FC Basel
| FC Basel | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Surname | FC Basel 1893 | |||
| Seat | Basel , Switzerland | |||
| founding | November 15, 1893 | |||
| Colours | Red Blue | |||
| Members | 8,757 (May 21, 2019) | |||
| president | Bernhard Burgener | |||
| Website | fcb.ch | |||
| First soccer team | ||||
| Head coach | Marcel Koller | |||
| Venue | St. Jakob Park | |||
| Places | 38,512 | |||
| league | Raiffeisen Super League | |||
| 2019/20 | 3rd place | |||
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The FC Basel 1893 (in short: FC Basel or FCB ) is a Swiss football club from the city of Basel . He is a member of the Swiss Football Association (SFV).
The club plays in the Raiffeisen Super League , the highest Swiss league. In 2014, FC Basel was the first Swiss football club to generate sales of more than 100 million Swiss francs. The second team (U21) plays in the Promotion League . With currently (2017) 20 championship titles - 12 of them in the last 15 years alone - FC Basel is the second most successful club in the history of Swiss football after GC Zurich , as well as the most successful club in the present day Swiss club football.
history
founding
The so-called "Eff Cee Bee" by the fans was founded on November 15, 1893, after a newspaper advertisement in the Basler Nationalzeitung had called for a football club to be founded three days earlier .
"For the purpose of founding a football club, all friends of this sport are invited to come together for a meeting next Wednesday evening at 8:15 am in the upper hall of the shoemakers' guild."
On that day, eleven interested readers met to see shoemakers in the Basel guild , including members of the Basel Rowing Club , academics and a sports journalist (who translated the football rules from English) and decided to found FC Basel. The club colors red and blue were adopted from the rowing club; These can be traced back via the BRG Rhenania, which merged with the Rowing Club in 1888, to the student associations of the same name (blue-white-red) from the early 19th century. Just eleven days later, the club's first game took place on the newly established Landhof sports field .
Time around the turn of the century
The Swiss Football Association was founded in 1895, albeit without FC Basel. Two years later the FCB already had 100 members. In the season 1897/98 for the first time was Swiss championship played out, even then without Basler participation.
In the 1898/99 season , FCB took part in a championship for the first time. The so-called Serie A, the highest Swiss class, was played in three regional groups, with the respective winner of the group qualifying for the finals. Basel was eliminated in two games against the Old Boys Basel . The Anglo-American Club Zurich became champion in 1899 . In 1900 the FCB became the second largest club in Switzerland after the Grasshoppers Zurich with 111 members . In 1902/03 the club celebrated its 10th anniversary. In the championship, in the "Central Group", they finished third, which again was not enough for the finals. The Young Boys Bern became champions .
A year later, the FCB provided the first national players, including the goalkeeper.
In 1906/07 the club won the Serie A group championships for the first time. The subsequent finals against later champions Servette FC (1: 5) and against the Young Fellows Zurich (2: 3) were then lost. In 1912/13 the club's management signed the Englishman Percy Humphreys, the first coach in the club's history.
Time during the First World War
Despite the outbreak of the First World War , the Swiss football championship did not rest, and in 1913/14 Basel took second place in the "Serie A-Zentralschweiz". However, only a year later, in 1915, only a reduced number of matches could take place, as 5,800 of the 8,500 active Swiss footballers had to be made available for military service. The FCB finally achieved third place in the "Serie A Central Switzerland". Towards the end of the war in 1918 there was also the problem that many football fields were converted into potato fields. The FCB reached the second place in the regional group and did not make it into the final round.
Development from 1920
In the 1919/20 season, the first foreigners were signed with a player from Hungary and the Austrian Gustav Putzendopler (who was to become Basel's coach in the 1930/31 season). A year later, with the 7th place, relegation was only just avoided. Then a new coach, the German Max Breunig , was hired, only the second coach in the club's 30-year history. In 1924, city rivals FC Nordstern Basel were group winners of the “Serie A Central”, while FCB only finished third. FC Zurich became champions. In 1925 there was a game against Nacional Montevideo (2: 5) in the Landhof , where the match ball was thrown from an airplane.
In 1929/30, under the Hungarian trainer Julius Kertesz, they won the group in the “Central Switzerland Group”. In the final round - despite a victory against FC Biel-Bienne - the last place was taken. In 1933, FCB won the Swiss Cup with a 4-3 win over Grasshoppers Zurich. In 1939, FC Basel reached the bottom of all twelve teams and had to relegate to the first division, the second highest class (today the Challenge League ).
Time during and after World War II
The championships were also played out during the Second World War . In 1942, Basel was promoted to Serie A again. After relegating again in the 1944/45 season, one year later they were promoted again to win the Swiss Cup for the second time in 1947. From 1949 the Landhof Stadium was rebuilt, so that the Schützenmatte , the club area of the Old Boys Basel, had to be used. In 1950 the FCB was runner-up behind Servette FC . An international tournament was organized to complete the converted stadium.
1953: 1st championship
In 1953 the first championship in the club's history was won. After just one defeat in 26 games, under player-coach René Bader they had four points ahead of Young Boys Bern. The club was unable to repeat this success in the following years, rather it achieved placements in the midfield almost without exception.
1963: surprise cup victory
In the 1962/63 season, FC Basel, trained by Georges Sobotka , made it to the Swiss Cup final against Grasshopper Club Zurich and surprisingly won the game 2-0. From this season the career of Karl Odermatt began . Other team players were Kurt Stettler (goalkeeper), Peter Füri , Carlo Porlezza , Otto Ludwig and Hans Weber .
Only a little over a year later, on December 26, 1964, FCB played the Cup quarter-finals, again against the Grasshoppers. This was Hans Weber's last match, just seven weeks later the popular FCB captain of those years died of cancer.
Success in the Benthaus era and fall into the NLB
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In 1965 the German player Helmut Benthaus was brought in from 1. FC Cologne . This commitment was to bring about the longest successful period in the history of the club and is now known as the “Benthaus era”. Together with Jürgen Sundermann and Karl Odermatt , he not only formed a legendary midfield, but also trained as a player- coach, or from 1971 exclusively as a team coach. He managed to get a total of seven championship titles and two cup wins. Ottmar Hitzfeld , with whom they won the championship in 1972 and 1973 , also played under Benthaus . For the 1973/74 season, the Peruvian Teófilo Cubillas , who was considered a superstar at the time, was committed. Together with him, they made it into the quarter-finals of the National Champion Cup .
After winning the championship for the eighth time in the club's history - for the seventh time under Benthaus - in 1980, Benthaus, who also lectured at the University of Basel , went to VfB Stuttgart in 1982 . The following years were largely unsuccessful for the club. In 1985 Benthaus returned again, but could no longer build on his earlier successes and was replaced in 1987 by Urs Siegenthaler . 1988 FCB had even made the National League A dismount. In 1992, in the 100th anniversary, Friedel Rausch coached the club in the National League B.
It was not until 1994 that he was promoted back to the upper house. In 1997/98, despite transfers of players from the Bundesliga - u. a. Maurizio Gaudino , Oliver Kreuzer (who later acted as manager for the club between 2002 and 2005) and a few months (July – October 1997) under coach Jörg Berger - only just avoided relegation.
Successes in the Gross Era
On July 1, 1999, Christian Gross , who was previously a coach at Tottenham Hotspur, was committed. Under Gisela "Gigi" Oeri , as patron and wife of Roche -Erben Andreas Oeri invested millions of francs in the club, and under President Rene C. Jaeggi the big success came in 2001 newly opened stadium "St. Jakob-Park »back: FC Basel was the first Swiss club to reach the final of the UI Cup (defeat against Aston Villa ). Finally, after 22 years, he won the Swiss championship again in 2002 and at the same time won the double with the cup.
Afterwards, FCB became the second Swiss football team to qualify for the Champions League . There he advanced to the second round (last 16) and only failed to reach the quarter-finals due to the worse goal difference.
In 2004 , under Christian Gross, FC Basel won their 10th championship title four rounds before the end. In 36 rounds he only lost three games.
In the 2004/05 season , Basel won the Swiss championship in the third to last round. After the winter break, the eleven-time Swiss champion remained in first place in the table. The decisive factor for winning the championship was the strength at home, Christian Gross' team did not lose a game at home and was unbeaten from December 1, 2002 (1: 2 against GC) in their own stadium until May 13, 2006.
Shame of Basel
In the 2005/06 season there were considerable riots on the last match day in Basel, which are dubbed a disgrace to Basel . FC Basel took the lead early on in the season and took first place without interruption from the sixth round. On the last day of the match, there was a direct encounter in Basel with FC Zurich, three points behind, who had worked their way up to second place. FC Zurich prevailed with a victory in the 93rd minute and won the championship in the last few seconds. Only because of the worse goal difference, Basel lost the title that was already believed to be safe. Shortly after the final whistle, the mood escalated when a few spectators stormed onto the field and threw Bengali fire into the crowd and the stands. The hooligans were also violent against players. Only after the police use water cannons and tear gas , also outside the stadium, could the situation be calmed down. As a sanction, the disciplinary committee of the Swiss top division imposed a stadium ban on FC Basel for two games and a fine of 80,000 francs. FC Zurich, whose fans also rioted, was fined.
Previously, in March 2006, the club was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup against Middlesbrough FC .
The championship of the 2006/07 season was also decided on the last day of the match, and again it was FC Zurich who played for the championship with FC Basel. Despite a chase to catch up with the leaders FC Zurich in the second half of the season, FC Zurich became champions with one point ahead of them. Many fans of FC Basel felt “cheated” of the championship title, as FC Zurich subsequently forfait ( Muntwiler case ) had won a draw against FC St. Gallen in the 25th of the 36 rounds .
In May 2006 Gisela Oeri became president of the association. She was the first president of a Swiss professional football club.
2007/08: 12th championship title
After the FCB only just finished second in the championship in the last two seasons, it won its 12th championship title in the 2007/08 season on May 10, 2008 in front of 38,015 spectators (stadium record) in the St. Jakobs Stadium at home . As in the previous two years, the championship was only decided in the last game and, as in 2006, in a finalissima (this time against the Young Boys ). In the same season, FCB also won the Swiss Cup against AC Bellinzona - also in the St. Jakobs Stadium . With this he secured the double again after 2002 (cup win and championship).
In autumn 2008 the FCB moved into the Champions League again. Although he reached a draw against the later Champions League winners FC Barcelona at Camp Nou , since he lost the other games, he was the last of the group to be eliminated. The spring of 2009 did not turn out as desired, both the defense of the cup (out in the semifinals) and the championship title were missed. Since the FCB did not achieve any of its season goals, the club separated from its coach Christian Gross at the end of the season after ten years.
Since 2009: Series championship titles and international success
On June 9th, 2009 Thorsten Fink was introduced as the new coach of the A-team in Basel . The most prominent newcomer was Alexander Frei , who was born in Basel, and was signed by Borussia Dortmund . On May 9, 2010, FC Basel won the final of the Swiss Football Cup 6-0 against FC Lausanne-Sport and thus achieved the 10th cup victory in the club's history. On the last day of the match, FCB also secured their 13th league title in the club's history. The team set a new Swiss record with 90 league goals scored in 36 games.
On August 24, 2010, FC Basel qualified for the UEFA Champions League for the third time in the club's history . The team failed in the group stage to Bayern Munich and AS Roma , but qualified for the UEFA Europa League , where they lost to Spartak Moscow in the round of 32 (first leg in Basel 2: 3 and second leg 1: 1).
On May 25, 2011, the club celebrated its 14th championship title, which also qualified for direct entry into the group stage of the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League season . In August 2011, President Gisela Oeri announced her resignation at the end of 2011. On October 13, 2011 Thorsten Fink terminated his contract with FC Basel by mutual agreement and against payment of a transfer fee by Hamburger SV . The previous assistant coach Heiko Vogel took over the position of coach on an interim basis . On December 12, 2011, Heiko Vogel was appointed the new head coach. In January 2012, Gisela Oeri was replaced by Bernhard Heusler as President of FC Basel.
Under Heiko Vogel, FC Basel qualified for the round of 16 of the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League - with FC Basel ousting last year's finalists Manchester United from the competition in the group stage - but lost to Bayern Munich due to the goal difference . The home game was won 1-0, but Basel clearly lost 7-0 in Munich. In the championship, FC Basel continued the unbeaten series that began on August 28, 2011 until May 12, 2012. With a total of 26 league games without defeat, this is the longest series in the history of Swiss football (together with GC 1981/1982). FC Basel secured its 15th league title ahead of schedule and also won the Swiss Cup 2011/2012.
In the 2012/13 season, FC Basel failed to qualify for the UEFA Champions League against the Romanian champions CFR Cluj . After a very subdued start to the championship, coach Heiko Vogel was relieved of his post on October 15, 2012 after less than a year and replaced by Murat Yakin , who had played for FC Basel between 2000 and 2006. From statements by President Bernhard Heusler it emerged that the focus was not on the team's recent performance, but that differences of opinion had arisen between the club management and the head coach regarding the strategic direction.
Under his new coach, FC Basel played the first twelve home games without conceding a single goal and took over the top of the table for the first time this season after the 24th matchday. At the end of the season, FC Basel won the championship for the fourth time in a row. In the Cup, however, he lost the final on penalties 3: 4 against Grasshoppers Zurich.
Internationally, in the 2012/13 UEFA Europa League , the team was able to make it into a semi-final of a European competition for the first time in the club's history (quarter-final win against Tottenham Hotspur ). The final was missed because the semi-final was lost to Chelsea (first leg in Basel 1: 2 and second leg 1: 3).
In the following season, FC Basel played very successfully in the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League and reached the quarter-finals with a win against FC Salzburg , in which the club met FC Valencia . There he failed with a 5-0 away defeat in extra time after the first leg in Basel had been won 3-0.
Nationally, too, the 2013/2014 season ended similarly to the previous year: With one round to go, FC Basel again secured the championship title - the fifth in a row, which was a Swiss record - while the club failed again in the cup final, this time in the Extension with 0: 2 against FC Zurich.
One day before the last matchday, the club announced the amicable separation from coach Murat Yakin. Ten days later, Paulo Sousa was introduced as the new coach.
On May 17, 2015, FC Basel secured the championship title of the 2014/15 season with three rounds to go and the sixth title in a row. In the cup final, the club lost 3-0 to FC Sion.
On June 17, 2015, it was announced that the previous coach Paulo Sousa would part ways with FC Basel in favor of a new coaching position at the Italian first division club Fiorentina . Urs Fischer , who moved from league competitor FC Thun to Basel, was introduced as his successor . Fischer signed a two-year contract with the option to extend it for another season. With Fischer, FC Basel, who had been the table leader since the second round, became Swiss champions in 2015/16 . It was the 7th title in a row. With the goal of Birkir Bjarnason , who scored the 2-2 draw against FC Zurich on April 10, 2016, FC Basel became the first club to score 1,000 goals since the Super League was introduced in 2003. On April 28, 2017, the FC secured the 2017 championship ahead of schedule and thus the eighth title in a row. On May 25, he also won the Swiss Cup with a final win against FC Sion, making it the sixth time in club history. This overall 12th cup win was remarkable as it also meant the first defeat of FC Sion in the 14th cup final.
On June 9, 2017, Bernhard Heusler resigned from the office of President; Bernhard Burgener was elected as his successor. Previously, in April 2017, the club's management announced that they would start the 2017/18 season with a new coach. Urs Fischer's successor was the previous youth coach and former professional Raphael Wicky . Under his leadership, the team qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League in December 2017 after finishing second behind Manchester United in the group stage.
In July 2018, Raphael Wicky was released after only two competitive games in the 2018/19 season and replaced on an interim basis by Alex Frei and Marco Schällibaum . In addition, they failed in the 2nd qualifying round for the Champions League at PAOK Thessaloniki . This duo was followed by the former Austrian team boss Marcel Koller . In the first game with Koller as head coach against Grashoppers Zurich , the first win of the season could be achieved. As in the previous year, FC Basel finished the season behind the BSC Young Boys as runner-up, but won the Swiss Cup for the 13th time.
Ownership
FC Basel is owned by FC Basel Holding AG, which is above FC Basel 1893 AG and owns 75 percent of it. David Degen has held 10 percent of the share capital of FC Basel Holding AG since 2019, Bernhard Burgener still holds 80.6 percent. Both are members of the Board of Directors .
Stadion
FC Basel plays its home games in St. Jakob-Park , known colloquially as “Joggeli”.
Originally, FC Basel was based on the Landhof . A new football stadium was built in St. Jakob for the 1954 World Cup . FC Basel stayed at the farm until 1967. Only when the sporting advancement began and the number of spectators increased after the engagement of Helmut Benthaus as player-coach, they switched to the St. Jakob Stadium in 1967.
The St. Jakob Stadium from 1954 was originally designed for an audience of 54,828. However, since the stadium mainly consisted of standing room, this number was not fixed, and so it was played twice in front of 60,000 spectators. Most recently, the number of viewers was limited to 36,000.
From 1999 to 2001 the old stadium was torn down and replaced by a new one, the opening was on March 15, 2001. The new stadium was planned by the architects Herzog & de Meuron . Originally, the new stadium held 34,000 spectators (all seats). For the European Championships in 2008 , it was expanded and the seats condensed so that there was space for 42,500 spectators at that time. After the EM, the seat compression was reversed. Today the stadium holds 38,512 spectators.
After the accident at Sheffield's Hillsborough Stadium on April 15, 1989, FIFA and UEFA banned standing room in football stadiums. The elimination of standing room was criticized by the fans. The dilemma was solved in such a way that there was still standing room on part of the grandstand (the "Muttenzer curve") and seats were only temporarily installed for international games.
The official name of the new stadium is «St. Jakob-Park »(sic, without Fugen-s), but colloquially it is still simply« Joggeli ». “Joggi” is the Basel dialect expression for Jakob, “Joggeli” is its diminutive.
Fans
The die-hard fans of FC Basel can be found in the stadium in the so-called "Muttenzerkurve". By Swiss standards, this fan scene is extraordinarily large (approx. 10,000 people). The fan scene is also very present on the Internet. a. through the websites of the fan clubs and the “FCB Forum”, one of the most popular football forums in Switzerland. These are positively noticeable at the games due to their choreographies and sayings. However, the curve occasionally makes negative headlines. Be it that individual exponents do not know how to behave at away games or that there are riots and fights with the fans of the visiting team. In the last championship game against FC Zurich in the 2005/06 season there were serious riots in the stadium. FC Basel was then sentenced to two ghost games and had to close the Muttenzer curve for the third, fourth and fifth home games.
As the first football club in Switzerland, FC Basel has its own internet radio . Since July 2008, “FCB Live Radio” has broadcast almost all FC Basel games on the web. This service, which is operated by two fans on a private basis, has the motto: "A radio by fans - for fans".
FC Basel has a friendship with Eintracht Braunschweig , previously also with FK Austria Wien .
successes
Championship successes
- Swiss champions (20): 1953 , 1967 , 1969 , 1970 , 1972 , 1973 , 1977 , 1980 , 2002 , 2004 , 2005 , 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017
Cup successes
- Swiss Cup winners (13): 1933, 1947, 1963, 1967, 1975, 2002, 2003, 2007 , 2008 , 2010 , 2012 , 2017 , 2019
- Swiss Cup finalists: 1942, 1944, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1982, 2013 , 2014 , 2015
- Swiss League Cup winner : 1973
- 13 times watch cup winner : 1969, 1970, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013
International success
- Champions League participation : 2002/03 (intermediate round ), 2008/09 , 2010/11 , 2013/14 (each group stage), 2011/12 , 2014/15 , 2017/18 (each round of 16)
- UEFA Europa League semi-finalist: 2012/13
- UI Cup finalist: 2001
- Alpine Cup winner : 1969, 1970, 1981
Honors
- Swiss athlete (team) of the year : 2002, 2012
Other statistics
- FC Basel is currently in 3rd place in the all-time Super League table .
- At the end of 2013, FC Basel reached 7th place for the first time in the top ten of the IFFHS club world rankings, which include all of a team's competitive games.
- In the 2013/14 season, FC Basel won the title of Swiss champions for the fifth time in a row. The club broke the record set by BSC Young Boys in 1960.
The 1st team
Squad for the 2019/20 season
As of July 26, 2020. Professional FC Basel players who are on loan to another club are not listed.
| No. | Nat. | player | In the team since | Last club | |||
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| goalkeeper | |||||||
| 1 |
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Jonas Omlin | 2018 | FC Luzern | |||
| 13 |
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Djordje Nikolic | 2016 | FK Jagodina | |||
| 44 |
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Jozef Pukaj | 2019 | Own youth | |||
| defense | |||||||
| 4th |
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Eray Cömert | 2018 | Own youth | |||
| 5 |
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Silvan Widmer | 2018 | Udinese Calcio | |||
| 6th |
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Omar Alderete | 2019 | Club Atlético Huracán | |||
| 15th |
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Blás Riveros | 2016 | Club Olimpia | |||
| 21st |
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Jasper van der Werff | 2020 | FC Liefering | |||
| 28 |
 
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Raoul Petretta | 2017 | Own youth | |||
| 47 |
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Elis Isufi | 2020 | Own youth | |||
| midfield | |||||||
| 7th |
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Luca Zuffi | 2014 | FC Thun | |||
| 10 |
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Samuele Campo | 2018 | FC Lausanne Sports | |||
| 14th |
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Valentin Stocker | 2018 | Hertha BSC | |||
| 17th |
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Eric Ramires | 2019 | EC Bahia | |||
| 20th |
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Fabian Frei | 2018 | 1. FSV Mainz 05 | |||
| 22nd |
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Orges Bunjaku | 2020 | Own youth | |||
| 23 |
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Lirik Vishi | 2020 | Own youth | |||
| 32 |
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Yannick Marchand | 2019 | Own youth | |||
| 34 |
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Taulant Xhaka | 2013 | Grasshopper Club Zurich | |||
| striker | |||||||
| 9 |
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Ricky van Wolfswinkel | 2017 | Vitesse Arnhem | |||
| 19th |
 
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Afimico Pululu | 2019 | Neuchâtel Xamax | |||
| 27 |
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Dimitri Oberlin | 2017 | FC Red Bull Salzburg | |||
| 41 |
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Tician Tushi | 2019 | Own youth | |||
| 98 |
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Arthur Cabral | 2019 | SE Palmeiras | |||
| 99 |
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Kemal Ademi | 2019 | Neuchâtel Xamax | |||
Supervising staff and board
| First name Name | function | |||||
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| Board | ||||||
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Bernhard Burgener |
president | |||||
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Ruedi Zbinden
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Sports director | |||||
| Coaching staff | ||||||
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Marcel Koller
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Head coach | |||||
 Thomas Janeschitz
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Assistant coach | |||||
 Carlos Bernegger
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Assistant coach | |||||
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Thomas Häberli
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Assistant coach and player developer | |||||
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Massimo Colomba
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Goalkeeper coach | |||||
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Mathieu Degrange |
Fitness trainer | |||||
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Michael Mueller |
Performance assessor | |||||
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Fabian Frei |
Video analyst | |||||
Transfers for the 2018/19 season
| Accesses | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nat. | Surname | donating club | Transfer period |
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Konstantinos Dimitriou | PAOK Thessaloniki | Summer 2018 |
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Dimitri Oberlin | FC Red Bull Salzburg 3 | |
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Jonas Omlin | FC Luzern | |
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Eray Cömert | FC Sion 1 | |
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Zdravko Kuzmanović | Málaga CF 1 | |
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Aldo Kalulu | Olympique Lyon | |
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Julian von Moos | Grasshopper Club Zurich U18 | |
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Silvan Widmer | Udinese Calcio | |
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Robin Huser | FC Thun 1 | |
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Martin Hansen | FC Ingolstadt 04 | |
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Carlos Zambrano | Dynamo Kiev 2 | |
| Departures | |||
| Nat. | Surname | receiving club | Transfer period |
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Mirko Salvi | Grasshopper Club Zurich | Summer 2018 |
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Davide Callà | FC Winterthur | |
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Léo Lacroix | AS Saint-Étienne 1 | |
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Germano Vailati | End of career | |
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Michael Lang | Borussia Monchengladbach | |
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Mohamed Elyounoussi | Southampton FC | |
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Alexander Fransson | IFK Norrköping | |
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Tomáš Vaclík | Sevilla FC | |
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Dereck Kutesa | FC St. Gallen | |
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Martin Liechti | FC Aarau 2 | |
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Gezim Pepsi | FC Aarau 2 | |
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Neftali Manzambi | Sporting Gijón 2 | |
More teams
In addition to the professional team, FC Basel has other teams.
offspring
Massimo Ceccaroni has been the technical director of the youth department since June 2012 . Like the first team, the junior departments are sometimes very successful. In the 2011/2012 season, for example, the U21s rose to the 1st division promotion, the U18s became Swiss champions, the U16s Swiss champions and cup winners, the U15s first in the group and the U14s and U17s each second in the group.
FC Basel U-21
| FC Basel U-21 | |
| Surname | FC Basel U-21 |
| Venue | St. Jakob sports facility |
| Places | 6,000 |
| Head coach | Arjan Peço |
| league | Promotion League |
| 2017/18 | 4th rank |
The second team of FC Basel (U-21) has played in the Promotion League (third highest division) since it was introduced in the 2012/13 season . Previously, the team played in the 1st league and won the Group 2 championship three times in a row from 2007 to 2009. Since the Swiss Football Association's regulation stipulated that the U-21 teams of professional teams were allowed to play in the third highest league at most, you could do not participate in the promotion games for the Challenge League .
Again and again players of the amateur team made the leap into the squad of the professional team, later became regular players and national players, including Valentin Stocker , Fabian Frei , Granit Xhaka , Xherdan Shaqiri , Breel Embolo or Yann Sommer .
FC Basel U-19
The U-19 team of FC Basel took part in the NextGen Series 2011/12 . Opponents were Tottenham Hotspur , PSV Eindhoven and Inter Milan , while FC Basel was eliminated in the group stage. The FCB U-19 squad consists of the younger U-21 players and some of the U-18 players.
More junior teams
- U-18
- U-17 team Basel / Jura
- U-16
- U-15
- U-14
- U-13 (Junior C Promotion)
- U-12 (Juniors D9 Promotion)
- U-11 (Juniors Ea)
- U-10 (Juniors Eb)
- U-09 (Juniors F)
- U-08
- Piccolos
Women
NLA
The women's team plays in the national league A women's football .
The squad for the 2017/18 season:
| No. | Nat. | Surname | position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Switzerland
|
Stenia Michel | goal |
| 2 |
 New Zealand
|
Ria Percival | Defense |
| 4th |
Switzerland
|
Stefani Liebhart | Defense |
| 5 |
Switzerland
|
Melanie Huber | Defense |
| 6th |
 England
|
Yasmin Bunter | Defense |
| 7th |
Austria
|
Sabrina Horvath | midfield |
| 8th |
 Croatia
|
Kristina Šundov | Storm |
| 9 |
Switzerland
|
Rachel Rinast | Defense |
| 10 |
 Slovakia
|
Lucia Ondrušová | midfield |
| 11 |
Germany
|
Eunice Beckmann | Storm |
| 13 |
Germany
|
Franziska Jaser | Defense |
| 19th |
Switzerland
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Jana Brunner | Defense |
| 21st |
Germany
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Nicole Banecki | midfield |
| 25th |
Switzerland
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Nadine Böni | goal |
| 26th |
Switzerland
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Vanesa Hoti | midfield |
| 27 |
Switzerland
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Fabienne Bangerter | midfield |
| 30th |
Switzerland
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Lara Marti | midfield |
| 31 |
Switzerland
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Tyara Buser | midfield |
| 33 |
Austria
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Sarah Klotz | Defense |
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Switzerland
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Vanessa Peromingo | Storm |
FC Basel beach soccer
The FCB beach soccer team plays in the SBS League A .
FC Basel e-sports
Four professional e-athletes have been under contract with FC Basel since 2017. One of the e-athletes, Florian Müller, alias CodyderFinisher, was able to achieve 3rd place at the 2017 FIFA Interactive World Cup . Tim Katnawatos, alias TheStrxngeR, won the VBL 2018 and also the ESL winter championship. Nicolas99FC, who has been under contract since October 2018, won the PS4 playoffs for FeWC 2018.
people
Outstanding players and coaches
A few players and coaches of FC Basel are considered unforgettable by the fans as a result of their long and great services to the club, some decades after the end of their career. That is why they have a special status, for example
- Josef Hügi (player 1948–1962)
- Karl Odermatt (player 1962–1975, interim coach 1992)
- Helmut Benthaus (player-coach 1965–1971, coach 1971–1982, 1985–1987)
- Ottmar Hitzfeld (player 1971–1975)
- Massimo Ceccaroni (player 1987-2002, youth coach since 2013, member of the board of directors since 2017)
- Alexander Frei (player 1995–1998, 2009–2013, youth coach since 2015, member of the board of directors since 2017)
- Oliver Kreuzer (player 1997–2002, manager 2002–2005)
- Benjamin Huggel (player 1998–2005, 2007–2012, assistant coach U-21 since 2012)
- Christian Gross (coach 1999–2009)
- Scott Chipperfield (player 2001-2011)
- Ivan Ergić (player 2000–2009)
- Franco Costanzo (player 2006-2011)
- Marco Streller (player 2000-2004, 2007-2015, sporting director 2017-2019)
- Matías Delgado (player 2003-2006, 2013-2017)
See also: List of FC Basel players
President
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Gisela Oeri has been Honorary President since 2012, and Bernhard Heusler since 2017.
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Trivia
FC Barcelona club colors
Legend has it that the Swiss Joan Gamper , who moved to Barcelona for work and was the driving force behind the founding of FC Barcelona , adopted the club colors of FC Basel for the newly founded FC Barcelona. However, there is no evidence for this legend, which is also very widespread in Barcelona. Although Hans Gamper played for FC Basel for a short time before moving to Barcelona, he had previously played for Zurich-based FC Excelsior, where he was even a founding member. There are other legends about the choice of club colors for FC Barcelona, but none has been proven.
Additional information
literature
- Josef Zindel: FC Basel - emotions in red-blue. Opinio, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-03999-002-0 .
- Josef Zindel: FC Basel 1893: 125 years on the roller coaster. In: Basler Stadtbuch 2018 , online dossier, 22 pages.
Movie
- Wir sind dir treu (2005) - short documentary film by Michael Koch
Web links
- FC Basel website
- Club history
- FC Basel on the website of the Swiss Football League
Wikinews: FC Basel - in the newsIndividual evidence
- ↑ FCB.ch: Club FC Basel 10'000
- ↑ Record sales: FC Basel breaks 100 million mark. In: nzz.ch. March 4, 2015, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Peter Gissler: 100 Years of the Basler Ruder Club - The early years. In: Basler Stadtbuch 1984. Basel 1985, p. 190.
- ↑ Switzerland 1898 . rsssf.com. 2004. Retrieved September 3, 2017.
- ^ Riots after the championship of FC Zurich. netzeitung.de of May 14, 2006, archived from the original on March 15, 2012 ; Retrieved July 18, 2009 .
- ↑ Basel has to do without its fans for two games. handelsblatt.com dated June 8, 2006, accessed July 18, 2009 .
- ↑ a b Gigi Oeri leaves the big stage. In: Schweizer Fernsehen from January 17, 2012.
- ↑ Thorsten Fink new FCB trainer. 20 minutes, accessed June 9, 2009 .
- ↑ hsv.de: Thorsten Fink is the coach of Hamburger SV ( Memento from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ FC Basel 1893: 36-year-old Heiko Vogel is the new head coach at FC Basel 1893 . FC Basel 1893. 2011. Archived from the original on May 2, 2012. Retrieved on December 12, 2011.
- ↑ Fabian Kern: "We have noticed leadership deficits at Vogel" In: Basler Zeitung , October 18, 2012.
- ↑ Salzburg mourns the lost opportunities, official UEFA website, March 21, 2014
- ↑ Sousa and FC Basel split up , 20min.ch
- ↑ Urs Fischer new trainer at Basel
- ↑ FC Basel are champions - Aarau continues to be unbeaten. In: sfl.ch. April 30, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Football in Switzerland: FC Basel celebrates seventh title in a row. In: Spiegel Online . May 1, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ FC Basel: Champion of the Records. In: sfl.ch. May 2, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ FC Basel Swiss champions for the 20th time. Spiegel Online, April 28, 2017, accessed on the same day.
- ↑ a b 123rd Ordinary General Meeting. FC Basel website, June 9, 2017, accessed June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ David Degen buys into FC Basel - and becomes a member of the board. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ FC Basel Holding AG. Retrieved on May 24, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ FC Basel: 1st team. Retrieved July 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Information from the youth section of FC Basel 1893 ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ U21 1st division . FC Basel 1893. 2011. Archived from the original on March 10, 2013. Retrieved on November 16, 2012.
- ↑ NextGen Series . The NextGen Series. 2011. Archived from the original on November 12, 2011. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
- ↑ The squad - player portraits . FC Basel 1893. 2016. Accessed April 12, 2016.
- ^ Josef Zindel: Former FCB president Felix Musfeld died . FC Basel 1893. 2016. Accessed June 1, 2016.
- ↑ Florian Raz: FC Basel: What remains Gigi Oeri after twelve years. In: tageswoche.ch. May 13, 2006, accessed January 7, 2017 .
- ↑ official website of FC Barcelona
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