The FC Basel 1942–43 season was the fiftieth season since the club's foundation on 15 November 1893. FC Basel played their home games in the Landhof in the district Wettstein in Kleinbasel. Albert Besse was the club's chairman for the fourth consecutive season.
Overview
was player-coach during this season, it was his third season as first teammanager. Basel played 33 games in their 1942–43 season. 26 in the Nationalliga, three in the cup and 4 were test games. They won 12, drew five and lost 16 times. In total including the teast games and the cup competition they scored 59 goals and conceded just 67. There were 14 teams contesting in the 1942–43 Nationalliga. The team that finished in last position in the league table would be relegated. Rupf and his team had won promotion the previous season and thus it was clear that this was going to be a difficult year. Things started badly and five of the first six games ended with a defeat. Just before Chistmas Basel suffered their biggest defeat, a 9–1 dubbing by Servette. But with victories against direct opponents also playing in risk of relegation near the end of the table, Basel ended the season with 18 points in 13th position, just two points above local rivals Nordstern Basel who ended the season on the relegation slot. Of their 26 league games Basel won seven, drew four and lost 15 times. They scored 29 league goals and conceded 57. Hermann Suter was the teams top league goal scorer with six goals. Erich Andres and Rodolfo Kappenberger were joint second best scorers, each with five goals. In the Swiss Cup Basel started in the 4th principal round with a home tie at the Landhof against lower tier local side FC Pratteln. This ended with an expected easy 6–0 victory. In the round of 16 Basel were also allocated with a home match against lower tier SV Schaffhausen. Hermann Suter and Fritz Schmidlin were both able to achieve a hat-trick and Basel won 9–2. Then in the quarter-finals Basel were drawnat home against top tierLugano. However, a 0–2 defeat ended their presence in this season's cup competition.
