1954–55 FC Basel season

FC Basel

1954–55 season
Chairman	Jules Düblin
Manager	René Bader with
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Top goalscorer	League: Josef Hügi (20) All: Josef Hügi (23)
Highest home attendance	11,000 on 17 April 1955 vs Grasshopper Club and on 22 May 1955 vs La Chaux-de-Fonds
Lowest home attendance	4,500 on 5 September 1954 vs Bellinzona and on 6 March 1955 vs Chiasso
Average home league attendance	6,476
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The 1954–55 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 61st season in their existence. It was their ninth 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 ninth successive season as chairman.

Overview[]

René Bader continued as the team's player-coach, for the third consecutive season with Willy Dürr as his assistant. However, in this season Bader only played in one test match. Basel played a total of 43 games during their 1954–55 season. Of these 43 matches 26 were in the domestic league, three matches were in the Swiss Cup and 14 were test or friendly matches. The test/friendly games resulted with five victories, two were drawn and seven matches ended with a defeat. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, 17 games were won, six were drawn and 20 were lost. In their 41 games they scored 101 goals and conceded 98.^[1]

There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1954–55 Nationalliga A, the last two teams in the table were to be relegated. Basel won 10 of their 26 games and drew four times and lost 12 times. They scored 47 goals and conceded 52. Basel ended the championship with 24 points in 9th position. They were 18 points behind La Chaux-de-Fonds who won the Swiss Championship for the second time in a row. Thun and Luzern suffered relegation. Josef Hügi was Basel's top league goal scorer with 20 goals and he was third top goal scorer in the league behind Marcel Mauron from La Chaux-de-Fonds who had scored 30 times. Bannwart was Basel's second best goal scorer with eight goals. Further, Hansueli Oberer scored five and Juan Monros netted four times.^[2]

Basel joined the Swiss Cup in the third principal round. They were drawn away against lower tier local team FC Riehen, but the match was played at the Landhof and Basel won 6–0. In the fourth round they were drawn at home to lower tier FC Olten and Basel won 2–0. In the fifth round Basel were drawn at home to Zürich. But here they were knocked out of the competition^[3]

Players[]

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1954–55. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 29 August 1954 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 Walter Müller — GK   SUI Werner Schley (from Grasshopper Club) — DF   SUI Werner Bopp — DF   SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze — DF   SUI Hans Hügi (I) — DF   SUI René Klauser (I) — DF  HUN György Mogoy — DF   SUI Hans Weber — MF   SUI Eugen Büchel (from Young Fellows Zürich) — MF   SUI Raymond Gilliéron (from Brühl St. Gallen) — MF   SUI Albert Haug (from Zürich) — MF   SUI Luciano Merlini (from Locarno)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  ESP Juan Monros — MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi — MF   SUI Kurt Thalmann — FW   SUI René Bader (Player-coach) — FW   SUI Walter Bannwart — FW   SUI Josef Hügi (II) — FW   SUI Rolf Keller — FW   SUI Ernst Klauser (II) — FW   SUI Hansueli Oberer (from FC Olten) — FW   SUI Hans-Peter Schär — FW  ITA Romano Zolin —   SUI Alfred Hartmann —   SUI Hans Jordi

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 — GK   SUI Gianfranco de Taddeo (to Cantonal Neuchatel) — GK  FRA (to FC Hégenheim) — MF   SUI Walter Felber

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   SUI Benedikt Frey (to CIBA) — MF   SUI Kurt Maurer (to La Chaux-de-Fonds) — FW   SUI Walter Bielser (to Biel-Bienne)

Results[]

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches[]

Pre-season and mid-season[]

Winter break to end of season[]

Nationalliga A[]

League matches[]

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	19	4	3	99	46	+53	42	Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2	Lausanne-Sport	26	16	6	4	75	35	+40	38
3	Grasshopper Club	26	14	5	7	80	43	+37	33
4	Zürich	26	13	4	9	52	48	+4	30
5	Young Boys	26	10	8	8	65	53	+12	28
6	Servette	26	11	4	11	54	53	+1	26
7	Bellinzona	26	8	10	8	28	29	−1	26
8	Chiasso	26	10	5	11	48	58	−10	25
9	Basel	26	10	4	12	47	52	−5	24
10	Fribourg	26	9	3	14	40	61	−21	21
11	Lugano	26	8	4	14	47	79	−32	20
12	Grenchen	26	7	5	14	35	48	−13	19
13	Thun	26	6	6	14	35	65	−30	18	Relegated
14	Luzern	26	6	2	18	38	73	−35	14	Relegated

Swiss Cup[]

See also[]

• History of FC Basel
• List of FC Basel players
• List of FC Basel seasons

References[]

Sources[]

• Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
• The FCB team 1954–55 at fcb-archiv.ch
• Switzerland 1954–55 by Erik Garin at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

External links[]

• FC Basel official site