Patrick Rahmen

Patrick Rahmen (born 3 April 1969) is a Swiss football coach and former player. He played as midfielder or forward. He is currently the head coach of FC Winterthur in the Swiss Super League.

Patrick Rahmen
Personal information
Date of birth (1969-04-03) 3 April 1969
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Midfielder, forward
Youth career
until 1985 Nordstern Basel
1985–1987 Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1991 Basel 45 (8)
1991–1992 Young Boys
1992–1993 Basel 25 (10)
1993–1994 SR Delémont
1994–1995 FC Solothurn
1999–2000 SV Muttenz
Managerial career
2000–2004 SC Dornach (player-coach)
2004–2007 Basel (U-18)
2007–2011 Basel (U-21)
2011–2013 Hamburger SV (assistant)
2014–2015 Hamburger SV (youth)
2014–2015 Hamburger SV (assistant)
2015–2016 FC Biel-Bienne
2016–2018 FC Luzern (assistant)
2018–2020 FC Aarau
2020–2021 Basel (assistant)
2021–2022 Basel
2022–2023 Switzerland U21
2023– Winterthur
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

Patrick Rahmen learned his football skill playing with Nordstern Basel and then in the FC Basel youth system. He advanced to their first team for their 1987–88 season signing his first professional contract under head-coach Urs Siegenthaler. Rahmen played his domestic league debut for his club in an away match on 20 March 1988 as Basel won 2–0 against Bulle.[1] His team mates included goalie Urs Suter, the defenders Peter Bernauer and Massimo Ceccaroni, the Scott Gordon Duffield Smith and Switzerland national team players such as Adrian Knup, Dominique Herr and Peter Nadig. Despite this personally strongly occupied team Basel were relegated to the Nationalliga B after the 1987–88 Nationalliga A season.[2]

In the following season, Rahmen scored his first goal for his club in the Swiss Cup on 20 August 1988 in the away game as Basel won 5–0 against local lower tier club FC Oberwil.[3] It wasn't until the next season until he scored his first league goal for the club. In the home game at the St. Jakob Stadium on 18 November 1989 he scored the first goal of the match as Basel won 2–0 against Chênois.[4] Rahmen spent the 1991–92 season with BSC Young Boys but he returned to Basel for the next season, only to leave the club a year later.

Between the years 1987 to 1991 and again 1992 to 1993 Rahmen played a total of 128 games for Basel scoring a total of 30 goals. 78 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, eight in the Swiss Cup and 42 were friendly games. He scored 18 goals in the domestic league, three in the cup and the other nine were scored during the test games.[5]

Rahmen then moved on to play the 1993–94 season with SR Delémont, who played in the same Nationalliga B group as his previous club. He then played for FC Solothurn in a lower league.

Coaching career

From the summer of 2000 until December 2004 Rahmen was coach of SC Dornach in the 1. Liga, first as player-coach then as head-coach. Then he was hired by FC Basel to coach their U-18 youth team. In 2007, he took over as coach of the U-21 team. In October 2011, as the that time Basel first team manager Thorsten Fink left the club and signed a contract to become manager of Hamburger SV in the Fußball-Bundesliga, Rahmen followed him and became his assistant.

As of 1 July 2018, was appointed as the head coach of FC Aarau and had signed a two year contract. As the contract expired it was not extended.[6]

On 21 September 2020, FC Basel announced that they had hired Rahmen as second assistant trainer under their new manager Ciriaco Sforza.[7] On 6 April 2021, the club announced that, due to the lack of sporting success, FC Basel 1893 were separating themselves from head coach Ciriaco Sforza with immediate effect. They also announced that they had separated themselves from assistant manager Daniel Hasler at the same time. Until the end of the season, the first team would be looked after by the other previous assistant Rahmen, on an interim, basis as head coach.[8] In the communique on the following day it was announced that Ognjen Zaric was appointed as assistant manager. Zaric had been coach of the Basel 1893 U-18 team since summer 2020 and before that he had been head coach of TSV 1860 Rosenheim in the Regionalliga Bayern, the fourth tier of German football.[9]

On 20 May 2021, FC Basel announced that Rahmen had signed a new contract that made him head coach of the FCB first team.[10] To the end of the calendar year there was an amount of press reports that Rahmen would be replaced, but then, on 31 December the club announced that the contract with head coach had been extended for a further year until summer 2023.[11] However, just a few weeks later, on 21 February the club announced that the contract with Rahmen had been terminated, due to "unsatisfactory sportive development of the team and lack of clear perspective".[12]

Between 2022 and 2023, he was the coach of the Switzerland national under-21 football team.

On 14 June 2023, he was appointed head coach of FC Winterthur.[13] He will join the club following the 2023 U21 Euros.

Personal life

Patrick's father is Bruno Rahmen, who was also a former Swiss football player and five time winner of the Swiss League Championship. Later Bruno Rahmen worked as football manager. Patrick's brother is Micha and was also a professional footballer.[14]

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Bulle - FC Basel 0:2 (0:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. Müller, Lukas (2010). "Rotblau: Peter Bernauer - Zuverlässig und kopfballstark im Abwehrzentrum". Rotblau (in German). FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN 1660-0878.
  3. "FC Oberwil - FC Basel 0:5 (0:2)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. "FC Basel - CS Chênois 2:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  5. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Patrick Rahmen - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  6. https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/sport/aargau/patrick-rahmen-wird-cheftrainer-beim-fc-aarau-hollaender-verkerk-uebernimmt-bis-ende-saison-132443392 Patrick Rahmen wird Cheftrainer beim FC Aarau]‚ aargauerzeitung.ch, 17 April 2018
  7. FC Basel 1893. "Patrick Rahmen wird zweiter Assistenztrainer beim FCB". FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
  8. FC Basel 1893. "Der FCB und Ciriaco Sforza gehen getrennte wege". FCB and Ciriaco Sforza are going separate ways. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  9. FC Basel 1893. "Ognjen Zaric wird Patrick Rahmens Assistenztrainer". Ognjen Zaric becomes Patrick Rahmen's assistant coach. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  10. FC Basel 1893 (20 May 2020). "Patrick Rahmen unterschreibt Cheftrainer Vertrag". Patrick Rahmen signs contract as head coach. FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  11. FC Basel 1893 (31 December 2021). "Der FCB Verlängert mit Patrick Rahmen bis 2023 – Verstärkung des Trainerteams". The FCB extends contract with Patrick Rahmen until 2023 - Reinforcement of the coaching team. FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 31 December 2021.
  12. FC Basel 1893 (21 February 2022). "Der FCB trennt sich von Patrick Rahmen". FCB parts ways with Patrick Rahmen. FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
  13. "Patrick Rahmen wird neuer Cheftrainer". FC Winterthur. 14 June 2023.
  14. Müller, Lukas (2010). "Rotblau: Bruno Rahmen – die Zuverlässigkeit in Person". Rotblau. FC Basel Marketing AG. ISSN 1660-0878.

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