1997–98 FC Basel season

The 1997–98 Fussball Club Basel 1893 season was their 104th season since the club's foundation. René C. Jäggi was the club's chairman following the annual general meeting the year before. FC Basel played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium. Following their promotion in the 1993–94 season this was their fourth consecutive season in the highest tier of Swiss football.

FC Basel
1997–98 season
Chairman René C. Jäggi
ManagerJörg Berger (until October 1997)
Salvatore Andracchio (ad interim)
Guy Mathez (from 1 January 1998)
GroundSt. Jakob Stadium, Basel
Nationalliga AQualifying Phase 11th
Nationalliga APromotion/Relegation Group 3rd
Swiss CupRound of 16
Top goalscorerLeague: Mario Frick (14)
All: Mario Frick (14)
Highest home attendance36,500 vs Solothurn 24.05.1998
Lowest home attendance3,500 vs Xamax 22.11.1997
Average home league attendance10,100[1]

Overview

Jörg Berger was appointed as the new trainer at the start of the season, but in October 1997 he was sacked and was replaced by Salvatore Andracchio (ad interim) until Guy Mathez was appointed as trainer from 1 January 1998. The club's priority aim was to remain in the top flight of Swiss football.

The club made many new signings as the season started. Amongst these, there were many experienced players, such as Oliver Kreuzer from Bayern Munich, Marco Sas from Bradford City, Maurizio Gaudino from Eintracht Frankfurt, Jürgen Hartmann from Hamburger SV and Nestor Subiat from Grasshopper Club. There were also young players such as Marco Pérez from Vaduz, Jan Berger from Grasshopper Club and Fabinho Santos from Joinville (Brazil) as well as Luís Calapes and Alexander Frei from the club's own youth section.[1]

Goalkeeper Thomas Grüter retired from professional football. Many other players also left the club, under them Mariano Armentano who transferred to Vélez Sarsfield, Adrian Falub who returned to Universitatea Cluj and Alex Nyarko who transferred to Karlsruher SC. The loan contracts with Franco Foda and Markus Schupp came to an end and because Basel did not opt to buy them, they both moved on to Sturm Graz. The youngsters Bruno Sutter transferred to Zürich and Hakan Yakin transferred to Grasshopper Club. At the end of the transfer window teo further players left the squad, last season's top scorer Gaetano Giallanza transferred to Nantes in September and Jean-Pierre La Placa signed for Toulouse also in September.[2]

In the pre-season friendly games Basel first played against a Regional 11 of local players in Alsace and then against a Regional 11 of local players from BS/BL. Basel then played in the Sempione Cup, which was a club tournament played in summer at Sportanlage Moos, Balsthal, during the years 1987 to 2004. Curiosity, in both Basel games, semi-final and third place match, the decision fell in a penalty shoot-out. The semi-final was undecided after five penalties each and had to be continued. In the end all 22 players including the goalkeepers hat to shoot a penalty. Both goalkeeps missed their penalty shot and eventually Basel lost the shoot-out 9–10. The third placed match need 14 penalties for the decision and Basel won this shoot-out 5–4.[3] Another curiosity in the mid-season friendly against amateur club FC Rothrist. Basel won the game 13–2. Alexander Frei scored six goals and all six in the first half and Maurizio Gaudino scored five goals, all five in the second half.[4]

The football league season did not start the way that head-coach Berger had hoped. Four of the first six games ended in a defeat, the team conceding 12 goals and scoring just three. Berger was put under pressure by the club's board of directors, but things did not improve. After six consecutive defeats, a period during which Giallanza and La Placa both left, Berger was sacked. He was replaced ad interim by trainer Salvatore Andracchio, who had helped out the previous season. The team managed to improve their results, but could not correct the slip into the Relegation Group.

During the winter break Guy Mathez was appointed as new head-coach. Soon after this the newly signed Nemtsoudis left the club and Nestor Subiat's loan contract was ended and the contract with Marco Sas was dissolved. Under new trainer Mathez, the first few games were good. But after a period with three away defeats and two home draws, it seemed that the team were heading for relegation. A dramatic finish with three straight victories over the three better placed teams Young Boys, SC Kriens and finally Solothurn saved Basel from the relegation drop. They finished the promotion/relegation group with six wins, four draws and four defeats. They had scored 27 goals and conceded 22.[5]

Basel entered the Swiss Cup with a bye in the third and fourth principal round and started in the fifth. The opponents here were lower tier SC Buochs. Despite an early lead through Dario Zuffi, a penalty and a goal just after half time gave the lower tier a lead. Basel were down 1–2 right up until the 86th minute. Then Nestor Subiat poked the ball into the goal out of the crowd of players who had gathered in the six yard box, the equalizer. In the extra period Basel had no further problems and the Buochs players had no more stamina. Two more Subiat goals, two from Adrian Knup and the final goal from Fabrice Henry was followed by the final whistle.[6]

In the round of 16 Basel's opponents were Xamax, who were stronger and won by two goals to nil. The cup final was played between Lausanne-Sport and St. Gallen, this ended with a two all draw after extra time. Lausanne won the penalty shoot out winning the trophy and qualifing for the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.[7]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad. It also includes all players that were in the squad on the day the season started on 5 July 1997 but subsequently left the club after that date. Players who left the squad in the off-season are listed below.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   SUI Stefan Huber
2 DF   SUI Massimo Ceccaroni
3 DF   SUI Daniel Salvi
3 DF   SUI Luís Calapes (from Basel youth)
4 DF  BIH Samir Tabakovic (to Waldhof Mannheim)
5 DF  GER Oliver Kreuzer (from Bayern Munich)
6 DF  NED Marco Sas (from Bradford City)
7 FW   SUI Dario Zuffi
8 MF  LIE Mario Frick
9 MF  FRA Fabrice Henry
10 MF  GER Maurizio Gaudino (from Eintracht Frankfurt)
11 FW   SUI Gaetano Giallanza (to Nantes)
12 DF   SUI Sébastien Barberis (from Servette)
13 FW   SUI Adrian Knup
14 FW  RUS Daniel Dobrovoljski
15 FW   SUI Deniz Mendi (from FC Klus-Balsthal)
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF   SUI Ivan Reimann
16 DF  GER Jürgen Hartmann (from Hamburger SV)
17 MF   SUI Jean-Pierre La Placa (to Toulouse)
17 MF  CZE Václav Pěchouček (from Viktoria Plzeň)
18 GK   SUI Oliver Stöckli
19 DF   SUI Marco Tschopp
20 DF   SUI Oumar Kondé
21 DF  LIE Marco Pérez (from Vaduz)
22 MF  BRA Webber (Leandro Dos Santos) (from Guarani)
23 DF  CZE Jan Berger (from Grasshopper Club)
24 DF  BRA Fabinho (from Joinville)
24 DF   SUI Cyrill Schmidiger
25 MF   SUI Theodoros Disseris
27 FW   SUI Alexander Frei (from Basel youth)
28 DF   SUI Giorgios Nemtsoudis (from Grasshopper Club)
30 FW   SUI Nestor Subiat (from Grasshopper Club)
Players who left the squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK   SUI Thomas Grüter (retired)
— DF   SUI Remo Buess (reserves)
— DF   SUI Yann Poulard (to FC Stade Nyonnais)
— DF   SUI Yannick Hasler
— MF  ARG Mariano Armentano (to Vélez Sarsfield)
— MF  ROU Adrian Falub (to Universitatea Cluj)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  GER Franco Foda (to Sturm Graz)
— MF  ITA Marcello Gamberini (to Sansepolcro)
— MF   SUI Dominic Moser (on loan to Young Boys)
— MF  GHA Alex Nyarko (to Karlsruher SC)
— MF  GER Markus Schupp (to Sturm Graz)
— MF   SUI Bruno Sutter (to Zürich)
— MF   SUI Hakan Yakin (to Grasshopper Club)

Results
Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre- and mid-season
18 June 1997 Pre-season Regional 11 Alsace 0 – 8 Basel Munster
19:00 Summary  16' (0:1) Barberis
 20' (0:2) Knup
 34' (0:3) Zuffi
 36' (0:4) Giallanza
 44' (0:5) Knup
 66' (0:6) Giallanza
 68' (0:7) Tschopp
 83' (0:8) Tschopp		 Attendance: 200
Referee: Thierry Keigler
21 June 1997 Pre-season Basel 3 – 1 Regional 11 BS/BL Tannenbrunn, Sissach
16:30 Giallanza  23' (1:0)
Giallanza  25' (2:0)
Gaudino  36' (3:0)		 Summary  89' (3:1) Schreiber Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Andreas Schluchter / Vroni Schluchter (Schönenbuch)
Note: From the 46th minute, assistant referee Vroni Schluchter (Schönenbuch) led the game, as Andreas Schluchter went out with a thigh injury.
24 June 1997 Sempione-Cup
Semi-final		 Basel 1 – 1
(9 – 10 p)		 Zürich Moos, Balsthal
19:30 Frick  27'
Frei  60' (1:0)
 Summary  63' (1:1) Sutter
 78' Guzik		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler
Penalties
Zuffi
Frei
Hartmann
Giallanza
Gaudino
Tschopp
Barberis
Ceccaroni
Schmidiger
Buess
Huber		 Gambino
Guzik
Sutter
Brugnoli
Santa'Anna
Tejeda
Weiler
Castillo
Tarone
Shorunmu
Konjić
Note: The Sempione Cup was a club tournament played in summer at Sportanlage Moos, Balsthal, during the years 1987 to 2004.[3]
28 June 1997 Sempione-Cup
3rd place match		 Basel 1 – 1
(5 – 4 p)		 Luzern Moos, Balsthal
15:30 Giallanza  27' (1:1)
 Summary  11' (0:1) Sawu Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Bruno Bachmann
Penalties
Zuffi
Pérez
Kreuzer
Schmidiger
Gaudino
Barberis 		Wyss
Knez
Moser
Koilov
Brega
Baumann
Note: The Sempione Cup was a club tournament played in summer at Sportanlage Moos, Balsthal, during the years 1987 to 2004.[3]
5 July 1997 Pre-season Basel 1 – 0 Borussia Dortmund St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Knup  13' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 14,000
Referee: Carlo Bertolini
5 September 1997 Mid-season SC Dornach 1 – 5 Basel Gigersloch, Dornach
Weidmann  27' (pen. 1:2) Summary  5' (0:1) Kondé
 7' (0:2) Gaudino
 50' (1:3) Marco Sas
 54' (1:4) Giallanza
 80' (1:5) Dobrovoljski		 Attendance: 350
Referee: Dieter Schoch
19 September 1997 Mid-season FC Rothrist 2 – 13 Basel Stampfi, Rothrist
18:45 Berisha  46' (1:7)
Roth  88' (2:12)		 Summary  7' (0:1) Frei
 9' (0:2) Frei
 14' (pen. 0:3) Gaudino
 21' (0:4) Frei
 23' (0:5) Frei
 40' (0:6) Frei
 42' (0:7) Frei
 48' (1:8) Giallanza
 59' (1:9) Giallanza
 64' (1:10) Giallanza
 75' (1:11) Giallanza
 86' (1:12) Kondé
 90' (2:13) Giallanza		 Attendance: 600
Referee: Marcel Vollenweider
Note: 0:12 corners

Winter break
28 January 1998 Winter break Basel 3 – 0 Zürich Athletics stadium, Basel
Nondo  7' (o.g. 1:0)
Knup  73' (2:0)
Henry  84' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 500
Referee: Heinz Käser
Note: Zürich without Nonda
31 January 1998 Winter break Sheriff 1 – 1 Basel
 60' (1:0) Summary  75' (1:1) Gaudino
4 February 1998 Training camp APOP Paphos 1 – 5 Basel Pafiako Stadium, Paphos, Cyprus
 83' (1:4)
 Summary  16' (0:1) Gaudino
 33' (0:2) Hartmann
 43' (0:3) Kondé
 62' (0:4) Fabinho
 85' (1:5) Knup		 Attendance: 800
6 February 1998 Training camp Metalurh Donetsk 2 – 0 Basel Pafiako Stadium, Paphos, Cyprus
 33' (pen. 1:0)
 90+2' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 100
11 February 1998 Winter break Basel 0 – 0 Lokomotiv Moscow Europastadion, Rheinfelden (Baden)
15:00 Summary  70' Loskov Referee: Bernhard Zerr (Ottersweier)
14 February 1998 Winter break Luzern 3 – 0 Basel Unterallmend, Root
14:30 Ibrahim  24' (1:0)
Webber  43' (o.g. 2:0)
Kögl  79' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 800
Referee: Markus Nobs, (Wohlen)

Nationalliga A
Main article: 1997–98 Nationalliga A

Qualifying Phase
5 July 1997 Round 1 Basel Postponed Aarau St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
9 July 1997 Round 2 Lausanne-Sport 3 – 0 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
19:30 Piffaretti  40'
N'kufo  43'
Udovič  87'		 Report  32' Barberis
 33' Frick
 69' La Placa		 Attendance: 7,100
Referee: Marcel Vollenweider
12 July 1997 Round 3 Basel 0 – 0 Etoile Carouge St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Hartmann  27'
Ceccaroni  62'
Knup  75'		 Report  25' Mosca
 78' Duchosal		 Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Dominique Tavel
19 July 1997 Round 4 Basel 1 – 3 Servette St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Gaudino  57' (pen.)
Zuffi  70'
Ceccaroni  76'		 Summary  14' Barea
 34' Cantaluppi
 45' Margarini
 55'  23'Sesa
 77' (pen.) Durix		 Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Philippe Leuba
26 July 1997 Round 5 Zürich 0 – 0 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
19:30 Tarone  59'
Tejeda  70'
Yekini  89'		 Summary  17' Zuffi Attendance: 15,500
Referee: Roland Beck
2 August 1997 Round 6 Basel 1 – 3 Sion St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Sas  23'
Giallanza  41'
Hartmann  61'		 Summary  3', 64' Camadini
 68 ' Zambaz
 80' Tholot		 Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Carlo Bertolini
10 August 1997 Round 7 Kriens 3 – 1 Basel Stadion Kleinfeld, Kriens
16:00 Esposito  7'
Gross  74'
Schwizer  63'
Erni  73'		 Summary  43' Frick
 57'  70' La Placa
 76' Giallanza
 84' Salvi		 Attendance: 4,100
Referee: Kurt Zuppinger
15 August 1997 Round 1 Basel 2 – 1 Aarau St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Ceccaroni  14'
Gaudino  21'
Giallanza  31'
Frick  67'
Kreuzer  87'		 Summary  19' Aloisi
 61' Drakopoulos
 65' Zdrilic
 70' de Napoli
 78' Kilian		 Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Guido Wildhaber
23 August 1997 Round 8 Basel 3 – 2 St. Gallen St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Zuffi  23'
Dobrovoljski  77'
Frick  82'
Kreuzer  87'
Salvi  88'		 Summary  4' Hellinga
 18' Stiel
 35' Vurens
 42' Regtop
 61' Slavtschev
 87' Herrera		 Attendance: 12,000
Referee: Claude Détruche
30 August 1997 Round 9 Xamax 3 – 0 Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
19:30 Martin  57'
Leśniak  65'
Martinović  83'
Kunz  90'		  66' Kreuzer
 77' Ceccaroni		 Attendance: 8,100
Referee: Carlo Bertolini
2 September 1997 Round 10 Basel 3 – 4 Luzern St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Frick  20', 71'
Gaudino  28'
Giallanza  74'		 Summary  4' van Eck
 24' Joller
 43' Brunner
 58', 87' Petar Aleksandrov
 67' Izzo
 82' Kögl
 89' Ibrahim		 Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Kurt Zuppinger
13 September 1997 Round 11 Grasshopper Club 3 – 2 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
19:30 Subiat  6'
Esposito  13'
Gren  48'
Kavelashvili  78'  78'		 Summary  13' Ceccaroni
 15' Barberis
 61' Gaudino
 69' Giallanza
 90+1' Frick		 Attendance: 9,150
Referee: Jürg Herrmann
24 September 1997 Round 12 Aarau 1 – 0 Basel Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau
19:30 Roembiak  32'
Kilian  68'
Ćirić  75'		  64' Kreuzer Attendance: 5,600
Referee: Dieter Schoch
28 September 1997 Round 13 Basel 0 – 1 Lausanne-Sport St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Summary  27' Rehn
 31' Thurre
 38' Ohrel
 64' Piffaretti		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Massimo Busacca
5 October 1997 Round 14 Etoile Carouge 2 – 1 Basel Stade de la Fontenette, Carouge
16:00 Aguilar  67'
Hertig  81' (pen.)		 Summary  45' Subiat
 46' Orlando
 51' Barberis
 55' Ceccaroni
 81' Huber		 Attendance: 1,775
Referee: Marcel Vollenweider
19 October 1997 Round 15 Basel 3 – 3 Zürich St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Kreuzer  11'
Hartmann  30'
Zuffi  44'
Subiat  88'		 Summary  29' Nonda
 73' Tarone
 90'  47' Hodel		 Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Urs Meier
26 October 1997 Round 16 Servette 0 – 0 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
14:30 Rey  13'
Durix  25', 89'
Potocianu  61'
Sesa 85'		  71' Reimann
 75' Frei
 77' Frick		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Roland Beck
2 November 1997 Round 17 Sion 2 – 2 Basel Stade Tourbillon, Sion
14:30 Seoane  9'
Milton  73'		 Summary  15' Frick
 19' Barberis
 41' Kreuzer
 87' Ceccaroni		 Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler
8 November 1997 Round 18 Basel 4 – 1 Kriens St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
17:30 Mendi  11', 29'
Kreuzer  30'
Frick  10'  59'
Subiat  61'		 Summary  17' Schnüriger
 48' Colatrella
 78' Melina		 Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Michael Herrmann
19 November 1997 Round 19 St. Gallen 3 – 1 Basel Espenmoos, St. Gallen
19:30 Slavtchev  10'
Regtop  20'
Dal Santo  60'
Vurens  67'		 Summary  21' Kreuzer
 79' Barberis		 Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Claude Détruche
22 November 1997 Round 20 Basel 1 – 4 Xamax St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
17:30 Henry  60'
Dobrovoljski  64'
Pérez  84'		 Summary  26' Gazic
 32' Jeanneret
 39' Hamann
 45' Kunz		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Massimo Busacca
30 November 1997 Round 21 Basel 1 – 0 Grasshopper Club St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Frick  22'
Subiat  56'		 Summary  18' Gämperle
 63' Haas
 90+1' Tikva		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Serge Muhmenthaler
7 December 1997 Round 22 Luzern 0 – 1 Basel Stadion Allmend Luzern
14:30 Fink  73' Summary  7' Hartmann
 21' Kondé
 47' (pen.)		 Attendance: 9,050
Referee: Philippe Leuba

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 22 14 4 4 59 23 +36 46 Advance to championship round
halved points (rounded up) as bonus
2 Lausanne-Sport 22 12 6 4 45 27 +18 42
3 Servette 22 11 6 5 45 33 +12 39
4 Aarau 22 10 5 7 38 31 +7 35
5 St. Gallen 22 7 9 6 38 34 +4 30
6 Zürich 22 7 9 6 31 28 +3 30
7 Sion 22 7 9 6 30 27 +3 30
8 Luzern 22 7 8 7 26 28 −2 29
9 Xamax 22 7 5 10 37 39 −2 26 Continue to promotion/relegation round
10 Kriens 22 5 7 10 23 41 −18 22
11 Basel 22 5 4 13 28 46 −18 19
12 Étoile Carouge 22 1 6 15 20 63 −43 9
Source: rsssf.com

Promotion/Relegation Group
1 March 1998 Round 1 Solothurn 2 – 3 Basel Stadion FC Solothurn, Solothurn
14:30 Plaschy  1'
Edward  83'  75'
Bürgisser  79'
Fluri  64'  81'		 Summary  20'  12' Gaudino
 71', 74' Berger
 80' Zuffi
 90+4' Barberis		 Attendance: 6,750
Referee: Guido Wildhaber
7 March 1998 Round 2 Basel 4 – 2 Kriens St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
17:30 Henry  89'  8'
Kreuzer  25'
Frick  39', 64'
Knup  90+2'		 Summary  1' Egli
 19' Schwizer
 32' Benson
 38' Zwyssig		 Attendance: 7,800
Referee: Dieter Schoch
15 March 1998 Round 3 Young Boys 2 – 2 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
14:30 Lengen  23'
Smajić  5'  50'
Ivanov  74'  85' (pen.)		 Summary  73' Barberis
 73' Gaudino
 76'  67' Kreuzer
 87' Henry		 Referee: Claude Détruche
21 March 1998 Round 4 Basel 3 – 6 Xamax St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
17:30 Gaudino  66'  2'
 24'
Pérez  51'
Knup  53'
Mendi 80'		 Summary  7' Rueda
 8' Hamann
 25' Halili
 38' Rothenbühler
 61', 90+1' Zambaz
 81' Maslow		 Attendance: 10,500
Referee: René Rogalla
29 March 1998 Round 5 Lugano 0 – 0 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
14:30 Fernandez  41'
Wegmann  48'
Lendvai  51'
Giannini  55'
Anderson  85'		 Summary  22' Zuffi
 34' Tschopp
 55' Knup		 Attendance: 3,900
Referee: Guido Wildhaber
4 April 1998 Round 6 Basel 3 – 1 Etoile Carouge St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
17:30 Gaudino  11', 72', 77'
Barberis  31'
Kondé  49'
Orlando  55'		 Summary  10' Djorkaeff
 42' Duchosal
 76' Hertig		 Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Jürg Herrmann
8 April 1998 Round 7 Baden 3 – 1 Basel Esp Stadium, Fislisbach
19:30 Dnibi  39'
Casamento  56'
Lüthi  71'		 Summary  6' Knup
 70' Pérez
 78' Calapes		 Attendance: 3,450
Referee: Roland Beck
19 April 1998 Round 8 Basel 0 – 0 Baden St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Gaudino  69'
Calapes  74'		 Summary  62' Rossi
 70' Adriano		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Roberto Ferrari
25 April 1998 Round 9 Etoile Carouge 2 – 0 Basel Stade de la Fontenette, Carouge
17:30 Elmira  37'
Croci  57'
Djorkaeff  78'
Rothenbühler  86'		 Summary  46' Barberis
 59' Hartmann		 Attendance: 1,180
Referee: Guido Wildhaber
29 April 1998 Round 10 Basel 0 – 0 Lugano St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Ceccaroni  53' Summary  44' Giménez
 88' Giannini		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Marcel Vollenweider
2 May 1998 Round 11 Xamax 2 – 1 Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
19:30 Wittl  16'
Martinović  45'
Maslow  70'
Delay  81'		 Summary  1' Knup
 11' Frick
 57' Ceccaroni		 Attendance: 6,500
Referee: André Daina
9 May 1998 Round 12 Basel 4 – 1 Young Boys St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
19:30 Frick  25', 47'
Pěchouček  32'
Kreuzer  34'
Knup  43'
Gaudino  52'
Kondé  71'		 Summary  71' (pen.) Vukotić Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Carlo Bertolini
17 May 1998 Round 13 Kriens 1 – 3 Basel Stadion Kleinfeld, Kriens
16:00 Esposito  16'
Disler  66'
Erni  68'
Rölli  73'		 Summary  3' Reimann
 49', 75' Frick
 90+3'  45' Zuffi		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Dieter Schoch
24 May 1998 Round 14 Basel 3 – 0 Solothurn St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
16:00 Kreuzer  4'
Gaudino  41'
Reimann  49'
Frick  57'
Pérez  64'		 Summary  40' Roth
 42' Aebi		 Attendance: 36,500
Referee: Urs Meier

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Xamax 14 7 5 2 35 22 +13 26 Remain in 1998–99 Nationalliga A
2 Lugano 14 6 5 3 15 12 +3 23 Promoted
3 Basel 14 6 4 4 27 22 +5 22 Remain in 1998–99 Nationalliga A
4 BSC Young Boys 14 6 4 4 20 23 −3 22 Promoted
5 Solothurn 14 6 3 5 17 15 +2 21 Remain in 1998–99 Nationalliga B
6 Kriens 14 4 4 6 19 25 −6 16 Relegated
7 Baden 14 3 3 8 15 23 −8 12 Remain in 1998–99 Nationalliga B
8 Étoile Carouge 14 3 2 9 13 19 −6 11 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup
Main article: Swiss Cup
15 November 1997 Round 5 SC Buochs 2 – 7 (a.e.t.) Basel Stadion Seefeld, Buochs
16:00 Cavallucci  22' (pen.)
Meier  33'
Bieri  54'
Von Flüe  90'
Barmettler  119'		 Summary  17' Zuffi
 22' Nemtsoudis
 86', 96', 101' Subiat
 112', 117' Knup
 120+1'  54' Henry		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: René Rogalla
21 February 1998 Round of 16 Xamax 2 – 0 Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
18:15 Wittl  34'
Jeanneret  50'
Martinović  64'
Halili  71'
Hamann  76'		 Summary  15' Webber
 20'  45' Henry
 90+1' Gaudino		 Attendance: 3,900
Referee: Massimo Busacca

See also

References
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