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. On 21 September 2020, FC Basel announced that they had hired Rahmen as second assistant trainer under their new manager Ciriaco Sforza. 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. 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. On 20 May 2021, FC Basel announced that Rahmen had signed a new contract that made him head coach of the FCB first team. 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. 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". 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. References Sources Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage 1969 births Living people Swiss men's footballers Association football midfielders Association football forwards FC Basel players SR Delémont players BSC Young Boys players FC Solothurn players SV Muttenz players Swiss Challenge League