FC Basel
1912–13 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachunknown
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 4th
Anglo-CupWinners
Top goalscorerChristian Albicker
Average home league attendancen/a

The FC Basel 1912–13 season was their twentieth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, all together it was his eleventh presidential term and his fifth season in succession. At the AGM Thalmann stood down and Karl Ibach took over. The club announced that to that point it had grown to have over 300 members at over half of them were active football players. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel.

Overview

Emil Hasler was the team captain for the fourth year running and as captain he led the trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. In their 1912–13 season Basel played a total of 37 matches, 19 were friendly games, 14 were in the domestic league and 5 in the Anglo Cup.

Of the friendly games just three were played in the Landhof, six others were away games in Switzerland and ten games were played abroad. During the pre-season the team travelled to Germany twice, played against Karlsruher FC Phönix and Freiburger FC, and travelled to France to play Strassburger FV. During the winter break the team made a tour to North Rhine-Westphalia and before Christmas played VfR Mannheim, on Christmas day played ETB Schwarz-Weiss Essen and on boxing day played Düsseldorfer FC Fortuna 1911. The team came home with two victories and one defeat. At easter the team made a tour to eastern Germany. They played against SC Erfurt on easter Sunday, against Sportlust Dresden on easter monday and against SC Wacker Leipzig the day after. At the end of the season Basel played host to English club Preston North End. Of the friendly games 10 were won, three were drawn and six ended with a defeat.[1]

The Swiss Serie A 1912–13 was divided into three regional groups, an east, a central and a west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with local rivals Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. The other teams playing in this group were Young Boys, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Bern and Biel-Bienne. Basel started badly, with three defeats and a draw in the first four games. Despite seven victories and one draw during the next ten games, the team could not reduce the gap to the top of the league table. Basel ended the season in fourth position. They were four points behind group winners Old Boys, who continued to the finals. Lausanne Sports won the championship. Group bottom was Biel-Bienne, who therefore entered the play-off round against relegation, in which they were successful.[2]

The Englishman Percy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the club FC Basel had ever employed. Prior to Humphreys signing, it had always been the team captain who had taken over the function of the trainer. Under club chairman Karl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913. He had previously been head-coach for Hartlepool United in the English North Eastern League. [3]

The Anglo-Cup was a forerunner to the Swiss Cup.[4] It was held for the fourth time this season and the first round was held on 1 May. In the first round Basel were drawn at home against lower classed Solothurn. In the second round, in the quarter-final and in the semi-final against East group teams, these being St. Gallen, Zürich and Winterthur and in that order. All these games were played at home in the Landhof and Basel won each game. In the final, which was played in the Hardau Stadium in Zürich on 29 June 1913, Basel played against lower classed Weissenbühl Bern and won 5–0. Humphreys led Basel to win their first national title. But memories of this soon faded, because the Anglo Cup was not played the following year and in fact it was discontinued completely due to World War I.[5]

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 Switzerland SUI Fridolin Wenger
— GK   P. Vietti
— DF Switzerland SUI Paul Bettex
— DF Switzerland SUI Hermann Moll
— MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
— MF Switzerland SUI Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
— MF Germany GER Josef Goldschmidt
— MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Gossweiler
— MF Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
— MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Emil Schreyer
— FW Switzerland SUI Christian Albicker (I)
— FW   Rudolf Bredschneider
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Wunderle
—   Fritz Aeppli
—   Roger Breithaupt
—   Hans Kramer
—   ? Riesterer
—   ? Rittel
—   ? Weiss

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

Pre-season

8 August 19112 Pre-season Karlsruher FC Phönix Germany 0–4 Switzerland Basel Karlsruhe
Summary
1 September 1912 Pre-season Freiburger FC Germany 4–2 Switzerland Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
Summary
22 September 1912 Pre-season Aarau Switzerland 1–0 Switzerland Basel Aarau
(1:0) Summary

Winter break to end of season

22 December 1912 Winter break VfR Mannheim II Germany 0–8 Switzerland Basel Mannheim
Summary (1:0) Wenger
(2:0) Albicker II
(3:0)
(4:0)
(5:0)
(6:0)
(7:0)
(8:0)
26 December 1912 Winter break Düsseldorfer FC Fortuna 1911 Germany 2–4 Switzerland Basel Düsseldorf
Summary
Note: The game was stopped after 85 minutes because of spectator incidents
5 January 1913 Winter break St. Gallen Switzerland 2–2 Switzerland Basel St. Gallen
Summary
23 February 1913 Mid-season Zürich Switzerland 7–1 Switzerland Basel Zürich
Summary
16 March 1913 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 4–3 Switzerland Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel
10:00 Summary
23 March 1913 Mid-season SC Erfurt Germany 2–1 Switzerland Basel Erfurt
Summary
24 March 1913 Mid-season BC Sportlust Dresden Germany 1–2 Switzerland Basel Dresden
Summary
25 March 1913 Mid-season SC Wacker Leipzig Germany 3–3 Switzerland Basel Leipzig
Summary
27 April 1913 End of season St. Gallen Switzerland 1–3 Switzerland Basel St. Gallen
Summary
10 May 1913 End of season Basel Switzerland 0–11 England Preston North End Landhof, Basel
Summary
1 June 1913 End of season Basel Switzerland 7–2 Germany Freiburger FC Landhof, Basel
10:30 (1:0)
(2:0)
(3:0)
(4:0)
(5:0)
(6:1)
(7:2)		 Summary (5:1)
(6:2)
Note: Freiburger FC played with 10 men
8 June 1913 End of season St. Gallen Switzerland 1–4 Switzerland Basel St. Gallen
Summary

Serie A

Central group results

13 October 1912 Round 1 Basel 1–3 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
Kaltenbach (1:0) Summary (1:1)
(1:2)
(1:3)		 Referee: Switzerland von Grafenried FC Bern
20 October 1912 Round 2 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4–2 Basel La Chaux-de-Fonds
(1:0)
(2:0)
(3:0)
(4:0)		 Summary (4:1)
(4:2)		 Referee: Switzerland Ammann Cantonal Neuchâtel
27 October 1912 Round 3 Basel 2–2 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wunderle (1:2)
Schreyer (2:2)		 Summary (0:1) Merkt
(pen. 0:2)		 Referee: Switzerland Steiger FC Bern
17 November 1912 Round 4 FC Bern 2–1 Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
15:05 Niquille 42' (1:0)
Keller 55' (2:1)		 Summary 50' (1:1) Kaltenbach Referee: Switzerland Gassmann Biel-Bienne
24 November 1912 Round 5 Basel 6–0 Étoile-Sporting Landhof, Basel
15:00 Albicker (I) (1:0)
Albicker (I) (2:0)
Wenger (3:0)
Albicker (I) (4:0)
Albicker (I) (5:0)
Wenger (6:0)		 Summary Referee: Switzerland Steiger FC Bern
1 December 1912 Round 6 Young Boys 2–3 Basel Bern
Adamina (1:1)
Bertschi (2:1)		 Summary 20' (0:1) Schreyer
(2:2)
(2:3)
15 December 1912 Round 7 Biel-Bienne 3–2 Basel Biel-Bienne
14:40 Siegrist 46' (1:2)
Siegrist 48' (2:2)
Siegrist (pen. 3:2)		 Summary (0:1)
(0:2) Kaltenbach		 Referee: Switzerland Steiger FC Bern
12 January 1913 Round 8 Basel 6–1 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
Albicker (I) (1:0)
(2:1)
(3:1)
(4:1)
(5:1)
(6:1)		 Summary (1:1) Attendance: 1,000
19 January 1913 Round 9 Nordstern Basel 1–5 Basel Staldenrain, Riehen
15:15 Hermann (1:3) Summary (0:1) Albicker (I)
(0:2) Schreyer
(0:3) Wenger
(1:4) Schreyer
80' (1:5) Albicker (I)		 Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Switzerland Huldi Zürich
2 February 1913 Round 10 Old Boys 8–3 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:10 8' (1:0)
Kalt 18' (2:0)
41' (3:0)
45' (4:1)
Lüscher (5:3)
(6:3)
(7:3)
Kalt (8:3)		 Summary 41' (3:1) Albicker (I)
(4:2) Schreyer
(4:3) Albicker (I)		 Referee: Switzerland Reich Winterthur
9 February 1913 Round 11 Basel 2–0 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:15 Albicker (I) (1:0)
Schreyer (2:0)		 Summary
30 March 1913 Round 12 Basel 9–2 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
(1:0)
(2:0)
(3:0)
(4:0)
(5:2)
(6:2)
(7:2)
(8:2)
(9:2)		 Summary (4:1)
(4:2)		 Referee: Switzerland Adamir Sandoz La Chaux-de-Fonds
6 April 1913 Round 13 Basel 2–2 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
Wunderle 21' (1:1)
Bredschneider (2:2)		 Summary 6' (0:1) Beyeler II
(1:2) Beyeler I		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Dondelinger (FC Breite)
20 April 1913 Round 14 Étoile-Sporting 0–2 Basel Parc de l'Etoile La Chaux-de-Fonds
Summary (0:1)
(0:2)

Central group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Old Boys 14 9 2 3 43 29 +14 20 Advance to finals
2 Young Boys 14 9 1 4 41 25 +16 19
3 Étoile-Sporting 14 8 1 5 33 25 +8 17
4 Basel 14 7 2 5 46 30 +16 16
5 FC Bern 14 6 2 6 43 38 +5 14
6 Nordstern Basel 14 5 2 7 35 46 −11 12
7 La Chaux-de-Fonds 14 3 3 8 38 50 −12 9
8 Biel-Bienne 14 2 1 11 29 65 −36 5 To relegation play-off
Source: rsssf

Anglo-Cup

1 May 1913 Round of 32 Basel 5–0 Solothurn Landhof, Basel
15:30 Summary Attendance: 400
8 June 1913 Round of 16 Basel 4–1 St. Gallen Landhof, Basel
10:30 Schreyer (1:0)
Albicker (I) (2:0)
Schreyer (3:0)
Schreyer (4:1)		 Summary (3:1) Referee: Switzerland Dondelinger (FC Breite)
15 June 1913 Quarterfinal Basel 3–0 FF Zürich Landhof, Basel
Summary
22 June 1913 Semifinal Basel 3–0 Winterthur Landhof, Basel
Summary Referee: Switzerland
29 June 1913 Final FC Weissenbühl Bern 0–5 Basel Hardau, Zürich
Summary

See also

References

  1. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1912–13". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. ↑ Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1913". rsssf.org. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  3. ↑ FC Basel 1893. "Clubgeschichte" (in German). FC Basel homepage. Archived from the original on 2017-10-08. Retrieved 2020-11-16.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ "Schweizer Cup, Geschichte und Statistik". Swiss Cup, history and statistics. daniel schaub medienbüro gmbh. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  5. ↑ Mike Gosteli, Christoph Kieslich (17 May 2013). "Der vergessene Cup-Sieg". The forgotten cup victory. TagesWoche. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

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