FC Basel

Football Game

With the objective of founding a Football Club, friends of the game are kindly invited next Wednesday to gather at 20:15 in the upper hall of the “Schuhmachern-Zunft” to discuss the project.

This newspaper advertisement was published on  12th November 1893- the following week (November 15th ) a meeting was held that marks the formation of FC Basel.
The founding members were generally from the academic community.
On 20th November 1893 two sides from the the club played each other in the first fixture.
The actual ‘inaugural’  match took place a full two weeks after the practice match.  On December 10th 1893 FC Basel took on the Gymnasts of the Realschülerturnverein Basel and beat them 2-0.
The next competitive match took place 2 years later, on a visit to Strasbourg . FC Basel lost 8-0.

1898-99

FC Basel first took part in the Swiss National League 1898-99.

Barcelona

Hans Kamper was a keen all round sportsman who had captained FC Basle and helped to found FC Zurich in his native Switzerland. 
As a 21 year old in 1898 he was travelling to Africa to establish a sugar trading business, but he stopped off to visit an uncle in Barcelona and never left. 
He played some football and  founded a sports magazine, Los Deportes.
On 22nd October 1899 Kamper (or to use the Catalan version of his name, Joan Gamper) placed this advert in Los Deportes: 

SPORT NOTES

Our friend and partner, Mr. Kans Kamper, from the Foot-Ball Section of the <<Sociedad Los Deportes>> and former Swiss champion, wishing to organize some matches in Barcelona, requests that everyone who likes this sport contact him, come to this office Tuesday and Friday nights from 9 to 11.

On 8th December 1899 FC Barcelona played their first ever game, a 10 a side against a team of English settlers. They lost 1-0 to an Arthur Witty goal.  There's a match report here: 

http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.com/preview/1899/12/09/pagina-7/33401233/pdf.html

1903

Barcelona won their first trophy, the Copa Macaya (a championship of Catalonia) in 1901–02.
It's probably more than a coincidence that Gamper's old team, FC Basle, the club he founded in Switzerland (FC Zurich) and Barcelona all share the same club colours.