FC Basel
1922–23 season
ChairmanKarl Ibach
First team coachMax Breunig
GroundLandhof, Basel
Serie AGroup Stage: 4th
Top goalscorerLeague: Otto Kuhn (4)
All: Otto Kuhn (11)
Highest home attendance4,000 on 4 February 1923
vs FC Bern
Lowest home attendance1,000 on 4 March 1923
vs Aarau
Average home league attendance2,666

The FC Basel 1922–23 season was their thirtieth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Karl Ibach. It was his second period as chairman. At the AGM he took over the presidency from Carl Burkhardt. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

Overview

For the beginning of this season the club hired the ex German international Max Breunig as trainer. He came from Karlsruher FV where he had been trainer for two seasons. Basel played a total of 32 matches in this season. 14 of these were in the domestic league and 18 were friendly matches. Of these 18 friendlies, six were home games played in the Landhof and 12 were away games. Nine test games ended in a victory, four were drawn and five ended in a defeat. In these tests Basel scored a total of 45 goals and conceded 28. Of these 18 friendlies, seven were during the winter break and one was a mid season game eight were played after the domestic league season had been completed.

After just two pre-season friendlies Basel started in the 1921–22 Swiss Serie A. The domestic league was again divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West, each group with eight teams. FC Basel and the two other teams from Basel Nordstern and Old Boys were allocated to the Central group. The other teams playing in this group were Aarau, Luzern and Biel-Bienne and the two teams from the capital, Young Boys Bern and FC Bern. FC Basel played a mediocre season, winning six matches, drawing three and suffering five defeats, scoring 17 goals and conceding 22. With 15 points they ended the season in fourth position.[1] Otto Kuhn was the team's top league goal scorer with four goals.

An outrage and scandal after the 8th round match at the Landhof on 12 November 1922 against BSC Young Boys. It came to spme massive disagreements between Basel manager Breunig's co-trainer Mr Sutter, the players of both teams and some fans. The Swiss Football Association started an enquiry immediately and postponed the match Basel against Luzern from 3 December 1922 to 18 February the following year. After an appeal the results of the enquiry ended with following decision: The club Basel was fined 200 Swiss Francs, co-trainer Mr Sutter was banned for three years, Basel's player Gustav Putzendopler was banned for six months, Young Boy's players Osterwalder and von Arx were both fined 20 Swiss Francs, Referee Josef Wieland received a life long ban for the top tier of Swiss football. The club Basel had to pay the costs of the court and it was decided that the team had to play two games behind closed doors. Because Basel won the appeal they did not have to play two matches without supporters, but the fine remained unchanged.[2]

Another outrage and scandal was that the team Young Boys sportingly ended the season as Central group winners. But before the start of the championship play-offs, the qualification match FC Biel-Bienne versus FC Bern (the game had ended 3–1) from 25.02.1923 was awarded 0–3 due to ineligible players of FC Biel-Bienne. So both Young Boys Bern and FC Bern were level with 22 points and consequently a play-off was to be held for the regional championship. Young Boys withdrew from this match. Thus FC Bern continued to the finals, which they won. After the play-offs finals had been completed, the qualification match Basel versus FC Bern (the game had ended 0–4) from 04.02.1923 was awarded 3–0 forfait because FC Bern had played an ineligible player. After this decision Young Boys were again winners of the regional group. The date of this decision was in September 1923 and there was not enough time left for a new Play-off Final before the next season started. Therefore no Swiss championship was awarded for 1922/23 season.[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
— GK Switzerland SUI Theodor Schär
— DF Switzerland SUI Hasler (II)
— DF Switzerland SUI Hermann Moll
— DF Austria AUT Gustav Putzendopler (I)
— DF Switzerland SUI Peter Riesterer
— MF Switzerland SUI Walter Rupprecht
— MF Switzerland SUI Max Galler (II)
— MF Switzerland SUI Ernst Kaltenbach
— MF Switzerland SUI Otto Kuhn
— MF Austria AUT Karl Putzendopler (II)
— MF Switzerland SUI Karl Wangler
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Bielser
No. Pos. Nation Player
— FW Switzerland SUI Gaetano Dal Ben
— FW Switzerland SUI Paul Dietz (II)
— FW Switzerland SUI Jules Düblin
— FW   Willy Geiser
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Ibach
— FW Switzerland SUI Müller
— FW Switzerland SUI Hans Rau
— FW Switzerland SUI Alfred Schlecht
— FW Switzerland SUI Fritz Schneider (I)
— FW Switzerland SUI Karl Wüthrich
— FW Switzerland SUI Franz Zeiser
— Switzerland SUI Wilhelm Flubacher (I)
— Switzerland SUI Hans Schneider (II)

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season

3 September 1922 Pre-season 1. FC Pforzheim Germany 0–0 Switzerland Basel Pforzheim
Summary
10 September 1922 Pre-season Blue Stars Zürich Switzerland 0–2 Switzerland Basel Zürich
Summary 25' (0:1) Wüthrich
89' (0:2) Kuhn		 Referee: Switzerland Acker Zürich

Winter break to end of season

24 December 1922 Winter break US Alessandria Italy 5–3 Switzerland Basel Alessandria
Summary
28 December 1922 Winter break US Valenzana Italy 2–1 Switzerland Basel Valenzana
Summary
26 December 1922 Winter break US Biellese Italy 1–2 Switzerland Basel Biella
Summary
31 December 1922 Winter break Vgt FC Schaffhausen-Sparta Switzerland 0–1 Switzerland Basel Schaffhausen
Summary 86' (0:1) Schneider (I) Attendance: 800
1 January 1922 Winter break Basel Switzerland 3–1 Germany Bayern München Landhof, Basel
14:30 Wüthrich (1:0)
Fahr (2:0)
Kuhn (3:0)		 Summary (3:1) Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Switzerland Felix Herren Basel
7 January 1923 Winter break Basel Switzerland 4–2 France AS Strasbourg Landhof, Basel
14:30 Kuhn (1:1)
Fahr (2:2)
(o.g. 2:3)
Fahr (4:2)		 Summary (0:1) Bloch
(1:2)		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Jacques Hirrle Basel
14 January 1923 Winter break Zürich Switzerland 1–8 Switzerland Basel Heiligfeld, Zürich
13:45 (o.g. 1:4) Summary 20' (0:1) Fahr
(0:2) Kuhn
(0:3) Fahr
(0:4) Wüthrich
(1:5) Kuhn
(1:6) Kuhn
(1:7) Wüthrich
(1:8) Schneider (I)		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland
11 February 1923 Mid-season FC Breite Basel Switzerland 1–3 Switzerland Basel Basel
Summary
31 March 1923 End of season Basel Switzerland 1–1 Germany 1860 München Landhof, Basel
16:30 (1:1) Summary (0:1) Grimm Attendance: D
Referee: Switzerland Jacques Hirrle Basel
8 April 1923 End of season Lugano Switzerland 2–2 Switzerland Basel Campo Marzio, Lugano
Vicari (II) (1:0)
Vicari (II) (2:0)		 Summary (2:1) Schlecht
85' (o.g. 2:2)		 Referee: Switzerland Sadis
22 April 1923 End of season Basel Switzerland 8–1 Germany Freiburger FC Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Switzerland Jacques Hirrle Basel
29 April 1923 End of season Mulhouse XI France 1–1 Switzerland Basel Mulhouse
Summary
13 May 1923 End of season Basel Switzerland 3–1 Germany 1. FC Pforzheim Landhof, Basel
15:00 Wüthrich (1:0)
Schneider (I) (2:0)
Putzendopler (II) (3:1)		 Summary (2:1) Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Jacques Hirrle Basel
27 May 1923 End of season Basel Switzerland 0–3 Scotland Rangers Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary 35' (0:1) Henderson
(pen. 0:2) Cunningham
(0:3) Archibald		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Felix Herren Basel
17 June 1923 End of season Freiburger FC Germany 4–2 Switzerland Basel Freiburg
Stanzel (1:0)
Stanzel (2:0)
(o.g. 3:1)
(4:1)		 Summary (2:1)
(4:2)		 Referee: Switzerland Jacques Hirrle Basel

Serie A

Central Group results

25 September 1922 Round 1 FC Bern 2–0 Basel Kirchenfeld, Bern
Wenger 10' (1:0)
89' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Edm. Dizerens Lausanne
1 October 1922 Round 2 Basel 1–1 Nordstern Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Fahr (1:0) Summary (pen. 1:1) Flubacher Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Edm. Dizerens Lausanne
8 October 1922 Round 3 Luzern 0–3 Basel Tribschen, Luzern
Summary (0:1) Fahr
(0:2) Kaltenbach
(0:3) Kuhn		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Ruegg Thalwil
15 October 1922 Round 4 Old Boys 1–1 Basel Stadion Schützenmatte, Basel
15:00 Merkt (1:0) Summary (1:1) Wüthrich Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Guido Eichenberger Bern
22 October 1922 Round 5 Basel 1–3 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Riesterer (1:3) Summary 3' (0:1) Minder
(0:2) Salvisberg
(0:3) Blaser		 Referee: Switzerland Epiney Genf
29 October 1922 Round 6 Aarau 0–2 Basel Schachen, Aarau
Summary (o.g. 0:1) Pfister
(0:2)		 Referee: Switzerland John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds
5 November 1922 Round 7 Nordstern Basel 0–0 Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Referee: Switzerland Guido Eichenberger Bern
12 November 1922 Round 8 Basel 2–1 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:45 Wüthrich (1:1)
Schneider (I) (2:1)		 Summary (0:1) Von Arx (I) Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Wieland Zürich
26 November 1922 Round 9 Biel-Bienne 2–0 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
Renser (1:0)
Kramer (II) 80' (2:0)		 Summary
3 December 1922 Round 10 Basel P–P Luzern Landhof, Basel
[ Summary]
21 January 1923 Round 11 Basel 0–5 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
14:45 Summary 15' (0:1) Katz
(0:2) Brack
(0:3) Bohny
(0:4) Wionsowsky
(0:5) L'Eplattenier		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Guido Eichenberger Bern
4 February 1923 Round 12 Basel 3–0 FF FC Bern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Brandt (0:1)
Afflerbach (0:2)
Stämpfli (0:3)
Afflerbach (0:4)		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland John Forster La Chaux-de-Fonds
Note: Awarded forfait for Basel, the game had ended 0–4, but Bern used an unqualified player
18 February 1923 Round 10 Basel 2–0 Luzern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schlecht (1:0)
Düblin (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Ruegg Thalwil
4 March 1923 Round 13 Basel 4–3 Aarau Landhof, Basel
15:00 Schneider (I) (1:1)
Kuhn (2:1)
Wüthrich (3:1)
Fahr (4:3)		 Summary (0:1) Märki (II)
(3:2) Märki (II)
(3:3)		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland Ruegg Thalwil
18 March 1923 Round 14 Young Boys 0–1 Basel Spitalacker, Bern
Summary (0:1) Kuhn Referee: Switzerland Ruegg Thalwil

Central Group table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
1 Young Boys Bern 14 10 2 2 36 10 +26 22
2 FC Bern 14 11 0 3 35 13 +22 22
3 Old Boys 14 5 6 3 24 18 +6 16
4 Basel 14 6 3 5 17 22 −5 15
5 Nordstern Basel 14 5 4 5 18 18 0 14
6 Aarau 14 3 2 9 14 24 −10 8
7 Luzern 14 3 2 9 12 35 −23 8
8 Biel-Bienne 14 3 1 10 11 27 −16 7
Source: rsssf.com

See also

References

  1. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1922/23". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. ↑ Zindel, Josef (2018), Serie A 1922/23, 8 Runde, 12 November 1922, Landhof, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  3. ↑ Erik Garin (2017). "Switzerland 1922/23". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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