1904–05 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1904–05 season was their twelfth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the second consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

FC Basel
1904–05 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachEugen Strauss
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie ACentral group 4th
Top goalscorern/a[note 04–05 1]
Average home league attendancen/a

Overview

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Eugen Strauss was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. The team played just two pre-season friendlies, one in France against Mulhouse and one in Zürich against Grasshopper Club. The game against Mulhouse was won 8–1 the return match four months later in the Landhof was only drawn. The match against the Grasshoppers ended in a defeat. In the winter break the team travelled to Germany. They played against 1. FC Pforzheim on Christmas day and were defeated 7–3. On boxing day they played a game against Karlsruher FV and managed a draw. At the end of the season the team travelled again to Germany and were defeated 5–1 by Freiburger FC.[1]

The seventh league championship, Swiss Serie A season 1904–05, was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Weissenbühl Bern and Old Boys Basel. This season was a sportingly very disappointing season for Basel. There were just two victories from eight games, both times against Weissenbühl Bern. The away game was won 9–2 and the return match 3–0. Weissenbühl Bern lost all their eight games and were relegated at the end of the season with a goal tally of five scored and 52 conceded. Basel's other six games all ended in defeats and they landed in second last position in the group table, scoring 18 and conceding 20 goals.

In the central group Young Boys Bern and the Old Boys Basel ended the season level on points as they did the year before and so a play-off match was arranged (see also foot note below). This time the Young Boys won the play-off with 2–1 and therefore they qualified for the finals. In the finals Grasshopper Club won both their matches and became Swiss champions for the third time in seven years.[2]

Players

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Definite 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 Pierre Chevalley
GK   SUI Paul Hofer
GK   SUI Eugen Stutz (Stutz I)
FW   SUI Daniel Hug
DF   SUI Adolf Ramseyer
FW   SUI Emil Hasler
DF   SUI Eugen Strauss
DF   SUI P. Vaney
FW    Manuel Bourgeois
FW   SUI Karl Hans Gossweiler (Gossweiler II)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   SUI Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
FW   SUI Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
  SUI Percy Kaufmann (Kaufmann I)
  SUI Edwin Kaufmann (Kaufmann II)
  SUI Georg Michoud
   Fritz Runkel
   Hugo Sarcander
   Hans Schaub
   Heinrich Schiess
   Emil Vogt
Probable 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
FW   SUI Rudolf Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler I)
  SUI P. Lozéron
  SUI A. Klein
  SUI Eduard Laubi
No. Pos. Nation Player
  SUI Paul Nosch
  SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II)
  SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III)
   Artur Viehoff

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

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Pre-season

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October 1904 Pre-season Mulhouse   1 – 8   Basel Mulhouse
  Summary  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13 October 1904 Pre-season Grasshopper Club   2 – 1   Basel Zürich
 
 
Summary  

Winter break and end of season

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25 December 1904 Winter break 1. FC Pforzheim   7 – 3   Basel Pforzheim
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Summary  
 
 
26 December 1904 Winter break Karlsruher FV   4 – 4   Basel Karlsruhe
 
 
 
 
Summary  
 
 
 
12 February 1905 Winter break Basel   2 – 2   Mulhouse Landhof, Basel
(Kaufmann I)   15' (1:0)
Bourgeois   60' (2:1)
Summary   57' (1:1) Helmboldt
  66' (2:2) Helmboldt
Referee:   Seiffert, Old Boys
26 March 1905 End of season Freiburger FC   5 – 1   Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
  (1:0)
  (2:1)
  (3:1)
  (4:1)
  (5:1)
Summary   (1:1) Hasler
16 April 1905 End of season Basel   1 – 0   Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00   (1:0) Summary
24 April 1905 End of season La Chaux-de-Fonds   4 – 4   Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:00  
 
 
 
Summary  
 
 
 

Serie A

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Central group matches

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16 October 1904 Round 1 Basel 0 – 5 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary   (0:1) Graf
  (0:2) Seiffert
  (0:3) Wächter
  (0:4) Seiffert
  (0:5) Seiffert
23 October 1904 Round 2 Weissenbühl Bern 2 – 9 Basel Allmend, Bern
15:00   (1:7)
  (2:8)
Summary   (0:1) Gossweiler II
  (0:2) Gossweiler II
  (0:3) Kaufmann II
  (0:4) Chevalley
  (0:5) Thalmann I
  (0:6) Gossweiler II
  (0:7) Hug
  (1:8) Thalmann I
  (2:9) Hug
Referee:   C. Christen, (FC Bern)
30 October 1904 Round 3 Young Boys 3 – 1 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
15:30   (1:1)
  (2:1)
  (3:1)
Summary   (o.g. 0:1) Hess Referee:   R. Studer, (FC Bern)
13 November 1904 Round 4 Basel 1 – 2 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
14:30   Summary  
 
Referee:  
Note: Karl Hans Gossweiler broke his leg during the first half and according to the report in "Football" he was replaced by Pierre Chevalley, but Chevalley probably only took his position, as substitutions were not common at that time.
20 November 1904 Round 5 Old Boys 2 – 0 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00   (1:0)
  (2:0)
Summary
27 November 1904 Round 6 Basel 3 – 0 Weissenbühl Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kaufmann I   (1:0)
  (2:0)
  (3:0)
Summary
26 February 1905 Round 7 Basel 3 – 4 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
 
 
 
Summary  
 
 
 
5 March 1905 Round 8 FC Bern 2 – 1 Basel Bern
  (1:1)
  (2:1)
Summary   (0:1) Referee:   R. Bell, (Young Boys)

Central group league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Young Boys 8 6 1 1 35 10 +25 13 Play-off winners, advance to finals
2 Old Boys 8 6 1 1 27 5 +22 13 Play-off
3 FC Bern 8 4 2 2 14 12 +2 10
4 Basel 8 2 0 6 18 20 −2 4
5 Weissenbühl Bern 8 0 0 8 5 52 −47 0
Source: rsssf

NB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.

See also

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Notes

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The player lines-ups and goal scorers for 3 of the 8 league games in the 1904–05 season are unknown or incomplete.

1904–1905 season matches: FCB-Bern, OB-FCB, FCB-YB

References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1904–05". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ^ Erik Garin. "Serie A 1904/05". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

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(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel. Most of the documentation is missing.)

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