Charles Volderauer


Charles Volderauer was a Swiss businessman. He was founder member of the club FC Basel, played various matches for them as defender, was voted into the board of directors and was the club's president for more than three years.

Football career

Volderauer was one of the founders members of FC Basel on 15 November 1893. Between the years 1893 and 1899 he played at least 33 test matches as defender without scoring a goal. Most of these games were before the Swiss Serie A was founded.
For many years Volderauer was member of the FC Basel board of directors and presided over the club's board during the time from December 1896 until 18 January 1900. As businessman he had good connections and he used them from the very beginning. As early as June 1894, he organised the journey to visit Strassburger FV, and he played in the match, which ended in a 0–8 defeat. He also arranged various other matches with international teams from France and England.
In the documentation of the club's 50th anniversary it is written: He was an excellent defender. He held the office of President for years. Arranged the first games in Switzerland against British professional clubs: Newcastle United and Celtic Glasgow. He was an enthusiastic and very active club member. The afore mentioned games with Newcastle United and Celtic were held in the spring of 1911. The match against Newcastle was held at Basel's home ground the Landhof on 21 May. The visitors won by seven goals to one. The match against Celtic was held one week later on 27 May. Here too the visitors won the match. Celtic won by five goals to one.