1943–44 Nationalliga

Swiss football season Nationalliga 1943–44 Lausanne-Sport (5th title) Luzern Erich Andres(Young Fellows)23 goals 6 September 1943 –18 June 1944 182 555 1942–43 1944–45 The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1943–44 football season. This was the 47th season of top-tier Swiss football. Overview Preamble In Switzerland during the second world war, sport became an integral part of the "spiritual national defense". This was a political and cultural movement that had already become increasingly important during the late 1930s. Politicians, intellectuals and media professionals had increasingly called for measures to strengthen Switzerland's basic cultural values. Since the Nationalliga games were also considered to be one of the activities that seemed important for maintaining the morale of the population, the military authorities put considerably fewer obstacles in the way of the top players as they had during the previous World War. Christian Koller 2009 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/7144/10/Koller_Kriegsmeisterschaften.pdf Vierzigerjahre (1940 bis 1949): Die Kriegsmeisterschaften Forties (1940 to 1949): The War Championships Zurich Open Repository and Archive de-ch 2024-11-16 ASF/SFV Therefore, it came about that the Swiss Football Association (ASF/SFV) expanded themselves. To this date, the Association had 14 members in the top-tier and 25 members in the second-tier, calles 1. Liga. The decision of the extraordinary assembly, held on 9 October 1943 in Lugano, was to double the number of top-tier members to 28 clubs for the following season. The Nationalliga would then be divided into two strength classes each with 14 teams. The Nationalliga would become the new Nationalliga A (NLA), while the Nationalliga B (NLB) would be completely newly formed. The second-tier would be contested by the one relegated team from the NLA and the 13 best teams of the 1943–44 1. Liga season. From this moment, the 1. Liga would become the third-tier of the Swiss football league system and would also be increased in size, from 25 clubs in two groups, to 30 clubs in three groups with 10 teams each. Erste Liga (SFV) 2022 https://www.el-pl.ch/Portaldata/3/Resources/statistiken/Statistik-Auf-Absteiger-bis_heute_19.12.22.pdf Statistik der Ersten Liga über Aufstieg und Abstieg ab Saison 1931/32 bis 2022 PDF page 1 First League statistics on promotion and relegation from the 1931/32 season to 2022 Erste Liga, Abteilung des SFV de 2024-11-16 Format The 14 teams, in this final Nationalliga season, 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. It was contested by the top 13 teams from the 1942–43 Nationalliga and the newly promoted, 1. Liga champion, La Chaux-de-Fonds. Nationalliga Teams, locations Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity FC Basel Basel Basel-Stadt Landhof FC Biel-Bienne Biel/Bienne Bern Stadion Gurzelen FC Cantonal Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Neuchâtel Stade de la Maladière 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 St. Gallen St. Gallen St. Gallen Espenmoos BSC Young Boys Bern Bern Wankdorf Stadium FC Young Fellows Zürich Zürich Utogrund FC Zürich Zürich Zürich Letzigrund Final league table main WDL QR league 5 2 LS Lausanne-Sport SER Servette Daniel Reichmuth 2024 https://super-servette.ch/Doku/Resultate_Servette_1943-44.pdf Servette 1943/44 super-servette-ch fr 2024-11-16 LUG Lugano GCZ Grasshopper Club BB Biel-Bienne YB Young Boys (red) BSC Young Boys AG 2024 https://www.bscyb.ch/archiv-1943-44 YB Saison 1943/44 YB season 1943/44 BSC Young Boys AG de-ch 2024-11-16 CAN Cantonal Neuchâtel GRE Grenchen BAS Basel Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" 2024 https://www.fcb-archiv.ch/saison/rangliste?saison=1943/44 Rangliste 1943/44 de-ch Ranking 1943/44 Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" 2024-11-16 CDF La Chaux-de-Fonds YFZ Young Fellows Zürich STG St. Gallen ZÜR Zürich (red) dbFCZ 2023 https://www.dbfcz.ch/saison.php?saison_id=77 FCZ Saison 1943/44 de-ch FCZ season 1943/44 dbFCZ 2024-11-16 LUZ Luzern 17 4 5 48 25 12 8 6 39 25 12 6 8 47 32 13 3 10 54 32 12 5 9 42 30 9 11 6 38 32 10 8 8 38 27 12 4 10 45 41 9 8 9 42 38 10 6 10 34 45 9 3 14 46 51 8 3 15 26 60 6 5 15 37 54 4 4 18 19 63 green1 Swiss Champions and Swiss Cup winners A red2 Relegated to 1944–45 Nationalliga B R yes yes 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers; complete rsssf.com Results main FBR grey BAS BB CAN CDF GCZ GRE LS LUG LUZ SER STG YB YFZ ZÜR Basel 2–0 1–1 2–1 2–3 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 6–1 1–1 1–1 2–0 3–0 Biel-Bienne 2–0 0–1 0–2 2–0 3–0 5–1 4–1 1–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 Cantonal Neuchâtel 2–0 1–1 0–2 4–1 0–0 2–0 0–1 5–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 2–1 1–1 Grasshopper Club 1–2 5–1 2–1 0–2 1–3 0–2 5–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 3–2 1–0 4–1 Grenchen 4–1 2–1 1–0 1–4 3–1 1–1 2–0 0–0 7–1 2–0 0–0 4–1 2–1 La Chaux-de-Fonds 3–1 1–1 1–1 1–0 2–0 2–3 3–0 0–5 2–0 2–1 0–2 1–1 3–2 Lausanne-Sports 4–1 2–1 4–1 3–2 3–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 7–0 0–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 Luzern 1–1 3–0 2–1 0–8 1–2 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–3 2–1 0–1 2–1 1–4 Lugano 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–2 3–1 1–3 0–1 6–0 3–1 0–1 1–2 3–2 5–1 St. Gallen 2–1 0–5 1–2 2–5 2–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 2–4 1–4 0–2 2–0 0–3 Servette 1–1 1–1 2–1 1–3 4–1 2–0 2–1 2–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 4–1 1–0 Young Boys 0–3 2–1 0–5 0–0 1–1 11–1 0–1 2–1 1–1 0–0 2–2 1–7 1–1 Young Fellows 1–3 4–2 3–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 5–1 1–3 2–0 0–3 0–4 5–2 Zürich 4–3 0–1 1–3 0–2 4–2 2–1 0–2 1–1 1–3 0–1 2–1 2–3 3–3 complete rsssf.com Topscorers Rank Player Nat. Goals Club1. Erich Andres SUI 23 Young Fellows Zürich2. Alfred Bickel SUI 15 Grasshopper Club Alfred Weisshaar SUI 15 Basel4. Numa Monnard SUI 14 Lausanne-Sport 5. André Facchinetti SUI 13 Cantonal Neuchâtel Marc Perroud SUI 13 La Chaux-de-Fonds Josef Righetti SUI 13 Grenchen8. Domenico Gallo SUI 12 Lugano9. Hans-Peter Friedländer SUI 11 Grasshopper Club10. Walter Bosshard SUI 10 Zürich Robert Hasler SUI 10 Biel-Bienne Attendances # Club Average 1 Lausanne 5,346 2 Young Fellows 4,962 3 Servette 4,615 4 Zürich 4,423 5 Basel 4,369 6 GCZ 3,769 7 Young Boys 3,577 8 Cantonal 3,477 9 La Chaux-de-Fonds 2,792 10 Biel-Bienne 2,554 11 Lugano 2,231 12 Luzern 2,215 13 St. Gallen 2,123 14 Grenchen 1,923 Source:Historical attendances https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sui/avesui44.htm 2026-09-24 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk Further in Swiss football 1943–44 Swiss Cup 1943–44 Swiss 1. Liga References Sources Switzerland 1943–44 at RSSSF Nationalligaseasons inSwitzerland 1942–43 1944–45 Category:Swiss Football League seasons Swiss Category:1943–44 in Swiss football