Editing FC Basel (section)

==Stadium==
[[File:St-Jakob-Park-Nacht.jpg|upright|thumb|right|200px|St. Jakob-Park at night]]
FC Basel play their home games at the 37,500 capacity [[St. Jakob-Park]].<ref name="fcb1">{{cite web |year=2011 |url=http://www.fcb.ch/Club/StadiumSt.JakobPark |title=Figures and facts |publisher=FC Basel 1893 |access-date=20 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120203010621/http://www.fcb.ch/Club/StadiumSt.JakobPark |archive-date=3 February 2012}}</ref>

[[UEFA]] have awarded the stadium a 4-star rating, the highest rating that could be given to a stadium of that capacity. St. Jakob-Park was opened in 2001, originally holding a maximum attendance of 33,433. The stadium was expanded with a new stand (sector G) and upgraded to 42,500 due to Switzerland co-hosting [[UEFA Euro 2008]]. After Euro 2008, a number of seats were removed, thus giving more space between them, and the capacity was reduced 37,500 seats.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.baselunited.ch/default.aspx?group=sjp&code=0905|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706221801/http://www.baselunited.ch/default.aspx?group=sjp&code=0905 |url-status=dead |title=Zahlen und fakten |language=de |trans-title=facts and figures |archivedate=6 July 2011 |website=www.baselunited.ch}}</ref> The stadium is nicknamed "Joggeli" by the fans and has two restaurants, Restaurant UNO and Hattrick's Sports Bar, as well as a shopping centre which opened on 1 November 2001. It also has parking space for 680 cars and has its own train station. St. Jakob-Park hosted six matches during Euro 2008, including the opening game between [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland]] and [[Czech Republic national football team|Czech Republic]], and a semi-final between [[Germany national football team|Germany]] and [[Turkey national football team|Turkey]]. The most interesting feature of the stadium is the translucent outer layer, which can be illuminated in different colours for impressive effects; this effect was copied three years later for [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]'s new stadium, the [[Allianz Arena]].

Before St. Jakob-Park was built, FC Basel played home games in the [[Landhof]] (in the Quarter Kleinbasel) and, following the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]], in the newly built [[St. Jakob Stadium]] which was on the same site as the current stadium. During the construction period of St. Jakob-Park, Basel's home matches were played at the [[Stadion Schützenmatte]].

In 2016, the [[2016 UEFA Europa League Final|UEFA Europa League final]] was played at St. Jakob-Park.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36228071 |title=Europa League: Uefa defends St Jakob-Park for Liverpool v Sevilla final |publisher=BBC Sport |date=6 May 2016 |access-date=20 May 2023 |archive-date=20 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520135625/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36228071 |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{wide image|StJakobPark Panorama.JPG|800px|St. Jakob-Park from the inside}}