1915–16 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1915–16 season was their twenty-third season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Philipp Leichner at the beginning of the season and during the season Franz Rinderer took over as chairman. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Retrospectively considered, the most important event in this FCB season, was the fact that the first youth department was founded.

FC Basel
1915–16 season
Chairman Philipp Leichner
Franz Rinderer
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 7th
Top goalscorerLeague: Emil Hasler (7)
and Otto Kuhn (7)

All: Otto Kuhn (13)

Overview

Basel played a total of 28 matche in the 1915–16 season. 14 of these were in the domestic league and 14 were friendly matches. Of these friendlies six were won, three were drawn and five ended in a defeat. There were six one home fixtures played in the Landhof and eight away games. Four of these games were played in the Basel championship against the two other local teams Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. FC Basel won the Basel championship collecting three victories and a draw. In all of these friendly games Basel scored 31 goals and conceded 30.

The Swiss Serie A 1915–16 was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West. Basel and the two other teams were allocated to the Central group. Further teams playing in the Central group were two from Bern, Young Boys and FC Bern, two from La Chaux-de-Fonds, FC La Chaux-de-Fonds, Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds and finally Biel-Bienne.

Basel didn't start well into the championship, winning only one of the first eight games. They ended the season in second-last position with nine points. In their 14 games Basel scored 30 goals and conceded 39. Local rivals BSC Old Boys won the group and continued to the finals.[1] Here they played against Cantonal Neuchatel and Winterthur. Cantonal eventually won the championship in the Finals.

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   SUI Arthur Fahr
DF   SUI Paul Bettex
DF   SUI Hermann Moll
DF   SUI Peter Riesterer
MF   SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
MF   SUI Walter Rupprecht
MF   SUI ? Ganter (I)
MF   SUI Wilhelm 'Willy' Geisser
MF   SUI Emil Hasler
MF   SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
MF   SUI Jakob Känzig
MF   SUI Otto Kuhn
FW   SUI Fritz Aeppli
No. Pos. Nation Player
FW   SUI Fritz Raas
FW   SUI Christian Albicker (I)
FW   Rudolf Bredschneider
FW   SUI Karl Wunderle
FW   SUI Karl Wüthrich
  Roger Breithaupt
  SUI Ernst Buss
  Ernst Danzeisen (I)
  Willy Danzeisen (II)
  ? Rittel
  ? Rittel (II)
  Ernst Bickel
  ? Weiss (III)
  Philipp Leichner

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

29 August 1915 Pre-seasonBasel4 – 1St. GallenLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary
26 September 1915 Pre-seasonBasel1 – 4ServetteLandhof, Basel
15:40 Summary
16 January 1916 Mid-seasonWinterthur2 – 2BaselSchützenwiese, Winterthur
 (1:1)
 (2:1)
Summary  (0:1)
 (2:2)
23 January 1916 Mid-seasonYoung Fellows Zürich8 – 1BaselZürich
Rais  (1:0)
Weidmann  (2:0)
Meier  (3:0)
Leiber  (4:0)
Meier  (5:0)
Meier  (6:0)
Meier  (7:0)
Leiber  (8:1)
Summary  (7:1)
13 February 1916 Mid-seasonServette3 – 1BaselCharmilles Stadium, Geneva
14:40 Raymond (IV)  2' (1:0)
Ofterdinger  (2:1)
Raymond (IV)  (3:1)
Summary  (1:1) Kuhn Referee: Heck Servette
26 March 1916 Mid-seasonMontriond Lausanne1 – 4BaselPontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Douglas  (1:1) Summary  (0:1)
 (1:2)
 (1:3)
 (1:4)
9 April 1916 Mid-seasonBasel2 – 2WinterthurLandhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich  (1:0)
Wüthrich  (2:1)
Summary  (1:1)
 (2:2) Koblet
Referee: Riesterer Basel
24 April 1916 Mid-seasonZürich3 – 0BaselUtogrund, Zürich
Schuepp  15' (1:0)
Oetiker  (2:0)
 (o.g. 3:0)
Summary
30 April 1916 Mid-seasonBasel0 – 2Montriond LausanneLandhof, Basel
[ Summary]  (0:1) Millenet
 (o.g. 0:2)
Referee: Riesterer Basel
14 May 1916 Basel championshipBasel5 – 1Nordstern BaselLandhof, Basel
15:00 Moll  (1:1)
Kuhn  (2:1)
Kuhn  (3:1)
Ritte  (4:1)
Kuhn  (5:1)
[ Summary]  (pen. 0:1) Attendance: 1,500
Referee: E. Stutz Luzern
1 June 1916 Basel championshipOld Boys1 – 1BaselMargarethenwiese Basel
15:00 Angoso  (1:0) Summary  (1:1) Ganter Attendance: 1,600
Referee: E. Stutz Luzern
11 June 1916 End of seasonLuzern1 – 6BaselTribschen, Luzern
15:00  1' (1:0) Summary  (1:1)
 (1:2)
 (1:3)
 (1:4)
 (1:5)
 (1:6)
Referee: E. Stutz Luzern
2 July 1916 Basel championshipBasel2 – 1Old BoysLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hasler  (1:0)
Kuhn  89' (2:1)
Summary  (pen. 1:1) Attendance: 2,700
Referee: Weber Zürich
8 July 1916 Basel championshipNordstern Basel0 – 2BaselStaldenrain Riehen
15:00 Summary  11' (0:1) Kuhn
 (0:2)
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Zoller Basel

Serie A

Central Group results

3 October 1915 Round 1Étoile-Sporting3 – 1BaselStade du FC Etoile, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:30 Wyss (I)  23' (1:0)
Meier  25' (2:0)
Hirschy 35' (3:0)
Summary  63' (3:1) Hasler Referee: Henninger (CA Genève)
10 October 1915 Round 2Basel2 – 1Biel-BienneLandhof, Basel
15:00  5' (o.g.)
Wüthrich  78' (2:1)
Summary  (1:1)
17 October 1915 Round 3FC Bern3 – 1BaselKirchenfeld, Bern
14:30  (1:1)
Brand  (2:1)
 (3:1)
Summary  15' (0:1) Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Henninger (CA Genève)
31 October 1915 Round 4Nordstern Basel4 – 2BaselStaldenrain, Riehen
15:00 Bollinger  1' (pen. 1:0)
Gaus  (2:2)
Bollinger  (pen. 3:2)
Bollinger  84' (4:2)
Summary  (1:1) Hasler
 31' (1:2) Hasler
Referee: Weber
7 November 1915 Round 5Young Boys3 – 3BaselSpitalacker, Berne
15:00 Funk (I)  (pen. 1:1)
Funk (I)  (2:3)
Mangold  (3:3)
Summary  (0:1) Hasler
 (1:2)
 (1:3)
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Heck
21 November 1915 Round 6Basel1 – 2La Chaux-de-FondsLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hasler  (1:0) Summary  (1:1) Perrenoud (II)
 75' (1:2) Reutter
Referee: Willy Beuttner FC Zürich
28 November 1915 Round 7Basel1 – 6Old BoysLandhof, Basel
Hasler  (1:0)
Hasler
Summary  (pen. 1:1) Kalt
 (o.g. 1:2) Wüthrich
 (1:3)
 (1:4)
 (1:5)
 (1:6)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Keller
5 December 1915 Round 8Biel-Bienne6 – 2BaselGurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
15:00 Marbot  1' (1:0)
Gnägi  (2:0)
Keller  (3:0)
Keller  (4:1)
Siegrist  (5:1)
Keller  (6:2)
Summary  (1:3) Hasler
 (5:2) Albicker (I)
Referee: Beuttner
30 January 1916 Round 9BaselP – PYoung BoysLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Weber
22 February 1916 Round 10Basel5 – 3Étoile-SportingLandhof, Basel
15:00 Kuhn  (1:0)
Kuhn  (2:1)
Kuhn  (3:1)
Kuhn  (4:1)
Buss  (5:1)
Summary  (1:1)
 (5:2)
 (5:3)
Referee: Graffenried
5 March 1916 Round 11Basel1 – 2FC BernLandhof, Basel
15:00  (1:1) Summary  (0:1) Weiss
 (1:2) Weiss
12 March 1916 Round 12Old Boys3 – 2BaselMargarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 Katz  24' (pen. 1:0)
Ferralli  40' (2:1)
Wionsowsky  60' (3:1)
Summary  25' (1:1) Wunderle
 87' (3:2) Albicker (I)
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Reich
2 April 1916 Round 13Basel0 – 1Nordstern BaselLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary  87' (0:1) Bollinger Referee: Schaller, Basel
7 May 1916 Round 14La Chaux-de-Fonds0 – 5BaselParc des Sports, La Chaux-de-Fonds
14:45 Summary  9' (0:1) Kuhn
 (0:2) Kuhn
 (0:3) Kuhn
 (0:4)
 (0:5) Albicker (I)
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Jacques
21 May 1916 Round 9Basel4 – 2Young BoysLandhof, Basel
15:00 Moll  (pen. 1:1)
Wunderle  (2:2)
Kaltenbach  (3:2)
Wüthrich  (4:2)
Summary  (0:1) Funk (II)
 (1:2) Funk (II)
Referee: Weber

Central Group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
4 Young Boys Bern 14 6 3 5 33 26 +7 15
5 FC Biel 14 6 2 6 29 26 +3 14
6 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 14 6 1 7 23 32 9 13
7 FC Basel 14 4 1 9 30 39 9 9
8 Nordstern Basel 14 2 0 12 16 61 45 4
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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
  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
  • FCB team 1915–16 at fcb-archiv.ch
  • Switzerland 1915-16 at RSSSF
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
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