2011–12 Swiss Super League

115th season of top-tier Swiss football Swiss Super League 2011–12 16 July 2011 – 23 May 2012 Basel15th title Neuchâtel Xamax Champions League Basel Europa League LuzernYoung BoysServette Alexander Frei (24 goals) Zürich 6–0 GrasshopperBasel 6–0 Lausanne Servette 0–4 BaselSion 0–4 Servette Basel 6–3 Grasshopper 162 405 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.Datenplan 2011/12 http://www.football.ch/cm/Datenplan%202011-2012.pdf Swiss Football League 26 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110526064448/http://www.football.ch/cm/Datenplan%202011-2012.pdf 26 May 2011 live 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,UEFA Country Ranking 2011 http://www.xs4all.nl/~kassiesa/bert/uefa/data/method4/crank2011.html Bert Kassies 14 April 2011 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. Season events Information on the proceedings around FC Sion (points deduction), Neuchâtel Xamax (license revoked) and FC Luzern (continued fan protests against the club) January 2012 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.Mobile livescore - Flashscore.mobi football scores https://www.flashscore.mobi/ 2026-05-29 www.flashscore.mobi en 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 Guinevere. 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.Mobile livescore - Flashscore.mobi football scores https://www.flashscore.mobi/ 2026-05-29 www.flashscore.mobi en Stadia and locations Switzerland right 340 Location of teams in the 2011–12 Swiss Super League Switzerland 47.566667 7.6 Basel left Switzerland 47.366667 8.55 Grasshopper bottom Switzerland 46.533333 6.624167 Lausanne-Sport Switzerland 47.05 8.3 Luzern Switzerland 46.2 6.15 Servette Switzerland 46.983333 6.933333 Neuchâtel left Switzerland 46.233333 7.366667 Sion Switzerland 46.754917 7.623138 Thun Switzerland 46.95 7.45 Young Boys top Switzerland 47.366667 8.55 Zürich top ClubLocationStadiumCapacityBasel FC BaselBaselSt. Jakob-Park38,512Grasshopper Grasshopper Club ZürichZürichLetzigrund23,605Lausanne Sport FC Lausanne-SportLausanneStade Olympique de la Pontaise15,850Lucerne FC LuzernLucerneSwissporarena17,500Neuchatel Neuchâtel XamaxNeuchâtelStade de la Maladière12,000Servette Servette FCGenevaStade de Genève30,084Sion FC SionSionStade Tourbillon16,500Thun FC ThunThunArena Thun10,000Young Boys Young BoysBernWankdorf31,783Zurich FC ZürichZürichLetzigrund23,605 League table main WDL 5 QR BAS Basel LUZ Luzern YB Young Boys SER Servette THU Thun ZÜR Zürich LS Lausanne-Sport GCZ Grasshopper SIO Sion NX Neuchâtel Xamax 22 8 4 78 32 C 14 12 8 46 32 13 12 9 52 38 14 6 14 45 53 11 10 13 38 41 11 8 15 43 44 8 6 20 29 61 7 5 22 32 66 15 8 11 40 35 -36 O 0 0 0 0 0 DR Sion were deducted 36 points for fielding ineligible players.FC Sion 15-point penalty ends Man Utd hopes of European reprieve https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/16366160 30 December 2011 30 December 2011 BBC News 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.Disziplinarkommission entzieht NE Xamax die Lizenz http://www.football.ch/sfl/de/start.aspx?cid=79125 Official website Swiss Football League 19 January 2012 de The first-half results of the club will be kept while any matches in spring involving Xamax were cancelled & all results were cancelled.Resultate / Ranglisten - Axpo Super League http://www.football.ch/sfl/de/Ranglisten-Resultate-ASL.aspx Official website Swiss Football League 19 January 2012 de green1 Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round CL2 blue1 Qualification to Europa League play-off round Because 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 to league position. ELPR blue2 Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round ELPR EL2 EL2 red2 Qualification to relegation play-offs RP black1 Demotion to the 2. Liga interregional DEM 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. complete RSSSF 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. First half of season main FBR grey BAS GCZ LS LUZ NX SER SIO THU YB ZÜR Basel 4–1 6–0 1–0 2–0 3–0 3–3 2–1 1–0 1–2 Grasshopper 2–2 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–4 2–1 1–0 0–3 3–0 Lausanne-Sport 2–3 2–1 0–1 1–3 0–0 0–2 1–0 0–3 2–1 Luzern 3–1 2–1 2–0 1–2 1–2 2–0 0–0 1–1 3–1 Neuchâtel Xamax 1–1 2–0 2–2 0–3 0–0 0–3 4–0 0–0 3–1 Servette 0–4 3–4 4–2 0–2 2–1 0–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 Sion 0–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–4 2–0 1–2 1–0 Thun 1–1 3–0 5–2 3–1 0–0 3–0 0–3 1–1 0–2 Young Boys 1–1 0–1 4–1 1–0 4–1 1–1 1–1 0–2 2–3 Zürich 0–1 6–0 4–1 1–1 0–2 2–3 1–1 0–0 1–2 complete Swiss Football League Second half of season main FBR grey BAS GCZ LS LUZ SER SIO THU YB ZÜR Basel 6–3 3–1 3–1 5–0 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–0 Grasshopper 0–2 0–0 2–2 0–3 0–2 0–1 2–0 0–1 Lausanne-Sport 0–2 2–1 0–0 3–1 1–0 1–0 0–0 0–1 Luzern 1–1 1–0 3–2 3–1 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–1 Servette 2–1 3–1 0–0 2–1 5–2 0–2 2–1 1–1 Sion 4–3 3–2 4–2 3–0 5–1 5–0 6–2 4–0 Thun 2–3 0–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 3–4 2–2 2–4 Young Boys 2–2 2–2 1–3 2–2 3–1 3–5 4–0 1–0 Zürich 1–5 2–0 2–0 0–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 complete Swiss Football League 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.Switzerland 2011/12 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwit2012.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com 2026-05-29 www.rsssf.org 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 goalscorers RankPlayerClubGoalsSwiss Football League goalscorers list1 SUI Alexander FreiBasel242SUI Marco StrellerBasel133ZAM Emmanuel MayukaYoung Boys9HUN Vilmos VanczákSion9SUI Xherdan ShaqiriBasel9SUI Matías VitkieviezServette / YB97SUI Goran KaranovićServette8CGO Matt MoussilouLausanne-Sport8SUI Christian SchneuwlyThun8GHA Ishmael YarteyServette8SUI Steven ZuberGrasshopper8 Updated 23 May 2012 Source Swiss Football League Attendances Source:Super League 2011/2012 » Team-Statistics: Attendance Home https://www.worldfootball.net/competition/co115/switzerland-super-league/se7182/2011-2012/attendance/ 2026-05-29 worldfootball.net en # Club Average attendance Highest attendance 1 Basel 29,775 36,000 2 Young Boys 21,104 31,120 3 Luzern 14,180 17,000 4 Servette 10,697 21,821 5 Zürich 10,512 16,800 6 Sion 10,276 15,300 7 Lausanne-Sport 6,269 8,800 8 Thun 6,100 10,000 9 GCZ 5,659 15,000 10 Xamax 4,149 5,887 References External links Official website de Swiss 1 Category:Swiss Super League seasons