PRESENTED BY UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2012/13 SEASON MATCH PRESS KIT Chelsea FC (first leg: 2-1) FC Basel 1893 Matchday 14 - Semi-finals, second leg Stamford Bridge, London Thursday 2 May 2013 21.05CET (20.05 local time) Contents Previous meetings.............................................................................................................2 Match background.............................................................................................................4 Team facts.........................................................................................................................6 Squad list...........................................................................................................................8 Fixtures and results.........................................................................................................10 Match-by-match lineups..................................................................................................14 Match officials..................................................................................................................18 Legend............................................................................................................................19 This press kit includes information relating to this UEFA Europa League match. For more detailed factual information, and in-depth competition statistics, please refer to the matchweek press kit, which can be downloaded at: http://www.uefa.com/uefa/mediaservices/presskits/index.html Chelsea FC - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 2 May 2013 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stamford Bridge, London Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/04/13 SF FC Basel 1893 - Chelsea FC 1-2 Basel Schär 87(p); Moses 12, David Luiz 90+4 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Chelsea FC 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 FC Basel 1893 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 Chelsea FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 28/09/00 R1 FC St Gallen - Chelsea FC 2-0 Zurich Müller 28, Amoah 34 agg: 2-1 14/09/00 R1 Chelsea FC - FC St Gallen 1-0 London Panucci 24 FC Basel 1893 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 11/04/13 QF FC Basel 1893 - Tottenham Hotspur FC 2-2 Basel Salah 27, Dragovic 49; Dempsey 23, 83 agg: 4-4 (4-1 aetps) 04/04/13 QF Tottenham Hotspur FC - FC Basel 1893 2-2 London Adebayor 40, G. Sigurdsson 58; Stocker 30, F. Frei 34 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 07/12/11 GS FC Basel 1893 - Manchester United FC 2-1 Basel Streller 9, A. Frei 84; Jones 89 27/09/11 GS Manchester United FC - FC Basel 1893 3-3 Manchester Welbeck 16, 17, Young 90; F. Frei 58, A. Frei 61, 76(p) UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 16/12/09 GS FC Basel 1893 - Fulham FC 2-3 Basel A. Frei 64(p), Streller 87; Zamora 42, 45, Gera 77 01/10/09 GS Fulham FC - FC Basel 1893 1-0 London Murphy 57 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 02/11/06 GS Blackburn Rovers FC - FC Basel 1893 3-0 Blackburn Tugay Kerimoğlu 75, Jeffers 89(p), McCarthy 90+1 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 06/04/06 QF Middlesbrough FC - FC Basel 1893 4-1 Middlesbrough Viduka 33, 57, Hasselbaink 79, agg: 4-3 Maccarone 90; Eduardo 23 30/03/06 QF FC Basel 1893 - Middlesbrough FC 2-0 Basel Delgado 43, D. Degen 45+1 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 27/11/03 R2 Newcastle United FC - FC Basel 1893 1-0 Newcastle Smiljanic 14(og) agg: 4-2 06/11/03 R2 FC Basel 1893 - Newcastle United FC 2-3 Basel Cantaluppi 11, Chipperfield 15; Robert 13, Bramble 37, Sh. Ameobi 75 Last updated 01/05/13 9:10:22CET 2 Previous meetings Chelsea FC - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 2 May 2013 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stamford Bridge, London UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 12/03/03 2ndGS Manchester United FC - FC Basel 1893 1-1 Manchester G. Neville 53; Giménez 14 26/11/02 2ndGS FC Basel 1893 - Manchester United FC 1-3 Basel Giménez 1; Van Nistelrooy 62, 63, Solskjær 68 12/11/02 GS FC Basel 1893 - Liverpool FC 3-3 Basel Rossi 2, Giménez 22, Atouba 29; Murphy 61, Šmicer 64, Owen 85 25/09/02 GS Liverpool FC - FC Basel 1893 1-1 Liverpool Baroš 34; Rossi 43 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/08/01 F Aston Villa FC - FC Basel 1893 4-1 Birmingham Vassell 45, Angel 55, 78, Ginola 84; agg: 5-2 Chipperfield 30 07/08/01 F FC Basel 1893 - Aston Villa FC 1-1 Basel Giménez 74; Merson 58 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 24/06/95 GS FC Basel 1893 - Sheffield Wednesday FC 1-0 Basel Rey 68 Record versus clubs from opponents' country Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Chelsea FC 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 3 3 FC Basel 1893 9 3 2 4 8 0 4 4 2 0 1 1 19 3 7 9 26 38 Last updated 01/05/13 9:10:22CET 3 Previous meetings Chelsea FC - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 2 May 2013 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stamford Bridge, London Match background Unbeaten at home in this competition, Chelsea FC are within sight of their second European final in as many years, but FC Basel 1893 will not give up their UEFA Europa League dream easily, though they have yet to win a game in England. • David Luiz's stoppage-time free-kick earned the Londoners a 2-1 first-leg advantage after Fabian Schär's late penalty looked to have salvaged a draw for Basel. Victor Moses had headed the outgoing European champions into a first-half lead at St. Jakob-Park. It was Basel's first home defeat in the competition this season. Previous meetings • The semi-final first leg was the clubs' first competitive encounter. • In their only previous Swiss assignment, Chelsea lost to FC St Gallen in the first round of the 2000/01 UEFA Cup. They won 1-0 at Stamford Bridge then came unstuck with a 2-0 defeat at the Hardturm Stadium in Zurich. John Terry was an unused substitute in that game. • Basel eliminated Tottenham Hotspur FC on penalties in the quarter-finals, prevailing 4-1 on spot kicks after two 2-2 draws, but have never won a match in England. Their record in 19 games against English teams reads W3 D7 L9 (W3 D3 L4 in Switzerland – W0 D4 L5 in England). Match background • Swiss sides are without a victory in their last 18 competitive visits to England (D6 L12) since FC Luzern triumphed 2-0 at Tottenham in the 1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Indeed, Switzerland's representatives have won just twice in 29 away matches against English clubs. • Chelsea are unbeaten in 12 European fixtures at Stamford Bridge (W10 D2) since a 1-0 reverse against Manchester United FC in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals. They are yet to lose at home in seven UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League outings (W5 D2). • Basel have not won an away game in the UEFA Europa League this term (D4 L2). • None of the four remaining teams have won the UEFA Cup or UEFA Europa League before, with Basel and Fenerbahçe SK both in a European semi-final for the first time. Basel are bidding to become the first continental trophy winners, or indeed finalists, from Switzerland. • SL Benfica and Chelsea are the only sides left in the competition who transferred from the UEFA Champions League group stage. They will hope to emulate the feat of inaugural victors Club Atlético de Madrid, who won the 2009/10 UEFA Europa League after entering in the knockout phase. Team facts • Basel are the sole reigning domestic champion still in the tournament. They have also played more European matches this season than any other surviving team (19), having begun their continental campaign in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League. • Basel's David Degen has made more UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League appearances than any player left in the competition (46). • His twin brother Philipp Degen played alongside Chelsea's Yossi Benayoun and Fernando Torres during his time at Liverpool FC. • David Degen and Chelsea's Marko Marin were team-mates at VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach during the 2006/07 campaign. • Chelsea could become the first side to win UEFA's two top club competitions in reverse order in successive seasons. • They could also become just the fourth team to win all three of UEFA's major club competitions, after Juventus, AFC Ajax and FC Bayern München. Chelsea lifted the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1970/71 and 1997/98, and the UEFA Champions League last year. • Frank Lampard (115) has figured in more UEFA club competition games than any player remaining in this UEFA Europa League edition, with Petr Čech (105), Ashley Cole (103) and Terry (101) his nearest rivals. • Basel's Mohamed Salah, meanwhile, has provided more assists than any player left in the competition, four. Last updated 01/05/13 9:10:22CET 4 Match background Chelsea FC - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 2 May 2013 - 21.05CET (20.05 local time) MATCH PRESS KIT Stamford Bridge, London • Goalkeeper Yann Sommer, defender Aleksandar Dragovic and winger Salah have featured in all 13 of Basel's matches since the start of the group stage. Sommer has played all 1,200 minutes of the campaign – more time than any other player still involved this season. • Čech, Oscar and Torres are the only players used in all seven games of Chelsea's UEFA Europa League challenge, though just Čech and Torres have played all 630 minutes.