1978–79 FC Basel season

The Fussball Club Basel 1893 1978–79 season was their 85th season since the club was founded. It was their 33rd consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after they won promotion during the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the St. Jakob Stadium.

Overview

Helmut Benthaus was first team manager for the thirteenth consecutive season. Basel played in the 1978–79 Nationalliga A They ended the qualification round in fourth position and finished the Championship Group in sixth position with 18 points, 17 behind championship winners Servette. They scored a total of 54 goals conceding 53 in 32 games. Detlev Lauscher was the teams top goal scorer with 10 league goals.

In the first round of the Swiss Cup Basel were drawn against FC Glattbrugg and this was the first time that these two teams had played against each other. The game was played on 7 October 1978 and Basel won 7–0. In the second round Basel were drawn away to Zürich and in the third round away against Xamax. In the first round of the Swiss League Cup Basel were drawn against Grenchen. In a two legged affair, winning the home game and losing away game, Basel won 4–3 on aggregate. Basel won in the round of 32 against Nordstern Basel, in the quarter-final against Luzern and in the semi-final against Xamax to reach the final, which was played on 5 May 1979 against Servette. After extra time the score was 2–2, but Servette won 4–3 on penalties.

In the 1978–79 UEFA Cup Basel were drawn against VfB Stuttgart. The first game was lost 2–3 in St. Jakob Stadium and the away game in the Neckarstadion was lost 1–4. VfB Stuttgart won 7–3 on aggregate and continued to the second round.^[1]

In the Coppa delle Alpi (to english Cup of the Alps) Basel played with Stade de Reims and Sochaux in Group B together with Lausanne-Sport.^[2] Lausanne-Sport won the group and thus played in the final only to lose this against the winners of group A, Servette FC, 4–0.^[3]

Players

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

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Jean Müller
		GK	Hans Küng
		GK	Jürg Wenger
		MF	Otto Demarmels
		DF	Paul Fischli
		MF	Walter Geisser
		MF	Jean-Pierre Maradan
		DF	Walter Mundschin
		DF	Urs Siegenthaler
		DF	Jörg Stohler

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Erni Maissen
		MF	Erwin Meyer
		MF	Eigil Nielsen
		MF	Hansruedi Schär
		FW	Markus Tanner
		MF	Arthur von Wartburg
		MF	Detlev Lauscher
		FW	Peter Marti
		MF	Serge Muhmenthaler
		FW	Roland Schönenberger
		FW	Robert Baldinger

Results

Nationalliga

Main article: 1978–79 Nationalliga A

Qualifying Phase

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	Remarks
1	FC Zürich	22	13	6	3	51	19	32	To championship round
2	Servette FC Genève	22	12	6	4	56	23	30	To championship round
3	Grasshopper Club Zürich	22	9	9	4	35	24	27	To championship round
4	FC Basel	22	10	6	6	36	29	26	To championship round
5	BSC Young Boys	22	11	4	7	39	34	26	To championship round
6	FC St. Gallen	22	11	4	7	34	34	26	To championship round
7	Neuchâtel Xamax	22	8	8	6	42	33	24	To playout round
8	CS Chênois	22	9	4	9	30	32	22	To playout round
9	Lausanne Sports	22	6	3	13	28	40	15	To playout round
10	FC Chiasso	22	5	3	14	20	46	13	To playout round
11	FC Nordstern Basel	22	2	8	12	19	44	12	To playout round
12	FC Sion	22	3	5	14	20	52	11	To playout round

Championship Group

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	(B)	Remarks
1	Servette FC Genève	10	10	0	0	23	5	35	(15)	Champions
2	FC Zürich	10	6	1	3	19	14	29	(16)
3	Grasshopper Club Zürich	10	3	3	4	11	13	23	(14)
4	FC St. Gallen	10	2	3	5	8	11	20	(13)
5	BSC Young Boys	10	1	4	5	5	17	19	(13)
6	FC Basel	10	2	1	7	18	24	18	(13)

Swiss Cup

Main article: Swiss Cup

7 October 1978 Round of 32	FC Glattbrugg	0 – 7	Basel	Sportanlage Au, Glattbrugg

10 December 1978 Round of 16	Zürich	1 – 3	Basel	Letzigrund, Zürich

20 March 1979 Quarter-final	Xamax	5 – 0	Basel	Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel

Swiss League Cup

Main article: Swiss League Cup

Round of 32

First leg	Basel	2 – 0	Grenchen	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Second leg	Grenchen	3 – 2	Basel	Stadium Brühl, Grenchen

Basel won 4–3 on aggregate

Round of 16	Basel	2 – 0	Nordstern Basel	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Quarter-final	Basel	3 – 1	Luzern	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel

Semi-final	Xamax	0 – 2	Basel	Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel

5 May 1979 Final	Servette	2 – 2 (4 – 3 p)	Basel	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel
	Peterhans 5' Barberis 37'		18', 87' Schönenberger
		Penalties
	Schnyder Barberis Guyot Trinchero Engel		Stohler Maradan Schönenberger von Wartburg Tanner

Servette won 4–3 on penalties

UEFA Cup

Main article: 1978–79 UEFA Cup

First round

13 September 1978 First leg	Basel	2 – 3	VfB Stuttgart	Basel
20:00	Stohler 30' von Wartburg 30', 40' Tanner 78'	Report	44' D. Hoeneß 54', 70' Ohlicher 85' Förster	Stadium: St. Jakob Stadium Referee: Brian McGinlay

27 September 1978 Second leg	VfB Stuttgart	4 – 1	Basel	Stuttgart
20:00	Kelsch 24', 48', 68' Müller 64'	Report	35' Schönenberger	Stadium: Neckarstadion Referee: Miroslav Stupar

VfB Stuttgart won 7–3 on aggregate.

Coppa delle Alpi

Main article: Cup of the Alps

Group B

round 1	Basel	2 – 1	Stade de Reims	St. Jakob Stadium Basel

round 2	Stade de Reims	1 – 1	Basel

round 3	Basel	0 – 2	Sochaux	St. Jakob Stadium Basel

round 4	Sochaux	1 – 1	Basel

NB: teams did not play compatriots

Group table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Pts	(B)
1	Lausanne-Sport	4	3	0	1	12	8	7	1
2	Sochaux	4	1	2	1	7	7	4
3	Basel	4	1	2	1	4	5	4
4	Stade de Reims	4	1	1	2	6	9	3

NB: 1 bonus point awarded for victory by 3 or more goals

Sources and references

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
Switzerland 1978–79 at RSSSF
Swiss League Cup at RSSSF
Cup of the Alps 1978 at RSSSF

↑ "Stuttgart-Basel Aggregate 7:3". uefa.com. 1978. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
↑ Garin, Erik (2000). "Cup of the Alps 1978". rsssf.com. Retrieved 2016-11-13.
↑ super-servette (1978). "Alle Servette Spieler in einem Alpencup Finale" (PDF). super-servette.ch. Retrieved 2016-11-13.

External links

FC Basel official site

FC Basel

History Players

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