| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Walter Bannwart | ||
| Date of birth | 3 March 1927 | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| until 1948 | FC Basel | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1949–1957 | FC Basel | 171 | (44) |
| International career | |||
| 1951 | Switzerland | 1 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Walter Bannwart (3 March 1927) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel. He played mainly as a forward, but also as a midfielder.
Between 1949 and 1957 Bannwart played 263 games for Basel and scored 64 goals; 171 games were in the Nationalliga A, 20 in the Swiss Cup and 72 were friendly games. He scored 44 goals in the domestic league, 6 in the Cup and the other 14 were scored in the friendliames. [1]
His first game in the domestic league was on 20 November 1949 in a home game in the Stadion Schützenmatte against FC Bern. He scored twice as Basel won 3–1. [2]
The biggest success in his football career was as Basel won the championship title in the 1952–53 season. During this season Bannwart played 26 league games and scored 9 goals for the club. [3] Joint with Walter Bielser and René Bader, Bannwart was the team's second most successful league scorer that season, behind Josef Hügi with 32.
In 1951 Bannwart was called up to the Swiss national team. He played just one game for his country, in Switzerland's B team. This was on 15 September 1951 in the Wankdorf Stadium against Saarland. Saarland won the game 5–2. [4]
The 1952–53 season was Fussball Club Basel 1893's 59th season in their existence. It was their seventh consecutive season in the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the Nationalliga B the season 1945–46. They played their home games in the Landhof, in the Wettstein Quarter in Kleinbasel. Jules Düblin was the club's chairman for the seventh successive season.
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