1988–89 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1988–89 season
Chairman Switzerland Charles Röthlisberger
Manager Switzerland Urs Siegenthaler
Ground St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
Nationalliga B Promotion Phase 4th
Swiss Cup Quarterfinal
Top goalscorer Italy Lucio Esposito (10)

The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1988–89 season was their 95th season since the clubs foundation. Charles Röthlisberger was the clubs chairman, in the clubs 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 clubs 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 conceeded just 23. Lucio Esposito was the teams 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 teams 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
Switzerland GK Thomas Grüter
1 Switzerland GK Remo Brügger
Switzerland GK R. Glanzmann
12 Germany DF Peter Bernauer
4 Switzerland DF Massimo Ceccaroni
13 Switzerland DF Bruno Hänni
2 Switzerland DF Markus Hodel
5 Switzerland DF Michael Syfrig
6 Germany MF Rolf Baumann
10 Germany MF Uwe Dittus
8 Spain MF Enrique Mata
Italy MF Boris Mancastroppa
No. Position Player
7 Switzerland MF Mario Moscatelli
3 Switzerland MF Andre Rindlisbacher
14 Italy FW Lucio Esposito
16 Switzerland FW Patrick Rahmen
17 Switzerland FW Remo Steiner
11 Switzerland FW Ralph Thoma
15 Switzerland Beat Aebi
Switzerland Andre Cueni
Italy Germano Fanciulli
Germany Jörg Heuting
Switzerland Patrick Liniger
18 Switzerland Kurt Spirig

Results

Nationalliga B

Qualifying Phase East

League Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Remarks
1 FC Basel 22 14 4 4 4823 32Promotion round
2 FC Locarno 22 12 6 4 5828 30Promotion round
3 FC Zürich 22 11 8 3 6232 30Promotion round
4 FC Baden 22 10 4 8 4429 24Promotion round
5 BSC Old Boys Basel 22 10 4 8 3729 24Promotion round
6 FC Chiasso 22 8 8 6 3533 24Promotion round
7 FC Schaffhausen 22 9 6 7 3236 24Relegation group
8 FC Winterthur 22 8 6 8 3936 22Relegation group
9 FC Emmenbrücke 22 7 5 10 3141 19Relegation group
10 FC Chur 22 4 8 10 2754 16Relegation group
11 SC Zug 22 3 5 14 1447 11Relegation group
12 FC Glarus 22 2 4 16 1958 8Relegation group

Promotion/Relegation Phase

League Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA Pts Remarks
1 FC St. Gallen 14 10 3 1 3013 23Remain in Nationalliga A 1989–90
2 Lausanne-Sports 14 9 4 1 428 22Remain in Nationalliga A 1989–90
3 FC Zürich 14 6 2 6 2923 14Remain in Nationalliga B
4 FC Basel 14 4 6 4 1921 14Remain in Nationalliga B
5 CS Chênois 14 4 4 6 2229 12Remain in Nationalliga B
6 FC Grenchen 14 3 4 7 1726 10Remain in Nationalliga B
7 ES Malley 14 2 6 6 1529 10Remain in Nationalliga B
8 BSC Old Boys Basel 14 3 1 10 1338 7Remain in Nationalliga B

Swiss Cup

See also

Sources and references

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