| 1913–14 season | |
|---|---|
| Chairman | Karl Ibach until 25 September 1913 Carl Albert Hintermann from 25 September 1913 |
| First team coach | Percy Humphreys |
| Ground | Landhof,Basel |
| Serie A | Group Stage: 2nd |
| Top goalscorer | Christian Albicker (12) |
TheFC Basel 1913–14 season was their twenty-first season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman wasKarl Ibach, but he stood down at theAGM on 25 September 1913. From that dateCarl Albert Hintermann took over as club president. FC Basel played their home games in theLandhof in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel,Basel.
The EnglishmanPercy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the clubFC Basel had ever employed. Under club chairmanKarl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913. He had previously been head-coach forHartlepool United in the EnglishNorth Eastern League. Prior to Humphreys, it had always been the team captain who had taken over the function of the trainer.
Basel played 32 matches in their 1913–14 season. 14 of these matches were in the domestic league and 18 were friendly games. Six of these were home games, played in theLandhof, one other home game was played on the Margarethenwiese inBasel, five others were away games in Switzerland and five games were played abroad. Basel played seven matches against German teams, one against the English teamBradford City and the other ten opponents were Swiss. Of these friendlies 10 were won and 8 ended with a defeat. In these 18 games Basel scored a total of 57 goals and conceded 47.[1]
TheSwiss Serie A 1913–14 was divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West. Basel were allocated to the Central group together with local rivalsOld Boys andNordstern Basel. The other teams playing in the Central group wereYoung Boys,FC La Chaux-de-Fonds,Étoile-Sporting FC La Chaux-de-Fonds,FC Bern andBiel-Bienne. Basel started well into the championship winning seven of the first eight games, the first four games straight off. After the new year break things turned against them and they were defeated three times. Basel lost contact to the Young Boys at the top of the table and ended the season in joint second position with FC Bern, they were three points behind the group winners. In their 14 games Basel scored 63 goals and conceded 33. The two highest scoring games were both played againstFC La Chaux-de-Fonds. Basel won the home game 11–4 and the away game 10–1.[2]
The Young Boys continued to the finals againstCantonal Neuchatel andAarau, who eventually won the championship in the Finals. Last place in the group bottom wasOld Boys, who therefore entered the play-off round against relegation, in which they were successful.[3]
The Anglo-Cup was not played in this year and so, Basel could not defend the title that they had obtained the year before. But memories of this cup win soon faded anyway, because in fact the competition was discontinued completely due toWorld War I.[4]
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Win Draw Loss
| 24 August 1913Pre-season | Freiburger FC | 2–4 | Basel | Feldberg |
 | Summary | |
| 30 August 1913Pre-season | Basel | 2–0 | Stuttgarter Kickers | Landhof,Basel |
| Schreyer Albicker | Summary | Referee: Louis Riesterer |
| 14 September 1913Pre-season | St. Gallen | 3–2 | Basel | St. Gallen |
| Leissing (1:1) Neumeyer (2:1)Ehrbar (pen. 3:1) | Summary | (0:1) (3:2)Humphreys |
| 16 November 1913Mid-season | Basel | 3–0 | Freiburger FC | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | | Summary |
| 26 December 1913Winter break | Karlsruher FV | 4–7 | Basel | Karlsruhe |
| (1:2) (2:2) (pen. 3:3) Fuchs (4:4) | Summary | 3' (0:1) (0:2) (2:3) (3:4)Aeppli (4:5)Aeppli (4:6) (4:7) |
| 11 January 1914Mid-season | Freiburger FC | 3–6 | Basel | Freiburg im Breisgau |
| Diemer Walch Nägele | Summary | | Referee: Ehret H. Banzhaf |
| 8 March 1914Mid-season | Basel | 2–3 | Concordia Basel | Landhof,Basel |
| 10:30 | Moll 30' (pen. 1:0) Moll 75' (pen. 2:1) | Summary | (1:1) Schürch (pen. 2:2) Ferralli II 90' Ferralli II |
| 5 April 1914Mid-season | Basel | 0–5 | Cantonal | Landhof,Basel |
| Summary | 10' (0:1) (0:2) 30' (0:3) 85' (0:4) 90' (0:5) |
| 12 April 1914Mid-season | Bayern Munich | 4–1 | Basel | Munich |
| Summary | |
| 26 April 1914Mid-season | Young Fellows Zürich | 3–0 | Basel | Hardturm,Zürich |
| Schaltenbrand Wintsch Schaltenbrand | Summary | Attendance: 1,500 |
| 10 May 1911End of season | Basel | 2–4 | Bradford City | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:10 | Bredschneider 76' (1:4) Albicker 78' (2:4) | Summary | 10' (0:1) Slaer 20' (0:2) Bond 63' (0:3) Currie 70' (o.g. 0:4)Goldschmidt | Attendance: 3,500 Referee: Louis Riesterer |
| 17 May 1914End of season | Basel | 7–0 | Baden | Landhof,Basel |
| Schreyer (1:0) (2:0) Aeppli (3:0) (4:0)Aeppli (5:0)Hasler (6:0) 80' (7:0) | Summary |
| 7 June 1914End of season | Basel | 0–3 | Young Fellows Zürich | Margarethenwiese,Basel |
| 17:00 | Summary | (0:1) Schaltenbrand (0:2) Schaltenbrand (0:3) Leiber II |
| 5 October 1913Round 1 | Basel | 11–4 | La Chaux-de-Fonds | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | (1:3) (2:3) (3:3) (4:3) (5:3) (6:3) (7:3) (8:3) (9:3) (10:3) (11:3) | Summary | (0:1) (0:2) (0:3) (pen. 11:4) Haudenschild | Referee: EtzensbergerEtoile La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| 12 October 1913Round 2 | Biel-Bienne | 2–4 | Basel | Gurzelen Stadion,Biel/Bienne |
| 14:45 | Fallet 25' (1:1) Grupp 73' (2:3) | Summary | 15' (0:1) 60' (1:2) 61' (1:3) 73' (2:4) | Referee: Dondelinger |
| 19 October 1913Round 3 | Étoile-Sporting | 1–5 | Basel | La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| 14:35 | Wyss (I) 35' (1:3) | Summary | 4' (0:1)Albicker (I) 9' (0:2)Albicker (I) 25' (0:3)Albicker (I) (1:4)Schreyer (1:5)Aeppli | Referee: Otto EicherYoung Boys |
| 9 November 1913Round 4 | Nordstern Basel | 5–7 | Basel | Basel |
| 15:00 | Bollinger 11' (1:0) Wüthrich (2:2)Bollinger (pen. 3:4)Bollinger (4:7)Bollinger (5:7) | Summary | 5' (1:1)Aeppli (1:2)Wunderle (2:3)Schreyer (2:4)Aeppli (3:5)Albicker (I) 51' (2:6)Schreyer (3:7)Aeppli | Referee: H. AllemannZürich |
| 23 November 1913Round 5 | Basel | 1–2 | Young Boys | Landhof,Basel |
| 14:30 | Schreyer 61' (1:2) | Summary | 15' (0:1) Funk (II) 42' (0:2) Bommer | Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Willy BeuttnerZürich |
| 30 November 1913Round 6 | Old Boys | 2–7 | Basel | Basel |
| 15:00 | Grunauer 29' (1:1) Higelin (pen. 2:7) | Summary | 12' (0:1)Albicker (I) 35' (pen. 1:2)Moll 43'Albicker (I) 48' (1:4)Aeppli 50' (pen. 1:5)Albicker (I) 64' (1:6)Albicker (I) (1:7)Bredschneider | Attendance: 2,000 Referee: H. GrischYoung Fellows Zürich |
| 7 December 1913Round 7 | Basel | 7–1 | FC Bern | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | Albicker (I) (1:0) Wunderle (2:0)Albicker (I) (pen. 3:0) (4:1) (5:1) (6:1) (7:1)Bredschneider | Summary | (3:1) Beuchat | Attendance: 1,400 Referee: AllemannZürich |
| 4 January 1914Round 8 | Basel | 4–1 | Nordstern Basel | Landhof,Basel |
| 14:30 | Moll (pen. 1:0) Schreyer (2:0)Kaltenbach (3:0)Bredschneider (4:1) | Summary | (3:1) Haas | Attendance: 1,200 Referee: H. GrischYoung Fellows Zürich |
| 15 February 1914Round 9 | Young Boys | 5–0 | Basel | Bern |
| Dasen 2' (1:0) Funk (II) 5' (2:0)Reber 15' (3:0)Dasen 40' (4:0)Dasen 80' (5:0) | Summary | Attendance: 3,000 Referee: SandozLausanne-Sport |
| 22 February 1914Round 10 | Basel | 2–4 | Étoile-Sporting | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | Albicker (I) (1:2) Albicker (I) (2:2) | Summary | 10' (0:1) Perrenoud 30' (0:2) Hirschi (2:3) Wyss (I) (2:4) Wyss (II) | Referee: Hans KobletWinterthur |
| 1 March 1914Round 11 | Basel | 2–1 | Old Boys | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | Wunderle 5' (1:0) Aeppli 27' (2:0) | Summary | 49' (2:1) Merkt | Attendance: 2,500 Referee: WeberSt. Gallen |
| 15 March 1914Round 12 | Basel | 2–2 | Biel-Bienne | Landhof,Basel |
| 15:00 | Moll (pen. 1:0) Kaltenbach (2:2) | Summary | (1:1) Lehmann (1:2) Keller | Referee: WeberSt. Gallen |
| 22 March 1914Round 13 | FC Bern | 2–0 | Basel | Kirchenfeld,Bern |
| (1:0) Wasserfallen (2:0) | Summary | Referee: |
| 3 May 1914Round 14 | La Chaux-de-Fonds | 1–10 | Basel | Parc des Sports,La Chaux-de-Fonds |
| 14:30 | Robert Vital (1:3) | Summary | 5' (0:1) (0:2) (0:3) (1:4) (1:5) (1:6) (1:7) (1:8) (1:9) (1:10) | Referee: |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Young Boys | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 46 | 21 | +25 | 22 | Advance to finals |
| 2 | Basel | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 63 | 33 | +30 | 19 | |
| 3 | FC Bern | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 40 | 32 | +8 | 19 | |
| 4 | Étoile-Sporting | 14 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 34 | 34 | 0 | 15 | |
| 5 | Biel-Bienne | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 34 | −1 | 12 | |
| 6 | Nordstern Basel | 14 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 29 | 34 | −5 | 11 | |
| 7 | La Chaux-de-Fonds | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 57 | −31 | 8 | |
| 8 | Old Boys | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 21 | 47 | −26 | 6 | To relegation play-off |
