Wilhelm Götz

Wilhelm Götz (date of birth unknown) was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel in the 1890s.

Wilhelm Götz

Personal information
Full name	Wilhelm Götz
Date of birth	unknown
Place of birth	Switzerland
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1894–1896	FC Basel	^[note League 1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Football career

FC Basel was founded on 15 November 1893 and Götz joined the club a few months later during their 1893–94 season.

He played his first game for the club in the home game in the Stadion Schützenmatte on 5 May 1895 as Basel won 2–0 against Abstinenten FC Patria Basel.^[1]

He stayed with the club for two seasons and during this time Götz played a total of five 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.

References

1. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - Abstinenten FC Patria Basel 2:0". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
2. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "Wilhelm Götz - FCB-Statistik". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2020-11-16.

Sources

• Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2017/2018. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2189-1
• Die ersten 125 Jahre. Publisher: Josef Zindel im Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag, Basel. ISBN 978-3-7245-2305-5
• Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" Homepage

(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)