FC Basel 1893 AG is responsible for the operational business of the club, e.g. the 1st team, a large part of the youth department and the back office are affiliated there.
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 massive fan protests.
[1] At the AGM of FC Basel Holding AG on June 15, 2021, Bernhard Burgener, Peter von Büren and Karl Odermatt stood down from the board of directors.
David Degen (vice-president), Carol Etter (delegate of the club), Marco Gadola, Christian Gross, Sophie Herzog and Andreas Rey.
[11] Source: FCB Official Site The club announced on 31 December, that the contract with head coach Patrick Rahmen had been extended for a further year until summer 2023.
[12] Following a number of bad results for the U-21 team, on 30 November the club had announced that with immediate effect FC Basel 1893 and its U-21 coach Marco Schällibaum had separated.
[14] Source: FCB Official Site On 21 February the club announced that the contract with Patrick Rahmen had been terminated, due to "unsatisfactory sportive development of the team and lack of clear perspective".
[15] Source: FCB Official Site 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.
In the second matchday Basel faced Sion at home and won 6–1, with six different goal scorers, Pajtim Kasami, Sergio López, Eray Cömert, Sebastiano Esposito, Arthur Cabral and Edon Zhegrova.
The game was played on 19 September, the goal scorers here were Liam Millar, Taulant Xhaka and Matías Palacios and Basel won 3–0 to advance to the next round.
Arthur Cabral with a good cross and then Darian Males headed the ball into the centre making it easy for Valentin Stocker to score with a header from very close range shortly before the break.
A quarter of an hour before the end, the hosts also had their first good chance at goal, but Stênio Júnior's shot was too weak and it was a safe prey for keeper Heinz Lindner.
A bad pass by Matias Palacios was intercepted by Vincent Onovo, a fine long ball allowed Croizet to achieve the hosts goal five minutes before half-time.
Because Edon Zhegrova was injured, Darian Males played on the right wing in the starting formation and he thanked his coach for his nomination with the first goal to the 1–0 lead.
[47] The Tele2 Arena in Stockholm with an attendance of 7,855 fans was the location where referee Bobby Madden of the Scottish Football Association blew his whistle for the second leg between Hammarby and Basel.
Three minutes after the break a good move from the centre midfield to Basel's left, Matías Palacios to Tomás Tavares and his low cross is side footed into the net by Dan Ndoye.
Basel then gained themselves an advantage and on 18 minutes Pajtim Kasami forced his way to the right almost to the by-line and hit the post with his shot from an acute angle.
Referee Ms Stéphanie Frappart of the French Football Federation awarded the visitors a spot-kick, which Jordi Gómez converted straight down the middle on 26 minutes.
First Tomas Tavares knocked over his opponent in the penalty area, but referee Vitali Meshkov of the Russian Football Union correctly let play continue and in return Liam Millar equalized with his left foot from a half-right position after an opening pass from Darian Males.
Up until the break, creative moves were rare with the exception of one Basel attack that ended with a foul on Valentin Stocker and Arthur Cabral converted the spot kick.
Qarabağ had another chance a few minutes later, two good passes bridging the midfield and Ibrahima Wadji was free behind the defence, but Heinz Lindner was equal to his attempt.
Nearly half an hour played Edon Zhegrova dribbled through the visitors’ defence, but as he is stopped the loose ball comes to Arthur Cabral.
Because, despite this being the first defeat in the current campaign, the result from Basel's point of view was the best thing on that evening in the Stade Vélodrome in the southern French metropolis.
He powers forward before unleashing a low drive which Lindner was unable to hold, and the Polish international was quickest to react to the loose ball, blasting it into the roof of the net.
The lively Cengiz Ünder cut in from the touchline and played a defence-splitting pass toward the right hand side of the box for the goalscorer to run onto.
This had been caused due to a clumsy tackle by Wouter Burger after FCB defence had moved far to forward taking their own corner kick.
Sebastiano Esposito, the scorer from the first leg, brought a wide cross back into the box in the 62nd minute, where Dan Ndoye eluded his opponent and headed past Steve Mandanda in the Marseille goal.
After conceding the first goal, Basel rarely managed to get play into the danger zone, Marseille had more control of the game, and after a counterattack in added time, Valentin Rongier ensured that OM also won the second leg 2–1.