1914–15 FC Basel season

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

FC Basel
1914–15 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachChristian Albicker
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: Third
Top goalscorerEmil Hasler (7)
Average home league attendancen/a

Overview

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The professional trainer, Englishman Percy Humphreys, was due to continue his job this season, but due to the outbreak of the first World War he had to return home.[1]

The war also caused further impingements to the football season. There were no pre-season matches and championship start was delayed. In their 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. [2]

Also due to the war, the Swiss Serie A 1914–15 was played as an interim Championship, 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 the reigning champions Aarau. Basel started into the championship with an away defeat against Aarau. Then they won both home games against the other two local 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. Brühl also won the final 3–0 against Servette to become the new Swiss champions.[3]

Players

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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 Arthur Fahr
DF   SUI Paul Bettex
DF   SUI Hermann Moll
DF   SUI Peter Riesterer
MF   SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
MF   SUI Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
MF   SUI Emil Hasler
MF   SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF   SUI Jakob Känzig
MF   SUI Emil Schreyer
FW   SUI Fritz Aeppli
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW    Rudolf Bredschneider
FW   SUI Karl Wunderle
   Roger Breithaupt
   Walter Flück
   ? Gossweiler
   ? Rittel
   Ernst Bickel
   ? Borer
   Philipp Leichner
   Rud. Steffen

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

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Old Boys   1–6  Basel
  Summary            
17 January 1915 Old Boys   0–1   Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
Summary   Albicker (I) Referee:   Schmidlin, (Nordstern Basel)
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
  Mangold
  67' (4:3) Funk II
  Funk II
Attendance: 600
Referee:   Louis 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

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Central Group A results

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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

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Aarau 6 5 0 1 18 7 +11 10 Advance to finals
2 Old Boys 6 4 0 2 15 16 −1 8
3 Basel 6 2 1 3 15 14 +1 5
4 Nordstern Basel 6 0 1 5 8 19 −11 1
Source: rsssf.com

See also

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References

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  1. ^ FC Basel 1893. "Clubgeschichte" (in German). FC Basel homepage. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2020-11-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1914–15". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1914-1915". RSSSF. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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