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1962–63 FC Basel Season
The 1962–63 season was FC Basel, Fussball Club Basel 1893's 69th season in their existence. It was their 17th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion in the 1945–46 season. They played their home games either in their old Landhof Stadium or in their new St. Jakob Stadium. Lucien Schmidlin was voted as new club chairman at the AGM to follow Ernst Weber, who had announced his retirement from the position. Overview Pre-season The Czechoslovakian manager Jiří Sobotka was the club manager at this time, he taken the job over from Jenő Vincze a year before. A season earlier many youngsters had joined the team and this pre-season the same occurred again. Rolf Lüdi, Enrico Mazzola and Hansruedi Herr were brought up from reserve team. Abraham Levy and Arnold Hofer joined from local team FC Breitenbach, also Werner Meier (footballer), Werner Meier joined from local team FC Nordstern Basel, Nordstern Basel. During the winter break Bruno Gatti join ...
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FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss football champions, Swiss national champions 21 times, Swiss Cup winners 14 times, and Swiss League Cup winners once. Basel competed in UEFA competitions for 25 consecutive seasons between 1999–2000 and 2023–2024. They have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, Champions League more times than any other Swiss club – a total of seven times – and are the only Swiss club to have ever qualified to the said phase directly. In 2021, they set the new record for a Swiss team with the most successful international group stage campaign by reaching 14 points in their Europa Conference League group. Since 2001, the club has played its home games at St. Jakob-Park, built on the site of their previous home, St. Jakob St ...
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Enrico Mazzola
Enrico Mazzola (born 7 April 1944) was an Italian footballer who played for FC Basel. He played mainly as a forward, but also as a midfielder. Football career Mazzola joined Basel's first team during their 1962–63 season under manager Jiří Sobotka. On 15 April 1963 the Wankdorf Stadium hosted the Cup Final and Basel played against favorites Grasshopper Club. Two goals after half time, one by Heinz Blumer and the second from Otto Ludwig gave Basel a 2–0 victory and their third Cup win in their history. Mazzola made his league debut in the home game against Biel-Bienne in the Landhof on 19 May as Basel won 3–2. A well-documented curiosity was the fact that during the winter break of their 1963–64 season the team travelled on a world tour. This saw them visit British Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Mexico and the United States. First team manager Jiří Sobotka together with 16 players and 15 members of staff, supporters and jou ...
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Cantonal Neuchatel
The 26 cantons of Switzerland are the Federated state, member states of the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. The nucleus of the Swiss Confederacy in the form of the first three confederate allies used to be referred to as the . Two important periods in the development of the Old Swiss Confederacy are summarized by the terms ('Eight Cantons'; from 1353 to 1481) and ('Thirteen Cantons', from 1513 to 1798).rendered "the 'confederacy of eight'" and "the 'Thirteen-Canton Confederation'", respectively, in: Each canton of the Old Swiss Confederacy, formerly also ('lieu/locality', from before 1450), or ('estate', from ), was a fully sovereignty, sovereign state with its own border controls, army, and currency from at least the Treaty of Westphalia (1648) until the establishment of the Swiss federal state in 1848, with a brief period of centralised government during the Helvetic Republic (1798–1803). The term has been widely used since the 19th century. "" The number of canton ...
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Paul Speidel
Paul Speidel (born 26 July 1938) is a Swiss retired footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He played as a striker. Speidel first played for FC Olten. He joined FC Basel's first team for their 1959–60 season under manager Jenő Vincze. After four test matches, Speidel played his domestic league debut for his new club in the home game at the Landhof on 24 April 1960 as Basel won 4–0 against La Chaux-de-Fonds. Speidel scored his first league goal for his club on 16 April 1961 in the away game as Basel won 4–2 against Grasshopper Club. It was the last goal of the match. Between the years 1959 and 1962 Speidle played a total of 48 games for Basel scoring a total of six goals. 27 of these games were in the Nationalliga A, one in the Swiss Cup, six in the International Football Cup and 14 were friendly games. He scored two goals in the domestic league, one in the International Football Cup match against SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin on 8 July 1961 and the other three were ...
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Silvan Thüler
Silvan "Sämi" Thüler (1 August 1932 – 13 August 2011) was a Swiss international footballer. He played as a defender. After his football career he became restaurant landlord and later a manager. Football career Born in Solothurn, Thüler played his youth football with FC Solothurn, advancing to their first team in the summer of 1950. At the end of the 1951–52 season Solothurn won their group in the Swiss 1. Liga (third national level) and in the play-offs won promotion to the Nationalliga B. Thüler remained with his club for a further three seasons. Transfer fees in Switzerland were rising rapidly in this period. FC Basel, under the leadership of Jules Düblin, had been trying to stay clear of this transfer trading. But because they had lost a number of important players, the board of directors changed their approach to the subject and chairman Düblin made Thüler an offer he couldn't refuse and he joined Basel's first team for their 1955–56 season under head coac ...
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Hansueli Oberer
Hansueli Oberer (11 May 1929 – 20 September 2005) was a Swiss footballer who played in the 1950s and early 1960s as a forward. Oberer first played for FC Olten in the 1 Liga, the third tier of Swiss football. He joined FC Basel's first team for their 1954–55 season under player-coach René Bader. After playing in five friendlies Oberer made his domestic league debut for his new club in the away game on 12 September 1954; he scored his first goal for his club in that game, but could not save the team from a 1–3 defeat by Chiasso. Between 1954 and 1962 Oberer played 231 games for Basel and scored 37 goals; 145 games were in the Nationalliga A, 16 in the Swiss Cup The Swiss Cup (; ; ; ) is a football cup competition that has been organised annually since 1925–26 season by the Swiss Football Association. The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The co ..., 6 in the International Football Cup and 64 were friendlies. ...
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FC Concordia Basel
FC Concordia Basel is a Swiss football club based in Basel. The club was founded in 1907. They play in the 2. Liga Interregional (fifth level), and their home stadium was Rankhof Stadium until the 2008–09 season. Concordia is ranking as the number 3 club of Switzerland in the all-time table of the 1. Liga. They won the Och Cup (considered as the former Swiss Cup) in 1922. It is the club's only title. History In September 2008, Concordia Basel became the first football club in Western Europe to sign North Korean players when they signed North Korea internationals Pak Chol-Ryong and Kim Kuk-Jin."Swiss soccer team signs North Korean players"
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Karl Odermatt
Karl Odermatt (born 17 December 1942) is a Swiss former footballer who played for FC Basel and BSC Young Boys throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He played as a midfielder or striker and is generally regarded as one of the best players ever to have worn the FC Basel shirt. He played through, what is now thought to be, Basel's golden years under trainer and manager Helmut Benthaus with teammates such as Paul Fischli, René Hasler and Ottmar Hitzfeld. Career As a small child "Karli" Odermatt grew up in Lucerne and later his family moved to Basel. A coach from the FC Concordia Basel youth system discovered him on a school football field, invited him to a club training and just a few days later he started playing in their youth team. Later he played in their first team in the 1. Liga. "Karli" Odermatt signed for FC Basel in 1962 and in his debut, in September, against FC Lugano he scored two goals. In his first professional season, under manager Jiří Sobotka the mainly amateur team ...
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FC Black Stars Basel
FC Black Stars Basel, commonly known as Black Stars Basel is a football club from Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ..., Switzerland. They currently play in the 1. Liga Classic, the fourth tier of Swiss football.. They were promoted to the third tier in 2019. Current squad ''As of 19 January 2022''. References External links * Association football clubs established in 1907 Football clubs in Switzerland FC Black Stars Basel Sport in Basel {{Switzerland-footyclub-stub ...
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Bruno Gatti
Bruno Gatti (28 August 1941 – 7 March 2012) was a Swiss footballer who played in the 1960s for Black Stars Basel, FC Basel and then FC Biel-Bienne. He played as a forward. Football career In December 1962 Gatti transferred from the Black Stars Basel to FC Basel. Gatti wrote himself a special Swiss Cup story in this 1962/63 season. Before the winter break, he played with the Black Stars in the Cup against FC Basel and his club was knocked out of the competition. Then gatti switched to FCB - and eventually became Cup winner with his new club. He played his debut for his new team on 30 December 1962 in the Cup as Basel won against SC Burgdorf 7–1. His first goal for the club was scored in the same match. On 15 April 1963 the Wankdorf Stadium hosted the Cup Final and Basel played against favorites Grasshopper Club. Two goals after half time, one by Heinz Blumer and the second from Otto Ludwig gave Basel a 2–0 victory and their third Cup win in their history. Gatti played th ...
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FC Nordstern Basel
FC Nordstern Basel is a football team from Basel, Switzerland. Currently playing in the Swiss 8th division, FC Nordstern Basel has spent 35 seasons in the Swiss top flight, last in 1982. They were runners-up in the Swiss league in 1924, 1927, and 1928. History Nordstern Basel was founded in 1901. In the 1970s, the club experienced a revival after hiring player-coach Zvezdan Cebinac. Cebinac led Nordstern back to the Nationalliga A for the first time since the 1940s. References External links

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Werner Meier (footballer)
Werner Meier (born 15 April 1937) is a Swiss former footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s as striker. Meier first played for Nordstern Basel in the Nationalliga B, the second tier of Swiss football, for at least three years, scoring 17 goals in 42 league matches. He transferred to Urania Genève Sport in 1957. In the 1960–61 season he again played for Nordstern but the team were relegated to the third tier. He played for them another year before moving on. Meier joined FC Basel's first team for their 1962–63 season under manager Jiří Sobotka. In his first game for his new club in the 1962–63 Intertoto Cup, Meier scored his first two goals for the club, but this could not help the team from being defeated 3–4 by PSV Eindhoven. After one more match in the Intertoto Cup and one test match Meier played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game at the Landhof on 28 August 1962 as Basel played against Lugano and won 3–0. He scored his first league go ...
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