Alfred Schlecht


Alfred Schlecht was a Swiss footballer who played for FC Basel and Nordstern Basel. He played mainly in the position as Striker, but also as midfielder.

Football career

Schlecht played youth football and moved up to the senior team of FC Basel in 1922. He played his first game for the team on 31 December 1922, a test game against Schaffhausen. He played his domestic league debut on 18 February 1923 and scored his first goal for the club during the same game as Basel defeated Luzern 2–0. He also played for Basel in the next season, but moved on to Nordstern Basel for the 1924–25 season.
After that season Schlecht returned to Basel and played for them for another 11 seasons. He scored his first hat-trick in an away game as Basel won 7–2 against Solothurn on 16 December 1928. Against the same team, nearly one year later on 10 November 1929, in the same stadium, Schlecht scored four goals in the game that Basel won 5–1.
A further episode that could be noted, was the Swiss Cup match on 22 November 1931, away against Lugano, in which Schlecht scored the winning goal as early as the second minute of the game. After the game there were tumults and riots from the spectators who were not satisfied with the referee's performance. It was some eight hours later before the police were able to bring the referee and the Basel team to safety by ship.
He played his last game for the club in the 1935–36 Nationalliga season on 24 November 1935 against Young Fellows Zürich. Between the seasons 1922/23 and 1935/36 Schlecht played a total of 206 games for Basel scoring a total of 107 goals. 128 of these games were in the Swiss Serie A and Nationalliga, 17 in the Swiss Cup and 53 were friendly games. He scored 74 goal in the domestic league, 10 in the cup and the other 23 were scored during the test games. He was the teams top goal scorer during the season 1929/30.