1988–89 FC Basel season
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.
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Ground | St. Jakob Stadium, Basel |
Nationalliga B | Promotion Phase 4th |
Swiss Cup | Quarterfinal |
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Highest home attendance | 12,000 vs Zürich[1] (27 March 1989) |
Average home league attendance | 3,765[1] |
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.
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Results
Nationalliga B
Qualifying Phase East
23 July 1988 Round 1 | Zürich | 1 – 1 | Basel | Letzigrund, Zürich |
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27 July 1988 Round 2 | Basel | 3 – 0 | Locarno | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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30 July 1988 Round 3 | Schaffhausen | 1 – 3 | Basel | Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen |
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4 August 1988 Round 4 | Basel | 4 – 0 | FC Chur | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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10 August 1988 Round 5 | Old Boys | 0 – 3 | Basel | Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel |
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13 August 1988 Round 6 | Basel | 1 – 2 | FC Glarus | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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16 August 1988 Round 7 | Chiasso | 0 – 1 | Basel | Stadio Comunale, Chiasso |
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27 August 1988 Round 8 | Basel | 3 – 0 | Zug | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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31 August 1988 Round 9 | Baden | 0 – 2 | Basel | Esp Stadium, Fislisbach |
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10 September 1988 Round 10 | Winterthur | 2 – 1 | Basel | Schützenwiese, Winterthur |
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17 September 1988 Round 11 | Basel | 3 – 1 | Emmenbrücke | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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24 September 1988 Round 12 | Basel | 2 – 2 | Zürich | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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1 October 1988 Round 13 | Locarno | 2 – 2 | Basel | Stadio del Lido, Locarno |
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8 October 1988 Round 14 | Basel | 1 – 0 | Schaffhausen | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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16 October 1988 Round 15 | FC Chur | 0 – 3 | Basel | Ringstrasse, Chur |
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22 October 1988 Round 16 | Basel | 1 – 2 | Old Boys | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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Referee: Francis Fischer (Arch) |
6 Novaember 1988 Round 18 | Basel | 2 – 1 | Chiasso | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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20 November 1988 Round 19 | Zug | 2 – 2 | Basel | Herti Allmend Stadion, Zug |
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27 November 1988 Round 20 | Basel | 1 – 4 | Baden | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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4 December 1988 Round 21 | Basel | 3 – 1 | Winterthur | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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11 December 1988 Round 22 | Emmenbrücke | 2 – 3 | Basel | Stadion Gersag, Emmenbrücke |
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League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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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 |
Promotion/Relegation Phase
27 March 1989 Round 2 | Basel | 1 – 1 | Zürich | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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Attendance: 12,000 |
8 April 1989 Round 4 | Basel | 2 – 1 | Grenchen | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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15 April 1989 Round 5 | Lausanne-Sport | 4 – 1 | Basel | Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne |
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29 April 1989 Round 6 | Basel | 0 – 1 | Old Boys | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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6 May 1989 Round 7 | St. Gallen | 3 – 0 | Basel | Espenmoos, St. Gallen |
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13 May 1989 Round 8 | Basel | 1 – 1 | Chênois | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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20 May 1989 Round 9 | Zürich | 0 – 2 | Basel | Letzigrund, Zürich |
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23 May 1989 Round 10 | Basel | 1 – 1 | ES Malley | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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27 May 1989 Round 11 | Grenchen | 2 – 2 | Basel | Stadion Brühl, Grenchen |
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3 June 1989 Round 12 | Basel | 1 – 1 | Lausanne-Sport | St. Jakob-Park, Basel |
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10 June 1989 Round 13 | Old Boys | 0 – 2 | Basel | Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel |
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14 June 1989 Round 14 | Basel | 2 – 3 | St. Gallen | St. Jakob Stadium, Basel |
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League table
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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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 |
Swiss Cup
3 September 1988 Round of 64 | Basel | 4 – 1 | Young Boys | St. Jakob Stadium, Basel |
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13 November 1988 Round of 32 | FC Töss | 0 – 1 | Basel | Sportanlage Reitplatz, Winterthur |
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12 April 1989 Quarterfinal | Basel | 0 – 2 | Aarau | St. Jakob Stadium, Basel |
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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.