Swiss football championship 1897/98

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Swiss football championship 1897/98
master Grasshopper Club Zurich
Teams unknown
Games unknown

The first Swiss football championship, the Cup around the Ruinart Trophy , was 1897 / 1898 instead.

The championship was not organized by the Swiss Football Association (SFA; from 1913 Swiss Football Association SFV), founded in 1895 , but by the Geneva newspaper “La Suisse sportive”, founded in 1897 and dissolved in 1932. In charge were and the editors François Dégerine (editorial secretary), who was the captain of the rugby team Servette Geneva , and Aimé Schwob (editor-in-chief), who will be Servette's president 1900–1912. The cup was donated by the Ruinart père et fils champagne winery in Reims , France .

This championship is unofficial at the Swiss Football Association, but it still lists the champions Grasshopper Club Zurich in its annals.

The championship for the Ruinart Cup was divided into three regional groups. The winner of each group qualified for the finals. Some games are probably missing or information about how exactly the finalists have been determined. Games that had no effect on the further course of the championship were probably not played.

Preliminary round

Group A

date Result
November 20, 1897 Grasshopper Club Zurich 7: 2 FC Zurich

According to the Schweizer Sportblatt of that year, it was the only game with Zurich participation in the championship "for the Ruinart cup". Other games, including those of FC Winterthur , FC Fortuna , Anglo-American Club Zurich , FC Excelsior and FC St. Gallen , were “competitions”.

Group B

Result
Villa Longchamp Lausanne 1-0 Yverdon FC
Lausanne Football and Cricket Club 4-0 Maison Neuve Vevey
Lausanne Football and Cricket Club 5: 2 FC La Villa Ouchy
Villa Longchamp Lausanne 1-0 Lausanne Football and Cricket Club

Group C

Result
Le Château de Lancy (Geneva) 4-0 Racing Club de Genève
La Châtelaine Genève 9: 2 Le Château de Lancy (Geneva)

Finals

date Result Stadion
March 19, 1898 Grasshopper Club Zurich 6: 1 Villa Longchamp Lausanne Zurich
April 4, 1898 Grasshopper Club Zurich 2-0 La Châtelaine Genève Lausanne -Montriond

The referee at the game between GC and Villa Longchamp was the goalkeeper of FC Basel , John Tollmann. In the second game, Frampton was used as referee by Lausanne FF & CC.

The championship team of the GC consisted of Ott (against Villa Longchamp), Arbenz (against La Châtelaine); Bossard, Sutter; Mende, Schmid (C), Henri Doll; Landolt, Blijdenstein (against VL), Wenner (against CG), Huguenin, van Delden, Simonius. Other players were, according to the photo of the championship team, Koch and Wunderly.

Individual evidence

  1. Daily week: How the Old Boys became the first forfait winners in Swiss football history, August 19, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2016
  2. The Grasshoppers' obscure first championship title . In: TagesWoche . December 16, 2017 ( tageswoche.ch [accessed October 1, 2018]).
  3. ^ 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.
  4. Schweizer Sportblatt , Volume 1, Issue 1, Page 3, Column 5: Review of the past season in German-speaking Switzerland
  5. ^ Paul Ruoff, The golden book of Swiss football, Basel 1953
  6. Switzerland season 1897/1898 - first football championship. In: ElfsportArchiv. Retrieved August 11, 2020 .