1904–05 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1904–05 First team coach Eugen Strauss(as team captain) Ernst-Alfred Thalmann Ground Landhof, Basel Serie A Central group 4th n/anote 04–05 The player lines-ups and goal scorers for 3 of the 8 league games in the 1904–05 season are unknown or incomplete. n/a 1903–04 1905–06 The FC Basel 1904–05 season was their twelfth season in their existence. The club's chairman was Ernst-Alfred Thalmann, who was chairman for the second consecutive year. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the Quarter Kleinbasel. Overview Eugen Strauss was team captain and as captain he led the team trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. The team played just two pre-season friendlies, one in France against Mulhouse and one in Zürich against Grasshopper Club. The game against Mulhouse was won 8–1 the return match four months later in the Landhof was only drawn. The match against the Grasshoppers ended in a defeat. In the winter break the team travelled to Germany. They played against 1. FC Pforzheim on Christmas day and were defeated 7–3. On boxing day they played a game against Karlsruher FV and managed a draw. At the end of the season the team travelled again to Germany and were defeated 5–1 by Freiburger FC. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/spiele?saison=1904%2F05&liga=8 Test games 1904–05 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 The seventh league championship, Swiss Serie A season 1904–05, was divided into three regional groups, east, central and west. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys, FC Bern, Weissenbühl Bern and Old Boys Basel. This season was a sportingly very disappointing season for Basel. There were just two victories from eight games, both times against Weissenbühl Bern. The away game was won 9–2 and the return match 3–0. Weissenbühl Bern lost all their eight games and were relegated at the end of the season with a goal tally of five scored and 52 conceded. Basel's other six games all ended in defeats and they landed in second last position in the group table, scoring 18 and conceding 20 goals. In the central group Young Boys Bern and the Old Boys Basel ended the season level on points as they did the year before and so a play-off match was arranged (see also foot note below). This time the Young Boys won the play-off with 2–1 and therefore they qualified for the finals. In the finals Grasshopper Club won both their matches and became Swiss champions for the third time in seven years. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Serie A 1904/05 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 Players Definite squad members SUI GK Pierre Chevalley SUI GK Paul Hofer SUI GK Eugen Stutz (Stutz I) SUI FW Daniel Hug SUI DF Adolf Ramseyer SUI FW Emil Hasler SUI DF Eugen Strauss SUI DF P. Vaney FW Manuel Bourgeois SUI FW Karl Hans Gossweiler (Gossweiler II) SUI MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann SUI FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer SUI Percy Kaufmann (Kaufmann I) SUI Edwin Kaufmann (Kaufmann II) SUI Georg Michoud Fritz Runkel Hugo Sarcander Hans Schaub Heinrich Schiess Emil Vogt Probable squad members SUI FW Rudolf Karl Gossweiler (Gossweiler I) SUI P. Lozéron SUI A. Klein SUI Eduard Laubi SUI Paul Nosch SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II) SUI Paul Thalmann (Thalmann III) Artur Viehoff Results Legend #CCFFCC Win 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFFFCC Draw 1px solid #AAAAAA #FFCCCC Loss 1px solid #AAAAAA Friendly matches Pre-season Pre-season October 1904 Mulhouse 1 – 8 Summary Basel Mulhouse W Pre-season 13 October 1904 Grasshopper Club 2 – 1 Summary Basel Zürich L Winter break and end of season Winter break 25 December 1904 1. FC Pforzheim 7 – 3 Summary Basel Pforzheim L Winter break 26 December 1904 Karlsruher FV 4 – 4 Summary Basel Karlsruhe D Winter break 12 February 1905 Basel 2 – 2 Summary Mulhouse (Kaufmann I) 15 1:0Bourgeois 60 2:1 57 1:1 Helmboldt66 2:2 Helmboldt Landhof, Basel Seiffert, Old Boys D End of season 26 March 1905 Freiburger FC 5 – 1 Summary Basel 1:02:13:14:15:1 1:1 Hasler Freiburg im Breisgau L End of season 16 April 1905 15:00 Basel 1 – 0 Summary Young Fellows Zürich 1:0 Landhof, Basel W End of season 24 April 1905 14:00 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4 – 4 Summary Basel Parc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds D Serie A 1904–05 Swiss Serie A Central group matches Round 1 16 October 1904 15:00 Basel 0 – 5 Summary Old Boys 0:1 Graf0:2 Seiffert0:3 Wächter0:4 Seiffert0:5 Seiffert Landhof, Basel L Round 2 23 October 1904 15:00 Weissenbühl Bern 2 – 9 Summary Basel 1:72:8 0:1 Gossweiler II0:2 Gossweiler II0:3 Kaufmann II0:4 Chevalley0:5 Thalmann I0:6 Gossweiler II0:7 Hug1:8 Thalmann I2:9 Hug Allmend, Bern SUI C. Christen, (FC Bern) W Round 3 30 October 1904 15:30 Young Boys 3 – 1 Summary Basel 1:12:13:1 o.g. 0:1 Hess Spitalacker, Bern SUI R. Studer, (FC Bern) L Round 4 13 November 1904 14:30 Basel 1 – 2 Summary FC Bern Landhof, Basel SUI L Karl Hans Gossweiler broke his leg during the first half and according to the report in "Football" he was replaced by Pierre Chevalley, but Chevalley probably only took his position, as substitutions were not common at that time. Round 5 20 November 1904 15:00 Old Boys 2 – 0 Summary Basel 1:02:0 Margarethenwiese, Basel L Round 6 27 November 1904 15:00 Basel 3 – 0 Summary Weissenbühl Bern Kaufmann I 1:02:03:0 Landhof, Basel W Round 7 26 February 1905 Basel 3 – 4 Summary Young Boys Landhof, Basel L Round 8 5 March 1905 FC Bern 2 – 1 Summary Basel 1:12:1 0:1 Bern SUI R. Bell, (Young Boys) L Central group league table main WDL Central Q 2 YB Young Boys OBB Old Boys BER FC Bern BAS Basel WEI Weissenbühl Bern 6 1 1 35 10 6 1 1 27 5 4 2 2 14 12 2 0 6 18 20 0 0 8 5 52 green1 Play-off winners, advance to finals A green3 Play-off B complete rsssf NB: the match FC Basel - Young Boys Bern ended with the final score 3-4. Falsely, however, the result was originally reported as a 4-4 draw. Thus Old Boys would have finished in first position and were nominated as participants for the finals. After the mistake was noticed the W-D-L records and points totals in the league table were corrected and the necessary play-off match was arranged. However, the total goals remained without modification and consequently this leads to the fact that most older sources list the goal records for Young Boys and FC Basel as 35-11 and 19-20 respectively. Obviously this is arithmetically incorrect. See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons Notes Footnotes note 04–05 1904–1905 season matches: FCB-Bern, OB-FCB, FCB-YB 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 1904-05 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 missing.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel