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1900–01 FC Basel season

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FC Basel
1900–01 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachAlphonse Schorpp
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AEast group: fifth
Top goalscorern/a[note 00–01 1]
Average home league attendancen/a

The FC Basel 1900–01 season was their eighth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's new chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the presidency from Charlie Volderauer at the AGM. He was the fourth chairman in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

Overview

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The first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897–98. This championship is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in this first championship. But they did in the second edition during the season 1898–99.[1] The club did not compete in the following season either. But they have participated in every season since.

Alphonse Schorpp was nominated as team captain by the club's board of directors under chairman Ernst-Alfred Thalmann. Schorpp led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. In the previous season the team played 16 friendly games. In this season they played eight friendlies and ten games in the league. There is no documentation that shows that there were pre-season friendly games this season, but there were during the winter break, four at home in the Landhof and one in Neuchâtel. At the end of the season the team twice travelled to Mulhouse, played once against FC Mulhouse and once against an Alsace selection. Of the eight friendlies four were won and two were drawn.[2]

The Serie A 1900–01 was divided into two groups, an east and a west group. Basel were with three teams from Zürich, Grasshopper Club Zürich, FC Zürich, Fire Flies Zürich and two other teams from Basel, Old Boys and Fortuna Basel. There were four teams in the west group. The start into the season with a home draw against Fire Flies and an away victory against local rivals can be considered as good. However, in the remaining eight games the team managed only one more draw and a forfait win.

A fact is that Basel did not win a single match in the Landhof. Following the draw with Fire Flies, the team suffered four successive home defeats. A further curiosity in this season was that captain Schorpp scored his first league goal for his club on 3 March 1901 in the away game against Grasshopper Club. In fact he scored two goals, but this could not save the team from a 3–13 defeat. The reasons for this high defeat can be explained with the fact that one of the players missed the train and that the team played with a number of players from their reserve team. Apart from their surnames, Mislan, Pflüger and Trenchard Chaffey, hardly anything else is known of these three gentlemen. Despite the fact that Trenchard Chaffey scored the third Basel goal in this game, he only played in one more league game. Pflüger was documented as player in three friendlies, but the name Mislan can only be found on this one match sheet. Nevertheless, to date this remains the teams' highest and biggest defeat in the club's history.[3]

As mentioned, Basel ended the season with two victories, two draws and six defeats in fifth position in the east group. From this group the Grasshopper Club qualified themselves for the finals against FC Bern, who were the winners of the west group. The final on 31 March was replayed because a player in GC team was non-qualified and GC won the replay to become Swiss champions for the second successive season.[4]

Players

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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 Switzerland SUI Paul Hofer
GK Switzerland SUI Giulio Cederna
GK Switzerland SUI Jules Fingerlin
DF Switzerland SUI Daniel Hug
MF Switzerland SUI Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
FW Switzerland SUI Rudolf Gossweiler
FW Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
FW Switzerland SUI Rudolf Landerer
FW Switzerland SUI Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
FW Switzerland SUI Hans Riggenbach (Riggenbach II)
FW Switzerland SUI Emanuel Schiess
FW Switzerland SUI Karl Schneider
FW Switzerland SUI Hermann Schneider
Switzerland SUI Andre Burnier (Burnier II)
Switzerland SUI Gustave Burnier (Burnier I)
No. Pos. Nation Player
France FRA Jules Gérard
England ENG Archibald E. Gough
Switzerland SUI G. Gürtler
  ? Heinrichs
Switzerland SUI Eduard Laubi
  P. Lozéron
Switzerland SUI Alois Magnin
  ? Mislan
Switzerland SUI Hans Rietmann
Switzerland SUI Ami Pflüger
Switzerland SUI Alphonse Schorpp
Switzerland SUI Fritz Schweizer
  ? Stutz
Switzerland SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III)
England ENG L. B. Trenchard Chaffey

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Forfait

Friendly matches

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Winter break

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2 December 1900 Winter break Basel Switzerland 1 – 1 Switzerland FC Neuchâtel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary
9 December 1900 Winter break Basel Switzerland 4 – 1 Switzerland Excelsior Basel Landhof, Basel



Summary
16 December 1900 Winter break Basel Switzerland 1 – 1 Switzerland Fortuna Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary
27 January 1901 Winter break Basel Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
(1:0)
(2:0)
Summary (o.g. 2:1) Fingerlin Referee: Switzerland E. Küenzli, (FC Fortuna Basel)
3 February 1901 Winter break FC Neuchâtel Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland Basel Neuchâtel

Summary

End of season

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24 March 1901 End of season FC Mulhouse France 3 – 5 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse


Summary



11 May 1901 End of season Alsace XI France 1 – 4 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse
Summary


Serie A

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East group matches

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28 October 1900 Round 1 Basel 1 – 1 Fire Flies Zürich Landhof, Basel
H. Schneider Summary Referee: France Jules Gérard, (FC Basel)
4 November 1900 Round 2 Old Boys 0 – 4 Basel Thiersteinerallee, Basel
15:00 Summary Thalmann I 2x
Pfeiffer 2x
Referee: Switzerland Häberlin, (FC Bern)
11 November 1900 Round 3 Basel 2 – 4 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel

Summary


Referee: Switzerland Mory, (Old Boys)
18 November 1900 Round 4 Basel 0 – 2 Fortuna Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary
Referee: Switzerland Frey, (Old Boys)
25 November 1900 Round 5 Zürich 3 – 3 Basel Hardau, Zürich
(1:1)
(2:2)
(3:2)
Summary (0:1)
(1:2)
(3:3)
Referee: Switzerland Rossi, (FC Zürich)
10 February 1901 Round 6 Fire Flies Zürich 3 – 2 Basel Allmend Brunau, Zürich
Lauchsinger 1x
Suares (I) 1x
Summary 1x Thalmann I
17 February 1901 Round 7 Basel 2 – 3 Old Boys Basel

Summary

Referee: Switzerland Frey, (Old Boys)
3 March 1901 Round 8 Grasshopper Club 13 – 3 Basel Zürich












Summary (2x) Schorpp
(1x) Trenchard Chaffey
Referee: Switzerland Frey, (Old Boys)
Note: FCB played with only ten men, under these were four players from the reserve team
10 March 1901 Round 9 Fortuna Basel 0 – 3 FF Basel Basel
Summary
Note: The FCB protested because of the unplayable pitch, which was granted. Fortuna subsequently waivered a replay.
17 March 1901 Round 10 Basel 1 – 6 Zürich Landhof, Basel
Summary




Referee: Switzerland Burkhardt, (FC Basel)

East group league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 10 9 0 1 55 13 +42 18 Advanced to final
2 Zürich 10 8 1 1 42 12 +30 17
3 Fire Flies Zürich 10 4 2 4 16 20 −4 10
4 Old Boys 10 3 1 6 10 35 −25 7
5 Basel 10 2 2 6 21 35 −14 6
6 Fortuna Basel 10 1 0 9 6 35 −29 2 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

See also

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Notes

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The goal scorers in 5 of the 7 played league games during the 1900–01 season are unknown or incomplete.

FCB-GC, FCZ-FCB, FFZ-FCB, FCB-OB, FCB-FCZ

References

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  1. ^ gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.ch (2012). "FC Basel". gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.ch. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  2. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz 1900–01". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. ^ Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre", Page 15, 1900 Zug verpasst, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  4. ^ Erik Garin. "Swiss Series A 1900/01". 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. Much documentation for this season is missing, most goal scorers remain unknown.)

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