Hans Koch (footballer)

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Hans Koch
Personal information
Full name Hans Koch
Date of birth unknown
Place of birth Switzerland
Position(s) Midfielder, Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1895–1897 FC Basel [note League 1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hans Koch (date of birth unknown) was a Swiss footballer who played in the 1890s as striker and as midfielder.

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Football career

FC Basel was founded on 15 November 1893 and Koch joined the club about two years later, during their 1895–96 season. Koch played his first game for the club in the home game on 12 April 1896 as Basel won 3–0 against FC Excelsior Zürich. [1] He also played in the return match which took place two weeks later.

In the following season Koch played in six of the team's seven matches. He stayed with the club for these two seasons and during his time with them, Koch played eight games for Basel without scoring a goal. [note Scorers 1] [2]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. League: up until 1898 there was no league football in Switzerland.
  1. Scorers: many pre-First World War game sheets no longer exist or are incomplete and so, many line ups and most goal scorers in this period remain unknown.

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References

  1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Excelsior Zürich 3:0 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Hans Koch - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

(NB: Despite all efforts, the editors of these books and the authors in "Basler Fussballarchiv" have failed to be able to identify all the players, their date and place of birth or date and place of death, who played in the games during the early years of FC Basel)