FC Basel
1936–37 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Emil Junker
First team coach
/ Player-manager		Austria Heinz Körner
from mid-season
Switzerland Fernand Jaccard
GroundLandhof, Basel
Nationalliga11th
Swiss Cup1st round
Top goalscorerLeague: Guglielmo Spadini (10)
All: Guglielmo Spadini (10)
Highest home attendance6,000 on 26 January 1937
vs Nordstern Basel
Lowest home attendance2,000 on 17 September 1936
vs Lugano
and on 14 February 1937
vs St. Gallen
and on 30 May 1937
vs Lausanne-Sport
Average home league attendance3,250

The FC Basel 1936–37 season was the forty-fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Emil Junker was the new club chairman and it was his second period as chairman, after his short period in 1927. Junker toll over as club president from Franz Rinderer.

Overview

Heinz Körner was appointed as new team manager. He followed Alwin Riemke who moved to Germany to manage SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Körner had been manager of Aarau the previous season. He was the tenth professional team manager/trainer in Basel's history, their tenth foreign trainer. How long Körner stayed with the club is not clearly stated, but he left during the season, and afterwards Fernand Jaccard took over as player-manager. Jaccard was the club's first professional Swiss trainer. Basel played a total of 40 matches in their 1936–37 season. 26 of these matches were in the Nationalliga, one in the Swiss Cup and 13 were friendly matches. Of these 13 friendlies eight were played at home in the Landhof, three others in Switzerland and one each as visitors to RC Strasbourg and to SC Freiburg.[1]

Further league reforms took place before the season started. The number of teams in the 1936–37 Nationalliga was reduced by one team, thus contested by 13 teams and played as round-robin. Two teams were to be relegated and only one promoted to reduce the number of teams to 12 the following year. Basel played a very poor and un-consistent season. Only thanks to four consecutive victories towards the end of the campaign lifted the team to finish in joint second last position in the league table. Because La Chaux-de-Fonds and Basel both had 20 points, they had to have a play-off against relegation. This ended in a draw and so a replay was required. The replay was played in the Stadion Neufeld in Bern on 20 June 1937 and ended in a 1–0 victory for Basel and so they prevented relegation at the last possible moment.[2]

In the 1st principal round of the Swiss Cup Basel were drawn at home in the Landhof against lower tier Concordia Basel and were defeated and knocked out of the competition. Grasshopper Club won both championship and cup.[3]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1936–37. The list includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 2 August 1936 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 Eugène de Kalbermatten
— GK Switzerland SUI Ernst Kipfer
— DF Switzerland SUI Robert Büchi
— DF Switzerland SUI Louis Favre
— MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Hufschmid
— DF Germany GER Emil Hummel
— DF Switzerland SUI Heinrich Diethelm
— DF Switzerland SUI Heinz Elsässer
— MF Switzerland SUI August Ibach
— MF Switzerland SUI Fernand Jaccard
— MF Switzerland SUI Caspar Monigatti
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Paul Schaub
— MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Schmidlin (I)
— MF Switzerland SUI Guglielmo Spadini
— MF Switzerland SUI Ferdinand Spichiger
— MF Switzerland SUI Eduard Zuber
— FW Switzerland SUI Enrico Ardizzoia
— FW Austria AUT Josef Artimovicz
— FW Switzerland SUI Maurice Dubosson
— FW Austria AUT Gottfried Havlicek
— FW Switzerland SUI Othmar Saner
— FW Switzerland SUI H. Weber (I)
— FW Switzerland SUI Alfons Weber (II)
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 Switzerland SUI Hugo Burkhardt
— GK West Germany FRG Alwin Riemke
— MF Switzerland SUI Hans Greiner
— MF Switzerland SUI Walter Schmidlin (II)
— MF Austria AUT Ludwig Stroh
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Bielser
— FW Switzerland SUI Alfred Jaeck
— FW Switzerland SUI Walter Müller
— FW Switzerland SUI Alfred Schlecht
— FW Switzerland SUI Federico Schott

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season

2 August 1936 Pre-season RC Strasbourg France 1–2 Switzerland Basel Strasbourg
Summary
8 August 1936 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 3–5 Switzerland Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
17:30 Weber (2x)
Artimovicz (1x)		 Summary (4x) Xam
(1x) Wagner		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland G. Rupprecht Basel
23 August 1936 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 3–4 West Germany Karlsruher FV Landhof, Basel
16:00 Jaccard (1x)
Weber (1x)
Dubosson (1x)		 Summary (2x) Rapp
(2x) Damminger		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Karl Wunderlin Basel
25 August 1936 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 1–1 Austria First Vienna FC Landhof, Basel
18:15 Artimovicz (1:1) Summary (0:1) Holec Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Karl Wunderlin Basel

Mid-season

25 October 1936 Mid-season Lausanne-Sport Switzerland 3–4 Switzerland Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Jäggi 30' (1:0)
Kotzeff (2:2)
Stelzer 87' (3:3)		 Summary (1:1) Dubosson
60' (1:2) Schmidlin (I)
(2:3) Ibach
(3:4) Ibach		 Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Switzerland Lutz Geneva
1 November 1936 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 1–5 Switzerland Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
10:15 Ibach 16' (1:0) Summary 26' (1:1) Forelli
65' (1:2) Brückler
70' (1:3) Forelli
75' (1:4) Brückler
80' (pen. 1:5) Laube		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Traub Basel
8 November 1936 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 3–2 Croatia Građanski Zagreb Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schmidlin (I) 1' (1:0)
Weber 46' (2:1)
Hufschmid 51' (3:1)		 Summary (1:1)
(3:2)		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Karl Wunderlin Basel
20 December 1936 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 2–4 Hungary Ferencvárosi TC Landhof, Basel
14:45 Havlicek 12' (1:0)
Weber 29' (2:0)		 Summary 30' (2:1) Jazberenyi
62' (2:2) Jazberenyi
72' (2:3) Toldi
83' (2:4) Kemény		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Feurer Delémont
21 February 1937 Mid-season FC Olten Switzerland 0–2 Switzerland Basel Kleinholz Stadion, Olten
Summary (0:1) Saner
(0:2) Jaccard		 Attendance: 200
Referee: Switzerland Beer
6 March 1937 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 15–2 Switzerland FC Breite Landhof, Basel
Summary
14 March 1937 Mid-season SC Freiburg West Germany 3–1 Switzerland Basel Freiburg im Breisgau
36' (1:1)
Roser 58' (2:1)
Haas 70' (3:1)		 Summary soccer ball with red X 12′ Elsässer
22' (0:1) Saner		 Attendance: 800
Referee: West Germany Buchty
11 April 1937 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 0–1 Switzerland Young Boys Landhof, Basel
10:30 Summary 75' (0:1) Sydler Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Meury
18 April 1937 Mid-season Cantonal Neuchatel Switzerland 2–2 Switzerland Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
15:00 Castella Castella 35' (1:1)
Monnard (II) (2:2)		 Summary 5' (0:1) Ibach
(1:2) Ibach		 Attendance: 700
Referee: Switzerland Gerber Bern

Nationalliga

League matches

30 August 1936 Round 1 FC Bern 1–0 Basel Neufeld, Bern
Wagenhoffer 40' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Meyer LausanneL
6 September 1936 Round 2 Basel 0–5 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary 12' (1:0) Büche
14' (0:2) Büche
(0:3) Schicker
56' (0:4) Büche
(0:5) Büche		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Jaggi Bern
13 September 1936 Round 3 Nordstern Basel 1–3 Basel Stadion Rankhof, Basel
09:30 Maurer 16' (1:0) Summary 21' (o.g. 1:1) Kaltenbrunner
27' (1:2) Büchi
72' (1:3) Hufschmid		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern
27 September 1936 Round 4 Basel 3–3 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Spadini 15' (1:0)
Spadini 25' (2:1)
Spadini 26' (3:1)		 Summary 17' (1:1) Stefanovic
(3:2) Stefanovic
(3:3) Schott		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten
11 October 1936 Round 5 St. Gallen 2–1 Basel Espenmoos, St. Gallen
Krismer 18' (1:0)
(o.g. 2:1)		 Summary 24' (1:1) Spadini Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Jaggi Bern
18 October 1936 Round 6 Basel 2–1 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hummel 60' (1:0)
Spadini 80' (2:1)		 Summary (pen. 1:1) Walaschek Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern
15 November 1936 Round 7 Young Fellows Zürich 1–0 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
Tögel (1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland W. Bangerter La Chaux-de-Fonds
22 November 1936 Round 8 Basel 0–2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary 52' (0:1) Sydler
67' (0:2) Sipos		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Meyer Lausanne
29 September 1936 Round 9 La Chaux-de-Fonds 0–0 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30 Summary Attendance: 3,200
Referee: Switzerland Dupuis Yverdon
13 December 1936 Round 10 Luzern 2–1 Basel Stadion Allmend, Luzern
Docze (1:0)
Gloor (2:0)		 Summary 85' (2:1) Ibach Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Allemann Biel/Bienne
2 December 1936 Round 12 Lausanne-Sport 3–0 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
14:30 Jäggi 43' (pen. 1:0)
Jäggi (2:0)
Spagnoli (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland W. Bangerter La Chaux-de-Fonds
3 January 1937 Round 13 Basel 2–0 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
14:30 Elsässer 43' (pen. 1:0)
Ibach 70' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Dupuis Yverdon
10 January 1937 Round 14 Basel 2–2 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
14:30 Ibach 2' (1:0)
Hufschmid (2:1)		 Summary 30' (1:1) Wagenhofer
88' (2:2) Billeter		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Meyer Lausanne
17 January 1937 Round 15 Biel-Bienne 2–0 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
Chiesi 30' (1:0)
Rahmen 60' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten
24 January 1937 Round 16 Basel 1–1 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
14:30 Spadini 48' (1:1) Summary 27' (0:1) Forelli Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern
31 January 1937 Round 17 Lugano 2–1 Basel Campo Marzio, Lugano
Stefanovic 5' (1:0)
Grassi 51' (2:0)		 Summary (2:1) Spadini Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Iseli Biel/Bienne
14 February 1937 Round 18 Basel 1–0 St. Gallen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Elsässer 45' (pen. 1:0) Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern
28 February 1937 Round 19 Servette 3–1 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
Belli 19' (1:0)
Gross 49' (2:1)
Gross 74' (3:1)		 Summary 21' (1:1) Saner Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten
4 April 1937 Round 21 Young Boys 1–2 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
Aebi 10' (1:0) Summary (1:1) Saner
59' (1:2) Spadini		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Dupuis Yverdon
25 April 1937 Round 22 Basel 3–2 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00 Weber 14' (1:0)
Weber 40' (2:0)
Saner 63' (3:1)		 Summary 52' (pen. 2:1) Schaller
78' (3:2) Lukacs		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern
9 May 1937 Round 23 Basel 5–1 Luzern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schmidlin (I) (1:0)
Ibach (2:0)
Spadini (3:0)
Saner 63' (4:1)
(o.g. 5:1)		 Summary 22' (3:1) Karcher Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten
13 May 1937 Round 20 Basel 2–1 Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
18:20 Weber 6' (1:0)
Jaccard 25' (2:0)		 Summary 43' (2:1) Pali Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Dupuis Yverdon
30 May 1937 Round 25 Basel 0–2 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary 66' (0:1) Spagnoli
73' (0:2) Becic		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Allemann Biel/Bienne
6 June 1937 Round 26 Grasshopper Club 4–0 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
17:00 Fauguel 23' (1:0)
Rupf 31' (2:0)
Xam 53' (3:0)
Rupf 73' (4:0)		 Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern

Play-off against relegation

13 June 1937 Play-off Basel 1–1 (a.e.t.) La Chaux-de-Fonds Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
Weber (1:1) Summary 97' (0:1) Bösch Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten
20 June 1937 Replay Basel 1–0 (a.e.t.) La Chaux-de-Fonds Neufeld, Bern
17:30 Spadini 32' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wüthrich Bern

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 24 15 6 3 68 32 +36 36 Swiss Champions and Cup winners
2 Young Boys 24 12 5 7 61 36 +25 29
3 Young Fellows Zürich 24 12 4 8 57 53 +4 28
4 Luzern 24 11 6 7 44 45 −1 28
5 Biel-Bienne 24 11 5 8 45 37 +8 27
6 Lugano 24 11 4 9 57 54 +3 26
7 Servette 24 11 3 10 55 47 +8 25
8 Lausanne-Sport 24 10 3 11 56 40 +16 23
9 FC Bern 24 8 6 10 42 44 −2 22
10 Nordstern Basel 24 7 7 10 42 50 −8 21
11 Basel 24 8 4 12 30 42 −12 20 Play-off winner, remain in Nationalliga
12 La Chaux-de-Fonds 24 9 2 13 54 61 −7 20 Play-off loser, relegated
13 St. Gallen 24 2 3 19 32 102 −70 7 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

4 October 1936 Round 1 Basel 1–3 Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hummel 14' (1:0) Summary 25' (1:1) Kult
75' (1:2) Vonthron
81' (1:3) Schill		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Spengler Olten

See also

References

  1. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1936/37". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 1:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ↑ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1936/37". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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