1907–08 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1907–08 season was their fifteenth season since the club was formed. The club's chairman was Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer, it was his first presidential term. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof.

FC Basel
1907–08 season
Chairman Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
First team coachunknown
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: Third
Top goalscorerSiegfried Pfeiffer (7)
Max Senn (7)

Overview

Before the season started, Basel played three test games, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Freiburg im Breisgau and in Strassburg. They also played four friendly games during the winter break, in Geneva, Mannheim and Hanau as well as one game against Strassburger FV in their home stadium Landhof in Basel.

The 1907–08 Serie A was divided into two regional groups, an East group and a West group. Together with local rivals Old Boys, Basel were allocated to the East group. The other teams in that group were Aarau, Grasshopper Club, Zürich, Young Fellows Zürich, Winterthur and St. Gallen.[1] The group was an evenly balanced group and at the end of the season the teams from second to eighth position were only separated by six points. Only Winterthur had a good run of results and were able to move clear at the top of the league table, winning the group with a six point advantage.

Thus Winterthur qualified for the league final, which was held in Basel on 31 May 1908. Winterthur won the Swiss Championship title beating Young Boys Bern by four goals to one.[2]

Also a mention for chairman Siegfried Pfeiffer, during his presidential term he played one game for the Swiss national team. On 5 April 1908 Pfeiffer scored two goals in the legendary 5–3 victory over Germany at the Landhof in Basel.[3][4]

Players

Squad members

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
GK   ? Persenico
  Ernesto Persenico
GK   SUI Fridolin Wenger
GK   SUI Jules Fingerlin
MF   SUI Daniel Hug
DF   SUI Adolf Ramseyer
MF  GER Josef Goldschmidt
MF   SUI Emil Hasler
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF   Max Palatini
FW   SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW   SUI Ernst Gossweiler
FW   ? Kunz
FW   SUI Dr. Siegfried Pfeiffer
FW   SUI Max Senn
FW  GER Alfred Stöhrmann
FW   SUI Ernst-Alfred Thalmann

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

Friendly matches

1 September 1907 La Chaux-de-Fonds7 – 5BaselParc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30 Summary Attendance: 500
Referee:
22 September 1907 FC Frankonia 1900 Strassburg0 – 10BaselStrassburg
Summary
8 December 1907 Servette5 – 1BaselParc des Sports, Geneva
Summary

Serie A

East group results

6 October 1907 Round 1St. Gallen3 – 5BaselEisbahnfeld, St. Fiden
Schwendener II  20' (1:1)
Herzog  (2:1)
Locatelli  (3:3)
Summary  (1:0) Thalmann
 55' (2:2) Pfeiffer
 (2:3) Stöhrmann
 (3:4) Senn
 (3:5) Pfeiffer
Referee: Landolt (Grasshopper-Club Zürich)
13 October 1907 Round 2Basel6 – 0Young Fellows ZürichLandhof, Basel
15:00 Thalmann  10' (pen.), 1:0'
Stöhrmann  (2:0)
Senn  60' (3:0)
Senn  64' (4:0)
Pfeiffer  (5:0)
Senn  (6:0)
Summary Referee: Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)
20 October 1907 Round 3Winterthur3 – 1BaselWinterthur
 (o.g. 1:0)
 (2:0)
 (3:0)
Summary  (3:1) Referee: Tschudy (FC Blue Stars Zürich)
27 October 1907 Round 4Basel3 – 3Old BoysLandhof, Basel
Pfeiffer  (1:0)
Thalmann
Pfeiffer  (2:1)
Senn  (3:3)
Summary  (o.g. 1:1) Persenico
 (pen. 2:2) Hopf
 (2:3) Niggli
Referee: Lalive (FC La Chaux-de-Fonds)
3 November 1907 Round 5Basel3 – 4Grasshopper ClubLandhof, Basel
15:00 Pfeiffer  (1:1)
 (2:3) Stöhrmann
 (3:4) Stöhrmann
Summary  (0:1) Schmidt II
 (1:2) Sutz
 40' (1:3) Sutz
 (2:4) Sutz
Referee:
10 November 1907 Round 6Zürich5 – 3BaselZürich
14:30 Hinnen  (1:0)
Staub  (2:0)
Schlegel  (3:0)
Weilenmann  (4:2)
Staub  (5:3)
Summary  (3:1)
 (3:2)
 (4:3)
Referee: Arbenz (Grasshopper-Club Zürich)
17 November 1907 Round 7Basel6 – 5AarauLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hasler
Pfeiffer
Stöhrmann
[ Summary]



Attendance: 300
Referee: A. Blades
15 March 1908 Round 8Basel4 – 2ZürichLandhof, Basel
15:00 Senn  (1:2)
Pfeiffer  70' (2:2)
Pfeiffer  (3:2)
Senn  (4:2)
Summary  (0:1)
 (o.g. 0:2)
Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)
22 March 1908 Round 9Young Fellows Zürich1 – 1BaselZürich
Summary Referee: H. Tschudy (FC Blue Stars Zürich)
29 March 1908 Round 10Old Boys0 – 1BaselBasel
15:30 Summary  24' (o.g. 0:1) Zoller Referee: Hr. Schupp (FC Old Boys Basel)
12 April 1908 Round 11Basel1 – 2St. GallenLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary
Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)
3 May 1908 Round 12Aarau6 – 2BaselAarau
14:30  (1:0)
 (2:0)
 (3:1)
 (4:2)
 (5:2)
 (6:2)
Summary  (2:1)
 (3:2)
Referee: Kratz ( FC Zürich)
10 May 1908 Round 13Grasshopper Club1 – 3BaselZürich
Summary

Referee: Max Schwab (FC Young Boys Bern)
24 May 1908 Round 14Basel1 – 4WinterthurLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary


Referee: F. Seiffert (FC Old Boys Basel)

East group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 FC Winterthur 14 10 2 2 47 22 +25 22
2 Old Boys Basel 14 7 2 5 33 29 +4 16
3 FC Basel 14 6 2 6 40 39 +1 14
4 Grasshopper Club Zürich 14 6 1 7 38 40 2 13
5 FC Zürich 14 6 1 7 36 39 3 13
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See also

Sources and references

  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2027-6
  • Switzerland 1907-08 at RSSSF
  • FCB team 1907-08 at fcb-archiv.ch
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Games 1907-08 East Group". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  2. Garin, Erik. "Switzerland 1908". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  3. weltfussball.com. "freundschaft 1908 april schweiz deutschland". weltfussball.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  4. Deutscher Fußballbund. "Schweiz 5:3 Deutschland". dfb.de. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
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