1947–48 FC Basel season

The 1947–48 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 54th season in their existence. It was their second season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B during the season 1945–46. Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Quarter Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman for the second successive season.

FC Basel

1947–48 season
Chairman	Jules Düblin
Manager	Ernst Hufschmid
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Nationalliga A	10th
Swiss Cup	Quarter-final
Top goalscorer	League: Paul Stöcklin (11) All: Traugott Oberer and Paul Stöcklin both (11)
Highest home attendance	8,700 on 25 April 1948 vs Biel-Bienne
Lowest home attendance	3,500 on 21 December 1947 vs Grenchen
Average home league attendance	6,807

Overview

Anton Schall was to continue as first team manager, but he died at the age of 40 years, during a workout on the football field, shortly after the pre-season training had begun. Following this unhappy event captain Ernst Hufschmid then took over as player-manager. Basel played a total of 46 games in this season. Of these 26 in the Nationalliga A, four in the Swiss Cup and 16 were test games. The test games resulted with eight victories, three draws and five defeats. In total, they won 18 games, drew 13 and lost 15 times. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they scored 100 goals and conceded 93.[1]

There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1947–48 Nationalliga A, the bottom two teams in the table to be relagted. Suffering under the shock of team manager Schall's death, the team started the season badly, losing six of their first eleven games without a single victory. With seven victories in the second half of the season the team were able to lift themselves out of the relegation zone. Basel finished the season in 10th position in the table, with seven victories from 26 games, ten draws and they lost nine times. The team scored 44 goals in the domestic league. Paul Stöcklin was the team's top goal scorer with 11 goals. Gottlieb Stäuble was second best scorer with eight goals. René Bader and Traugott Oberer both scored five times. Bellinzona won the championship. FC Bern and Cantonal Neuchatel ended the season on the relegation places.[2]

In the Swiss Cup Basel started in round 3 with a home match against SC Balerna, the game was won 7–0. In round 4 Basel were drawn with a home tie against Zürich which was won 2–1. Round 5 gave Basel another home tie in the Landhof against Locarno and this ended with a 5–3 victory. Thus Basel advanced to the quarter-finals, where they were drawn away against La Chaux-de-Fonds. The hosts won the game by two goals to nil and continued to the semi-final and the final. The final was played on 29 March at Wankdorf Stadium in Bern against Grenchen and ended with a 2–2 draw. The replay three weeks later was also drawn 2–2 and so a second replay was required. This was played on 27 June in the Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne. La Chaux-de-Fonds won the trophy, winning the game by four goals to nil.[3]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1947–48. The list includes players that were in the squad the day the Nationalliga A season started on 31 August 1947 but subsequently left the club after that date.

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 Walter Müller — GK   SUI Jean Presset — GK   SUI Hans Rageth — DF   SUI Werner Bopp — DF   SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze — DF   SUI Ernst Grauer — DF   SUI Ernst Hufschmid — DF   SUI Hans Hügi — MF   SUI Rodolfo Kappenberger — MF   SUI Willy Monigatti — MF   SUI Kurt Neuenschwander — MF   SUI Traugott Oberer — MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi — MF   SUI Louis Schenker — MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   SUI Hans Vonthron — MF   SUI Werner Wenk — MF   SUI Rudolf Wirz — FW   SUI René Bader — FW   SUI Walter Bosshard — FW  FRA Walter Emmenegger — FW   SUI Roberto Finazzi — FW   SUI Erich Grether — FW   SUI Rudolf Hägler — FW   SUI Ch. Martin — FW   SUI Alex Mathys — FW   SUI Virgilio Muggiasca — FW   SUI Bernard Mathez — FW   SUI Paul Stöcklin — FW   SUI Hermann Suter — FW   SUI Alfred Weisshaar

Players who left the squad

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 Kurt Imhof (retired) — GK   SUI Hans Rothen — MF   SUI Alexander Ebner (to Cantonal Neuchatel)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   SUI Heinz Elsässer (retired) — MF   SUI Kurt Maurer (to FC Bern) — FW   SUI Fritz Eckert

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre and mid-season

9 August 1947 Pre-season	Black Stars	2 – 2	Basel	Buschwilerhof, Basel
	Eckert  (1:0) Eckert  (2:2)	Summary	(1:1) Mathez  (1:2) Wenk	Referee: Hans Vogt Muttenz

17 August 1947 Pre-season	Basel	3 – 1	Biel-Bienne	Bodenacker, Breitenbach
16:00	Oberer  (2x) Stöcklin  (1x)	Summary	(1x) Ballaman	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Sannwald Sissach

23 August 1947 Pre-season	Basel	3 – 0	FA Red Boys Differdange	Basel
	Finazzi  (1:0) Weisshaar  (2:0) Stöcklin  (3:0)	Summary		Referee: Hans Vogt Muttenz

24 August 1947 Pre-season	Basel	2 – 0	Nordstern Basel	Basel
	Stäuble  (1:0) Stäuble  (2:0)	Summary		Referee: Sannwald Sissach

1 November 1947 Mid-season	Basel	2 – 1	Grasshopper Club	Landhof, Basel
	Müller  55' (1:1) Grether  80' (2:1)	Summary	20' (0:1) Quinche	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Schaub Basel

Winter break and mid-season

4 January 1948 Winter break	Basel	5 – 3	FC Birsfelden	Landhof, Basel
	Bader  (1:1) Oberer  (2:1) Bader  (3:1) Vonthron  (4:2) Wenk  (5:3)	Summary	(1:0) Fischer  (3:2) Bingetti  (4:3) von Arx	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Schaub Basel

1 February 1948 Winter break	Winterthur XI	0 – 2	Basel	Schützenwiese, Winterthur
		Summary	86' (0:1) Martin  90' (0:2) Bader	Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Bertsche Neuhausen am Rheinfall

7 February 1948 Winter break	Basel	1 – 2	SK Slezská Ostrava	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Bader  35' (1:1)	Summary	20' (0:1) Janik  75' (1:2) Simonek	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Schürch Winterthur

8 February 1948 Winter break	Young Boys reserves	0 – 8	Basel	Schönenwerd
		Summary	(2x) Grether  (2x) Monigatti  (2x) Oberer  (1x) Hägler  (1x) Ch. Martin

14 February 1948 Winter break	Basel	3 – 7	Austria Wien	Landhof, Basel
	44' (o.g. 1:1) Stäuble  47' (2:1)  (o.g. 3:1)	Summary	2' (0:1) Stojaspal (I)  (3:2) Melchior (I)  57' (3:3) Stojaspal (II)  68' (3:4) Stroh (I)  (3:5) Stojaspal (I)  (3:6) Melchior (I)  (3:7) Melchior (I)	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Berner Basel

28 March 1948 Mid-season	Ferencvárosi TC	3 – 2	Basel	Üllői úti stadion, Budapest
	Tihanyi  3' (1:0) Tihanyi  11' (2:0) Surányi  29' (3:0)	Summary	62' (3:1) Oberer  68' (pen. 2:3)	Attendance: 20,000 Referee: Dorogi

29 March 1948 Mid-season	Újpesti Dózsa	5 – 0	Basel	Budapest
	Varnai  19' (1:0) Krasznai  (2:0)  (3:0)  (4:0)  (5:0)	Summary

16 April 1948 Mid-season	Basel	2 – 2	First Vienna	Landhof, Basel
16:30	Oberer  17' (1:0) Bader  57' (2:1)	Summary	21' (1:1) Fischer  66' (2:2) Fischer	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: A. Sandoz Lausanne

12 May 1948 Mid-season	Basel	0 – 5	Birmingham City	Landhof, Basel
18:15		Summary	(2x) Dougall  (2x) Slater  (1x) Stewart	Attendance: 6,000 Referee: DörflingerGrenchen

16 May 1948 Mid-season	Haute-Marne North XI	3 – 5	Basel	Saint-Dizier
		Summary	(2x) Stäuble  (1x) Oberer  (1x) Stöcklin

17 May 1948 Mid-season	Haute-Marne South XI	2 – 2	Basel	Chaumont
		Summary	(1x) Oberer  (1x) Stäuble

Nationalliga

League matches

31 August 1947 Round 1	Servette	1 – 1	Basel	Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
	Tamini	Summary	21' (0:1) Stöcklin	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: DörflingerGrenchen

6 September 1947 Round 2	Basel	2 – 2	Grasshopper Club	Landhof, Basel
16:30	Stöcklin  40' (1:2) Weisshaar  85' (2:2)	Summary	35' (0:1) Amadò  37' (0:2) Quinche	Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Scherz Bern

16 September 1947 Round 3	Young Fellows Zürich	5 – 0	Basel	Hardturm, Zürich
	Bossert  19' (1:0) Siegenthaler  29' (2:0) Siegenthaler  44' (3:0) Bossert  69' (4:0) Bossert  (5:0)	Summary		Attendance: 6,000 Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel

28 September 1947 Round 4	Basel	0 – 0	Bellinzona	Landhof, Basel
		Summary		Attendance: 6,800 Referee: Schmidsberger Zürich

5 October 1947 Round 5	FC Bern	2 – 0	Basel	Neufeld, Bern
15:00	Wyss  18' (1:0) Jundt  23' (2:0)	Summary		Attendance: 4,500 Referee: W. Rufli Bremgarten

12 October 1947 Round 6	Basel	2 – 2	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Landhof, Basel
	Oberer  41' (pen. 1:1) Oberer  49' (2:1)	Summary	16' (0:1) Hermann  83' (pen. 2:2) Busenhart Amey	Attendance: 7,000 Referee: Tschopp Delémont

19 October 1947 Round 7	Biel-Bienne	1 – 0	Basel	Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
	Weibel  22' (1:0)	Summary		Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Niederhauser Bern

9 November 1947 Round 8	Basel	1 – 3	Lausanne-Sport	Landhof, Basel
	Oberer  56' (1:1)	Summary	26' (0:1)Maillard (II)  84' (1:2) Monnard  (1:3)	Attendance: 8,000 Referee: Scherz Bern

16 November 1947 Round 9	Zürich	3 – 3	Basel	Letzigrund, Zürich
14:45	Bosshart  32' (1:1) Zanetti  56' (2:1) Zanetti  72' (3:2)	Summary	6' (0:1) Stöcklin  61' (2:2) Suter  79' (3:3) Oberer	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Grassi Balerna

23 November 1947 Round 10	Locarno	3 – 0	Basel	Stadio del Lido, Locarno
	Canetti  69' (1:0) Ernst  71' (pen. 2:0) Ernst  83' (3:0)	Summary		Attendance: 2,600 Referee: Schürch Winterthur

30 November 1947 Round 11	Basel	0 – 1	Lugano	Landhof, Basel
14:30		Summary	69' (0:1) Daldini	Attendance: 8,000 Referee: DörflingerGrenchen

14 December 1947 Round 12	Cantonal Neuchatel	0 – 2	Basel	Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
14:30		Summary	30' (0:1) Bader  70' (0:2) Oberer	Attendance: 3,800 Referee: Schürch Winterthur

21 December 1947 Round 13	Basel	2 – 2	Grenchen	Landhof, Basel
14:30	Wenk  50' (1:2) Bader  90' (2:2)	Summary	4' (0:1) Roth  44' (0:2) Vuilleumier	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Jaggi Bern

22 February 1948 Round 14	Basel	3 – 2	Servette	Landhof, Basel
14:30	Stöcklin  30' (1:1) Grether  75' (2:2) Stäuble  86' (3:2)	Summary	15' (0:1) Stefano (II)  38' (1:2) Würgler	Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Keller Seuzach

29 February 1948 Round 15	Grasshopper Club	3 – 0	Basel	Hardturm, Zürich
15:15	Mosimann  47' (1:0) Berbig  61' (2:0) Amadò  (3:0)	Summary		Attendance: 6,000 Referee: A. Sandoz Lausanne

14 March 1948 Round 16	Basel	2 – 1	Young Fellows Zürich	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Stäuble  57' (1:1) Stäuble  65' (2:1)	Summary	30' (0:1) Siegenthaler	Attendance: 6,700 Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel

21 March 1948 Round 17	Bellinzona	1 – 5	Basel	Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
	Busenhart  37' (1:2)	Summary	25' (0:1) Stöcklin  37' (0:2) Vonthron  43' (1:3) Stöcklin  87' (1:4) Stöcklin  89' (pen. 1:5) Bopp	Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Lutz Geneva

4 April 1948 Round 18	Basel	1 – 2	FC Bern	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Bopp  57' (1:0)	Summary	69' (1:1) Liechti  79' (1:2) Rothenbühler	Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Schürch Winterthur

11 April 1948 Round 19	La Chaux-de-Fonds	1 – 5	Basel	Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
15:00	Busenhart  62' (1:5)	Summary	3' (1:0) Stöcklin  20' (2:0) Stöcklin  35' (0:3) Bader  50' (0:4) Stäuble  55' (0:5) Stäuble	Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Lutz Geneva

25 April 1948 Round 20	Basel	3 – 3	Biel-Bienne	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Suter  27' (1:1) Stöcklin  60' (2:3) Wenk  88' (3:3)	Summary	19' (0:1) Scholl  48' (1:2) Scholl  52' (1:3) Lempen	Attendance: 8,700 Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel

2 May 1948 Round 21	Lausanne-Sport	5 – 0	Basel	Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00	Friedländer 48′ Nikolić  58' (1:0) Nikolić  67' (2:0) Nikolić  68' (3:0) Nikolić  73' (4:0) Nikolić  77' (5:0)	Summary		Attendance: 7,000 Referee: E. Ruefer Bern

9 May 1948 Round 22	Basel	3 – 3	Zürich	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Suter  15' (1:0) Stöcklin  70' (2:2) Bopp  77' (pen. 3:2)	Summary	25' (1:1) Zanetti  56' (1:2) Bosshard  89' (pen. 3:3) Kohler	Attendance: 8,200 Referee: von Wartburg Bern

23 May 1948 Round 23	Basel	2 – 1	Locarno	Landhof, Basel
	Bader  43' (1:1) Hügi (I)  90' (2:1)	Summary	20' (2:1) Neury	Attendance: 6,800 Referee: Keller Seuzach

30 May 1948 Round 24	Lugano	1 – 1	Basel	Campo Marzio, Lugano
	Bergamini  60' (1:1)	Summary	21' (0:1) Stäuble	Attendance: 4,500 Referee: Scherz Bern

6 June 1948 Round 25	Basel	4 – 1	Cantonal Neuchatel	Landhof, Basel
	Hügi (I)  33' (1:1) Stäuble  48' (2:1) Hügi (I)  50' (3;1) Stäuble  55' (4:1)	Summary	7' (0:1) Guillaume	Attendance: 5,100 Referee: Lutz Geneva

13 June 1948 Round 26	Grenchen	2 – 2	Basel	Stadion Brühl, Grenchen
	Righetti (I)  17' (1:1) Righetti (II)  25' (2:1)	Summary	10' (0:1) Hügi (I)  46' (2:2)	Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Schmidsberger Zürich

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Bellinzona	26	15	8	3	58	28	+30	38	Swiss Champions
2	Biel-Bienne	26	16	5	5	57	38	+19	37
3	Lausanne-Sport	26	16	2	8	59	32	+27	34
4	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	12	4	10	73	54	+19	28	Swiss Cup winners
5	Servette	26	10	6	10	61	51	+10	26
6	Grenchen	26	10	6	10	53	58	−5	26
7	Locarno	26	10	5	11	43	45	−2	25
8	Grasshopper Club	26	9	6	11	60	52	+8	24
9	Zürich	26	10	4	12	54	60	−6	24
10	Basel	26	7	10	9	44	51	−7	24
11	Lugano	26	9	6	11	34	44	−10	24
12	Young Fellows Zürich	26	9	5	12	41	45	−4	23
13	FC Bern	26	8	5	13	28	56	−28	21	Relegated
14	Cantonal Neuchatel	26	2	6	18	34	85	−51	10	Relegated

Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

26 October 1947 Round 3	Basel	7 – 0	SC Balerna	Landhof, Basel
	Oberer  (3x) Suter  (2x) Stäuble  (2x)	Summary		Attendance: 2,500 Referee: Schmidsberger Zürich

7 December 1947 Round 4	Basel	2 – 1	Zürich	Landhof, Basel
14:30	Oberer  12' (1:0) Bader  58' (2:0)	Summary	62' (2:1) Zanetti 67′ Bosshard	Attendance: 4,300 Referee: Niederhauser Bern

27 December 1947 Round of 16	Basel	5 – 3	Locarno	Landhof, Basel
	Bader  30' (1:0) Oberer  35' (2:0) Wenk  40' (3:0) Oberer  44' (4:0) Hägler  65' (5:0)	Summary	60' Visentin  69' (pen. 5:1) Ernst  78' (5:2) Ernst  88' (5:3) Losa	Attendance: 4,000 Referee: A. Sandoz Lausanne

11 January 1948 Quarter-final	La Chaux-de-Fonds	2 – 0	Basel	Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30	Amey  37' (1:0) Hermann  38' (2:0)	Summary		Attendance: 7,500 Referee: DörflingerGrenchen

See also

• History of FC Basel
• List of FC Basel players
• List of FC Basel seasons

References

1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1947/48". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
2. Erik Garin. "1947–48 Nationalliga A". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
3. Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1947–48". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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
• The FCB team 1947–48 at fcb-archiv.ch
• Switzerland 1947–48 by Erik Garin at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

External links

• FC Basel official site