1914–15 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1914–15 season
Chairman	Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coach	Christian Albicker; (as team captain)
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Serie A	Group Stage: Third
Top goalscorer	Emil Hasler (7)
Average home league attendance	n/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

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

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	Arthur Fahr
—	DF	SUI	Paul Bettex
—	DF	SUI	Hermann Moll
—	DF	SUI	Peter Riesterer
—	MF	SUI	Fritz Albicker (II)
—	MF	SUI	Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
—	MF	SUI	Emil Hasler
—	MF	SUI	Ernst Kaltenbach
—	MF	SUI	Jakob Känzig
—	MF	SUI	Emil Schreyer
—	FW	SUI	Fritz Aeppli


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	SUI	Christian Albicker (I)
—	FW		Rudolf Bredschneider
—	FW	SUI	Karl Wunderle
—			Roger Breithaupt
—			Walter Flück
—			? Gossweiler
—			? Rittel
—			Ernst Bickel
—			? Borer
—			Philipp Leichner
—			Rud. Steffen

Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Friendly matches

	Old Boys	1 – 6	Basel
		Summary

17 January 1915	Old Boys	0 – 1	Basel	Margarethenwiese, Basel
		Summary	Albicker (I)	Referee: Schmidlin, (Nordstern Basel)

28 February 1915	Basel	5 – 3	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 Mangold 67' (4:3) Funk II Funk II	Attendance: 600 Referee: Louis Riesterer, (Basel)

7 March 1915	Young Boys	6 – 0	Basel	Spitalacker, (Bern)
	Mangold (1:0) Bommer (2:0) Adamina (3:0) Funk (II) (4:0) Klopfenstein (5:0) Mangold (6:0)	Summary		Referee: J. Blum, (Young Boys)

25 April 1915	Grasshopper Club	2 – 0	Basel	Zürich
	(1:0) (2:0)	Summary

Serie A

Central Group A results

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:

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Thurnheer, (Biel-Bienne)

Central Group A league table

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

Rreferences

FC Basel 1893. "Clubgeschichte" (in German). FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1914–15". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1914-1915". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

Sources

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
FCB team 1914–15 at fcb-archiv.ch

External links

FC Basel official site

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[fcb-homepage-Clubgeschichte-1] FC Basel 1893. "Clubgeschichte" (in German). FC Basel homepage. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

[fcb-achiv-Test_games-1914–15-2] Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1914–15". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

[rsssf_1915-3] Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1914-1915". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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