In their 1912–13 season Basel played a total of 37 matches, 19 were friendly games, 14 were in the domestic league and 5 in the Anglo Cup.

Despite seven victories and one draw during the next ten games, the team could not reduce the gap to the top of the league table.

[2] The Englishman Percy Humphreys was the first professional trainer that the club FC Basel had ever employed.

Under club chairman Karl Ibach, Humphreys signed his contract and began his duties on 1 April 1913.

In the second round, in the quarter-final and in the semi-final against East group teams, these being St. Gallen, Zürich and Winterthur and in that order.

But memories of this soon faded, because the Anglo Cup was not played the following year and in fact it was discontinued completely due to World War I.

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