1958–59 FC Basel season

The 1958–59 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 65th season in their existence. It was their thirteenth 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 13th successive, but final, period. Düblin presided the club during the period July 1946 until Mai 1959 and in the club's history he is the most permanent president that the club has had to date.[1]

FC Basel
1958–59 season
Chairman Jules Düblin
Manageruntil 30 November 1958
Rudi Strittich
from 1 December
René Bader
GroundLandhof, Basel
Nationalliga A6th
Swiss CupRound of 32
Top goalscorerLeague: Josef Hügi
and Gottlieb Stäuble (both 12)
All: Josef Hügi (14)
Highest home attendance11,500 on 9 November 1958
vs BSC Young Boys
Lowest home attendance3,500 on 12 October 1958
vs Bellinzona
and on 7 June 1959
vs Young Fellows Zürich
Average home league attendance6,023

Overview

The Austrian ex-international footballer Rudi Strittich was team manager for the second successive season. The club directors and the team management strengthend the team following the previous disappointing season. Bruno Michaud returned from Lausanne-Sport, Fredy Kehrli, Jean-Jacques Maurer and Charles Turin were hired from Biel-Bienne who had suffered relegation the previous season.[2] Roberto Frigerio was hired from Schaffhausen and Antoine Kohn from Karlsruher SC. But on 30 November 1958 Basel were beaten 0–2 by FC Moutier, a team from the 1 Liga (third highest tier of Swiss football), and because the Basel had lost their previous three league matches this was one bad result too many. Even for club chairman Jules Düblin, who was known as prudent and cautious, this was too much and he replaced Strittich through their ex-trainer René Bader.[3]

Basel played a total of 50 games this season. Of these 50 matches 26 were in the domestic league, two were in the Swiss Cup and 22 were friendly matches. The friendly games resulted with twelve victories, five draws and five defeats. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, 24 games were won, 10 games were drawn and 16 games were lost. In these 50 games the team scored 126 goals and conceded 101.[4]

Fourteen teams contested the 1958–59 Nationalliga A, these were the top 12 teams from the previous season and the two newly promoted teams FC Zürich and FC Luzern. At the end of the season the last two teams in the table were to be relegated. Basel started badly into the new season, losing the first game 1–2 against La Chaux-de-Fonds and then losing at home 1–4 against Grenchen. Then, despite two high wins, 5–0 away against Lausanne-Sport and 6–1 at home against Bellinzona, the afore mentioned three defeats against Young Boys, Zürich and Grasshopper Club caused the change in manager position. But under the new manager things did not change immediately, the lowest point was after round 15 as the team slipped to second last position in the table. But in the last 11 rounds the team lost only one more match and rose in the table to sixth position.[3]

Basel entered the Swiss Cup in the third principal round. They were drawn at home at the Landhof against third tier local team Old Boys. The match was played on 26 October and despite the fact that former Basel goalkeeper Gianfranco de Taddeo, who now played for the Old Boys, held a penalty taken by Hans Weber, Basel won 3–0.[5] In the next round Basel were drawn and lost against FC Moutier. Thus Basel's short and disappointing cup season ended here. As mentioned before, the consequence of this defeat was that team manager Rudi Strittich was fired. Grenchen won the cup this season.[6]

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1958–59. The list includes players that were in the squad on the day that the Nationalliga A season started on 31 August 1958 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 René Jeker (from Concordia Basel)
— GK   SUI Kurt Stettler
— GK   SUI Walter Wider (from Solothurn)
— DF   SUI Werner Bopp
— DF   SUI Hans Hügi (I)
— DF   SUI Fredy Kehrli (from Biel-Bienne)
— DF   SUI Bruno Michaud (from Lausanne-Sport)
— DF   SUI Hans Weber
— DF   SUI Jules Wyss (from SC Kleinhüningen)
— MF   SUI René Jaeck (from Schaffhausen)
— MF   SUI Jean-Jacques Maurer (from Biel-Bienne)
— MF   SUI Rudolf Rickenbacher (from La Chaux-de-Fonds)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF   SUI Gottlieb Stäuble
— MF   SUI Silvan Thüler
— MF   SUI Charles Turin (from Biel-Bienne)
— FW   SUI Rudolf Burger
— FW   SUI Bernhard Chenaux
— FW   SUI Roberto Frigerio (from Schaffhausen)
— FW   SUI Josef Hügi (II)
— FW  LUX Antoine Kohn (from Karlsruher SC)
— FW  GER Otto Ludwig
— FW   SUI Hansueli Oberer
— FW   SUI Raymond Simonet
— FW   SUI Hermann Suter
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 Hansruedi Blatter
— GK   SUI Werner Schley (to Zürich)
— DF   SUI Wilhelm Jermann (to FC Laufen)
— DF   SUI Hansjörg Tschirky
— MF   SUI Gustav Borer (to Aarau)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  FRA Pierre Redolfi (to FC Hegenheim)
— FW   SUI Ernst Klauser (II) (to Black Stars Basel)
— FW  HUN Janos Magyar
— FW   SUI Emil Müller (to Black Stars Basel)
— FW   SUI Walter Rieder
— FW  ITA Romano Zolin

Results
Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Pre- and mid-season
July 1958 Pre-season FC Kickers Luzern 1 – 3 Basel Luzern
Summary
July 1958 Pre-season ASCA Wittelsheim 2 – 4 Basel Wittelsheim
Summary
July 1958 Pre-season FC Saint-Louis 1 – 2 Basel Saint-Louis
Summary
23 July 1958 Pre-season FC Arlesheim 1 – 10 Basel Arlesheim
 (1x) Summary  (8x) Hügi (II)
 (1x)
 (1x)
27 July 1958 Pre-season Basel 3 – 2 FC Bern Eichhölzli, Zwingen
16:30 Hügi (II)  10' (1:1)
Frigerio  (2:0)
Kohn  (3:0)		 Summary  7' (0:1) Schott
 73' (3:2) Schott		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Gottfried Dienst Basel
Note: Anniversary game 25 years FC Zwingen
3 August 1958 Pre-season Freiburger FC 5 – 0 Basel Elztalstadion, Waldkirch
Busch  (3x)
Schukraft  (1x)
Höge  (1x)		 Summary Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Walter Stemmler Offenburg
Note: Anniversary game 50 years SV Waldkirch
10 August 1958 Pre-season 1. FC Köln 4 – 1 Basel Köln
Schäfer  41' (1:1)
Schäfer  42' (2:1)
Schäfer  46' (3:1)
Sturm  (4:1)		 Summary
Attendance: 7,000
16 August 1958 Friendship Cup Basel 1 – 1
(4 – 4 p)		 Lugano Landhof, Basel
Hügi (II)  10' (1:0) Summary  (1:1) Pantellini Attendance: 7,000
Referee: W. Müller Baden
Penalties




Hügi (II)



Tibor
Note: Friendship Cup Basel–Ticino: 10 years of US Ticinese Basel. Penalty shoot-out 5 penalties per team. Lugano win on toss of coin.
17 August 1958 Friendship Cup Basel 3 – 1 Concordia Basel Landhof, Basel
Frigerio  5' (1:0)
 30' (o.g. 1:2)
Kohn  (3:1)		 Summary  13' (1:1) Hosp Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Surdez Delémont
Note: Friendship Cup Basel–Ticino: 10 years of US Ticinese Basel.
21 August 1958 Pre-season Basel 2 – 2 Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi Landhof, Basel
20:00 Hügi (II)  (1:1)
Jaeck  53' (2:1)		 Summary  (0:1) Gosseries
 73' (2:2) Frerotte		 Attendance: 1,400
Referee: Gottfried Dienst Basel
Note: Game originally scheduled for Tuesday, postponed until Thursday due to bad weather.
24 August 1958 Pre-season Schaffhausen 3 – 4 Basel Stadion Breite, Schaffhausen
Brändli  (1x)
Knobloch  (1x)
Zannin  (1x)		 Summary  (1x) Frigerio
 (1x) Hügi (II)
 (1x) Kohn
 (1x) Weber		 Attendance: 1,800
Referee: Paul Wyssling Zürich
20 September 1958 Mid-season Solothurn 2 – 6 Basel Stadion FC Solothurn, Solothurn
Fedeli  40' (1:4)
Zürcher  48' (2:4)		 Summary  15' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 16' (0:2) Kohn
 (0:3) Kohn
 31' (0:4) Kohn
 (2:5) Hügi (II)
 (2:6) Stäuble		 Attendance: 800
Referee: von Arx Biel/Bienne
Note: Transfer game Walter Wider
23 September 1958 Mid-season Basel 3 – 5 Zürich Landhof, Basel
20:00 Stäuble  16' (1:1)
Stäuble  20' (2:1)
Kohn  70' (3:5)		 Summary  8' (0:1) Probst
 24' (2:2) Leimgruber
 55' (2:3) Probst
 57' (2:4) Probst
 26' (2:5) Corti		 Attendance: 2,600
Referee: W. Müller Baden
Note: Transfer game Werner Schley
4 October 1958 Mid-season Basel 7 – 1 FC Allschwil Landhof, Basel
Suter  (1:1)
Otto Ludwig (2:1)
Kohn  (3:1)



 Summary Referee: M. Schreiber Reinach
7 October 1958 Mid-season Royal Olympic Club de Charleroi 2 – 4 Basel Stade de la Neuville, Charleroi Belgium
Deschrijver  4' (1:0)
Delire  55' (2:0)		 Summary  67' (2:1) Suter
 69' (2:2) Hügi (II)
 70' (2:3) Frigerio
 88' (2:4) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Karl Lescart
22 October 1958 Mid-season Basel 2 – 2 Karlsruher SC St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Burger  (2x) Summary  (1x) Beck
 (1x) Schmidt		 Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Fischlewitz Basel

Winter break to end of season
14 February 1959 Winter break Winterthur 3 – 3 Basel Schützenwiese, Winterthur
16:00 Vukosavljević  5' (1:0)
Gantenbein  43' (2:1)
Akeret  48' (3:2)		 Summary  19' (1:1) Hügi (II)
 (2:2) Hügi (II)
 57' (3:3) Burger		 Attendance: 2,200
Referee: Anton Bucheli Luzern
15 February 1959 Winter break Concordia Basel 1 – 1 Basel St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Marti  11' (1:0) Summary  28' (1:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 1,100
Referee: M. Schreiber Reinach
22 February 1959 Winter break Basel 4 – 2 Vevey-Sports Landhof, Basel
14:30 Oberer  11' (pen. 1:0)
Burger  19' (2:0)
Turin  (3:1)
Hügi (II)  (4:2)		 Summary  27' (2:1) Lausche
 (3:2) Carrard		 Attendance: 1,000
Referee: W. Müller Baden
19 April 1959 Mid-season Basel 2 – 3 HNK Rijeka Landhof, Basel
16:30 Hügi (II)  (2x) Summary  (2x) Lalic
 (1x) Berec		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Victor Werner Schicker Bern
14 May 1959 Mid-season Basel 0 – 4 SpVgg Fürth Landhof, Basel
18:30 Summary  (o.g.0:1)
 (0:2) Schmidt
 (0:3) Appis
 (0:4) Wagner		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Othmar Huber Thun
Note: The game was abandoned in the 70th minute due to darkness
24 June 1959 End of season Basel 4 – 3 Sparta Rotterdam Landhof, Basel
18:30 Stäuble  (2x)
Hügi (II)  (1x)
 (o.g.)		 Summary  (3x) Daniels Attendance: 3,000
Referee: D. Mellet Lausanne

Nationalliga A
Main article: 1958–59 Nationalliga A

League matches
31 August 1958 Round 1 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2 – 1 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
15:00 Csernai  8' (1:0)
Gigandet  28' (2:0)		 Summary  60' (1:2) Kohn Attendance: 4,000
Referee: D. Mellet Lausanne
6 September 1958 Round 2 Basel 1 – 4 Grenchen St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Kohn  71' (1:4) Summary  15' (0:1) Glisovic
 30' (0:2) Glisovic
 32' (0:3) Karrer
 67' (0:4) Moser		 Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Josef Gulde St. Gallen
14 September 1958 Round 3 Lausanne-Sport 0 – 5 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
15:30 Summary  14' (0:1) Suter
 39' (0:2) Kohn
 58' (0:3) Stäuble
 69' (0:4) Suter
 79' (0:5) Otto Ludwig		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: E. Guidi Bellinzona
28 September 1958 Round 4 Basel 0 – 0 Chiasso Landhof, Basel
15:00 Summary Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Othmar Huber Thun
5 October 1958 Round 5 Lugano P – P Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
[ Summary]
12 October 1958 Round 6 Basel 6 – 1 Bellinzona Landhof, Basel
15:00 Suter  15' (1:1)
Stäuble  31' (2:1)
Suter  55' (3:1)
Stäuble  73' (4:1)
Oberer  78' (5:1)
Weber  86' (pen. 6:1)		 Summary  8' (0:1) Sartori Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Roland David Lausanne
19 October 1958 Round 7 Luzern 2 – 4 Basel Stadion Allmend, Luzern
15:00 Frigerio  52' (o.g. 1:3)
Brühlmann  68' (2:4)		 Summary  25' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 36' (0:2) Kohn
 43' (0:3) Hügi (II)
 57' (1:4) Suter		 Attendance: 9,300
Referee: Meister Neuchâtel
9 November 1958 Round 8 Basel 2 – 3 Young Boys Landhof, Basel
14:30 Kohn  2' (1:0)
Hügi (II)  31' (2:0)		 Summary  54' (2:1) Wechselberger
 58' (pen. 2:2) Bigler
 80' (2:3) Wechselberger		 Attendance: 11,500
Referee: D. Mellet Lausanne
16 November 1958 Round 9 Zürich 3 – 1 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
14:45 Leimgruber  27' (1:0)
Feller  57' (2:0)
Leimgruber  87' (3:1)		 Summary  85' (2:1) Hügi (II) Attendance: 13,000
Referee: Roland David Lausanne
23 November 1958 Round 10 Basel 2 – 4 Grasshopper Club Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hügi (II)  70' (1:3)
Maurer  85' (pen 2:4)		 Summary  30' (0:1) Duret
 51' (0:2) Duret
 54' (0:3) Scheller
 76' (1:4) Scheller		 Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Domeniconi Geneva
7 December 1958 Round 11 Young Fellows Zürich 1 – 0 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
14:30 Laubacher  60' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee: E. Guidi Bellinzona
14 December 1958 Round 12 Urania Genève Sport 1 – 3 Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Pasteur  75' (pen. 1:2) Summary  15' (pen. 0:1) Maurer
 50' (0:2) Kohn
 86' (1:3) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 4,200
Referee: F. Schorer Interlaken
21 December 1958 Round 13 Basel 0 – 3 Servette Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary  34' (0:1) Steffanina
 35' (0:2) Makay
 64' (0:3) Nemeth		 Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Schüttel Sion
28 December 1958 Round 5 Lugano 0 – 1 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
Ciani   88' Summary  37' (0:1) Frigerio Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Othmar Huber Thun
1 March 1959 Round 14 Basel 1 – 3 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
15:00 Burger  20' (1:1) Summary  13' (0:1) Pottier
 46' (1:2) Pottier
 29' (1:3) Jaccard		 Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Anton Bucheli Luzern
7 March 1959 Round 15 Grenchen 6 – 2 Basel Stadion Brühl, Grenchen
15:00 Glisovic  32' (1:0)
Glisovic  52' (2:0)
Moser  52' (3:0)
Karrer  79' (4:2)
Moser  80' (52)
Hamel  81' (6:2)		 Summary  68' (pen. 3:1) Maurer
 74' (3:2) Stäuble
Burger		 Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Surdez Delémont
15 March 1959 Round 16 Basel 4 – 0 Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble  63' (1:0)
Stäuble  78' (2:0)
Hügi (II)  83' (3:0)
Hügi (II)  79' (pen. 4:0)		 Summary Magnin
Monti		 Attendance: 5,000
Referee: W. Müller Baden
Note: Josef Hügi scored his 200th goal for Basel
22 March 1959 Round 17 Chiasso 1 – 2 Basel Stadio Via Comacini, Chiasso
Ferrari  2' (1:0) Summary  28' (1:1) Stäuble
 40' (1:2) Kohn		 Attendance: 1,500
Referee: D. Mellet Lausanne
5 April 1959 Round 18 Basel 2 – 2 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)  24' (1:1)
Stäuble  55' (2:2)		 Summary  23' (0:1) Pantellini
 44' (1:2) Frosio		 Attendance: 5,800
Referee: Meister Neuchâtel
12 April 1959 Round 19 Bellinzona 0 – 0 Basel Stadio Comunale, Bellinzona
Summary Attendance: 1,500
Referee: W. Müller Baden
3 May 1959 Round 20 Basel 2 – 2 Luzern Landhof, Basel
15:00 Kohn  11' (1:0)
Kohn  85' (2:2)		 Summary  48' (pen. 1:1) Beerli
 71' (1:2) Beerli		 Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Schüttel Sion
10 May 1959 Round 21 Young Boys 1 – 0 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
15:00 Rey  44' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Josef Gulde St. Gallen
24 May 1959 Round 22 Basel 2 – 1 Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble  (1:1)
Oberer  (2:1)		 Summary  34' (0:1) Feller Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Gino Bergamini Viganello
31 May 1959 Round 23 Grasshopper Club 1 – 2 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
16:00 Scheller  61' (pen. 1:2) Summary  18' (0:1) Burger
 34' (0:2) Stäuble		 Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Guinnard Gletterens
7 June 1959 Round 24 Basel 5 – 2 Young Fellows Zürich Landhof, Basel
15:00 Maurer  1' (pen. 1:0)
Oberer  3' (2:0)
Kohn  37' (3:2)
Maurer  63' (4:2)
Hügi (II)  65' (5:2)		 Summary  7' (2:1) Buhtz
 18' (2:2) Niggeler		 Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Schwab Neuchâtel
14 June 1959 Round 25 Basel 2 – 2 Urania Genève Sport Landhof, Basel
15:00 Stäuble  50' (1:2)
Kohn  67' (2:2)		 Summary  18' (0:1) Pillon
 33' (0:2) Dufau		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: W. Müller Baden
21 June 1959 Round 26 Servette 3 – 4 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
Mauron  26' (1:1)
Makay  38' (2:1)
Fatton  71' (3:2)		 Summary  18' (0:1) Hügi (II)
 48' (2:2) Stäuble
 75' (3:3) Burger
 80' (3:4) Hügi (II)		 Attendance: 2,000
Referee: Othmar Huber Thun

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 BSC Young Boys 26 16 6 4 79 42 +37 38 Swiss Champions, qualified for 1958–59 European Cup
2 FC Grenchen 26 12 8 6 57 39 +18 32 Swiss Cup winners
3 FC Zürich 26 14 2 10 55 45 +10 30
4 Grasshopper Club Zürich 26 12 6 8 63 54 +9 30
5 Lausanne Sports 26 11 7 8 40 41 −1 29
6 FC Basel 26 11 5 10 54 48 +6 27
7 FC La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 8 10 8 44 44 0 26
8 FC Lucerne 26 8 10 8 40 45 −5 26
9 Servette FC Genève 26 10 4 12 70 58 +12 24
10 FC Chiasso 26 10 4 12 48 61 −13 24
11 FC Lugano 26 6 11 9 27 33 −6 23
12 AC Bellinzona 26 8 6 12 38 57 −19 22
13 Urania Genève Sport 26 6 7 13 41 50 −9 19 Relegated
14 Young Fellows Zürich 26 5 4 17 33 72 −39 14 Relegated
Source: rsssf.com

Swiss Cup
26 October 1958 Round 3 Basel 3 – 0 Old Boys Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hügi (II)  11' (1:0)
Burger  20' (2:0)
Weber 63′
Hügi (II)  88' (3:0)		 Summary Attendance: 3,500
Referee: C. Stettler Feuerthalen
30 November 1958 Round 4 Basel 0 – 2 FC Moutier Landhof, Basel
14:30 Summary  24' (0:1) Schaffter
 62' (0:2) Heuri		 Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Meister Neuchâtel

See also

References
  1. Zindel, Josef (2015). Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4.
  2. Erik Garin. "Nationalliga A 1957/58". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre", 1959 - Trainerentlassung / Coach dismissal, Page 55, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
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  5. "FC Basel - BSC Old Boys 3:0 (2:0". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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