1923–24 FC Basel season
# 1923–24 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1923–24 season was their thirty first season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. The club's chairman was Karl Ibach. It was his second season as chairman in his second period as chairman. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel.

## Overview

The ex-German international Max Breunig was the first team trainer for the second successive season.

Basel played a total of 30 matches in this season. 16 of these were in the domestic league and 14 were friendly matches. Of these 14 friendlies, three were home games played in the Landhof and 11 were away games. Seven test games ended in a victory and seven ended in a defeat. In these tests Basel scored a total of 39 goals and conceded 35. Of these friendlies, six were during the pre-season, and one was a mid-season. Because the domestic league had no real winter break the other seven were played after group stage had been completed.

There were a few modifications to the Swiss football league system, this season the number of clubs was increased from 24 to 27 teams. Again, the league was again divided into three regional groups, East, Central and West, now each group with nine teams. The last team in each group had to play a barrage against relegation. FC Basel were allocated to the Central group and now there were four teams from the city of Basel. The others being Concordia Basel, who were newly promoted, Nordstern Basel and Old Boys Basel. The further teams allocated to this group were Young Boys Bern, FC Bern, Aarau, Luzern and Biel-Bienne.

Basel started their season unfavourably, losing four of the first five games. Despite improving during the rest of the season, they could not close the gap to the leading two teams and they finished the group in third position with 18 points, seven points behind Young Boys and eight behind local rivals Nordstern who won the group and continued to the finals. East group winners Zürich won the championship, Nordstern were runners-up and West group winners Servette were third. Basel won eight of their matches, drawing two and suffered six defeats. Basel scored 16 goals and conceded 15.

Therefore, the problem seems to be because of their strikers, because the team scored just 16 goals in 16 matches. Otto Kuhn was the team’s top league goal scorer in the league season with just four goals. Alfred Schlecht scored three, Heinrich Hess, Karl Putzendopler and Karl Wüthrich each scored two goals and Arthur Fahr scored one. The other two goal scorers were not recorded.

## Players

### Squad members

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| - | - | - | - |
| — | GK | SUI | Theodor Schär |
| — | GK | SUI | Arnold Wyssling |
| — | DF | AUT | Gustav Putzendopler (I) |
| — | DF | SUI | Peter Riesterer |
| — | MF | SUI | Walter Rupprecht |
| — | MF | SUI | Max Galler (II) |
| — | MF | SUI | Ernst Kaltenbach |
| — | MF | SUI | Otto Kuhn |
| — | MF | AUT | Karl Putzendopler (II) |
| — | FW | SUI | Arthur Fahr |
| — | FW | SUI | Karl Bielser |
| — | FW | SUI | Paul Dietz (II) |
| — | FW | SUI | Eugen Haas |
| — | FW | SUI | Gottlieb Häusselmann |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | SUI | Heinrich Hess |
| — | FW | SUI | Paul Nebiker |
| — | FW | SUI | Hans Rau |
| — | FW | SUI | Alfred Schlecht |
| — | FW | SUI | Fritz Schneider (I) |
| — | FW | SUI | Curt Wellauer |
| — | FW | SUI | Karl Wüthrich |
| — | FW | SUI | Franz Zeiser |
| — | | SUI | Wilhelm Flubacher |
| — | | SUI | Hans Schneider (II) |
| — | | | Ernst Hasler (II) |
| — | | | Eduard Schaub |
| — | | | Hans Strung |
| — | | | Hans Vogt |

## Results

### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Serie A

**Central Group table**

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Nordstern Basel | 16 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 10 | +24 | 26 | Advance to finals |
| 2 | Young Boys | 16 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 9 | +19 | 25 | |
| 3 | Basel | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 15 | +1 | 18 | |
| 4 | Old Boys | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 29 | 26 | +3 | 17 | |
| 5 | FC Bern | 16 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 25 | 31 | −6 | 14 | |
| 6 | Aarau | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 20 | −6 | 12 | |
| 7 | Concordia Basel | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 31 | −12 | 11 | |
| 8 | Luzern | 16 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 30 | −17 | 11 | |
| 9 | Biel-Bienne | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 19 | −6 | 10 | Relegation play-off |
