Walter Bannwart
| 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.
Football career
[edit]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.
International football
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ "Walter Bannwart". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "FC Basel - FC Bern 3:1". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Walter Bannwart - Saison 1952/53". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ fussball-schweiz.ch. "Spiele von Schweiz B". fussball-schweiz.ch. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
Sources
[edit]- 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