1988–89 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1988–89 season
Chairman	Charles Röthlisberger
Manager	Urs Siegenthaler
Ground	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
Nationalliga B	Promotion Phase 4th
Swiss Cup	Quarterfinal
Top goalscorer	Lucio Esposito (10)
Highest home attendance	12,000 vs Zürich[1]; (27 March 1989)
Average home league attendance	3,765[1]

The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1988–89 season was their 95th season since the club's foundation. Charles Röthlisberger was the club's chairman, in the club's history he was their 31st chairman and this was his second year in this position. FC Basel played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. Following their relegation the season before this was their first season in the second tier of Swiss football since the 1945–46 season.

Overview

Following their relegation after the previous Nationalliga A season the club's priority aim was to return immediately to the top flight of Swiss football. Urs Siegenthaler was first-team coach for the second consecutive season. Basel were assigned to the East group. They ended their 22 matches in the Qualifying Phase with 14 victories, four draws and four defeats with 32 points. They were group winners. The team scored 48 goals and conceded just 23. Lucio Esposito was the team's top goal scorer with 10 goals and Ralph Thoma second in the internal ranking with eight goals.

Thus Basel qualified themselves for a Promotion group. Basel were assigned to group A. Also qualified for this group from the Nationalliga B were Zürich, CS Chênois, Grenchen, ES Malley and the Old Boys. The team's goal scoring quality was missed during the Promotion stage. In the fifth, sixth and seventh round Basel lost the two away games against Lausanne-Sports 1–4 and St. Gallen 0–3, as well as the home match against local rivals Old Boys 0–1, therefore losing very valuable points. Basel ended the group with just 19 scored goals and just 14 obtained points in fourth position and thus they missed promotion. They were nine respectively eight points behind St. Gallen and Lausanne-Sports, both of whom were quite easily able to avoid relegation.

In the second round of the Swiss Cup Basel were matched away against local team Oberwil. The game was won easily, 5–0. In the next round Basel were drawn against higher classed Young Boys. Basel mastered their opponents well, winning 4–1. In the round of 32 and round of 16 Basel had two ties against lower tier teams winning both to qualify for the quarterfinals. Here their cup season game to an end because they lost against top-tier team Aarau.

Players

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

No.	Position	Player
	GK	Thomas Grüter
1	GK	Remo Brügger
	GK	R. Glanzmann
12	DF	Peter Bernauer
4	DF	Massimo Ceccaroni
13	DF	Bruno Hänni
2	DF	Markus Hodel
5	DF	Michael Syfrig
6	MF	Rolf Baumann
10	MF	Uwe Dittus
8	MF	Enrique Mata
	MF	Boris Mancastroppa

No.	Position	Player
7	MF	Mario Moscatelli
3	MF	Andre Rindlisbacher
14	FW	Lucio Esposito
16	FW	Patrick Rahmen
17	FW	Remo Steiner
11	FW	Ralph Thoma
15		Beat Aebi
		Andre Cueni
		Germano Fanciulli
		Jörg Heuting
		Patrick Liniger
18		Kurt Spirig

Results

Nationalliga B

Qualifying Phase East

23 July 1988 Round 1	Zürich	1 – 1	Basel	Letzigrund, Zürich

27 July 1988 Round 2	Basel	3 – 0	Locarno	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

30 July 1988 Round 3	Schaffhausen	1 – 3	Basel	Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen

4 August 1988 Round 4	Basel	4 – 0	FC Chur	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

10 August 1988 Round 5	Old Boys	0 – 3	Basel	Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel
20:00

13 August 1988 Round 6	Basel	1 – 2	FC Glarus	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
	Thoma		82' Lötscher 88' Zug	Referee: Amherdt

16 August 1988 Round 7	Chiasso	0 – 1	Basel	Stadio Comunale, Chiasso

27 August 1988 Round 8	Basel	3 – 0	Zug	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

31 August 1988 Round 9	Baden	0 – 2	Basel	Esp Stadium, Fislisbach

10 September 1988 Round 10	Winterthur	2 – 1	Basel	Schützenwiese, Winterthur

17 September 1988 Round 11	Basel	3 – 1	Emmenbrücke	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

24 September 1988 Round 12	Basel	2 – 2	Zürich	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

1 October 1988 Round 13	Locarno	2 – 2	Basel	Stadio del Lido, Locarno

8 October 1988 Round 14	Basel	1 – 0	Schaffhausen	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

16 October 1988 Round 15	FC Chur	0 – 3	Basel	Ringstrasse, Chur

22 October 1988 Round 16	Basel	1 – 2	Old Boys	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
20:00				Referee: Francis Fischer (Arch)

30 October 1988 Round 17	FC Glarus	0 – 3	Basel	Sportplatz Buchholz, Glarus

6 Novaember 1988 Round 18	Basel	2 – 1	Chiasso	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

20 November 1988 Round 19	Zug	2 – 2	Basel	Herti Allmend Stadion, Zug

27 November 1988 Round 20	Basel	1 – 4	Baden	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

4 December 1988 Round 21	Basel	3 – 1	Winterthur	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

11 December 1988 Round 22	Emmenbrücke	2 – 3	Basel	Stadion Gersag, Emmenbrücke

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Basel	22	14	4	4	48	23	+25	32	Promotion round
2	FC Locarno	22	12	6	4	58	28	+30	30
3	FC Zürich	22	11	8	3	62	32	+30	30
4	FC Baden	22	10	4	8	44	29	+15	24
5	BSC Old Boys Basel	22	10	4	8	37	29	+8	24
6	FC Chiasso	22	8	8	6	35	33	+2	24
7	FC Schaffhausen	22	9	6	7	32	36	−4	24	Relegation group
8	FC Winterthur	22	8	6	8	39	36	+3	22
9	FC Emmenbrücke	22	7	5	10	31	41	−10	19
10	FC Chur	22	4	8	10	27	54	−27	16
11	SC Zug	22	3	5	14	14	47	−33	11
12	FC Glarus	22	2	4	16	19	58	−39	8

Source:

Promotion/Relegation Phase

18 March 1989 Round 1	Chênois	2 – 2	Basel	Stade des Trois-Chêne

27 March 1989 Round 2	Basel	1 – 1	Zürich	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
				Attendance: 12,000

1 April 1989 Round 3	ES Malley	1 – 2	Basel	Stade du Bois Gentil, Malley

8 April 1989 Round 4	Basel	2 – 1	Grenchen	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

15 April 1989 Round 5	Lausanne-Sport	4 – 1	Basel	Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne

29 April 1989 Round 6	Basel	0 – 1	Old Boys	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

6 May 1989 Round 7	St. Gallen	3 – 0	Basel	Espenmoos, St. Gallen

13 May 1989 Round 8	Basel	1 – 1	Chênois	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

20 May 1989 Round 9	Zürich	0 – 2	Basel	Letzigrund, Zürich

23 May 1989 Round 10	Basel	1 – 1	ES Malley	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

27 May 1989 Round 11	Grenchen	2 – 2	Basel	Stadion Brühl, Grenchen

3 June 1989 Round 12	Basel	1 – 1	Lausanne-Sport	St. Jakob-Park, Basel

10 June 1989 Round 13	Old Boys	0 – 2	Basel	Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel

14 June 1989 Round 14	Basel	2 – 3	St. Gallen	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
2	Lausanne Sports	14	9	4	1	42	8	+34	22	Remain in Nationalliga A 1989–90
3	FC Zürich	14	6	2	6	29	23	+6	14	Remain in Nationalliga B
4	FC Basel	14	4	6	4	19	21	−2	14
5	CS Chênois	14	4	4	6	22	29	−7	12
6	FC Grenchen	14	3	4	7	17	26	−9	10

Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

20 August 1988 2nd round	Oberwil	0 – 5	Basel	Sportanlage Eisweiher, Oberwil
				Attendance: 1,800[1]

3 September 1988 Round of 64	Basel	4 – 1	Young Boys	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

13 November 1988 Round of 32	FC Töss	0 – 1	Basel	Sportanlage Reitplatz, Winterthur

12 March 1989 Round of 16	FC Olten	1 – 2	Basel	Sportanlagen Kleinholz, Olten

12 April 1989 Quarterfinal	Basel	0 – 2	Aarau	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
				Attendance: 8,500[1]

Sources and references

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
1988–89 at RSSSF

Stefan Peter. "Überregionale Meisterschaften, Schweizer und Basler Cup". Retrieved 2017-11-16.

External links

FC Basel official site

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[fussballstarbasel-1] Stefan Peter. "Überregionale Meisterschaften, Schweizer und Basler Cup". Retrieved 2017-11-16.

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1988–89 FC Basel season

Overview

Players

Results

Nationalliga B

Qualifying Phase East

League table

Promotion/Relegation Phase

League table

Swiss Cup

See also

Sources and references

External links