2011–12 Swiss Super League

Swiss Super League
Season	2011–12
Champions	Basel 15th title
Relegated	Neuchâtel Xamax
Champions League	Basel
Europa League	Luzern Young Boys Servette
Matches played	162
Goals scored	405 (2.5 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexander Frei (24)
Biggest home win	Zürich 6–0 Grasshopper Basel 6–0 Lausanne
Biggest away win	Servette 0–4 Basel Sion 0–4 Servette
Highest scoring	Basel 6–3 Grasshopper
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

The 2011–12 Swiss Super League season was the 115th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. It began on 16 July 2011 and ended on 23 May 2012.^[1]

Basel successfully defended their title. No team was directly relegated after Neuchâtel Xamax were expelled midway through the season over severe financial irregularities.

The league comprised the best eight sides from the 2010–11 season, the 2010–11 Swiss Challenge League champions Lausanne-Sport, and Servette, the winners of the relegation/promotion play-off between the ninth-placed Super League team and the Challenge League runners-up.

Since Switzerland dropped from thirteenth to sixteenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2010–11 season,^[2] the league lost its second spot for the UEFA Champions League. The league champions will now enter the second qualifying round of the 2012–13 tournament, while the runners-up and third-placed sides will enter the second qualifying round of the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League.

Teams

FC St. Gallen were relegated after finishing in last place of the table after the 2010–11 season. The club thus completed a two-year tenure in the Super League. St. Gallen were replaced by 2010–11 Challenge League champions FC Lausanne-Sport, who returned to the highest football league of Switzerland after a nine-year absence.

A further spot in the league was contested in a relegation/promotion playoff between ninth-placed AC Bellinzona and Challenge League runners-up Servette FC from Geneva. Both teams played a two-legged series, which was won by Servette, 3–2 on aggregate. The Geneva side thus returned to the Super League after six years, while Bellinzona were relegated to the Challenge League after three years in the highest Swiss football league.

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in the 2011–12 Swiss Super League

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Basel !FC Basel	Basel	St. Jakob-Park	38,512
Grasshopper !Grasshopper Club Zürich	Zurich	Letzigrund	23,605
Lausanne Sport !FC Lausanne-Sport	Lausanne	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise	15,850
Lucerne !FC Luzern	Lucerne	Swissporarena	17,500
Neuchatel !Neuchâtel Xamax	Neuchâtel	Stade de la Maladière	12,000
Servette !Servette FC	Geneva	Stade de Genève	30,084
Sion !FC Sion	Sion	Stade Tourbillon	16,500
Thun !FC Thun	Thun	Arena Thun	10,000
Young Boys !Young Boys	Bern	Wankdorf	31,783
Zurich !FC Zürich	Zürich	Letzigrund	23,605

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Basel !Basel (C)	34	22	8	4	78	32	+46	74	2012–13 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Luzern !Luzern	34	14	12	8	46	32	+14	54	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Play-off round ¹
3	Young Boys !Young Boys	34	13	12	9	52	38	+14	51	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ¹
4	Servette !Servette	34	14	6	14	45	53	−8	48	2012–13 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ¹
5	Thun !Thun	34	11	10	13	38	41	−3	43
6	Zürich !Zürich	34	11	8	15	43	44	−1	41
7	Lausanne-Sport !Lausanne-Sport	34	8	6	20	29	61	−32	30
8	Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	34	7	5	22	32	66	−34	26
9	Sion !Sion (O)	34	15	8	11	40	35	+5	017^†	Relegation play-offs
10	Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax (DQ)	18	7	5	6	22	22	0	026^‡	Demotion to the 2012–13 2. Liga interregional

Updated to games played on 20 May 2012.
Source:
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Because 2011–12 Swiss Cup winners Basel qualified for the Champions League, and runners-up Luzern qualified for the Europa League through league position, the distribution of the Europa League spots reverted back to league position.
^†Sion were deducted 36 points for fielding ineligible players.^[3]
^‡Neuchâtel Xamax's license was revoked with immediate effect and they were expelled from the Swiss Football League on 18 January 2012 after not providing necessary financial documents and guarantees.^[4] The first-half results of the club will be kept while any matches in spring involving Xamax were cancelled.^[5]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation play-offs

The ninth-placed Super League team played a two-legged play-off against the 2011–12 Challenge League runners-up for a spot in the 2012–13 season.

Sion v Aarau

26 May 2012
15:00 CEST

Sion	3 – 0	Aarau
Mrđa 58', 81' Margairaz 67'	Report

Stade Tourbillon, Sion
Attendance: 10,800
Referee: Stephan Studer

Aarau v Sion

28 May 2012
17:00 CEST

Aarau	1 – 0	Sion
Gashi 55'	Report

Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau

Sion won 3 – 1 on aggregate.

Results

All ten clubs played twice against each other during the first half of the season, once at home and once away, for a total of 18 matches. As Neuchâtel Xamax had their license revoked during the winter break, the club's second-half matches were entirely cancelled. The second half of the season thus was competed by only nine clubs, which played another double round-robin schedule; each of these nine clubs hence had played 34 matches at the end of the season.^[5]

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Basel !BAS	Grasshopper Club Zürich !GCZ	Lausanne-Sport !LS	Luzern !LUZ	Neuchâtel Xamax !NX	Servette !SER	Sion !SIO	Thun !THU	Young Boys !YB	Zürich !ZÜR
Basel !Basel		4–1	6–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	3–3	2–1	1–0	1–2
Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	2–2		2–0	0–1	0–1	1–4	2–1	1–0	0–3	3–0
Lausanne-Sport !Lausanne-Sport	2–3	2–1		0–1	1–3	0–0	0–2	1–0	0–3	2–1
Luzern !Luzern	3–1	2–1	2–0		1–2	1–2	2–0	0–0	1–1	3–1
Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	1–1	2–0	2–2	0–3		0–0	0–3	4–0	0–0	3–1
Servette !Servette	0–4	3–4	4–2	0–2	2–1		0–2	1–2	1–0	0–1
Sion !Sion	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	0–4		2–0	1–2	1–0
Thun !Thun	1–1	3–0	5–2	3–1	0–0	3–0	0–3		1–1	0–2
Young Boys !Young Boys	1–1	0–1	4–1	1–0	4–1	1–1	1–1	0–2		2–3
Zürich !Zürich	0–1	6–0	4–1	1–1	0–2	2–3	1–1	0–0	1–2

Updated to games played on 11 December 2011.
Source: Swiss Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Basel !BAS	Grasshopper Club Zürich !GCZ	Lausanne-Sport !LS	Luzern !LUZ	Servette !SER	Sion !SIO	Thun !THU	Young Boys !YB	Zürich !ZÜR
Basel !Basel		6–3	3–1	3–1	5–0	0–0	2–1	1–2	1–0
Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	0–2		0–0	2–2	0–3	0–2	0–1	2–0	0–1
Lausanne-Sport !Lausanne-Sport	0–2	2–1		0–0	3–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1
Luzern !Luzern	1–1	1–0	3–2		3–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	1–1
Servette !Servette	2–1	3–1	0–0	2–1		2–2	0–2	2–1	1–1
Sion !Sion	0–3	3–2	1–0	1–3	0–1		1–0	0–1	2–1
Thun !Thun	2–3	0–0	2–0	1–1	1–0	1–1		2–2	2–4
Young Boys !Young Boys	2–2	2–2	1–3	2–2	3–1	3–0	4–0		1–0
Zürich !Zürich	1–5	2–0	2–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–2

Updated to games played on 23 May 2012.
Source: Swiss Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[6]
1	Alexander Frei	Basel	24
2	Marco Streller	Basel	13
3	Emmanuel Mayuka	Young Boys	9
	Vilmos Vanczák	Sion	9
	Xherdan Shaqiri	Basel	9
	Matías Vitkieviez	Servette / YB	9
7	Goran Karanović	Servette	8
	Matt Moussilou	Lausanne-Sport	8
	Christian Schneuwly	Thun	8
	Ishmael Yartey	Servette	8
	Steven Zuber	Grasshopper	8

_{Updated 23 May 2012}
_{Source Swiss Football League}

References

↑ "Datenplan 2011/12" (PDF). Swiss Football League. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 26 May 2011.
↑ "UEFA Country Ranking 2011". Bert Kassies. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
↑ "FC Sion 36-point penalty ends Man Utd hopes of European reprieve". BBC News. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
↑ "Disziplinarkommission entzieht NE Xamax die Lizenz". Official website (in German). Swiss Football League. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
1 2 "Resultate / Ranglisten - Axpo Super League". Official website (in German). Swiss Football League. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
↑ Swiss Football League goalscorers list

External links

Official website (German)

Seasons of the Swiss Football League

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Super League era, 2003–present

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2011–12 in Swiss football

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Domestic leagues

Domestic cups

International club
competitions

Men	Champions League Europa League

Women	Women's Champions League

Related to
national teams

Men	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying (Group G) 2013 UEFA Under-21 Championship 2012 UEFA Under-17 Championship 2012 UEFA Under-17 Championship qualification

Women	2015 FIFA Women's World Cup (Qualification) 2012 UEFA Women's U-19 Championship (Qualification)

Club seasons

Super League

Basel
Grasshopper Club
Lausanne
Luzern
Neuchâtel Xamax
Servette
Sion
Thun
Young Boys
Zürich

Challenge League

Aarau
Biel-Bienne
Chiasso
Delémont
Kriens
Lausanne-Sport
Locarno
Lugano
Schaffhausen
Servette
Stade Nyonnais
Vaduz
Wil
Winterthur
Wohlen
Yverdon-Sport

2011–12 in European football (UEFA)

« 2010–11 2012–13 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '11 '12–'13 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '11 '12 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '11 '12 Faroe Islands '11 '12 Finland '11 '12 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '11 '12 Latvia '11 '12 Lithuania '11 '12 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '11 '12 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '11 '12 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '11 '12 Finland '11 '12 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '11 '12 Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '11 '12 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '11 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

League cups	England Finland '11 '12 France Hungary Iceland '11 '12 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '11 '12 Scotland Turkey Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup

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