2020–21 FC Basel season
The 2020–21 is FC Basel's 127th season in existence and the club's 26th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1993–94 season. The 2020–21 Swiss Super League season started on the weekend 19–20 September 2020 and will end on 21 May 2021. In addition to the Swiss Super League, Basel will also participate in this season's Swiss Cup and the UEFA Europa League.
| 2020–21 season | |||
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| President | Bernhard Burgener (until 16 November 2020) Reto Baumgartner (from 16 November 2020) | ||
| Head coach | Ciriaco Sforza | ||
| Stadium | St. Jakob-Park | ||
| Swiss Super League | 4th | ||
| Swiss Cup | Round 3 | ||
| UEFA Europa League | Play-off round | ||
| Top goalscorer | League: Cabral (7) All: Cabral (9) | ||
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Club
Team management
On 26 August the club announced that Ciriaco Sforza had been hired as the first team manager as of 1 September 2020. He had previously been head coach of FC Wil and he brought his assistant Daniel Hasler with him.[1] Massimo Colomba stayed with the club as Goalkeeper Coach. On 21 September the club announced that they had hired Patrick Rahmen as second assistant trainer.[2]
Youth coach Alex Frei had previously been trainer of the U-18 team and moved up to the U-21, but due to differences with the club directors he quit his job on 24 August.[3] On 1 September the club announced that Matthias Kohler was hired as the new U-21 team trainer.[4]
| Position | Staff |
|---|---|
| Manager |  Ciriaco Sforza |
| Assistant manager | Daniel Hasler |
| Assistant manager | Patrick Rahmen |
| Goalkeeper Coach | Massimo Colomba |
| Team leader | Gustav Nussbaumer |
| Youth Team Coach | Alex Frei until 24 August 2020 Matthias Kohler from 1 September |
| Youth Team Co-Coach | Daniel Stucki |
| Youth Team Co-Coach | Michaël Bauch |
Source: FCB Official Site
Club management
The club's 126th AGM was due to take place on 9 November 2020.[5] But because of the situation in took place in writen form during the week from 6 November to 13 November 2020. The board of directors up until this date under the holding owner Bernhard Burgener were: Burgener himself as president, CEO Roland Heri, financial manager Peter von Büren, as well as Marco Streller, Reto Baumgartner, Dominik Donzé and Benno Kaiser. Ruedi Zbinden had been sport director the previous year, but resigned on 18 August and returned to his previous job as chef scout.[6]
| Chairman | Bernhard Burgener |
| Sport director | Vacant |
| CEO | Roland Heri |
| Finances | Peter von Büren |
| Director | Marco Streller |
| Director | Reto Baumgartner |
| Director | Dominik Donzé |
| Director | Benno Kaiser |
Updated to match played 30 August 2020
Source: FCB Official Site
At the AGM the President Burgener, CEO Heri, Finance director, von Büren and Streller stood down and vacated their positions. The directors Baumgartner, Donzé and Kaiser declared their willingness to continue. Eight further members of the club also declared themselves as candidates. There were 2589 votes with valid rights, the absolute majority was 1295. Baumgartner received 2382 votes, Donzé 1913 and Kaiser 1892 and these three were voted back onto the board. The other eight they failed to reach an absolute majority. For the position as club president Baumgartner received 2326 votes. Therefore from 18 November the clubs board is as follows:
| Chairman | Reto Baumgartner |
| Sport director | Vacant |
| Director | Dominik Donzé |
| Director | Benno Kaiser |
| Ground (capacity and dimensions) | St. Jakob-Park (38,512[7] (37,500 for international matches)[8] / 120x80 m) |
Updated to match played 18 November 2020
Source: FCB Official Site
Overview
Off and pre-season
There were a number of changes in the squad during the summer break. Zdravko Kuzmanović,[9] and Kevin Bua[10] left the club because their contracts were not renewed. Edon Zhegrova, Emil Bergström and Eric Ramires[11] also left the club and this because their loan periods had ended. Then on 12 August the club announced that Jonas Omlin was transferred out to Montpellier.[12] After the season had started and the club failed to qualify for the group stage of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League, the club made three announcements on 5 October, first that Blás Riveros had transferred to Brøndby,[13] then that Kemal Ademi had moved on to Fenerbahçe[14] and finally that Omar Alderete had been transferred to Hertha BSC.[15]
In the other direction, the players Konstantinos Dimitriou, Julian Von Moos, Aldo Kalulu and Dimitri Oberlin were back in the Basel squad after being out on loan for the previous season. Arthur Cabral, who had been on loan from Palmeiras, was signed in on a perminat basis on a three year contract.[16] The contract with Ricky van Wolfswinkel had run out, but he signed in for another two years until the end of the 2021–22 season.[17] On 11 September FCB announced that they had prolonged the contract with Taulant Xhaka until summer 2024.[18] Then it was announced on 15 September that they had also prolonged the contract with captain Valentin Stocker.[19]
Further, on 8 August the former Austrian national team goalkeeper Heinz Lindner was signed in from Wehen Wiesbaden, with a three year contract dated up until summer 2023.[20] Then on 11 September Italian full-back Andrea Padula was signed in from FC Wil, where he had played the last half year under manager Ciriaco Sforza, also on a three year contact.[21] Somewhat surprising came the announcement on 19 September that Juventus had bought U-18 right back defender Albian Hajdari, but he stayed with the squad, being loaned back to Basel for two seasons.[22]
The 2020–21 Swiss Super League started on 20 September, but then on 22 September the club announced that the Kosovar international Edon Zhegrova (who's loan from Genk had actually ended at the end of June) had also signed in new on a three year contract.[23] On 2 October it was announced that Jorge Marco de Oliveira Moraes, simply known as Jorge, had signed in on a loan contract from Monaco.[24] On 7 October the club then announced that Swiss international player Timm Klose had been signed in on loan from Norwich City. Klose had played for the club as youth international, but had moved onto FC Thun in the 2011–12 Swiss Super League season to start his professional football career.[25] Finaly, only hours before the transfer-period closed, the club announced that Pajtim Kasami had signed in on a two year contract.[26] Kasami had previously played for Sion, but FC Sion's president Christian Constantin had terminated his contract with them, without notice, after he had failed to agree to an 80% salary pay cut during coronavirus pandemic.[27] The transfer-period in Switzerland closed on 12 October at mid-night.
In total 12 players had left the club and 12 players had signed in.
Winter break transfer window
On the 5 December 2020 Basel announced that they had terminated the contract with Dimitri Oberlin, without stating the reason, but according to the media it had something to do with a non-corona-conform party.[28] On 14 January the club then announced that they had loaned Tician Tushi out to FC Wil until the end of the season, so that he could gain more playing experience. His trainer in Wil would be Alex Frei who was his coach as he played with the Basel U-18 youth team.[29] Basel's fourth goalkeeper Jozef Pukaj was loaned to Stade Lausanne Ouchy until 30 June 2021.[30] On 27 January Basel announced that they had transferred Konstantinos Dimitriou to Mezőkövesdi SE.[31] On the same day it was made public that Amir Abrashi had signed in on loan from Freiburg.[32] On 30 January Gonçalo Cardoso also signed in on loan from West Ham.[33] On 1 February The club announced that Samuele Campo had been loaned ou to SV Darmstadt 98.[34]
The Campaign
Domestic League
The season starts on the weekend of 19/20 September 2020. Basel's priority aim for the new season is to win the league championship. On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. FCB start the new season on Sunday 20 September with the home game against FC Vaduz in St. Jakob-Park. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games for all 36 rounds will follow by the end of the year. The season started for Basel on 20 September 20201 with a home game against newly promoted FC Vaduz.
Domestic Cup
Basel's clear aim for the cup is to win the title. The first round of the this seasons Swiss Cup was played on the week-end 28 to 30 August and the second round was played on the week-end 11 to 13 September 2020. The four teams engaged in UEFA competitions received a bye in this round and therefore Basel enter the competition in the third round. Basel were drawn to play away against Winterthur on 9 February 2021.
Europa League
Basel were qualified for the UEFA Europa League and started in the qualifying phase second qualifying round. The club's aim in this competition was to reach the group stage. The draw for the second qualifying round was held on 31 August 2020 and Basel were drawn with an away game against Osijek of Croatia. This was to be played on 17 September and they won the game with 2–1. In the third qualifying round, to be played one week later on 24 September, they were drawn at home against Anorthosis Famagusta. This game was won 3–2.[35] In the play-off round Basel were drawn at home against CSKA Sofia. Despite taking the lead after 54 minutes, Basel lost 1–3 and failed tp qualify for the group stage. The club's aim was failed.[36]
Players
First-team squad
The following is the list of the Basel first team squad. It also includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 19 September 2020 but subsequently left the club after that date.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Pre-season and friendlies
Win Draw Loss Postponed Fixtures
| 11 September 2020 Pre-season | Basel | 1 – 5 | 1. FC Saarbrücken | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 14:00 | FCB Report | Attendance: 0 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet |
| 28 October 2020 Mid-season | Basel | 5 – 3 | Xamax | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 15:00 | Cabral  12'Frei 20' (pen.)Cabral 40'Stocker 45+1'van Wolfswinkel 73' |
Report | 23' Saiz 24' Mafouta 38' Dominguez 88' Epitaux |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Sven Wolfensberger |
| 11 November 2020 Mid-season | Basel | 4 – 4 | Kriens | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 15:00 | Von Moos 26' Kasami 82'van Wolfswinkel 86'Campo 89' (pen.) |
Summary | 36' Rustemoski 38' Rustemoski 60' Rustemoski 69' (pen.) Tadić 84' Mulaj |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Lionel Tschudi |
| 12 November 2020 Mid-season | Basel | 4 – 0 | Schaffhausen | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 14:00 | Chipperfield 32' Cabral 36'Kalulu 38'Vesco 90' |
Summary | Attendance: 0 Referee: Alessandro Dudic |
| 9 January 2021 Winter break | Basel | 2 – 2 | Thun | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 11:00 | Frei 7' (pen.) van Wolfswinkel 27' |
Report | 7' Karlen 24' Hefti 81' Havenaar |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Basel) |
| 13 January 2021 Winter break | Aarau | 0 – 5 | Basel | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 15:00 | Report | 18' (0:1) Frei 27' (0:2) Cabral 48' (0:3) van Wolfswinkel 80' (0:4) Zhegrova 89' (0:5) van Wolfswinkel |
Attendance: 0 Referee: David Huwiler | |
| Note: was due to be played in Stadion Brügglifeld in Aarau, but because of weather conditions the ground was swapped. | ||||
| 16 January 2020 Winter break | Basel | v | Chiasso | Youth-Campus Basel, Münchenstein |
| 14:30 |
Competitions
Overview
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | |||||||
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| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
| Swiss Super League | 20 September 2020 | May 2021 | Matchday 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 50.00 | |
| Swiss Cup | 2020 | Third round | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | — | ||
| Europa League | 17 September 2020 | 1 October 2020 | Second qualifying round | Play-off round | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | +0 | 66.67 |
| Total | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 57.14 | ||||
Last updated: 1 November 2020
Swiss Super League
League table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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| 1 | Young Boys | 17 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 12 | +16 | 38 | Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Basel | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 29 | 25 | +4 | 30 | Qualification to Europa Conference League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Zürich | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 24 | +3 | 25 | |
| 4 | Lugano | 17 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 18 | 16 | +2 | 25 | |
| 5 | St. Gallen | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 23 |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.[38]
Results summary
| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 21 | 20 | +1 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 7 | +1 |
Last updated: 23 January 2021.
Source: FBref
Results by round
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss
First half of season
On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games for all 36 rounds followed at the end of the year.
| 20 September 2020 1 | Basel | 2–2 | Vaduz | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 | Cabral 5' Stocker 38'Fabian Frei 56' |
FCB report | 29' Sutter 39' Wieser 40' Milinceanu 78' Milinceanu |
Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Fedayi San (Gebenstorf) |
| 27 September 2020 2 | Servette | 1–0 | Basel | Stade de Genève, Geneva |
| 16:00 | Cespedes 13' Stevanović 51'Schalk 77' (pen.) |
FCB report | 7' Bunjaku 30' van der Werff 59' van Wolfswinkel 61' Nikolić |
Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Luca Piccolo |
| 4 October 2020 3 | Basel | 3–2 | Luzern | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 | Cabral 11' Zhegrova 21'Zhegrova 36'Pululu 70'Bunjaku 73'Stocker 77' |
FCB report | 15' Ndenge 34' Schaub 35' Sidler 42' Knezevic 58' Lucas 60' Bürki 70' Ugrinic |
Attendance: 9,257 Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn) |
| 18 October 2020 4 | Zürich | P–P | Basel | Letzigrund, Zürich |
| 16:00 | FCB report |
| 25 October 2020 5 | Basel | P–P | Lausanne-Sport | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 | FCB report |
| 1 November 2020 6 | St. Gallen | 1–3 | Basel | Kybunpark, St. Gallen |
| 16:00 | Duah 13' Quintillà 35'Stillhart 63' |
FCB report | 6' 19' Cabral 39' F. Frei 71' Kasami |
Attendance: 50 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich |
| 4 November 2020 4 | Zürich | 1–0 | Basel | Letzigrund, Zürich |
| 16:00 | Doumbia 21' Marchesano 46' |
FCB report | 21' van der Werff |
Attendance: 50 Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn) |
| 8 November 2020 7 | Basel | P–P | Sion | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 | FCB report |
| 21 November 2020 8 | Young Boys | 2–1 | Basel | Stadion Wankdorf, Bern |
| 19:00 | Sierro 21' Nsame 41'Elia 61' |
FCB report | 22' (pen.) Cabral 43' Pululu 77' Cabral |
Attendance: 50 Referee: Fedayi San (Gebenstorf) |
| Note: Debut for Chiappetta | ||||
| 25 November 2020 5 | Basel | 2–1 | Lausanne-Sport | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 18:15 | Stocker 41' Kasami 66'Padula 73'Kasami 76' |
FCB report | 15' Geissmann 54' Zekhnini 90+2' Guessand |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Stefan Horisberger |
| 29 November 2020 9 | Lugano | 1–0 | Basel | Cornaredo, Lugano |
| 16:00 | Gerndt 34' Macek 39'Guerrero 82'Bottani 90+2' |
FCB report | 25' Hajdari |
Attendance: 30 Referee: Lionel Tschudi (Neuchâtel) |
| 5 December 2020 10 | Basel | 1–0 | Servette | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 | Widmer 11' Cabral 43'Kasami 51'Klose 74'Frei 79' |
FCB report | 19' Kyei 42' Ondoua 45+1' Sauthier 79' Imeri 85' Valls |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Alessandro Dudic |
| 9 December 2020 7 | Basel | 4–2 | Sion | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 18:15 |
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FCB report | Attendance: 15 Referee: Urs Schnyder |
| 12 December 2020 11 | Vaduz | 0–2 | Basel | Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz |
| 20:30 | FCB report |
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Attendance: 5 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet |
| 16 December 2020 12 | Basel | 0–2 | Young Boys | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
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FCB report | Attendance: 0 Referee: Sandro Schärer |
| 19 December 2020 13 | Basel | 0–0 | St. Gallen | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
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FCB report |
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Attendance: 0 Referee: Fedayi San |
| 23 December 2020 14 | Luzern | 1–2 | Basel | Swissporarena, Luzern |
| 18:15 | FCB report |
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Attendance: 0 Referee: Alain Bieri |
| 23 January 2021 15 | Basel | 1–4 | Zürich | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
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FCB report | Referee: Sandro Schärer |
| 28 January 2021 16 | Sion | v | Basel | Stade Tourbillon, Sion |
| 20:30 | FCB report |
| 31 January 2021 17 | Basel | v | Lugano | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 | FCB report |
| 4 February 2021 18 | Lausanne-Sport | v | Basel | Stade de la Tuilière, Lausanne |
| 20:30 | FCB report |
Second half of season
| 7 February 2021 Round 19 | Basel | v | Sion | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:15 |
| 14 February 2021 Round 20 | Zürich | v | Basel | Letzigrund, Zürich |
| 16:00 |
| 20 February 2021 Round 21 | Basel | v | Lausanne-Sport | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
| 27 February 2021 Round 22 | St. Gallen | v | Basel | Kybunpark, St. Gallen |
| 20:30 |
| 3 March 2021 Round 23 | Basel | v | Young Boys | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
| 6 March 2021 Round 24 | Servette | v | Basel | Stade de Genève, Geneva |
| 20:30 |
| 13 March 2021 Round 25 | Basel | v | Luzern | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 |
| 5 April 2021 Round 27 | Basel | v | Vaduz | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 16:00 |
| Week 15, 2021 Round 28 | Luzern | v | Basel | Swissporarena, Luzern |
| Week 16, 2021 Round 29 | Basel | v | Servette | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| Week 17, 2021 Round 30 | Vaduz | v | Basel | Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz |
| Week 17, 2021 Round 31 | Lausanne-Sport | v | Basel | Stade de la Tuilière, Lausanne |
| Week 18, 2021 Round 32 | Basel | v | St. Gallen | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| Week 19, 2021 Round 33 | Young Boys | v | Basel | Stadion Wankdorf, Bern |
| Week 20, 2021 Round 34 | Basel | v | Lugano | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| Week 20, 2021 Round 35 | Basel | v | Zürich | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| Week 21, 2021 Round 36 | Sion | v | Basel | Stade Tourbillon, Sion |
Swiss Cup
The draw for the first round was held in August 2020. The Super League and Challenge League clubs were seeded and could not be drawn against each other. The lower division teams were granted home advantage three rounds. All teams in the Super League were granted a bye in the first round and all teams engaged in UEFA competitions received a bye in the second round as well. Therefore Basel enter the competition in the third round.
| 9 February 2021 Round 3 | Winterthur | v | Basel | Schützenwiese, Winterthur |
| FCB report |
UEFA Europa League
| 17 September 2020 Second qualifying round | Osijek  | 1–2 | Basel | Stadion Gradski vrt, Osijek, Croatia |
| 20:45 |
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FCB report UEFA summary |
Attendance: 0 Referee: José Luis Munuera Montero (Spain) |
| 24 September 2020 Third qualifying round | Basel | 3–2 |  Anorthosis | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 | FCB report UEFA summary |
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Attendance: 0 Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania) |
| 1 October 2020 Play-off round | Basel | 1–3 |  CSKA Sofia | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
| 20:30 | FCB report UEFA summary |
Attendance: 0 Referee: Ivan Kružliak (Slovakia) |
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