1990–91 FC Basel Season
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The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1990–91 season was their 97th season since the club's foundation. Charles Röthlisberger was the club's chairman for the third consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the
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. Following their relegation in the 1987–88 season this was their third season in the second tier of Swiss football.


Overview

Ernst August Künnecke returned to the club, having taken over from
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as first-team coach during the previous. After missing promotion the previous two seasons, the club's repeated priority aim was to return to the top flight of Swiss football. Only a few players left the team. Andre Rindlisbacher transferred to
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, Uwe Wassmer to
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and Ralph Thoma returned to his club of origin FC Rheinfelden. Rolf Baumann ended his active football career and returned to his hometown club
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as head-coach. Four other players left the squad because their contracts were not renewed. In the other direction Brian Bertelsen and
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moved in from
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.
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transferred in from
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. Three young players came in from local, lower-tier teams,
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from FC Breitenbach,
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from FC Brüttisellen and
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from FC Aesch. Seven young players were brought up from the Basel youth team. The 24 teams in the Nationalliga B were divided into two groups, a South/East and a West group, to first play a qualification round. In the second stage the tops six teams in each group and the last four teams of the Nationalliga A would play a promotion/relegation round, also divided into two groups. The top two teams in each of these groups would play in the top flight the next season. Basel were assigned to the South East group. The first stage ran very moderately, there was no consistency in their games and matches were lost that should have been won. They ended their 22 matches in the Qualifying Phase with 9 victories, 8 draws and 5 defeats with 26 points in a disappointing fourth position in the league table. The team scored 40 goals and conceded 30. Basel qualified for a promotion group and were assigned to group A. Also qualified for this group from the Nationalliga B were
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, Yverdon-Sports,
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,
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and Etoile Carouge. Fighting against their relegation from the Nationalliga A were St. Gallen and
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. At the start of this phase Basel lost two games, away against Yverdon-Sports and at home against St. Gallen and therefore they were in arrears right from the beginning. Even the away victory against
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didn't help much, because they were defeated at home by
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just two rounds later. A few weeks later the back to back home defeat against Wettingen and the defeat in the
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against St. Gallen decided the promotion/relegation phase to the benefit of these two teams. Basel ended their 14 matches in the promotion/relegation phase with just four victories, four draws, suffering six defeats with 12 points in a very disappointing fourth position in the league table and missed promotion again. In the
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second round Basel were drawn with an away game against lower tier, local club
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. But Basel were sent home suffering an embarrassing 4–0 defeat. A red card for Peter Bernauer just after half time, as the game was still goalless, made Basel very unsure. Pratteln took the lead and Basel were not able to give an adequate answer. In fact, in the last few minutes of the game, they fell completely apart and gave up two counter goals within less than 60 seconds.


Players

;Players who left the squad


Results

;Legend


Friendly matches


Pre-season


Winter break


Nationalliga B


Qualifying Phase South East


League table


Promotion/relegation phase Group A


League table


Swiss Cup


See also

*
History of FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893 has a long and illustrious history, that spans the period from 1893 to the present day. Having competed at the highest level of football in Switzerland for most of this time, FCB currently play in the Swiss Super League. ...
* List of FC Basel players *
List of FC Basel seasons This is a list of seasons played by FC Basel in Swiss and European Association football, football, from the club's founding in 1893 to the present. It details FC Basel's record in each major competition entered including different divisions of t ...


References


Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre / 2018. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
The FCB squad 1990–91 at fcb-archiv.ch



External links


FC Basel official site
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