The 2024–25 season was FC Basel's 131st season in their existence and the club's 30th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1993–94 season. The 2024–25 Swiss Super League season started on 20 July 2024 and was completed on 24 May 2025. In addition to the Swiss Super League, Basel also participated in this season's edition of the Swiss Cup, starting in the third round. This was the club's first season in 25 years that they did not compete in any European competition, as since their 1999–2000 season they had always qualified for an UEFA competition, but in the previous season they had failed.
Club FC Basel Holding AG The FC Basel Holding AG owns 75% of FC Basel 1893 AG and the other 25% is owned by the FC Basel 1893 club members. The club FC Basel 1893 functions as a base club independent of the holding company and the AG. FC Basel 1893 AG is responsible for the operational business of the club, e.g. the first team, the women's first team, a large part of the youth department and the back office are affiliated there. All decisions that affect the club FC Basel 1893 are made within the AG.
On 6 May 2024 the AGM of the FC Basel Holding AG and the FC Basel 1893 AG were held and both boards were confirmed. The Holding AG with following members: David Degen (president), Dan Holzmann, Ursula Rey-Krayer and Andreas Rey (vice-president). FC Basel 1893 AG with following members: David Degen (president), Carol Etter (delegate of the club FC Basel), Dan Holzmann, Ursula Rey-Krayer and Andreas Rey (vice-president).
Club management Basel is the only professional club in Switzerland where the position of holding company's president and the club's president is not the same person. The club AGM also took place on 6 May 2024. With the exception of Dominik Donzé, who left the board of directors voluntarily, the entire board was re-elected with large majorities. These being Reto Baumgartner (club president), Carol Etter, Edward Turner and Tobias Adler. Donzé has held various positions on the FCB board since 2009. Two new members were also voted into the board of directors.
The board of directors of the club are:
Team management During the previous season the position of the FCB sport director had been left vacant following the dismissal of Heiko Vogel on 31 October 2023. On 15 May 2024 FCB announced that Daniel Stucki had been appointed as new sports director.
During May Fabio Celestini signed a new two-year contract as head coach and on 31 May 2024 they announced their training staff for the coming season:
Overview Off and pre-season On 31 May 2024 Basel announced that they had reached an agreement with Hellas Verona for the permanent acquisition of Kevin Rüegg. The 25-year-old full-back, who had joined FCB on loan in September 2023 had signed a three-year contract with the club, dated until the summer of 2027. Further on 21 June the club announced that they had signed the French professional footballer Léo Leroy from Ligue 1 club Montpellier.
On 7 June FCB announced that they had loaned Đorđe Jovanović to FK Partizan for the coming season. Also on that day, they announced that Sergio López had not prolonged his contract with them and that he had moved to SV Darmstadt 98. On 22 June it was announced that Maurice Malone had been loaned to FK Austria Wien.
On 28 and 29 June the club announced that they prolonged the contracts of two of their youth players until summer 2027, these were Adriano Onyegbule and Arlet Junior Zé. They also extended their contract with Andrin Hunziker until summer 2027 but loaned him out to Karlsruher SC, so as he could gain more playing experience.
On 12 July 2024 the club announced that they load Dion Kacuri out to Yverdon-Sport until the end of the season, so as the player could gain more playing time at top-level Swiss football. Further on that day, they announced that Renato Veiga had signed a contract with Chelsea. At the same time Chelsea confirmed that Veiga had signed a seven-year contract at Stamford Bridge, the contract includes a further one-year option.
A further player player who moved in was Marin Šotiček. On 18 July FCB announced the transfer from NK Lokomotiva Zagreb on a four-year deal. Then, on 22 July 2024, FCB announced the transfer of Bénie Traoré, who came in from Sheffield United for an undisclosed fee, signing a four-year deal.
On 25 July 2024 Basel announced that by mutual agreement, Michael Lang and the club had terminated their contract. It therefore turned out, that the last match of their 2023–24 season against Yverdon-Sport, which ended in a goalless draw on 21 May 2024, had been his last competition game with the team. Between the years 2015 to 2018 and again from 2021 to 2024, Lang played a total of 263 games for Basel scoring a total of 36 goals. 151 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, 14 in the Swiss Cup, 56 in the UEFA competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) and 42 were friendly games. He scored 21 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the cup, 8 in the European games and the other was scored during the test games.
On 9 August, the club announced that Liam Millar had moved on to Hull City in the EFL Championship. He had signed a permanent three-year deal, he transferred for an undisclosed fee.
Chicago Fire and Xherdan Shaqiri mutually agreed to terminate their contract on 14 August. The separation was officially amicable, with Shaqiri explaining that he felt it was the "right time" to "explore new opportunities". On 16 August, two days later, Shaqiri returned to his club of origen, rejoining them on a three-year contract.
Last season's Super League joint-top-scorer Kevin Carlos was signed by FCB on 23 August from Yverdon-Sport. Then, on 30 August the club announced the signing of Moussa Cissé from VfB Stuttgart II. On the same day the club announced that they had loaned Juan Gauto to Deportivo de La Coruña and that they had signed Romário Baró in on a one-year loan from Porto with the option of a buy-out release. At the end of the season, however, the club decided not to pull the release option and Baró returned to Porto.
Further, the club announced on 31 August that the contract with Jean-Kévin Augustin had been terminated by mutual agreement. Augustin left the club as free agent. In his two seasons with the club, he had played a total of 63 games for them scoring a total of 12 goals. 38 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, four in the Swiss Cup, nine in the UEFA Conference League and 12 were friendly games. He scored five goals in the domestic league, one in the cup, two in the European games and the other two were scored during the test games.
On 2 September, the club announced another player in on loan. The Swede Joe Mendes had joined them from Portuguese club Braga. The contract also had a buy-out option, but at the end of the season Basel decided not to pull the release option and Mendes returned to Braga.
On the final day of the transfer window, FCB announced that their captain Fabian Frei had decided to rejoin his youth club Winterthur. Between the years 2007 to 2015 and again from 2018 to 2024 Frei played a total of 679 games for Basel scoring a total of 94 goals. 386 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, 46 in the Swiss Cup, 111 in the UEFA competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) and 136 were friendly games. He scored 41 goals in the domestic league, 10 in the cup, 13 in the European games and the other 30 were scored during the test games. Fabian Frei is the clubs record holder for the number of competition matches played with the club. He played 543 games in league, cup and UEFA.
During the winter break Basel announced that they had signed Philip Otele in on a six-month loan from Al Wahda with a realse option. At the end of the season Basel announced that they had pulled the option and that Otele had signed a contract until summer 2028.
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 16 July 2023, but subsequently left the club after that date.
Players out on loan
Players in on loan
Transfers In
Out
Results and fixtures Kickoff times are in CET.
Pre-season friendlies
Swiss Super League
The 2024–25 Super League season was the 128th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland. The Swiss Football League (SFL) drew and published the fixtures of the first 22 rounds on 18 June 2024. The rest were drawn at a later date.
First and second round
Third round The fixtures and dates for the third round were announced on 20 December.
League table at split
Championship group
Final league table
Swiss Cup
The fixtues and dates of the first round were drawn in June 2024
See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons
References
Sources FCB squad 2024–25 at fcb-archiv.ch Switzerland 2024–25 at RSSSF
External links
Homepage Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv"