the Board of Directors of the club company, a say in sports strategy, transfer policy, and the business plan - a genuine entrepreneurial role, not mere sponsorship.
Hoppers protect identity and home. On club name, crest, club colors, home ground, and brand rights, the Hoppers have the final say - enshrined in the bylaws. What makes GC what it is remains non-negotiable.
Partnership at eye level. Two clear areas of responsibility, one shared goal - investors bring capital and entrepreneurial expertise, Hoppers bring community roots and a generational perspective. Decisions are made jointly, with a clear division of responsibilities.
A Swiss Cooperative, carried by 20,000+ Hoppers. Ownership of the club, one vote per person, heritable to the next generation. This keeps GC in Hoppers hands forever.
Professional soccer at Super League level requires stable financing beyond membership contributions. The Hoppers don't carry this burden alone - that would be unrealistic. We are looking for entrepreneurs, family offices, foundations, and strategic partners who will move GC forward with capital, expertise, and networks - as shaping partners of the Hoppers, with heart for the club and patience for a long-term project. Committed. For five years. With full accountability.
GC won't reclaim what was lost by continuing as before. Six points we stand by - because without them, nothing holds.
GC belongs back in Hoppers hands - in the hands of those who have carried the club for generations.
Transparency inside and out. An ambitious, long-term vision that all stakeholders can identify with.
No flash in the pan, no chaos. GC needs focus and time to become again what it once was.
The Grasshopper Football AG run lean, modern, and efficiently. A diverse management team with the skills for the new GC - intrinsically motivated, with a culture of trust.
Repositioning in the market. Reinvigorating an established but faded brand. Waking the dormant Hoppers, inspiring longtime fans with a new spirit.
Fill the stadium again - the foundation for financial stability and sporting success. Unlock additional revenue streams, build a serious partnership with an international top club.
«Eight young men founded Grasshopper Club Zürich in 1886. They left us a club greater than any balance sheet: record champions, a home, 140 years of history. We, the Hoppers, take responsibility. So that the club remains what it always was: ours.»
Today this is a non-binding expression of interest - no purchase, no contract, no money transfer. We will be in touch as soon as the cooperative is officially founded and will collect your binding subscription in Swiss francs.