Anglo-American Club Zurich
| Anglo-American Club | |
| Full name | Anglo-American FC Zurich |
| place | Zurich |
| Founded | circa 1893 |
| Dissolved | 1900 |
| Club colors | - |
| Stadion | "Anglo-Platz" (Allmend Zurich) |
| Top league | Series A |
| successes | Swiss champion 1898/99 |
The Anglo-American Club Zurich was a football club from Zurich .
founding
In Ferdinand Isler's contemporary statistics , 1893 is given as the year of foundation. In the 30th anniversary book of the Swiss Football and Athletics Association, Fritz Klipstein wrote in 1925 that the club had existed “for years” when GC was founded in 1886. In The Becoming and Thriving of the Swiss Football Association by Arnold Wehrle, the founding date was set to “approx. 1884 »estimated. The only evidence is that GC played against British students from the Federal Polytechnic in 1886 and 1888 .
Together with ten other clubs, the club founded the Swiss Football Association in 1895 .
First participation and championship title 1898/99
The Anglo-American Club Zurich first took part in the Swiss football championship in 1898/99 and became Swiss football champions in the same year after a 7-0 win in the final against FC Old Boys Basel . Nine of the eleven players, who were of Anglo-Saxon origin, were students in the chemical-technical department of the Polytechnic. Their players were currently:
| Surname | Date of birth | origin | Years of study at the Polytechnic | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frederik Butler | 4th December 1875 | Manchester | October 1898 – January 1900 | Captain |
| Robert Whiteley Collinson | November 6, 1875 | Halifax | October 1898 – end of SS 1899 | |
| William Cotton | November 27, 1878 | Chester | October 1896 – March 1900 | |
| Ernst Engelke | July 12, 1877 | New York (USA) | October 1896 – March 1900 | Previously Captain of the FCZ |
| William Russell Forgan | June 22, 1875 | Northwich | October 1895 – March 1900 | |
| Alfonso Gandolfi | June 20, 1879 | Worchester | October 1897 – April 1898 | Conn. University of Zurich , professorship in Geneva |
| Herbert Levinstein | February 2, 1878 | Manchester | October 1898 – March 1900 | |
| Rupert Morris | November 28, 1875 | Swinton | October 1895 – March 1899 | |
| Henry Walton Smith | June 14, 1875 | Stockport | October 1895 – March 1899 | |
| Hermann Schwabacher | December 28, 1877 | London | October 1896 – October 1899 | fell under the name Shaw in France in 1917 in the war against the German Empire |
Other players according to the Schweizer Sportblatt of April 11, 1899 were Sharman, Devat and Bachelor.
Butler and Cotton were not only players, but also active in the SFA Central Committee in the association.
Decline and dissolution
In the 1899/00 season , the club was third in the eastern group and could therefore not take part in the finals. It was the last time the Zurich team took part in the Swiss championship.
After that, the club disappeared from the scene, among other things because of the narrow squad and because most of them graduated from their studies in 1900 or left the polytechnic before: In the Schweizer Sportblatt of April 4, 1900, it was announced that William Cotton and William Russell Forgan were studying had concluded, Cotton would be in England with a planned onward journey to Russia, Forgan was also in England, but would return to Zurich.
The SFA mentioned in its annual report 1900/01 that the Anglo-American FC had withdrawn due to a lack of members. Cotton, Engelke, Forgan and Smith played for Servette between 1900 and 1902 .
The newspaper Suisse Sportive reported in October 1903 that the English polytechnicians at the ETH had re-established themselves as Anglo American Wanderers . This successor club played in the seasons 1903/04 and 1904/05 in the Swiss football championship.
literature
- Christian Koller : The missing Swiss champion, in: Cardu, Tiberio (ed.): Replay: The ball in art. Altdorf: House of Art 2008.
- Christian Koller : Transnationality and Popularization - Theses and Questions on the Early History of Swiss Football, in: Ludica - Annali di storia e civiltà del gioco 17-18 (2011/12). Pp. 151-166.
- Saro Pepe: Anglo-American Club Zurich: The Chemical Brothers , in: Zwölf 51 (2015).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Saro Pepe: Anglo-American Club Zurich: The Chemical Brothers , in: Zwölf 51, page 4 (2015)
- ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Switzerland 1898–1930
- ↑ Football: Anglo-American Club Zurich >> Profile
- ↑ a b Monica Bussmann: No sunstroke! ETH football team becomes Swiss champions. In: ETHeritage. July 21, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2019 .
- ↑ a b The winners of Switzerland. Football championship 1899: Anglo-American FC Zurich . In: Schweizer Sportblatt . No. 15 . Zurich April 11, 1899, p. 1 ( e-periodica.ch ).