1955–56 FC Basel season

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.

FC Basel
1955–56 season
Chairman Jules Düblin
Manager Béla Sárosi
GroundLandhof, Basel
Top goalscorerLeague: Josef Hügi (14)
All: 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

Overview

During the previous four or five years the number of players joining and leaving the club was increasing consideribly. 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   SUI Hansruedi Blatter
— 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   SUI Bruno Michaud (I)
— DF  HUN György Mogoy
— MF   SUI Gustav Borer
— MF   SUI Raymond Gilliéron (from Brühl St. Gallen)
— MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   SUI Rudolf Rickenbacher (from Nordstern Basel)
— MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble (from Lausanne-Sport)
— MF   SUI Silvan Thüler (from Solothurn)
— FW   SUI René Bader
— FW   SUI Walter Bannwart
— FW   SUI Walter Bielser (from Biel-Bienne)
— FW   SUI Pierre Geiser
— FW   SUI Josef Hügi (II)
— FW   SUI Rolf Keller
— FW  GER Otto Ludwig
— FW   SUI Hansueli Oberer
— FW  GER Peter-Jürgen Sanmann (from Concordia Hamburg)
— 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 Weber (to Lausanne-Sport)
— MF   SUI Eugen Büchel
— MF   SUI Albert Haug (to Zürich)
— MF   SUI Luciano Merlini (to SC Burgdorf)
— MF  ESP Juan Monros (to Urania Genève Sport)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   SUI Kurt Thalmann
— FW   SUI Ernst Klauser (II)
— FW   SUI Hans-Peter Schär
—   SUI Alfred Hartmann
—   SUI Hans Jordi

Results
Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre-season and mid-season
7 August 1955 Pre-season Grenchen 1 – 1 Basel Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau
Sidler  (1:0) Summary  (1:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,200
Referee: Weiersmüller Suhr
14 August 1955 Pre-season Basel 2 – 2 Solothurn Landhof, Basel
15:00 Bannwart  (1:0)
Oberer  (2:1)		 Summary  38' (1:1) Mollet
 75' (2:2) Adam		 Attendance: 2,400
Referee: M. Schreiber Reinach
Note: Transfer game for Silvan Thüler
20 August 1955 Pre-season Hamburger SV 2 – 1 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 1 – 3 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: Victor Werner Schicker Bern
5 February 1956 Winter break Urania Genève Sport 2 – 0 Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Bernasconi  42' (1:0)
Monros  87' (2:0)		 Summary Attendance: 900
Referee: M. Tasca Geneva

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

Nationalliga A
Main article: 1955–56 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: E. Guidi Bellinzona
23 October 1955 Round 7 Bellinzona 2 – 0 Basel Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
Villa  4' (1:0)
Sartori  (2:0)		 Summary 42′ Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,800
Referee: 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
Bartesaghi		 Attendance: 6,800
Referee: 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
Mogoy		 Attendance: 11,500
Referee: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Schönholzer Lausanne
28 April 1956 Round 20 Basel 2 – 2 Bellinzona Landhof, Basel
15:00 Thüler 27′
Stäuble  45' (1:0)
Stäuble  84' (2:2)		 Summary  48' (1:1) Capoferri
 77' (1:2) Capoferri		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: 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: Fr. Karlen Bern
20 May 1956 Round 21 Lugano 0 – 0 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
Summary Attendance: 2,500
Referee: 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: 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: 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 90′		 Summary  90' (9:1) Schmutz Attendance: 3,800
Referee: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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