1918–19 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1918–19 season
Chairman	August Rossa
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Serie A	Group Stage: 5th
Top goalscorer	League: Otto Kuhn (6); All: Otto Kuhn (7)

The FC Basel 1918–19 season was their twentysixth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was August Rossa. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

Overview

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. Of these friendlies, nine were won and six ended in a sporting defeat. The test home match against Nordstern Basel, played on the Football Association day, was abandoned during play. Following a crude foul, the FCB's right half was injured and had to leave the pitch. His team then demanded the exclusion of the Nordstern player, who had already been noted negatively during the morning. 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.[1]

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. In their 14 games Basel scored 27 goals and conceded 26. Otto Kuhn was the team's best goal scorer netting six times. Étoile-Sporting won the group, continued to the finals and won the Swiss championship.[2]

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
	GK	Emil Fehr
Template:Country data	GK	Paul Rittel (III)
	GK	Ernst Zorzotti (III)
Template:Country data	DF	Emil Ganter
Template:Country data	DF	Karl Kroepfli
	DF	Hermann Moll
	DF	Peter Riesterer
Template:Country data	DF	Anton Rittel
	MF	Walter Rupprecht
	MF	Ernst Kaltenbach

	Position	Player
	MF	Jakob Känzig
	MF	Otto Kuhn
	MF	Fritz Raas
	FW	Christian Albicker (I)
	FW	Karl Bielser
Template:Country data	FW	Rudolf Bredschneider
Template:Country data	FW	Gustav Buser
Template:Country data	FW	Wilhelm Dietz (I)
Template:Country data	FW	Karl Lott (I)
Template:Country data	FW	Karl Rudin
Template:Country data	FW	Carl Schloz
	FW	Karl Wüthrich

Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss Postponed

Friendly matches

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 (2x 25 Minutes played)	Buser (1:0)	Summary		Referee: Ohlmann Basel

27 October 1918 Mid-season	Basel	2 – 0	Old Boys	Landhof, Basel
11:00 (2x 25 Minutes played)	Wüthrich (1:0) Kuhn (pen. 2:0)	Summary		Referee: Schmidt Basel

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

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

4 January 1919 Mid-season	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

Central Group results

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

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Étoile-Sporting	14	11	2	1	42	9	+33	24
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

Sources

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

Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Nordstern Basel 0:3 FF". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

External links

FC Basel official site

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[fcb-nordstern-1] Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Nordstern Basel 0:3 FF". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

[fcb-achiv-1918/19-2] Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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