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1896–97 FC Basel season

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FC Basel
1896–97 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Charlie Volderauer
First team coachSwitzerland Charlie Volderauer
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Top goalscorern/a
Average home league attendancen/a

The FC Basel 1896–97 season was their fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. Emanuel Schiess was the club's chairman, but he stood down at the club's AGM and Charlie Volderauer was elected as new chairman. He was the club's third chairman in their history, following Roland Geldner (1893–1896) and Schiess. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The Swiss national championships had not yet been called to into life.

Overview

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The idea of a Swiss national championship came to review with the Swiss Football Association, that had been founded the previous year and of which Basel and local rivals Old Boys were a member. But such a championship had not yet been called to into life.

The club chairman Charlie Volderauer was the team captain this season. For this season club organised seven friendly matches for their first team. Four of these matches were held in Basel, one in the Landhof, two on the Schützenmatte and from the fourth the place of playing field is uncertain. Basel played two games in Mulhouse. The first against Strassburger FV was lost 3–4 and the second against FC Mulhouse was lost 2–3. Five games were played in November/December and the other two in March and June. Of the seven games, two were won, two were drawn and the team suffered three defeats. The team scored 16 and conceded nine goals.[1]

Players

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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 Adolf Rittmann
DF Switzerland SUI Josy Ebinger
DF Switzerland SUI Charles Volderauer
FW Switzerland SUI Roland Geldner
FW Switzerland SUI Emanuel Schiess
FW Switzerland SUI Hermann Schneider
FW England ENG Rudolf Bax
  Alfred Devick
Switzerland SUI Joan Gamper
Switzerland SUI Fritz Gürtler
No. Pos. Nation Player
Switzerland SUI Louis Gürtler
Switzerland SUI Rudolf Iselin
Switzerland SUI Hans Koch
Switzerland SUI Albert Linder
Switzerland SUI Eric Mory
Switzerland SUI Paul Preiswerk
Switzerland SUI Gustav Schwarz
Switzerland SUI Rudolf Schwarz
Switzerland SUI R. Sommer
Switzerland SUI John Tollmann
Switzerland SUI R. C. Vanorden

Results

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Legend

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  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

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Autumn

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8 November 1896 Friendly Basel Switzerland 1 – 2 Switzerland Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
Summary
15 November 1896 Friendly Strassburger FV France 4 – 3 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse
15:30


Summary

22 November 1896 Friendly FC Mulhouse France 3 – 2 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse


Summary
29 November 1896 Friendly Basel Switzerland 1 – 0 Switzerland Zürich Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel
(1:0) Summary Referee: Switzerland Charlie Volderauer, Basel
6 December 1896 Friendly Basel Switzerland 9 – 0 Switzerland FC Bern Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel
(1:0)
(2:0)
(3:0)
(4:0)
(5:0)
(6:0)
(7:0)
(8:0)
(9:0)
Summary

Spring

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28 March 1897 Friendly Basel Switzerland 0 – 0 Switzerland Old Boys Basel
Summary
13 June 1897 Friendly FC Bern Switzerland 0 – 0 Switzerland Basel Kasernenmatte, Bern
Summary

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz all games 1896–97". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. 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.)

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