1902–03 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1902–03 First team coach Alphonse Schorpp(as team captain) Ernst-Alfred ThalmannJosy Ebinger Ground Thiersteinerallee, until 16 NovemberLandhof, from 23 November Serie A Central group: third Emil Hasler (3) n/a 1901–02 1903–04 The FC Basel 1902–03 season was their tenth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who had taken over the position for the second time, he stood down at the AGM and Josy Ebinger was elected. He became the fifth chairman in the club's history. FC Basel first played their home games in the Thiersteinerallee and later they returned to the Landhof. Overview Football ground To the start of the previous season the club was forced to find a new playing field, because the new co-tenants of the Landhof built a concrete bowling alley in the middle of the grounds. Thus the FC Basel first and reserve teams then had to play their games elsewhere. They eventually found a suitable field beside the Thiersteinerallee, in the south-east of the city. To the beginning of the 1902–03 Swiss Serie A season the teams also played their games there. Towards the end of the year 1902 the club met an agreement with the owner of the Landhof, Mrs Katharina Ehrler-Wittich, and the club was able to return to their original domicile. At the cost of 150 Swiss Francs the club members removed the bowling alley and made the pitch playable once again. Josef Zindel 2018 Die ersten 125 Jahre / 1901 and 1902 Kegelbahn abgetragen Page 16, 1901 and 1902 Dismantling a bowling alley Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel Football season Alphonse Schorpp was the team captain for the third successive season and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. There is no documentation that shows that there were pre-season friendly games this season, although the domestic league did not start until November. However, because the league season ended early there were friendlies added directly afterwards. A curiosity that comes to note is, that there were two games against French team Mulhouse. Directly after the league group had been completed, the first game at the Landhof was won 8–1 and had five different goal scorers. The return match, held just two weeks later, was lost 0–5. Josef Zindel 2018 Die ersten 125 Jahre Page 17, 1903 Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel The Swiss Serie A season 1902–03 was divided into three regional groups. There were six teams in the east group, five teams in the central and four teams in the west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with two teams from the capital Young Boys and FC Bern and two further teams from region Basel, these being Old Boys Basel and Fortuna Basel. A curiosity during the championship was the match against Fortuna. The game was abandoned in the 70th minute, because the Fortuna players left the field in protest against a sending off. The referee commission, which was responsible in such cases as a court of arbitration, decided let the score count as end result. Fortuna were later disqualified by the Swiss Football Association due to incidents in the match against Old Boys. The decision was that the results of the previously played matches would remain in the league table, but the remaining matches were not played and not awarded. Basel completed the central division as the only team with eight games. They had three victories and five defeats with thus six points, 13 to 20 goals. Basel were in third position in the table, six points behind Young Boys who won the group one point ahead of Old Boys. Young Boys therefore qualified for the finals. Here YB won both matches and became Swiss champions. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html rsssf-Swiss Serie A 1902–03 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 Daniel Betschart 2012 http://www.wieist.ch/pages-wieist/klassen-linkseiten/iva/iva-besipiele-2012-13/IVA-YB-Dani-B.pdf IVA Homepage über den BSC Young Boys wieist.ch 2016-11-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20170202005419/http://www.wieist.ch/pages-wieist/klassen-linkseiten/iva/iva-besipiele-2012-13/IVA-YB-Dani-B.pdf 2017-02-02 dead Players SUI GK Paul Hofer SUI GK Eugen Stutz (Stutz I) SUI DF Daniel Hug SUI DF Adolf Ramseyer SUI MF Hans Riggenbach (Riggenbach II) SUI MF Emil Hasler SUI MF Alphonse Schorpp SUI MF Eugen Strauss SUI FW Rudolf Gossweiler (Gossweiler I) SUI FW Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler II) SUI MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann (Thalmann I) SUI FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer (?) Clarasso Max Hendrichs SUI Percy Kaufmann (Kaufmann I) SUI Albert Klein SUI FW Rudolf Landerer SUI Eduard Laubi (?) Lee P. Lozéron Emil Meyer Paul Nosch SUI Hans Rietmann SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II) SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III) Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA #CCCCCC Forfait 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches End of season End of season 15 March 1903 Basel 8 – 1 Summary Mulhouse Laubi 2x Schorpp 2x Gossweiler I 2x Gossweiler II 1x Hasler 1x Landhof, Basel 200 W End of season 29 March 1903 Mulhouse 5 – 0 Summary Basel 1:02:03:04:05:0 Mulhouse L End of season 26 April 1903 Basel 1 – 2 Summary Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel L End of season 10 May 1903 10:15 Basel 3 – 2 Summary Strassburger FV Schorpp 1x Gossweiler II 1x Hasler 1x Landhof, Basel W End of season 17 May 1903 Basel 5 – 1 Summary FC Neuchâtel Landhof, Basel W Serie A 1902–03 Swiss Serie A Central group matches Round 1 2 November 1902 Basel 1 – 4 Summary FC Bern Landerer Ochsenbein Artigue Kehrli Kehrli Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI Huguenin, (Zürich) L Round 2 9 November 1902 FC Fortuna Basel 0 – 4 Summary Basel 1x Landerer 1x Hug 2x Laubi Basel W Round 3 16 November 1902 Basel 0 – 7 Summary Young Boys Kratz O. Schwab Thiersteinerallee, Basel L Paul Hofer had to leave the field at the beginning of the game due to a sprain, therefore FCB had to play practically the whole match with just ten players Round 4 23 November 1902 Basel 1 – 2 Summary Old Boys Hasler 1:0 1:1 Senn1:2 Senn Landhof, Basel SUI A. Lalive, (La Chaux-de-Fonds) L Round 5 30 November 1902 Basel 2 – 0 Summary FC Fortuna Basel Schorpp 1:0Hug 2:0 Landhof, Basel SUI Ankersmith, (Grasshopper Club) W The game was abandoned in the 70th minute, because the Fortuna players left the field in protest against a sending off. The referee commission, which was responsible in such cases, as a court of arbitration, decided let the score count as end result. Round 6 15 February 1903 FC Bern 0 – 3 FF Summary Basel Bern P FC Bern refused to play because, in their opinion, their own ground was unplayable Round 7 22 February 1903 Old Boys 3 – 0 Summary Basel Senn 30 1:0Seiffert 2:0Riggenbach II 85 o.g. 3:0 Thiersteinerallee, Basel L Round 8 1 March 1903 15:25 Young Boys 4 – 2 Summary Basel Kratz 1:02_0Kämpfer 3:0Kratz 4:2 3:1 Hasler3:2 Hasler Spitalacker, Bern 500 SUI Ducommun, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds L Central group league table main WDL Central Q 2 YB Young Boys OBB Old Boys BAS Basel BER FC Bern FOR Fortuna Basel 6 0 1 29 5 5 1 1 16 7 3 0 5 13 20 1 1 5 10 21 1 0 4 3 18 green1 Advance to finals A red1 Disqualified Fortuna were disqualified due to incidents in the match against Old Boys. Their last three games were not played and not awarded. DQ complete rsssf See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons Notes 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 FCB squad 1902-03 at Basler Fussballarchiv Switzerland 1902-03 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 incomplete.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel