FC Basel

Basel

Full name	Fussball Club Basel 1893
Nickname(s)	FCB, Bebbi (Citizen of Basel), RotBlau
Founded	15 November 1893; 130 years ago (1893-11-15)
Ground	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
Capacity	38,512; 37,500 for international matches
President	Bernhard Burgener
Head coach	?
League	Swiss Super League
2022–23	5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

FC Basel 1893 (Fussball Club Basel 1893), widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel,^[1][2][3] is a Swiss football club based in Basel, in the Canton of Basel-Stadt.

FC Basel was started by an advertisement placed by Roland Geldner in the 12 November 1893 edition of the Basler national newspaper. He wanted that a football team is formed . Everybody who wants to play should come in the restaurant Schuhmachern-Zunft. Eleven men attended the meeting, mainly from the academic community, and founded the Fussball Club Basel on 15 November 1893.

Since 2009 the club also has a Women soccer team. They als play at the highest level of Swiss Women´s football, the Swiss Women's Super League.

• Swiss Championship: 20
  • 1952–53, 1966–67, |1968–69, 1969–70, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1976–77, 1979–80, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
• Swiss Cup: 13
  • 1932–33, 1946–47, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1974–75, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2016–17, 2018–19
• Swiss League Cup: 1
  • 1972

• UEFA Champions League
  • Quarter-finalists: 1973–74
  • Last 16: 2011–12, 2014–15, 2017–18
• UEFA Europa League
  • Semi-finalists:2012–13
  • Quarter-finalists: 2013–14, 2019–20
• UEFA Europa Conference League
  • Last 16: 2021–22

As of 25 July 2022^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  Switzerland Marwin Hitz 3 DF  Germany Noah Katterbach (on loan from Köln) 4 DF  Spain Arnau Comas 5 DF  Switzerland Michael Lang 6 DF  Burkina Faso Nasser Djiga 7 FW  Canada Liam Millar 8 FW  France Andy Diouf (on loan from Rennes) 9 FW  Switzerland Zeki Amdouni (on loan from Lausanne-Sport) 10 FW  France Jean-Kévin Augustin 11 FW  Hungary Ádám Szalai 13 GK  Switzerland Mirko Salvi 15 DF  Ghana Kasim Nuhu (on loan from Hoffenheim) 16 GK  Switzerland Nils de Mol 17 FW  Switzerland Andi Zeqiri (on loan from Brighton and Hove Albion)

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  Ghana Emmanuel Essiam 19 MF  Switzerland Darian Males (on loan from Inter Milan) 20 MF  Switzerland Fabian Frei (Captain) 21 DF  France Andy Pelmard 22 DF  Germany Sergio López 23 MF  Netherlands Wouter Burger 24 FW  Switzerland Tician Tushi 26 FW  Senegal Kaly Sène 27 FW  Switzerland Dan Ndoye 28 DF  France Hugo Vogel 30 FW  Germany Anton Kade 34 MF  Albania Taulant Xhaka (vice-captain) 38 MF  Switzerland Yannick Marchand 40 MF  Switzerland Liam Chipperfield 42 MF  Tunisia Sayfallah Ltaief 72 DF  Switzerland Andrea Padula 96 MF  Portugal Joelson Fernandes (on loan from Sporting)

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