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The 2021–22 season is FC Basel's 128th season in their existence and the club's 27th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football since their promotion in the 1993–94 season. The 2021–22 Swiss Super League season starts on the weekend 23 to 25 July 2021 and will end on 21 May 2022. In addition to the Swiss Super League, Basel will also participate in 2021–22 Swiss Cup and will start in the third round on 14/15 August 2021, the final will take place on 5 May 2022. Basel are also qualified for the newly created 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League. They will start in the second qualifying round and the matches take place on 22 July 2021

FC Basel Holding AG
The FC Basel Holding AG owns 75% of the club FC Basel (FC Basel 1893 AG) and the other 25% is owned by the club members. On 11 May 2021 the FC Basel Holding AG chairman Bernhard Burgener and board member David Degen announced a transfer of ownership rights after months of massiv fan protests. The new situation meant Degen owned 92% of the shares and about 8% is held by four small investors. At the ordinary general meeting of FC Basel Holding AG on June 15, 2021, Bernhard Burgener, Peter von Büren and Karl Odermatt stood down from the board of directors. A new board of directors stood for election. Since that date the board consists of Reto Baumgartner (president), Dani Büchi (delegate of the board), David Degen (vice-president), Johannes Barth, Marco Gadola, Christian Gross, Sophie Herzog and Andreas Rey.

Club management
The club's 127th AGM is due to take place in written form, during the week from Saturday 5 June and Friday 11 June. The results were communicated on Monday 14 June. On 13 April 2021 the club announced their proposal for the club management. Club chairman Reto Baumgartner and the two directors, Dominik Donzé and Benno Kaiser, remained in the board and three new members were elected. These three being Carol Etter (sports lawyer), Edward Turner (financial specialist) and Tobias Adler (marketingspecialist). Their exact roles are to be decided. Carol Etter was elected as delegate of the board, to represent the club at the meetings of the Holding.

Team management
On 20 May 2021 the club announced that Patrick Rahmen had signed a new contract that made him head coach of the new FCB first team. Since 6 April he had been interim coach. Assistant coach Ognjen Zaric also prolonged his contract for the new season. Massimo Colomba stayed with the club as Goalkeeper Coach. On 15 June 2021 the club announced, that Michael Silberbauer had been hired on a deal for the 2021-22 season, as the clubs new assistant coach under head coach Rahmen.

Youth coach Matthias Kohler was trainer of the U-21, but he left the club on 8 June 2021. He was replaced by Marco Schällibaum. Schällibaum continued with the two existing assistants, Daniel Stucki and Michaël Bauch.

Off and pre-season
On the day after the last match of the previous season, 22 May 2021, the club announced a number of changes in their first team squad. Per 30 June 2021 the contracts of Luca Zuffi, Aldo Kalulu, Jasper van der Werff, Elis Isufi and Jozef Pukaj will expire and will not be renewed. In addition, the purchase options in the loan contracts will not drawn for Timm Klose, Amir Abrashi and Jorge Marco de Oliveira Moraes.

Between the years 2014 and 2021 Luca Zuffi played seven seasons for Basel in a total of 327 games scoring a total of 40 goals. Exactly 200 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, 22 in the Swiss Cup, 30 in the UEFA Champions League, 19 in the UEFA Europa League and 56 were friendly games. He scored 27 goals in the domestic league, two in the domestic cup, four in the Champions League, three in the Europa League and the other four were scored during the test games. With the club, Zuffi won the championship three times and the Swiss Cup twice. The return of Klose to his club of origin was sportingly not a lucky one. Klose could not bring the sporting performance that had been expected. In his one season with the club Klose played a total of 37 games for Basel scoring a total of two goals. 28 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, one in the Swiss Cup and eight were friendly games. He scored both his goals in the domestic league. During the home match on 16 December 2020 against Young Boys Jorge had been injured and had to be substituted out in the 62nd minute. The injury turned out to be difficult and required an opperation and this put him out for the rest of the season. In his one season with the club Jorge played a total of seven games for Basel without scoring a goal. Five of these games were in the Nationalliga A and two were friendly games.

On 2 June the club announced that Julian Von Moos would be loaned out SBV Vitesse for the season with an option for a definate move. Vitesse play in the highest tier of Dutch football, the Eredivisie.

Domestic League
The 2021–22 Swiss Super League season starts on the weekend of 23 to 25 July 2021 and will end on 21 May 2022.

Domestic Cup
Basel will also participate in 2021–22 Swiss Cup and will start in the third round on 14/15 August 2021, the final will take place on 5 May 2022.

Europa Conference League
Basel are also qualified for the newly created 2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League and they will start in the second qualifying round. The draw for this was held on 16 June 2021 and the first leg matches will take place on 22 July 2021 and the return leg will be played one week later on 29 July. Basel were drawn against the winners of the match between Sfîntul Gheorghe and Partizani.

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 the weekend 23 to 25 July 2021, but subsequently left the club after that date.

Results and fixtures
Kickoff times are in CET.