1955–56 FC Basel season

The 1955–56 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 62nd season in their existence. It was their tenth consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein Quarter in Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman. It was his tenth successive season as chairman.

FC Basel
1955–56 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Jules Düblin
ManagerHungary Béla Sárosi
GroundLandhof, Basel
Top goalscorerLeague: Switzerland Josef Hügi (14)
All: Switzerland Josef Hügi (18)
Highest home attendance10,000 on 11 December 1955
vs La Chaux-de-Fonds
and on 13 May 1956
vs Grasshopper Club
Lowest home attendance3,800 on 10 June 1956
vs Fribourg
Average home league attendance6,630

Overview

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During the previous four or five years the number of players joining and leaving the club was increasing considerably. The other Swiss clubs politics of buying new players was increasing strongly and transfer fees rose rapidly in this period. Basel, under the leadership of Jules Düblin, were trying to stay clear of this transfer trading. But because at the beginning of the previous season they had lost important players, such as goalkeeper Gianfranco de Taddeo to Cantonal Neuchatel, midfielder Kurt Maurer to La Chaux-de-Fonds and striker Walter Bielser to Biel-Bienne, the Basel board of directors were changing their approach to the subject. Düblin explained the situation at the AGM and the club members gave him the rights to strengthen the team. Béla Sárosi was hired as new team manager. Various transfers were made, Werner Schley returned from Grasshopper Club, Gottlieb Stäuble returned from Lausanne-Sport, Walter Bielser returned from Biel-Bienne, Silvan Thüler was hired from Solothurn and Peter-Jürgen Sanmann was hired from Concordia Hamburg. The exact amount that this all cost is not recorded, but the club needed to take up credits, one of which came from the city of Basel over the amount of 30,000 Swiss Francs.[1]

As mentioned Béla Sárosi was hired in as new team manager. The Hungarian ex-international footballer had been team manager by Lugano the previous two seasons. He replaced René Bader who continued as player. There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1955–56 Nationalliga A, these were the top 12 teams from the previous season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and FC Schaffhausen. Again this season, the bottom two teams in the table were to be relegated. Basel won 10 of their 26 games and drew six times and lost 10 times. They scored 47 goals and conceded 50. Basel ended the championship with 26 points in 7th position. They were 16 points behind new champions Grasshopper Club. Grenchen and Fribourg suffered relegation.

Josef Hügi was again Basel's top league goal scorer with 14 goals and he was joint seventh league top scorer behind Branislav Vukosavljević from Grasshopper Club who had scored 33 times. Gottlieb Stäuble was Basel's second best goal scorer with 13 goals and joint ninth league top scorer. Further, Peter-Jürgen Sanmann netted six times.[2] Four goals in one match could be noted for Hügi on 10 June 1956 and also a hat-trick for Sanmann in the same game as Basel won 9–1 against Fribourg. This was seen by only 3,800 supporters, Basel's lowest home attendance that season.[3]

Basel joined the Swiss Cup in the third principal round. They were drawn away against lower tier local team SC Binningen, but because they waived the home advantage the match was played at the Landhof and Basel won 5–0. Rolf Keller scored a hat-trick in this game. In the fourth round they were drawn at home to lower tier FC Emmenbrücke and Basel won 6–2. Josef Hügi scored a hat-trick in this game. In the fifth round Basel were drawn at home to Biel-Bienne. Gottlieb Stäuble scored a hat-trick and Basel won 7–3. In the quarter-finals basel were drawn away against Cantonal Neuchatel, but here they were knocked out of the competition.[4]

Players

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The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1955–56. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 28 August 1955 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 Hansruedi Blatter
GK   SUI Walter Müller
GK   SUI Werner Schley (from Grasshopper Club)
DF   SUI Werner Bopp
DF   SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze
DF   SUI Hans Hügi (I)
DF   SUI René Klauser (I)
DF   SUI Bruno Michaud (I)
DF   HUN György Mogoy
MF   SUI Gustav Borer
MF   SUI Raymond Gilliéron (from Brühl St. Gallen)
MF   FRA Pierre Redolfi
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   SUI Rudolf Rickenbacher (from Nordstern Basel)
MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble (from Lausanne-Sport)
MF   SUI Silvan Thüler (from Solothurn)
FW   SUI René Bader
FW   SUI Walter Bannwart
FW   SUI Walter Bielser (from Biel-Bienne)
FW   SUI Pierre Geiser
FW   SUI Josef Hügi (II)
FW   SUI Rolf Keller
FW   GER Otto Ludwig
FW   SUI Hansueli Oberer
FW   GER Peter-Jürgen Sanmann (from Concordia Hamburg)
FW   ITA Romano Zolin
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
DF   SUI Hans Weber (to Lausanne-Sport)
MF   SUI Eugen Büchel
MF   SUI Albert Haug (to Zürich)
MF   SUI Luciano Merlini (to SC Burgdorf)
MF   ESP Juan Monros (to Urania Genève Sport)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   SUI Kurt Thalmann
FW   SUI Ernst Klauser (II)
FW   SUI Hans-Peter Schär
  SUI Alfred Hartmann
  SUI Hans Jordi

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

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Pre-season and mid-season

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7 August 1955 Pre-season Grenchen   1 – 1   Basel Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau
Sidler   (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,200
Referee:   Weiersmüller Suhr
14 August 1955 Pre-season Basel   2 – 2   Solothurn Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart   (1:0)
Oberer   (2:1)
Summary   38' (1:1) Mollet
  75' (2:2) Adam
Attendance: 2,400
Referee:   M. Schreiber Reinach
Note: Transfer game for Silvan Thüler
20 August 1955 Pre-season Hamburger SV   2 – 1   Basel Hamburg
Uwe Seeler   25' (1:0)
Dieter Seeler   53' (2:0)
Summary   80' (2:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,000
20 November 1955 Mid-season Basel   1 – 3   Torpedo Moscow St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:45 Oberer   33' (1:1) Summary   18' (0:1) Falin
  65' (1:2) Arbutow
  86' (1:3) Streltsov
Attendance: 18,000
Referee:   Victor Werner Schicker Bern
5 February 1956 Winter break Urania Genève Sport   2 – 0   Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Bernasconi   42' (1:0)
Monros   87' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 900
Referee:   M. Tasca Geneva

Winter break to end of season

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5 February 1956 Winter break Urania Genève Sport   2 – 0   Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Bernasconi   42' (1:0)
Monros   87' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 900
Referee:   M. Tasca Geneva
11 February 1956 Winter break Basel   3 – 2   SC Concordia Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble   (2x)
Bielser   (1x)
Summary   (1x) Schmitt
  (1x) Woiters
Attendance: 400
Referee:   M. Schreiber Reinach
30 May 1956 Mid-season Basel   2 – 1   Hibernian Landhof, Basel
18:30 Stäuble   58' (1:1)
Hügi (II)   85' (pen. 2:1)
Summary   44' (0:1) Frye Attendance: 4,500
Referee:   Othmar Huber Thun
1 July 1956 End of season South Baden XI   1 – 5   Basel Eichwald-Stadion, Müllheim
Zeller   25' (1:2) Summary   13' (0:1) Hügi (II)
  15' (0:2) Hügi (II)
  30' (1:3) Bannwart
  68' (1:4) Hügi (II)
  73' (1:5) Hügi (II)
Referee:   Klöss

Nationalliga A

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League matches

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28 August 1955 Round 1 Chiasso 2 – 0 Basel Stadio Via Comacini, Chiasso
Oberer   51' (pen. 1:0)
Ferrari   52' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 1,300
Referee:   von Gunten Bern
4 September 1955 Round 2 Basel 3 – 2 Zürich Landhof, Basel
17:00 Thüler   37' (1:2)
Hügi (II)   56' (pen. 2:2)
Bielser   69' (3:2)
Summary   17' (0:1) Marta
  18' (0:2) Bruppacher
Attendance: 5,300
Referee:   Zutter Bern
11 September 1955 Round 3 Schaffhausen 2 – 2 Basel Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen
15:00 Akeret   57' (1:0)
Akeret   72' (2:2)
Summary   60' (1:1) Sanmann
  67' (1:2) Hügi (II)
Attendance: 6,000
Referee:   Schönholzer Lausanne
25 September 1955 Round 4 Basel 3 – 0 Urania Genève Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)   53' (1:0)
Bannwart   56' (2:0)
Stäuble   88' (3:0)
Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee:   Victor Werner Schicker Bern
Note: Minute of commemoration for the late FCB co-founder Josy Ebinger.
2 October 1955 Round 5 Lausanne-Sport 0 – 1 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Summary   3' (0:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,500
Referee:   W. Werner St. Gallen
16 October 1955 Round 6 Basel 2 – 2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble   31' (1:1)
Thüler   73' (2:1)
Summary   9' (0:1) Bähler
  87' (2:2) Bopp
Attendance: 7,500
Referee:   E. Guidi Bellinzona
23 October 1955 Round 7 Bellinzona 2 – 0 Basel Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
Villa   4' (1:0)
Sartori   (2:0)
Summary   42′ Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,800
Referee:   Josef Gulde St. Gallen
30 October 1955 Round 8 Basel 3 – 2 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble   10' (1:0)
Bielser   17' (2:1)
Hügi (II)   75' (pen, 3:2)
Summary   13' (1:1) Pozzi
  52' (2:2) Pozzi
  Bartesaghi
Attendance: 6,800
Referee:   D. Mellet Lausanne
6 November 1955 Round 9 Grasshopper Club 4 – 2 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
14:45 Vukosavljević   25' (1:0)
Ballaman   31' (2:0)
Hüssy   38' (3:0)
Vukosavljević   80' (4:2)
Summary   47' (3:1) Bannwart
  53' (3:2) Stäuble
  Mogoy
Attendance: 11,500
Referee:   Victor Werner Schicker Bern
13 November 1955 Round 10 Basel 4 – 2 Grenchen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble   46' (1:2)
Stäuble   59' (2:2)
Thüler   72' (3:2)
Hügi (II)   81' (4:2)
Summary   41' (0:1) Sidler
  43' (pen. 0:2) Morf
Attendance: 5,000
Referee:   Gino Bergamini Viganello
27 November 1955 Round 11 Servette 3 – 0 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
14:30 Anker   30' (1:0)
Pasteur   75' (2:0)
Anker   85' (3:0)
Summary Attendance: 7,000
Referee:   E. Guidi Bellinzona
4 December 1955 Round 12 Fribourg 1 – 0 Basel Stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard
Kaeslin   40' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   W. Rufli Bremgarten
11 December 1955 Round 13 Basel 2 – 0 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble   41' (1:0)
Bielser   (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee:   F. Buchmüller Zürich
26 February 1956 Round 14 Basel P – P Chiasso Landhof, Basel
[ Summary]
4 March 1956 Round 15 Zürich 1 – 1 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
15:00 Leimgruber   54' (1:0) Summary   70' (1:1) Oberer Attendance: 5,000
Referee:   Gino Bergamini Viganello
15 March 1955 Round 16 Basel 1 – 0 Schaffhausen Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble   27' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,500
Referee:   Josef Gulde St. Gallen
25 March 1956 Round 17 Urania Genève Sport 2 – 0 Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Chodat   60' (1:0)
Mezzena   87' (pen. 2:0)
Summary Attendance: 4,200
Referee:   F. Schorer Interlaken
8 April 1956 Round 18 Basel 2 – 1 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)   4' (1:0)
Hügi (II)   19' (2:1)
Summary   13' (1:1) Poma Attendance: 8,000
Referee:   Othmar Huber Thun
15 April 1956 Round 19 Young Boys 4 – 1 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
15:00 Grütter   7' (1:0)
Scheller   8' (2:0)
Hamel   12' (3:0)
Scheller   68' (4:1)
Summary   14' (3:1) Stäuble Attendance: 11,000
Referee:   Gino Bergamini Viganello
22 April 1956 Round 14 Basel 2 – 1 Chiasso Landhof, Basel
15:00 Sanmann   23' (1:0)
Hügi (II)   60' (2:0)
Summary   68' (2:1) Chiesa Attendance: 7,500
Referee:   Schönholzer Lausanne
28 April 1956 Round 20 Basel 2 – 2 Bellinzona Landhof, Basel
15:00 Thüler   27′
Stäuble   45' (1:0)
Stäuble   84' (2:2)
Summary   48' (1:1) Capoferri
  77' (1:2) Capoferri
Attendance: 5,000
Referee:   Zutter Bern
6 May 1956 Round 21 Lugano P – P Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
[ Summary]
13 May 1956 Round 22 Basel 2 – 5 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bielser   47' (1:3)
Stäuble   75' (2:3)
Summary   3' (pen. 0:1) Vukosavljević
  39' (0:2) Ballaman
  41' (0:3) Hagen
  85' (2:4) Vukosavljević
  88' (2:5) Hagen
Attendance: 10,000
Referee:   Fr. Karlen Bern
20 May 1956 Round 21 Lugano 0 – 0 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Josef Gulde St. Gallen
27 May 1956 Round 23 Grenchen 4 – 2 Basel Stadion Brühl, Grenchen
15:30 Moser   11' (1:0)
Raboud (I)  12' (2:0)
Sidler   44' (3:0)
Sidler   84' (4:2)
Summary   65' (o.g. 3:1) Campoleoni
  78' (3:2) Bannwart
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   D. Mellet Lausanne
3 June 1956 Round 24 Basel 1 – 1 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)   73' (1:1) Summary   35' (0:1) Anker Attendance: 4,800
Referee:   F. Buchmüller Zürich
10 June 1956 Round 25 Basel 9 – 1 Fribourg Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)   28' (1:0)
Sanmann   38' (2:0)
Hügi (II)   42' (3:0)
Monti   47' (o.g. 4:0)
Stäuble   58' (5:0)
Hügi (II)   59' (6:0)
Sanmann   63' (7:0)
Hügi (II)   80' (8:0)
Sanmann   81' (9:0)
Geiser   90′
Summary   90' (9:1) Schmutz Attendance: 3,800
Referee:   Victor Werner Schicker Bern
16 June 1956 Round 26 La Chaux-de-Fonds 6 – 2 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
17:30 Mauron   24' (1:1)
Antenen   33' (2:1)
Kauer   49' (3:2)
Mauron   73' (4:2)
Antenen   87' (pen. 5:2)
Mauron   88' (6:2)
Summary   20' (0:1) Geiser
  49' (2:2) Sanmann
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   E. Guidi Bellinzona

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 26 19 4 3 94 36 +58 42 Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 14 6 6 65 46 +19 34
3 Young Boys 26 12 8 6 60 41 +19 32
4 Servette 26 12 6 8 53 51 +2 30
5 Bellinzona 26 11 6 9 39 45 −6 28
6 Chiasso 26 12 3 11 48 47 +1 27
7 Basel 26 10 6 10 47 50 −3 26
8 Lausanne-Sport 26 10 5 11 40 50 −10 25
9 Lugano 26 7 9 10 38 46 −8 23
10 Schaffhausen 26 7 8 11 30 44 −14 22
11 Urania Genève Sport 26 8 6 12 34 51 −17 22
12 Zürich 26 8 5 13 55 53 +2 21
13 Grenchen 26 7 4 15 39 55 −16 18 Relegated
14 Fribourg 26 5 4 17 32 59 −27 14 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

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19 November 1955 Round 3 SC Binningen 0 – 5 Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary   23' (0:1) Keller
  27' (pen. 0:2) Thüler
  58' (0:3) Sanmann
  72' (0:4) Keller
  82' (pen. 0:5)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   F. Schorer Interlaken
Note: SC Binningen waived the home advantage
18 December 1955 Round 4 Basel 6 – 2 FC Emmenbrücke Landhof, Basel
14:30 Oberer   (1:2)
Hügi (II)   31' (2:2)
Hügi (II)   63' (3:2)
Stäuble   64' (4:2)
Bielser   83' (5:2)
Hügi (II)   80' (6:2)
Summary   (0:1) Kehl
  23' (0:2) Steffen
Attendance: 2,300
Referee:   Weiersmüller Suhr
19 February 1956 Round 5 Basel 7 – 3 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble   2' (1:0)
Stäuble   38' (2:3)
Thüler   (pen. 3:3)
Sanmann   48' (4:3)
Hügi (II)   70' (5:3)
Sanmann   74' (6:3)
Stäuble   80' (7:3)
Summary   18' (1:1) Kohler
  23' (1:2) Riederer
  33' (1:3) Allemann
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Surdez Delémont
2 April 1956 Quarter-final Cantonal Neuchatel 1 – 0 Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
15:00 Lanz   85' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee:   F. Buchmüller Zürich

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Zindel, Josef (2018), "1956 - Umdenken", Page 53, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  2. ^ Erik Garin. "Nationalliga A 1955/56". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Fribourg 9:1 (3:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1955/56". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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