FC Basel
1903–04 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Ernst-Alfred Thalmann
First team coachSwitzerland Daniel Hug
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie ACentral group: third
Top goalscorern/a[note 03–04 1]
Average home league attendancen/a

The FC Basel 1903–04 season was their eleventh season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the chairmanship at the AGM for the third time in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

Overview

With over 40 active footballers and over 70 patron members Basel were the second largest club in Switzerland at this time, larger was only Grasshopper Club Zürich. Basel's first team played in the Serie A and the second team in the Serie B.[1]

Daniel Hug (the team's most prominent, their best and their largest player) was named as team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Together with goalkeeper Paul Hofer, the players Alphonse Schorpp, Eugen Strauss, Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer, Ernst-Alfred Thalmann and Emil Hasler, Hug was one of many early national team players who came from the Basel team.

The team played just one pre-season friendly at home against Grasshopper Club. There was another mid-season friendly against local lower tier Nordstern Basel. During the winter break Basel played two more friendly matches. These were the return game against the Grasshoppers which was drawn 6–6 and also an away game against west group team Montriond Lausanne which was won 3–2. At the end of the season Basel played against group winners Old Boys, which was played as warm up the finals. They also played a match against French club Mulhouse, which was lost 6–8, the highest scoring game of the season.[2]

The Swiss Serie A season 1903–04 was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Floria Biel/Bienne, and two further teams from Basel, Old Boys Basel and Fortuna Basel. Having lost their first six games of the season, local team Fortuna Basel opted out of the league season after the New Year and gave forfait for all their remaining games. FC Basel ended their ten games with five victories, two draws and three defeats in third position in the league table, obtaining 12 points, scoring 28 and conceding 25 goals. The Young Boys and the Old Boys ended level on points and so a play-off match was arranged. The Old Boys won the play-off 3–2 and therefore qualified for the finals.[3]

In the finals St. Gallen first drew 1–1 against group west winners Servette, then they won 1–0 against central group winners Old Boys and because the Old Boys beat Servette 2–0, St. Gallen won their first ever championship title.[4]

Players

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 Eugen Stutz (Stutz I)
DF Switzerland SUI Daniel Hug (Captain)
DF Switzerland SUI Adolf Ramseyer
FW Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
MF Switzerland SUI Eugen Strauss
FW Switzerland SUI Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler II)
FW Switzerland SUI Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
MF Switzerland SUI Ernst-Alfred Thalmann (Thalmann I)
Switzerland SUI Paul Egli
Switzerland SUI Percy Kaufmann
No. Pos. Nation Player
Switzerland SUI Albert Klein
Switzerland SUI Eduard Laubi
Switzerland SUI P. Lozéron
Switzerland SUI Hans Rietmann
  ? Strub
Switzerland SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II)
Switzerland SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III)
  Artur Viehoff
FW Switzerland SUI Rudolf Gossweiler (Gossweiler I)
Switzerland SUI Paul Nosch
MF Switzerland SUI Alphonse Schorpp

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Forfait

Friendly matches

Pre-season

18 October 1903 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel

Summary Referee: Switzerland H. Gautschy, Old Boys
Note: Grasshopper Club played with 10 men.
6 December 1903 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel

Summary

Winter break and end of season

17 January 1904 Winter break Grasshopper Club Switzerland 6 – 6 Switzerland Basel Zürich





Summary Gossweiler II
Gossweiler II
Hasler
Hasler
Laubi
Pfeiffer
Referee: Switzerland Seeburger
24 January 1904 Winter break Montriond Lausanne Switzerland 2 – 3 Switzerland Basel Lausanne
15:00 Pflüger 25' (1:1)
50' (2:2)
Summary 20' (0:1)
40' (1:2) Pfeiffer
(2:3) Ramseyer
Referee: Switzerland
20 March 1904 End of season Basel Switzerland 1 – 3 Switzerland Old Boys Landhof, Basel
Hasler Summary Seiffert
Schwarz
Gonser
10 April 1904 End of season Mulhouse France 8 – 6 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse







Summary




Note: Binser and Hennrichs from Karlsruher FV played for Mulhouse.

Serie A

Central group matches

25 October 1903 Round 1 Basel 3 – 1 Fortuna Basel Landhof, Basel
Gossweiler II
Hasler
Thalmann I
Summary
1 November 1903 Round 2 FC Bern 2 – 2 Basel Bern

Summary
8 November 1903 Round 3 Floria Biel-Bienne 2 – 4 Basel Biel/Bienne
15:00 Cooper 15' (1:0)
Minondo 88' (2:4)
Summary (1:1) Thalmann I
(1:2) Hasler
(1:3) Gossweiler II
(1:4) Hug
Referee: Switzerland Christen, FC Bern
15 November 1903 Round 4 Old Boys 5 – 1 Basel Basel
Seiffert (1:0)
Landerer 10' (2:0)
Bolliger (3:1)
Bolliger (4:1)
Schwarz (5:1)
Summary (2:1) Pfeiffer Referee: Switzerland Christen, FC Bern
22 November 1903 Round 5 Young Boys 7 – 2 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
15:10 Kratz 15' (1:0)
Kämpfer (2:0)
O. Schwab (3:2)
(4:2)
(5:2)
(6:2)
(7:2)
Summary (2:1)
(2:2) Hasler
Referee: Switzerland Frey, Old Boys
20 December 1903 Round 6 Basel 2 – 6 Old Boys Landhof, Basel

Summary Buser
Buser
Buser
Schwarz
Schwarz
Kupferschmid
14 February 1904 Round 7 Fortuna Basel 0 – 3 FF Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary
Note: Fortuna Basel did not play this game and on 25 February 1904 gave forfait for all their remaining games.
21 February 1904 Round 8 Basel 3 – 0 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
Pfeiffer 40' (1:0)
Gossweiler II (2:0)
Hasler (3:0)
Summary Referee: Switzerland Frey
28 February 1904 Round 9 Basel 6 – 0 Floria Biel/Bienne Landhof, Basel
Gossweiler II
Gossweiler II
Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer
Hug
Ramseyer
Summary Referee: Switzerland Frey
13 March 1904 Round 10 Basel 2 – 2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel

Summary
Referee: Switzerland Frey

Central group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Old Boys 10 8 1 1 41 11 +30 17 Play-off winners, advance to finals
2 Young Boys 10 8 1 1 37 14 +23 17 Play-off
3 Basel 10 5 2 3 28 25 +3 12
4 FC Bern 10 3 3 4 19 20 1 9
5 Floria Biel/Bienne 10 2 1 7 11 38 27 5 Relegated
6 Fortuna Basel[Fortuna 1] 10 0 0 10 4 32 28 0 Withdrawn and relegated
Source: rsssf
Note to Fortuna Basel
  1. The last four games of Fortuna Basel were awarded 3–0 forfait for their opponents.

See also

Notes

Footnotes

  1. The player lines-ups and goal scorers for 2 of the 9 league games in the 1903–04 season are unknown or incomplete.

1903–1904 season matches: Bern-FCB, FCB-OB

References

  1. Stefan Peter. "Überregionale Meisterschaften, Schweizer und Basler Cup". Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1903–04". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  3. "Central group league table". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  4. Erik Garin, Luc Nackaerts. "Serie A 1903/04". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
  • Switzerland 1903-04 at RSSSF

(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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