Basel played the first round on Friday 29 June against lower classed FC Montlingen and they were victorious.

But Basel were eliminated by PAOK and they therefore continued in the Play-off round of the Europa League against Vitesse Arnhem.

His assistant was Massimo Lombardo and a further member of the training staff was Werner Leuthard.

Due to the very poor start into the season Wicky was sacked on 26 July, after the Champions League qualifying defeat against PAOK.

Source: FCB Official Site The FC Basel annual general meeting took place on 4 June 2018.

The board of directors under president Bernhard Burgener with sportdirector Marco Streller, Peter von Büren, financial manager, Patrick Jost, marketing as well as Reto Baumgartner, Dominik Donzé and Benno Kaiser remained on the board.

[9] During the winter break, on 4 February 2019, the club announced that Edon Zhegrova had been signed in on loan for 18 months from Genk.

Basel played their first-round game on Friday 29 June away from home against lower classed FC Montlingen.

The final was held on the 19 May 2019 in the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Bern against Thun.

It also includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 21 July 2018 but subsequently left the club after that date.

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