1903–04 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1903–04 season was their eleventh season in their existence. Basel were the second largest club in Switzerland at this time. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the chairmanship for the third time in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

FC Basel
1903–04 season
Chairman Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachunknown
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie ACentral group 3rd

Overview

The Swiss Serie A season 1903–04 was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Floria Biel/Bienne, and two further teams from Basel Old Boys Basel and Fortuna Basel. FC Basel ended their ten games with five victories, two draws and three defeats in third position in the league table, obtaining 12 points, scoring 28 and conceding 25 goals. The Young Boys and the Old Boys ended level on points and so a play-off match was arranged. The Old Boys won the play-off 3–2 and therefore qualified for the finals, in which FC St. Gallen won their first championship title.

Daniel Hug (the team's most prominent, their best and their largest player) was named as team captain. Together with goalkeeper Hofer, the players Schorpp, Strauss, Pfeiffer, Thalmann and Hasler, Hug was one of many early national team players who came from the Basel team.

Players

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
GK Paul Hofer
DF Eugène Strauss
MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
FW Emil Hasler
FW Daniel Hug (Captain)
FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
FW Rudolf Gossweiler (Gossweiler I)
(?) Egli
Percy Kaufmann
A. Klein
No. Position Player
Eduard Laubi
P. Lozéron
Paul Nosch
Adolf Ramseier
Hans Rietmann
Alphonse Schorpp
Ernst Stutz (Stutz I)
Werner Stutz (Stutz II)
Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III)
Template:Country data Artur Viehoff

Results

Serie A

Central group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 BSC Old Boys Basel 10 8 1 1 41 11 +30 17
2 Young Boys Bern 10 8 1 1 37 14 +23 17
3 FC Basel 10 5 2 3 28 25 +3 12
4 FC Bern 10 3 3 4 19 20 1 9
5 Floria Biel/Bienne 10 2 1 7 11 38 27 5
6 Fortuna Basel 10 0 0 10 4 32 28 0
Source: rsssf

See also

Sources and references

  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
  • Switzerland 1903-04 at RSSSF
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