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 ...

1944–45 season was the fifty-second 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. Emil Junker was the club's new chairman. He took over from Albert Besse following the AGM on 8 July 1944.

Overview

Max Barras was appointed as new first team manager. Basel played 43 games in their 1944–45 season. 28 in the Nationalliga (including two replayed games), three in the

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and 12 were test games. They won 14, drew 10 and lost 19 times. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they scored 86 goals and conceded 82.

René Bader René Bader (7 August 1922 – 1995) was a Swiss football player and coach. Career A forward, Bader played for FC Basel between 1946 and 1953. In 1947 Basel won the Swiss Cup as they beat Lausanne-Sport 3–0 in the final at the Stadion Neu ...

was the best scorer with 14 goals,

Willy Monigatti Willy Monigatti was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel. He played as midfielder. Monigatti joined Basel's first team during their 1944–45 season under team manager Max Barras. After appearing in two test games, Monigatti played his d ...

second best with 13. There were 14 teams contesting in the

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. The two teams that finished in last and second last position in the league table would be relegated. Basel played a bad season, winning just six matches, drawing six and they suffered 14 defeats, thus they ended the season with 18 points in 13th position, second last. Two of the games during the season were played under protest and were later replayed. These were the games on 24 September 1944 against

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and on 29 April 1945 against

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. The protest was because Basel could not field their best teams due to the military duties of their players. Both replayed games ended with a defeat. Grasshopper Club won the Swiss championship, Basel and St. Gallen were relegated.

was the best league goal scorer with 11 goals and

second best with 9 league goals. In the

Basel started in the 3rd principal round with an away tie against lower tier local side FC Allschwil and a 6–0 victory. In the round of 32 Basel had a home game at the

against lower tier

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which ended with a 3–1 win. In the round of 16 Basel travelled to an away game against St. Gallen and were knocked out of the competition.

Players

;Players who left the squad

Results

Legend

Friendly matches

Pre- and mid-season

Winter break to end of season

Nationalliga

League matches

;Notes

League matches Replays

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 1944–45 at fcb-archiv.ch

External links

FC Basel official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:1944-45 FC Basel season FC Basel seasons

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 ...