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1914–15 FC Basel season

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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

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.

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; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK Switzerland SUI Arthur Fahr
DF Switzerland SUI Paul Bettex
DF Switzerland SUI Hermann Moll
DF Switzerland SUI Peter Riesterer
MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
MF Switzerland SUI Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
MF Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF Switzerland SUI Jakob Känzig
MF Switzerland SUI Emil Schreyer
FW Switzerland SUI Fritz Aeppli
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW Switzerland SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW   Rudolf Bredschneider
FW Switzerland 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 Switzerland 1–6 SwitzerlandBasel
Summary
17 January 1915 Old Boys Switzerland 0–1 Switzerland Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
Summary Albicker (I) Referee: Switzerland Schmidlin, (Nordstern Basel)
28 February 1915 Basel Switzerland 5–3 Switzerland 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
soccer ball with red X Mangold
67' (4:3) Funk II
soccer ball with red X Funk II
Attendance: 600
Referee: Switzerland Louis Riesterer, (Basel)
7 March 1915 Young Boys Switzerland 6–0 Switzerland Basel Spitalacker, (Bern)
Mangold (1:0)
Bommer (2:0)
Adamina (3:0)
Funk (II) (4:0)
Klopfenstein (5:0)
Mangold (6:0)
Summary Referee: Switzerland J. Blum, (Young Boys)
25 April 1915 Grasshopper Club Switzerland 2–0 Switzerland 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: Switzerland
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: Switzerland 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: Switzerland 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: Switzerland 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: Switzerland 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: Switzerland 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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