football club
FC Basel 1893 ( Fussball Club Basel 1893 ), widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or good Basel, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a swiss football golf club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been swiss national champions 20 times, swiss Cup winners 12 times, and Swiss League Cup winners once.
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Basel have competed in european competitions every season since 1999–2000. They have qualified for the Group stages of the Champions League more times than any early swiss club – a sum of seven times – and are the entirely swiss club to have always qualified to the Group stages directly. Since 2001, the club has played its home games at St. Jakob-Park, built on the web site of their previous dwelling, St. Jakob Stadium. Their family colours are red and blue, leading to a dub of “ RotBlau “ .
history [edit ]
Chart of FC Basel board positions in the swiss football league system
c. 1910) poster designed by Rudolf Dürrwang ( 1910 )
The early years [edit ]
FC Basel was started by an ad placed by Roland Geldner in the 12 November 1893 version of the Basler national newspaper, requesting that a football team be formed and that anyone who wished to join should meet up the be Wednesday at 8:15 in the restaurant Schuhmachern-Zunft. Eleven men attended the meet, by and large from the academic community, founding Fussball Club Basel on 15 November 1893. The golf club semblance from the first day on were loss and aristocratic. Basel ‘s first game was on 26 November 1893, an inner couple between two ad hoc FCB teams. Two weeks belated, FCB had their first gear official appearance in a game against a team formed by students from the high school acrobatic club. FCB won 2–0. Basel continued to merely play friendly matches, until they joined the second Serie A championship [ 4 ] organized by the Swiss Football Association. The Serie A was divided into three regional groups, an east, a central ( with FCB ) and a west group. The winners of each group qualified for the finals. Basel did not qualify for the finals and they did not compete in the championship the keep up season. The Serie A 1900–01 was divided into two groups, an east and a west group. Basel were with three teams from Zürich and two other teams from Basel, Old Boys and Fortuna Basel in the west group. Basel ended the season with two victories, two draws and six defeats in 5th position in the group. Basel did not have much of an early footballing achiever, waiting 40 years before winning their first trophy. Gyula Kertész coached the side from 1928 to 1930. [ 5 ] At the begin of the 1932–33 temper, the austrian ex-international football player Karl Kurz took over as golf club flight simulator. There were eight teams in Group 1 of the 1932–33 Nationalliga. Basel finished the temper in second military position in the table, with seven victories from 14 games. The play-off game between the second set teams from both groups was held in Basel at the Stadion Rankhof, but the home team lost 3–4 to Servette FC Genève. In the swiss Cup, Basel advanced to the final, which was played in the Hardturm in Zürich. Basel won 4–3 and thus their first ever national claim, defeating arch-rivals and reigning cup-holders Grasshoppers in what is still considered to be one of the best cup finals in swiss football history. During the following five seasons, Basel were positioned towards the center of the Nationliga, not having much to do with the backing not having to worry about delegating. But the 1938–39 Nationalliga did not mean well with them. With just five wins and with twelve defeats, they finished in the survive situation in the league mesa and were relegated. The 1941–42 season was Basel ‘s third temper in the 1st League ( second flight of Swiss football ) after relegation. Eugen Rupf was player-coach for his second class. Basel finished their season as winners of group East. In the play-offs against group West winners Bern, the aside affiliation ending with a scoreless draw and Basel won their home tie 3–1 to achieve Promotion. In the swiss Cup five dwelling games, a mint flip in the quarter-final and a replay in the semi-final was needed to qualify for the final. The final against Grasshoppers ended scoreless after excess time and a replay was required hera excessively. In the replay – played at the Wankdorf Stadion against the Nationalliga champions – Basel led at half-time through two goals by Fritz Schmidlin, but two goals from Grubenmann a third from Neukom gave Grasshoppers a 3–2 victory. After good three seasons in the top flight of Swiss football, Basel suffered relegation again, but achieved immediate re-promotion in the 1944–45 temper. Anton Schall, another austrian ex-international, became the baseball club ‘s new trainer. Basel finished the Nationalliga A season in fourth put, with 12 victories from 26 games, scoring a sum of 60 goals ; top league finish scorers were Traugott Oberer ( 13 ) and René Bader ( 10 ). Basel won the cup for the second time as they beat lausanne Sports ( who had besides been runner-up the former class ) 3–0 in the concluding at the Stadion Neufeld in Bern. Paul Stöcklin scored two goals and Bader scored the early one. At the begin of the 1952–53 season, René Bader took over the occupation as club flight simulator from Ernst Hufschmid, who had acted as trainer the former five years. Bader acted as player-manager and Willy Dürr was his adjunct ; Dürr stood at the side line when Bader played. Basel won their first league title in 1953 and ended the season four points ahead of BSC Young Boys. Basel won 17 of the 26 games, losing only once, and they scored 72 goals conceding 38. Josef Hügi was the team ‘s top league finish scorer. The czech coach Jiří Sobotka was the cabaret coach at this fourth dimension, he taken the speculate over from Jenő Vincze the class ahead. Basel finished the backing in one-sixth position. Heinz Blumer was Basel ‘s peak scorer this season with 16 goals, Karl Odermatt their second best goal scorer with 14. The Wankdorf Stadium hosted the swiss Cup final on 15 April 1963, and Basel played against favourites Grasshoppers. Two goals after half-time, one by Heinz Blumer and the second gear from Otto Ludwig, gave Basel a 2–0 victory and their third Cup win in their history. Peter Füri played in all games save the final due to an illness. On 26 December 1964 FCB played against Grasshoppers Zürich in the quarter-finals of the swiss Cup. They decided the match 3–1 for themselves in overtime. This was to be the last meet for the popular Basler captain of that time Hans Weber, because barely seven weeks late he died of cancer. Between his first appearance in 1949 and his death in February 1965 he made 281 appearances for Basel scoring 48 goals .
rise and fall [edit ]
In the 1966–67 temper, Benthaus achieved his first league win with Basel. During this season, he acted as player-manager, having taken over the flight simulator subcontract from Jiří Sobotka at the begin of the previous season. There were 14 teams contesting in the championship, and Basel finished merely one point clear of FC Zürich. Basel won 16 of the 26 games, drawing eight, losing entirely twice and they scored 60 goals conceding just 20. Roberto Frigerio was the team ‘s top goal scorer with 16 league goals, while Helmut Hauser was second-best with 14. In the swiss Cup final examination that season, Basel ‘s opponents were Lausanne-Sports. In the former Wankdorf Stadium on 15 May 1967, Helmut Hauser scored the critical goal via a penalty. The game went down in football history due to the sit-down strike that followed this finish. After 88 minutes of play, with the score at 1–1, referee Karl Göppel awarded Basel a controversial penalty : André Grobéty had pushed Hauser gently in the second and he let himself drop theatrically. subsequent to Basel taking the lead, Lausanne players refused to resume the crippled, sitting down demonstratively on the pitch. The referee was forced to abandon the match and Basel were awarded the cup with a 3–0 default victory. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Basel had won the doubly for the first prison term in the club ‘s history. The league title in 1966–67 led to Basel qualifying to play in the european Cup for the first time, in 1967–68. Basel, however, were knocked out of the tournament in the First Round by Danish side Akademisk Boldklub. Basel ‘s future league claim was achieved in the 1968–69 Nationalliga A season as they once again finished barely one sharpen above the runner-up, this time Lausanne Sports. In the swiss Cup, Basel reached the quarter-finals. This championship title meant that Basel could embark on another european gamble, but again they failed to overcome the first hurdle ; this time it was Celtic of Scotland. nationally in the 1969–70 season, Basel won the league for the fourth time again one point ahead of Lausanne Sports. In the swiss Cup, Basel reached the final examination. The european Cup was a short kind to Basel in 1970–71, as they reached the Second Round, losing to Ajax after defeating Soviets Spartak Moscow in the first round. Basel did not retain their claim the following season despite finishing with the like phone number of points as the subsequent champions, Grasshoppers, who won the championship on a tete-a-tete. In the swiss Cup, Basel reached the quarter-finals. After a trophy-less season, Basel again won two league titles in-a-row. The 1971–72 temper was the last season for Helmut Benthaus as an active football player. Basel won the championship four points ahead of Zürich. In the swiss Cup, Basel reached the final but were defeated 0–1 by Zürich through a goal in extra time. In the 1971–72 UEFA Cup, Basel were drawn against Real Madrid. The home game attracted 32,059 spectators, but Basel were defeated 1–2 and lost overall 2–4 on aggregate. The 1972–73 season was Benthaus ‘ eighth season as director. Basel won 17 of their 26 league games and won the backing four points ahead of Grasshoppers. Ottmar Hitzfeld was the league ‘s articulation crown goal scorer with 18 league goals. In the swiss Cup, Basel played Martigny-Sports, Young Boys, FC Chiasso and FC Biel-Bienne to reach the final against Zürich. The 1972 Swiss League Cup was the inaugural Swiss League Cup competition. It was played in the summer of 1972 as a pre-season tournament to the 1972–73 season. This was won by Basel who defeated FC Winterthur 4–1 in the concluding in which Hitzfeld scored a hattick. In Europe, Basel failed to impress once again, in 1972–73, as they were sent crashing out at the first stage by Hungary ‘s Újpesti Dózsa SC. But in the 1973–74 temper, they excelled with the peruvian caption Teófilo Cubillas in their ranks, eliminating Icelanders Fram Reykjavík and Club Brugge of Belgium, before narrowly exiting in the quarter-finals to Celtic 5–6 on sum after supernumerary time in the aside leg. In the 1973–74 Nationalliga A season Basel finished in just 5th situation winning 13 of their 26 league games, drawing doubly and suffering 10 defeats, gaining 29 points. They finished 16 points behind the new champions Zürich. Ottmar Hitzfeld was the teamst crown finish scorekeeper with 19 league goals. He ended the swiss rank in third base position behind Daniel Jeandupeux ( Zürich, 22 goals ) and Walter Müller ( Lausanne-Sports, 21 goals ). In the swiss Cup Basel proceeded to the quarter-finals, in which they played against Sion. Sion won the two legged round 3–2 on aggregate. Despite Basel ‘s improvement on the european stagecoach, they did not retain the league for another four years. At the end of the 1974–75 Nationalliga A season Basel finished in one-fourth place ( 11 wins, 9 hook, 2 defeats, 49–33 goals ) 8 points adrift of FC Zürich who won the championship for the second time in a row. In the League Cup Basel reached the semi-finals. But they did manage to lift the swiss Cup in 1975, beating Winterthur 2–1 in the Final after extra time and consequently qualifying for the 1975–76 Cup Winners ‘ Cup. Basel ‘s long-awaited title-win came in 1977 as they triumphed over Servette FC in a playoff. This mean that Basel returned to play in the european Cup, but they were defeated in the first round, once more, by Wacker Innsbruck of Austria, after showing so much promise on their last european out. After the success of the 1976–77 season, Basel endured two seasons of below-par performances and mid-table finishes until glory returned in 1980, as Basel won the Nationalliga A title through the playoff. however, director Helmut Benthaus left in 1982 and in the keep up seasons, Basel ‘s concluding league positions started to drop until their relegation into the Nationalliga B in 1988. several managers came and went at the St. Jakob Stadium between then, until Basel finally returned to the Nationalliga A in 1994 under Claude Andrey. Basel avoided delegating by three points in their beginning season back at the top-flight, but Andrey left and was replaced by Karl Engel. Engel led Basel to a fifth-place finish in his foremost temper in commit and a solid mid-table finish in 1997, but he was sacked after a poor depart to the 1997–98 campaign, in which Basel finished second-last. Jörg Berger then took over but lasted alone a class in charge before christian Gross was appointed. Gross ‘ appointment went hand-in-hand with the fiscal support that had just been put into the club and it was not long until Basel returned to the top .
recurrence of the glory days [edit ]
The St. Jakob-Park was opened on 15 March 2001, and Basel finished the 2000–01 temper in fourth status in the league. Basel ended the qualification round of 2001–02 leading the league table by five points at the winter open frame. The Championship round began in February and with ten wins and just one frustration in the foremost 11 games, Basel pulled away at the top of the table to win the championship three games before the end of the temper, their first style for 22 years. They went on to complete a domestic double, beating Grasshoppers in supernumerary time in the swiss Cup thanks to a penalty scored by Murat Yakin. Basel besides reached the concluding of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. In the 2002–03 season, Basel became the second gear swiss team to play in the vamp UEFA Champions League. They reached the second group round, but were knocked out on goal difference in a group containing Manchester United, Juventus, and Deportivo de La Coruña. In domestic competitions, Basel finished second in the swiss Super League and won the swiss Cup after beating Neuchâtel Xamax 6–0 in the final. Basel started 2003–04 with 13 uncoiled league wins, and went on to complete the first half of the season undefeated, with 17 wins and 1 draw. Basel remained acme of the league for the remainder of the season, winning their tenth swiss backing. In the UEFA Cup they were eliminated by Newcastle United in the second beat after defeating Malatyaspor in the previous round. As swiss champions, Basel entered the 2004–05 Champions League in the one-third passing round of golf. They were drawn against Internazionale, who beat them 5–2 on aggregate, dropping Basel into the UEFA Cup. After beating russian side Terek Grozny in the third base round they were drawn in Group E with Feyenoord, Schalke 04, Ferencváros and Hearts. They finished third in the group on seven points and qualified for the Round of 32, where they were defeated 2–0 on aggregate by Lille. In the domestic league, after a poor people start, Basel moved to the top of the league postpone and went on to win the style by ten points. Basel completed their 17 home league games undefeated, winning 13 and drawing four, including an 8–1 acquire against Grasshoppers, in which Christian Giménez scored four goals. Basel were knocked out of the 2005–06 Champions League in the third qualifying round by german club Werder Bremen. They again dropped into the UEFA Cup, where they beat Široki Brijeg of Bosnia and Herzegovina to be drawn into Group E alongside Strasbourg, Roma, Red Star Belgrade and Tromsø. They finished third base in the group, qualifying for the hard phase. After beating Monaco and Strasbourg once again, they were eliminated by Middlesbrough in the quarter final. On 26 February 2006, Basel broke their own club record of 52 unbeaten league games at dwelling, which they extended to 59. The winning streak was ended on the final examination day of the season with a last-minute goal by Iulian Filipescu giving FC Zürich a 2–1 win and, in the process, Zürich ‘s first gear national championship since 1980–81. This resulted in riots between rival supporters after the peer. In 2006–07 Basel were again runner-up to Zürich in the league, and won the swiss Cup for the eight time, beating FC Luzern 1–0 in the concluding. In the 2006–07 UEFA Cup Basel beat Kazakh english Tobol, Liechtensteiner team FC Vaduz, and Macedonians FK Rabotnički. to qualify for the group stages. Drawn against Blackburn Rovers, Nancy, Feyenoord and Wisła Kraków, Basel finished buttocks of the group and were eliminated .
late years [edit ]
Basel were drawn against Bosnian team FK Sarajevo in the beginning qualifying round of the UEFA Cup, a tie that Basel won 8–1 on aggregate. In the following orotund, Basel faced a well ruffianly opponent in the kind of SV Mattersburg of Austria. Nonetheless, Basel finished the tie off with a 4–0 away win after a 2–1 victory at St. Jakob-Park. Basel were then drawn into the group of end of Group D aboard Brann, Dinamo Zagreb, Hamburger SV and Rennes, all of which were ranked within the clear three of their own leagues at the depart of the degree. Basel won their first UEFA Cup group game against Rennes at home 1–0 thanks to a Marco Streller header. Their adjacent crippled was away to Dinamo Zagreb in which Basel earned a valuable away sharpen thanks to on form goalkeeper Franco Costanzo, who kept the game at 0–0 for 90 minutes. They then faced Brann at St. Jakob-Park, where they won 1–0 through a Carlitos free-kick and were highly praised for playing attractive and flowing football. Basel then went to Germany to face Hamburger SV at the HSH Nordbank Arena, where they were fortunate to escape with a 1–1 withdraw. The goals came courtesy of captain Ivan Ergić and Hamburg ‘s Ivica Olić. Basel then faced Sporting CP in the last 32 after qualifying second in the group alongside first-placed Hamburg and third-placed Brann. ( Sporting finished third base in their group in the Champions League, which is why they were dropped into the UEFA Cup. ) The beginning peg took place on 13 February in Lisbon, where first-choice goalkeeper Franco Costanzo was injured and Basel lost 2–0. The second peg did not fare any better for Basel. Costanzo remained hurt and Basel lost 3–0 on 21 February in Basel, falling from the UEFA Cup. Basel won the swiss Cup for the second back-to-back season after beating second-tier side AC Bellinzona 4–1 at St. Jakob-Park on 6 April 2008. Eren Derdiyok gave Basel the lead in the first half before Bellinzona equalised through Christian Pouga in the second. Daniel Majstorović restored the lead for Basel with a header and swiss internationals Marco Streller and Benjamin Huggel scored one goal each to make the final scoreline 4–1 in Basel ‘s favor. Basel won the swiss Super League for the first time since 2005 on 10 May 2008 at home after a 2–0 gain over title threats BSC Young Boys. It was the concluding game of the season and Basel only needed a luff from the catch to win the Championship, but if Young Boys won, then they would be champions, precisely the lapp position as the end of the 2005–06 season with FC Zürich. The afflictive memories of losing the league on the last day of the season in 2006 seemed to spur FCB on as they took an early contribute through Valentin Stocker before Marco Streller wrapped up the victory with the irregular. In 2008–09 season, Basel entered the Champions League in the Second Qualifying Round and were drawn against IFK Göteborg of Sweden. The first stage was on 30 July 2008 at Ullevi and finished 1–1. Benjamin Huggel put Basel ahead before Thomas Olsson equalised for the home team. The second leg took invest on 6 August at St. Jakob-Park, with Basel coming from behind doubly to win 4–2. Basel then faced Vitória de Guimarães of Portugal in the Third Qualifying Round. The first leg at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques on 13 August ended in a 0–0 draw. The second gear peg took place on 27 August at St. Jakob-Park, where Valentin Stocker gave Basel an early lead on 11 minutes before João Alves was fouled in the penalty area by François Marque and João Fajardo dispatched the spot-kick, just four minutes late to draw Vitória level. In the second half, the away side started well but Eren Derdiyok gave FCB a 2–1 lead which they hung on to, to qualify for the Champions League Group stages. FCB were drawn into Group C aboard Barcelona, Shakhtar Donetsk and Sporting CP. Basel lost their opening game 2–1 at St. Jakob-Park on 16 September against Shakhtar. Fernandinho put the Ukrainians ahead on 25 minutes before Jádson doubled their lead precisely before half time. David Abraham scored a deep consolation goal for the home team. Sporting CP were the opponents on Matchday 2 ( 1 October ) and despite defending well and causing a few scares at the other end of the park, Basel were defeated 2–0 at the Estádio José Alvalade. On Matchday 3 ( 22 October ), Barcelona visited Basel and came away with a 5–0 win, but a fortnight late it was a different history as FCB came off with a respectable 1–1 draw at the Camp Nou, with Eren Derdiyok scoring a late counterweight after Lionel Messi put Barça ahead. On 26 November, Basel travelled to Ukraine to play Shakhtar, where they were thrashed 5–0. Basel then faced Sporting at home on the concluding Matchday ( 9 December ) and were defeated 1–0. Despite remaining in first or second gear position for most of the season, Basel finished in third plaza behind FC Zürich and Young Boys. On 27 May, Christian Gross was sacked from his function as FC Basel director after ten years in the job. In 2009–10 season, german Thorsten Fink was appointed as Basel ‘s new coach on 9 June 2009. [ 8 ] Basel entered the UEFA Europa League in the moment qualify rung. They qualified for the group stage and were drawn into Group E aboard Roma, Fulham and CSKA Sofia. Basel finished in third put. In domestic affairs, Basel s won the entitle on the last day of the season against favourites Young Boys at the Stade de Suisse. Marco Streller was the league ‘s top scorekeeper with 21 goals. Basel won the 2009–10 swiss Cup final with a 6–0 victory over FC Lausanne-Sport, FC Basel ‘s one-tenth cup gain. In 2010–11 season, Basel entered the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League in the third base stipulate beat, pull against Debrecen ; they won both games ( 2–0, 3–1 ). In the play-offs to the Champions League, they are drawn against Sheriff Tiraspol. In the first leg, they defeated Tiraspol 1–0 before winning 3–0 on the road. Basel entered the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League group degree in Group E. On 13 October 2011, Thorsten Fink left the club to join Hamburger SV. As replacement, his assistant Vogel was signed as caretaker coach until the winter break in. [ 9 ] Basel historically qualified for the smasher phase of the Champions League with 2–1 win over Manchester United on 7 December 2011. On 12 December, it was announced that Vogel had signed as forefront passenger car and director. [ 10 ] On 22 February 2012, Basel defeated Bayern Munich in the first peg of the Round of 16 stage in the Champions League. They won with a seduce of 1–0, scoring in the 86th moment of the game, but then lost in the refund leg 7–0, thus eliminating them. On 15 October 2012, coach Heiko Vogel was sacked by the club and replaced by former player Murat Yakin. [ 11 ] At the end of the beginning half of the temper, Basel were in irregular position in the domestic league table. In the second half of the season, Basel acquired enough points to finish the season three points ahead of Grasshoppers and to win their one-fourth title in a rowing. [ 12 ] As swiss champions, Basel entered the Champions League in the second modification round off, where they were drawn against estonian club Flora Tallinn, winning 5–0 on aggregate. In the third gear polish, they were drawn against norwegian club Molde, winning 2–1 on aggregate. In the playoff round, however, Basel lost both games against CFR Cluj from Romania, being knocked out 3–1 on aggregate. The team thus qualified for the Europa League group stage, where they were drawn into Group G alongside Sporting CP, Genk and Videoton. They finished in second identify in the board and frankincense continued after the winter break in the knockout phase round of 32. In the hard phase round of 32, Basel were drawn against Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. Basel won 3–1 on aggregate. In the round of 16, they were drawn against Zenit Saint Petersburg and, despite being the underdogs, they qualified for the quarter-finals by winning 2–1 on aggregate. here Basel were drawn against Tottenham Hotspur, which they beat 4–1 on penalties after a 4–4 aggregate draw to progress to the semi-finals. [ 13 ] The draw for the semi-final matched them against reigning Champions League holders Chelsea. Both games in the tie ended with a frustration, 1–2 in Basel 1–3 in London. Basel ‘s 2013–14 UEFA Champions League season started on 30 July 2013 in the third base qualifying attack with a tie in St. Jakob-Park against Maccabi Tel Aviv, which they won 4–3 on aggregate. In the first couple of the main group stage, Basel notched up a surprise 2–1 away win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and followed this up with a 1–0 home win in the render regular at St. Jakob-Park. Despite these two results, they merely finished in third position in the league board and thus they qualified for the 2013–14 Europa League round of 32. There, they fought Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv and went on to defeat Red Bull Salzburg 2–1 on aggregate. They would face Valencia in the quarter-finals, winning 3–0 at home, but losing 0–5 in Valencia after extra-time. [ 14 ] On 28 May 2014, Basel announced that Paulo Sousa was to become their trainer for the new temper and that he had signed a three-year shrink. [ 15 ] They went on to win the league championship for the sixth time in a course. In the swiss Cup, Basel ended as runner-up, losing 0–3 to FC Sion in the final. Basel entered the Champions League in the group degree. They reached the hard phase against Liverpool on 9 December on a nox in which Lazar Marković was sent off for the opponents. [ 16 ] Basel then lost to Porto in the Round of 16. Paulo Sousa left the club anterior to the 2015–16 season for Fiorentina ; he was replaced by FC Thun head bus Urs Fischer on 18 June. Basel entered into the 2015–16 Champions League season in the Third qualifying round. Their initial aim was to remain in the competition and reach the group stagecoach. In the third passing round, they were drawn against Lech Poznań and in the play-off circle against Maccabi Tel Aviv. Basel failed to qualify for the Champions League group stage, frankincense they dropped into the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League group stage. here they were drawn into Group I, together with Fiorentina, Lech Poznań and Belenenses. Because they finished as group winners, Basel continued in the hard phase in February 2016. Basel were drawn against french slope Saint-Étienne. They advanced on away goals after a 4–4 aggregate draw with Saint-Étienne. They were knocked out of the tournament by the eventual winners, Sevilla, 3–0 in the round off of 16. On 30 April 2016, Basel confirmed a seventh back-to-back swiss national championship with a 2–1 winnings over FC Sion at St. Jakob-Park. [ 17 ] At the end of the season Basel won the title 14 points ahead of Young Boys. Basel entered into the 2016–17 UEFA Champions League in the Group stage. Drawn against french champions Paris Saint-Germain, English team Arsenal and bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad they finished bottom of the group and were eliminated. Basel won the swiss Super League for the one-eighth time in a row – the cabaret ‘s twentieth championship style in entire. [ 18 ] They besides won the swiss Cup for the twelfth time, completing a sixth bivalent. [ 19 ] In 2017–18 season, Raphaël Wicky was appointed as new first team coach, assisted by Massimo Lombardo. The club ‘s eight-year monopoly over the swiss league title ended in 2018, as BSC Young Boys won the domestic championship. Basel finished second base on 69 points, while Young Boys romped to the title, winning the league by a 15-point allowance. by and by on, Basel reached the quarter-finals of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League for the third base time after 2012–13 and 2013–14. [ 20 ]
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Supporters and rivalries [edit ]
Fans [edit ]
FC Basel is known for having a big and patriotic local following. [ citation needed ] When polls are conducted about the most passionate club football fans, FC Basel ‘s fans normally make the top 200 if not exceed 100 in the world, resulting in what is by army for the liberation of rwanda the highest average attendance in Switzerland with around 30,000 fans [ 21 ] attending every home game and with the new extension being built that number is expected to rise to around 40,000. The fans have besides made themselves a name in numerous international matches in holocene years. World tennis legend Roger Federer is one of the club ‘s most celebrated fans. In November 2010 their supporters caused the game against FC Luzern to be stopped after they threw hundreds of tennis balls onto the slope. This was in protest at the kick off times being moved to accommodate a tennis tournament on the television schedule. [ 22 ]
competition [edit ]
The city of Basel and the city of Zürich have a long-standing competition. consequently, FCB ‘s most traditional and fiercest rivals are Grasshopper Club Zürich and FC Zürich. In the past few seasons, the competition between FC Zürich and Basel has been fueled by Zürich ‘s narrow league championship wins over Basel. Supporters from both sides have caused trouble in the past years, with the worst incidental happening in May 2006. Basel had won the league in 2003–04 and 2004–05 and were set to make it three in a rowing if they won or drew against Zürich at home on the final day of the 2005–06 season. Zürich took the lead after a late goal from Iulian Filipescu and consequently won the meet and the league. After the concluding whistle, players and fans from both teams started fighting on the gear and in the stands. This incident has fueled hatred and bitterness between fans from FC Zürich and FC Basel. There is controversy about which competition is bigger, the one with Grasshopper or FC Zürich, but it normally depends on the achiever of these teams .
stadium [edit ]
St. Jakob-Park at night FC Basel play their base games at the 37,500 capability St. Jakob-Park. [ 23 ] UEFA have awarded the stadium a 4-star rate, the highest rat that could be given to a stadium of that capacity. St. Jakob-Park was opened in 2001, originally holding a maximal attendance of 33,433. The stadium was expanded with a newfangled stand ( sector G ) and upgraded to 42,500 ascribable to Switzerland co-hosting UEFA Euro 2008. After euro 2008, a count of seats were removed, thus giving more space between them, and the capacitance was reduced 37,500 seats. [ 24 ] The stadium is nicknamed “ Joggeli ” by the fans and has two restaurants, Restaurant UNO and Hattrick ‘s Sports Bar, vitamin a well as a shopping center which opened on 1 November 2001. It besides has parking space for 680 cars and has its own train station. St. Jakob-Park hosted six matches during Euro 2008, including the opening plot between Switzerland and Czech Republic, and a semi-final between Germany and Turkey. The most interest feature of speech of the stadium is the translucent forbidden layer, which can be illuminated in different colours for impressive effects ; this consequence was copied three years former for Bayern Munich ‘s new stadium, the Allianz Arena. Before St. Jakob-Park was built, FC Basel played home games in the Landhof ( in the Quarter Kleinbasel ) and, following the 1954 FIFA World Cup, in the newly built St. Jakob Stadium which was on the same site as the stream stadium. During the construction period of St. Jakob-Park, Basel ‘s home plate matches were played at the Stadion Schützenmatte. In 2016, the UEFA Europa League final was played at St. Jakob-Park .
St. Jakob-Park from the inside
Affiliated clubs [edit ]
Colours and logo [edit ]
FC Basel ‘s traditional kit is a crimson and blue shirt. Due to the fact that some of the founders were members of the “ Basler Ruder-Club ”, whose colors were red and blasphemous, they adopted those colours for their new baseball club. FC Basel ‘s equip is completed by blue shorts with gold spare and blue sky socks with crimson snip. From this comes the dub “ RotBlau “ which is swiss German and German for “ RedBlue ”. Their away kit is all white with two stripes down the middle, the leave being red and the correct being blue. FC Basel ‘s kits were once manufactured by Nike, however in the summer of 2012 a modern contract was formed with Adidas to produce the kits until 2017. The main sponsor is Novartis, a multinational pharmaceutical company which is based in the city of Basel. On the inside tag of the jersey is inscribed “ Rot isch unseri Liebi, Blau die ewigi Treui, Basel unseri Stadt. ” This approximately translates to “ Red is our love, blue the endless loyalty, Basel our city. ” The celebrated “ Blaugrana “ colours of Barcelona are said to have originated from the Rotblau coloring material of FC Basel. FC Barcelona was founded by early Basel captain Joan Gamper. For the 2008–09 season, Basel changed their shirt to resemble the traditional Barcelona shirt ( red and blue vertical stripes ). Barcelona changed theirs to one half of the shirt crimson, the other blue, which happens to resemble the traditional Basel shirt .
Old FC Basel logo without the two stars. Basel ‘s current logo is a shield, the leave half crimson and the correct half blasphemous. The shield is outlined with amber and in the center in aureate letters it reads “ FCB ”, for “ Football Club Basel ” or “ Fussballclub Basel ”. The logo is worn in the center of the shirt opposed to on the traditional left-hand side. Like the club colors of Basel, the logo has a hit resemblance to that of Barcelona ‘s. There are theories that suggest that the founder of Barcelona, being at one time the captain of Basel, reincorporated the logo of Basel to that of Barcelona. The resemblances seem open : both logos seem to incorporate the shield design, as do most other clubs. Most notably, however, is the FCB acronym on both logos and the red-blue tinge, outlined in gold. additionally, the football that lies on the bequeath side of the Basel logo seems to be the claim condition, type and color as that of the Barcelona logo in the penetrate center. Because of this, many say that Basel was the divine guidance in the action of founding Barcelona .
Records [edit ]
person records, league [edit ]
Updated to league matches played on 11 April 2021. [ 25 ]
individual records, all competitions [edit ]
Updated to all matches played on 11 April 2021. [ 25 ]
Honours [edit ]
National [edit ]
International [edit ]
european record [edit ]
As of 13 August 2019. [ citation needed ]
- ^ Does not include results from the beginning five editions of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup featuring “ Basel XI ”, which included players from FC Basel arsenic well as players from other clubs ( Basel XI record : P11 W1 D2 L8 F16 A39 ) .
Players [edit ]
stream team [edit ]
- As of 31 August 2021[26]
eminence : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Academy players with first-team contracts [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Players out on lend [edit ]
eminence : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
retire numbers [edit ]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Women ‘s team [edit ]
Since 2009 Basel have a women ‘s team. It competes in the Nationalliga A .
Superleague Formula [edit ]
FC Basel had a team in the Superleague Formula race car series where football teams lent their appoint to cars. GU-Racing International has operated the cable car for all seasons and Max Wissel has driven the cable car in all the races. FC Basel and Wissel won one race, in the 2009 temper at Donington Park. The team have scored three early podiums in the series .
Personnel [edit ]
work force ‘s team [edit ]
Current technical staff
Position
Name
Head coach (interim)
Assistant coach(es)
n/a
Fitness coach
Goalkeeping coach
Scout(s)
Talent manager
Team manager
Youth coach(es)
Head of youth football
man ‘s military reserve team [edit ]
Current technical staff
Position
Name
Head of training
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Goalkeeping coach
Coordinator
young person system [edit ]
Basel is known throughout Switzerland for having a commodity young person system. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] It has produced swiss internationals such as Erni Maissen, Adrian Knup, Alexander Frei, Marco Streller, Philipp and David Degen. Since Basel moved into the St. Jakob-Park in 2001, they have strengthened their young academy and many young talents like the Felipe Caicedo, Ivan Rakitić, Zdravko Kuzmanović, Xherdan Shaqiri, Yann Sommer, Eren Derdiyok and Mohammed Salah have risen through the ranks there. Since 2001, more than 40 successful players have risen through the Basel youth organization and joined their first gear team, including :
Under-19 team [edit ]
There is no official Basel U-19 team, because a U-19 championship does not exist in Swiss football. The team was cursorily put together in the 2011–12 season from the youngest members of the first team, the younger Under-21 and the Under-18 teams who were eligible to play in the 2011–12 NextGen Series. Note: Results and dates can be found here 2011–12 NextGen series. Because Basel qualified for the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League, the Under-19 team was again called to life and played in the 2013–14 UEFA Youth League. This time the members of this police squad were entirely members from the U-21 and U-18 teams, but the team entirely trained together once a week. Note: Results and dates can be found here 2013–14 UEFA Youth League. A class later Basel qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League. consequently, they were eligible to play in the 2014–15 UEFA Youth League and they took the matter a lot more seriously than the year earlier. Reserve team director Thomas Häberli was besides appointed as U-19 passenger car. Häberli ‘s U-19 police squad was however a mix between the younger U-21 and the older U-18 teams, but the team had aim in concert about casual. This resulted with improved results, the team winning four games from their six, but failing to qualify for the knockout phase on tiebreak. Note: Results and dates can be found here 2014–15 UEFA Youth League. Basel ‘s first base team qualified for the Champions League again in 2016–17, so the U-19 team was revived for the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League. Raphaël Wicky was U-19 bus. In the group stage they reached second position and advanced to the play-offs, but lost this against Rosenborg. Note: Results and dates can be found here 2016–17 UEFA Youth League. Arjan Peço is the team coach in the 2017–18 UEFA Youth League. The team will advance to the future turn. Note: Results and dates can be found here 2017–18 UEFA Youth League.
other young teams [edit ]
The club besides have 12 far youth teams : Under-18, Under-17 ( Team Basel/Jura ), Under-16, Under-15, Under-14, Under-13 ( Footeco ), Under-12 ( Junioren D9 Promotion ), Under-11 ( Junioren Ea ), Under-10 ( Junioren Eb ), Under-9 ( Junioren F ), Under-8 ( Junioren F ) and Bebbi ( Under-7 ). [ 29 ]
Employees of note [edit ]
early players [edit ]
Managers [edit ]
NOTE : early history is largely unknown .
Chairmen [edit ]
At the baseball club ’ s Extraordinary General Assembly on 16 January 2012 the 601 attending members appointed Oeri as honorary president of the united states. [ 31 ]
See besides [edit ]
Notes and references [edit ]
Notes [edit ]
- ^ Following the 2001–02 temper, the club retired the number of Massimo Ceccaroni, a Basel native who played his entire elder career with Basel, between 1987 and 2002 .
- ^[32] The total 12 in the Basel police squad became vacant on 1 July 2008. In October of that year, the board of managing directors announced their decision to dedicate this issue to their fans .
References [edit ]
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