Bayern's Philipp Lahm, right, and Basel's Xherdan Shaqiri during their Champions League round of 16, 2nd leg, soccer match in Munich, southern Germany, Tuesday, March 13, 2012.

Shaqiri scored a hat trick in less than 10 minutes on Saturday, after Basel was reduced to 10 men, in a 5-2 win at Lugano. The second goal was an instinctive, curling and dipping shot like when he ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Swiss playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri returned to Basel on Friday, 12 years after leaving the club where he began his glittering career.

Xherdan Shaqiri has rejoined Basel on a three-year contract following his departure from Chicago Fire. 32-year-old Shaqiri and the Chicago Fire confirmed they had mutually agreed to terminate the ...

Shaqiri soon was back at Basel, which the Kosovo-born kid first joined at age 8 and who he helped win the Swiss league in each of his first three full seasons.

Inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri’s return home from Major League Soccer, Basel sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 on Sunday without playing. Second-placed Servette’s failure to win ...

Shaqiri soon was back at Basel, which the Kosovo-born kid first joined at age 8 and who he helped win the Swiss league in each of his first three full seasons.

Inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri’s return home from Major League Soccer, Basel sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 on Sunday without playing. Second-placed Servette’s failure to win ...

Shaqiri left Basel in 2012 to join Bayern Munich where the next season he won the first of his two Champions League winners’ medals. The second came with Liverpool in 2019.

Xherdan Shaqiri’s revival on leaving Chicago Fire to return to Basel this season — and his spring surge of goals — is leading the Swiss team toward its first league title in eight years.

Basel has sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri’s return home from Major League Soccer. Second-placed Servette’s failure Sunday to win in a 0-0 draw ...

GENEVA (AP) — Inspired by Xherdan Shaqiri’s return home from Major League Soccer, Basel sealed its first Swiss league title since 2017 on Sunday without playing.