2011–12 Swiss Challenge League

Swiss Challenge League 2011–12 St. Gallen St. Gallen Stade NyonnaisÉtoile CarougeDelémontKriensBrühl Armando Sadiku (19) Aarau 7–0 Biel-Bienne Brühl 0–6 Locarno Kriens 7–1 Brühl / Biel-Bienne 3–5 Vaduz 240 713 2010–11 2012–13 The 2011–12 Swiss Challenge League was the ninth season of the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of the Swiss football league pyramid. It began on 22 July 2011Challenge League – Results and fixtures https://int.soccerway.com/national/switzerland/challenge-league/2011-2012/regular-season/matches// Soccerway 5 July 2012 and ended on 23 May 2012. The champions of this season, St. Gallen, earned promotion to the 2012–13 Super League. The runners-up Aarau lost the promotion/relegation playoff against the 9th-placed team of the 2011–12 Super League, FC Sion. The bottom five teams, Stade Nyonnais, Étoile Carouge, Delémont, Kriens and Brühl were all relegated to partly form the newly created 1. Liga Promotion. Teams 2010–11 Challenge League champions FC Lausanne-Sport were promoted to the 2011–12 Super League. They were replaced by St. Gallen, who were relegated after finishing the 2010–11 Super League in last place. 2010–11 Challenge League runners-up Servette had to compete in a promotion/relegation playoff against 9th-placed Super League team AC Bellinzona and were promoted (hence exchanging leagues) after winning 3–2 on aggregate. FC Schaffhausen as 15th-placed team and last-placed Yverdon-Sport FC were relegated after the 2010–11 season. They were replaced by SC Brühl and Étoile Carouge FC, who were promoted from 1. Liga. Switzerland 400 right Map of Switzerland with the locations of the sixteen Challenge League clubs Locations of clubs in the 2011–12 Challenge League Switzerland 47 24 08 03 #FFFFFF left Aarau Switzerland 47 08 07 15 #FFFFFF Biel/Bienne Switzerland 47 25 09 22 #FFFFFF bottom Brühl Switzerland 45 50 09 02 #FFFFFF Chiasso Switzerland 47 22 07 21 #FFFFFF left Delémont Switzerland 46 11 06 08 #FFFFFF bottom Étoile Carouge Switzerland 47 02 08 17 #FFFFFF Kriens Switzerland 46 31 06 38 #FFFFFF Lausanne-Sport Switzerland 46 10 08 48 #FFFFFF Locarno Switzerland 46 00 08 57 #FFFFFF Lugano Switzerland 47 25 09 22 #FFFFFF right St. Gallen Switzerland 46 23 06 14 #FFFFFF Stade Nyonnais Switzerland 47 08 09 31 #FFFFFF Vaduz Switzerland 47 28 09 03 #FFFFFF Wil Switzerland 47 30 08 45 #FFFFFF left Winterthur Switzerland 47 21 08 17 #FFFFFF Wohlen Club City Stadium 2010–11 season FC Aarau Aarau Stadion Brügglifeld 11th in Challenge League AC Bellinzona Bellinzona, Ticino Stadio Comunale 9th in Super League FC Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne, Bern Gurzelen Stadion 9th in Challenge League SC Brühl St. Gallen St. Gallen, St. Gallen Paul-Grüninger-Stadion 2010–11 1. Liga play-off winners FC Chiasso Chiasso, Ticino Stadio Comunale 7th in Challenge League SR Delémont Delémont, Jura La Blancherie 8th in Challenge League Étoile Carouge FC Carouge, Geneva Stade de la Fontenette 2010–11 1. Liga play-off winners SC Kriens Kriens, Lucerne Stadion Kleinfeld 12th in Challenge League FC Locarno Locarno, Ticino Stadio del Lido 14th in Challenge League FC Lugano Lugano, Ticino Cornaredo Stadium 3rd in Challenge League FC St. Gallen St. Gallen, St. Gallen AFG Arena 10th in Super League FC Stade Nyonnais Nyon, Vaud Centre sportif de Colovray Nyon 6th in Challenge League FC Vaduz Vaduz, Liechtenstein Rheinpark Stadion 4th in Challenge League FC Wil 1900 Wil, St. Gallen Stadion Bergholz 5th in Challenge League FC Winterthur Winterthur, Zürich Stadion Schützenwiese 13th in Challenge League FC Wohlen Wohlen, Aargau Stadion Niedermatten 10th in Challenge League League table main WDL PR STG St. Gallen AAR Aarau BEL Bellinzona WIN Winterthur LUG Lugano WIL Wil CHI Chiasso VAD Vaduz LOC Locarno BB Biel-Bienne WOH Wohlen SN Stade Nyonnais EC Étoile Carouge DEL Delémont KRI Kriens BRU Brühl 19 7 4 67 31 C,P 18 5 7 64 34 18 5 7 49 21 15 8 7 44 29 14 7 9 44 38 12 10 8 59 41 11 12 7 34 23 13 6 11 54 45 12 9 9 47 44 12 7 11 55 54 9 9 12 39 44 8 10 12 41 49 R 8 6 16 25 56 R 4 8 18 24 60 R 4 5 21 37 66 R 4 4 22 30 78 R green1 Promoted to 2012–13 Swiss Super League P green2 Qualification for Promotion play-off PP red1 Relegation to 2012–13 1. Liga Promotion R R R R R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete Results Teams played each other twice over the course of the season, home and away, for a total of 30 matches per team. main FBR grey AAR BEL BB BRU CHI DEL EC KRI LOC LUG STG SN VAD WIL WIN WOH Aarau 2–3 1–3 1–0 1–4 5–0 7–0 3–1 4–1 1–0 2–2 2–1 2–1 1–2 2–1 2–0 Bellinzona 0–1 5–2 3–1 0–0 1–2 2–0 1–0 2–0 3–1 0–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 2–0 5–0 Biel-Bienne 0–3 0–0 3–0 2–1 4–1 0–0 4–1 1–1 1–2 3–2 0–2 3–5 0–4 1–2 0–0 Brühl 0–3 1–4 1–4 0–2 1–1 1–2 2–0 0–6 3–4 1–3 3–1 2–3 1–1 0–5 3–2 Chiasso 0–0 1–0 2–4 3–0 4–0 0–1 2–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–1 1–2 1–0 Delémont 2–2 1–3 1–2 3–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–2 2–2 1–1 4–0 0–1 0–1 Étoile Carouge 0–2 1–3 3–2 0–2 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–5 3–0 1–5 0–1 0–4 1–1 0–2 1–3 Kriens 0–2 0–1 2–4 7–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 2–3 2–2 0–2 3–4 0–3 1–4 0–2 4–1 Locarno 1–1 0–3 2–0 2–1 1–1 3–0 3–0 1–3 1–1 0–2 2–2 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 Lugano 3–1 2–0 1–3 3–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 1–1 3–1 2–1 2–0 0–3 1–2 0–2 St. Gallen 1–2 1–1 4–1 3–1 0–1 6–0 2–1 3–2 5–0 1–0 2–2 4–2 3–2 1–1 0–0 Stade Nyonnais 2–2 1–2 0–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–1 3–0 1–1 3–2 0–3 1–0 2–2 0–2 0–1 Vaduz 3–2 0–0 3–3 1–0 1–0 3–0 3–1 3–0 2–0 1–1 1–2 3–4 3–2 2–2 1–1 Wil 3–2 1–1 1–2 3–0 1–1 6–1 2–0 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–2 3–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 Winterthur 1–2 1–0 2–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–0 4–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 2–1 2–0 1–4 1–2 Wohlen 1–3 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–1 1–1 0–0 3–0 5–2 0–1 1–2 4–2 2–1 2–2 2–3 complete Soccerway Relegation play-offs The ninth-placed team in the 2011–12 Swiss Super League, Sion, played a two-legged play-off against the Challenge League runners-up, Aarau, for a spot in the 2012–13 Super League. 26 May 2012 15:00 CEST Sion Report 2–0 Aarau Winter 58 81 Stade Tourbillon, Sion 10,800 Stephan Studer 28 May 2012 17:00 CEST Aarau Report 1–0 Sion Gashi 55 Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau 8,800 Patrick Graf Sion won 2–1 on aggregate. Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1ALB Armando SadikuLocarno192SUI Shkëlzen GashiAarau17SUI Moreno MerendaVaduz17SUI Igor TadićKriens175MKD Adis JahovićWil166ARG Ezequiel ScarioneSt. Gallen157SUI Alessandro CiarrocchiBellinzona14BRA Odirlei de Souza GasparWohlen14ITA Giuseppe MorelloBiel-Bienne1410SVN Džengis ČavuševićWil1311FRA Frédéric BesseyreStade Nyonnais11SUI Remo StaubliAarau1113CMR Franck EtoundiSt. Gallen10ARG Gastón MagnettiBellinzona10SUI Marco MathysSt. Gallen10 Updated 4 July 2012 Source Soccerway References External links de fr Swiss Challenge League Soccerway Swiss Challenge League Category:2011–12 in Swiss football Category:Challenge League (Switzerland) seasons