1904–05 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1904–05 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachEugen Strauss
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie ACentral group 4th
Top goalscorern/a[note 04–05 1]
Average home league attendancen/a

The FC Basel 1904–05 season was their twelfth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the second consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

Overview

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Eugen Strauss was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. The team played just two pre-season friendlies, one in France against Mulhouse and one in Zürich against Grasshopper Club. The game against Mulhouse was won 8–1 the return match four months later in the Landhof was only drawn. The match against the Grasshoppers ended in a defeat. In the winter break the team travelled to Germany. They played against 1. FC Pforzheim on Christmas day and were defeated 7–3. On boxing day they played a game against Karlsruher FV and managed a draw. At the end of the season the team travelled again to Germany and were defeated 5–1 by Freiburger FC.[1]

The seventh league championship, Swiss Serie A season 1904–05, was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Weissenbühl Bern and Old Boys Basel. This season was a sportingly very disappointing season for Basel. There were just two victories from eight games, both times against Weissenbühl Bern. The away game was won 9–2 and the return match 3–0. Weissenbühl Bern lost all their eight games and were relegated at the end of the season with a goal tally of five scored and 52 conceded. Basel's other six games all ended in defeats and they landed in second last position in the group table, scoring 18 and conceding 20 goals.

In the central group Young Boys Bern and the Old Boys Basel ended the season level on points as they did the year before and so a play-off match was arranged (see also foot note below). This time the Young Boys won the play-off with 2–1 and therefore they qualified for the finals. In the finals Grasshopper Club won both their matches and became Swiss champions for the third time in seven years.[2]

Players

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Definite 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 Switzerland SUI Pierre Chevalley
GK Switzerland SUI Paul Hofer
GK Switzerland SUI Eugen Stutz (Stutz I)
FW Switzerland SUI Daniel Hug
DF Switzerland SUI Adolf Ramseyer
FW Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
DF Switzerland SUI Eugen Strauss
DF Switzerland SUI P. Vaney
FW   Manuel Bourgeois
FW Switzerland SUI Karl Hans Gossweiler (Gossweiler II)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Switzerland SUI Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
FW Switzerland SUI Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
Switzerland SUI Percy Kaufmann (Kaufmann I)
Switzerland SUI Edwin Kaufmann (Kaufmann II)
Switzerland SUI Georg Michoud
  Fritz Runkel
  Hugo Sarcander
  Hans Schaub
  Heinrich Schiess
  Emil Vogt
Probable 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
FW Switzerland SUI Rudolf Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler I)
Switzerland SUI P. Lozéron
Switzerland SUI A. Klein
Switzerland SUI Eduard Laubi
No. Pos. Nation Player
Switzerland SUI Paul Nosch
Switzerland SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II)
Switzerland SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III)
  Artur Viehoff

Results

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Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

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Pre-season

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October 1904 Pre-season Mulhouse France 1 – 8 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse
Summary






13 October 1904 Pre-season Grasshopper Club Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland Basel Zürich

Summary

Winter break and end of season

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25 December 1904 Winter break 1. FC Pforzheim Germany 7 – 3 Switzerland Basel Pforzheim






Summary

26 December 1904 Winter break Karlsruher FV Germany 4 – 4 Switzerland Basel Karlsruhe



Summary


12 February 1905 Winter break Basel Switzerland 2 – 2 France Mulhouse Landhof, Basel
(Kaufmann I) 15' (1:0)
Bourgeois 60' (2:1)
Summary 57' (1:1) Helmboldt
66' (2:2) Helmboldt
Referee: Switzerland Seiffert, Old Boys
26 March 1905 End of season Freiburger FC Germany 5 – 1 Switzerland Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
(1:0)
(2:1)
(3:1)
(4:1)
(5:1)
Summary (1:1) Hasler
16 April 1905 End of season Basel Switzerland 1 – 0 Switzerland Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00 (1:0) Summary
24 April 1905 End of season La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland 4 – 4 Switzerland Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:00


Summary


Serie A

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Central group matches

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16 October 1904 Round 1 Basel 0 – 5 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary (0:1) Graf
(0:2) Seiffert
(0:3) Wächter
(0:4) Seiffert
(0:5) Seiffert
23 October 1904 Round 2 Weissenbühl Bern 2 – 9 Basel Allmend, Bern
15:00 (1:7)
(2:8)
Summary (0:1) Gossweiler II
(0:2) Gossweiler II
(0:3) Kaufmann II
(0:4) Chevalley
(0:5) Thalmann I
(0:6) Gossweiler II
(0:7) Hug
(1:8) Thalmann I
(2:9) Hug
Referee: Switzerland C. Christen, (FC Bern)
30 October 1904 Round 3 Young Boys 3 – 1 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
15:30 (1:1)
(2:1)
(3:1)
Summary (o.g. 0:1) Hess Referee: Switzerland R. Studer, (FC Bern)
13 November 1904 Round 4 Basel 1 – 2 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary
Referee: Switzerland
Note: Karl Hans Gossweiler broke his leg during the first half and according to the report in "Football" he was replaced by Pierre Chevalley, but Chevalley probably only took his position, as substitutions were not common at that time.
20 November 1904 Round 5 Old Boys 2 – 0 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 (1:0)
(2:0)
Summary
27 November 1904 Round 6 Basel 3 – 0 Weissenbühl Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kaufmann I (1:0)
(2:0)
(3:0)
Summary
26 February 1905 Round 7 Basel 3 – 4 Young Boys Landhof, Basel


Summary


5 March 1905 Round 8 FC Bern 2 – 1 Basel Bern
(1:1)
(2:1)
Summary (0:1) Referee: Switzerland R. Bell, (Young Boys)

Central group league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Young Boys 8 6 1 1 35 10 +25 13 Play-off winners, advance to finals
2 Old Boys 8 6 1 1 27 5 +22 13 Play-off
3 FC Bern 8 4 2 2 14 12 +2 10
4 Basel 8 2 0 6 18 20 −2 4
5 Weissenbühl Bern 8 0 0 8 5 52 −47 0
Source: rsssf

NB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect.

See also

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Notes

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The player lines-ups and goal scorers for 3 of the 8 league games in the 1904–05 season are unknown or incomplete.

1904–1905 season matches: FCB-Bern, OB-FCB, FCB-YB

References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1904–05". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ^ Erik Garin. "Serie A 1904/05". 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. Most of the documentation is missing.)

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