1936–37 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1936–37 season was the forty-fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Emil Junker was the new club chairman and it was his second period as chairman, after his short period in 1927. Junker toll over as club president from Franz Rinderer.

FC Basel
1936–37 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Emil Junker
First team coach
/ Player-manager
Austria Heinz Körner
from mid-season
Switzerland Fernand Jaccard
GroundLandhof, Basel
Nationalliga11th
Swiss Cup1st round
Top goalscorerLeague: Guglielmo Spadini (10)
All: Guglielmo Spadini (10)
Highest home attendance6,000 on 26 January 1937
vs Nordstern Basel
Lowest home attendance2,000 on 17 September 1936
vs Lugano
and on 14 February 1937
vs St. Gallen
and on 30 May 1937
vs Lausanne-Sport
Average home league attendance3,250

Overview

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Heinz Körner was appointed as new team manager. He followed Alwin Riemke who moved to Germany to manage SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Körner had been manager of Aarau the previous season. He was the tenth professional team manager/trainer in Basel's history, their tenth foreign trainer. How long Körner stayed with the club is not clearly stated, but he left during the season, and afterwards Fernand Jaccard took over as player-manager. Jaccard was the club's first professional Swiss trainer. Basel played a total of 40 matches in their 1936–37 season. 26 of these matches were in the Nationalliga, one in the Swiss Cup and 13 were friendly matches. Of these 13 friendlies eight were played at home in the Landhof, three others in Switzerland and one each as visitors to RC Strasbourg and to SC Freiburg.[1]

Further league reforms took place before the season started. The number of teams in the 1936–37 Nationalliga was reduced by one team, thus contested by 13 teams and played as round-robin. Two teams were to be relegated and only one promoted to reduce the number of teams to 12 the following year. Basel played a very poor and un-consistent season. Only thanks to four consecutive victories towards the end of the campaign lifted the team to finish in joint second last position in the league table. Because La Chaux-de-Fonds and Basel both had 20 points, they had to have a play-off against relegation. This ended in a draw and so a replay was required. The replay was played in the Stadion Neufeld in Bern on 20 June 1937 and ended in a 1–0 victory for Basel and so they prevented relegation at the last possible moment.[2]

In the 1st principal round of the Swiss Cup Basel were drawn at home in the Landhof against lower tier Concordia Basel and were defeated and knocked out of the competition. Grasshopper Club won both championship and cup.[3]

Players

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The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1936–37. The list includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 2 August 1936 but subsequently left the club after that date.

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 Eugène de Kalbermatten
GK   SUI Ernst Kipfer
DF   SUI Robert Büchi
DF   SUI Louis Favre
MF   SUI Ernst Hufschmid
DF   GER Emil Hummel
DF   SUI Heinrich Diethelm
DF   SUI Heinz Elsässer
MF   SUI August Ibach
MF   SUI Fernand Jaccard
MF   SUI Caspar Monigatti
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   SUI Paul Schaub
MF   SUI Fritz Schmidlin (I)
MF   SUI Guglielmo Spadini
MF   SUI Ferdinand Spichiger
MF   SUI Eduard Zuber
FW   SUI Enrico Ardizzoia
FW   AUT Josef Artimovicz
FW   SUI Maurice Dubosson
FW   AUT Gottfried Havlicek
FW   SUI Othmar Saner
FW   SUI H. Weber (I)
FW   SUI Alfons Weber (II)
Players who left the squad

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 Hugo Burkhardt
GK   FRG Alwin Riemke
MF   SUI Hans Greiner
MF   SUI Walter Schmidlin (II)
MF   AUT Ludwig Stroh
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   SUI Karl Bielser
FW   SUI Alfred Jaeck
FW   SUI Walter Müller
FW   SUI Alfred Schlecht
FW   SUI Federico Schott

Results

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Legend

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  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

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Pre-season

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2 August 1936 Pre-season RC Strasbourg   1–2   Basel Strasbourg
  Summary    
8 August 1936 Pre-season Basel   3–5   Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
17:30 Weber   (2x)
Artimovicz   (1x)
Summary   (4x) Xam
  (1x) Wagner
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   G. Rupprecht Basel
23 August 1936 Pre-season Basel   3–4   Karlsruher FV Landhof, Basel
16:00 Jaccard   (1x)
Weber   (1x)
Dubosson   (1x)
Summary   (2x) Rapp
  (2x) Damminger
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Karl Wunderlin Basel
25 August 1936 Pre-season Basel   1–1   First Vienna FC Landhof, Basel
18:15 Artimovicz   (1:1) Summary   (0:1) Holec Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Karl Wunderlin Basel

Mid-season

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25 October 1936 Mid-season Lausanne-Sport   3–4   Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Jäggi   30' (1:0)
Kotzeff   (2:2)
Stelzer   87' (3:3)
Summary   (1:1) Dubosson
  60' (1:2) Schmidlin (I)
  (2:3) Ibach
  (3:4) Ibach
Attendance: 1,200
Referee:   Lutz Geneva
1 November 1936 Mid-season Basel   1–5   Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
10:15 Ibach   16' (1:0) Summary   26' (1:1) Forelli
  65' (1:2) Brückler
  70' (1:3) Forelli
  75' (1:4) Brückler
  80' (pen. 1:5) Laube
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Traub Basel
8 November 1936 Mid-season Basel   3–2   Građanski Zagreb Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schmidlin (I)   1' (1:0)
Weber   46' (2:1)
Hufschmid   51' (3:1)
Summary   (1:1)
  (3:2)
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Karl Wunderlin Basel
20 December 1936 Mid-season Basel   2–4   Ferencvárosi TC Landhof, Basel
14:45 Havlicek   12' (1:0)
Weber   29' (2:0)
Summary   30' (2:1) Jazberenyi
  62' (2:2) Jazberenyi
  72' (2:3) Toldi
  83' (2:4) Kemény
Attendance: 4,000
Referee:   Feurer Delémont
21 February 1937 Mid-season FC Olten   0–2   Basel Kleinholz Stadion, Olten
Summary   (0:1) Saner
  (0:2) Jaccard
Attendance: 200
Referee:   Beer
6 March 1937 Mid-season Basel   15–2   FC Breite Landhof, Basel
                              Summary    
14 March 1937 Mid-season SC Freiburg   3–1   Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
  36' (1:1)
Roser   58' (2:1)
Haas   70' (3:1)
Summary   12′ Elsässer
  22' (0:1) Saner
Attendance: 800
Referee:   Buchty
11 April 1937 Mid-season Basel   0–1   Young Boys Landhof, Basel
10:30 Summary   75' (0:1) Sydler Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Meury
18 April 1937 Mid-season Cantonal Neuchatel   2–2   Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
15:00 Castella Castella   35' (1:1)
Monnard (II)  (2:2)
Summary   5' (0:1) Ibach
  (1:2) Ibach
Attendance: 700
Referee:   Gerber Bern

Nationalliga

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League matches

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30 August 1936 Round 1 FC Bern 1–0 Basel Neufeld, Bern
Wagenhoffer   40' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Meyer LausanneL
6 September 1936 Round 2 Basel 0–5 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary   12' (1:0) Büche
  14' (0:2) Büche
  (0:3) Schicker
  56' (0:4) Büche
  (0:5) Büche
Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Jaggi Bern
13 September 1936 Round 3 Nordstern Basel 1–3 Basel Stadion Rankhof, Basel
09:30 Maurer   16' (1:0) Summary   21' (o.g. 1:1) Kaltenbrunner
  27' (1:2) Büchi
  72' (1:3) Hufschmid
Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
27 September 1936 Round 4 Basel 3–3 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Spadini   15' (1:0)
Spadini   25' (2:1)
Spadini   26' (3:1)
Summary   17' (1:1) Stefanovic
  (3:2) Stefanovic
  (3:3) Schott
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Spengler Olten
11 October 1936 Round 5 St. Gallen 2–1 Basel Espenmoos, St. Gallen
Krismer   18' (1:0)
  (o.g. 2:1)
Summary   24' (1:1) Spadini Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Jaggi Bern
18 October 1936 Round 6 Basel 2–1 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hummel   60' (1:0)
Spadini   80' (2:1)
Summary   (pen. 1:1) Walaschek Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
15 November 1936 Round 7 Young Fellows Zürich 1–0 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
Tögel   (1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   W. Bangerter La Chaux-de-Fonds
22 November 1936 Round 8 Basel 0–2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary   52' (0:1) Sydler
  67' (0:2) Sipos
Attendance: 4,000
Referee:   Meyer Lausanne
29 September 1936 Round 9 La Chaux-de-Fonds 0–0 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30 Summary Attendance: 3,200
Referee:   Dupuis Yverdon
13 December 1936 Round 10 Luzern 2–1 Basel Stadion Allmend, Luzern
Docze   (1:0)
Gloor   (2:0)
Summary   85' (2:1) Ibach Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Allemann Biel/Bienne
2 December 1936 Round 12 Lausanne-Sport 3–0 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
14:30 Jäggi   43' (pen. 1:0)
Jäggi   (2:0)
Spagnoli   (3:0)
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   W. Bangerter La Chaux-de-Fonds
3 January 1937 Round 13 Basel 2–0 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
14:30 Elsässer   43' (pen. 1:0)
Ibach   70' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Dupuis Yverdon
10 January 1937 Round 14 Basel 2–2 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
14:30 Ibach   2' (1:0)
Hufschmid   (2:1)
Summary   30' (1:1) Wagenhofer
  88' (2:2) Billeter
Attendance: 4,000
Referee:   Meyer Lausanne
17 January 1937 Round 15 Biel-Bienne 2–0 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
Chiesi   30' (1:0)
Rahmen   60' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Spengler Olten
24 January 1937 Round 16 Basel 1–1 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
14:30 Spadini   48' (1:1) Summary   27' (0:1) Forelli Attendance: 6,000
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
31 January 1937 Round 17 Lugano 2–1 Basel Campo Marzio, Lugano
Stefanovic   5' (1:0)
Grassi   51' (2:0)
Summary   (2:1) Spadini Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Iseli Biel/Bienne
14 February 1937 Round 18 Basel 1–0 St. Gallen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Elsässer   45' (pen. 1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
28 February 1937 Round 19 Servette 3–1 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
Belli   19' (1:0)
Gross   49' (2:1)
Gross   74' (3:1)
Summary   21' (1:1) Saner Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Spengler Olten
4 April 1937 Round 21 Young Boys 1–2 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
Aebi   10' (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Saner
  59' (1:2) Spadini
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Dupuis Yverdon
25 April 1937 Round 22 Basel 3–2 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00 Weber   14' (1:0)
Weber   40' (2:0)
Saner   63' (3:1)
Summary   52' (pen. 2:1) Schaller
  78' (3:2) Lukacs
Attendance: 3,500
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
9 May 1937 Round 23 Basel 5–1 Luzern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schmidlin (I)   (1:0)
Ibach   (2:0)
Spadini   (3:0)
Saner   63' (4:1)
  (o.g. 5:1)
Summary   22' (3:1) Karcher Attendance: 3,500
Referee:   Spengler Olten
13 May 1937 Round 20 Basel 2–1 Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
18:20 Weber   6' (1:0)
Jaccard   25' (2:0)
Summary   43' (2:1) Pali Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Dupuis Yverdon
30 May 1937 Round 25 Basel 0–2 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary   66' (0:1) Spagnoli
  73' (0:2) Becic
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Allemann Biel/Bienne
6 June 1937 Round 26 Grasshopper Club 4–0 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
17:00 Fauguel   23' (1:0)
Rupf   31' (2:0)
Xam   53' (3:0)
Rupf   73' (4:0)
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern

Play-off against relegation

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13 June 1937 Play-off Basel 1–1 (a.e.t.) La Chaux-de-Fonds Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
Weber   (1:1) Summary   97' (0:1) Bösch Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Spengler Olten
20 June 1937 Replay Basel 1–0 (a.e.t.) La Chaux-de-Fonds Neufeld, Bern
17:30 Spadini   32' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 4,000
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 24 15 6 3 68 32 +36 36 Swiss Champions and Cup winners
2 Young Boys 24 12 5 7 61 36 +25 29
3 Young Fellows Zürich 24 12 4 8 57 53 +4 28
4 Luzern 24 11 6 7 44 45 −1 28
5 Biel-Bienne 24 11 5 8 45 37 +8 27
6 Lugano 24 11 4 9 57 54 +3 26
7 Servette 24 11 3 10 55 47 +8 25
8 Lausanne-Sport 24 10 3 11 56 40 +16 23
9 FC Bern 24 8 6 10 42 44 −2 22
10 Nordstern Basel 24 7 7 10 42 50 −8 21
11 Basel 24 8 4 12 30 42 −12 20 Play-off winner, remain in Nationalliga
12 La Chaux-de-Fonds 24 9 2 13 54 61 −7 20 Play-off loser, relegated
13 St. Gallen 24 2 3 19 32 102 −70 7 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

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4 October 1936 Round 1 Basel 1–3 Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hummel   14' (1:0) Summary   25' (1:1) Kult
  75' (1:2) Vonthron
  81' (1:3) Schill
Attendance: 3,500
Referee:   Spengler Olten

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1936/37". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 1:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1936/37". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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