Swiss football championship 1898/99

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Swiss football championship 1898/99
master Anglo-American Club Zurich
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← Swiss Football Championship 1897/98

The second Swiss football championship was 1898 / 1899 instead. It was the first championship in which the Swiss Football Association (from 1913: SFV ) officially awarded a championship title after the previous year's championship , which was about the Ruinart Cup, is considered unofficial. The champions were the Anglo-American Club Zurich , a club whose players consisted mainly of Anglo-Saxon students from the Swiss Federal Polytechnic .

mode

The Serie A has been divided into three regional groups. The winner of each group qualified for the finals. Games that had no effect on the further course of the championship were not played. After a draw, a replay had to decide.

Series A

Group east

The Anglo-American Club Zurich defeated GCZ 2-1 in the replay after the previous encounter ended in a draw.

Result
Anglo-American Club Zurich 3: 3 Grasshopper Club Zurich
Anglo-American Club Zurich 2: 1 Grasshopper Club Zurich
Anglo-American Club Zurich 5-0 FC Zurich

Central group

Since only FC Basel and FC Old Boys participated in this group, only one face-to-face encounter was planned. This meeting took place on November 13, 1898 at the Basler Landhof. Since the game ended 1: 1 and there was no winner, the game had to be repeated.

date Result place
November 13, 1898 Old Boys Basel 1: 1 FC Basel Country yard

On December 18, 1898 there was a replay. This ended 2: 2. The captains of the teams agreed on a 20-minute extension, which ended goalless. Old Boys then lodged a protest with the association: a goal by FC Basel had been scored by hand. The protest was approved and the disputed goal withdrawn, resulting in the final score of 2: 1.

date Result
December 18, 1898 Old Boys Basel 2: 1 FC Basel

Group west

Result
Yverdon FC 2-0 FC Neuchâtel
Lausanne Football and Cricket Club 4-0 Geneva United
Lausanne Football and Cricket Club 6: 2 Yverdon FC

Finals

The first competition between Old Boys and Lausanne Football and Cricket Club on March 5, 1899 on the Beundenfeld in Bern did not take place because the majority of the English players in the Lausanne club refused to play on a Sunday. On March 12, 1899, the championship was decided by a 7-0 victory for the Anglo-American Clubs over the Old Boys. It is the first and last championship title of the Anglo-American Club. The team consisted mainly of Anglo-Saxon students from the Federal Polytechnic . The team consisted of Smith; Sharmen, Engelke; Forgan, Butler, Cotton; Morris, Lewinstein, Collinson, Gandolfi, Bachelor.

date Result Stadion
March 5, 1899 Old Boys Basel 1 Lausanne Football and Cricket Club Bern
March 12, 1899 Anglo-American Club Zurich 7-0 Old Boys Basel Zurich
1 The UK players at Lausanne Football and Cricket Club refused to play on a Sunday.

Serie B (Ruinart Cup)

On the occasion of the Swiss football championship in 1897/98 , the Grasshopper Club Zurich cup donated by the Reims company Ruinart père et fils was awarded. This year, the Cantonal Lausanne Cup was awarded, which won the playoffs against FC Bern and United FC St. Gallen.

The Schweizer Sportblatt dated April 11, 1899 reported that Cantonal FC Lausanne won Series B and Series II in a "boring" match against FC St. Gallen. The two St. Gallen goals were reached by nice dribbles from the right wing. The referee was M. Hedinger from the Old Boys Basel.

groups

Regional group winners:

Finals

Result
Cantonal Lausanne 2-0 FC Bern
Cantonal Lausanne 3: 2 United FC St. Gallen

Cantonal Lausanne is the winner of the Ruinart Cup.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Swiss Football Association: All champions 1897–2014 in the 2014 annual report , page 111: The Swiss champions 1897/98 are referred to as "unofficial" there.
  2. ↑ http://www.zwoelf.ch/anglo-american-club-zurich/2/
  3. ↑ a b Week of the Day: How the Old Boys became the first forfait winners in Swiss football history, August 19, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Cantonal F.-C. Lausanne vers. FC St. Gallen . In: Schweizer Sportblatt . No. 15 . Zurich April 11, 1899, p. 2 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  5. ↑ in the newspaper report is written in the lead of series B , but in the text of series II .