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 to Wasps. Pat Howard succeeded Wells as coach. Howard coached the club for two seasons losing a Premiership final to Sale in his first season. Over the summer of 2006 the core of a new pack was recruited, and in Howard's second season Leicester won their first piece of silverware for five years, winning the Anglo-Welsh Cup, and sealed the club's first domestic league and cup double after winning the Premiership final 44–16 against Gloucester. However Leicester lost the Heineken Cup Final to Wasps. Howard left the club at the end of the season. Howard was succeeded for one season