1913–14 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1913–14 season was their twenty-first season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Karl Ibach, but he stood down at the AGM on 25 September 1913. From that date Carl Albert Hintermann took over as club president. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel.

FC Basel
1913–14 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Karl Ibach until 25 September 1913
Carl Albert Hintermann from 25 September 1913
First team coachPercy Humphreys
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 2nd
Top goalscorerChristian Albicker (12)

Overview

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The Englishman Percy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the club FC Basel had ever employed. Under club chairman Karl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913. He had previously been head-coach for Hartlepool United in the English North Eastern League. Prior to Humphreys, it had always been the team captain who had taken over the function of the trainer.

Basel played 32 matches in their 1913–14 season. 14 of these matches were in the domestic league and 18 were friendly games. Six of these were home games, played in the Landhof, one other home game was played on the Margarethenwiese in Basel, five others were away games in Switzerland and five games were played abroad. Basel played seven matches against German teams, one against the English team Bradford City and the other ten opponents were Swiss. Of these friendlies 10 were won and 8 ended with a defeat. In these 18 games Basel scored a total of 57 goals and conceded 47.[1]

The Swiss Serie A 1913–14 was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West. Basel were allocated to the Central group together with local rivals Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. The other teams playing in the Central group were Young Boys, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Bern and Biel-Bienne. Basel started well into the championship winning seven of the first eight games, the first four games straight off. After the new year break things turned against them and they were defeated three times. Basel lost contact to the Young Boys at the top of the table and ended the season in joint second position with FC Bern, they were three points behind the group winners. In their 14 games Basel scored 63 goals and conceded 33. The two highest scoring games were both played against FC La Chaux-de-Fonds. Basel won the home game 11–4 and the away game 10–1.[2]

The Young Boys continued to the finals against Cantonal Neuchatel and Aarau, who eventually won the championship in the Finals. Last place in the group bottom was Old Boys, who therefore entered the play-off round against relegation, in which they were successful.[3]

The Anglo-Cup was not played in this year and so, Basel could not defend the title that they had obtained the year before. But memories of this cup win soon faded anyway, because in fact the competition was discontinued completely due to World War I.[4]

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 Fridolin Wenger
DF   SUI Paul Bettex
DF   SUI Hermann Moll
DF   SUI Peter Riesterer
MF   SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
MF   SUI Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
MF   GER Josef Goldschmidt
MF   SUI Ernst Gossweiler
MF   SUI Emil Hasler
MF   SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF   SUI Otto Kuhn
MF   SUI Emil Schreyer
FW   SUI Fritz Aeppli
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW    Rudolf Bredschneider
FW   ENG Percy Humphreys
FW    Carl Schloz
FW   SUI Karl Wunderle
   Roger Breithaupt
   Walter Flück
   Max Glenck
GK    Emil Fehr
GK    Camillo Persenico
GK    Schaltenbrand
   ? Gossweiler
   ? Hack
   ? Rittel

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

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Pre- and mid-season

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24 August 1913 Pre-season Freiburger FC   2–4   Basel Feldberg
    Summary        
30 August 1913 Pre-season Basel   2–0   Stuttgarter Kickers Landhof, Basel
Schreyer  
Albicker  
Summary Referee:   Louis Riesterer
14 September 1913 Pre-season St. Gallen   3–2   Basel St. Gallen
Leissing   (1:1)
Neumeyer   (2:1)
Ehrbar   (pen. 3:1)
Summary   (0:1)
  (3:2) Humphreys
28 September 1913 Pre-season Servette   0–4   Basel Parc des Sports, Geneva
14:30 Summary        
16 November 1913 Mid-season Basel   3–0   Freiburger FC Landhof, Basel
15:00       Summary

Winter break to end of season

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14 December 1913 Winter break Equipe Romande Basel   1–6   Basel Basel
  Summary            
26 December 1913 Winter break Karlsruher FV   4–7 Basel Karlsruhe
  (1:2)
  (2:2)
  (pen. 3:3)
Fuchs   (4:4)
Summary   3' (0:1)
  (0:2)
  (2:3)
  (3:4) Aeppli
  (4:5) Aeppli
  (4:6)
  (4:7)
11 January 1914 Mid-season Freiburger FC   3–6   Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
Diemer  
Walch  
Nägele  
Summary  
 
 
 
 
 
Referee:   Ehret
  H. Banzhaf
1 February 1914 Mid-season Baden   4–5   Basel Baden
        Summary           Attendance: 300
8 March 1914 Mid-season Basel   2–3   Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel
10:30 Moll   30' (pen. 1:0)
Moll   75' (pen. 2:1)
Summary   (1:1) Schürch
  (pen. 2:2) Ferralli II
  90' Ferralli II
5 April 1914 Mid-season Basel   0–5   Cantonal Landhof, Basel
Summary   10' (0:1)
  (0:2)
  30' (0:3)
  85' (0:4)
  90' (0:5)
11 April 1914 Mid-season MTV München 1879   6–1   Basel Munich
            Summary  
12 April 1914 Mid-season Bayern Munich   4–1   Basel Munich
        Summary  
26 April 1914 Mid-season Young Fellows Zürich   3–0   Basel Hardturm, Zürich
Schaltenbrand  
Wintsch  
Schaltenbrand  
Summary Attendance: 1,500
10 May 1911 End of season Basel   2–4   Bradford City Landhof, Basel
15:10 Bredschneider   76' (1:4)
Albicker   78' (2:4)
Summary   10' (0:1) Slaer
  20' (0:2) Bond
  63' (0:3) Currie
  70' (o.g. 0:4) Goldschmidt
Attendance: 3,500
Referee:   Louis Riesterer
17 May 1914 End of season Basel   7–0   Baden Landhof, Basel
Schreyer   (1:0)
  (2:0)
Aeppli   (3:0)
  (4:0)
Aeppli   (5:0)
Hasler   (6:0)
  80' (7:0)
Summary
24 May 1914 End of season Cantonal   2–5   Basel Colombier, Neuchâtel
    Summary          
7 June 1914 End of season Basel   0–3   Young Fellows Zürich Margarethenwiese, Basel
17:00   Summary   (0:1) Schaltenbrand
  (0:2) Schaltenbrand
  (0:3) Leiber II

Serie A

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Central group results

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5 October 1913 Round 1 Basel 11–4 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00   (1:3)
  (2:3)
  (3:3)
  (4:3)
  (5:3)
  (6:3)
  (7:3)
  (8:3)
  (9:3)
  (10:3)
  (11:3)
Summary   (0:1)
  (0:2)
  (0:3)
  (pen. 11:4) Haudenschild
Referee:   Etzensberger Etoile La Chaux-de-Fonds
12 October 1913 Round 2 Biel-Bienne 2–4 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
14:45 Fallet   25' (1:1)
Grupp   73' (2:3)
Summary   15' (0:1)
  60' (1:2)
  61' (1:3)
  73' (2:4)
Referee:   Dondelinger
19 October 1913 Round 3 Étoile-Sporting 1–5 Basel La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:35 Wyss (I)   35' (1:3) Summary   4' (0:1) Albicker (I)
  9' (0:2) Albicker (I)
  25' (0:3) Albicker (I)
  (1:4) Schreyer
  (1:5) Aeppli
Referee:   Otto Eicher Young Boys
9 November 1913 Round 4 Nordstern Basel 5–7 Basel Basel
15:00 Bollinger   11' (1:0)
Wüthrich   (2:2)
Bollinger   (pen. 3:4)
Bollinger   (4:7)
Bollinger   (5:7)
Summary   5' (1:1) Aeppli
  (1:2) Wunderle
  (2:3) Schreyer
  (2:4) Aeppli
  (3:5) Albicker (I)
  51' (2:6) Schreyer
  (3:7) Aeppli
Referee:   H. Allemann Zürich
23 November 1913 Round 5 Basel 1–2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Schreyer   61' (1:2) Summary   15' (0:1) Funk (II)
  42' (0:2) Bommer
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Willy Beuttner Zürich
30 November 1913 Round 6 Old Boys 2–7 Basel Basel
15:00 Grunauer   29' (1:1)
Higelin   (pen. 2:7)
Summary   12' (0:1) Albicker (I)
  35' (pen. 1:2) Moll
  43' Albicker (I)
  48' (1:4) Aeppli
  50' (pen. 1:5) Albicker (I)
  64' (1:6) Albicker (I)
  (1:7) Bredschneider
Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   H. Grisch Young Fellows Zürich
7 December 1913 Round 7 Basel 7–1 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Albicker (I)   (1:0)
Wunderle   (2:0)
Albicker (I)   (pen. 3:0)
  (4:1)
  (5:1)
  (6:1)
  (7:1) Bredschneider
Summary   (3:1) Beuchat Attendance: 1,400
Referee:   Allemann Zürich
4 January 1914 Round 8 Basel 4–1 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
14:30 Moll   (pen. 1:0)
Schreyer   (2:0)
Kaltenbach   (3:0)
Bredschneider   (4:1)
Summary   (3:1) Haas Attendance: 1,200
Referee:   H. Grisch Young Fellows Zürich
15 February 1914 Round 9 Young Boys 5–0 Basel Bern
Dasen   2' (1:0)
Funk (II)   5' (2:0)
Reber   15' (3:0)
Dasen   40' (4:0)
Dasen   80' (5:0)
Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Sandoz Lausanne-Sport
22 February 1914 Round 10 Basel 2–4 Étoile-Sporting Landhof, Basel
15:00 Albicker (I)   (1:2)
Albicker (I)   (2:2)
Summary   10' (0:1) Perrenoud
  30' (0:2) Hirschi
  (2:3) Wyss (I)
  (2:4) Wyss (II)
Referee:   Hans Koblet Winterthur
1 March 1914 Round 11 Basel 2–1 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wunderle   5' (1:0)
Aeppli   27' (2:0)
Summary   49' (2:1) Merkt Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Weber St. Gallen
15 March 1914 Round 12 Basel 2–2 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Moll   (pen. 1:0)
Kaltenbach   (2:2)
Summary   (1:1) Lehmann
  (1:2) Keller
Referee:   Weber St. Gallen
22 March 1914 Round 13 FC Bern 2–0 Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
  (1:0)
Wasserfallen   (2:0)
Summary Referee:  
3 May 1914 Round 14 La Chaux-de-Fonds 1–10 Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30 Robert Vital   (1:3) Summary   5' (0:1)
  (0:2)
  (0:3)
  (1:4)
  (1:5)
  (1:6)
  (1:7)
  (1:8)
  (1:9)
  (1:10)
Referee:  

Central group league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Young Boys 14 10 2 2 46 21 +25 22 Advance to finals
2 Basel 14 9 1 4 63 33 +30 19
3 FC Bern 14 9 1 4 40 32 +8 19
4 Étoile-Sporting 14 7 1 6 34 34 0 15
5 Biel-Bienne 14 5 2 7 33 34 −1 12
6 Nordstern Basel 14 5 1 8 29 34 −5 11
7 La Chaux-de-Fonds 14 3 2 9 26 57 −31 8
8 Old Boys 14 2 2 10 21 47 −26 6 To relegation play-off
Source: rsssf

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1913–14". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ^ "Central Switzerland 1913–14". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1913-1914". rsssf.org. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  4. ^ Mike Gosteli, Christoph Kieslich (17 May 2013). "Der vergessene Cup-Sieg". The forgotten cup victory. TagesWoche. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

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