1951–52 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1951–52 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Jules Düblin
ManagerSwitzerland Ernst Hufschmid
GroundLandhof, Basel
Nationalliga A4th
Swiss CupSemi-final
Top goalscorerLeague: Josef Hügi (24)
All: Josef Hügi (32)
Highest home attendance10,000 on 23 September 1951
vs Lugano
and on 7 October 1951
vs Grasshopper Club
Lowest home attendance3,000 on 9 December 1951
vs Bellinzona
and on 30 March 1952
vs Locarno
Average home league attendance6,292

The 1951–52 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 58th season in their existence. It was their sixth season in Nationalliga A the top flight of Swiss football following their promotion from the Nationalliga B in 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 sixth successive season.

Overview

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Ernst Hufschmid, who had functioned as player-coach the previous four seasons, continued as team manager this season. Basel played a total of 42 games in this season. Of these 26 games were in the domestic league, five games were in the Swiss Cup and eleven were test games. The test games resulted with four victories, two were drawn and five ended with defeats. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they won 22 games, drew five and lost 15 times. In the 42 games they scored 123 and conceded 87 goals.[1]

The newly built stadium Landhof was opened on the weekend of 18 and 19 August 1951. There were larger spectator stands, new meeting rooms, changing rooms and a brand new restaurant. The buildings had cost 700,000 Swiss Francs and had taken two years to complete, during this time the team had to play all their games at the Stadion Schützenmatte. The pitch had been newly laid out and its opening was accompanied by a two-day international football tournament, competed by Austrian team First Vienna, French team Sochaux-Montbéliard and Swiss teams Grasshopper Club Zürich. On both days there were over six thousand people celebrating the big party, even though their team lost 2–3 against Vienna and even 1–7 against Sochaux. It was a big hope that these new conditions would also change the fortunes of the club to the better, because nearly 60 years had passed since the club's foundation without a championship. The Basel fans were becoming frustrated, because 36 of the first 52 championships had gone to the cities of Zürich, Geneva or Bern. Even small towns such as Aarau, Neuchâtel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lugano, Bellinzona, Biel/Bienne, Winterthur and St. Gallen had been able to celebrate a championship. The championship had still had never been won by a team from Basel.[2]

As in the previous seasons, there were fourteen teams contesting in the 1951–52 Nationalliga A and the bottom two teams in the league table were to be relegated. Basel played a good start to the season. They won the first six games straight off. But they lost four of the next five games and slipped in the league table. However, winning the last three games before and the first three games after the winter break, they were again in contention for the league championship. Suddenly, towards the end of the season, they lost five games in a row and lost contact to the table top. At the end of the season Basel finished in fourth position, seven points behind the new champions Grasshopper Club. The hopeful fans were again frustrated by this fact. The team Basel had won 14 games, drew three games and were defeated nine times. The team scored 68 goals and conceded 47 as they obtained their 31 points. Josef "Seppe" Hügi was the team's and the league's best goal scorer with 24 league goals. Walter Bannwart was the team's second-best goal getter with 10 goals. Paul Stöcklin scored nine times, René Bader and Hans Hügi both scored seven times.[3]

Basel started in the 3rd principal round of the Swiss Cup on 4 November 1951 with a home game against lower tier Wettingen and won 7–0. In the next round against Nationalliga A team Locarno they won 3–2 and again in the following round against Nationalliga A team Chiasso by three goals to one. In the quarter finals Basel beat Servette and faced Grasshopper Club in the semi-final. The Grasshoppers won this game in the Landhof and progressed to the final, in which they beat Lugano and thus won the double.[4]

Players

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The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1950–51. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 3 September 1950 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 Switzerland SUI Oswald Capra
— GK Switzerland SUI Walter Müller
— GK Switzerland SUI Jean Presset
— DF Switzerland SUI Werner Bopp
— DF Switzerland SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze
— DF Switzerland SUI Hans Hügi
— DF Switzerland SUI Marcel Pralong
— MF Switzerland SUI Max Sutter
— MF Switzerland SUI Hans Weber
— MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Hartmann
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Kurt Maurer
— MF France FRA Pierre Redolfi
— MF Switzerland SUI Kurt Thalmann (from Concordia Basel)
— MF Switzerland SUI Werner Wenk
— FW Switzerland SUI René Bader
— FW Switzerland SUI Walter Bannwart
— FW Switzerland SUI Josef Hügi
— FW Switzerland SUI Marcel Leisinger
— FW Switzerland SUI Paul Stöcklin
— FW Switzerland SUI Fritz Wolf
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
— DF Switzerland SUI Ernst Hufschmid (Manager)
— MF Switzerland SUI Leo Baumgratz (to Concordia Basel)
— MF Switzerland SUI Eugen Müller
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Gottlieb Stäuble
— MF Switzerland SUI Willy Zingg
— FW Switzerland SUI Peter Baumgartner
— FW Switzerland SUI Erich Grether

Results

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Legend

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  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

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Pre-season

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4 August 1951 Pre-season SV Weil Germany 2–10 Switzerland Basel Weil am Rhein
17:30 (1x)
(1x)		 Summary (3x) Hügi (II)
(3x) Weber
(1x) Stöcklin
(1x) Suter
(1x) Thalmann
(1x) Wolf
11 August 1951 Pre-season Eimsbütteler TV Germany 2–0 Switzerland Basel Hamburg
Eckhoff 56' (1:0)
Eckhoff 61' (2:0)		 Summary
12 August 1951 Pre-season Eintracht Braunschweig Germany 3–4 Switzerland Basel Eintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
Arens (1:2)
Welter (2:2)
Hirschberg (3:2)		 Summary (0:1) Bannwart
(0:2) Suter
(3:3) Bannwart
(3:4) Thalmann		 Attendance: 10,000
Referee: England Sherman
14 August 1951 Pre-season Travemünde Germany 2–8 Switzerland Basel Travemünde
Summary (6x) Hügi (II)
(2x) Suter
(1x)
18 August 1951 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 2–3 Austria First Vienna Landhof, Basel
15:30 Hügi (II) 60' (1:2)
Bader 70' (2:2)		 Summary 8' (0:1) Walzhofer
38' (o.g. 0:2)
73' (2:3) Walzhofer		 Referee: Switzerland von Wartburg Bern
19 August 1951 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 1–7 France Sochaux-Montbéliard Landhof, Basel
16:50 Stöcklin (1x) Summary (4x) Bruat
(1x) Salzborn
(1x) Gardien
(1x) Montagnoli		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland von Wartburg Bern

Winter break and mid-season

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10 February 1952 Winter break Basel Switzerland 5–2 Switzerland Urania Genève Sport Landhof, Basel
14:30 Bader 6' (1:1)
Hügi (II) (2:1)
Hügi (II) (3:1)
Hügi (II) 39' (4:1)
Stöcklin 83' (5:2)		 Summary (0:1) Stefano (I)
82' (4:2) Hofstettler		 Attendance: 800
Referee: Switzerland Stuber Solothurn
9 April 1952 Mid-season Cantonal Neuchâtel Switzerland 2–2 Switzerland Basel Stade de Cantonal, Neuchâtel
20:30 Willi 35' (1:0)
Monnard (2:1)		 Summary (1:1) Hügi (II)
90' (2:2) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Merlotti Neuchâtel
30 April 1952 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 1–1 England Preston North End Landhof, Basel
16:30 Hügi (II) 18' (1:0) Summary 53' (1:1) Foster Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Andres Birsfelden
20 May 1952 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 0–1 England Arsenal Landhof, Basel
18:30 Summary 43' (0:1) Roper Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Switzerland Rapin Lausanne
22 May 1952 Mid-season VfR Mannheim Germany 5–3 Switzerland Basel Aumattstadion, Baden-Baden
Löttke 4' (1:0)
Bassler 37' (2:1)
Heinz 44' (3:1)
Langlotz 45' (pen. 4:1)
Lambert 51' (5:2)		 Summary 7' (1:1) Thalmann
50' (4:2) Hügi (II)
88' (5:3) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Germany Bäzler Baden-Baden

Nationalliga A

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Main article: 1951–52 Nationalliga A

League matches

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26 August 1951 Round 1 Basel 6–1 Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stöcklin 5' (pen. 1:0)
Hügi (II) 29' (2:1)
Hügi (II) 52' (3:1)
Bader 58' (4:1)
Hügi (II) 61' (5:1)
Thalmann 77' (6:1)		 Summary 27' (1:1) Ballaman Attendance: 4,200
Referee: Switzerland Scherz Bern
2 September 1951 Round 2 Basel 3–2 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart 31' (1:0)
Suter 42' (2:1)
Hügi (II) 69' (3:1)		 Summary 40' (1:1) Friedländer
74' (3:2) Friedländer		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Switzerland Armand Merlotti Neuchâtel
9 September 1951 Round 3 FC Bern 2–6 Basel Neufeld, Bern
15:00 Wirsching 30' (1:1)
Schönmann 46' (2:3)		 Summary 1' (0:1) Stöcklin
32' (1:2) Hügi (II)
34' (1:3) Bannwart
47' (2:4) Stöcklin
70' (2:5) Bannwart
72' (2:6) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Switzerland Josef Gulde St. Gallen
23 September 1951 Round 4 Basel 2–0 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart 4' (1:0)
Bannwart 75' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland Willy Rufli Bremgarten
30 September 1951 Round 5 Locarno 0–2 Basel Stadio del Lido, Locarno
Summary 8' (0:1) Hügi (II)
50' (0:2) Bader		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland von Gunten Bern
7 October 1951 Round 6 Basel 2–0 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 53' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 74' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland Armand Merlotti Neuchâtel
21 October 1951 Round 7 Zürich 2–0 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
15:15 Rossi 5' (1:0)
Lehrieder 62' (2:1)
Schneiter 64' (3:1)
Lehrieder 70' (4:1)		 Summary 11' (1:1) Hügi (II)
Yellow card Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 22,000
Referee: Switzerland M. Baumberger Lausanne
28 October 1951 Round 8 Basel 1–5 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00 Thalmann 33' (1:0) Summary 68' (1:1) Antenen
69' (1:2) Morand
83' (1:3) Morand
86' (1:4) Morand
90' (1:5) Peney		 Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Switzerland Victor Werrner Schicker Bern
11 November 1951 Round 9 Servette 4–1 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
15:00 Züfle 30' (1:0)
Pasteur 36' (pen. 2:0)
Fatton 57' (3:0)
Züfle 85' (4:1)		 Summary 60' (3:1) Thalmann Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Switzerland Willy Rufli Bremgarten
18 November 1951 Round 10 Basel 3–0 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II) 2' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 57' (2:0)
Bannwart 74' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 5,700
Referee: Switzerland Ernst Dörflinger Grenchen
2 December 1951 Round 11 Chiasso 1–0 Basel Stadio Via Comacini, Chiasso
Zanollo 36' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland M. Baumberger Lausanne
9 December 1951 Round 12 Basel 4–1 Bellinzona Landhof, Basel
14:30 Bader 10' (1:0)
Stöcklin 21' (pen. 2:0)
Hügi (I) 74' (3:1)
Thalmann 85' (4:1)		 Summary 58' (2:1) Pellanda Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Bertsche Neuhausen am Rheinfall
16 December 1951 Round 13 Biel-Bienne 0–3 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
14:30 Summary 6' (0:1) Hügi (II)
25' (0:2)
90' (0:3) Stöcklin		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Emilio Guidi Bellinzona
24 February 1952 Round 14 Young Fellows Zürich 0–2 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
14:30 Summary 14' (0:1) Bannwart
44' (0:2) Bannwart		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland von Wartburg Bern
2 March 1952 Round 15 Lausanne-Sport 1–1 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Maurer (1:1) Summary 10' (0:1) Hügi (I)
Yellow card Hügi (I)		 Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Switzerland Paul Wyssling Zürich
9 March 1952 Round 16 Basel 5–1 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart 8' (1:0)
Hügi (I) 35' (2:1)
Bopp 72' (pen. 3:1)
Hügi (I) 80' (4:1)
Hügi (I) 83' (5:1)		 Summary 13' (1:1) Just Attendance: 4,600
Referee: Switzerland Fritz Buchmüller Zürich
16 March 1952 Round 17 Lugano 0–3 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
Summary 14' (0:1) Hügi (II)
50' (0:2) Hügi (II)
75' (0:3) Stöcklin		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland von Gunten Bern
13 March 1952 Round 18 Basel 5–3 Locarno Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bopp 10' (pen. 1:0)
Stöcklin 12' (2:0)
Hügi (I) 64' (3:0)
Hügi (II) 78' (4:2)
Bader 81' (pen. 5:2)		 Summary 65' (3:1) Santini
68' (pen. 3:2) Ernst
85' (o.g. 5:3)		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Zutter Bern
6 April 1952 Round 19 Grasshopper Club 2–2 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
16:00 Vonlanthen (II) 32' (1:0)
Hüssy 38' (2:0)		 Summary 51' (2:1) Hügi (I)
82' (2:2) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Switzerland von Gunten Bern
20 April 1952 Round 20 Basel 2–2 Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 7' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 63' (2:1)		 Summary 15' (1:1) Schneiter
81' (2:2) Bosshard		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Roger Rapin Lausanne
27 April 1952 Round 21 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2–1 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
15:00 43' (o.g. 1:1)
Sobotka 51' (2:1)		 Summary 27' (0:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Fritz Buchmüller Zürich
4 May 1952 Round 22 Basel 0–3 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) Red card 58' Summary 33' (0:1) Kohli
41' (0:2) Mauron
78' (0:3) Mauron		 Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland von Gunten Bern
11 May 1952 Round 23 Young Boys 4–3 Basel Neufeld, Bern
15:00 Sing 6' (1:0)
Häuptli 14' (2:0)
Zaugg 24' (3:0)
Meier 52' (4:0)		 Summary 54' (4:1) Thalmann
60' (pen. 4:2) Bader
64' (4:3) Suter		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Louis Tschopp Delémont
18 May 1952 Round 24 Basel 1–2 Chiasso Landhof, Basel
15:00 Weber 83' (1:2) Summary 23' (0:1) Bianchi
31' (0:2) 31. Zanollo		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Paul Wyssling Zürich
25 May 1952 Round 25 Bellinzona 6–2 Basel Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
15:00 Sartori 13' (1:0)
Erba 15' (2:0)
Sartori 29' (pen. 3:0)
Erba 56' (4:1)
Zanetti 77' (5:2)
Sartori 85' (6:2)		 Summary 36' (3:1) Stöcklin
58' (4:2) Thalmann		 Attendance: 1,700
Referee: Switzerland Zutter Bern
8 June 1952 Round 26 Basel 7–1 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
16:15 Hügi (II) 8' (1:0)
Stöcklin 56' (2:1)
Bader 63' (3:1)
Hügi (II) 65' (4:1)
Bader 67' (5:1)
Bannwart 71' (6:1)
Hügi (II) (7:1)		 Summary 51' (1:1) Rösch Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Switzerland Musch Geneva

League standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club Zürich 26 16 6 4 79 38 +41 38 Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2 FC Zürich 26 14 9 3 61 36 +25 37
3 FC Chiasso 26 15 5 6 59 49 +10 35
4 FC Basel 26 14 3 9 68 47 +21 31
5 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 11 8 7 62 45 +17 30
6 Servette FC Genève 26 11 6 9 57 45 +12 28
7 BSC Young Boys 26 10 7 9 61 52 +9 27
8 Lausanne Sports 26 8 9 9 39 43 −4 25
9 AC Bellinzona 26 8 6 12 43 55 −12 22
10 FC Locarno 26 8 6 12 41 66 −25 22
11 FC Lugano 26 7 7 12 46 54 −8 21
12 FC Bern 26 7 5 14 47 64 −17 19
13 Young Fellows Zürich 26 5 5 16 36 71 −35 15 Relegated
14 FC Biel-Bienne 26 4 6 16 37 71 −34 14 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

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4 November 1951 Round 3 Basel 7–0 Wettingen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (I) 14' (1:0)
Suter 19' (2:0)
Hügi (II) 22' (3:0)
49' (o.g. 4:0)
Hügi (II) 54' (5:0)
Stöcklin 57' (6:0)
Hügi (II) 75' (7:0)		 Summary Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Switzerland von Wartburg Bern
23 December 1951 Round 4 Basel 3–2 Locarno Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II) 2' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 28' (2:1)
Bader 84' (3:2)		 Summary 6' (1:1) Ernst
34' (2:2) Santini		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Switzerland Rapin Lausanne
30 December 1951 Round 5 Basel 3–1 Chiasso Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II) 43' (1:0)
Bopp 76' (pen. 2:1)
Hügi (II) 83' (3:1)		 Summary 69' (1:1) Busenhart Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland M. Baumberger Lausanne
17 February 1952 Quarter-final Basel 6–5 Servette Landhof, Basel
14:30 Bader 9' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 12' (2:0)
Thalmann 48' (3:4)
Bader 62' (4:4)
Thalmann 85' (5:5)
Suter (6:5)		 Summary 18' (2:1) Fatton
22' (2:2) Züfle
39' (2:3) Mauron
44' (2:4) Fatton
65' (4:5) Fatton		 Attendance: 9,200
Referee: Switzerland Rapin Lausanne
23 March 1952 Semi-final Basel 0–2 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary 25' (0:1) Ballaman
28' (0:2) Berbig		 Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Switzerland Josef Gulde St. Gallen

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1951/52". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ^ Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre - Historische Meilensteine 1951", Page 48, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  3. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Statistik 1951–52". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1951/52". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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