Paul Stöcklin (* 29 June 1922; † 19 July 2017) was a

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who played for

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in the 1940s and early 1950s. He played mainly in the position as striker, but also as

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. Stöcklin joined Basel's first team for their 1945–46 season under team manager

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as they played in the Nationalliga B. After playing in two test games and in one

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match, Stöcklin played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 14 April 1946. He scored his first league goal for his club in the same match as Basel won 2–0 against

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. In his very next game, two weeks later, on 28 April Stöcklin scored four goals as Basel beat

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6–1 in the home match at the

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. Basel ended that season with 43 points in 1st position to win the Nationalliga B and win promotion. During the team's next season (1946–47) Basel advanced to the

-Final, which was played in the

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on 7 April 1947. Basel won the final 3–0 against Lausanne-Sport. In the final Stöcklin scored two goals and René Bader the other. Team manager Anton 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, team captain Ernst Hufschmid later took over as

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. In the 1946–47 Nationalliga A season Stöcklin was his team's best goal scorer with 11 goals. In the domestic league match on 21 March 1948 away against

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Stöcklin scored a hat-trick as Basel won by five goals to one. Stöcklin played for Basel for seven years. But he missed Basel's first championship title in 1953 for health reasons, in fact he was forced to end his active football career during that year. Between the years 1945 and 1952 Stöcklin played a total of 238 games for Basel scoring a total of 90 goals. 156 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A, 27 in the

and 55 were friendly games. He scored 61 goals in the domestic league, seven in the cup and the other 22 were scored during the test games. Subsequently, Stöcklin moved onto training and coaching, primarily to the young players of

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, where he worked as a youth coach until into the 1980s.

References

Sources

* Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. *
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