Nikolas Marcel Cristiano Muci

Nikolas Muci grew up around Lugano, moving through FC Riva, FC Mendrisio and Lugano's own academy before breaking into the senior side. His path to regular football went through a loan rather than the first team itself: sent to Wil in 2022, he stayed there through 2024, making around seventy appearances and scoring roughly nineteen or twenty goals. He did pick up a winner's medal with Lugano in the Swiss Cup in the 2021–22 season, though the loan spell at Wil did more to establish him as a forward worth watching.

In June 2024 he joined Grasshoppers on a three-year contract, and he wasted little time making an impression: his first Swiss Super League goal for the club came against Luzern that July, and he was named Player of the Month for the same period.

Internationally, Muci has moved through Switzerland's youth ranks in steady succession, from the under-16s through to the under-21s, picking up caps and a handful of goals at each level without yet forcing his way into senior contention.

In February 2026 he was loaned to Mantova in Italy's Serie B for the rest of the season, with an option to buy attached.