1896–97 FC Basel season

The idea of a Swiss national championship came to review with the Swiss Football Association, that had been founded the previous year and of which Basel and local rivals Old Boys were a member. But such a championship had not yet been called to into life.

The club chairman Charlie Volderauer was the team captain this season. For this season club organised seven friendly matches for their first team. Four of these matches were held in Basel, one in the Landhof, two on the Schützenmatte and from the fourth the place of playing field is uncertain. Basel played two games in Mulhouse. The first against Strassburger FV was lost 3–4 and the second against FC Mulhouse was lost 2–3. Five games were played in November/December and the other two in March and June. Of the seven games, two were won, two were drawn and the team suffered three defeats. The team scored 16 and conceded nine goals.^[1]

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

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No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  SUI Adolf Rittmann — DF  SUI Josy Ebinger — DF  SUI Charles Volderauer — FW  SUI Roland Geldner — FW  SUI Emanuel Schiess — FW  SUI Hermann Schneider — FW  ENG Rudolf Bax —   Alfred Devick —  SUI Joan Gamper —  SUI Fritz Gürtler

No. Pos. Nation Player —  SUI Louis Gürtler —  SUI Rudolf Iselin —  SUI Hans Koch —  SUI Albert Linder —  SUI Eric Mory —  SUI Paul Preiswerk —  SUI Gustav Schwarz —  SUI Rudolf Schwarz —  SUI R. Sommer —  SUI John Tollmann —  SUI R. C. Vanorden

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