1916–17 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1916–17 season
Chairman	Philipp Leichner; Franz Rinderer
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Serie A	Group Stage: 2nd
Top goalscorer	League: Karl Wüthrich (6); All: Karl Wüthrich (12)

The FC Basel 1916–17 season was their twenty-fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Franz Rinderer. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

Overview

Basel played a total of 28 matches in the 1916–17 season. 12 of these were in the domestic league and 16 were friendly matches. Of these friendlies eight were won, three were drawn and five ended in a defeat. There were three home fixtures played in the Landhof and 13 away games. Four of these games were played in the Basel championship against the two other local teams Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. Due to the early date of the season the three teams decided to play the return matches of the Championship all on one day as a tournament and played shortened games, both halves each in 30 minutes. FC Basel won the Championship.

The domestic league, Swiss Serie A 1916–17, was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West. Basel and the two other Basel teams were allocated to the Central group which had only seven teams. The other teams playing in the Central group were FC Bern, Young Boys Bern, Biel-Bienne and Aarau. Basel played a good season, suffering only two defeats. They ended the season in second position with 15 points. In their 12 games Basel scored 31 goals and conceded 20. Karl Wüthrich was the team's best goal scorer, netting six times in 11 games. The Young Boys won the group and continued to the finals.[1] Here they played against La Chaux-de-Fonds and VFC Winterthur-Veltheim. Winterthur eventually won the championship in the Finals.

Players

Squad members

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

	Position	Player
	GK	Arthur Fahr
Template:Country data	DF	Emil Ganter
	DF	Hermann Moll
	DF	Peter Riesterer
Template:Country data	DF	Anton Rittel
	MF	Fritz Albicker (II)
	MF	Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
	MF	Emil Hasler
	MF	Ernst Kaltenbach
	MF	Jakob Känzig
	MF	Otto Kuhn
	MF	Fritz Raas
	FW	Christian Albicker (I)
	FW	Karl Bielser

	Position	Player
Template:Country data	FW	Rudolf Bredschneider
Template:Country data	FW	Ernst Rittel
Template:Country data	FW	Carl Schloz
	FW	Karl Wüthrich
Template:Country data		? Borer
Template:Country data		Fritz Eggenschwyler
Template:Country data		? Forster
		Walter Grunauer
Template:Country data		? Haas
Template:Country data		? Kientsch
Template:Country data		Oscar Kohler
Template:Country data		Jules Lotter
Template:Country data		? Perroud
Template:Country data		? Rittel (I)
Template:Country data		Valentin von der Mühll

Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendly matches

10 September 1916 Pre-season	Basel	2 – 2	Regiment 22	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Wüthrich 20' (1:0) Kuhn (2:0)	Summary		Referee: Riesterer FC Basel

1 October 1916 Pre-season	Montriond Lausanne	2 – 0	Basel	Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00	Inäbnit 35' (1:0) Gottofrey (2:0)	Summary		Attendance: 800 Referee: Jacques (Montriond-Sports)

26 November 1916 Mid-season	Old Boys	5 – 2	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00		Summary		Referee:

24 December 1916 Mid-season	Barcelona	3 – 1	Basel	Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
15:00	Garchitorena (1:0) Garchitorena (2:0) Hormeu (3:1)	Summary	Haas	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Francisco Brú

26 December 1916 Mid-season	Barcelona	1 – 3	Basel	Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
15:00	Garchitorena (1:0)	Summary	(1:1) Wüthrich (1:2) Albicker (I) (1:3) Wüthrich	Referee: Hamilton

28 December 1916 Mid-season	La Chaux-de-Fonds	1 – 2	Basel	Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
14:45		Summary		Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Francisco Brú

31 December 1916 Mid-season	Terrassa	1 – 1	Basel	Terrassa
	Torrella (1:0)	Summary	89' (1:1) Kaltenbach

1 January 1917 Mid-season	Terrassa	3 – 4	Basel	Terrassa
	(1:0) (2:4) (3:4)	Summary	(1:1) (1:2) (1:3) (1:4)

8 April 1917 Mid-season	Zürich	3 – 4	Basel	Utogrund, Zürich
		Summary		Referee: Peterhans

20 May 1917 End-of-season	Basel	0 – 1	Winterthur	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary		Referee: Ollmann (Concordia Basel)

2 June 1917 Basel championship	Nordstern Basel	3 – 3	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
18:00	Chollet (pen. 1:1) Gaus (2:1) Bollinger (3:3)	Summary	6' (0:1) Albicker (I) 45' (2:2) Kuhn 50' (2:3)	Referee: Wenger, (Old Boys)

11 June 1917 Semi-Final Ostschweizerisches Turnier	Young Fellows Zürich	1 – 5	Basel	Zürich
	(1:4)	Summary	(0:1) (0:2) (0:3) (0:4) (1:5) Kaltenbach

11 June 1917 Final Ostschweizerisches Turnier	Blue Stars Zürich	1 – 0	Basel	Zürich
	(1:0)	Summary	Kaltenbach

17 June 1917 Basel championship	Basel	4 – 2	Old Boys	Landhof, Basel
17:00	Kaltenbach (1:0) Wüthrich (2:0) Albicker (I) (3:0) Moll (pen. 4:1)	Summary	(3:1) Danzeisen (I) (4:2) Danzeisen (I)

1 July 1917 Basel championship	Basel	2 – 0	Nordstern Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
16:15	Schloz 10' (1:0) Kaltenbach 20' (2:0)	Summary		Attendance: 1,000

1 July 1917 Basel championship	Old Boys	1 – 4	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
17:00	Dürr 27' (pen. 1:2)	Summary	9' (o.g. 0:1) Monta (0:2) Wüthrich 46' (1:3) Schloz 53' (pen. 1:4) Wüthrich	Attendance: 1,000

Serie A

Central Group results

8 October 1916 Round 1	Biel-Bienne	4 – 3	Basel	Bern
	Hugi 53' (1:1) Hugi (2:1) (3:2) Grupp 83' (4:3)	Summary	44' (0:1) Lotter (pen. 2:2) (3:3) Bredschneider	Referee: A. Sandoz Lausanne

15 October 1916 Round 2	Basel	3 – 3	FC Bern	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Kuhn 12' (1:0) Wüthrich 35' (2:0) Moll (pen. 3:3)	Summary	38' (o.g. 2:1) Moll (2:2) (2:3) Schmiedlin	Referee: John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds

29 October 1916 Round 3	Basel	6 – 2	Nordstern Basel	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Moll 1' (pen. 1:0) Wüthrich 10' (2:0) Ganter 23' (3:2) Albicker (I) (4:2) Albicker (I) (5:2) Ganter 89' (6:2)	Summary	17' (2:1) Bollinger 22' (2:0) Bollinger	Referee: Weber

5 November 1916 Round 4	Aarau	0 – 4	Basel	Aarau
		Summary	49' (0:1) Albicker (I) 52' (0:2)	Referee: Jacques Reich VFC Winterthur-Veltheim

12 November 1916 Round 5	Basel	0 – 0	Young Boys	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary		Attendance: 3,000 Referee: Stutz

17 December 1916 Round 6	Old Boys	0 – 4	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00		Summary	Wüthrich 35' (0:1) Wüthrich 40' (0:2) Riesterer (pen. 0:3) Wüthrich 75' (0:4)	Referee: Weber

25 February 1917 Round 7	Nordstern Basel	1 – 2	Basel	Staldenrain, Riehen
15:00	Afflerbach 12' (1:0)	Summary	(o.g. 1:1) Solberger 29' (1:2) Wüthrich	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds

25 March 1917 Round 8	Young Boys	6 – 1	Basel	Spitalacker, Bern
15:00	Hubbard (1:0) Funk (II) (2:0) Klopfenstein 7' (3:0) Funk (I) 35' (4:0) Hubbard (5:0) Klopfenstein (6:1)	Summary	(5:1)	Referee: Reich Winterthur

1 April 1917 Round 9	Basel	0 – 0	Aarau	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary		Referee: Willy Beuttner FC Zürich

15 April 1917 Round 10	Basel	7 – 3	Biel-Bienne	Landhof, Basel
15:00	(1:2) (2:2) (3:2) (4:2) (5:3) (6:3) (7:3)	Summary	(0:1) Grupp (0:2) (4:3)	Referee: Reich Winterthur

22 April 1917 Round 11	FC Bern	1 – 1	Basel	Kirchenfeld, Bern
15:00	Orth (1:0)	Summary	(1:1) Albicker (I)	Referee: Ch. Kult-Reynaud Genève

6 May 1917 Round 12	Basel	0 – 0	Old Boys	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Riesterer	Summary		Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Ammann Cantonal Neuchatel

Central Group league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Young Boys Bern	12	8	2	2	31	15	+16	18
2	FC Basel	12	5	5	2	31	20	+11	15
3	FC Aarau	12	5	3	4	23	21	+2	13
4	FC Biel	12	6	0	6	37	45	−8	12
5	Old Boys Basel	12	5	1	6	19	20	−1	11

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 1916–17 at fcb-archiv.ch
Switzerland 1916-17 at RSSSF

Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

External links

FC Basel official site

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[fcb-achiv-1916/17-1] Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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