FC Baden

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FC Baden

Full name	Fussballclub Baden 1897
Founded	1897; 127 years ago (1897)
Ground	Esp Stadium, Fislisbach, Switzerland
Capacity	7,000 (1,000 seated)
Chairman	Heinz Gassmann[1]
Manager	Michael Winsauer
League	Swiss Promotion League
2023–24	Swiss Challenge League, 10th of 10 (relegated)
Website	https://www.fcbaden.ch
Home colours Away colours

Fussballclub Baden 1897, simply known as FC Baden, is a Swiss football club based in Baden, Canton Aargau, which is a short distance from Zürich. It was founded in 1897. FC Baden has a total of 22 different teams at age levels, including five women's teams. They currently play in the Swiss Promotion League, the third tier of Swiss football.

In the 1985–86 season, the club participated in the Swiss Super League but were relegated after finishing last, coming 16th out of 16. After that time the club was in the Swiss Challenge League where they stayed until relegation in the 2005–06 season. Since that time the club have been in the third tier of the Swiss football pyramid. They narrowly lost out on promotion back to the Challenge League at the end of the 2007–08 season. Over the past few years,^[when?] due to financial problems, the club have had to rely on young players, as well as loans from local Super League side FC Aarau, with whom they have a very good relationship.^{[citation needed]}

On 26 May 2023, FC Baden secure promotion to Challenge League from 2023–24 after finishing 3rd place in 2022–23 Promotion League due to obtaining licence of Swiss Football League. Following season, FC Baden return to Promotion League from 2024–25 after relegation from Challenge League due to defeat from FC Thun 1–5 on 4 May 2024 and finished last position.

As of 8 August, 2024. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SUI Mirco Mazzeo 2 DF  SUI Sven Kunz 3 MF  SUI Albin Sadrijaj 4 DF  SUI Elmedin Fazlic 5 DF  SUI Thoma Monney 6 MF  SUI Samuel Kasongo 7 MF  SUI Daniele Romano 8 MF  SUI Yannick Scheidegger 9 FW  SUI Patrik Gjidoda 10 FW  ITA Davide Giampà (captain) 13 DF  SUI Kevin Iodice 14 DF  SUI Joël Brack 15 DF  BIH Marko Djordjic

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 MF  SUI Nicola Peter 21 MF  SUI Leon Gjikollaj 22 FW  SUI Fabio Solimando 23 DF  SUI Adin Sljivar 24 MF  SUI Alexandre Pasche 27 MF  SUI Teodor Popov 28 FW  SUI Nenad Zivkovic 30 GK  SUI Simon Zalokar — FW  SUI Kedus Haile-Selassie — MF  SUI Nicolas Herter — FW  SUI Veljko Vukasinovic — MF  KOS Ardi Morina

FC Baden play their home games at the Esp Stadium in Fislisbach which is a few miles outside of Baden. The capacity of the stadium is 7,000, of which 1,000 is seating and the rest is terracing.

• FC Baden at football.ch (in German, French, and Italian)
• FC Baden at Soccerway (in English)

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