Dressing room fire forces Basel to postpone football match

The Swiss Football League (SFL) has postponed the Super League match between Thun and Basel scheduled for Saturday at 8.30pm. This is due to a fire in the first team's dressing room at Basel's St. Jakob-Park on Friday evening. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the league, FC Basel currently has no match kit and medical equipment at its disposal. The SFL management therefore granted a corresponding request from the club and authorised the postponement due to force majeure, based on an article in the match operations regulations. A new date for the match has not yet been set. At around 9.15pm, the fire brigade of canton Basel City rescue service and the militia fire brigade had to be deployed to a major operation at the St. Jakob-Park stadium, the cantonal public prosecutor's office announced on Saturday. According to the investigations carried out so far by the criminal investigation department of the public prosecutor's office, the fire broke ...