1965–66 Nationalliga A

Swiss football season 1965–66 Nationalliga A Zürich LuzernUrania Genève Sport Rolf Blättler (GC)28 goals 1964–65 1966–67 1965–66 Nationalliga B Winterthur WinterthurFC Moutier FC PorrentruyCantonal Neuchâtel 1964–65 1966–67 The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1965–66 football season, both Nationalliga A and Nationalliga B. This was the 69th season of top-tier and the 68th season of second-tier football in Switzerland. Overview The Swiss Football Association (ASF/SFV) had 28 member clubs at this time which were divided into two divisions of 14 teams each. The teams played a double round-robin to decide their table positions. Two points were awarded for a win, and one point was awarded for a draw. The top tier (NLA) was contested by the top 12 teams from the previous 1964–65 season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and Young Fellows. The champions would qualify for the 1966–67 European Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated. The second-tier (NLB) was contested by the two teams that had been relegated from the NLA, Bellinzona and Chiasso, the ten teams that had been in third to twelfth position last season and the two newly promoted teams St. Gallen and Blue Stars. The top two teams at the end of the season would be promoted to the 1967–68 NLA and the two last placed teams would be relegated to the 1967–68 Swiss 1. Liga. Erste Liga (SFV) 2018 https://www.el-pl.ch/PortalData/3/Resources/saison_2019_2020/Statistik-Auf-Absteiger-Juni-2019.pdf Statistik der Ersten Liga über Aufstieg und Abstieg ab Saison 1931/32 bis 2018 PDF page 6 First League statistics on promotion and relegation from the 1931/32 season to 2018 Erste Liga, Abteilung des SFV de 2023-11-16 The Swiss champions received a slot in the 1966–67 European Cup and the Cup winners a slot in the 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup. FC Zürich won the championship and also won the Swiss Cup. Thus they won the double for the first time in the club's history. They participated in the European Cup the following season and the slot in the Cup Winner's Cup was passed on to Servette as losing finalist. Erik Garin 2018 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwit67.html Switzerland 1966/67 Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation 2024-11-16 Nationalliga A Teams, locations Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity FC Basel Basel Basel-Stadt St. Jakob Stadium FC Biel-Bienne Biel/Bienne Bern Stadion Gurzelen Grasshopper Club Zürich Zürich Zürich Hardturm FC Grenchen Grenchen Solothurn Stadium Brühl FC La Chaux-de-Fonds La Chaux-de-Fonds Neuchâtel Centre Sportif de la Charrière FC Lausanne-Sport Lausanne Vaud Pontaise FC Lugano Lugano Ticino Cornaredo Stadium FC Luzern Lucerne Lucerne Stadion Allmend Servette FC Geneva Geneva Stade des Charmilles FC Sion Sion Valais Stade de Tourbillon Urania Genève Sport Genève Geneva Stade de Frontenex BSC Young Boys Bern Bern Wankdorf Stadium FC Young Fellows Zürich Zürich Zürich Utogrund FC Zürich Zürich Zürich Letzigrund Final league table main WDL QR 5 2 ZÜR Zürich (red) dbFCZ 2023 https://www.dbfcz.ch/saison.php?saison_id=51&m=0&c=0&i=0&p=0&f=0&s=0&pord=0 FCZ Saison 1965/66 de-ch FCZ season 1965/66 dbFCZ 2024-11-16 SER Servette Daniel Reichmuth 2024 https://super-servette.ch/Doku/Resultate_Servette_1965-66.pdf Servette 1965/66 super-servette-ch fr 2024-11-16 LS Lausanne-Sport CDF La Chaux-de-Fonds YB Young Boys (red) BSC Young Boys AG 2024 https://www.bscyb.ch/archiv-1965-66 YB Saison 1965/66 YB Season 1965/66 BSC Young Boys AG de 2024-11-16 BAS Basel Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" 2024 https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/rangliste?saison=1965/66 Rangliste 1965/66 de-ch Ranking 1965/66 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" 2024-11-16 GCZ Grasshopper Club SIO Sion LUG Lugano BB Biel-Bienne GRE Grenchen YFZ Young Fellows Zürich LUC Luzern UGS Urania Genève Sport 18 6 2 73 25 14 7 5 57 45 12 8 6 72 46 12 7 7 53 42 11 7 8 72 47 10 7 9 64 57 11 5 10 55 54 9 8 9 36 36 6 10 10 27 37 6 10 10 38 56 8 6 12 42 65 7 7 12 46 62 4 10 12 36 56 3 4 19 35 78 green1 Swiss Champions, qualified for 1966–67 European Cupand Swiss Cup winners, EC yellow1 Swiss Cup finalist, qualified for 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup CWC blue2 Entered 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup I1 blue2 Entered 1966–67 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup I2 blue1 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup I3 blue1 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup I4 red1 Relegated to 1966–67 Nationalliga B R1 red1 Relegated to 1966–67 Nationalliga B R2 yes 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers; complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey BAS BB CDF GCZ GRE LS LUG LUZ SER SIO UGS YB YFZ ZÜR Zürich 7–1 0–0 2–3 3–0 3–0 4–1 3–0 2–0 5–0 1–1 3–1 1–0 4–0 Servette 2–2 0–2 1–1 1–0 6–1 5–2 2–1 2–1 4–0 4–1 3–3 3–1 3–1 Lausanne-Sport 1–4 2–3 1–3 2–2 5–3 1–1 2–0 5–0 5–0 4–1 1–1 2–2 6–2 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4–2 1–2 2–2 4–2 2–1 4–0 1–2 1–1 4–0 4–2 1–4 2–1 4–2 Young Boys 1–4 2–3 6–1 3–3 1–1 1–0 4–1 2–2 4–2 6–2 8–1 9–2 3–1 Basel 2–5 5–2 1–1 2–0 4–2 1–5 2–1 3–1 5–0 5–1 5–1 2–0 4–1 Grasshopper Club 0–3 4–1 3–3 2–1 1–6 2–2 0–1 2–0 1–2 1–2 7–2 4–2 3–1 Sion 1–1 0–2 2–3 2–0 2–1 1–0 5–0 0–0 1–4 2–2 2–0 0–0 5–1 Lugano 0–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–0 2–2 2–2 3–0 2–2 1–2 2–0 0–1 4–2 Biel-Bienne 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–3 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–1 2–2 0–3 1–1 7–1 Grenchen 0–1 1–1 1–6 1–2 0–2 3–2 0–4 2–2 5–1 3–2 3–0 0–1 2–1 Young Fellows 2–4 2–0 1–5 1–1 2–2 5–4 2–3 0–2 0–0 2–1 7–0 1–1 4–2 Luzern 1–4 2–2 3–5 4–1 1–1 4–4 2–4 0–0 1–0 2–4 2–2 0–0 0–1 Urania 3–3 2–3 2–6 0–0 2–3 2–2 1–3 1–1 0–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 3–2 complete Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1SUI Rolf Blättler Grasshopper Club 28 2NED Lambert Theunissen Young Boys 27 3NED Pierre Kerkhoffs Lausanne-Sport 21 4SUI Robert Hosp Lausanne-Sport 20 5SUI Fritz Künzli Zürich 18 Attendances Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sui/avesui66.htm 2026-09-03 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk # Club Average attendance Highest attendance 1 Zürich 11,746 20,000 2 Young Boys 9,423 14,500 3 Young Fellows 7,477 18,500 4 Lausanne 6,438 22,000 5 Basel 6,200 10,000 6 Lugano 6,115 10,000 7 Servette 5,822 14,838 8 GCZ 5,538 20,000 9 Luzern 5,208 11,400 10 Biel-Bienne 4,462 10,000 11 Grenchen 4,154 7,500 12 La Chaux-de-Fonds 4,077 11,000 13 Sion 3,923 10,000 14 UGS 2,485 6,100 Nationalliga B Teams, locations Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity FC Aarau Aarau Aargau Stadion Brügglifeld FC Baden Baden Aargau Esp Stadium AC Bellinzona Bellinzona Ticino Stadio Comunale Bellinzona FC Blue Stars Zürich (red) Fussballverband Region Zürich 2024 https://matchcenter.fvrz.ch/default.aspx?v=1573&oid=11&lng=1 FC Blue Stars Zürich Fussballverband Region Zürich de 2024-11-16 Zürich Zürich Hardhof SC Brühl St. Gallen St. Gallen Paul-Grüninger-Stadion FC Cantonal Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Stade de la Maladière FC Chiasso Chiasso Ticino Stadio Comunale Riva IV FC Le Locle (red) Association neuchâteloise de football 2024 https://matchcenter-anf.football.ch/default.aspx?v=919&oid=15&lng=2 FC Le Locle Association neuchâteloise de football - anf.football.ch fr 2024-11-16 Le Locle Neuchâtel Installation sportive - Jeanneret FC Moutier (red) Fussballverband Bern/Jura 2024 https://matchcenter.fvbj-afbj.ch/default.aspx?lng=1&cxxlnus=1&v=1243& FC Moutier Fussballverband Bern/Jura - fvbj-afbj.ch de 2024-11-16 Moutier Bern Stade de Chalière FC Porrentruy (red) Association de football Berne/Jura 2024 https://matchcenter.fvbj-afbj.ch/default.aspx?v=1247&oid=6&lng=2 FC Porrentruy Association de football Berne/Jura fr 2024-11-16 Porrentruy Jura Stade du Tirage FC Solothurn Solothurn Solothurn Stadion FC Solothurn FC St. Gallen St. Gallen St. Gallen Espenmoos FC Thun Thun Bern Stadion Lachen FC Winterthur Winterthur Zürich Schützenwiese Final league table main WDL QR 5 2 WIN FC Winterthur 17 3 6 52 29 MOU FC Moutier 16 2 8 47 46 BRÜ SC Brühl 12 7 7 55 33 BEL AC Bellinzona 10 8 8 48 33 STG St. Gallen 10 7 9 51 46 THU FC Thun 11 4 11 45 39 CHI FC Chiasso 11 3 12 39 42 BSZ FC Blue Stars Zürich 11 3 12 51 58 SOL FC Solothurn 10 5 11 34 44 AAR FC AarauStephan Beck 2023 https://arowa.ch/index.php?page=ligatabelle&saison=66 Schweizer Meisterschaft 1965/66 FCA Rangliste de-ch Swiss Championship 1965/66 FCA Ranking arowa.ch 2024-11-16 11 2 13 43 43 LeL FC Le Locle 10 4 12 38 38 BAD FC Baden 7 9 10 35 38 POR FC Porrentruy 9 4 13 29 44 CN FC Cantonal Neuchâtel 3 7 16 26 60 green1 NLB Champions and promoted to 1966–67 Nationalliga A CP1 green3 Promoted to 1966–67 Nationalliga A QP2 red1 Relegated to 1966–67 1. Liga R1 red1 Relegated to 1966–67 1. Liga R2 yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers; complete rsssf.com Further in Swiss football 1965–66 Swiss Cup 1965–66 Swiss 1. Liga References Sources Switzerland 1965–66 at RSSSF Nationalligaseasons inSwitzerland 1964–65 1966–67 Category:Swiss Football League seasons Swiss Category:1965–66 in Swiss football