Patrick Rahmen

Patrick Rahmen (born 3 April 1969) is a former Swiss professional football player who played as midfielder or striker. He later became football coach and is currently assistant coach to Ciriaco Sforza by FC Basel.

Patrick Rahmen
Personal information
Full name Patrick Rahmen
Date of birth (1969-04-03) 3 April 1969
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, Striker
Youth career
until 1985 Nordstern Basel
1985–1987 FC Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1991 FC Basel 45 (8)
1991–1992 BSC Young Boys
1992–1993 FC Basel 25 (10)
1993–1994 SR Delémont
1994–1995 FC Solothurn
1999–2000 SV Muttenz
Teams managed
2000–2004 SC Dornach (player-coach)
2004–2007 FC Basel (U-18)
2007–2011 FC Basel (U-21)
2011–2013 Hamburger SV (assistant)
2014–2015 Hamburger SV (youth)
2014–2015 Hamburger SV (assistant)
2015–2016 FC Biel-Bienne
2016–2018 FC Luzern (assistant)
2018–2020 FC Aarau
2020– FC Basel (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Club career

Patrick Rahmen learned his football skill playing with Nordstern Basel and then in the FC Basel youth system. He advanced to their first team for their 1987–88 season signing his first professional contract under head-coach Urs Siegenthaler. Rahmen played his domestic league debut for his club in an away match on 20 March 1988 as Basel won 2–0 against Bulle.[1] His team mates included goalie Urs Suter, the defenders Peter Bernauer and Massimo Ceccaroni, the Scott Gordon Duffield Smith and Swiss national team players such as Adrian Knup, Dominique Herr and Peter Nadig. Despite this personally strongly occupied team Basel were relegated to the Nationalliga B after the 1987–88 Nationalliga A season.[2]

In the following season, Rahmen scored his first goal for his club in the Swiss Cup on 20 August 1988 in the away game as Basel won 5–0 against local lower tier club FC Oberwil.[3] It wasn't until the next season until he scored his first league goal for the club. In the home game at the St. Jakob Stadium on 18 November 1989 he scored the first goal of the match as Basel won 2–0 against Chênois.[4] Rahmen spent the 1991–92 season with BSC Young Boys but he returned to Basel for the next season, only to leave the club a year later.

Between the years 1987 to 1991 and again 1992 to 1993 Rahmen played a total of 128 games for Basel scoring a total of 30 goals. 78 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, eight in the Swiss Cup and 42 were friendly games. He scored 18 goals in the domestic league, three in the cup and the other nine were scored during the test games.[5]

Rahmen then moved on to play the 1993–94 season with SR Delémont, who played in the same Nationalliga B group as his previous club. He then played for FC Solothurn in a lower league.

Coaching career

From the summer of 2000 until December 2004 Rahmen was coach of SC Dornach in the 1. Liga, first as player-coach then as head-coach. Then he was hired by FC Basel to coach their U-18 youth team. In 2007, he took over as coach of the U-21 team. In October 2011, as the that time Basel first team manager Thorsten Fink left the club and signed a contract to become manager of Hamburger SV in the Fußball-Bundesliga, Rahmen followed him and became his assistant.

As of 1 July 2018, was appointed as the head coach of FC Aarau, but on 10 July 2020 he was dismissed.[6]

On 21 September FC Basel announced that they had hired Rahmen as second assistant trainer under their new manager Ciriaco Sforza.[7]

His father's legacy

Patrick's father is Bruno Rahmen, who was also a former Swiss football player and five time winner of the Swiss League Championship. Later Bruno Rahmen worked as football manager. Patrick's brother is Micha and was also a professional footballer.[8]

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Bulle - FC Basel 0:2 (0:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Müller, Lukas (2010). "Rotblau: Peter Bernauer - Zuverlässig und kopfballstark im Abwehrzentrum". Rotblau (in German). FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN 1660-0878.
  3. "FC Oberwil - FC Basel 0:5 (0:2)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  4. "FC Basel - CS Chênois 2:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  5. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Patrick Rahmen - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  6. https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/sport/aargau/patrick-rahmen-wird-cheftrainer-beim-fc-aarau-hollaender-verkerk-uebernimmt-bis-ende-saison-132443392 Patrick Rahmen wird Cheftrainer beim FC Aarau]‚ aargauerzeitung.ch, 17 April 2018
  7. FC Basel 1893. "Patrick Rahmen wird zweiter Assistenztrainer beim FCB". FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  8. Müller, Lukas (2010). "Rotblau: Bruno Rahmen – die Zuverlässigkeit in Person". Rotblau. FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN 1660-0878.

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