# 1935–36 FC Basel season

The FC Basel 1935–36 season was the forty-third season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Franz Rinderer was again voted as the club chairman and this was his fifth consecutive season as club president.

## Overview

Alwin Riemke was appointed as new team manager. He followed Richard (Dombi) Kohn who had moved on to manage Feyenoord. Riemke came from Lausanne-Sport, who had won the double in the previous Nationalliga championship season and the Cup. Riemke acted as player-manager and played four matches during the season. Basel played a total of 38 matches in their 1935–36 season. 26 of these matches were in the Nationalliga, one in the Swiss Cup and 11 were friendly matches. Of these 11 friendlies six were played at home and the others all in Switzerland. Interesting visitors to the Landhof were the French teams Mulhouse, Excelsior AC Roubaix and Olympique Lillois, the Hungarian teams MTK Budapest and Budapest Honvéd and the Austrian team Wiener AC. Of theses 11 friendly matches seven ended with a victory, one was drawn and three ended in a defeat.
The 1935–36 Nationalliga was contested by 14 teams and was played in a double round robin. Basel played a very mediocre season and ended the championship in 10th position. They won just eight of their 26 games and with 20 points ended the season 21 points behind Lausanne-Sport who won the championship for the second consecutive season. Josef Artimovicz was Basel's top scorer with 14 goals, Jaeck second best scorer with 9 goals.
In the 1st principal round of the Swiss Cup Basel were drawn at home in the Landhof against lower tier Luzern. But they were defeated and thus knocked out. Young Fellows Zürich won the cup.

## Players

The following is the list of the Basel first team squad during the season 1935–36. The list includes players that were in the squad the day the season started on 3 August 1935 but subsequently left the club after that date.
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 | Hugo Burkhardt |
| — | GK | SUI | Eugène de Kalbermatten |
| — | GK | FRG | Alwin Riemke |
| — | DF | SUI | Robert Büchi |
| — | MF | SUI | Ernst Hufschmid |
| — | DF | GER | Emil Hummel |
| — | DF | SUI | Heinrich Diethelm |
| — | DF | SUI | Heinz Elsässer |
| — | MF | SUI | Hans Greiner |
| — | MF | SUI | August Ibach |
| — | MF | SUI | Fernand Jaccard |
| — | MF | SUI | Caspar Monigatti |
| — | MF | SUI | Paul Schaub |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | SUI | Fritz Schmidlin (I) |
| — | MF | SUI | Walter Schmidlin (I) |
| — | MF | SUI | Guglielmo Spadini |
| — | MF | SUI | Ferdinand Spichiger |
| — | MF | AUT | Ludwig Stroh |
| — | MF | SUI | Eduard Zuber |
| — | FW | SUI | Enrico Ardizzoia |
| — | FW | AUT | Josef Artimovicz |
| — | FW | SUI | Karl Bielser |
| — | FW | SUI | Alfred Jaeck |
| — | FW | SUI | Walter Müller |
| — | FW | SUI | ? Noll |
| — | FW | SUI | Alfred Schlecht |
| — | FW | SUI | Federico Schott |

### 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 | SUI | Willy Hufschmid |
| — | GK | SUI | Kurt Imhof |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | GER | Hermann Enderlin (II) |
| — | FW | AUT | Otto Haftl |

## Results
### Legend

Win  Draw  Loss  Postponed

### Nationalliga
#### League matches
#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Lausanne Sports | 26 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 75 | 23 | +52 | 41 | Swiss Champions |
| 2 | Young Fellows Zürich | 26 | 16 | 6 | 4 | 62 | 34 | +28 | 38 | Swiss Cup winners |
| 3 | Grasshopper Club Zürich | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 64 | 25 | +39 | 36 | |
| 4 | FC Bern | 26 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 71 | 49 | +22 | 34 | |
| 5 | FC Biel-Bienne | 26 | 12 | 4 | 10 | 60 | 46 | +14 | 28 | |
| 6 | BSC Young Boys | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 38 | 40 | −2 | 26 | |
| 7 | Servette FC Genève | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 37 | 46 | −9 | 24 | |
| 8 | FC Lugano | 26 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 38 | 47 | −9 | 23 | |
| 9 | FC St. Gallen | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 36 | 52 | −16 | 23 | |
| 10 | FC Basel | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 51 | 59 | −8 | 20 | |
| 11 | FC Nordstern Basel | 26 | 8 | 4 | 14 | 41 | 60 | −19 | 20 | |
| 12 | FC La Chaux-de-Fonds | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 47 | 69 | −22 | 18 | |
| 13 | FC Locarno | 26 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 35 | 62 | −27 | 17 | Relegated |
| 14 | FC Aarau | 26 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 47 | 90 | −43 | 16 | Relegated |