1957–58 FC Basel season

FC Basel

1957–58 season
Chairman	Jules Düblin
Manager	Rudi Strittich
Ground	Landhof, Basel
Nationalliga A	9th
Swiss Cup	Round 4
Top goalscorer	League: Josef Hügi (18) All: Josef Hügi (18)
Highest home attendance	13,000 on 22 September 1957 vs Young Boys
Lowest home attendance	3,500 on 1 June 1958 vs Biel-Bienne
Average home league attendance	6,423
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The 1957–58 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 64th season in their existence. It was their twelfth 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 for his twelfth successive period.

Overview[]

The Austrian ex-international footballer Rudi Strittich was hired as new team manager this season. He took over from Béla Sárosi who had moved on to Jahn Regensburg. Basel played a total of 42 games this season. Of these 42 matches 26 were in the domestic league, two were in the Swiss Cup and 14 were friendly matches. The friendly games resulted with seven victories and seven defeats. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, 17 games were won, six games were drawn and 19 games were lost. In their 42 games the team scored 107 goals and conceded 87.^[1]

Fourteen teams contested the 1957–58 Nationalliga A, these were the top 12 teams from the previous season and the two newly promoted teams FC Biel-Bienne and FC Grenchen. The last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel won nine of their 26 games and drew six times and lost eleven times. They scored 59 goals and conceded 53. Basel ended the championship with 24 points in 9th position. They were 19 points behind Young Boys who were able to defend their championship title. At the end of the league table Urania Genève Sport and FC Winterthur ended the season joint second last, each with 18 points, and therefore they had to play a relegation play-off. Urania won the play-off and therefore Winterthur suffered relegation together with FC Biel-Bienne who had finished in last position.^[2]

Josef Hügi was the Basel's top league goal scorer with 18 goals. He managed two hat-tricks during the league season, in the first game of the season on 25 August 1957 at home against Winterthur and in the last game of the season on 1 June 1958 at home against Biel-Bienne. Gottlieb Stäuble was the team's second best goal scorer with nine goals, Rudolf Burger netted eight times and both Hermann Suter and Hans Weber netted seven times.

Basel joined the Swiss Cup in the third principal round. They were drawn at home at the Landhof against lower tier local team FC Oten on 2 November 1957. Hans Weber scored five goals during the second half of the game as Basel won 8–0.^[3] In the fourth round Basel were also drawn at home against lower tier FC Bern but here Basel were knocked out. Young Boys won the competition and thus completed the double.^[4]

Players[]

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1957–58. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 25 August 1957 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 Hansruedi Blatter — GK   SUI Werner Schley — GK   SUI Kurt Stettler (from Luzern) — DF   SUI Werner Bopp — DF   SUI Wilhelm Jermann — DF   SUI Hans Hügi (I) — DF   SUI — DF   SUI Hans Weber (from Lausanne-Sport) — MF   SUI Gustav Borer — MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi — MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF   SUI Silvan Thüler — FW   SUI Rudolf Burger (from Nordstern Basel) — FW   SUI Bernhard Chenaux (neu) — FW   SUI Josef Hügi (II) — FW   SUI Ernst Klauser (II) — FW  HUN Janos Magyar (neu) — FW   SUI Emil Müller (from Black Stars Basel) — FW   SUI Hansueli Oberer — FW   SUI (neu) — FW   SUI Raymond Simonet (neu) — FW   SUI Hermann Suter — FW  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   SUI Hans-Rudolf Fitze (retired) — DF   SUI Bruno Michaud (to Lausanne-Sport) — MF   SUI Benedikt Frey — MF   SUI Rudolf Rickenbacher (to La Chaux-de-Fonds) — FW   SUI René Bader (retired)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   SUI Walter Bannwart (retired) — FW   SUI Walter Bielser (retired) — FW   SUI Pierre Geiser (to Nordstern Basel) — FW   SUI Bruno Locher (II) (from Kleinhüningen) — FW  GER Peter-Jürgen Sanmann (to SC Concordia von 1907)

Results[]

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches[]

Pre- and mid-season[]

Winter break[]

Nationalliga A[]

League matches[]

League table[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Young Boys	26	20	3	3	76	37	+39	43	Champions and Swiss Cup winners
2	Grasshopper Club	26	16	3	7	81	47	+34	35
3	Chiasso	26	15	5	6	56	43	+13	35
4	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	13	5	8	56	55	+1	31
5	Grenchen	26	9	9	8	54	52	+2	27
6	Lausanne-Sport	26	9	9	8	51	52	−1	27
7	Young Fellows Zürich	26	10	5	11	57	54	+3	25
8	Servette	26	10	4	12	50	47	+3	24
9	Basel	26	9	6	11	59	53	+6	24
10	Bellinzona	26	8	5	13	35	52	−17	21
11	Lugano	26	7	6	13	36	47	−11	20
12	Urania Genève Sport	26	7	4	15	38	55	−17	18	Play-off winners, remain in Nationalliga A
13	Winterthur	26	6	6	14	51	76	−25	18	Play-off losers, relegated to Nationalliga B
14	Biel-Bienne	26	6	4	16	25	55	−30	16	Relegated to Nationalliga B

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 1957–58 at fcb-archiv.ch
• Switzerland 1957–58 by Erik Garin at Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

External links[]

• FC Basel official site