Last updated: 1 July 2015Source: FCB Official Site Team captain Marco Streller retired from professional football at the end of the 2014-15 season.

New arrivals included Michael Lang from Grasshopper, Daniel Høegh from Odense, Zdravko Kuzmanović from Internazionale, and Manuel Akanji from FC Winterthur.

On matchday 31, 30 April, the home win against Sion gave Basel a 16-point lead in the league table with just five matches left to play.

The domestic season concluded with Basel winning the championship, Young Boys in second, Luzern third, and Zürich suffering relegation.

15 minutes into the match, Matías Delgado pushed a diagonal pass to the right, and Davide Callà connected with a right-footed shot to put Basel a goal up.

Half an hour into the match Basel went up 2-0 with a cross from Callà on the right, which was complemented by Delgado's run to the far post to nod the ball home.

Mychell Ruan Da Silva Chagas converted the penalty kick, and the final score was 4-1 to Basel, advancing to the third round.

The draw was held on 28 August 2015 at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco and Basel was drawn into Group I, together with Fiorentina, Lech Poznań, and Belenenses.

The club's aim for the team was to remain in the competition over the winter break, preferably as group winner or otherwise in the second position, and thus advance to the knockout phase.

Nikola Kalinić scored a goal in the fourth minute for Fiorentina, and despite being put under constant pressure by the visitors, they held on to the lead until well into the second half of the game.

Icelandic midfielder Birkir Bjarnason brought a long ball down with his chest at the edge of the penalty area, kept his balance under pressure, and then turned a good finish past keeper Maciej Gostomski to give the hosts the lead after 55 minutes.

In the 90th minute, Luca Zuffi made a cross from the right, Marc Janko controlled the ball with his chest and laid off for the waiting Breel Embolo, who finished with a powerful low volley.

Basel took an early lead after 15 minutes, Matías Delgado delivered an inswinging corner kick toward the back post from the left and Michael Lang jumped highest to power his header into the goal from five meters out.

Basel took early command; a first chance came from Breel Embolo nine minutes into the match, after good dribbling, he hit the post.

Embolo himself scored the second goal after being played free by Luca Zuffi's long deep pass into the penalty box which was flicked on by Janko.

Basel's first-choice goalkeeper Tomáš Vaclík injured himself shortly before kick-off and the new head coach Urs Fischer was forced to replace him.

Jean-Paul Boëtius was put under pressure by three players, he lost the ball and the guests quickly switched over and Bernardeschi shot home after a clever through pass to make it 1-0.

After 26 minutes, Facundo Roncaglia was punished with a red card by referee Ivan Kružliak from the Slovak Football Association after slamming his elbow into Breel Embolo's face.

After a corner Luca Zuffi played a cross into the box, Embolo's header was parried by Luigi Sepe, but Suchý pushed the rebound in.

Unable to play were four Basel defenders, Manuel Akanji, Philipp Degen, and Daniel Høegh due to injury and Marek Suchý was out suspended.

Walter Samuel was nominated, playing this match, he made his 100th UEFA club competition appearance, a landmark evening for the veteran defender.

Boëtius, because the Dutchman scored the 1-0 in the 50th minute, Xhaka because of his remarkable preparation down the right wing, and Salvi because he prevented Lech from equalizing with a strong one-on-one action a quarter of an hour before the end of the game.

The first leg of the round of 32 was played in the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard with an attendance of 27,013 fans against Saint-Étienne, but without Basel supporters due to the high-security alert following the terror attacks in Paris two months earlier.

Then Kévin Monnet-Paquet in the 39th minute headed a corner over Basel keeper Tomáš Vaclík into the net, to put the hosts 2-0 in the lead.

Both teams were later reduced to ten men: In the 82nd minute, Saint-Étienne midfielder Valentin Eysseric collected two quick yellow cards for a foul and then a clash with Renato Steffen, while Basel's 19-year-old attacker Breel Embolo followed him off the pitch, also for a second caution.

At seven minutes, Renato Steffen sent a good cross from the right and Marc Janko jumped high to head Basel's first chance from an unmarked position just a little bit too wide.

However, things unraveled very quickly for head coach Urs Fischer's side and the match slipped out of Basel's reach within just two minutes at the end of the first half.

The striker's header came back off the underside of the crossbar, yet he instantly swung out a leg to force the rebound over the line, hitting the woodwork again on its way in, to make it 3-0 at half-time.

The result extended Sevilla's run of Europa League home wins to 11, the longest in the competition's history, and put a dent in Basel's impressive away record in Europe this season.

The final was played in the sold-out St. Jakob-Park in Basel with an attendance of 38,500 spectators on 18 May 2016 and Sevilla beat Liverpool 3-1, to win the competition.