1916–17 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1916–17 season was their twenty-fourth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Franz Rinderer. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

FC Basel
1916–17 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Franz Rinderer
First team coachPeter Riesterer
(as team captain)
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: Second
Top goalscorerLeague: Karl Wüthrich (6)
All: Karl Wüthrich (12)
Average home league attendancen/a

Overview

Peter Riesterer was team captain and as captain he led the trainings and was responsible for the line-ups. Basel played a total of 28 matches in the 1916–17 season. 12 of these were in the domestic league and 16 were friendly matches. Of these friendlies eight were won, three were drawn and five ended in a defeat. There were three home fixtures played in the Landhof and 13 away games. Over the Christmas, New Year period the team were taken to a training camp in Barcelona. On Christmas eve and on boxing day they played to friendlies against Barcelona. The first game ended in a defeat and the second was one. Two days later Basel played a friendly in same stadium, Camp de la Indústria, against La Chaux-de-Fonds and they were able to win this game too. On New Year's Eve and on New Year's Day Basel played two friendlies against local club Terrassa. Tarrassa were Serie B champions and played with five loaned first-class players. The first game was drawn and Basel won the second. Four of these friendly matches were played in the so called Basel championship against the two other local teams Old Boys and Nordstern Basel. Due to the early date of the new season, the three teams decided to play the return matches of the Championship all on one day as a tournament and played shortened games, two halves each with just 30 minutes. FC Basel won the Championship.[1]

The domestic league, Swiss Serie A 1916–17, was divided into three regional groups, an east, a central and a west group. There were eight teams in the east and the west group, but only seven in the central group. Basel and the two other local teams were allocated to the Central group. The other teams playing in the Central group were FC Bern, Young Boys Bern, Biel-Bienne and Aarau. Basel played a good season, suffering only two defeats. Looking at things from the local point of view, Basel took three point from the two games against Old Boys and won both of their games against Nordstern Basel. Nordstern were in last position in the league table, but during the period of World War I there was not relegation/promotion between the Serie A and Serie B. Basel ended the season in second position with 15 points. In their 12 games Basel scored 31 goals and conceded 20. Karl Wüthrich was the team's best goal scorer, netting six times in 11 games.[2]

The Young Boys won the central group and continued to the finals. Here they played against La Chaux-de-Fonds and VFC Winterthur-Veltheim. Winterthur won both games in the finals and won the championship title.[3]

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 Switzerland SUI Arthur Fahr
— DF Switzerland SUI Emil Ganter
— DF Switzerland SUI Hermann Moll
— DF Switzerland SUI Peter Riesterer
— DF Switzerland SUI Anton Rittel (I)
— MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Albicker (II)
— MF Switzerland SUI Wilhelm Geisser
— MF Switzerland SUI Emil Hasler
— MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
— MF Switzerland SUI Jakob Känzig
— MF Switzerland SUI Otto Kuhn
— MF Switzerland SUI Fritz Raas
— FW Switzerland SUI Christian Albicker (I)
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Bielser
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Switzerland SUI Rudolf Bredschneider
— FW Switzerland SUI Ernst Rittel (II)
— FW Switzerland SUI Carl Schloz
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Wüthrich
— FW   Valentin von der Mühll
—   Borer
—   Fritz Eggenschwyler
—   Forster
— Switzerland SUI Walter Grunauer
—   Haas
—   Kientsch
—   Oscar Kohler
— Switzerland SUI Jules Lotter
—   Perroud

Results
Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre- and mid-season
10 September 1916 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 2–2 Switzerland Regiment 22 Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich 20' (1:0)
Kuhn (2:0)		 Summary
Referee: Switzerland Riesterer FC Basel
1 October 1916 Pre-season Montriond Lausanne Switzerland 2–0 Switzerland Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Inäbnit 35' (1:0)
Gottofrey (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 800
Referee: Switzerland Jacques (Montriond-Sports)
26 November 1916 Mid-season Old Boys Switzerland 5–2 Switzerland Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Switzerland

Winter break to end of season
24 December 1916 Winter break Barcelona Spain 3–1 Switzerland Basel Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
15:00 Garchitorena (1:0)
Garchitorena (2:0)
Hormeu (3:1)		 Summary Haas Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Spain Francisco Brú
26 December 1916 Winter break Barcelona Spain 1–3 Switzerland Basel Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
15:00 Garchitorena (1:0) Summary (1:1) Wüthrich
(1:2) Albicker (I)
(1:3) Wüthrich		 Referee: Spain Hamilton
28 December 1916 Winter break La Chaux-de-Fonds Switzerland 1–2 Switzerland Basel Camp de la Indústria, Barcelona
14:45 Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Spain Francisco Brú
31 December 1916 Winter break Terrassa Spain 1–1 Switzerland Basel Terrassa
Torrella (1:0) Summary 89' (1:1) Kaltenbach
1 January 1917 Winter break Terrassa Spain 3–4 Switzerland Basel Terrassa
(1:0)
(2:4)
(3:4)		 Summary (1:1)
(1:2)
(1:3)
(1:4)
8 April 1917 Mid-season Zürich Switzerland 3–4 Switzerland Basel Utogrund, Zürich
Summary Referee: Switzerland Peterhans
20 May 1917 End-of-season Basel Switzerland 0–1 Switzerland Winterthur Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Switzerland Ollmann (Concordia Basel)
2 June 1917 Basel championship Nordstern Basel Switzerland 3–3 Switzerland Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
18:00 Chollet (pen. 1:1)
Gaus (2:1)
Bollinger (3:3)		 Summary 6' (0:1) Albicker (I)
45' (2:2) Kuhn
50' (2:3)		 Referee: Switzerland Wenger, (Old Boys)
11 June 1917 Semi-Final
Ostschweizerisches Turnier		 Young Fellows Zürich Switzerland 1–5 Switzerland Basel Zürich
(1:4) Summary (0:1)
(0:2)
(0:3)
(0:4)
(1:5) Kaltenbach
11 June 1917 Final
Ostschweizerisches Turnier		 Blue Stars Zürich Switzerland 1–0 Switzerland Basel Zürich
(1:0) Summary soccer ball with red X Kaltenbach
17 June 1917 Basel championship Basel Switzerland 4–2 Switzerland Old Boys Landhof, Basel
17:00 Kaltenbach (1:0)
Wüthrich (2:0)
Albicker (I) (3:0)
Moll (pen. 4:1)		 Summary (3:1) Danzeisen (I)
(4:2) Danzeisen (I)
1 July 1917 Basel championship Basel Switzerland 2–0 Switzerland Nordstern Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
16:15 Schloz 10' (1:0)
Kaltenbach 20' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 1,000
Note: Due to the advanced season, the 3 participating clubs decided to hold this tournament in one day, the games lasted 2 x 30 minutes.
1 July 1917 Basel championship Old Boys Switzerland 1–4 Switzerland Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
17:00 Dürr 27' (pen. 1:2) Summary 9' (o.g. 0:1) Monta
(0:2) Wüthrich
46' (1:3) Schloz
53' (pen. 1:4) Wüthrich		 Attendance: 1,000
Note: Due to the advanced season, the 3 participating clubs decided to hold this tournament in one day, the games lasted 2 x 30 minutes.

Serie A
Main article: 1916–17 Swiss Serie A

Central group results
8 October 1916 Round 1 Biel-Bienne 4–3 Basel Bern
Hugi 53' (1:1)
Hugi (2:1)
(3:2)
Grupp 83' (4:3)		 Summary 44' (0:1) Lotter
(pen. 2:2)
(3:3) Bredschneider		 Referee: Switzerland A. Sandoz Lausanne
15 October 1916 Round 2 Basel 3–3 FC Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kuhn 12' (1:0)
Wüthrich 35' (2:0)
Moll (pen. 3:3)		 Summary 38' (o.g. 2:1) Moll
(2:2)
(2:3) Schmiedlin		 Referee: Switzerland John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds
29 October 1916 Round 3 Basel 6–2 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Moll 1' (pen. 1:0)
Wüthrich 10' (2:0)
Ganter 23' (3:2)
Albicker (I) (4:2)
Albicker (I) (5:2)
Ganter 89' (6:2)		 Summary 17' (2:1) Bollinger
22' (2:0) Bollinger		 Referee: Switzerland Weber
5 November 1916 Round 4 Aarau 0–4 Basel Aarau
Summary 49' (0:1) Albicker (I)
52' (0:2)

 Referee: Switzerland Jacques Reich VFC Winterthur-Veltheim
12 November 1916 Round 5 Basel 0–0 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Stutz
17 December 1916 Round 6 Old Boys 0–4 Basel Margarethenwiese, Basel
15:00 soccer ball with red X
soccer ball with red X		 Summary Wüthrich 35' (0:1)
Wüthrich 40' (0:2)
Riesterer (pen. 0:3)
Wüthrich 75' (0:4)		 Referee: Switzerland Weber
25 February 1917 Round 7 Nordstern Basel 1–2 Basel Staldenrain, Riehen
15:00 Afflerbach 12' (1:0) Summary (o.g. 1:1) Solberger
29' (1:2) Wüthrich		 Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Switzerland John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds
25 March 1917 Round 8 Young Boys 6–1 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
15:00 Hubbard (1:0)
Funk (II) (2:0)
Klopfenstein 7' (3:0)
Funk (I) 35' (4:0)
Hubbard (5:0)
Klopfenstein (6:1)		 Summary (5:1) Referee: Switzerland Reich Winterthur
1 April 1917 Round 9 Basel 0–0 Aarau Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Switzerland Willy Beuttner FC Zürich
15 April 1917 Round 10 Basel 7–3 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 (1:2)
(2:2)
(3:2)
(4:2)
(5:3)
(6:3)
(7:3)		 Summary (0:1) Grupp
(0:2)
(4:3)		 Referee: Switzerland Reich Winterthur
22 April 1917 Round 11 FC Bern 1–1 Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
15:00 Orth (1:0) Summary (1:1) Albicker (I) Referee: Switzerland Ch. Kult-Reynaud Genève
6 May 1917 Round 12 Basel 0–0 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Riesterer soccer ball with red X Summary Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Ammann Cantonal Neuchatel

Central group league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Young Boys 12 8 2 2 31 15 +16 18 Advance to finals
2 Basel 12 5 5 2 31 20 +11 15
3 Aarau 12 5 3 4 23 21 +2 13
4 Biel-Bienne 12 6 0 6 37 45 −8 12
5 Old Boys 12 5 1 6 19 20 −1 11
6 FC Bern 12 3 4 5 23 27 −4 10
7 Nordstern Basel 12 2 1 9 22 38 −16 5
Source: rsssf.com

See also

References
  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Test games 1916–17". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Rangliste Serie A - Zentralschweiz". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  3. Erik Garin. "Serie A 1916/17". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

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