1914–15 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1914–15 season
Chairman	Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Serie A	Group Stage: 3rd
Top goalscorer	League: Emil Hasler (7); All: Emil Hasler (8)

The FC Basel 1914–15 season was their twentysecond season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, it was his was his twelfth presidential term altogether. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel.

Overview

In the 1914–15 season Basel played 11 matches. 6 of these were in the domestic league and 5 were friendly matches. Of these friendlies 3 were won and 2 ended in a defeat. There was one home fixture played in the Landhof and four away games. In these friendly games Basel scored 12 and conceded 12 goals.

In the Swiss Serie A 1914–15 there was am interim Championship due to the first World War, there was no relegation and promotion between Serie A and Serie B. The Serie A was divided into four regional groups, an East, a West and two Central groups. Basel were allocated to the Central Group A together with their local rivals Old Boys, Nordstern Basel and Aarau. Basel started with a defeat into the championship away against Aarau, the reigning champions. Then they won both home games against the other two Basel teams. After the new year and the away draw against Nordstern, Basel lost the home game against Aarau and the away game against Old Boys, to finish in third position in the league table. In their six games Basel scored 15 goals and conceded 14. Aarau continued to the semifinal, but there they were defeated by Brühl St. Gallen.[1]

Players

Squad members

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Arthur Fahr
		DF	Paul Bettex
		DF	Hermann Moll
		DF	Peter Riesterer
		MF	Fritz Albicker (II)
		MF	Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
		MF	Emil Hasler
		MF	Ernst Kaltenbach
		MF	Jakob Känzig
		MF	Emil Schreyer
		FW	Fritz Aeppli

	Position	Player
	FW	Christian Albicker (I)
Template:Country data	FW	Rudolf Bredschneider
	FW	Karl Wunderle
Template:Country data		Roger Breithaupt
Template:Country data		Walter Flück
Template:Country data		? Gossweiler
Template:Country data		? Rittel
Template:Country data		Ernst Bickel
Template:Country data		? Borer
Template:Country data		Philipp Leichner
Template:Country data		Rud. Steffen

Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Friendly matches

	Old Boys	1 – 6	Basel
		Summary

17 January 1915	Old Boys	0 – 1	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
		Summary	Albicker (I)	Referee: Schmidlin (Nordstern)

28 February 1915	Basel	5 – 3	Young Boys	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Emil Hasler (1:0) Albicker (II) (2:0) Schreyer (3:2) Bredschneider (4:2) Albicker (II) (5:3)	Summary	(2:1) Bertschi 32' (2:2) Mangold 67' (4:3) Funk II	Attendance: 600 Referee: Riesterer, Basel

7 March 1915	Young Boys	6 – 0	Basel	Spitalacker, (Bern)
	Mangold (1:0) Bommer (2:0) Adamina (3:0) Funk (II) (4:0) Klopfenstein (5:0) Mangold (6:0)	Summary		Referee: J. Blum Young Boys

25 April 1915	Grasshopper Club	2 – 0	Basel	Zürich
	(1:0) (2:0)	Summary

Serie A

Central Group A results

6 December 1914 Round 1	Aarau	5 – 1	Basel	Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau
	Osterwlder Brändli Gysi 65' (3:1) Gysi (4:1) Märk (5:1)	Summary	Emil Hasler	Referee:

20 December 1914 Round 2	Basel	6 – 0	Old Boys	Landhof, Basel
14:30	Albicker (I) 33' (1:0) Albicker (I) 35' (2:0) Gossweiler (3:0) Albicker (I) (4:0) Schreyer (5:0) Hasler (6:0)	Summary		Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Schmid Nordstern Basel

27 December 1914 Round 3	Basel	4 – 2	Nordstern Basel	Landhof, Basel
14:30	Hasler 19' (1:0) Albicker (I) 30' (2:0) Hasler (3:2) Hasler 75' (4:2)	Summary	65' (2:1) Schneider (2:2) Franzon	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Nater

10 January 1915 Round 4	Nordstern Basel	3 – 3	Basel	Staldenrain, Riehen
15:00	Bollinger 42' (1:1) Ganter (2:2) Ganter (3:2)	Summary	34' (0:1) Hasler 48' (1:2) Hasler (3:3) Wunderle	Attendance: 500 Referee: Stutz Old Boys

21 February 1915 Round 5	Basel	0 – 2	Aarau	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary	41' (0:1) Rubli II 55' (0:2) Bessmer I	Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Schmid Nordstern Basel

16 May 1915 Round 6	Old Boys	2 – 1	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00	Grunauer (1:0) Grunauer (2:0)	Summary	(1:1)	Attendance: 800 Referee: Thurnheer Biel-Bienne

Central Group A league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Aarau	6	5	0	1	18	7	+11	10
2	Old Boys Basel	6	4	0	2	15	16	−1	8
3	FC Basel	6	2	1	3	15	14	+1	5
4	Nordstern Basel	6	0	1	5	8	19	−11	1

Source: rsssf.com

Sources and references

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 1914–15 at fcb-archiv.ch

Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1914-1915". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

External links

FC Basel official site

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[rsssf_1915-1] Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1914-1915". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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