Career
He is best known for his spells at Servette Football Club and Neuchâtel Xamax. He spent just two seasons at Basel and returned to Sion ahead of the 1996/97 season. He was a major hit at Servette, playing the best football of his career and earning a call-up to the Switzerland squad.
After making 132 appearances and scoring 54 goals for the club, Rey left to join Football Club Lucerne in January 2001.
He signed for Neuchâtel Xamax the following January and proved to be a good signing as he went on to score almost fifty goals for the club before his retirement in 2006. Alexandre Rey was capped 18 times for the Swiss national team, scoring five goals.
He made his international debut as a substitute against Hungary at the Ferenc Puskás Stadium in Budapest on 18 November 1998. He went on to make another fourteen appearances for Switzerland between then and 2001 when he was no longer included in the squad.
He made a comeback to the national team when he replaced the suspended Alexander Frei and scored a hat-trick in the match against the Faroe Islands on 4 September 2004.