1900–01 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1900–01 First team coach Alphonse Schorpp(as team captain) Ernst-Alfred Thalmann Ground Landhof, Basel Serie A East group: fifth n/anote 00–01 The goal scorers in 5 of the 7 played league games during the 1900–01 season are unknown or incomplete. n/a 1899–1900 1901–02 The FC Basel 1900–01 season was their eighth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's new chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who took over the presidency from Charlie Volderauer at the AGM. He was the fourth chairman in the club's history. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel. Overview The first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897–98. This championship is considered as unofficial because it was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; founded in 1895). FC Basel did not participate in this first championship. But they did in the second edition during the season 1898–99. gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.ch 2012 https://gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.ch/2012/11/fc-basel.html FC Basel gottfriedfuchs.blogspot.ch 2016-11-16 The club did not compete in the following season either. But they have participated in every season since. Alphonse Schorpp was nominated as team captain by the club's board of directors under chairman Ernst-Alfred Thalmann. Schorpp led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. In the previous season the team played 16 friendly games. In this season they played eight friendlies and ten games in the league. There is no documentation that shows that there were pre-season friendly games this season, but there were during the winter break, four at home in the Landhof and one in Neuchâtel. At the end of the season the team twice travelled to Mulhouse, played once against FC Mulhouse and once against an Alsace selection. Of the eight friendlies four were won and two were drawn. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/bilanz?saison=1900/01 Bilanz 1900–01 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 The Serie A 1900–01 was divided into two groups, an east and a west group. Basel were with three teams from Zürich, Grasshopper Club Zürich, FC Zürich, Fire Flies Zürich and two other teams from Basel, Old Boys and Fortuna Basel. There were four teams in the west group. The start into the season with a home draw against Fire Flies and an away victory against local rivals can be considered as good. However, in the remaining eight games the team managed only one more draw and a forfait win. A fact is that Basel did not win a single match in the Landhof. Following the draw with Fire Flies, the team suffered four successive home defeats. A further curiosity in this season was that captain Schorpp scored his first league goal for his club on 3 March 1901 in the away game against Grasshopper Club. In fact he scored two goals, but this could not save the team from a 3–13 defeat. The reasons for this high defeat can be explained with the fact that one of the players missed the train and that the team played with a number of players from their reserve team. Apart from their surnames, Mislan, Pflüger and Trenchard Chaffey, hardly anything else is known of these three gentlemen. Despite the fact that Trenchard Chaffey scored the third Basel goal in this game, he only played in one more league game. Pflüger was documented as player in three friendlies, but the name Mislan can only be found on this one match sheet. Nevertheless, to date this remains the teams' highest and biggest defeat in the club's history. Josef Zindel 2018 Die ersten 125 Jahre Page 15, 1900 Zug verpasst Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel As mentioned, Basel ended the season with two victories, two draws and six defeats in fifth position in the east group. From this group the Grasshopper Club qualified themselves for the finals against FC Bern, who were the winners of the west group. The final on 31 March was replayed because a player in GC team was non-qualified and GC won the replay to become Swiss champions for the second successive season. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Swiss Series A 1900/01 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 Players SUI GK Paul Hofer SUI GK Giulio Cederna SUI GK Jules Fingerlin SUI DF Daniel Hug SUI MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann SUI FW Rudolf Gossweiler SUI FW Emil Hasler SUI FW Rudolf Landerer SUI FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer SUI FW Hans Riggenbach (Riggenbach II) SUI FW Emanuel Schiess SUI FW Karl Schneider SUI FW Hermann Schneider SUI Andre Burnier (Burnier II) SUI Gustave Burnier (Burnier I) FRA Jules Gérard ENG Archibald E. Gough SUI G. Gürtler ? Heinrichs SUI Eduard Laubi P. Lozéron SUI Alois Magnin ? Mislan SUI Hans Rietmann SUI Ami Pflüger SUI Alphonse Schorpp SUI Fritz Schweizer ? Stutz SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III) ENG L. B. Trenchard Chaffey Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA #CCCCCC Forfait 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Winter break Winter break 2 December 1900 15:00 Basel 1 – 1 Summary FC Neuchâtel Landhof, Basel D Winter break 9 December 1900 Basel 4 – 1 Summary Excelsior Basel Landhof, Basel W Winter break 16 December 1900 Basel 1 – 1 Summary Fortuna Basel Landhof, Basel D Winter break 27 January 1901 Basel 2 – 1 Summary La Chaux-de-Fonds 1:02:0 o.g. 2:1 Fingerlin Landhof, Basel E. Küenzli, (FC Fortuna Basel) W Winter break 3 February 1901 FC Neuchâtel 2 – 1 Summary Basel Neuchâtel L End of season End of season 24 March 1901 FC Mulhouse 3 – 5 Summary Basel Mulhouse W End of season 5 May 1901 La Chaux-de-Fonds 3 – 0 Summary Basel La Chaux-de-Fonds L End of season 11 May 1901 Alsace XI 1 – 4 Summary Basel Mulhouse W Serie A 1900–01 Swiss Serie A East group matches Round 1 28 October 1900 Basel 1 – 1 Summary Fire Flies Zürich H. Schneider Landhof, Basel FRA Jules Gérard (FC Basel) D Round 2 4 November 1900 15:00 Old Boys 0 – 4 Summary Basel Thalmann I 2x Pfeiffer 2x Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI Häberlin, (FC Bern) W Round 3 11 November 1900 Basel 2 – 4 Summary Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel SUI Mory, (Old Boys) L Round 4 18 November 1900 Basel 0 – 2 Summary Fortuna Basel Landhof, Basel SUI Frey, (Old Boys) L Round 5 25 November 1900 Zürich 3 – 3 Summary Basel 1:12:23:2 0:11:23:3 Hardau, Zürich SUI Rossi, (FC Zürich) D Round 6 10 February 1901 Fire Flies Zürich 3 – 2 Summary Basel Lauchsinger 1x Suares (I) 1x 1x Thalmann I Allmend Brunau, Zürich L Round 7 17 February 1901 Basel 2 – 3 Summary Old Boys Basel SUI Frey, (Old Boys) L Round 8 3 March 1901 Grasshopper Club 13 – 3 Summary Basel 2x Schorpp 1x Trenchard Chaffey Zürich SUI Frey, (Old Boys) L FCB played with only ten men, under these were four players from the reserve team Round 9 10 March 1901 Fortuna Basel 0 – 3 FF Summary Basel Basel P The FCB protested because of the unplayable pitch, which was granted. Fortuna subsequently waivered a replay. Round 10 17 March 1901 Basel 1 – 6 Summary Zürich Landhof, Basel SUI Burkhardt, (FC Basel) L East group league table main WDL East Q 2 GCZ Grasshopper Club ZÜR Zürich FFZ Fire Flies Zürich OBB Old Boys BAS Basel FOR Fortuna Basel 9 0 1 55 13 8 1 1 42 12 4 2 4 16 20 3 1 6 10 35 2 2 6 21 35 1 0 9 6 35 green1 Advanced to final A red1 Relegated R complete rsssf.com See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons Notes Footnotes note 00–01 FCB-GC, FCZ-FCB, FFZ-FCB, FCB-OB, FCB-FCZ 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 1900-01 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. Much documentation for this season is missing, most goal scorers remain unknown.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel