Walter Bannwart

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Walter Bannwart
Personal information
Full name Walter Bannwart
Date of birth (1927-03-03)3 March 1927
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
until 1948 FC Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1957 FC Basel 171 (44)
National team
1951 Switzerland 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Walter Bannwart (3 March 1927 – after 1956) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel. He played mainly as a forward, but also as a midfielder.

Football career[]

Between 1949 and 1957 Bannwart played 263 games for Basel and scored 64 goals; 171 games were in the Nationalliga A, 20 in the Swiss Cup and 72 were friendly games. He scored 44 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the Cup and the other 14 were scored in the friendliames.[1]

His first game in the domestic league was on 20 November 1949 in a home game in the Stadion Schützenmatte against FC Bern. He scored twice as Basel won 3–1.[2]

The biggest success in his football career was as Basel won the championship title in the 1952–53 season. During this season Bannwart played 26 league games and scored 9 goals for the club.[3] Joint with Walter Bielser and René Bader, Bannwart was the team's second most successful league scorer that season, behind Josef Hügi with 32.

International football[]

In 1951 Bannwart was called up to the Swiss national team. He played just one game for his country, in Switzerland's B team. This was on 15 September 1951 in the Wankdorf Stadium against Saarland. Saarland won the game 5–2.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ "Walter Bannwart". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  2. ^ "FC Basel - FC Bern 3:1". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  3. ^ "Walter Bannwart - Saison 1952/53". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  4. ^ fussball-schweiz.ch. "Spiele von Schweiz B". fussball-schweiz.ch. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

Sources[]

  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2189-1
  • Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
  • Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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