2006–07 FC Basel season

FC Basel
2006–07 season
Chairman Mrs Gisela Oeri
Manager Christian Gross
Swiss Super League 2nd
Swiss Cup Winners
UEFA Cup Round of 32
Top goalscorer League:
Mladen Petrić (19)
All:
Mladen Petrić (36)
Highest home attendance 34,070 vs Zürich
(22.04.2007)
Lowest home attendance 0 vs Schaffhausen
(22.07.2006)
0 vs Grasshoppers
(05.08.2006)
11,643 vs Tobol
(13.07.2006)
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The 2006–07 season is Fussball Club Basel 1893's 115th in existence and the club's 14th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football. FC Basel started the season of with various warm-up matches. These included teams from the Swiss lower league as well as teams from France, Croatia and the Ukraine. The FC Basel aims for the 2006–07 season were to win back the league and cup titles as well as to stay in the UEFA Cup over the winter break.

Contents

Overview

Following the last minute loss of the 2005–06 Swiss Championship as a result of the 1-2 home defeat against FC Zürich on 13 May 2006 and the subsequent riots, the so called Basel Hooligan Incident, the club had to carry consequences. As well as the big fine, the first two home games of the 2006–07 Swiss Super League season were held completely without fans, as so called "ghost matches". The following three matches were held with just a part of the stadium capacity, without the fans from the "Muttenzer Kurve" (the eastern fan block).

Ahead of the 2006–07 Swiss Super League season Basel made a number of transfers. The most notable was the replacement of Swiss international goalkeeper Pascal Zuberbühler, who transferred to West Bromwich Albion, with the Argentinian international Franco Costanzo. Delron Buckley was signed on loan from Borussia Dortmund. Franco Costanzo was voted to player of season[1] Zdravko Kuzmanović left the club during the Winter break for Fiorentina.

The Campaign

Domestic League

Following a very poor start to the season, five deafeats in the first ten rounds, Basel were ten championship points behind the table leaders. They started a catch up race after the winter break and finished the league campaign as runners-up, just one point behind champions FC Zürich. This was despite the fact that they defeated Zürich in three of the four direct matches during that league season. Basel missed thier championship aim.

Domestic Cup

In the early rounds of the 2006–07 Swiss Cup Basel were draw with away games against lower league teams. In the first round against local team FC Liestal and in the second against FC Lugano. Basel clearly won both ties. However, in the third round game against FC Baulmes extra time was needed before the tie was decided. The quarterfinal was a home tie against FC Aarau and the semifinal an away tie against FC Wil. Both were mastered and Basel won the Cup by beating FC Luzern 1–0 in the Final. The winning goal in the Final came from the penalty spot through Daniel Majstorović in the 93rd minute. Basel achieved their aim.

Europe

FC Basel's European campaign started in the first qualifying stage of the UEFA Cup, here they beat Kazakhi side FC Tobol 3–1 on aggregate. In the second qualifying round they drawn against FC Vaduz from Liechtenstein, narrowly progressing on the away goals rule after a 2–2 aggregate draw. In the first round of the competition Basel were drawn against Macedonians FK Rabotnički. Basel won 6–2 at St. Jakob-Park and 1–0 at the Skopje City Stadium. Thus they qualified for the group stages where they faced tough opposition, Blackburn Rovers of England, AS Nancy of France, Feyenoord of The Netherlands and Wisła Kraków of Poland. Basel's first game was at home against Feyenoord. This ended with a respectable 1–1 draw. Their next group match was an away tie at Ewood Park against Blackburn Rovers. Basel played reasonably well but shaky defending towards the end of the came sealed their downfall.

Their next opponents were AS Nancy, a home game on 23 November. Basel went behind twice, but were able to draw level both times. Basel were pushing for the winning goal, as during the last minute of the game they were caught by a counterattack. Goalkeeper Franco Costanzo was only able to stop the Nancy attack by fouling Issiar Dia, which resulted in his sending off and a penalty against him. Basel had already used all three substitutes, therefore striker Mladen Petrić donned the goalkeeper shirt and stood between the posts. He was able to save the penalty kick taken by Mickaël Chrétien, thus helping his team to the 2–2 draw.[2]

Basel's last group game was against Wisła Kraków at the Wisła Stadium. FCB needed a win to qualify but their poor European campaign came to an end after losing 3–1 despite taking an early lead. Basel missed thier aim to remain in european competition over the winter break.

Club

The Management

Position Staff
Manager Christian Gross
Assistant manager Fritz Schmid
Fitness Coach Thomas Grüter
Fitness Coach Romain Crevoisier
Youth Team Coach Patrick Rahmen
Youth Team Co-Coach Sandro Kamber

Last updated: 17 May 2008
Source: [1]

Kit

Supplier: Nike
Sponsor(s): Novartis
Home[3]
Away[3]

Source: [2]

Other information

Chairman Mrs Gisela Oeri
Ground (capacity and dimensions) St. Jakob-Park (42,500 / 120x80 m)

Source: [3]

First team

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Franco Costanzo
3 DF Damir Džombić
4 DF Michel Morganella
5 DF Daniel Majstorović (vicecaptain)
6 DF Kōji Nakata
8 MF Mile Sterjovski
9 MF Marko Perović
10 FW Mladen Petrić
11 MF Scott Chipperfield
12 MF Papa Malick Ba
15 MF Franz Burgmeier
17 MF Ivan Rakitić
18 GK Louis Crayton
19 DF Delron Buckley
No. Position Player
20 MF Caicedo
21 DF François Marque
22 MF Ivan Ergić (captain)
23 FW Eduardo
28 DF Patrik Baumann
29 DF Simone Grippo
30 DF Boris Smiljanić
31 FW Eren Derdiyok
32 DF Reto Zanni (vicecaptain)
34 GK Oliver Stöckli
MF Mikhail Kavelashvili
MF Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues
MF Zdravko Kuzmanović

Multiple Nationality

2006-07 transfers

Summer 2006

In

MF Franz Burgmeier (from FC Aarau)
1 GK Franco Costanzo (from Deportivo Alavés)
MF Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues (from Roda JC)
DF Delron Buckley (from Borussia Dortmund on loan)
MF Felipe Salvador Caicedo Corozo (from Rocafuerte Fútbol Club – n/a)

Out

GK Pascal Zuberbühler (to West Bromwich Albion)
MF Djamel Mesbah (to FC Aarau – Free)
MF Samuele Preisig (to FC Aarau – Free)
MF Matias Emilio Delgado (to Fiorentina – n/a)

Winter 2006-07

In

FW Eren Derdiyok (from Basel U-21)
DF François Marque (from FC Baulmes)

Out

MF Zdravko Kuzmanović (to Beşiktaş – n/a)
MF Mikhail Kavelashvili (end of contract)

Results and Fixtures

Friendlies

Pre-season/First Half Season friendlies

Winter Break/Second Half Season friendlies

Swiss Super League 2006–07

For more information, see Swiss Super League 2006–07

First half of season

Second half of season

Swiss Cup

For more information, see Swiss Cup

Swiss Cup 2006–07

UEFA Cup

For more information, see 2006–07 UEFA Cup

Qualifying rounds

Basel won 3–1 on aggregate.

2-2 on aggregate, Basel win on away goals

Basel won 7–2 on aggregate.

Group stage / Group E

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Blackburn Rovers 4 3 1 0 6 1 +5 10
Nancy 4 2 1 1 7 4 +3 7
Feyenoord 4 1 2 1 4 5 −1 5
Wisła Kraków 4 1 0 3 6 8 −2 3
Basel 4 0 2 2 4 9 −5 2

References

  1. ^ Weber, Dominik (2007). "Franco Costanzo ist Spieler der Saison!". FC Basel 1893. http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/de-de/-/18521/27/7/7. Retrieved 2007-06-01.  (German)]
  2. ^ "Petric haelt Penalty" (in German). YouTube. 23 November 2006. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UWYPQDwO3I. Retrieved 6 August 2011. 
  3. ^ a b (Italian) FC Basel. "FC Basel - Sito Ufficiale - Prima Squadra" (in German). http://www.fcb.ch/Team.aspx. Retrieved 2008-11-28. 

External links

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