1918–19 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1918–19 season was their twenty-sixth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was August Rossa who took over from Franz Rinderer at the club's AGM. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. World War I was still being fought as the Swiss season started.

FC Basel
1918–19 season
ChairmanSwitzerland August Rossa
First team coachOtto Kuhn
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 5th
Top goalscorerLeague: Otto Kuhn (6)
All: Otto Kuhn (7)
(figures incomplete)
Average home league attendanceFigures n/a

Overview

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Otto Kuhn was team captain and acted, so to say, as coach. Basel played a total of 30 matches in their 1918–19 season. 14 of these were in the domestic league and 16 were friendly matches. There were nine test games played in the Landhof and seven away games. Because of the war, all but one of these friendlies were played against Swiss teams. The war ended on 1 November 1918 and six months later, on 18 May 1919 Basel hosted their only foreign opponents, the German team Freiburger FC. Despite an early lead, the game ended in a 1–2 defeat.[1]

Nine of these friendlies were won and six ended in a sporting defeat. The 27 October 1918 was the Football Association day. The Basel teams played a tournament. The match in the afternoon between Basel and Nordstern Basel was abandoned during play, because following a crude foul, the FCB's right half was injured and had to leave the pitch due to his injury. His team then demanded the exclusion of the Nordstern player, who had already been negatively noted during the morning game. The referee did not respond to the request, therefore the entire FC Basel team walked off the pitch. The referee abandoned the game and awarded the victory forfeit 3:0 to Nordstern.[2]

The domestic league, Swiss Serie A 1918–19, was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West, each group with eight teams. FC Basel and the two other teams from Basel Nordstern and Old Boys were allocated to the Central group. The other teams playing in this group were Aarau, Luzern and Biel-Bienne and the two teams from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting and FC La Chaux-de-Fonds. FC Basel did not play a very good season, suffering six defeats. They ended the season in fifth position with 13 points.[3]

In their 14 league games Basel scored 27 goals and conceded 26. Otto Kuhn was the team's best goal scorer netting six times and Ernst Kaltenbach was second best scorer with four goals. Étoile-Sporting won the group, continued to the finals and won the Swiss championship.[4]

Players

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Squad members

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 Arthur Fahr
GK   SUI Emil Fehr
GK    Paul Rittel (III)
GK   SUI Ernst Zorzotti (III)
DF    Emil Ganter
DF    Karl Kroepfli
DF   SUI Hermann Moll
DF   SUI Peter Riesterer
DF    Anton Rittel
MF   SUI Walter Rupprecht
MF   SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF   SUI Jakob Känzig
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   SUI Otto Kuhn
MF   SUI Fritz Raas
FW   SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW   SUI Karl Bielser
FW    Rudolf Bredschneider
FW    Albert Buser
FW    Gustav Buser
FW    Wilhelm Dietz (I)
FW    Karl Lott (I)
FW    Karl Rudin
FW    Carl Schloz
FW   SUI Karl Wüthrich

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

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Pre and mid-season

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1 September 1918 Pre-season Old Boys   1–2   Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 Danzeisen (I)   10' (1:0) Summary   35' (1:1) Dietz (I)
  (1:2) Dietz (I)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Hs. Grunauer (Basel)
  E. Buser (Old Boys)
8 September 1918 Pre-season Young Boys   3–2   Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
15:00 Ramseyer   5' (1:0)
Dasen (I)   15' (2:0)
Dasen (I)   (3:2)
Summary   (2:1)
  (2:2)
Referee:   Beuchat
22 September 1918 Pre-season Basel   1–0   FC Neumünster Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00   (pen.) Summary
27 October 1918 Mid-season Basel   1–0   Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
10:00 Buser   (1:0) Summary Referee:   Ohlmann (Basel)
Note: Football Association day tournament. Match played as 2x 25 Minutes.
27 October 1918 Mid-season Basel   2–0   Old Boys Landhof, Basel
11:00 Wüthrich   (1:0)
Kuhn   (pen. 2:0)
Summary Referee:   Schmidt (Basel)
Note: Football Association day tournament. Match played as 2x 25 Minutes.
27 October 1918 Mid-season Basel   0–3 FF   Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 (2x 25 Minutes played) Summary   (pen. 1:0) ? Referee:   Zoller Old Boys (Basel)
Note: Football Association day tournament. Match played as 2x 25 Minutes. After a bad foul, the FCB half right defender is injured and had to leave the field. Basel demanded the exclusion of the Nordstern player, who had already attracted negative attention in the morning. The referee did not respond to the request, so the Basel team left the field and the game was abandoned.
17 November 1918 Mid-season Military Team Zürich   1–5   Basel Zürich
  Summary      
15 December 1918 Mid-season Basel   4–1   Freiburger Military Team Landhof, Basel
13:30   50' (1:1)
  (2:1)
  (3:1)
  (o.g. 4:1)
Summary   30' (0:1) Attendance: 2,000

Winter break and mid-season

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4 January 1919 Winter break Nordstern Basel   5–1   Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
Wüthrich   (1:1)
Wüthrich   (2:1)
Dietz   (3:1)
Wüthrich   (4:1)
Afflerbach   (5:1)
Summary   5' (0:1) Buser Attendance: 1,200
Referee:   Grunauer (Basel)
2 March 1919 Mid-season Basel   2–4   Concordia Basel Basel
    Summary        
9 March 1919 Mid-season Basel   3–1   Team Basel Landhof, Basel
  (1:0)
  (2:0)
  (3:0)
Summary   (3:1)
6 April 1919 Basel championship Basel   4–0 Old Boys   Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bielser   3' (1:0)
Bielser   60' (2:0)
Albicker (I)   (3:0)
Wüthrich   (4:0)
Summary Referee:   Jacques Hirrle (Basel)
13 April 1919 Mid-season Freiburger FC   2–1   Basel FC Stadium, Freiburg
    Summary   Attendance: 2,500
18 May 1919 Mid-season Basel   1–2   Freiburger FC Landhof, Basel
10:30 Buser   (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Bantle
  (1:2)
Referee:   Riesterer (Basel)
6 June 1919 Mid-season Montriond Lausanne   2–1   Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Hope   (1:0)
Wydler   (2:1)
Summary   (1:1) Referee:   Diserens
9 June 1919 Mid-season Montriond Lausanne   0–2   Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
14:30 Summary   (0:1) Dietz (I)
  (pen. 0:2) Albicker (I)
Referee:   Diserens

Serie A

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Central Group results

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6 October 1918 Round 1 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4–1 Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30         Summary   Attendance: 2,000
13 October 1918 Round 2 Luzern 1–1 Basel Stadium Tribschen, Luzern
15:15 Tobler   (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Dietz (I) Attendance: 800
Referee:   Willy Beuttner FC Zürich
20 October 1918 Round 3 Old Boys 4–3 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:15 Danzeien I   26' (pen. 1:0)
Katz   33' (2:0)
  (3:0)
Katz   50' (4:0)
Summary   60' (4:1) Buser
  70' (4:2) Kuhn
  80' (4:3)
Referee:   Walter Senn Aarau
3 November 1918 Round 4 Basel 3–2 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
Kuhn   20' (1:0)
Kuhn   (2:1)
Kaltenbach   (3:2)
Summary   (1:1) Borlé
  (2:2) Keller
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Eugène Stutz Luzern
1 December 1918 Round 5 Basel 3–4 Étoile-Sporting Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich  
Kuhn  
Kuhn  
Summary   Brönnimann
  Marucco
  Wyss I
  Wyss I
Referee:   Willy Beuttner FC Zürich
8 December 1918 Round 6 Basel 0–1 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary   35' (0:1) Afflerbach Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Daniel Wenger Basel
22 December 1918 Round 7 Basel 3–2 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Ganter   5' (1:0)
Kaltenbach   (2:1)
Ganter   (3:1)
Summary   33' (1:1) Danzeisen
  (3:2) Katz
Attendance: 300
Referee:   Guido Eichenberger Bern
9 March 1919 Round 8 Nordstern Basel 2–1 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 Kohler   80' (1:1)
Bürgin   85' (2:1)
Summary   20' (0:1) Albicker (I) Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Grunauer Basel
20 April 1919 Round 9 Étoile-Sporting 1–1 Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:05 Brönnimann   13' (1:0) Summary   11' (1:1) Albicker (I) Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Thurnheer Heinrich Nidau
27 April 1919 Round 10 Basel 3–2 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kuhn   10' (pen. 1:0)
Kaltenbach   (2:2)
Wüthrich   80' (3:2)
Summary   (1:1) Perrenoud
  65' (1:2) Daucourt
Attendance: 800
Referee:   Eugen Stutz Luzern
4 May 1919 Round 11 Aarau 0–3 Basel Schachen Aarau
16:00 Summary    
29 May 1919 Round 12 Biel-Bienne 0–3 FF Basel Biel
Summary
Note: Reason for forfeit unknown
1 June 1919 Round 13 Basel 1–1 Luzern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kaltenbach   (1:1) Summary   (0:1) Referee:   Schenker Basel
15 June 1919 Round 14 Basel 1–2 Aarau Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich   50' (1:1) Summary   20' (0:1)
  (1:2)

Central Group league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Étoile-Sporting 14 11 2 1 42 9 +33 24 Advance to finals
2 Old Boys 14 8 3 3 31 18 +13 19
3 Nordstern Basel 14 8 3 3 23 15 +8 19
4 La Chaux-de-Fonds 14 8 3 3 32 23 +9 19
5 Basel 14 5 3 6 27 26 +1 13
6 Aarau 14 5 1 8 13 24 −11 11
7 Luzern 14 2 3 9 18 27 −9 7
8 Biel-Bienne 14 0 0 14 2 46 −44 0
Source: rsssf.com

See also

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Sources

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  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
  • FCB team 1918–19 at fcb-archiv.ch
  • Switzerland 1918-19 at RSSSF

References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - Freiburger FC 1:2 (1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Nordstern Basel 0:3 FF". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  3. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". "Series A 1918/19". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2020.
  4. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 16 November 2019.
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