FC Basel
1955–56 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Jules Düblin
ManagerHungary Béla Sárosi
GroundLandhof, Basel
Top goalscorerLeague: Switzerland Josef Hügi (14)
All: Switzerland Josef Hügi (18)
Highest home attendance10,000 on 11 December 1955
vs La Chaux-de-Fonds
and on 13 May 1956
vs Grasshopper Club
Lowest home attendance3,800 on 10 June 1956
vs Fribourg
Average home league attendance6,630

The 1955–56 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 62nd season in their existence. It was their tenth consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein Quarter in Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman. It was his tenth successive season as chairman.

Overview

During the previous four or five years the number of players joining and leaving the club was increasing considerably. The other Swiss clubs politics of buying new players was increasing strongly and transfer fees rose rapidly in this period. Basel, under the leadership of Jules Düblin, were trying to stay clear of this transfer trading. But because at the beginning of the previous season they had lost important players, such as goalkeeper Gianfranco de Taddeo to Cantonal Neuchatel, midfielder Kurt Maurer to La Chaux-de-Fonds and striker Walter Bielser to Biel-Bienne, the Basel board of directors were changing their approach to the subject. Düblin explained the situation at the AGM and the club members gave him the rights to strengthen the team. Béla Sárosi was hired as new team manager. Various transfers were made, Werner Schley returned from Grasshopper Club, Gottlieb Stäuble returned from Lausanne-Sport, Walter Bielser returned from Biel-Bienne, Silvan Thüler was hired from Solothurn and Peter-Jürgen Sanmann was hired from Concordia Hamburg. The exact amount that this all cost is not recorded, but the club needed to take up credits, one of which came from the city of Basel over the amount of 30,000 Swiss Francs.[1]

As mentioned Béla Sárosi was hired in as new team manager. The Hungarian ex-international footballer had been team manager by Lugano the previous two seasons. He replaced René Bader who continued as player. There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1955–56 Nationalliga A, these were the top 12 teams from the previous season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and FC Schaffhausen. Again this season, the bottom two teams in the table were to be relegated. Basel won 10 of their 26 games and drew six times and lost 10 times. They scored 47 goals and conceded 50. Basel ended the championship with 26 points in 7th position. They were 16 points behind new champions Grasshopper Club. Grenchen and Fribourg suffered relegation.

Josef Hügi was again Basel's top league goal scorer with 14 goals and he was joint seventh league top scorer behind Branislav Vukosavljević from Grasshopper Club who had scored 33 times. Gottlieb Stäuble was Basel's second best goal scorer with 13 goals and joint ninth league top scorer. Further, Peter-Jürgen Sanmann netted six times.[2] Four goals in one match could be noted for Hügi on 10 June 1956 and also a hat-trick for Sanmann in the same game as Basel won 9–1 against Fribourg. This was seen by only 3,800 supporters, Basel's lowest home attendance that season.[3]

Basel joined the Swiss Cup in the third principal round. They were drawn away against lower tier local team SC Binningen, but because they waived the home advantage the match was played at the Landhof and Basel won 5–0. Rolf Keller scored a hat-trick in this game. In the fourth round they were drawn at home to lower tier FC Emmenbrücke and Basel won 6–2. Josef Hügi scored a hat-trick in this game. In the fifth round Basel were drawn at home to Biel-Bienne. Gottlieb Stäuble scored a hat-trick and Basel won 7–3. In the quarter-finals basel were drawn away against Cantonal Neuchatel, but here they were knocked out of the competition.[4]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1955–56. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 28 August 1955 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 Switzerland SUI Hansruedi Blatter
— GK Switzerland SUI Walter Müller
— GK Switzerland SUI Werner Schley (from Grasshopper Club)
— DF Switzerland SUI Werner Bopp
— DF Switzerland SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze
— DF Switzerland SUI Hans Hügi (I)
— DF Switzerland SUI René Klauser (I)
— DF Switzerland SUI Bruno Michaud (I)
— DF Hungary HUN György Mogoy
— MF Switzerland SUI Gustav Borer
— MF Switzerland SUI Raymond Gilliéron (from Brühl St. Gallen)
— MF France FRA Pierre Redolfi
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Rudolf Rickenbacher (from Nordstern Basel)
— MF Switzerland SUI Gottlieb Stäuble (from Lausanne-Sport)
— MF Switzerland SUI Silvan Thüler (from Solothurn)
— FW Switzerland SUI René Bader
— FW Switzerland SUI Walter Bannwart
— FW Switzerland SUI Walter Bielser (from Biel-Bienne)
— FW Switzerland SUI Pierre Geiser
— FW Switzerland SUI Josef Hügi (II)
— FW Switzerland SUI Rolf Keller
— FW Germany GER Otto Ludwig
— FW Switzerland SUI Hansueli Oberer
— FW Germany GER Peter-Jürgen Sanmann (from Concordia Hamburg)
— FW Italy ITA Romano Zolin
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 Switzerland SUI Hans Weber (to Lausanne-Sport)
— MF Switzerland SUI Eugen Büchel
— MF Switzerland SUI Albert Haug (to Zürich)
— MF Switzerland SUI Luciano Merlini (to SC Burgdorf)
— MF Spain ESP Juan Monros (to Urania Genève Sport)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Switzerland SUI Kurt Thalmann
— FW Switzerland SUI Ernst Klauser (II)
— FW Switzerland SUI Hans-Peter Schär
— Switzerland SUI Alfred Hartmann
— Switzerland SUI Hans Jordi

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season and mid-season

7 August 1955 Pre-season Grenchen Switzerland 1 – 1 Switzerland Basel Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau
Sidler (1:0) Summary (1:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Switzerland Weiersmüller Suhr
14 August 1955 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 2 Switzerland Solothurn Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart (1:0)
Oberer (2:1)		 Summary 38' (1:1) Mollet
75' (2:2) Adam		 Attendance: 2,400
Referee: Switzerland M. Schreiber Reinach
Note: Transfer game for Silvan Thüler
20 August 1955 Pre-season Hamburger SV Germany 2 – 1 Switzerland Basel Hamburg
Uwe Seeler 25' (1:0)
Dieter Seeler 53' (2:0)		 Summary 80' (2:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,000
20 November 1955 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 1 – 3 Russia Torpedo Moscow St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:45 Oberer 33' (1:1) Summary 18' (0:1) Falin
65' (1:2) Arbutow
86' (1:3) Streltsov		 Attendance: 18,000
Referee: Switzerland Victor Werner Schicker Bern
5 February 1956 Winter break Urania Genève Sport Switzerland 2 – 0 Switzerland Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Bernasconi 42' (1:0)
Monros 87' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 900
Referee: Switzerland M. Tasca Geneva

Winter break to end of season

5 February 1956 Winter break Urania Genève Sport Switzerland 2 – 0 Switzerland Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Bernasconi 42' (1:0)
Monros 87' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 900
Referee: Switzerland M. Tasca Geneva
11 February 1956 Winter break Basel Switzerland 3 – 2 Germany SC Concordia Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble (2x)
Bielser (1x)		 Summary (1x) Schmitt
(1x) Woiters		 Attendance: 400
Referee: Switzerland M. Schreiber Reinach
30 May 1956 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 1 Scotland Hibernian Landhof, Basel
18:30 Stäuble 58' (1:1)
Hügi (II) 85' (pen. 2:1)		 Summary 44' (0:1) Frye Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Switzerland Othmar Huber Thun
1 July 1956 End of season South Baden XI Germany 1 – 5 Switzerland Basel Eichwald-Stadion, Müllheim
Zeller 25' (1:2) Summary 13' (0:1) Hügi (II)
15' (0:2) Hügi (II)
30' (1:3) Bannwart
68' (1:4) Hügi (II)
73' (1:5) Hügi (II)		 Referee: Germany Klöss

Nationalliga A

League matches

28 August 1955 Round 1 Chiasso 2 – 0 Basel Stadio Via Comacini, Chiasso
Oberer 51' (pen. 1:0)
Ferrari 52' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 1,300
Referee: Switzerland von Gunten Bern
4 September 1955 Round 2 Basel 3 – 2 Zürich Landhof, Basel
17:00 Thüler 37' (1:2)
Hügi (II) 56' (pen. 2:2)
Bielser 69' (3:2)		 Summary 17' (0:1) Marta
18' (0:2) Bruppacher		 Attendance: 5,300
Referee: Switzerland Zutter Bern
11 September 1955 Round 3 Schaffhausen 2 – 2 Basel Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen
15:00 Akeret 57' (1:0)
Akeret 72' (2:2)		 Summary 60' (1:1) Sanmann
67' (1:2) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Schönholzer Lausanne
25 September 1955 Round 4 Basel 3 – 0 Urania Genève Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 53' (1:0)
Bannwart 56' (2:0)
Stäuble 88' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Victor Werner Schicker Bern
Note: Minute of commemoration for the late FCB co-founder Josy Ebinger.
2 October 1955 Round 5 Lausanne-Sport 0 – 1 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:00 Summary 3' (0:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Switzerland W. Werner St. Gallen
16 October 1955 Round 6 Basel 2 – 2 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble 31' (1:1)
Thüler 73' (2:1)		 Summary 9' (0:1) Bähler
87' (2:2) Bopp		 Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Switzerland E. Guidi Bellinzona
23 October 1955 Round 7 Bellinzona 2 – 0 Basel Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
Villa 4' (1:0)
Sartori (2:0)		 Summary soccer ball with red X 42′ Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Switzerland Josef Gulde St. Gallen
30 October 1955 Round 8 Basel 3 – 2 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble 10' (1:0)
Bielser 17' (2:1)
Hügi (II) 75' (pen, 3:2)		 Summary 13' (1:1) Pozzi
52' (2:2) Pozzi
Yellow card Bartesaghi		 Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Switzerland D. Mellet Lausanne
6 November 1955 Round 9 Grasshopper Club 4 – 2 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
14:45 Vukosavljević 25' (1:0)
Ballaman 31' (2:0)
Hüssy 38' (3:0)
Vukosavljević 80' (4:2)		 Summary 47' (3:1) Bannwart
53' (3:2) Stäuble
Yellow card Mogoy		 Attendance: 11,500
Referee: Switzerland Victor Werner Schicker Bern
13 November 1955 Round 10 Basel 4 – 2 Grenchen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble 46' (1:2)
Stäuble 59' (2:2)
Thüler 72' (3:2)
Hügi (II) 81' (4:2)		 Summary 41' (0:1) Sidler
43' (pen. 0:2) Morf		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Gino Bergamini Viganello
27 November 1955 Round 11 Servette 3 – 0 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
14:30 Anker 30' (1:0)
Pasteur 75' (2:0)
Anker 85' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland E. Guidi Bellinzona
4 December 1955 Round 12 Fribourg 1 – 0 Basel Stade Universitaire Saint-Léonard
Kaeslin 40' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland W. Rufli Bremgarten
11 December 1955 Round 13 Basel 2 – 0 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble 41' (1:0)
Bielser (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland F. Buchmüller Zürich
26 February 1956 Round 14 Basel P – P Chiasso Landhof, Basel
[ Summary]
4 March 1956 Round 15 Zürich 1 – 1 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
15:00 Leimgruber 54' (1:0) Summary 70' (1:1) Oberer Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Gino Bergamini Viganello
15 March 1955 Round 16 Basel 1 – 0 Schaffhausen Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble 27' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Switzerland Josef Gulde St. Gallen
25 March 1956 Round 17 Urania Genève Sport 2 – 0 Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Chodat 60' (1:0)
Mezzena 87' (pen. 2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 4,200
Referee: Switzerland F. Schorer Interlaken
8 April 1956 Round 18 Basel 2 – 1 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 4' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 19' (2:1)		 Summary 13' (1:1) Poma Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland Othmar Huber Thun
15 April 1956 Round 19 Young Boys 4 – 1 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
15:00 Grütter 7' (1:0)
Scheller 8' (2:0)
Hamel 12' (3:0)
Scheller 68' (4:1)		 Summary 14' (3:1) Stäuble Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Switzerland Gino Bergamini Viganello
22 April 1956 Round 14 Basel 2 – 1 Chiasso Landhof, Basel
15:00 Sanmann 23' (1:0)
Hügi (II) 60' (2:0)		 Summary 68' (2:1) Chiesa Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Switzerland Schönholzer Lausanne
28 April 1956 Round 20 Basel 2 – 2 Bellinzona Landhof, Basel
15:00 Thüler soccer ball with red X 27′
Stäuble 45' (1:0)
Stäuble 84' (2:2)		 Summary 48' (1:1) Capoferri
77' (1:2) Capoferri		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Zutter Bern
6 May 1956 Round 21 Lugano P – P Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
[ Summary]
13 May 1956 Round 22 Basel 2 – 5 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bielser 47' (1:3)
Stäuble 75' (2:3)		 Summary 3' (pen. 0:1) Vukosavljević
39' (0:2) Ballaman
41' (0:3) Hagen
85' (2:4) Vukosavljević
88' (2:5) Hagen		 Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland Fr. Karlen Bern
20 May 1956 Round 21 Lugano 0 – 0 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Josef Gulde St. Gallen
27 May 1956 Round 23 Grenchen 4 – 2 Basel Stadion Brühl, Grenchen
15:30 Moser 11' (1:0)
Raboud (I) 12' (2:0)
Sidler 44' (3:0)
Sidler 84' (4:2)		 Summary 65' (o.g. 3:1) Campoleoni
78' (3:2) Bannwart		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland D. Mellet Lausanne
3 June 1956 Round 24 Basel 1 – 1 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 73' (1:1) Summary 35' (0:1) Anker Attendance: 4,800
Referee: Switzerland F. Buchmüller Zürich
10 June 1956 Round 25 Basel 9 – 1 Fribourg Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II) 28' (1:0)
Sanmann 38' (2:0)
Hügi (II) 42' (3:0)
Monti 47' (o.g. 4:0)
Stäuble 58' (5:0)
Hügi (II) 59' (6:0)
Sanmann 63' (7:0)
Hügi (II) 80' (8:0)
Sanmann 81' (9:0)
Geiser soccer ball with red X 90′		 Summary 90' (9:1) Schmutz Attendance: 3,800
Referee: Switzerland Victor Werner Schicker Bern
16 June 1956 Round 26 La Chaux-de-Fonds 6 – 2 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
17:30 Mauron 24' (1:1)
Antenen 33' (2:1)
Kauer 49' (3:2)
Mauron 73' (4:2)
Antenen 87' (pen. 5:2)
Mauron 88' (6:2)		 Summary 20' (0:1) Geiser
49' (2:2) Sanmann		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland E. Guidi Bellinzona

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Grasshopper Club 26 19 4 3 94 36 +58 42 Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 14 6 6 65 46 +19 34
3 Young Boys 26 12 8 6 60 41 +19 32
4 Servette 26 12 6 8 53 51 +2 30
5 Bellinzona 26 11 6 9 39 45 −6 28
6 Chiasso 26 12 3 11 48 47 +1 27
7 Basel 26 10 6 10 47 50 −3 26
8 Lausanne-Sport 26 10 5 11 40 50 −10 25
9 Lugano 26 7 9 10 38 46 −8 23
10 Schaffhausen 26 7 8 11 30 44 −14 22
11 Urania Genève Sport 26 8 6 12 34 51 −17 22
12 Zürich 26 8 5 13 55 53 +2 21
13 Grenchen 26 7 4 15 39 55 −16 18 Relegated
14 Fribourg 26 5 4 17 32 59 −27 14 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup

19 November 1955 Round 3 SC Binningen 0 – 5 Basel Landhof, Basel
Summary 23' (0:1) Keller
27' (pen. 0:2) Thüler
58' (0:3) Sanmann
72' (0:4) Keller
82' (pen. 0:5)		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Switzerland F. Schorer Interlaken
Note: SC Binningen waived the home advantage
18 December 1955 Round 4 Basel 6 – 2 FC Emmenbrücke Landhof, Basel
14:30 Oberer (1:2)
Hügi (II) 31' (2:2)
Hügi (II) 63' (3:2)
Stäuble 64' (4:2)
Bielser 83' (5:2)
Hügi (II) 80' (6:2)		 Summary (0:1) Kehl
23' (0:2) Steffen		 Attendance: 2,300
Referee: Switzerland Weiersmüller Suhr
19 February 1956 Round 5 Basel 7 – 3 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stäuble 2' (1:0)
Stäuble 38' (2:3)
Thüler (pen. 3:3)
Sanmann 48' (4:3)
Hügi (II) 70' (5:3)
Sanmann 74' (6:3)
Stäuble 80' (7:3)		 Summary 18' (1:1) Kohler
23' (1:2) Riederer
33' (1:3) Allemann		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Switzerland Surdez Delémont
2 April 1956 Quarter-final Cantonal Neuchatel 1 – 0 Basel Stade de la Maladière (1924), Neuchâtel
15:00 Lanz 85' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland F. Buchmüller Zürich

See also

References

  1. ↑ Zindel, Josef (2018), "1956 - Umdenken", Page 53, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  2. ↑ Erik Garin. "Nationalliga A 1955/56". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Fribourg 9:1 (3:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. ↑ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1955/56". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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