1901–02 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1901–02 First team coach unknown Emanuel Schiess Ground Thiersteinerallee, Basel Serie A Central group 2nd n/anote 01–02 The player lines-ups in one match and goal scorers in three matches of the 7 league games during the 1901–02 season are unknown or incomplete. n/a 1900–01 1902–03 The FC Basel 1901–02 season was the ninth season in their existence. It was the third season that they played for the Swiss championship in the Series A. The club's chairman was Emanuel Schiess. This was his second period as the club's chairman. In this season Basel played their home games in a new location, next to the Thiersteinerallee, in the Gundeldingen neighborhood in the south-eastern part of the municipality of Basel. Overview Football ground During the early years of the football sport, an adequate field that could be used as a football pitch was the biggest problem for all clubs. At the very beginning, FC Basel were lucky to find the Landhof, which had just been taken over by Katharina Ehrler-Wittich from the inheritors of Andreas Merian-Iselin de, a member of the Merian family. Straight after the club's foundation, she made the Landhof available, free of charge for the first few years, as a playing surface. From 1895 to 1901, the Vélodrome de Bâle, a cycle track, was also located around the grounds. As the Vélodrome club dissolved a new tenant was found and at the start of the 1901–02 season a new football ground had to be found, because the new tenants had built a concrete bowling lane right across the middle of the football pitch. The club tried and tested the FC Excelsior grounds and the sports grounds next to St. Paul's Church, but to no avail. They eventually found a space in the Thiersteinerallee, right next to the pitch that local rivals BSC Old Boys were using. The Landhof was to the north of the river Rhine and the Thiersteinerallee was about eight kilometers south. The move from the former field to the new field was made late in the evening, the heavy goal posts and crossbars being carried manually across the town in the dark, so that no one would notice that the club was lacking money. This new pitch was used for one and a half years until the concrete bowling alley was eventually removed. 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 training and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played two pre-season friendlies and two during the mid-season. During the winter break and again at the end of the season the team travelled twice to France to play Mulhouse. Both games ended with a victory. Of the total 11 friendlies that the team played that season seven were won and four ended with a defeat. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/bilanz?saison=1901/02 Bilanz 1901–02 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” 2020-11-16 Basel played two friendly games against FC Gymnasia 1900, a team that had been newly founded in February 1900 by young players from the upper gymnasium, who united to form a football team. The team was attempting to join the Swiss Football Association. (In January 1904 the club dissolved and merged with Old Boys). Stefan Peter http://www.fussballstarbasel.ch/saisons.php Basler Fussballvereine 2020-11-16 By the end of the previous season 15 clubs with more than 1,000 members had joined the Swiss Football Association. Most of the clubs had two or three teams, therefore the third tier of Swiss football was introduced called Serie C. From a local point of view this meant the following: Serie A with Basel, Old Boys, Fortuna Basel and Excelsior Basel. Serie B with Old Boys II, Basel II and Excelsior Basel II. Serie C with Columbia Basel, Fortuna Basel II, Gymnasia Basel and Nordstern Basel. Stefan Peter http://www.fussballstarbasel.ch/saisons.php Überregionale Meisterschaften, Schweizer und Basler Cup 2020-11-16 The Swiss Serie A season 1901–02 was divided into three regional groups. There were five teams in the east group, five in the central group and four in the west group. Basel were allocated to the central group together with the Young Boys Bern and the afore mentioned three other teams from Basel. Although Fortuna had been relegated the previous season, their reserve team had been Serie B champions and achieved promotion. Excelsior were disqualified from the Serie A by the Swiss Football Association (ASF-SFV) in the mid-season. The reason was that they had illegally poached players from their local rivals, FC Fortuna Basel. Florian Raz 9 January 2014 https://tageswoche.ch/sport/diesem-unfug-wurde-kein-ende-gemacht/ Disqualifizierte Basler Disqualified Basler TagesWoche, Basel 2020-11-16 The already achieved sporting results were retained in the league table, the missing games were not awarded. FC Basel completed the central division with seven games, five victories and two defeats with ten points, but were one point behind YB who qualified for the finals. Erik Garin https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwithist-reg.html Swiss Series A 1901/02 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2020-11-16 From the west group, FC Bern and the east group, FC Zürich also qualified for the championship play-off. FCZ won the championship. fcz.ch 2014 https://www.fcz.ch/de/ueber-uns/geschichte Markante Daten aus der Vereinsgeschichte fcz.ch 2014-11-16 2020-11-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20201130211048/https://www.fcz.ch/de/ueber-uns/geschichte/ dead Players SUI GK Paul Hofer SUI FW Emanuel Schiess SUI FW Karl Schneider SUI MF Ernst-Alfred Thalmann (Thalmann I) SUI FW Rudolf Gossweiler SUI FW Emil Hasler SUI FW Daniel Hug SUI FW Rudolf Landerer SUI FW Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer SUI FW Hans Riggenbach (Riggenbach II) ? Clarasso ENG Archibald E. Gough SUI Eduard Laubi SUI P. Lozéron SUI Paul Nosch SUI Adolf Ramseyer SUI Hans Rietmann SUI Alphonse Schorpp SUI Eugen Stutz (Stutz I) SUI Werner Stutz (Stutz II) SUI Fritz Schweizer 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 Pre-and mid-season Pre-season 29 September 1901 14:45 Basel 5 – 1 Summary FC Neuchâtel 1:02:03:04:05:0 5:1 FC Excelsior grounds, Basel M. Bächlin, BSC Old Boys W Pre-season 13 October 1901 10:00 Grasshopper Club 2 – 1 Summary Basel 1:02:1 1:1 Zürich L Mid-season 10 November 1901 14:30 Basel 1 – 4 Summary La Chaux-de-Fonds 1:1 0:11:21:31:4 Sport ground next to St. Paul's Church, Basel H. Gautschy, FC Old Boys L Mid-season 22 November 1901 15:300 Basel 2 – 1 Summary Mulhouse Thiersteinerallee, Basel W Winter break to end of season Winter break 19 January 1902 16:00 Basel 1 – 3 Summary Grasshopper Club Hug 1:3 0:1 Hotz0:2 Delaquis0:3 Hotz Thiersteinerallee, Basel Emanuel Schiess, FC Basel L Playing time 2x 30 minutes Winter break 26 January 1902 Mulhouse 1 – 3 Summary Basel Mulhouse W End of season 16 March 1902 Basel 10 – 0 Summary FC Gymnasia 1:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:010:0 Thiersteinerallee, Basel W End of season 30 March 1902 Servette 1 – 3 Summary Basel Geneva W End of season 31 March 1902 FC Neuchâtel 2 – 1 Summary Basel Yverdon L End of season 13 April 1902 Basel 8 – 0 Summary FC Gymnasia 1:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:0 Thiersteinerallee, Basel W End of season 11 May 1902 Mulhouse 1 – 4 Summary Basel Gossweiler I Thalmann I Landerer Hasler Mulhouse 3,000 W Serie A 1901–02 Swiss Serie A Central group matches Round 1 20 October 1901 14:30 Old Boys 2 – 0 Summary Basel Grauwyler (I) 1:0Gonzer 2:0 Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI E. Küenzli, FC Fortuna Basel L Round 2 3 November 1901 15:00 FC Fortuna Basel 1 – 4 Summary Basel 1:3 0:1 Landerer0:2 Landerer0:3 Thalmann I1:4 Laubi Sport ground next to St. Paul's Church, Basel 1,500 SUI C. Trueb, FC Old Boys W Round 3 17 November 1901 Young Boys 2 – 0 Summary Basel 1:02:0 Schwellenmätteli, Bern SUI A. Lalive, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds L Round 4 24 November 1901 Excelsior Basel 0 – 3 Summary Basel 0:10:20:3 Thiersteinerallee, Basel W FCB played with 10 players. Excelsior played two games on the same day, they started the game with 8 players and a ninth came during the game. Round 5 Basel P – P Summary Excelsior Basel Thiersteinerallee, Basel P Round 6 2 February 1902 15:00 Basel 3 – 1 Summary Old Boys 1:02:13:1 1:1 Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI R. Westermann, Grasshopper Club Zürich W Round 7 9 February 1902 Basel 3 – 1 Summary FC Fortuna Basel 1:02:03:0 3:1 Seibert Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI H. Gautschy, Old Boys W Round 8 2 March 1902 Basel 4 – 2 Summary Young Boys Landerer 1:0Schiess 2:0Schiess 3:2Hug 4:2 2:1 Lloyd2:2 Lloyd Thiersteinerallee, Basel SUI Loos, Old Boys W Group central league table main WDL Central Q 2 YB Young Boys BAS Basel OBB Old Boys FOR Fortuna Basel EXC Excelsior Basel 5 1 1 26 8 5 0 2 15 7 4 1 2 27 6 1 0 6 12 31 0 0 4 1 29 green1 Advance to finals A red1 Disqualified and relegated R complete RSSSF See also History of FC Basel List of FC Basel players List of FC Basel seasons Notes Footnotes note 01–02 Incomplete league matches 1901–1902 season: FCB-OB, Excelsior-FCB, FCB-Fortuna 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 1901-02 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 for this season is missing.) External links FC Basel official site expanded Category:FC Basel seasons Basel