The

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 footba ...

1935–36 season was the forty-third season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. FC Basel played their home games in the

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in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Franz Rinderer was again voted as the club chairman and this was his fifth consecutive season as club president.

Overview

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was appointed as new team manager. He followed Richard (Dombi) Kohn who had moved on to manage

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. Riemke came from

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, who had won the double in the previous Nationalliga championship season and the Cup. Riemke acted as player-manager and played four matches during the season. Basel played a total of 38 matches in their 1935–36 season. 26 of these matches were in the Nationalliga, one in the

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and 11 were friendly matches. Of these 11 friendlies six were played at home and the others all in Switzerland. Interesting visitors to the

were the French teams

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and

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, the Hungarian teams

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and

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and the Austrian team

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. Of theses 11 friendly matches seven ended with a victory, one was drawn and three ended in a defeat. The 1935–36 Nationalliga was contested by 14 teams and was played in a double round robin. Basel played a very mediocre season and ended the championship in 10th position. They won just eight of their 26 games and with 20 points ended the season 21 points behind

who won the championship for the second consecutive season. Josef Artimovicz was Basel's top scorer with 14 goals, Jaeck second best scorer with 9 goals. In the 1st principal round of the

Basel were drawn at home in the

against lower tier

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. But they were defeated and thus knocked out.

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won the cup.

Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1935–36. The list includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 3 August 1935 but subsequently left the club after that date. ;Players who left the squad

Results

Legend

Friendly matches

Pre-season

Mid-season

Nationalliga

League matches

League table

Swiss Cup

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2014/2015. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. * Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel.
FCB team 1935/36 at fcb-archiv.ch

External links

FC Basel official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:1935-36 FC Basel season FC Basel seasons

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