The 2026–27 season was FC Basel's 133rd season in their existence and the club's 32nd consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1993–94 season. The 2026–27 Swiss Super League season starts on 24 July 2026 and will be completed on 30 May 2027. The league will go on winter break after matchday 19 on 20 December 2026 and resume on 16 January 2027. In addition to the Swiss Super League, Basel also participate in this season's edition of the Swiss Cup, entering in the first round. Basel did not qualify for any of the UEFA European competitions.
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 club FC Basel 1893. 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 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. The FC Basel 1893 AG has following board members: David Degen (president), Andreas Rey (vice-president), Ursula Rey-Krayer and the brothers Jörg und Lukas Duschmalé, plus a delegate of the club FC Basel. Since May 2025 this is the actual club president Reto Baumgartner. The Duschmalé brothers are fifth-generation members of the founding family of F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG.
Club management Basel is the only professional club in Switzerland where the position of holding company's president (or an employee of the ownership) and the club's president is not the same person. The club's AGM took place on 18 May 2026. All the existing members of the club's board were re-elected. These being Reto Baumgartner (club president), Carol Etter, Edward Turner, Tobias Adler, Andrea Häner-Roth and Nicole Leuthard, each unanimously without a vote against or an abstention. Club president Reto Baumgartner was again nominated as the club's delegate on the Board of Directors of the Holding AG and was elected to this position with an overwhelming majority.
The board of directors of the basis club FC Basel 1893 are:
First team management On 28 April 2026 FCB announced that Daniel Stucki was standing down from his position as sports director as per 30. Juni 2026. The club also announced that Ruedi Zbinden, who had worked in the club for over 30 years in various positions, would also leave the club and retire.
On 19 May FCB announced that they had appointed Andreas Herrmann as Technical Director, Marko Filipovic as Chief Scout and Dennis Hofmann as Scout. The club announced further on 28 May that Valentin Stocker was to assist them in the newly created position of first team sporting manager.
Head-coach was Stephan Lichtsteiner, whose contract was vaid until summer 2029 continued in this position, together with his assistants Mario Cantaluppi, Simone Grippo, Luigi Nocentini and Archie Ogden. On 9 September the club announced that they were parting ways with Lichtsteiner. Together with Lichtsteiner, Cantaluppi was leaving the club as well. Until a new head-coach was to be appointed, assistant coach Luigi Nocentini would take over in charge of the first team, on an interim basis.
Technical support
Coaching staff
Overview Off and pre-season Between 26 June and 18 July, FCB will play several friendly matches. Due to the limited capacity of their home venue (Youth Campus Basel in Münchenstein) for safety reasons, all home matches will be played behind closed doors, with the exception of their final exhibition game against Juventus Turin in the St. Jakob-Park.
At the end of the previous season, on 18 May, it was announced that goalkeeper Marwin Hitz would retire from his active playing career. Between the years 2022 and 2026 Hitz played a total of 187 games for Basel. 133 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, 9 in the Swiss Cup, 27 in the UEFA competitions (Champions League, Europa League and Conference League) and 18 were friendly games. Therefore, it came to no big surprise, that the club confirmed the signing of their former number one goalkeeper Jonas Omlin as their new goalkeeper number one on 5 June, because the keeper did not receive playing time with his club Borussia Mönchengladbach, nor with his loan club Bayer Leverkusen. It was also no surprise, that FCB confirmed they had signed new contracts with their U-19 and U-21 goalkeepers Bennett Hoch and Renato Widmer D’Autilia.
On 11 June the club announced that Finn van Breemen was moving to Famalicão in Portugal. On 12 June it was announced that Dominik Schmid transferred to RB Salzburg on a permanent basis. On 29 June it was announced that Bénie Traoré moved to Major League Soccer side New York City FC. On 3 July the club announced that Arlet Junior Zé had transferred to Eintracht Braunschweig. After spending thirteen years in the youth department of the club, FC Basel announced on 7 July that Tim Pfeiffer had transferred to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Further, the club announced that a further former youth player Andrin Hunziker had asked for a move. The contract between FC Basel and their player would have run for another year. However, at his own request, Hunziker transferred to St. Gallen.
The club announced, on 14 August 2026, that Léo Leroy had signed a contract with the English second-division club Preston North End. Further on 1 September, it was announced that that contract with Đorđe Jovanović had been desolved by mutual ageement.
Seven players were loaned out for the season, so that they could gather playing time experience. Emmanuel Essiam was already on loan to FC Winterthur and this loan was to continue until the end of the season. Dion Kacuri was loaned out to Austria Lustenau Moritz Broschinski was loaned to Karlsruhe. FCB loaned Marvin Akahomen for the season to SC Kriens. The club also loaned Marin Šotiček to Hajduk Split until 30 June 2027. Ibrahim Salah was loaned to Royal Antwerp. Albian Ajeti was loaned out to Lugano.
On 17 June it was confirmed that the Italian-Senegalese winger Asane Sow had joined FC Basel, signing in on a four-year contract. The 20-year-old transferred in from the traditional Italian club Pro Vercelli. On 2 July 2026 FCB announced that they had signed Kazeem Olaigbe on loan from Trabzonspor to strengthen their attack. he Belgian-Nigerian winger is joining "Rotblau" on a one-season loan from the Turkish top-flight club Trabzonspor. FCB holds an option to buy. On 7 July the club announced that they had signed in Ludwig Małachowski Thorell from Mjällby AIF. Also on 7 July came the announcement that the Nigerian central defender Asane Sow had signed in from Pro Vercelli.
On 14 July the club then announced that they had signed Coleen Louis from Amiens SC. The club stated that the Frenchman with Guadeloupinian roots has signed a four-year contract with FCB until the summer of 2030. They also stated that, he will wear the number 25 and have his father's name, "Laffuma," on his jersey. Also on July 14 FCB confirmed the signing of Jonas Harder from Fiorentina. The Italian midfielder had also signed a four-year contract with Rotblau until the summer of 2030. FCB announced, on 17 July that the Slovenian striker Žan Celar had signed in from Queens Park Rangers on a three-year contract until summer 2029. On 29 July 2026, FCB presented Aaron Malouda who had signed a four-year contract with them. Aaron is the son of Florent Malouda, who played 80 times for the French national team. The youngster played for the youth academies of Olympique Lyonnais, FC Lyon, Stade Rennais FC, and Lille OSC, before moving to Sabah FK in Azerbaijan September 2025. On 8 September 2026, it was announced that had FCB strengthend its defense by signing Clément Michelin and that the Frenchman had signed a contract with them, running until the summer of 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 26 July 2026, but subsequently left the club after that date.
Players in on loan
Transfers in
Players out on loan
Players out
Results and fixtures Kickoff times are in CET.
Legend
Friendly matches Pre-season
Swiss Super League
The 2026–27 Super League season was the 130th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland. The Swiss Football League (SFL) drew and published the fixtures of the first 22 rounds on 16 June 2026. The further fixtures and dates were to be drawn at a later date.
First and second round
Third round The fixtures and dates for the third round will be announced in December 2026.
League table
Swiss Cup
The fixtues and dates of the first round were drawn in June 2026.
See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons
References
Sources FCB squad 2026–27 at fcb-archiv.ch Switzerland 2026–27 at RSSSF
External links
Homepage Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv"