1951–52 FC Basel season

The 1951–52 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 58th season in their existence. It was their sixth season in Nationalliga A the top flight of Swiss football following their promotion from the Nationalliga B in the season 1945–46. Basel played their home games in the Landhof, in the Quarter Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman for the sixth successive season.

FC Basel
1951–52 season
Chairman Jules Düblin
Manager Ernst Hufschmid
GroundLandhof, Basel
Nationalliga A4th
Swiss CupSemi-final
Top goalscorerLeague: Josef Hügi (24)
All: Josef Hügi (32)
Highest home attendance10,000 on 23 September 1951
vs Lugano
and on 7 October 1951
vs Grasshopper Club
Lowest home attendance3,000 on 9 December 1951
vs Bellinzona
and on 30 March 1952
vs Locarno
Average home league attendance6,292

Overview

Ernst Hufschmid, who had functioned as player-coach the previous four seasons, continued as team manager this season. Basel played a total of 42 games in this season. Of these 26 games were in the domestic league, five games were in the Swiss Cup and eleven were test games. The test games resulted with four victories, two were drawn and five ended with defeats. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they won 22 games, drew five and lost 15 times. In the 42 games they scored 123 and conceded 87 goals.[1]

The newly built stadium Landhof was opened on the weekend of 18 and 19 August 1951. There were larger spectator stands, new meeting rooms, changing rooms and a brand new restaurant. The buildings had cost 700,000 Swiss Francs and had taken two years to complete, during this time the team had to play all their games at the Stadion Schützenmatte. The pitch had been newly laid out and its opening was accompanied by a two-day international football tournament, competed by Austrian team First Vienna, French team Sochaux-Montbéliard and Swiss teams Grasshopper Club Zürich. On both days there were over six thousand people celebrating the big party, even though their team lost 2–3 against Vienna and even 1–7 against Sochaux. It was a big hope that these new conditions would also change the fortunes of the club to the better, because nearly 60 years had passed since the club's foundation without a championship. The Basel fans were becoming frustrated, because 36 of the first 52 championships had gone to the cities of Zürich, Geneva or Bern. Even small towns such as Aarau, Neuchâtel, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lugano, Bellinzona, Biel/Bienne, Winterthur and St. Gallen had been able to celebrate a championship. The championship had still had never been won by a team from Basel.[2]

As in the previous seasons, there were fourteen teams contesting in the 1951–52 Nationalliga A and the bottom two teams in the league table were to be relegated. Basel played a good start to the season. They won the first six games straight off. But they lost four of the next five games and slipped in the league table. However, winning the last three games before and the first three games after the winter break, they were again in contention for the league championship. Suddenly, towards the end of the season, they lost five games in a row and lost contact to the table top. At the end of the season Basel finished in fourth position, seven points behind the new champions Grasshopper Club. The hopeful fans were again frustrated by this fact. The team Basel had won 14 games, drew three games and were defeated nine times. The team scored 68 goals and conceded 47 as they obtained their 31 points. Josef "Seppe" Hügi was team's and the league's best goal scorer with 24 league goals. Walter Bannwart was the team's second-best goal getter with 10 goals. Paul Stöcklin scored nine times, René Bader and Hans Hügi both scored seven times.[3]

Basel started in the 3rd principal round of the Swiss Cup on 4 November 1951 with a home game against lower tier Wettingen and won 7–0. In the next round against Nationalliga A team Locarno they won 3–2 and again in the following round against Nationalliga A team Chiasso by three goals to one. In the quarter finals Basel beat Servette and faced Grasshopper Club in the semi-final. The Grasshoppers won this game in the Landhof and progressed to the final, in which they beat Lugano and thus won the double.[4]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1950–51. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 3 September 1950 but subsequently left the club after that date.

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 Oswald Capra
— GK   SUI Walter Müller
— GK   SUI Jean Presset
— DF   SUI Werner Bopp
— DF   SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze
— DF   SUI Hans Hügi
— DF   SUI Marcel Pralong
— MF   SUI Max Sutter
— MF   SUI Hans Weber
— MF   SUI Fritz Hartmann
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   SUI Kurt Maurer
— MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi
— MF   SUI Kurt Thalmann (from Concordia Basel)
— MF   SUI Werner Wenk
— FW   SUI René Bader
— FW   SUI Walter Bannwart
— FW   SUI Josef Hügi
— FW   SUI Marcel Leisinger
— FW   SUI Paul Stöcklin
— FW   SUI Fritz Wolf
Players who left the squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF   SUI Ernst Hufschmid (Manager)
— MF   SUI Leo Baumgratz (to Concordia Basel)
— MF   SUI Eugen Müller
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble
— MF   SUI Willy Zingg
— FW   SUI Peter Baumgartner
— FW   SUI Erich Grether

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season
4 August 1951 Pre-seasonSV Weil 2 – 10 BaselWeil am Rhein
17:30  (1x)
 (1x)		 Summary  (3x) Hügi (II)
 (3x) Weber
 (1x) Stöcklin
 (1x) Suter
 (1x) Thalmann
 (1x) Wolf
11 August 1951 Pre-seasonEimsbütteler TV 2 – 0 BaselHamburg
Eckhoff  56' (1:0)
Eckhoff  61' (2:0)		 Summary
12 August 1951 Pre-seasonEintracht Braunschweig 3 – 4 BaselEintracht-Stadion, Braunschweig
Arens  (1:2)
Welter  (2:2)
Hirschberg  (3:2)		 Summary  (0:1) Bannwart
 (0:2) Suter
 (3:3) Bannwart
 (3:4) Thalmann		 Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Sherman
14 August 1951 Pre-seasonTravemünde 2 – 8 BaselTravemünde
Summary  (6x) Hügi (II)
 (2x) Suter
 (1x)
18 August 1951 Pre-seasonBasel 2 – 3 First ViennaLandhof, Basel
15:30 Hügi (II)  60' (1:2)
Bader  70' (2:2)		 Summary  8' (0:1) Walzhofer
 38' (o.g. 0:2)
 73' (2:3) Walzhofer		 Referee: von Wartburg Bern
19 August 1951 Pre-seasonBasel 1 – 7 Sochaux-MontbéliardLandhof, Basel
16:50 Stöcklin  (1x) Summary  (4x) Bruat
 (1x) Salzborn
 (1x) Gardien
 (1x) Montagnoli		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: von Wartburg Bern

Winter break and mid-season
10 February 1952 Winter breakBasel 5 – 2 Urania Genève SportLandhof, Basel
14:30 Bader  6' (1:1)
Hügi (II)  (2:1)
Hügi (II)  (3:1)
Hügi (II)  39' (4:1)
Stöcklin  83' (5:2)		 Summary  (0:1) Stefano (I)
 82' (4:2) Hofstettler		 Attendance: 800
Referee: Stuber Solothurn
9 April 1952 Mid-seasonCantonal Neuchatel 2 – 2 BaselStade de Cantonal, Neuchatel
20:30 Willi  35' (1:0)
Monnard  (2:1)		 Summary  (1:1) Hügi (II)
 90' (2:2) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel
30 April 1952 Mid-seasonBasel 1 – 1 Preston North EndLandhof, Basel
16:30 Hügi (II)  18' (1:0) Summary  53' (1:1) Foster Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Andres Birsfelden
20 May 1952 Mid-seasonBasel 0 – 1 ArsenalLandhof, Basel
18:30 Summary  43' (0:1) Roper Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Rapin Lausanne
22 May 1952 Mid-seasonVfR Mannheim 5 – 3 BaselAumattstadion, Baden-Baden
Löttke  4' (1:0)
Bassler  37' (2:1)
Heinz  44' (3:1)
Langlotz  45' (pen. 4:1)
Lambert  51' (5:2)		 Summary  7' (1:1) Thalmann
 50' (4:2) Hügi (II)
 88' (5:3) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Bäzler Baden-Baden

Nationalliga A
Main article: 1951–52 Nationalliga A

League matches
26 August 1951 Round 1Basel6 – 1Young Fellows ZürichLandhof, Basel
15:00 Stöcklin  5' (pen. 1:0)
Hügi (II)  29' (2:1)
Hügi (II)  52' (3:1)
Bader  58' (4:1)
Hügi (II)  61' (5:1)
Thalmann  77' (6:1)		 Summary  27' (1:1) Ballaman Attendance: 4,200
Referee: Scherz Bern
2 September 1951 Round 2Basel3 – 2Lausanne-SportLandhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart  31' (1:0)
Suter  42' (2:1)
Hügi (II)  69' (3:1)		 Summary  40' (1:1) Friedländer
 74' (3:2) Friedländer		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel
9 September 1951 Round 3FC Bern2 – 6BaselNeufeld, Bern
15:00 Wirsching  30' (1:1)
Schönmann  46' (2:3)		 Summary  1' (0:1) Stöcklin
 32' (1:2) Hügi (II)
 34' (1:3) Bannwart
 47' (2:4) Stöcklin
 70' (2:5) Bannwart
 72' (2:6) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Josef Gulde St. Gallen
23 September 1951 Round 4Basel2 – 0LuganoLandhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart  4' (1:0)
Bannwart  75' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee: W. Rufli Bremgarten
30 September 1951 Round 5Locarno0 – 2BaselStadio del Lido, Locarno
Summary  8' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 50' (0:2) Bader		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: von Gunten Bern
7 October 1951 Round 6Basel2 – 0Grasshopper ClubLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)  53' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  74' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Merlotti Neuchâtel
21 October 1951 Round 7Zürich2 – 0BaselHardturm, Zürich
15:15 Rossi  5' (1:0)
Lehrieder  62' (2:1)
Schneiter  64' (3:1)
Lehrieder  70' (4:1)		 Summary  11' (1:1) Hügi (II)
Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 22,000
Referee: M. Baumberger Lausanne
28 October 1951 Round 8Basel1 – 5La Chaux-de-FondsLandhof, Basel
15:00 Thalmann  33' (1:0)
 Summary  68' (1:1) Antenen
 69' (1:2) Morand
 83' (1:3) Morand
 86' (1:4) Morand
 90' (1:5) Peney		 Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Victor Werrner Schicker Bern
11 November 1951 Round 9Servette4 – 1BaselCharmilles Stadium, Geneva
15:00 Züfle  30' (1:0)
Pasteur  36' (pen. 2:0)
Fatton  57' (3:0)
Züfle  85' (4:1)		 Summary  60' (3:1) Thalmann Attendance: 8,500
Referee: W. Rufli Bremgarten
18 November 1951 Round 10Basel3 – 0Young BoysLandhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II)  2' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  57' (2:0)
Bannwart  74' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 5,700
Referee: Dörflinger Grenchen
2 December 1951 Round 11Chiasso1 – 0BaselStadio Via Comacini, Chiasso
Zanollo  36' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee: M. Baumberger Lausanne
9 December 1951 Round 12Basel4 – 1BellinzonaLandhof, Basel
14:30 Bader  10' (1:0)
Stöcklin  21' (pen. 2:0)
Hügi (I)  74' (3:1)
Thalmann  85' (4:1)		 Summary  58' (2:1) Pellanda Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Bertsche Neuhausen am Rheinfall
16 December 1951 Round 13Biel-Bienne0 – 3BaselGurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
14:30 Summary  6' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 25' (0:2)
 90' (0:3) Stöcklin		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: E. Guidi Bellinzona
24 February 1952 Round 14Young Fellows Zürich0 – 2BaselLetzigrund, Zürich
14:30 Summary  14' (0:1) Bannwart
 44' (0:2) Bannwart		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: von Wartburg Bern
2 March 1952 Round 15Lausanne-Sport1 – 1BaselOlympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Maurer  (1:1) Summary  10' (0:1) Hügi (I)
Hügi (I)		 Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Paul Wyssling Zürich
9 March 1952 Round 16Basel5 – 1FC BernLandhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart  8' (1:0)
Hügi (I)  35' (2:1)
Bopp  72' (pen. 3:1)
Hügi (I)  80' (4:1)
Hügi (I)  83' (5:1)		 Summary  13' (1:1) Just Attendance: 4,600
Referee: F. Buchmüller Zürich
16 March 1952 Round 17Lugano0 – 3BaselCornaredo, Lugano
Summary  14' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 50' (0:2) Hügi (II)
 75' (0:3) Stöcklin		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: von Gunten Bern
13 March 1952 Round 18Basel5 – 3LocarnoLandhof, Basel
15:00 Bopp  10' (pen. 1:0)
Stöcklin  12' (2:0)
Hügi (I)  64' (3:0)
Hügi (II)  78' (4:2)
Bader  81' (pen. 5:2)		 Summary  65' (3:1) Santini
 68' (pen. 3:2) Ernst
 85' (o.g. 5:3)		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Zutter Bern
6 April 1952 Round 19Grasshopper Club2 – 2BaselHardturm, Zürich
16:00 Vonlanthen (II)  32' (1:0)
Hüssy  38' (2:0)		 Summary  51' (2:1) Hügi (I)
 82' (2:2) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 18,000
Referee: von Gunten Bern
20 April 1952 Round 20Basel2 – 2ZürichLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)  7' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  63' (2:1)		 Summary  15' (1:1) Schneiter
 81' (2:2) Bosshard		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Rapin Lausanne
27 April 1952 Round 21La Chaux-de-Fonds2 – 1BaselStade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
15:00  43' (o.g. 1:1)
Sobotka  51' (2:1)		 Summary  27' (0:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,000
Referee: F. Buchmüller Zürich
4 May 1952 Round 22Basel0 – 3ServetteLandhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)  58' Summary  33' (0:1) Kohli
 41' (0:2) Mauron
 78' (0:3) Mauron		 Attendance: 7,000
Referee: von Gunten Bern
11 May 1952 Round 23Young Boys4 – 3BaselNeufeld, Bern
15:00 Sing  6' (1:0)
Häuptli  14' (2:0)
Zaugg  24' (3:0)
Meier  52' (4:0)		 Summary  54' (4:1) Thalmann
 60' (pen. 4:2) Bader
 64' (4:3) Suter		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Tschopp Delémont
18 May 1952 Round 24Basel1 – 2ChiassoLandhof, Basel
15:00 Weber  83' (1:2) Summary  23' (0:1) Bianchi
 31' (0:2) 31. Zanollo		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Paul Wyssling Zürich
25 May 1952 Round 25Bellinzona6 – 2BaselStadio Comunale, Bellinzona
15:00 Sartori  13' (1:0)
Erba  15' (2:0)
Sartori  29' (pen. 3:0)
Erba  56' (4:1)
Zanetti  77' (5:2)
Sartori  85' (6:2)		 Summary  36' (3:1) Stöcklin
 58' (4:2) Thalmann		 Attendance: 1,700
Referee: Zutter Bern
8 June 1952 Round 26Basel7 – 1Biel-BienneLandhof, Basel
16:15 Hügi (II)  8' (1:0)
Stöcklin  56' (2:1)
Bader  63' (3:1)
Hügi (II)  65' (4:1)
Bader  67' (5:1)
Bannwart  71' (6:1)
Hügi (II)  (7:1)		 Summary  51' (1:1) Rösch Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Musch Geneva

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club Zürich 26 16 6 4 79 38 +41 38 Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2 FC Zürich 26 14 9 3 61 36 +25 37
3 FC Chiasso 26 15 5 6 59 49 +10 35
4 FC Basel 26 14 3 9 68 47 +21 31
5 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 11 8 7 62 45 +17 30
6 Servette FC Genève 26 11 6 9 57 45 +12 28
7 BSC Young Boys 26 10 7 9 61 52 +9 27
8 Lausanne Sports 26 8 9 9 39 43 −4 25
9 AC Bellinzona 26 8 6 12 43 55 −12 22
10 FC Locarno 26 8 6 12 41 66 −25 22
11 FC Lugano 26 7 7 12 46 54 −8 21
12 FC Bern 26 7 5 14 47 64 −17 19
13 Young Fellows Zürich 26 5 5 16 36 71 −35 15 Relegated
14 FC Biel-Bienne 26 4 6 16 37 71 −34 14 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup
4 November 1951 Round 3Basel7 – 0WettingenLandhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (I)  14' (1:0)
Suter  19' (2:0)
Hügi (II)  22' (3:0)
 49' (o.g. 4:0)
Hügi (II)  54' (5:0)
Stöcklin  57' (6:0)
Hügi (II) 75' (7:0)		 Summary Attendance: 1,200
Referee: von Wartburg Bern
23 December 1951 Round 4Basel3 – 2LocarnoLandhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II)  2' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  28' (2:1)
Bader  84' (3:2)		 Summary  6' (1:1) Ernst
 34' (2:2) Santini		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Rapin Lausanne
30 December 1951 Round 5Basel3 – 1ChiassoLandhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II)  43' (1:0)
Bopp  76' (pen. 2:1)
Hügi (II)  83' (3:1)		 Summary  69' (1:1) Busenhart Attendance: 8,000
Referee: M. Baumberger Lausanne
17 February 1952 Quarter-finalBasel6 – 5ServetteLandhof, Basel
14:30 Bader  9' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  12' (2:0)
Thalmann  48' (3:4)
Bader  62' (4:4)
Thalmann  85' (5:5)
Suter  (6:5)		 Summary  18' (2:1) Fatton
 22' (2:2) Züfle
 39' (2:3) Mauron
 44' (2:4) Fatton
 65' (4:5) Fatton		 Attendance: 9,200
Referee: Rapin Lausanne
23 March 1952 Semi-finalBasel0 – 2Grasshopper ClubLandhof, Basel
15:00 Summary  25' (0:1) Ballaman
 28' (0:2) Berbig		 Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Josef Gulde St. Gallen


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See also

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1951/52". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre - Historische Meilensteine 1951", Page 48, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  3. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Statistik 1951–52". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1951/52". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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