1973–74 FC Basel season

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FC Basel
1973–74 season
ChairmanSwitzerland Félix Musfeld
ManagerGermany Helmut Benthaus
GroundSt. Jakob Stadium, Basel
Nationalliga A5th
Swiss CupQuarter-finals
Swiss League CupRound of 16
European CupQuarter-final
Coppa delle AlpiGroup stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld (19)
All: Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld (25)
Highest home attendance25,000 on 27 October 1973
vs Zürich
Lowest home attendance4,500 on 3 March 1974
vs Chiasso
Average home league attendance10,923

The 1973–74 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 80th season in their existence. It was their 28th consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium.

Overview

Pre-season

Helmut Benthaus was first team manager. This was his ninth season as manager. To the beginning of the season Urs Siegenthaler moved on to play for Xamax and Rolf Riner left to play for Servette. In the other direction Rudolf Wampfler joined from Sion, Arthur von Wartburg joined from Concordia Basel and Roland Paolucci returned from his loan to Winterthur. But the most notorious transfer was that of Teófilo Cubillas from Alianza Lima. The Basler entrepreneur and transport company owner Ruedi Reisdorfer paid the transfer fee of £97,000.[1][2] Cubillas scored two goals for Basel in the 1973–74 European Cup, the first of which in the 1st leg against Fram on 19 September 1973 and the second in the return leg on 20 September.[3] He only remained at the club for six months, which was not long enough for him to show the extent of his talent. Later on, for the second half of the 1973–74 season he joined Portuguese club Porto for a fee of £200,000.[2] Basel played a total of 54 games in their 1973–74 season. 26 in the domestic league, four in the Swiss Cup, one in the Swiss League Cup, six in the European Cup and 17 were friendly matches. The team scored a total of 143 goals and conceded 91.[4]

Domestic league

The Nationalliga A season 1973–74 was contested under 14 teams. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1972–73 season and the two newly promoted teams Xamax and Chênois. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1974–75 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1974–75 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Zürich won the championship 12 points ahead of Grasshopper Club, 13 ahead of the Servette and FC Winterthur. Basel finished in fifth position and were 16 points behind the new champions. Basel won 13 of their 26 league games, drew three and lost ten games. They scored a total of 57 goals conceding 39. La Chaux-de-Fonds and Chiasso suffered relegation.[5] Basel's striker Ottmar Hitzfeld was the team's top goal scorer, with 19 league goals he was third in the league ranking behind Daniel Jeandupeux (22) and Walter Müller (21). Basel's second top scorer was Walter Mundschin with seven goals, René Hasler and Karl Odermatt each scored six goals, Walter Balmer managed five and Teófilo Cubillas scored three league goals.[6] Basel's highest scoring game was in the 24th round on 8 May 1974 as they sent Lausanne-Sports home with an 8–2 package from the St. Jakob Stadium. Karl Odermatt scored the first two goals in the 5th and the 11th minute, Ottmar Hitzfeld added the next two in the 15th and 17th minute before Walter Mundschin added the next two in the 20th and 25th Minute to make it six goals in 25 minutes. A penalty goal by Müller pulled one back for Lausanne-Sport, but despite this Basel led 6–1 at half time. Hitzfeld scored his personal third goal in the 57th minute and in the 75th Markus Tanner netted the final goal of the game. Roger Piccand had scored Lausannes second in the 71st minute.[7]

Swiss Cup and League Cup

In the Swiss Cup Basel played the round of 32 on 22 September 1973 away against Biel-Bienne in the Gurzelen Stadion and won 2–1. In the round of 16 on 6 October 1973 they played away again against Mendrisiostar and won 4–1. In this game Cubillas scored two goals. The quarter-final was a two legged fixtures. The first leg played on 31 October 1973 in Stade Tourbillon was a 1–0 defeat against Sion. The second leg played on 4 November 1973 in the St. Jakob Stadium ended in a 2–2 draw, thus Sion won 3–2 on aggregate. In the 1973 Swiss League Cup Basel were drawn with an away game against Neuchâtel Xamax in the first round and were eliminated.[8]

European Cup

As reigning Swiss Champions, Basel were qualified for the 1973–74 European Cup. In the first round, drawn against Iceland's champions Fram, Basel won with the aggregate score 11–2. In the second round they were drawn against Club Brugge. In the exiting second leg Basel won 6–4 and thus 7–6 on aggregate. In the quarter-final Basel won the first leg against Celtic 3–2 and in the second leg Celtic won by the same score. During extra time Scottish international Steve Murray scored the decisive goal in the 114th minute. Celtic continued to the semi-final but did not reach the final.[9]

Players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Switzerland SUI Marcel Kunz
2 DF Germany GER Josef Kiefer
3 DF Switzerland SUI Walter Mundschin
4 MF Switzerland SUI Peter Ramseier
5 DF Switzerland SUI Paul Fischli
6 MF Switzerland SUI Otto Demarmels
7 FW Switzerland SUI Walter Balmer
8 MF Switzerland SUI Karl Odermatt
9 FW Germany GER Ottmar Hitzfeld
10 FW Peru PER Teófilo Cubillas (from Alianza Lima)
11 FW Switzerland SUI Peter Wenger
12 MF Switzerland SUI Bruno Rahmen
No. Pos. Nation Player
13 MF Switzerland SUI Rudolf Wampfler (from Sion)
14 DF Switzerland SUI Jörg Stohler
15 MF Switzerland SUI Roland Paolucci (end of loan by Winterthur)
16 DF Switzerland SUI René Hasler
17 FW Switzerland SUI Markus Tanner (from youth team)
18 MF Switzerland SUI Felix Tschudin (from youth team)
19 MF Switzerland SUI Arthur von Wartburg (from Concordia Basel)
22 GK France FRA Jean-Paul Laufenburger
MF Switzerland SUI Heinz Schönebeck (reserves)
GK Switzerland SUI Thomas Manger (reserves)
GK Switzerland SUI Hans Müller (reserves)
DF Switzerland SUI Alex Wirth (reserves)
FW Switzerland SUI Roger Ries (reserves)
Players who left the squad

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 Switzerland SUI Urs Reto Grieshaber (reserves)
No. Pos. Nation Player
MF Switzerland SUI Urs Siegenthaler (to Xamax)
FW Switzerland SUI Rolf Riner (to Servette)

Results

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Pre-season and mid-season

21 July 1973 Pre-season Basel Switzerland 5 – 2 West Germany Freiburger FC St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
18:00 Balmer File:Soccerball shade.svg 1' (1:0)
Wenger File:Soccerball shade.svg 5' (2:0)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 53' (3:2)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 62' (4:2)
Balmer File:Soccerball shade.svg 83' (5:2)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 31' (2:1) Gruler
File:Soccerball shade.svg 46' (2:2) Vogtmann
Attendance: 1,300
Referee: Switzerland Josef Schnidrig
1 August 1973 Pre-season Nordstern Basel Switzerland 1 – 3 Switzerland Basel Landhof, Basel
15:00 Degen File:Soccerball shade.svg 35' (1:0) Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 49' (1:1) Ramseier
File:Soccerball shade.svg 78' (1:2) Hitzfeld
File:Soccerball shade.svg 89' (o.g. 1:2) Huguenin
Attendance: 3,500
Referee: Switzerland Kurt Fuchs Basel

Winter break to end of season

13 February 1974 Winter break Freiburger FC West Germany 1 – 3 Switzerland Basel Möslestadion Freiburg
Dospial soccer ball with red X 42′
Westermann File:Soccerball shade.svg 89' (1:3)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 6' (0:1) Tanner
File:Soccerball shade.svg 19' (0:2) Hitzfeld
File:Soccerball shade.svg 83' (0:3) Balmer
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: West Germany Binninger
17 February 1974 Winter break FC Saint-Louis France 2 – 5 Switzerland Basel Stade de la Frontière, Saint-Louis
Deichtmann File:Soccerball shade.svg 83' (1:5)
Antony File:Soccerball shade.svg 84' (2:5)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 17' (0:1)
File:Soccerball shade.svg 20' (0:2) Balmer
File:Soccerball shade.svg 25' (0:3) Wenger
File:Soccerball shade.svg 74' (0:4) Demarmels
File:Soccerball shade.svg 80' (o.g. 0:5) Jacob
Attendance: 2,000
Referee: France Gewiss

Nationalliga

League matches

18 August 1973 Round 1 Chênois 0 – 1 Basel Stade des Trois-Chêne, Thônex
20:30 Mariétan Yellow card 90' Summary Yellow card 15' Wampfler
File:Soccerball shade.svg 41' (0:1) Cubillas
Attendance: 7,200
Referee: Switzerland Walter Gallmann Oberrieden
25 August 1973 Round 2 Basel 3 – 0 Lugano St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Cubillas File:Soccerball shade.svg 30' (1:0)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 36' (2:0)
Hasler File:Soccerball shade.svg 65' (3:0)
Summary Attendance: 16,000
Referee: Switzerland Anton Bucheli Luzern
28 August 1973 Round 3 Basel 1 – 3 Grasshopper Club St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20;00 Paolucci Yellow card 76'
Paolucci File:Soccerball shade.svg 89' (1:2)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 32' (0:1) Becker
File:Soccerball shade.svg 43' (0:2) Grahn
Yellow card 87' Staudenmann
File:Soccerball shade.svg 90+2' (1:3) Noventa
Attendance: 19,500
Referee: Switzerland Bruno Della Bruna Lumino
1 September 1973 Round 4 Sion 1 – 2 Basel Stade Tourbillon, Sion
20:15 Schaller File:Soccerball shade.svg (1:0) Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' (1:1) Mundschin
File:Soccerball shade.svg 50' (1:2) Mundschin
Yellow card 75' Mundschin
Yellow card 80' Wenger
Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Switzerland Ernest Guignet Yverdon
29 September 1973 Round 6 Basel 1 – 2 Xamax St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Stohler File:Soccerball shade.svg 39' (1:1)
Odermatt Yellow card
Fischli Yellow card
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 8' (0:1) Mathez
File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (1:2) Elsig
Yellow card Blusch
Attendance: 9,000
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wieland [[ Grenchen]]
13 October 1973 Round 7 St. Gallen 2 – 1 Basel Espenmoos, St. Gallen
17:00 Rafreider File:Soccerball shade.svg 53' (1:0)
Schwizer File:Soccerball shade.svg 68' (2:0)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 69' (2:1) Odermatt
Yellow card 76' Hasler
Yellow card 86' Demarmels
Attendance: 12,800
Referee: Switzerland Roland Racine Prilly
27 October 1973 Round 8 Basel 1 – 3 Zürich St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 89' (1:3) Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 35' (0:1) Jeandupeux
File:Soccerball shade.svg 29' (0:2) Katić
File:Soccerball shade.svg 72' (0:3) Rutschmann
Attendance: 25,000
Referee: Switzerland Anton Bucheli Luzern
11 November 1973 Round 9 Servette 2 – 3 Basel Charmilles Stadium, Geneva
14:45 Schnyder File:Soccerball shade.svg 13' (1:0)
Barriquand File:Soccerball shade.svg 51' (2:2)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 30' (1:1) Cubillas
File:Soccerball shade.svg 33' (1:2) Wampfler
Yellow card 73' Tanner
Yellow card 78' Tschudin
File:Soccerball shade.svg 88' (2:3) Mundschin
Attendance: 12,500
Referee: Switzerland Walter Gallmann Oberrieden
2 December 1973 Round 11 Lausanne-Sport 2 – 0 Basel Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
14:30 Ducret File:Soccerball shade.svg 53' (1:0)
Müller File:Soccerball shade.svg 85' (2:0)
Summary Attendance: 5,000
Referee: Switzerland Rudolf Scheurer Bettlach
9 December 1973 Round 12 Basel 2 – 3 Young Boys St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14_30 Balmer File:Soccerball shade.svg 68' (1:1)
Balmer File:Soccerball shade.svg 79' (2:1)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 16' (0:1) Brechbühl
File:Soccerball shade.svg 51' (2:2) Andersen
File:Soccerball shade.svg 87' (2:3) Schild
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland Ulysse Darbellay Roche
3 March 1974 Round 14 Basel 6 – 0 Chênois St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 7' (pen. 1:0)
Hasler File:Soccerball shade.svg 38' (2:0)
Odermatt File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (3:0)
Odermatt File:Soccerball shade.svg 45' (4:0)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' (5:0)
Detruche File:Soccerball shade.svg 64' (o.g. 6:0)
Summary Attendance: 4,500
Referee: Switzerland Roland Racine Prilly
10 March 1974 Round 15 Lugano 0 – 0 Basel Cornaredo, Lugano
14:45 Arigoni Yellow card 43'
Binetti Yellow card 53'
Summary Yellow card 40' Wenger Attendance: 3,000
Referee: Switzerland André Favre Echallens
17 March 1974 Round 16 Basel 1 – 0 Sion St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Odermatt File:Soccerball shade.svg 36' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland Giovanni Fazzini Osogna
31 March 1974 Round 17 Basel 3 – 1 Chiasso St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
14:30 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (pen. 1:1)
Balmer File:Soccerball shade.svg 43' (2:1)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 77' (3:1)
Balmer Yellow card 86'
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 10' (0:1) M. Preisig
Yellow card 31' Allio
Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland Fernand Burioli Lausanne
20 April 1974 Round 19 Basel 1 – 1 St. Gallen St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 73' (pen. 1:1) Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 63' (0:1) Nasdalla Attendance: 11,000
Referee: Switzerland Anton Bucheli Luzern
4 May 1974 Round 21 Basel 5 – 1 Servette St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 39' (1:0)
Morgenegg File:Soccerball shade.svg 42' (o.g. 2:0)
Rahmen Yellow card 49'
Mundschin File:Soccerball shade.svg 63' (3:0)
Odermatt File:Soccerball shade.svg 70' (4:0)
Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 80' (pen. 5:0)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 84' (5:1) Barriquand Attendance: 7,500
Referee: Switzerland Bruno Della Bruna Lumino
11 May 1974 Round 22 La Chaux-de-Fonds 0 – 2 Basel Stade Charrière, La Chaux-de-Fonds
20:15 Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 37' (0:1) Wampfler
File:Soccerball shade.svg 73' (0:2) Balmer
Attendance: 2,700
Referee: Switzerland Giovanni Fazzini Osogna
14 May 1974 Round 23 Grasshopper Club 2 – 1 Basel Hardturm, Zürich
20:15 Ohlhauser File:Soccerball shade.svg 58' (1:1)
Meier File:Soccerball shade.svg 73' (2:1)
[ Summary] File:Soccerball shade.svg 37' (0:1) Hasler Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Switzerland Hans Wieland Grenchen
1 June 1974 Round 26 Basel 1 – 0 Winterthur St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 48' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 7,000
Referee: Switzerland Roland Keller Bern

League standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zürich (C) 26 20 5 1 67 20 +47 45 Champions, qualified for 1974–75 European Cup
and entered 1974 Intertoto Cup
2 Grasshopper Club 26 12 9 5 41 27 +14 33 Qualified for 1974–75 UEFA Cup
and entered 1974 Intertoto Cup
3 Servette 26 12 8 6 49 35 +14 32 Qualified for 1974–75 UEFA Cup
4 Winterthur 26 13 6 7 42 29 +13 32 Entered 1974 Intertoto Cup
5 Basel 26 13 3 10 57 39 +18 29
6 Young Boys 26 10 8 8 52 38 +14 28
7 Xamax 26 10 6 10 38 38 0 26 Entered 1974 Intertoto Cup
8 Lausanne-Sport 26 9 8 9 45 48 −3 26
9 St. Gallen 26 10 5 11 38 48 −10 25
10 Sion 26 5 12 9 24 31 −7 22 Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1974–75 Cup Winners' Cup
11 Chênois 26 7 8 11 30 48 −18 22
12 Lugano 26 4 9 13 20 44 −24 17
13 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 3 10 13 28 51 −23 16 Relegated to Nationalliga B
14 Chiasso 26 2 7 17 18 53 −35 11 Relegated to Nationalliga B
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Swiss Cup

22 September 1973 Round of 32 Biel-Bienne 1 – 2 Basel Gurzelen Stadion, Biel/Bienne
20:15 Peters File:Soccerball shade.svg 30' (1:0) Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 31' (1:1) Hitzfeld
File:Soccerball shade.svg 46' (1:2) Demarmels
Attendance: 7,300
Referee: Switzerland Fernand Burioli Lausanne
31 October 1973 Quarter-final
First leg
Sion 1 – 0 Basel Stade Tourbillon, Sion
Lopez File:Soccerball shade.svg 57' (1:0) Summary Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland Gérard Racine Biel/Bienne
4 November 1973 Quarter-final
Second leg
Basel 2 – 2
(2 – 3 agg.)
Sion St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
18:00 Hitzfeld File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' (1:0)
Hasler File:Soccerball shade.svg 66' (2:0)
Summary File:Soccerball shade.svg 84' (2:1) Vergères
File:Soccerball shade.svg 90' (2:2) Lopez
Attendance: 8,000
Referee: Switzerland Jean Dubach Nidau

Swiss League Cup

11 August 1973 Round of 16 Neuchâtel Xamax 4 – 1 Basel Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel
20:15 Rub File:Soccerball shade.svg 10' (1:0)
Citherlet File:Soccerball shade.svg 29' (2:1)
Richard Yellow card 33'
Elsig File:Soccerball shade.svg 38' (3:1)
Richard File:Soccerball shade.svg 68' (4:1)
Summary Yellow card 3' Hitzfeld
File:Soccerball shade.svg 15' (1:1) Rahmen
Attendance: 6,000
Referee: Switzerland André Favre Echallens

European Cup

18 September 1973 First round
First leg
Fram Iceland 0 – 5 Switzerland Basel St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
20:00 UEFA summary
FCB summary
File:Soccerball shade.svg 2' (1:0) Cubillas
File:Soccerball shade.svg 21' (2:0) Balmer
File:Soccerball shade.svg 75' (3:0) Hasler
File:Soccerball shade.svg 85' (4:0) Balmer
File:Soccerball shade.svg 88' (5:0) Demarmels
Attendance: 8,500
Referee: Hungary Sandor Petri
Note: Fram home game
20 September 1973 First round
Second leg
Basel Switzerland 6 – 2
(11 – 2 agg.)
Iceland Fram Kleinholz Stadion, Olten
20:00 Tanner File:Soccerball shade.svg 4' (0:1)
Cubillas File:Soccerball shade.svg 24' (0:2)
Geirsson File:Soccerball shade.svg 39' (o.g. 0:3)
Tanner File:Soccerball shade.svg 56' (1:4)
Wampfler File:Soccerball shade.svg 60' (1:5)
Stohler File:Soccerball shade.svg 66' (pen. 1:6)
UEFA summary
FCB summary
File:Soccerball shade.svg 52' (1:3) Leifsson
File:Soccerball shade.svg 78' (2:6) Elíasson
Attendance: 5,500
Referee: Hungary Karoly Palotai
Note: Home game of FCB. Organised by FC Olten

Coppa delle Alpi

Group B matches

NB: teams did not play compatriots

Group B standings

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD BP Pts
1 Servette 4 3 0 1 10 6 +4 1 7[lower-alpha 1] Advance to final
2 Stade de Reims 4 2 0 2 9 9 0 2 6[lower-alpha 1]
3 Basel 4 2 1 1 7 6 +1 0 5
4 Strasbourg 4 0 1 3 3 8 −5 0 1
Source: RSSSF.COM
Notes:
  1. 1.0 1.1 1 bonus point awarded for victory by 3 or more goals

See also

References

  1. Zindel, Josef (2018), "Die ersten 125 Jahre", 1974 - Cubillas, Pages 72 + 73, Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jan Alsos. "Teofilio Cubillas (Peru)". Planet World Cup. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  3. Antonio Zea and Marcel Haisma (9 January 2008). "European Champions' Cup 1973–74 – Details". RSSSF. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
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  9. uefa.com. "1973/74 Season". uefa.com. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

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