# 2023–24 BSC Young Boys season

The 2023–24 season was BSC Young Boys' 126th season in existence and 23rd consecutive in the Swiss Super League. They also competed in the Swiss Cup, the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League.

## Players
### First-team squad

    As of 13 September 2023
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 | Anthony Racioppi |
| 4 | DF | SUI | Aurèle Amenda |
| 7 | MF | SUI | Filip Ugrinic |
| 8 | MF | POL | Łukasz Łakomy |
| 9 | FW | SUI | Cedric Itten |
| 10 | MF | SUI | Kastriot Imeri |
| 11 | MF | GAM | Ebrima Colley (on loan from Atalanta) |
| 13 | DF | GUI | Mohamed Ali Camara |
| 14 | MF | ZAM | Miguel Chaiwa |
| 15 | FW | COD | Meschak Elia |
| 17 | DF | GAM | Saidy Janko |
| 18 | FW | CMR | Jean-Pierre Nsame |
| 19 | DF | SWE | Noah Persson |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | SEN | Cheikh Niasse |
| 21 | DF | SUI | Ulisses Garcia |
| 22 | MF | KOS | Donat Rrudhani |
| 23 | DF | SUI | Loris Benito |
| 26 | GK | SUI | David von Ballmoos |
| 27 | DF | SUI | Lewin Blum |
| 28 | DF | SUI | Fabian Lustenberger (captain) |
| 30 | MF | SUI | Sandro Lauper |
| 35 | FW | CGO | Silvère Ganvoula |
| 39 | MF | SUI | Darian Males |
| 40 | GK | SUI | Dario Marzino |
| 61 | GK | SUI | Leandro Zbinden |
| 77 | FW | SUI | Joël Monteiro |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | SUI | Marvin Keller (at Winterthur until 30 June 2024) |
| — | DF | SUI | Joel Bichsel (at Freiburg II until 30 June 2024) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SUI | Théo Golliard (at Vaduz until 30 June 2024) |
| — | MF | SUI | Alexandre Jankewitz (at Winterthur until 30 June 2024) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| FW | Silvère Ganvoula | VfL Bochum | Free | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Łukasz Łakomy | Zagłębie Lubin | €1,400,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| DF | Saidy Janko | Real Valladolid | €500,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Darian Males | Inter Milan | €2,000,000 | 19 July 2023 |
| MF | Ebrima Colley | Atalanta | Loan | 1 September 2023 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Cédric Zesiger | VfL Wolfsburg | €5,000,000 | 1 July 2023 |
| MF | Christian Fassnacht | Norwich City | €3,000,000 | 25 July 2023 |
| MF | Fabian Rieder | Stade Rennais | €15,000,000 | 31 August 2023 |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Swiss Super League | 23 July 2023 | May 2024 | Matchday 1 | | 24 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 51 | 22 | +29 | 062.50 |
| Swiss Cup | 18 August 2023 | | Round 1 | | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | +8 | 100.00 |
| UEFA Champions League | 23 August 2023 | 13 December 2023 | Play-off round | Group stage | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | −3 | 025.00 |
| UEFA Europa League | 15 February 2024 | | Knockout round play-offs | | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 36 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 70 | 38 | +32 | 055.56 |
Last updated: 18 February 2024 Source: Soccerway

### Swiss Super League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Young Boys (C) | 38 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 76 | 34 | +42 | 77 | Qualification for the Champions League play-off round |
| 2 | Lugano | 38 | 20 | 5 | 13 | 67 | 51 | +16 | 65 | Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Servette | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 59 | 43 | +16 | 64 | Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round |
| 4 | Zürich | 38 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 53 | 41 | +12 | 60 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round |
| 5 | St. Gallen | 38 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 60 | 51 | +9 | 57 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round |
* ↑ Teams played each other three times (33 matches), before the league was split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).
* ↑ Servette qualified for the Europa League third qualifying round as the 2023–24 Swiss Cup winners.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 20 May 2024. Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | H | A | H |
| Result | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | D | W | W | L | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | D | W | L | L | W | L | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | W | W | |
| Position | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |

#### Championship Round
### Swiss Cup
### UEFA Champions League
#### Play-off round

The draw for the play-off round was held on 7 August 2023.

#### Group stage

The draw for the group stage was held on 31 August 2023.
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | MCI | RBL | YB | RSB |
| 1 | Manchester City | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7 | +11 | 18 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 3–2 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| 2 | RB Leipzig | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 12 | Advance to knockout phase | 1–3 | — | 2–1 | 3–1 |
| 3 | Young Boys | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | −6 | 4 | Transfer to Europa League | 1–3 | 1–3 | — | 2–0 |
| 4 | Red Star Belgrade | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 15 | −8 | 1 | | 2–3 | 1–2 | 2–2 | — |

### UEFA Europa League
#### Knockout phase
##### Knockout round play-offs

The draw for the knockout round play-offs was held on 18 December 2023.