1912–13 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1912–13 First team coach unknown Ernst-Alfred Thalmann Ground Landhof, Basel Serie A Group Stage: 4th Anglo-Cup Winners Christian Albicker n/a 1911–12 1913–14 The FC Basel 1912–13 season was their twentieth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, all together it was his eleventh presidential term and his fifth season in succession. At the AGM Thalmann stood down and Karl Ibach took over. The club announced that to that point it had grown to have over 300 members at over half of them were active football players. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel. Overview Emil Hasler was the team captain for the fourth year running and as captain he led the trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. In their 1912–13 season Basel played a total of 37 matches, 19 were friendly games, 14 were in the domestic league and 5 in the Anglo Cup. Of the friendly games just three were played in the Landhof, six others were away games in Switzerland and ten games were played abroad. During the pre-season the team travelled to Germany twice, played against Karlsruher FC Phönix and Freiburger FC, and travelled to France to play Strassburger FV. During the winter break the team made a tour to North Rhine-Westphalia and before Christmas played VfR Mannheim, on Christmas day played ETB Schwarz-Weiss Essen and on boxing day played Düsseldorfer FC Fortuna 1911. The team came home with two victories and one defeat. At easter the team made a tour to eastern Germany. They played against SC Erfurt on easter Sunday, against Sportlust Dresden on easter monday and against SC Wacker Leipzig the day after. At the end of the season Basel played host to English club Preston North End. Of the friendly games 10 were won, three were drawn and six ended with a defeat. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?saison=1912%2F13&liga=8 Test games 1912–13 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 The Swiss Serie A 1912–13 was divided into three regional groups, an east, a central and a west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with local rivals Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. The other teams playing in this group were Young Boys, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC Bern and Biel-Bienne. Basel started badly, with three defeats and a draw in the first four games. Despite seven victories and one draw during the next ten games, the team could not reduce the gap to the top of the league table. Basel ended the season in fourth position. They were four points behind group winners Old Boys, who continued to the finals. Lausanne Sports won the championship. Group bottom was Biel-Bienne, who therefore entered the play-off round against relegation, in which they were successful. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Switzerland 1913 rsssf.org 2018-11-16 The Englishman Percy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the club FC Basel had ever employed. Prior to Humphreys signing, it had always been the team captain who had taken over the function of the trainer. Under club chairman Karl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913. He had previously been head-coach for Hartlepool United in the English North Eastern League. FC Basel 1893 https://www.fcb.ch/de-CH/Club/Clubgeschichte#1900bis1914 Clubgeschichte de FC Basel homepage 2020-11-16 2017-10-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20171008130652/https://www.fcb.ch/de-CH/Club/Clubgeschichte#1900bis1914 dead The Anglo-Cup was a forerunner to the Swiss Cup. https://www.fussball-schweiz.ch/schweizer-cup/geschichte-und-statistik/index.html Schweizer Cup, Geschichte und Statistik Swiss Cup, history and statistics daniel schaub medienbüro gmbh 2020-11-16 It was held for the fourth time this season and the first round was held on 1 May. In the first round Basel were drawn at home against lower classed Solothurn. In the second round, in the quarter-final and in the semi-final against East group teams, these being St. Gallen, Zürich and Winterthur and in that order. All these games were played at home in the Landhof and Basel won each game. In the final, which was played in the Hardau Stadium in Zürich on 29 June 1913, Basel played against lower classed Weissenbühl Bern and won 5–0. Humphreys led Basel to win their first national title. But memories of this soon faded, because the Anglo Cup was not played the following year and in fact it was discontinued completely due to World War I. Christoph Kieslich Mike Gosteli 17 May 2013 https://tageswoche.ch/sport/der-vergessene-cup-sieg/ Der vergessene Cup-Sieg The forgotten cup victory TagesWoche 2020-11-16 Players Squad members SUI GK Fridolin Wenger GK P. Vietti SUI DF Paul Bettex SUI DF Hermann Moll SUI MF Fritz Albicker (II) SUI MF Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser GER MF Josef Goldschmidt SUI MF Ernst Gossweiler SUI MF Emil Hasler SUI MF Ernst Kaltenbach SUI MF Emil Schreyer SUI FW Christian Albicker (I) FW Rudolf Bredschneider SUI FW Karl Wunderle Fritz Aeppli Roger Breithaupt Hans Kramer ? Riesterer ? Rittel ? Weiss Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Pre-season Pre-season August 1912 Strassburger FV 0–0 Summary Basel Strassburg D Pre-season 8 August 19112 Karlsruher FC Phönix 0–4 Summary Basel Karlsruhe W Pre-season 1 September 1912 Freiburger FC 4–2 Summary Basel Freiburg im Breisgau L Pre-season 22 September 1912 Young Fellows Zürich 0–2 Summary Basel Zürich W Pre-season 22 September 1912 Aarau 1–0 Summary Basel 1:0 Aarau L Winter break to end of season Winter break 22 December 1912 VfR Mannheim II 0–8 Summary Basel 1:0 Wenger2:0 Albicker II3:04:05:06:07:08:0 Mannheim W Winter break 25 December 1912 ETB Schwarz-Weiss Essen 2–1 Summary Basel Essen L Winter break 26 December 1912 Düsseldorfer FC Fortuna 1911 2–4 Summary Basel Düsseldorf W The game was stopped after 85 minutes because of spectator incidents Winter break 5 January 1913 St. Gallen 2–2 Summary Basel St. Gallen D Mid-season 23 February 1913 Zürich 7–1 Summary Basel Zürich L Mid-season 16 March 1913 10:00 Basel 4–3 Summary Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel W Mid-season 23 March 1913 SC Erfurt 2–1 Summary Basel Erfurt L Mid-season 24 March 1913 BC Sportlust Dresden 1–2 Summary Basel Dresden W Mid-season 25 March 1913 SC Wacker Leipzig 3–3 Summary Basel Leipzig D Mid-season 13 April 1913 FC Stella Fribourg 0–5 Summary Basel Freiburg im Breisgau W End of season 27 April 1913 St. Gallen 1–3 Summary Basel St. Gallen W End of season 10 May 1913 Basel 0–11 Summary Preston North End Landhof, Basel L End of season 1 June 1913 10:30 Basel 7–2 Summary Freiburger FC 1:0 2:03:04:05:06:17:2 5:16:2 Landhof, Basel W Freiburger FC played with 10 men End of season 8 June 1913 St. Gallen 1–4 Summary Basel St. Gallen W Serie A 1912–13 Swiss Serie A Central group results Round 1 13 October 1912 Basel 1–3 Summary Nordstern Basel Kaltenbach 1:0 1:11:21:3 Landhof, Basel SUI von Grafenried FC Bern L Round 2 20 October 1912 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4–2 Summary Basel 1:02:03:04:0 4:14:2 La Chaux-de-Fonds SUI Ammann Cantonal Neuchâtel L Round 3 27 October 1912 15:00 Basel 2–2 Summary Old Boys Wunderle 1:2Schreyer 2:2 0:1 Merktpen. 0:2 Landhof, Basel SUI Steiger FC Bern D Round 4 17 November 1912 15:05 FC Bern 2–1 Summary Basel Niquille 42 1:0Keller 55 2:1 50 1:1 Kaltenbach Kirchenfeld, Bern SUI Gassmann Biel-Bienne L Round 5 24 November 1912 15:00 Basel 6–0 Summary Étoile-Sporting Albicker (I) 1:0Albicker (I) 2:0Wenger 3:0Albicker (I) 4:0Albicker (I) 5:0Wenger 6:0 Landhof, Basel SUI Steiger FC Bern W Round 6 1 December 1912 Young Boys 2–3 Summary Basel Adamina 1:1Bertschi 2:1 20 0:1 Schreyer2:22:3 Bern W Round 7 15 December 1912 14:40 Biel-Bienne 3–2 Summary Basel Siegrist 46 1:2Siegrist 48 2:2Siegrist pen. 3:2 0:10:2 Kaltenbach Biel-Bienne SUI Steiger FC Bern L Round 8 12 January 1913 Basel 6–1 Summary Young Boys Albicker (I) 1:02:13:14:15:16:1 1:1 Landhof, Basel 1,000 W Round 9 19 January 1913 15:15 Nordstern Basel 1–5 Summary Basel Hermann 1:3 0:1 Albicker (I) 0:2 Schreyer0:3 Wenger1:4 Schreyer80 1:5 Albicker (I) Staldenrain, Riehen 1,200 SUI Huldi Zürich W Round 10 2 February 1913 15:10 Old Boys 8–3 Summary Basel 8 1:0Kalt 18 2:041 3:045 4:1Lüscher 5:36:37:3Kalt 8:3 41 3:1 Albicker (I)4:2 Schreyer4:3 Albicker (I) Margarethenwiese, Basel SUI Reich Winterthur L Round 11 9 February 1913 15:15 Basel 2–0 Summary La Chaux-de-Fonds Albicker (I) 1:0Schreyer 2:0 Landhof, Basel W Round 12 30 March 1913 Basel 9–2 Summary Biel-Bienne 1:02:03:04:05:26:27:28:29:2 4:14:2 Landhof, Basel SUI Adamir Sandoz La Chaux-de-Fonds W Round 13 6 April 1913 Basel 2–2 Summary FC Bern Wunderle 21 1:1Bredschneider 2:2 6 0:1 Beyeler II1:2 Beyeler I Landhof, Basel 1,500 SUI Dondelinger (FC Breite) D Round 14 20 April 1913 Étoile-Sporting 0–2 Summary Basel 0:10:2 Parc de l'Etoile La Chaux-de-Fonds W Central group league table main WDL Central 5 Q 2 OBB Old Boys YB Young Boys ÉCF Étoile-Sporting BAS Basel BER FC Bern NOR Nordstern Basel CDF La Chaux-de-Fonds BIE Biel-Bienne 9 2 3 43 29 9 1 4 41 25 8 1 5 33 25 7 2 5 46 30 6 2 6 43 38 5 2 7 35 46 3 3 8 38 50 2 1 11 29 65 green1 Advance to finals A red1 To relegation play-off R complete rsssf Anglo-Cup Round of 32 1 May 1913 15:30 Basel 5–0 Summary Solothurn Landhof, Basel 400 W Round of 16 8 June 1913 10:30 Basel 4–1 Summary St. Gallen Schreyer 1:0Albicker (I) 2:0Schreyer 3:0Schreyer 4:1 3:1 Landhof, Basel SUI Dondelinger (FC Breite) W Quarterfinal 15 June 1913 Basel 3–0 FF Summary Zürich Landhof, Basel W Semifinal 22 June 1913 Basel 3–0 Summary Winterthur Landhof, Basel SUI W Final 29 June 1913 FC Weissenbühl Bern 0–5 Summary Basel Hardau, Zürich W See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons References Sources Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. 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