User:Huligan0/1984–85 FC Basel season

The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1984–85 season was their 91st season since their foundation. It was their 39th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1945–46 season. FC Basel played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. For the second year running the clubs chairman was Urs Gribi.

Overview
It was Ernst August Künnecke's second year as first team manager. He had taken over from Rainer Ohlhauser a year earlier. In the winter break Künnecke was sacked and Emil Müller took over as caretaker manager up until the end of the season.

Basel played in the 1984–85 Nationalliga A and they ended the season in eigth position, 15 points behind Servette Genève who became swiss champions that year. In their 30 league matches Basel won eleven, drew nine and lost ten games. At the end of the championship season Basel had obtained 31 points, had scored 46 and had conceeding 49 goals. Peter Nadig was the teams top goal scorer in the league with eleven goals and Beat Sutter second highest scorer with ten.

Basel entered the Swiss Cup in the round of 64 with an away game against lower classed FC Dürrenast. This was won 4–0. In the second round they had a home match, also against a lower classed team FC Langenthal. This match resulted in a 6–0 victory. However with the third round home game against Servette Basels cup season came to an end because they lost the match 0–1.

Sources and references

 * Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
 * 1984–85 at RSSSF