1903–04 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1903–04 First team coach Daniel Hug(as team captain) Ernst-Alfred Thalmann Ground Landhof, Basel Serie A Central group: third n/anote 03–04 The player lines-ups and goal scorers for 2 of the 9 league games in the 1903–04 season are unknown or incomplete. n/a 1902–03 1904–05 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. Stefan Peter http://www.fussballstarbasel.ch/Nachruf-FC-Fortuna-Basel.php Überregionale Meisterschaften, Schweizer und Basler Cup 2020-11-16 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. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?saison=1903%2F04&liga=8 Test games 1903–04 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 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. https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/rangliste?saison=1903/04 Central group league table Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 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. Luc Nackaerts Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Serie A 1903/04 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 Players SUI GK Paul Hofer SUI GK Eugen Stutz (Stutz I) SUI DF Daniel Hug Captain SUI DF Adolf Ramseyer SUI FW Emil Hasler SUI MF Eugen Strauss SUI FW Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler II) SUI FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer SUI MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann (Thalmann I) SUI Paul Egli SUI Percy Kaufmann SUI Albert Klein SUI Eduard Laubi SUI P. Lozéron SUI Hans Rietmann ? Strub SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II) SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III) Artur Viehoff SUI FW Rudolf Gossweiler (Gossweiler I) SUI Paul Nosch SUI MF Alphonse Schorpp Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA #CCCCCC Forfait 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Pre-season Pre-season 18 October 1903 Basel 2 – 1 Summary Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel H. Gautschy, Old Boys W Grasshopper Club played with 10 men. Mid-season 6 December 1903 Basel 2 – 1 Summary Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel W Winter break and end of season Winter break 17 January 1904 Grasshopper Club 6 – 6 Summary Basel Gossweiler II Gossweiler II Hasler Hasler Laubi Pfeiffer Zürich Seeburger D Winter break 24 January 1904 15:00 Montriond Lausanne 2 – 3 Summary Basel Pflüger 25 1:150 2:2 20 0:140 1:2 Pfeiffer2:3 Ramseyer Lausanne W End of season 20 March 1904 Basel 1 – 3 Summary Old Boys Hasler Seiffert Schwarz Gonser Landhof, Basel L End of season 10 April 1904 Mulhouse 8 – 6 Summary Basel Mulhouse L Binser and Hennrichs from Karlsruher FV played for Mulhouse. Serie A 1903–04 Swiss Serie A Central group matches Round 1 25 October 1903 Basel 3 – 1 Summary Fortuna Basel Gossweiler II Hasler Thalmann I Landhof, Basel W Round 2 1 November 1903 FC Bern 2 – 2 Summary Basel Bern D Round 3 8 November 1903 15:00 Floria Biel-Bienne 2 – 4 Summary Basel Cooper 15 1:0Minondo 88 2:4 1:1 Thalmann I1:2 Hasler1:3 Gossweiler II1:4 Hug Biel/Bienne SUI Christen, FC Bern W Round 4 15 November 1903 Old Boys 5 – 1 Summary Basel Seiffert 1:0Landerer 10 2:0Bolliger 3:1Bolliger 4:1Schwarz 5:1 2:1 Pfeiffer Basel SUI Christen, FC Bern L Round 5 22 November 1903 15:10 Young Boys 7 – 2 Summary Basel Kratz 15 1:0Kämpfer 2:0O. Schwab 3:24:25:26:27:2 2:12:2 Hasler Spitalacker, Bern SUI Frey, Old Boys L Round 6 20 December 1903 Basel 2 – 6 Summary Old Boys Buser Buser Buser Schwarz Schwarz Kupferschmid Landhof, Basel L Round 7 14 February 1904 Fortuna Basel 0 – 3 FF Summary Basel Landhof, Basel P Fortuna Basel did not play this game and on 25 February 1904 gave forfait for all their remaining games. Round 8 21 February 1904 Basel 3 – 0 Summary FC Bern Pfeiffer 40 1:0Gossweiler II 2:0Hasler 3:0 Landhof, Basel SUI Frey W Round 9 28 February 1904 Basel 6 – 0 Summary Floria Biel/Bienne Gossweiler II Gossweiler II Pfeiffer Pfeiffer Hug Ramseyer Landhof, Basel SUI Frey W Round 10 13 March 1904 Basel 2 – 2 Summary Young Boys Landhof, Basel SUI Frey D Central group league table main WDL Central Q 2 OBB Old Boys YB Young Boys BAS Basel BER FC Bern FBB Floria Biel/Bienne FOR Fortuna BaselFortuna The last four games of Fortuna Basel were awarded 3–0 forfait for their opponents. 8 1 1 41 11 8 1 1 37 14 5 2 3 28 25 3 3 4 19 20 2 1 7 11 38 0 0 10 4 32 green1 Play-off winners, advance to finals A green3 Play-off B red2 Relegated R1 red1 Withdrawn and relegated R2 complete rsssf Note to Fortuna Basel Fortuna See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons Notes Footnotes note 03–04 1903–1904 season matches: Bern-FCB, FCB-OB References Sources Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. 978-3-7245-2027-6 Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. 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.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel