1897–98 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1897–98 Charlie Volderauer First team coach unknown Ground Landhof, Basel none n/a n/a 1896–97 1898–99 The FC Basel 1897–98 season was their fifth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Charlie Volderauer and he was chairman between 1896 and 1900. He was the third chairman in the club's history, following Roland Geldner (1893–1896) and Emanuel Schiess (1896). FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein neighborhood of Kleinbasel (lesser Basel). The official Swiss championship had not yet been called to into life. Although this season a first, unofficial, competition was played, Basel did not compete. Overview Although the first national championship in Switzerland took place in 1897–98 it 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, neither did local rivals Old Boys. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Swiss championship 1897–98 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 From a local point of view, there were also following clubs from Basel who played football. FC Play Fellows were founded in 1895, FC Excelsior founded 1896 and FC Kleinbasel founded at the beginning of 1898. The football team Buckjumpers-Club, founded 1894, dispanded themselves during 1897 and most players moved to FC Basel who then fielded a reserve team. FC Gymnasia, who were founded 1884 by Gymniasasten and real high school students was also dissolved. The RTV/Realschüler-Turnverein (real school student gymnastics club) had a football team from 1893 to 1898 from which the FC Old Boys emerged in 1894. Stefan Peter http://www.fussballstarbasel.ch/vereine-bs.php Basler Fussballvereine / Basler football clubs 2020-11-16 For this season FC Basel organised 10 friendly matches for their first team. Five were played at home in the Landhof and all five were won. Two friendlies were played in Zürich and both ended in high scoring defeats, 3–7 against Zürich and 0–7 against Grasshopper Club. The return game against local club Old Boys was drawn and the return game against Biel-Bienne was won 5–2. The friendly match against FC Bern was played on neutral ground in Aarau and Basel won this game 4–1. Of their 10 games Basel won seven, drew once and were defeated twice. The team scored 29 and conceded 20 goals. Much documentation for this season's matches are incomplete, therefore most goal scorers remain unknown. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/bilanz?saison=1897/98 Bilanz 1897–98 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 Wilhelm Glaser SUI FW Emanuel Schiess SUI FW Hermann Schneider SUI FW Ernst-Alfred Thalmann I SUI FW Hans Billeter Alfred Devick SUI Georges Fürstenberger SUI DF Ernst Gass SUI Louis Gürtler SUI Rudolf Iselin SUI Rudolf La Roche SUI Albert Linder SUI ? Lohn SUI Hermann Matzinger SUI Eric Mory ? Preiswerk SUI MF Otto Reber SUI Rudolf Schwarz SUI R. Sommer SUI John Tollmann SUI Roland Ziegler SUI Walter Zürrer Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Autumn Friendly 17 October 1897 Zürich 7–3 Summary Basel 1:1Enderli 2:13:2Meyer 4:3Mädler 5:3Wiederkehr 6:3Wiederkehr 7:3 0:12:2 H. Schneider 3:3 Zürich SUI J. Suter, (FC Zürich) L Friendly 24 October 1897 Basel 7–0 Summary Biel-Bienne H. Schneider 1:02:03:04:05:06:07:0 Landhof, Basel W Friendly 31 October 1897 Basel 1–0 Summary Old Boys 1:0 Landhof, Basel H. Burkhardt, (Basel) W Friendly 7 November 1897 Grasshopper Club 7–0 Summary Basel Zürich L Friendly 14 November 1897 Basel 3–1 Summary FC Excelsior Zürich Landhof, Basel de Costa, (FC Basel) W Spring Friendly 13 March 1897 Biel-Bienne 2–5 Summary Basel Dubois Héritier H. Schneider H. Schneider Thalmann I Thalmann I Billeter Biel/Bienne W Friendly 27 March 1898 Basel 3–1 Summary Winterthur Landhof, Basel Tollmann (FC Basel) W Friendly 1 May 1898 10:00 Old Boys 1–1 Summary Basel 61 1:1 6 0:1 H. Schneider Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel J. Enderli, (FC Zürich) D Friendly 8 May 1898 14:30 Basel 2–0 Summary FC Fortuna Zürich Landhof, Basel Tollmann (FC Basel) W Friendly 10 July 1898 FC Bern 1–4 Summary Basel 1:1 o.g. 0:11:21:31:4 Aarau de Costa, (FC Basel) W 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 1897-1898 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