1896–97 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1896–97 Charlie Volderauer First team coach Charlie Volderauer(as team captain) Ground Landhof, Basel none n/a n/a 1895–96 1897–98 The FC Basel 1896–97 season was their fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. Emanuel Schiess was the club's chairman, but he stood down at the club's AGM and Charlie Volderauer was elected as new chairman. He was the club's third chairman in their history, following Roland Geldner (1893–1896) and Schiess. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The Swiss national championships had not yet been called to into life. Overview The idea of a Swiss national championship came to review with the Swiss Football Association, that had been founded the previous year and of which Basel and local rivals Old Boys were a member. But such a championship had not yet been called to into life. The club chairman Charlie Volderauer was the team captain this season. For this season club organised seven friendly matches for their first team. Four of these matches were held in Basel, one in the Landhof, two on the Schützenmatte and from the fourth the place of playing field is uncertain. Basel played two games in Mulhouse. The first against Strassburger FV was lost 3–4 and the second against FC Mulhouse was lost 2–3. Five games were played in November/December and the other two in March and June. Of the seven games, two were won, two were drawn and the team suffered three defeats. The team scored 16 and conceded nine goals. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/bilanz?saison=1896/97 Bilanz all games 1896–97 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 Players SUI GK Adolf Rittmann SUI DF Josy Ebinger SUI DF Charles Volderauer SUI FW Roland Geldner SUI FW Emanuel Schiess SUI FW Hermann Schneider ENG FW Rudolf Bax Alfred Devick SUI Joan Gamper SUI Fritz Gürtler SUI Louis Gürtler SUI Rudolf Iselin SUI Hans Koch SUI Albert Linder SUI Eric Mory SUI Paul Preiswerk SUI Gustav Schwarz SUI Rudolf Schwarz SUI R. Sommer SUI John Tollmann SUI R. C. Vanorden Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Autumn Friendly 8 November 1896 Basel 1 – 2 Summary Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel L Friendly 15 November 1896 15:30 Strassburger FV 4 – 3 Summary Basel Mulhouse L Friendly 22 November 1896 FC Mulhouse 3 – 2 Summary Basel Mulhouse L Friendly 29 November 1896 Basel 1 – 0 Summary Zürich 1:0 Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel Charlie Volderauer, Basel W Friendly 6 December 1896 Basel 9 – 0 Summary FC Bern 1:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0 Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel W Spring Friendly 28 March 1897 Basel 0 – 0 Summary Old Boys Basel D Friendly 13 June 1897 FC Bern 0 – 0 Summary Basel Kasernenmatte, Bern D See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons 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 1896–1897 at fcb-archiv.ch (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.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel