Theodor Schär (16 February 1903; date of death unknown) was a Swiss
footballer
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who played as
goalkeeper for
FC Basel, and later for
Servette FC
Servette FC is a Swiss football club based in Geneva, founded in March 1890 with rugby as its first sporting activity, and named after the Geneva district of the same name. The football section was created on 17 January 1900. They play in the S ...
. He also played for the
Switzerland national team.
Football career
Schär played three seasons for
Basel. His first league game was on 25 September 1922 against
FC Bern
Fussballclub Bern (FC Bern) is a football team from Bern, the capital city of Switzerland, who currently play in the Gruppe 1, Bern/Jura canton of 2. Liga.
In 1921, the club won the Och Cup (that was considered as the former Swiss Cup
The ...
. In all three seasons he played all the domestic league games. His last game for the club was on 24 May 1925, it was a test game against
Tottenham Hotspur. Between the years 1922 and 1925 Schär played a total of 75 games for Basel. 46 of these games were in the
Swiss Serie A and the other 29 were friendly games.
Before the beginning of the
1925–26 Swiss Serie A
Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1925–26 season.
East Table
Results
Central Table
Results
West Table
Results
Final Table
Results
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season he moved on to play for
Servette.
International
On 28 March 1926 he played his only international match for
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
at the
Het Nederlandsch Sportpark against the
Netherlands. The game ended with a 0–5 defeat.
Honours
Servette
*
Swiss Super League
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:
1925–26
References
Sources
* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG.
* Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage
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FC Basel players
Servette FC players
Swiss men's footballers
Switzerland men's international footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
1903 births
Year of death missing