2005–06 Swiss Super League

109th season of top-tier Swiss football Swiss Super League 2005–06 13 July 2005 – 14 May 2006 Zürich10th title Yverdon-SportNeuchâtel Xamax Champions League Zürich UEFA Cup BaselYoung BoysThun Intertoto Cup Grasshopper Alhassane Keita (20 goals) St. Gallen 7–1 Neuchâtel Xamax Thun 1–6 Zürich Young Boys 1–6 Basel Basel 7–2 Aarau 180 518 32,712(Basel vs. Zürich, 13 May 2006) 2004–05 2006–07 The 2005–06 Swiss Super League season was the 109th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. The competition was officially named AXPO Super League due to sponsoring purposes. It began on 13 July 2005 and has ended on 14 May 2006. Teams Switzerland left 325 Location of teams in the 2005–06 Swiss Super League Switzerland 47.4 8.05 Aarau left Switzerland 47.566667 7.6 Basel Switzerland 47.366667 8.55 GrasshopperFC Zürich Switzerland 46.983333 6.933333 Neuchâtel left Switzerland 47 42 08 38 Schaffhausen Switzerland 47.408333 9.306389 St. Gallen right Switzerland 46.754917 7.623138 Thun bottom Switzerland 46.95 7.45 Young Boys bottom Switzerland 46 47 06 38 Yverdon-Sport left The 2005-06 Super League was contested by 10 teams. These being the first eight from the previous season, the winner of the previous season relegation play-off and one promoted team. Basel were the defending champions, Thun were the previous runners-up. The next six teams were Grasshoppers (previous third) and FC Zürich (fifth) both of whom played in the UEFA Cup, Young Boys (fourth) and Neuchâtel Xamax (sixth) both of whom played in the UEFA Intertoto Cup and St. Gallen (seventh) and Aarau (eighth. Because the parent company of Servette FC was declared bankrupt during the previous February and because the consequence was that the team had their license revoked, they did not finish the previous season and were relegated. The Challenge League 2004–05 champions Yverdon-Sport FC replaced them. FC Schaffhausen retained their position in the Super League by beating Challenge League runners-up FC Vaduz 2–1 in a two-legged relegation play-off. Overview Season The first round of the season was played on 19 July 2005. During the first half of the season the tens teams played a double round robin (home and away round) which was played through till 11 December. Then there was a winter break until the second half began on 12 February 2006. Again the tens teams played a double round robin. The last round of the season was played on 13 May 2006. The highest attendance at a match was 32,712 on the final day of the season in the game Basel against Zürich on 13 May 2006. Weber Dominik 2006 http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/de-de/-/16455/27/7/7 Fatales Gegentor in letzer Sekunde. FCB verliert Titel an den FCZ FC Basel 1893 2006-05-13 de https://web.archive.org/web/20140222050128/http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID/de-de/-/16455/27/7/7 2014-02-22 dead The league championship was decided by goal difference, with FC Zürich being named champions. Thus Zürich qualified for the 2006–07 Champions League, Basel and Young Boys qualified for the 2006–07 UEFA Cup and the Grasshoppers qualified for the 2006 UEFA Intertoto Cup. Yverdon-Sport were relegated and Xamax played in the Relegation play-off. Basel hooligan incident On the final day of the season, Basel were in first position in the league table, three points clear, and they had a home fixture in the sold out St. Jakob-Park against their sole remaining rivals for the championship title Zürich. A last-minute goal from Iulian Filipescu gave Zürich their first national championship since the 1980–81 season. The last minute loss of the Championship resulted in subsequent riots, the so-called Basel hooligan incident. Basel were punished because of their inability to control its own fans. Beaumont Adam 2006 http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Basel_face_stiff_penalties_over_match_violence.html?siteSect=105&sid=6720174&cKey=1147707339000 Basel face stiff penalties over match violence swissinfo.org 2006-05-15 2007-09-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20070930181519/http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Basel_face_stiff_penalties_over_match_violence.html?siteSect=105&sid=6720174&cKey=1147707339000 dead League table main WDL QR 5 ZÜR Zürich BAS Basel YB Young Boys GCZ Grasshopper THU Thun STG St. Gallen AAR Aarau SCH Schaffhausen NX Neuchâtel Xamax YVE Yverdon-Sport 23 9 4 86 36 C 23 9 4 87 42 17 11 8 60 46 14 13 9 44 33 14 7 15 50 53 11 7 18 51 56 8 11 17 29 63 7 12 17 32 55 9 6 21 41 70 R 9 5 22 38 64 R green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification to UEFA Cup first qualifying round UC1 UC1 #CCCCFF Qualification to Intertoto Cup second round IC2 red2 Qualification to relegation play-off RP red1 Relegation to Swiss Challenge League R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete RSSSF Results Teams play each other four times in this league. In the first half of the season each team played every other team twice (home and away) and then do the same in the second half of the season. First half of season main FBR grey AAR BAS GCZ NX SHA STG THU YB YS ZÜR Aarau 0–2 0–1 2–0 1–4 0–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–1 Basel 7–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 1–0 5–1 1–1 3–1 2–1 Grasshopper 1–1 2–2 3–0 3–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 3–2 1–0 Neuchâtel Xamax 2–0 3–2 0–0 0–1 1–0 0–2 1–3 4–0 3–5 St. Gallen 2–1 3–3 1–1 7–1 0–0 5–1 0–1 2–1 1–3 Schaffhausen 0–1 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–4 3–2 1–2 0–2 Thun 2–0 3–0 2–1 2–3 5–1 0–3 1–1 3–0 1–6 Young Boys 0–0 1–6 0–3 3–2 1–0 3–1 0–0 2–2 3–1 Yverdon-Sport 4–1 1–2 2–0 4–1 1–0 0–1 2–0 0–3 0–2 Zürich 3–0 2–4 4–2 3–2 3–0 5–0 2–2 1–1 1–1 complete Second half of season main FBR grey AAR BAS GCZ NX SHA STG THU YB YS ZÜR Aarau 1–5 1–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–5 1–0 1–1 Basel 1–1 2–1 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 2–1 1–2 Grasshopper 0–0 1–1 2–2 2–1 0–1 3–1 1–0 1–1 0–0 Neuchâtel Xamax 2–0 1–5 1–0 2–2 2–0 0–0 1–3 2–0 0–1 St. Gallen 1–1 2–2 0–2 1–0 3–0 1–0 1–3 2–0 2–3 Schaffhausen 0–0 0–4 1–1 0–0 1–3 2–3 1–1 1–1 1–4 Thun 1–1 1–1 0–1 3–0 3–1 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–3 Young Boys 2–1 4–2 1–1 1–0 2–0 1–2 2–1 2–1 0–2 Yverdon-Sport 3–1 1–3 0–1 2–1 2–1 0–4 0–1 1–3 0–3 Zürich 6–0 1–1 2–0 4–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 3–3 4–1 complete Relegation play-offs 18 May 2006 19:30 CEST Sion 0–0 Neuchâtel Xamax Stade Tourbillon, Sion 12,300 Massimo Busacca 21 May 2006 16:00 CEST Neuchâtel Xamax 0–3 Sion Vogt 38 59Gaspoz 68 Stade de la Maladière, Neuchâtel 7,000 René Rogalla Sion won 3–0 on aggregate. Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Guinea Alhassane KeitaFC Zurich202Argentina Matías DelgadoBasel18Brazil João PauloYoung Boys184Croatia Mladen PetrićBasel14Brazil RaffaelFC Zürich145France Eric HassliSt. Gallen13Argentina Francisco AguirreYverdon-Sport FC13 Attendances # Club Average 1 Basel 21,806 2 Young Boys 14,139 3 Zürich 10,008 4 St. Gallen 8,589 5 GCZ 6,139 6 Thun 4,850 7 Aarau 4,656 8 Yverdon 3,475 9 Schaffhausen 3,306 10 Xamax 2,967 Source:https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/sui/avesui06.htm Historical attendances European-football-statistics.co.uk July 15, 2026 Sources and references an English link to footballviolence.wordpress.com Category:Swiss Super League seasons Swiss 1