1965–66_FC_Basel_season

1965–66 FC Basel season

1965–66 FC Basel season

FC Basel 1965–66 football season


The 1965–66 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 72nd season in their existence. It was their 20th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion in the 1945–46 season. They played their home games either in the traditional stadium Landhof or in their new venue the St. Jakob Stadium. Lucien Schmidlin was club chairman for the fourth consecutive year.

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Overview

Pre-season

To the beginning of the season Helmut Benthaus transferred in from 1. FC Köln and became player-coach. He replaced Jiří Sobotka as team manager, who went on to manage the Swiss national team. Benthaus was a graduate of the German Sport University Cologne and an experienced player trainer. Two seasons earlier Benthaus had won the 1963–64 Bundesliga as player-manager with Köln. Benthaus used his first season with Basel to observe, feel and classify. One of the biggest changes that he made, with the agreement of the board of directors, was introduce semi-professionalism.

There were only a few minor changes to the squad, Rade Ognjanović transferred to Grenchen and Heinz Sartor transferred to Offenburger FV. Three players stepped back from Nationalliga A football, Carlo Porlezza, Mario Grava and Fernando Von Krannichfeldt went to play for the reserve team. As replacements three youngsters came from the youth team and three more from the reserve team.

Domestic league

Fourteen teams contested the 1965–66 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1964–65 season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and Young Fellows Zürich. Basel finished the season in sixth position with 27 points. They ended the championship with ten wins, seven draws and nine defeats in their 26 matches. They scored 64 goals and conceded 57.[1] Top league goal scorer was Roberto Frigerio with 15 goals, ahead of Karl Odermatt who scored 11 and Helmut Hauser with 10 goals. Basel played 15 Test games, winning ten, one draw and losing four. Roberto 'Mucho' Frigerio was also the top scorer in these games, with 16 goals in just 13 games. Alone in the match against Black Stars Basel he managed to net the ball six times.[2]

Swiss Cup

In the Swiss Cup Basel started in the round of 32 on 7 November 1965, with a home win against Biel-Bienne. In the next round they played at home against Luzern with a 3–1 win. In the next round they were drawn away in the Wankdorf Stadium, Bern, against Young Boys. This ended in a 2–1 victory. In the semi-final they were drawn at home against Servette but were defeated 1–3. Zürich won the final and completed the double.[3]

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

In the 1965–66 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Basel were drawn against Spanish team Valencia, but were beaten twice. In the Cup of the Alps Basel were drawn in the same group as Catania, S.S.C. Napoli, Juventus and Spal Ferrara. All four games ended in a defeat.

Players

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Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season

Pre-season Basel Switzerland 6 – 0 Switzerland Concordia Basel Basel
Summary
24 July 1965 Pre-season FC Pratteln Switzerland 0 – 8 Switzerland Basel In den Sandgruben, Pratteln
Summary Moscatelli (2)
Odermatt (2)
Baumann
Hauser
Michaud
28 July 1965 Pre-season SV Schopfheim Germany 0 – 3 Switzerland Basel Schopfheim
Summary Odermatt
Keller
Moscatelli
31 July 1965 Pre-season FC Trimbach Switzerland 0 – 7 Switzerland Basel Leinfeld, Trimbach
Summary (o.g.)
(1) Moscatelli
(2) Frigerio
(pen.) Michaud
(1) Vetter
(1) Odermatt
Attendance: 1,100
Referee: Switzerland W. Lüthy Gerlafingen
8 August 1965 Pre-season FC Moutier Switzerland 1 – 7 Switzerland Basel Stade de Chalière, Moutier
von Burg 34' (1:1) Summary 26' (0:1) Füri
54' (1:2) Baumann
64' (1:3) Benthaus
69' (1:4) Frigerio
70' (1:5) Hauser
80' (1:6) Odermatt
89' (1:7) Hauser
Attendance: 800
Referee: Switzerland Roland Keller Bern
10 August 1965 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 4 West Germany 1. FC Köln St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Löhr 10' (o.g. 1:1)
Odermatt 25' (2:1)
Summary 4' (0:1) Müller
40' (2:2) Hornig
60' (2:3) Overath
67' (2:4) Müller
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Switzerland Rudolf Scheurer Bettlach
14 August 1965 Pre-season St. Gallen Switzerland 0 – 1 Switzerland Basel Espenmoos, St. Gallen
17:00 Summary 90' (0:1) Frigerio Attendance: 2,600
Referee: Switzerland Pius Kamber Zürich

Winter break and mid-season

21 January 1966 Winter break Basel Switzerland 7 – 1 Switzerland Schaffhausen Landhof, Basel
14:30 Baumann 19' (1:0)
Hauser 24' (2:0)
Hauser 30' (3:0)
Benthaus 49' (4:1)
Decker 74' (5:1)
Hauser 83' (6:1)
Decker 88' (7:1)
Summary 47' (3:1) Brühlmann Attendance: 300
Referee: Switzerland H. R. Keller Basel
6 February 1966 Winter break Bellinzona Switzerland 2 – 1 Switzerland Basel Stadio Comunale Bellinzona
Tagli 37' (1:0)
Capoferri 74' (2:1)
Summary 52' (1:1) Odermatt
soccer ball with red X 70' Odermatt
Attendance: 500
Referee: Switzerland Dalpian Cassarate
12 February 1966 Winter break Basel Switzerland 1 – 4 Switzerland Lausanne-Sport Landhof, Basel
14:30 Hauser 10' (1:0) Summary 40' (1:1) Vuilleumier
56' (1:2) Kerkhoffs
68' (1:3) Kerkhoffs
84' (o.g. 1:4) Michaud
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland C. Stettler Feuerthalen
16 February 1966 Winter break Black Stars Switzerland 0 – 9 Switzerland Basel Buschweilerhof, Basel
19:15 Summary 29' (0:1) Frigerio
(0:2) Frigerio
(0:3) Frigerio
65' (0:4) Frigerio
65' (pen. 0:5) Stocker
(0:6) Hauser
70' (0:7) Moscatelli
(0:8) Frigerio
(0:9) Frigerio
Referee: Switzerland F. Hänggi
19 February 1966 Winter break Solothurn Switzerland 1 – 2 Switzerland Basel Stadion FC Solothurn, Solothurn
Amez-Droz 13' (1:0) Summary 21' (1:1) Benthaus
72' (1:2) Frigerio
Attendance: 600
Referee: Switzerland Rudolf Scheurer Bettlach
24 February 1966 Winter break FC Birsfelden Switzerland 2 – 6 Switzerland Basel Birsfelden

Summary (3) Frigerio
Hauser
Stocker
26 April 1966 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 2 – 2 West Germany TSV 1860 Munich St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Kohlars 46' (o.g. 1:1)
Moscatelli 59' (2:1)
Summary 16' (0:1) Küppers
68' (2:2) Rebele
Attendance: 13,300
Referee: Switzerland Karl Göppel Zürich
18 June 1966 Mid-season Basel Switzerland 1 – 3 West Germany FC Schalke 04 Landhof, Basel
17:30 Hauser 38' (1:1) Summary 21' (0:1) Rausch
41' (1:2) Neuser
61' (1:3) Pyka
Attendance: 1.500
Referee: Switzerland Josef Zibung Luzern

Nationalliga A

League matches

22 August 1965 Round 1 Basel 4 – 1 FC UGS Genève Landhof, Basel
15:30 Hauser 42' (1:1)
Odermatt 53' (2:1)
Frigerio 75' (3:1)
Stocker 80 pen. 4:1'
Summary 24' (0:1) Heuri Attendance: 3,600
Referee: Switzerland Josef Zibung Luzern
28 August 1965 Round 2 Basel 2 – 0 Luzern Landhof, Basel
16:30 Frigerio 47' (1:0)
Stocker 80' (pen, 2:0)
[ Summary] Attendance: 6,600
Referee: Switzerland Werner Mettler St. Gallen
5 September 1965 Round 3 Servette 6 – 1 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
20:30 Bédert 14' (1:0)
Bédert 29' (2:0)
Bédert 36' (3:0)
Bosson 55' (4:0)
Schnyder 60' (5:0)
Nemeth 72' (6:0)
Summary (6:1) Hauser Attendance: 5,400
Referee: Switzerland Pius Kamber Zürich
12 September 1965 Round 4 Basel 4 – 2 Young Boys St. Jakob Stadium Landhof, Basel
16:00 Pfirter 5' (1:1)
Hauser 61' (2:2)
Vetter 63' (3:2)
Vetter 84' (4:2)
Summary 4' (0:1) Lehmann
36' (pen. 1:2) Fuhrer
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland Karl Göppel Zürich
18 September 1965 Round 5 Biel-Bienne 1 – 1 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
16:15 Wernle 52' (1:1) Summary 26' (0:1) Odermatt Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Strässle Steinach
21 September 1965 Round 6 Basel 1 – 5 Grasshopper Club St. Jakob Stadium Basel
20:00 Frigerio 90' (1:5) Summary 13' (0:1) Blättler
32' (0:2) Hummel
42' (0:3) Blättler
60' (o.g. 0:4) Gabrieli
68' (0:5) Blättler
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Switzerland Gilbert Droz Marin-Epagnier
26 September 1965 Round 7 Sion 1 – 0 Basel Parc des Sports, Sion
15:00 Eschmann 42' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Othmar Huber Thun
3 October 1965 Round 8 Basel 3 – 1 Lugano Landhof, Basel
15:00 Benthaus 47' (1:0)
Frigerio 48' (2:0)
Odermatt 71' (3:0)
Summary 72' (pen. 3:1) Bossi Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Josef Zibung Luzern
10 October 1965 Round 9 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2 – 1 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
15:00 Vuilleumier 7' (1:0)
Bertschi 43' (2:0)
Summary 58' (2:1) Frigerio Attendance: 3,800
Referee: Switzerland Roland Keller Bern
24 October 1965 Round 10 Basel 1 – 1 Lausanne-Sport St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
15:00 Frigerio 65' (1:0) Summary 83' (1:1) Hosp Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland Rudolf Scheurer Bettlach
31 October 1965 Round 11 Grenchen 3 – 2 Basel Stadion Brühl, Grenchen
15:00 Fuchs 1' (1:0)
Fuchs 6' (2:0)
Blum 81' (3:2)
Summary 24' (2:1) Vetter
58' (2:2) Hauser
Attendance: 4,800
Referee: Switzerland Roland David Lausanne
21 November 1965 Round 12 Basel 5 – 1 Young Fellows Zürich St. Jakob Stadium Landhof, Basel
14:30 Stocker 18' (pen. 1:0)
Hauser 35' (2:0)
Stocker 43' (pen 3:0)
Odermatt 62' (4:1)
Gabrieli 71' (5:1)
Summary 56' (3:1) von Burg Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland Marcel Despland Yverdon
12 December 1965 Round 15 Luzern 4 – 4 Basel Stadion Allmend, Luzern
14:30 Wechselberger 22' (1:1)
Pfirter 31' (o.g. 2:1)
Schuewig 44' (3:1)
Schuewig 45' (4:1)
Summary 9' (0:1) Frigerio
48' (4:2) Hauser
81' (o.g. 4:3) Gwerder
88' (4:4) Odermatt
Attendance: 4,200
Referee: Switzerland Marcel Schneuwly Fribourg
6 March 1966 Round 16 Basel 5 – 2 Servette St. Jakob Stadium Landhof, Basel
15:00 Odermatt 17' (1:1)
Moscatelli 29' (2:2)
Pfirter 33' (3:2)
Vetter 51' (4:2)
Odermatt (5:2)
Summary 14' (0:1) Georgy
20' (pen. 1:2) Nemeth
Attendance: 10,000
Referee: Switzerland Rudolf Scheurer Bettlach
13 March 1966 Round 17 Young Boys 1 – 1 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
Theunissen 21' (1:0) Summary 72' (1:1) Kiefer Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Pius Kamber Zürich
27 March 1966 Round 18 Basel 5 – 0 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
15:00 Odermatt 32' (1:0)
Hauser 52' (2:0)
Benthaus 70' (3:0)
Moscatelli 78' (4:0)
Vetter 81' (5:0)
Summary Attendance: 3,300
Referee: Switzerland Josef Zibung Luzen
3 April 1966 Round 19 Grasshopper Club 2 – 2 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
15:00 Blättler 18' (1:0)
Blättler 21' (2:0)
Summary 68' (2:1) Hauser
84' (2:2) Frigerio
Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Mario Clematide Zollikofen
6 April 1966 Round 14 FC UGS Genève 2 – 2 Basel Stade de Frontenex, Geneva
Heuri 23' (1:1)
Samba 36' (2:1)
Summary 7' (0:1) Hauser
77' (2:2) Odermatt
Attendance: 1,400
Referee: Switzerland Roland Racine Prilly
17 April 1966 Round 20 Basel 2 – 1 Sion Landhof, Basel
15:00 Vetter 28' (1:1)
Hauser 87' (2:1)
Summary 2' (0:1) Quentin Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Switzerland Pius Kamber Zürich
23 April 1966 Round 21 Lugano 2 – 2 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
21:00 Gotthardi 77' (1:2)
Vidosevic 82' (pen. 2:2)
Summary 26' (0:1) Benthaus
62' (0:2) Odermatt
Attendance: 6,500
Referee: Switzerland Karl Göppel Zürich
1 May 1966 Round 22 Basel 2 – 0 La Chaux-de-Fonds Landhof, Basel
16:30 Frigerio 63' (1:0)
Odermatt 88' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 7,200
Referee: Switzerland W. Hardmeier Thalwil
4 May 1966 Round 14 Zürich 3 – 0 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich


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8 May 1966 Round 23 Lausanne-Sport 5 – 3 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
20:30 Hosp 8' (1:0)
Hosp 16' (2:0)
Dürr 44' (pen. 3:0)
Hertig 66' (4:0)
Vuillemier 75' (5:1)
Summary 74' (4:1) Vetter
77' (5:2) Konrad
81' (5:3) Michaud
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Josef Zibung Luzern
15 May 1966 Round 24 Basel 5 – 1 Grenchen Landhof, Basel
17:30 Vetter 10' (1:0)
Stocker 25' (2:0)
Konrad 43' (3:0)
Frigerio 61' (4:0)
Frigerio 66' (5:0)
Summary 71' (5:1) Allemann Attendance: 3,400
Referee: Switzerland Roland Keller Bern
22 May 1966 Round 25 Young Fellows Zürich 5 – 4 Basel Letzigrund, Zürich
20:00 Feller 9' (1:1)
Matus 29' (2:2)
Matus 58' (3:2)
Hösli 63' (4:2)
Fischli 77' (5:2)
Summary 6' (0:1) Stocker
28' (1:2) Frigerio
84' (5:3) Frigerio
88' (5:4) Michaud
Attendance: 900
Referee: Switzerland Gilbert Droz Marin
30 May 1966 Round 26 Basel 2 – 5 Zürich Landhof, Basel
17:30 Frigerio 64' (1:4)
Frigerio 68' (2:4)
Summary 12' (0:1) Stürmer
17' (0:2) Stürmer
27' (0:3) Winiger
48' (0:4) Brodmann
87' (2:5) Martinelli
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland A. Ceretti Biel

League standings

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(C) Champions

Swiss Cup

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss

7 November 1965 Round of 32 Basel 3 – 1 Biel-Bienne Landhof, Basel
14:30 Frigerio 32' (1:0)
Frigerio 80' (2:1)
Hauser 82' (3:1)
Summary 74' (1:1) Stäuble Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Anton Bucheli Luzern
19 December 1965 Round of 16 Basel 3 – 1 Luzern Landhof, Basel
14:30 Frigerio 53' (1:0)
Frigerio 72' (2:1)
Stocker 84' (3:1)
Summary 64' (1:1) Borchert Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Switzerland Karl Göppel Zürich
27 February 1966 Quarter-final Young Boys 1 – 2 Basel Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
14:30 Theunissen 50' (1:1) Summary 10' (0:1) Frigerio
87' (1:2) Frigerio
Attendance: 15,000
Referee: Switzerland Strässle Steinach
20 March 1966 Semi-final Basel 1 – 3 Servette Landhof, Basel
15:00 Hauser 7' (1:1) Summary 3' (0:1) Nemeth
45' (1:2) Bedert
88' (1:3) Daina
Attendance: 17,000
Referee: Switzerland Othmar Huber Thun

Inter-Cities Fairs Cup

Second Round
24 November 1965 First leg Basel Switzerland 1 – 3 Spain Valencia Basel
19:45 Benthaus 7' (1:0) Summary 17' (1:1) Machado
22' (1:2) Muñoz
80' (1:3) Machado
Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium
Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Germany Kurt Handwerker
8 December 1965 Second leg Valencia Spain 5 – 1 Switzerland Basel Valencia
Machado 1' (1:0)
Urtiaga 17' (2:0)
Muñoz 31' (3:0)
Guillot 32' (4:0)
Machado 80' (5:1)
Summary Hauser 53' (4:1) Stadium: Mestalla Stadium
Attendance: 30,000
Referee: France Robert Lacoste

Valencia won 8–2 on aggregate.

Cup of the Alps

Matches

4 June 1966 Round 1 Basel Switzerland 0 – 1 Italy Catania St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Summary 2' (0:1) Fanello Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland Othmar Huber Thun
8 June 1966 Round 2 Basel Switzerland 2 – 4 Italy S.S.C. Napoli St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Konrad 62' (1:4)
Frigerio 71' (2:4)
Summary 8' (0:1) Altafini
34' (0:2) Altafini
51' (0:3) Altafini
62' (0:4) Montefusco
Attendance: 10,200
Referee: Italy Antonio Sbardella
11 June 1966 Round 3 Basel Switzerland 1 – 2 Italy Juventus St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Hauser 63' (1:0) Summary 66' (1:1) Menichelli
73' (1:2) Mattei
Attendance: 7,600
Referee: Italy Ettore Carminati
15 June 1966 Round 4 Basel Switzerland 2 – 3 Italy Spal Ferrara Wankdorf Stadium, Bern
18:15 Rickenbacher 61' (1:1)
Hauser 81' (pen. 2:1)
Summary 19' (0:1) Muzzio
76' (o.g. 1:2) Pfirter
82' (2:3) Carrera
Attendance: 2,500
Referee: Switzerland Karl Göppel Zürich

Standings

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See also


References

Notes

  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Bilanz Saison 1965/66". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  2. "FC Black Stars - FC Basel 0:9 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Switzerland 1965–66 at RSSSF". RSSSF. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  4. Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre", Weber, Hans - Page 209, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel

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