2015–16 FC Basel season 2015–16 FC Basel season The 2015–16 FC Basel season was the 123rd season in club history and the club's 21st consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football. Basel were the reigning Swiss Super League champions. They prepared their season with various warm-up matches against teams from Ukraine, Germany and Netherlands. Their 2015–16 Swiss Super League season began on 19 July with a home game against Vaduz. By the winter break, having won fourteen and drawing one of the first 18 games, Basel led the league table by 10 points ahead of the Grasshoppers and 15 ahead of the
Leicester Tigers in Cup Finals after the 22 games regular season. Tigers have played in 9 finals, winning 4. Launched in 1995 English sides joined the competition in the 1996-97 season. Known for sponsorship reasons as the Heineken Cup from 1995–2013 Tigers have reached 5 European Cup Finals, winning 2. Played three times this was a mid-table play off for a place in the following season's Heineken Cup. The Orange Cup, named for sponsors Orange S.A., was played between the winners of the Premiership and Top 16, as it then was, as a pre-season trophy in the style of a Charity Shield. Leicester Tigers in