:Stéphane Grichting

{{short description|Swiss footballer (born 1979)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Stéphane Grichting

| image = Stéphane Grichting.jpg

| image_size = 150px

| fullname = Stéphane Grichting{{cite web |url=https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |title=2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Switzerland |publisher=FIFA |page=27 |date=21 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190610174527/https://www.fifadata.com/document/fwc/2006/PDF/FWC_2006_SquadLists.pdf |archive-date=10 June 2019}}

| height = 1.87 m

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1979|03|30|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sierre, Switzerland

| currentclub =

| clubnumber =

| position = Defender

| youthyears1 = 1993–1996 |youthclubs1 = Sion

| years1 = 1996–2002 |clubs1 = Sion |caps1 = 124 |goals1 = 5

| years2 = 2002–2012 |clubs2 = Auxerre |caps2 = 250 |goals2 = 1

| years3 = 2012–2015 |clubs3 = Grasshoppers |caps3 = 89 |goals3 = 0

| totalcaps = 463

| totalgoals = 6

| nationalyears1 = 2004–2011

| nationalteam1 = Switzerland

| nationalcaps1 = 45

| nationalgoals1 = 1

}}

Stéphane Grichting (born 30 March 1979) is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a defender. His career began at FC Sion. Grichting then played at AJ Auxerre in France for ten seasons, before moving back to Switzerland to play for Grasshoppers.

He earned 36 caps for the Swiss national team,http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2010/groups_and_teams/team/switzerland {{Dead link|date=February 2022}} and was called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup squads. He was in the squad for the 2004 European Football Championship, but pulled out due to injury.

After Switzerland beat Turkey in the deciding qualifier to 2006 FIFA World Cup, he was injured in the riots that occurred after the match.

At the end of the 2014–15 season, he retired from professional football at the age of 36.{{cite news|title=Stéphane Grichting, der schweigsame Cowboy, tritt zurück|url=http://www.nzz.ch/sport/fussball/stephane-grichting-der-schweigsame-cowboy-tritt-zurueck-1.18497942|newspaper=Neue Zürcher Zeitung|accessdate=27 August 2016|language=German|date=8 March 2015}}