Alfred Enderlin (* unknown; † unknown) was a Swiss-German
footballer
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who played for
FC Basel
Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss footba ...
. He played mainly in the position of
forward
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. He was known as Enderlin (I) because his brother
Hermann Enderlin
Hermann Enderlin (* 24 September 1906; † 18 May 1973) was a Swiss-German footballer who played for FC Basel. He played mainly in the position of defender, but also as midfielder. He was known as Enderlin (II) because his brother Alfred Ender ...
(II) played for Basel during the same period, but as a
defender.
Club career
Between the years 1926 and 1933 Enderlin (I) played a total of 138 games for Basel scoring 68 goals. 85 of these games were in the
Swiss Serie A, 13 in the
Swiss Cup
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and 40 were friendly games.
He scored 39 goals in the domestic league, 11 in the cup and the other 18 were scored during the test games.
A well-documented curiosity was that at the end of
Basel's 1929–30 season, the team set off on a Scandinavian football tour, including a visit to Germany. Six games were played in Norway, but the first was played in
Leipzig
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. The team travelled with 15 players, their trainer
Kertész and two functionaries. The journey started with a train ride on 2 June 1930 at quarter past seven in the morning from Basel and they arrived in Leipzig at half passed eight that evening. The game against