1907–08 FC Basel season

FC Basel
1907–08 season
Chairman	Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
First team coach	unknown
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Serie A	Group Stage: Third
Top goalscorer	Siegfried Pfeiffer (7); Max Senn (7)
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The FC Basel 1907–08 season was their fifteenth season since the club was formed. The club's chairman was Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer, it was his first presidential term. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof.

Overview

Before the season started, Basel played three test games, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Freiburg im Breisgau and in Strassburg. They also played four friendly games during the winter break, in Geneva, Mannheim and Hanau as well as one game against Strassburger FV in their home stadium Landhof in Basel.

The 1907–08 Serie A was divided into two regional groups, an East group and a West group. Together with local rivals Old Boys, Basel were allocated to the East group. The other teams in that group were Aarau, Grasshopper Club, Zürich, Young Fellows Zürich, Winterthur and St. Gallen.^[1] The group was an evenly balanced group and at the end of the season the teams from second to eighth position were only separated by six points. Only Winterthur had a good run of results and were able to move clear at the top of the league table, winning the group with a six point advantage.

Thus Winterthur qualified for the league final, which was held in Basel on 31 May 1908. Winterthur won the Swiss Championship title beating Young Boys Bern by four goals to one.^[2]

Also a mention for chairman Siegfried Pfeiffer, during his presidential term he played one game for the Swiss national team. On 5 April 1908 Pfeiffer scored two goals in the legendary 5–3 victory over Germany at the Landhof in Basel.^[3]^[4]

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		? Persenico
—			Ernesto Persenico
—	GK	SUI	Fridolin Wenger
—	GK	SUI	Jules Fingerlin
—	MF	SUI	Daniel Hug
—	DF	SUI	Adolf Ramseyer
—	MF	GER	Josef Goldschmidt
—	MF	SUI	Emil Hasler


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF		Max Palatini
—	FW	SUI	Christian Albicker (I)
—	FW	SUI	Ernst Gossweiler
—	FW		? Kunz
—	FW	SUI	Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
—	FW	SUI	Max Senn
—	FW	GER	Alfred Stöhrmann
—	FW	SUI	Ernst-Alfred Thalmann

Results

Legend

Win Draw Loss

Friendly matches

1 September 1907	La Chaux-de-Fonds	7 – 5	Basel	Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30		Summary		Attendance: 500 Referee:

8 September 1907	Freiburg	5 – 3	Basel	Freiburg im Breisgau
		Summary

22 September 1907	FC Frankonia 1900 Strassburg	0 – 10	Basel	Strassburg
		Summary

1 December 1907	Basel	3 – 2	Strassburger FV	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary

8 December 1907	Servette	5 – 1	Basel	Parc des Sports, Geneva
		Summary

24 December 1907	Mannheimer FG 1896	0 – 2	Basel	Mannheim
		Summary

26 December 1907	1. Hanauer FC 1893	1 – 0	Basel	Hanau
		Summary

Serie A

East group results

6 October 1907 Round 1	St. Gallen	3 – 5	Basel	Eisbahnfeld, St. Fiden
	Schwendener II 20' (1:1) Herzog (2:1) Locatelli (3:3)	Summary	(1:0) Thalmann 55' (2:2) Pfeiffer (2:3) Stöhrmann (3:4) Senn (3:5) Pfeiffer	Referee: Landolt (Grasshopper-Club Zürich)

13 October 1907 Round 2	Basel	6 – 0	Young Fellows Zürich	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Thalmann 10' (pen.), 1:0' Stöhrmann (2:0) Senn 60' (3:0) Senn 64' (4:0) Pfeiffer (5:0) Senn (6:0)	Summary		Referee: Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)

20 October 1907 Round 3	Winterthur	3 – 1	Basel	Winterthur
	(o.g. 1:0) (2:0) (3:0)	Summary	(3:1)	Referee: Tschudy (FC Blue Stars Zürich)

27 October 1907 Round 4	Basel	3 – 3	Old Boys	Landhof, Basel
	Pfeiffer (1:0) Thalmann Pfeiffer (2:1) Senn (3:3)	Summary	(o.g. 1:1) Persenico (pen. 2:2) Hopf (2:3) Niggli	Referee: Lalive (FC La Chaux-de-Fonds)

3 November 1907 Round 5	Basel	3 – 4	Grasshopper Club	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Pfeiffer (1:1) (2:3) Stöhrmann (3:4) Stöhrmann	Summary	(0:1) Schmidt II (1:2) Sutz 40' (1:3) Sutz (2:4) Sutz	Referee:

10 November 1907 Round 6	Zürich	5 – 3	Basel	Zürich
14:30	Hinnen (1:0) Staub (2:0) Schlegel (3:0) Weilenmann (4:2) Staub (5:3)	Summary	(3:1) (3:2) (4:3)	Referee: Arbenz (Grasshopper-Club Zürich)

17 November 1907 Round 7	Basel	6 – 5	Aarau	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Hasler Pfeiffer Stöhrmann	[ Summary]		Attendance: 300 Referee: A. Blades

15 March 1908 Round 8	Basel	4 – 2	Zürich	Landhof, Basel
15:00	Senn (1:2) Pfeiffer 70' (2:2) Pfeiffer (3:2) Senn (4:2)	Summary	(0:1) (o.g. 0:2)	Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)

22 March 1908 Round 9	Young Fellows Zürich	1 – 1	Basel	Zürich
		Summary		Referee: H. Tschudy (FC Blue Stars Zürich)

29 March 1908 Round 10	Old Boys	0 – 1	Basel	Basel
15:30		Summary	24' (o.g. 0:1) Zoller	Referee: Hr. Schupp (FC Old Boys Basel)

12 April 1908 Round 11	Basel	1 – 2	St. Gallen	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary		Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)

3 May 1908 Round 12	Aarau	6 – 2	Basel	Aarau
14:30	(1:0) (2:0) (3:1) (4:2) (5:2) (6:2)	Summary	(2:1) (3:2)	Referee: Kratz ( FC Zürich)

10 May 1908 Round 13	Grasshopper Club	1 – 3	Basel	Zürich
		Summary		Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)

24 May 1908 Round 14	Basel	1 – 4	Winterthur	Landhof, Basel
15:00		Summary		Referee: F. Seiffert (FC Old Boys Basel)

East group league table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	FC Winterthur	14	10	2	2	47	22	+25	22
2	Old Boys Basel	14	7	2	5	33	29	+4	16
3	FC Basel	14	6	2	6	40	39	+1	14
4	Grasshopper Club Zürich	14	6	1	7	38	40	−2	13
5	FC Zürich	14	6	1	7	36	39	−3	13

Source: rsssf

Sources and references

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
Switzerland 1907-08 at RSSSF
FCB team 1907-08 at fcb-archiv.ch

^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Games 1907-08 East Group". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1908". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ weltfussball.com. "freundschaft 1908 april schweiz deutschland". weltfussball.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
^ Deutscher Fußballbund. "Schweiz 5:3 Deutschland". dfb.de. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

FC Basel official site

[fcb-achiv-1907-08-1] Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Games 1907-08 East Group". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[rsssf_1908-2] Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1908". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[weltfussball-3] weltfussball.com. "freundschaft 1908 april schweiz deutschland". weltfussball.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

[dfb-1908-04-05-4] Deutscher Fußballbund. "Schweiz 5:3 Deutschland". dfb.de. Retrieved 2018-11-16. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

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