Louis Gürtler (born 22 May 1877) was a Swiss footballer who played in the 1890s as midfielder.

Louis Gürtler
Personal information
Full name Louis Gürtler
Date of birth (1879-05-22)22 May 1879
Place of birth Switzerland
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1896–1899 FC Basel [note League 1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Football career edit

FC Basel was founded on 15 November 1893 and Gürtler joined the club about three years later, during their 1896–97 season. Gürtler played his first game for the club in the away game on 22 November 1896 as Basel were hosted by French team FC Mulhouse. Mulhouse got the better end and won 3–2.[1]

Gürtler stayed with the club for three seasons and during this time he played 13 games for Basel without scoring a goal.[note Scorers 1][2]

The last game that he played for Basel was on 23 October 1898 as Basel won 5–1 against FC Bern. That morning, Bern had also played a game against the FCB second team, which they won 6–2, this was match in the "Coupe Ruinart" (Serie B championship), the second tier of the Swiss championships.[3]

Notes edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ League: up until 1898 there was no league football in Switzerland.
  1. ^ Scorers: many pre-First World War game sheets no longer exist or are incomplete and so, many line ups and most goal scorers in this period remain unknown.

References edit

  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Mulhouse - FC Basel 3:2". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Louis Gürtler - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ Erik Garin. "Swiss championship 1898–99". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on September 10, 2012. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources edit

(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)