Alex Mathys


Alex Mathys was a Swiss footballer who played from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. He played as Striker.
Mathys joined Basel's first team during their 1938–39 season under player-manager Fernand Jaccard. He played his domestic league debut for the club in the away game on 11 December 1938 as Basel were defeated 0–2 by La Chaux-de-Fonds. He scored his first goal for his club on 30 April 1939 in the home game at the Landhof against Lausanne-Sport. It was the winning goal as Basel won 1–0.
Mathys played three and a half season with the club. He started in the 1941–1942 season with Basel, but during the winterbreak he moved on to play for Brühl St. Gallen. In the 1943–1944 season he returned to Basel for another three and a half years. There is no indication why he played in only three test matches during this period, but this was probably due to the situation with World War II. In the winter break 1947–1948 Mathys left the club again and moved on to Concordia Basel who played, one tier lower, in the Nationalliga B.
Between the years 1938 to 1942 and again from 1943 to 1948 Mathys played a total of 60 games for Basel scoring a total of 26 goals. 39 of these games were in the Nationalliga and 1. Liga, eight in the Swiss Cup and 13 were friendly games. Mathys scored 18 goals in the domestic league, one in the Cup and the others were scored during the test games. On 31 August 1941 in the game against SC Juventus Zürich striker Mathys scored seven goals as Basel won by 10–1. There is no indication or evidence in the history books that this is not the goal scoring record for a single FCB player in a single match in the club's entire history.