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Fabrizio Cavegn celebrates scoring his first league goal for Bristol Rovers(Image: Steve Taylor\/PPAUK)<\/p>\nBristol Rovers looked to Switzerland’s second division to sign striker Fabrizio Cavegn during the summer transfer window<\/p>\n
Daniel Hargraves Bristol Rovers reporter<\/p>\n
07:00, 16 Sep 2025<\/p>\n
Fabrizio Cavegn celebrates scoring his first league goal for Bristol Rovers(Image: Steve Taylor\/PPAUK)<\/p>\n
Bristol Rovers<\/a> director of football Ricky Martin has provided an insight into the process of bringing Swiss striker Fabrizio Cavegn to the club during the summer transfer window, explaining that the opportunity to look outside of England for transfer targets was and will continue to be provided by the club’s ownership.<\/p>\n Cavegn signed a three-year deal in north Bristol with the option of a further season on the eve of Rovers’ campaign and has scored three goals so far. The 23-year-old opened his League Two account in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Barrow<\/a>, having netted a brace in the 4-4 draw against Tottenham Hotspur Under-21s in the EFL Trophy.<\/p>\n Signing players from abroad is unorthodox for the Gas, whose recruitment team identified Cavegn while he was playing in Switzerland’s second division with FC Vaduz.<\/p>\n READ MORE: ‘Really kicked on’ – Promise Omochere reflects on recent Bristol Rovers form after career first<\/a>READ MORE: Josh McEachran shares verdict on Bristol Rovers’ winning run and speculative goal against Barrow<\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with BBC Radio Bristol<\/a>, conducted before Cavegn scored his first league goal, Martin detailed how Rovers first identified the striker as well as how they brought him to the club.<\/p>\n Asked if that process is more tricky than signing a player within England, the Gas’ director of football declared: “Of course it is, and I want to give credit to the owners here. From day one of speaking to the club, they made it really clear that they wanted to use their wildcards. That\u2019s the ESC (Elite Significant Contribution) spots that we talked about. That\u2019s what Fabrizio is. He\u2019s one of our two. We can sign two in this window under the new rules and Brexit etc.<\/p>\n Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/p>\n “The owners made it really clear from day one that they wanted us to go and recruit in this area and that was really exciting for me, knowing that I can look further afield. There\u2019s some limitations and there\u2019s some restrictions on what types and what countries and no doubt there are fans out there going, \u2018why didn\u2019t we sign him?\u2019 Sometimes those players aren\u2019t available because there\u2019s certain criteria that they have to meet.<\/p>\n “I don\u2019t want to bore people with the process but it\u2019s something that we\u2019ve got to do behind the scenes to ensure that they are meeting the criteria so that they get an extension, a work permit, so that they can come into the country and play because that\u2019s the Brexit rules and what UEFA and FIFA have created.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s really exciting and we\u2019ve done that. We\u2019ve brought Fabrizio in and we\u2019ve got one more spot. I would actively like to fill that. If it\u2019s not in the January window it will be next summer. I want to fill that as quickly as we can and hopefully Fabrizio will help us demonstrate why it\u2019s worth looking outside of England and looking further afield.”<\/p>\n Having not arrived in time to play a part in Rovers’ opening day 1-0 loss to Harrogate Town, Cavegn has since featured in the seven League Two matches, starting four. He was also a substitute in cup matches against Cambridge United and Tottenham Under-21s.<\/p>\n Bristol Rovers are preparing for a new season in League Two with Darrell Clarke back at the helm and you won’t miss a beat with our free newsletter.<\/p>\n All the latest news, views, interviews, gossip and analysis concerning the Gas, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n It’s completely free and you can sign up HERE<\/a><\/p>\n The striker was unfortunate not to open his account in the league in a 3-2 win over Newport County<\/a> the weekend prior and managed to get that coveted first League Two goal when showing good reactions to tap home a header down from Promise Omochere.<\/p>\n As well as playing in the Challenge League, Switzerland’s second tier, FC Vaduz, who are based in Lichtenstein, entered the Europa Conference League qualifying stage this summer having won the Lichtenstein Cup last season.<\/p>\n Across all competitions, Cavegn scored 23 goals and registered five assists last term having contributed another 14 goals and four assists the campaign prior.<\/p>\n After seeing the striker make a pleasing start to life in BS7, supporters have been intrigued to know how exactly Rovers were able to land the 23-year-old’s signature, and identify him in the first place.<\/p>\n Join Bristol Rovers Live’s Whatsapp community for all the biggest Bristol Rovers stories sent straight to your phone<\/p>\n Bristol Rovers Live<\/a> is now on WhatsApp and we want you to join our community.<\/p>\n Through the app, we\u2019ll send the Bristol Rovers news, live match coverage, team news, transfers, fixtures, analysis and more straight to your phone.<\/p>\n To join our community you need to already have WhatsApp. All you need to do is click this link and select \u2018Join Community\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the Bristol Live<\/a> team.<\/p>\n We also treat community members to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. If you don\u2019t like our community, you can check out at any time you like.<\/p>\n To leave our community, click on the name at the top of your screen and choose \u2018Exit group\u2019.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re curious, you can read our Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n Click here to join our WhatsApp community.<\/a><\/p>\n “The recruitment team do some great work behind the scenes and they flagged up the player,” Martin explained. “They flagged up a few players. We had this benchmarking data that we go for so data has certainly driven this. We then went out to watch the player live on a couple of occasions so that\u2019s part of what our recruitment strategy looked like regarding recruiting this player. It was led by data and benchmarking. We got lots of reports. We then watched him play on video and then coding those games and then watched the player live twice. On the back of that, I got involved and made a deal happen.<\/p>\n “That\u2019s the process of bringing a player like Fabrizio into the club.<\/p>\n “Football now is one language. It\u2019s universal. We spoke to the clubs. We\u2019re very fortunate that a lot of people speak English and it was very easy to have that conversation with the club, the player and his agent.<\/p>\n “I\u2019m used to that process. I\u2019ve dealt with and signed many players from outside of England so I\u2019m aware of what the process looks like and we got that process underway straight away and then went through the application. That\u2019s why it took a little bit longer, but we knew that as well. It didn’t faze us. It took an extra couple of days but that\u2019s the kind of consequence when you\u2019re looking farther afield.”<\/p>\n READ MORE: Rhys Carr provides Ryan Howley injury update after Bristol Rovers midfielder’s latest absence<\/a>READ MORE: Bristol Rovers verdict: Promise powers on, work to do and another streak extended in Barrow win<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristol Rovers looked to Switzerland’s second division to sign striker Fabrizio Cavegn during the summer transfer window Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[28306,218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-140788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-bristol-rovers-fc","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250513_DCSigns_WC063-copy.jpg\")
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