2009–10 FC Basel season
| 2009–10 season | |||
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| Chairman |
 Gisela Oeri
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| Manager |
 Thorsten Fink
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| Swiss Super League | Champions | ||
| Swiss Cup | Winners | ||
| UEFA Europa League | Group stage | ||
| Top goalscorer |
League: Marco Streller (21) All: Marco Streller (30)
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| Highest home attendance | 27,087 vs Young Boys (30 August 2009) |
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| Lowest home attendance | 20,239 vs FC St. Gallen (23 September 2009) |
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FC Basel began their 2009–10 season with various warm-up matches against Swiss lower league, Ukrainian Vyscha Liha, and Super League Greece clubs. The goals for FC Basel during the 2009–10 season were to take back the league and cup titles as well as to qualify for the UEFA Europa League.
The pre-season started with several major changes, the biggest being the sacking of coach Christian Gross, who was replaced by the German Thorsten Fink. Fink was appointed as Basel's new manager on 9 June 2009. The new manager let several players go by not extending their contracts. These were Ronny Hodel, Jürgen Gjasula, Ivan Ergić and Eduardo. Star striker Eren Derdiyok was sold to Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Eduardo Rubio returned to Cruz Azul because his loan was not made permanent. A number of players were brought into the first team from the under-21 squad to replace them, including Xherdan Shaqiri, Marco Aratore and Oliver Klaus. A number of new players were signed, the highest profile being Alexander Frei from Borussia Dortmund. Others new signings included Turkish Çağdaş Atan from Energie Cottbus, Ghanaian Samuel Inkoom from Asante Kotoko, Massimo Colomba from rivals Grasshopper, Brazilian Antônio da Silva on loan from Karlsruher SC and Cabral who returned after being on loan to Sevilla.
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