The 1946–47 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's Fifty-fourth season in their existence. It was their first season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B the season before. They played their home games in the

Landhof The Landhof was a sports stadium in the district Basel-Wettstein in Kleinbasel, Basel. It was the former and first home stadium of FC Basel. It is mentioned for the first time in a chronicle in the second half of the 18th century as a ''nice s ...

, in the Quarter Kleinbasel.

Jules Düblin Jules Düblin (30 August 1895 – 1992) was a Swiss association football, footballer and athlete. He played for FC Basel, mainly as a forward (association football), forward. Later he was member of the FC Basel board of directors. He was doctor ...

was the club's new chairman and he took over this position from Emil Junkerat the club's AGM. Düblin had been player for FC Basel in the years 1919–1926 and had been on the club's board of directors. He was doctor, banker and politician, became author and private art collector.

Overview

After his playing career the Austrian ex-international

Anton Schall Anton Schall (22 June 1907 – 5 August 1947) was an Austrian football forward who played for the celebrated Austrian national side of the early 1930s that became known as the ''Wunderteam''. He also played for Admira Vienna, and later manage ...

, who suffered from a rare heart condition, moved to Switzerland and took over Basel as club trainer for the 1946–47 season. Basel played a total of 39 games in this season. Of these 26 in the Nationalliga A, six 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 ...

and seven were test games. The test games resulted with three victories, three draws and one defeat. In total, they won 21 games, drew eight and lost 10 times. In total, including the test games and the cup competition, they scored 111 goals and conceded 65. There were fourteen teams contesting in the

1946–47 Nationalliga A The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1946–47 football season, both Nationalliga A and Nationalliga B. This was the 50th season of top-tier and the 49th season of second-tier football in Switzerland. Overview The ...

, the bottom two teams in the table to be relegated. Basel finished their season in fourth position in the table, with twelve victories from 26 games, scoring in total 60 goals.

Traugott Oberer Traugott Oberer (30 November 1924 – 19 April 1974) was a Swiss footballer who played as a forward or, in later years, as midfielder during the 1940s and 1950s. Club football Oberer started his football with FC Basel and advanced to their firs ...

was the team's top goal scorer.

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 ...

and

Hermann Suter Hermann Suter (28 April 1870 – 22 June 1926) was a Swiss composer and conductor. Biography Born in Kaiserstuhl, Aargau, Suter studied in the conservatories at Basel, Stuttgart and Leipzig, under Hans Huber and Carl Reinecke. He was an organ ...

were joint second best, each with 10 goals.

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won the championship. Young Boys and ended the season on the relegation places. In the

Basel started in round 3 with a home match against local team Black Stars Basel, the game was won 3– 2. In round 4 they had an away tie against

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which was won 2–1. Round 5 gave Basel another home tie in the

against another local club Nordstern and this ended with a 6–1 victory. Thus they advanced to the quarter-finals and were matched against the

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. The Grasshoppers were beaten 2–1. In the semi-final goals from top scorers

and

gave Basel a 2–1 victory against

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. Therefore, Basel advanced to the Cup-Final, which was played in the

Stadion Neufeld Stadion Neufeld is a multi-use stadium in Bern, Switzerland. It is the home ground of FC Bern and the junior team of BSC Young Boys. The capacity of the stadium is 14,000 spectators, including 3000 seats. BSC Young Boys used the stadium from 2001 ...

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on 7 April 1947. Basel won the final 3–0 against

Lausanne Sport Football Club Lausanne-Sport is a Swiss football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport compete in the top-tier Swiss Super League after being promoted in the 2022–23 Swiss Challenge League Season. The ...

and thus their second cup title. In the Final

Paul Stöcklin Paul Stöcklin (* 29 June 1922; † 19 July 2017) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel in the 1940s and early 1950s. He played mainly in the position as striker, but also as midfielder. Stöcklin joined Basel's first team for their ...

scored two goals and Bader the other. Schall led Basel to win the Cup, but he died shortly afterwards at the age of 40 years during a workout on the football field. Following this unhappy event captain Ernst Hufschmid later took over as team coach.

Players

Results

Legend

Friendly matches

Pre-season

Winter break

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.
The FCB team 1946–47 at fcb-archiv.ch

External links

FC Basel official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:1946-47 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 ...