1921–22 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1921–22 season was their twenty-ninth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Carl Burkhardt who took over from Franz Rinderer at the club's AGM. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

FC Basel
1921–22 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Carl Burkhardt
First team coachSwitzerland Ernst Kaltenbach
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 3rd
Och CupRound 1
Top goalscorerLeague: Switzerland Otto Kuhn (8)
All: Switzerland Otto Kuhn (10)
and Switzerland Karl Wüthrich (10)
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Overview

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Basel played a total of 28 matches in their 1921–22 season. 14 of these were in the domestic league, one in the Och Cup and 13 were friendly matches. Of these 13 friendlies, seven were home games played in the Landhof and six were away games. Basel played eight of their friendly games against German opponents. The pre-season match on 6 August was a challenge match for the Feldberg Cup. The game took place on an improvised football field (swamp, ditch and rocks). After an hour, the game was abandoned and the Cup awarded to the Freiburger FC by toss of a coin. During the winter break Basel made a short journey to Germany and played one game against the Würzburger Kickers and one in Frankfurt am Main against 1. FFC Germania 1894. On the 1 April they travelled to Hamburg and played SC Victoria. Basel were also hosts for Czech team Sparta Prague, Hungarian Újpesti Dózsa and French team Mulhouse. Four test games ended in a victory, four were drawn and five ended in a defeat. In these tests Basel scored a total of 26 goals and conceded 33.[1]

The domestic league, Swiss Serie A 1921–22, was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West, each group with eight teams. FC Basel and the two other teams from Basel Nordstern and Old Boys were allocated to the Central group. The other teams playing in this group were Aarau, Luzern and Biel-Bienne and the two teams from the capital, Young Boys and FC Bern. FC Basel played a mediocre season, 14 matches, winning six matches, drawing three and suffering five defeats, scoring 20 goals and conceding 21. With 15 points they ended the season in third position. Kuhn was the team's top league goal scorer with 8 goals. In the home game against Luzern on 27 November 1921 he managed a hattrick.[2] Despite this Luzern won the group and continued to the finals. Servette won the championship.[3]

In the first round of the Och Cup, that had been newly created the year before, and is considered as the forerunner to the Swiss Cup, Basel played an away game against lower tier FC Olten. Basel lost 4–0 and were eliminated. The final was played on 6 August 1922 between Basel's lower tier rivals Concordia Basel and Étoile-Sporting. Concordia won 1–0 to win the trophy. [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 Ernst Boser
GK   SUI Arthur Fahr
GK   SUI Ernst Zorzotti (III)
DF   AUT Gustav Putzendopler (I)
DF   SUI Peter Riesterer
MF   SUI Walter Rupprecht
MF   SUI Max Galler (II)
MF   SUI Emil Hasler
MF   SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF   SUI Jakob Känzig
MF   SUI Otto Kuhn
MF   AUT Karl Putzendopler (II)
FW   SUI Karl Bielser
FW   SUI Fritz Bucco
FW   SUI Walter Dietrich
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   SUI Paul Dietz (II)
FW   SUI Jules Düblin
FW   SUI Walter Galler (I)
FW    Willy Geiser
FW   SUI Gottlieb Häusselmann
FW   SUI Karl Ibach
DF   SUI Müller
FW   SUI Hans Schneider
FW   SUI Karl Wüthrich
FW   SUI Franz Zeiser
  SUI Albert Albrecht
   Bürgin
   Wilhelm Flubacher (I)
   Friedly
   Schumacher

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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unknown Pre-season Basel   2–2   FV Lörrach Landhof, Basel
    Summary    
6 August 1921 Feldberg Cup Freiburger FC   1–1   Basel Feldbergerhof, Freiburg
12:00 Bantle   (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Zepf Referee:   Ibach
Note: The game took place on an improvised football field (swamp, ditch and rocks). After an hour, the game was abandoned and the Feldberg Cup awarded to the Freiburger FC by toss of a coin.
27 August 1921 Pre-season Freiburger FC   1–1   Basel Freiburg
  Summary  
11 September 1921 Pre-season Basel   2–6   AC Sparta Prague Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bielser   (1:3)
Dietz (II)   (2:3)
Summary   20' (0:1)
  (o.g. 0:2) Riesterer
  (0:3) Pilat
  (2:4)
  (2:5) Tanda
  (2:6)
Attendance: 7,000
Referee:   Passera La Chaux-de-Fonds
30 October 1921 Mid-season Basel   2–3   Blue Stars Landhof, Basel
15:30 Wüthrich   (pen. 1:1)
Wüthrich   (2:1)
Summary   (pen. 0:1) Kunz
  (2:2) Kunz
  (2:3) Tissy
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Schmid Basel
4 December 1921 Mid-season Servette   5–2   Basel Parc des Sports Genf
14:30 Pache   (1:0)
Pache   (2:0)
Bedouret   (3:1)
Barriere   (4:1)
Bedouret   (5:2)
Summary   (2:1)
  (4:2) Düblin
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Epiney Genf

Winter break and mid-season

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25 December 1921 Winter break Würzburger Kickers   0–2   Basel Sportplatz an der Randersackerer Strasse, Würzburg
Summary   10' (0:1) Zeiser
  (0:2) Kuhn
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:  
26 December 1921 Winter break 1. FFC Germania 1894   1–1   Basel Frankfurt am Main
Kuhn   (o.g. 1:0) Summary   (1:1) Fahr Attendance: 2,000
8 January 1922 Winter break Basel   3–4   Újpesti Dózsa SC Landhof, Basel
14:30 Fahr   (1:0)
Wüthrich   (2:2)
Putzendopler (II)   (3:4)
Summary   (1:1)
  (1:2)
  (2:3) Priboj
  (2:4) Izidon
Attendance: 500
Referee:   Falschlunger
26 February 1922 Mid-season Grasshopper Club   1–4   Basel Hardturm, Zürich
15:00 Frankenfeldt   25' (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Kuhn
  (1:2) Putzendopler (II)
  (1:3) Fahr
  (1:4) Wüthrich
Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Wieland Zürich
23 April 1922 Mid-season Basel   3–1   Mulhouse Landhof, Basel
      Summary  
3 June 1922 Mid-season Basel   2–1   Würzburger Kickers Landhof, Basel
17:00 Kaltenbach   35' (1:0)
Wüthrich   61' (2:0)
Summary   68' (2:1) Lossen Attendance: 900
Referee:   Schenker Basel
5 June 1922 Mid-season Basel   0–6   Altonaer 93 Landhof, Basel
17:00 Summary   5' (0:1) Schulz
  (0:2) Schulz
  (0:3) Jäger
  (0:4) Jäger
  (0:5)
  (0:6) Ruffelse
Attendance: 1,200

Serie A

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Central Group results

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25 September 1921 Round 1 Biel-Bienne 1–1 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
Kramer (I)   (1:1) Summary   (0:1) Kuhn Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Sandoz La Chaux-de-Fonds
2 October 1921 Round 2 Basel 2–3 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich   (1:3)
Kuhn   (2:3)
Summary   5' (0:1) Rölle
  (0:2) Afflerbach
  (o.g. 0:3)
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Wieland Zürich
16 October 1921 Round 3 Aarau 2–1 Basel Schachen, Aarau
von Arx (II)   23' (1:0)
von Arx (II)   (2:0)
Summary   (2:1) Kuhn Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Blum Zürich
23 October 1921 Round 4 FC Bern 0–1 Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
15:00 Summary   13' (0:1) Wüthrich Attendance: 1,000
Referee:   Epiney Epiney
20 November 1921 Round 5 Young Boys 1–1 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
15:00   (1:0) Summary   (1:1) Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Müller Winterthur
27 November 1921 Round 6 Basel 3–1 Luzern Landhof, Basel
14:30 Kuhn   (1:1)
Kuhn   (2:1)
Kuhn   (3:1)
Summary   (0:1) Schild
  Gross (I)
Referee:   Acker Zürich
11 December 1921 Round 7 Basel 0–2 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary   18' (0:1) Merkt
  21' (0:2) Merkt
Attendance: 3,000
Referee:   Guido Eichenberger Bern
15 January 1922 Round 8 Nordstern Basel 0–1 Basel Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary   85' (0:1) Düblin Attendance: 1,500
Referee:   Edm. Dizerens Lausanne
19 February 1922 Round 9 Basel 1–0 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich   32' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee:   Guido Eichenberger Bern
12 March 1922 Round 10 Luzern 2–2 Basel Tribschen, Luzern
Sormani   (1:2)
  (2:2)
Summary Wüthrich   (0:1)
Putzendopler (I)   (0:2)
Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds
19 March 1922 Round 11 Basel 2–1 Aarau Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bucco   (1:1)
Fahr   (2:1)
Summary   (0:1) von Arx Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Reich Winterthur
9 April 1922 Round 12 Basel 1–3 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bielser   (1:3) Summary   10' (0:1) Dassen
  (0:2) Fässler (I)
  (0:3) Dassen
Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Ruegg Thalwil
14 May 1922 Round 13 Old Boys 2–0 Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Grunauer   67' (1:0)
Katz   (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee:   Hans Wüthrich Bern
25 May 1922 Round 14 Basel 4–3 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Putzendopler (I)   3' (1:0)
Kuhn   12' (2:0)
  18' (3:0)
Wüthrich   (4:1)
Summary   (3:1) Danner/Wenger
  (o.g. 4:2) Geiser
  (4:3) Schneebeli
Attendance: 500

Central Group table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Luzern 14 8 4 2 26 19 +7 20 Advance to finals
2 Biel-Bienne 14 6 4 4 24 23 +1 16
3 Basel 14 6 3 5 20 21 −1 15
4 Young Boys 14 5 4 5 25 17 +8 14
5 Nordstern Basel 14 6 2 6 18 22 −4 14
6 FC Bern 14 5 2 7 22 21 +1 12
7 FC Aarau 14 3 6 5 14 17 −3 12
8 Old Boys 14 2 5 7 14 23 −9 9 To promotion/relegation play-off
Source: rsssf.com

Och Cup

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22 January 1922 Round 1 FC Olten 4–0 Basel Wylerweg, Olten
14:30 Doppler   (pen. 1:0)
Hunziker   28' (2:0)
Doppler   (3:0)
Doppler   (4:0)
Summary Attendance: 700
Referee:   Keller Luzern

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz - Saison 1921/22". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ "FC Basel - FC Luzern 3:1 (2:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ^ Erik Garin, Luc Nackaerts. "Serie A 1921/22". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  4. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1921/22". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

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(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel.)

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