FC Winterthur / 2011/12 season

FC Winterthur 2011/12
Full name	Winterthur football club
Stadion	Schützenwiese (8,500 spectators)
president	Hannes W. Keller
Head coach	Boro Kuzmanovic
Results 2011/12
Challenge League	4th Place
Swiss Cup	Semifinals
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This article is about FC Winterthur in the 2011/12 season . FC Winterthur reached 4th place this season after a bad first third of the championship in the Challenge League and was ultimately able to maintain the class despite the league downsizing. In the Swiss Cup, the Winterthur team were eliminated in the semifinals against eventual cup winners FC Basel .

Season course

preparation

At the start of training on June 14th, the departures of Matteus Senkal , Nico Thüring and the veteran Rainer Bieli were known, none of whom received any new contracts. The first was to replace Bieli Altin Osmani , who was able to score six goals for himself last season on loan from FC Basel at FC Wohlen - FCW will now take over after his contract in Basel has expired. Dominik Ritter , who previously played with FCW on a loan deal, was also taken over with a two-year contract from FC Basel . Other departures that became known during the preparations were those of Simijonovics , who, like other players before him, moved to GC and of Lekaj , who moved to Wil. However, two planned departures abroad failed: that of Ermir Lenjani to the second-class Turkish club Elazigspor , who could not pay the transfer fee, and that of Luca Radice to the Scottish Premier League club FC St. Mirren , whose transfer also did not take place, so Radice came back from Scotland from September also back in the squad of Winterthur. As a return to the Schützenwiese, Isuf Llumnica was signed , other new signings before the start of the season were those of the defensive player Sawwas Exouzidis , whose last club Diagoras Rhodos no longer paid the wages, as well as offensive player Biscotte , whose physical condition was still in question after an injury break.

The test match record of the FCW at the beginning of the season was not too meaningful, the FCW lost games against the Super League club FC Luzern (0: 2) and against the two first division clubs FC Schaffhausen (1: 3) and YF Juventus Zurich (1: 2 ) and won the blitz tournament in Uster as well as games against the second team of VfB Stuttgart and against a Brazilian national team.

First round

The season goal for the new season was automatically given for FC Winterthur due to the special starting position of the 2011/12 season: The 13th place of the last season would not be for the FCW in the new season due to the league reduction to only ten teams Relegation is enough. However, coach Boro Kuzmanovic himself did not feel under pressure during the preparations for a fundamental renewal of the team, as the team was playing “below their potential level” compared to last season according to Kuzmanovic and he was convinced of those who are there. As a result, the FCW started the new season with a not fundamentally changed team.

The FCW started the new season rather cautiously. In the first three games against the three nominally stronger opponents from Aarau, Vaduz and St. Gallen, the people of Winterthur were only able to secure one point and thus ranked on a relegation zone. After that, the Winterthur team was able to catch six points in three games against the weaker teams from Carouge, Kriens and Wohlen, but according to coach Boro Kuzmanovic he still got three points "too few". During the national team break that followed, FCW played a friendly game against the Hamburg cult club FC St. Pauli (0: 3) for the first time , which attracted 6,500 spectators to the Schützenwiese. After another three defeats in a row and a draw, the team of coach Kuzmanovic was in 15th place, but in the tightly packed lower half of the table of the Challenge League only three points behind the then tenth-placed FC Vaduz and six points behind the sixth-placed FC Wohlen . In view of the relegation-threatening situation in Winterthur, the coach question was again actively discussed, before the third consecutive defeat against Bellinzona Der Landbote speculated whether this would be the last trip with Kuzmanovic. In particular, the bad home record also depressed the number of spectators, so the 0-0 win against Chiasso, which caused FCW to slip to 15th and second from last place, only 1,400 spectators on the Schützenwiese. However, Kuzmanovic was able to stay in office despite severe criticism , and one of the reasons why President Hannes W. Keller held on to Kuzmanovic was that the players stood behind their coach opposite him.

The U-turn from the negative series finally managed Winterthur with a 5-0 victory in the Paul-Grüninger-Stadion against the so far without a win, SC Brühl . He was then able to confirm this victory against Nyon away from home. Winterthur then failed to clinch its first home win of the season in the championship with a 0-0 win against FC Locarno , but a few days later he was able to shine in the Cup round of 16 against the BSC Young Boys by hitting the Super League club in a penalty shoot-out threw out of the cup. The cup hero was Christian Leite , who saved three penalties in the Winterthur goal. After another draw at home against Delémont and an away win in Biel, FCW, who last caught up, finished the first half of the season in 10th place. At the end of the first half of the season, the Landbote said that he hadn't achieved what he set out to do in the third half of the year in a row. Particularly noticeable was the poor home record of FCW, which only scored three of its 19 points on the Schützenwiese, but was second in the away ranking list with only one point less than FC St. Gallen . In this regard, Kuzmanovic said that this “unbelievable home record” was a mystery to him. In the individual criticism of the Landbote, goalkeeper Christian Leite came off well with a school grade of 5.5, who according to Landbote was "from problem child to safe value" and newcomer Exouzidis also received a good grade with 5. At the other end of the scale, probably as an expression of the poor first half of the season, four players with Dominik Ritter, Isuf Llumnica, Luca Radice and Altin Osmani were found with a clearly insufficient grade (3), and striker Goran Antic also scored with just one goal in the first half of the season only a grade of 3–4.

Second half

At the start of training, Kris Kuzmanovic also trained in the first team again after he was banned from the first team by his father in the first half of the season. In addition, it could be announced that Alain Sutter has resigned his mandate as sports advisor to the president. At the beginning, the FCW won for the second time after 2006 the seventh event of the Hallenmasters in the ice rink Deutweg with a 4-2 final victory against GC. It was also reported that Luis Frangão ended his career in top football after five and a half years at FCW and many repeated injury breaks. Instead, midfielder Remo Freuler returned to Schützenwiese after a year and a half from the Grasshoppers, where he no longer played a role in coach Ciriaco Sforza's plans . Patrick Bengondo, who returned to Schützenwiese for the third time in November, also signed a new contract in Winterthur. The test match record of the FCW beyond the indoor champions was not bad either, against nominally better opponents such as FC Zurich and FC St. Gallen , he was able to score two draws and in test matches against SC Freiburg and 1860 Munich only narrow 1: 2 defeats resulted. Victories looked out against the regional division SC Pfullendorf (4: 0) and the first division club FC Schaffhausen (4: 2).

The choreography of the Winterthur beer curve in the cup semi-final referred to the break in the quarter-finals

The starting position at the beginning of the second half of the season has changed insofar as Neuchâtel Xamax's forced promotion means that the eleventh placed can also keep the league. The Landbote gave FC Winterthur a good preparation, in which he was able to confirm the defensive stability of the last games of the second half of the season. As a result, FCW also offered a much better second half of the season, which could no longer be compared with the preliminary round: The first five games resulted in four wins and one draw - including a 1-0 home win against second-placed AC Bellinzona. In the cup quarter-finals that followed, the Lions were able to throw the leader of the Challenge League, FC St. Gallen, like the BSC Young Boys, out of the cup on penalties and were rewarded with the semi-finals. The fans will certainly remember the goal celebration after Bengondo's 2-2 equalization in the 82nd minute, when a gang broke in the beer curve and the fans rushed onto the field. On March 24, FCW suffered the only defeat in the second half of the season against FC Aarau due to a penalty in stoppage time. While things went well in the championship and Winterthur was no longer in danger of relegation in fifth place, there was a showdown at home against FC Basel in the Swiss Cup on April 15th . The Winterthur team missed the final with a 1: 2, but had to complain in the first half after a red-worthy goalkeeper foul that referee Alain Bieri missed a penalty whistle - Kris Kuzmanovic was able to pass the ball to the goalkeeper in front of Yann Sommer and was then taken by the goalkeeper brought down. Even the Basel goalie Yann Sommer admitted this frankly after the game: “I was standing in the reeds. If the referee had whistled and kicked me off the field, there would have been little objection. " Why Bieri didn't whistle should probably remain his secret , according to the SRF sports program Sportpanorama - and Winterthur missed the finals.

Winterthur ended the season with 53 points in 4th place in the table - six points behind Aarau and Bellinzona, although FC Aarau was able to contest the Barrage thanks to the better goal difference. For the Landbote, the Winterthur-based company was able to draw the best record in years, after a miserable start from the beginning of October he was the best team in the Challenge League and coach Kuzmanovic attested his team to Super League level in the second half of the season. In the obligatory individual review of the Landbote, goalkeeper Christian Leite was awarded the top grade 6 and Sawwas Exouzidis and Patrick Bengondo also got a very good grade with a 5.5. Altin Osmani only had to be satisfied with an unsatisfactory grade of 3.5.

Squad season 2011/12

Kader, based on information from transfermarkt.ch , accessed on December 3, 2018

number	player	birthday	nationality	In the team since	Last club
goal
1	Christian Leite	November 9, 1985	Brazil	2010	FC Gossau
18th	Vaso Vasic	April 26, 1990	Serbia	2008	Grasshopper Club Zurich U21
28	Sascha Studer	3rd September 1991	Switzerland	2012	FC Aarau
32	Marko Vasilj	May 6, 1991	Croatia	2009	own youth
Defense
2	Sawwas Exouzidis	4th December 1981	Greece	2011	Diagoras GS Rodos (GRE)
3	Nick von Niederhäuser	September 28, 1989	Switzerland	2007	own youth
5	Stefan Iten	5th February 1985	Switzerland	2009	FC Vaduz
6th	Daniel Sereinig	May 10, 1982	Switzerland	2010	SC Freiburg (GER)
13	Ermir Lenjani	5th August 1989	Switzerland	2011	Grasshopper Club Zurich
21st	Raymond Tinner	April 16, 1991	Switzerland	2010	own youth
midfield
4th	Luca Zuffi	March 27, 1990	Switzerland	2007	own youth
7th	Kristian Kuzmanovic	May 6, 1988	Netherlands	2008	own youth
9	Isuf Llumnica	February 16, 1984	Kosovo	2011	FC Prishtina
11	Michel Sprunger	April 30, 1985	Italy	2008	Concordia Basel
14th	Sven Lüscher	March 5, 1984	Switzerland	2009	BSC Young Boys
15th	Patrik Schuler	March 14, 1990	Switzerland	2009	own youth
17th	Dominik Ritter	June 23, 1989	Switzerland	2010	FC Basel (last loaned to FC Wohlen)
19th	Josip Uzelac	October 24, 1990	Switzerland	2010	own youth
20th	Luca Russheim	May 10, 1991	Switzerland	2012	own youth
22nd	Luis Frangão	August 6, 1985	Switzerland	2006	YF Juventus Zurich
24	Luca Radice	April 9, 1987	Italy	2006	Inter Club Zurigo
26th	Kevin Hediger	October 23, 1993	Switzerland	2011	own youth
29	Remo Freuler	April 15, 1992	Switzerland	2012	Grasshopper Club Zurich
attack
8th	Altin Osmani	2nd December 1989	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2011	FC Basel (last loaned to FC Wohlen)
10	Goran Antic	4th July 1985	Switzerland	2009	FC Aarau
16	Mbala Mbuta Biscotte	April 7, 1985	Democratic Republic of Congo	2011	FC Schaffhausen
25th	Murat Urals	5th July 1987	Switzerland	2011	FC St. Gallen
27	Newton Ben Katanha	3rd February 1983	Zimbabwe	2010	FC Wettswil Bonstetten
30th	Patrick Bengondo	September 27, 1981	Switzerland	2011	FC Winterthur

Transfers

Transfers, based on information from the transfermarkt.ch website , accessed on December 4, 2018

Accesses
Surname	donating club	Transfer type	Transfer period
Amir Abrashi	Neuchâtel Xamax FCS	Loans (Grasshoppers)	Summer 2011
Patrick Bengondo	without a club (most recently FC Aarau )	free transfer
Savvas Exouzidis	without a club (most recently Diagoras Rhodos )	free transfer
Isuf Llumnica	FC Prishtina	?
Mbala Mbuta Biscotte	FC Schaffhausen	free transfer
Altin Osmani	FC Basel U-21	free transfer
Dominik Ritter	FC Basel (most recently FC Wohlen )	free of charge after loan end
Sascha Studer	FC Aarau	Borrow
Murat Urals	FC St. Gallen	free of charge after loan end
Remo Freuler	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Borrow	Winter 2012
Departures
Surname	receiving club	Transfer type	Transfer period
Amir Abrashi	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Transfer after loan end	Summer 2011
Rainer Bieli	FC Baden	free transfer
Vilson Doda	FC Tuggen	free transfer
Nico Thuringia	BSC Old Boys	free transfer
Matteus Senkel	FC Chiasso	?
Granite Lekaj	FC Wil	?
Denis Simijonovic	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Borrow
Fabio Serafini	without a club	free transfer
Dominik Ritter	FC Basel	Lender
Luis Frangão	FC Uster	free transfer	Winter 2012
Vaso Vasic	SC YF Juventus	free transfer
Murat Urals	FC Schaffhausen	Borrow

Results

Challenge League

See also : Challenge League 2011/12

First round

July 23, 6:00 p.m. 1st round	FC Winterthur	1: 2	FC Aarau	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,800 Referee: Erlachner
	Antic 40 ′ Katanha 56 ′ Llumnica 78 ′	Play telegram	33 ′ Dabo 34 ′ 85 ′ Schultz 36 ′ Burki 43 ′ 62 ′ Gashi

August 1, 2011, 8:10 p.m. 2nd round	FC Vaduz	2: 2	FC Winterthur	Rheinpark Stadion , Vaduz Spectators: 761 Referee: Good
	Baron 42 ′ Merenda 57 ′ Kienzl 74 ′ Jehle 83 ′	Play telegram	65 ′ Von Niederhäusern 67 ′ Ben Katanha 90 + 4 ′ Exouzidis

August 6, 2011, 6:00 p.m. 3rd round	FC Winterthur	0: 1	FC St. Gallen	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 6,000 Referee: Huwiler
	Knight 32 ′ Lüscher 60 ′	Play telegram	30 ′ Stocklasa 36 ′ Lehmann 60 ′ Regazzoni

August 13, 2011, 5:30 p.m. 4th round	SC Kriens	0: 1	FC Winterthur	Kleinfeld Stadium , Kriens Spectators: 600 Referee: Laperrière
	Grasseler 28 ′ Tadic 33 ′ 58 ' Djuric 90 + 1 ′	Play telegram	16 ′ Antic 62 ′ Von Niederhäusern 68 ′ Leite 85 ′ Lüscher 90 + 2 ′ Zuffi

August 22, 2011, 8:10 p.m. 5th round	FC Winterthur	1: 2	FC Wohlen	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,000 Referee: Klossner
	Ben Katanha 28 ′	Play telegram	57 ′ Steuble 69 ′ Hodzic 90 + 4 ′ Romano

August 27, 2011, 7:30 p.m. 6th round	Etoile Carouge	0: 2	FC Winterthur	Stade de la Fontenette , Carouge Spectators: 494 Referee: Good
	Pauchard 64 ′ Pedretti 73 ′	Play telegram	25 ′ Sprunger 54 ′ 89 ′ Ben Katanha 81 ′ Antic 90 + 1 ′ Exouzidis 90 + 3 ′ Von Niederhäusern

September 10, 2011, 6:00 p.m. 7th round	FC Winterthur	1: 2	FC Lugano	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,800 Referee: Carrel
	Lenjani 21 ′ Zuffi 90 ′	Play telegram	23 ′ Senger 36 ′ Preisig 90 + 1 ′ Possanzini

September 24, 2011, 6 p.m. 8th round	FC Winterthur	1: 4	FC Wil	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,800 Referee: Good
	Frangão 16 ′ Ben Katanha 44 ′ Lenjani 55 ′ Iten 75 ′ Sprunger 75 ′ Sereinig 85 ′	Play telegram	21 ′ 40 ′ 46 ′ Lombardi 59 ′ 81 ′ ( penalty ) Cavusevic 83 ′ Busai

October 3, 2011, 8:10 p.m. 9th round	AC Bellinzona	2-0	FC Winterthur	Stadio Comunale , Bellinzona Spectators: 2,500 Referee: Jancevski
	D'Angelo 11 ′ Ciarrocchi 29 ′ Riedle 80 ′	Play telegram	41 ′ Hediger 43 ′ Exouzidis 79 ′ Sereinig

October 23, 2011, 2:30 p.m. 10th round	FC Winterthur	0-0	FC Chiasso	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,400 Referee: Huwiler
	Sprunger 28 ′ Ben Katanha 36 ′ Iten 40 ′ Frangão 58 ′	Play telegram	62 ′ count

October 29, 2011, 4:30 p.m. 11th round	SC Brühl St. Gallen	0: 5	FC Winterthur	Paul Grüninger Stadium , St. Gallen Spectators: 1,470 Referees: San
	Zellweger 59 ′ Cellar 75 ′ Knöpfel 82 ′	Play telegram	14 ′ Exouzidis 50 ′ 63 ′ Lüscher 53 ′ 82 ′ Sprunger 58 ′ Radice 65 ′ Leite 86 ′ Ben Katanha

5th November 2011, 5:30 p.m. 12th round	Nyonnais Stadium	0: 2	FC Winterthur	Center sportif de Colovray , Nyon Spectators: 625 Referee: Martínez Munuera
	Ndzomo 1 ′ Domo 42 ′ Stadelmann 85 ′ Cavaglia 87 ′ Carrupt 89 ′	Play telegram	2 ′ ( penalty ) 42 ′ ( penalty ) Lüscher 10 ′ 79 ' Exouzidis

November 20, 2011, 2:30 p.m. 13th round	FC Winterthur	0-0	SR Delémont	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,600 Referee: Hänni
	Lüscher 40 ′ Sereinig 80 ′	Play telegram	37 ′ Sirufo 61 ′ Chappuis 64 ′ Budimir 90 + 1 ′ Allali

December 5, 2011, 8:10 p.m. 14th round	FC Biel	1: 2	FC Winterthur	Gurzelen Stadium , Biel Spectators: 798 Referee: Darrel
	Sheholli 40 ′ Morello 73 ′	Play telegram	7 ′ Sereinig 42 ′ 90 ′ Lenjani 54 ′ Zuffi

November 13, 2012, 2:30 p.m. 15th round	FC Winterthur	0-0	FC Locarno	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,600 Referee: Pache
	Sprunger 70 ′ Lenjani 72 ′ Antic 82 ′	Play telegram

Second half

February 19, 2012, 2:30 p.m. 16th round	FC Winterthur	2: 1	SC Brühl St. Gallen	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,300 Referee: Fähndrich
	Lenjani 14 ′ Bengondo 26 ′ Von Niederhäusern 31 ′ Llumnica 60 ′ Sereinig 75 ′ Antic 77 ′	Play telegram	33 ′ Sabanovic 42 ′ Van der Werff 42 ′ Hürlimann 51 ′ Hürlimann 57 ′ Böhi

February 27, 2012, 8:10 p.m. 17th round	SR Delémont	0: 1	FC Winterthur	La Blancherie , Delémont Spectators: 410 Referee: San
	Buntschu 20 ′ Budimir 35 ′ Sirufo 45 + 1 ′ Chappuis 56 ′ Szlykowicz 90 + 2 ′	Play telegram	9 ′ Sereinig 46 ′ Bengondo

March 4, 2012, 2:30 p.m. 18th round	FC Winterthur	4: 1	SC Kriens	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,100 Referee: Huwiler
	Exouzidis 58 ′ Freuler 67 ′ 75 ′ Iten 69 ′ Osmani 74 ′	Play telegram	57 ′ Imholz 70 ′ Fischer 88 ′ Morganella

March 10, 2012, 4:00 p.m. 19th round	FC Locarno	1: 1	FC Winterthur	Stadio Lido , Locarno Spectators: 920 Referee: Jancevski
	Paçarizi 2 ′ Carrara 52 ′ Sebastian 87 ′	Play telegram	77 ′ Kuzmanovic

March 17, 2012, 6:00 p.m., 20th round	FC Winterthur	1-0	AC Bellinzona	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,500 Referee: Gremaud
	Iten 18 ′ Exouzidis 45 ′ Sereinig 58 ′	Play telegram	23 ′ Marchesano 45 ′ legs

March 24, 2012, 5:30 p.m. 21st round	FC Aarau	2: 1	FC Winterthur	Brügglifeld Stadium , Aarau Spectators: 3,100 Referee: Kever
	Gashi 13 ′ 90 + 1 ′ ( penalty )	Play telegram	42 ′ Sereinig 62 ′ Kuzmanovic

April 2, 2012, 8:10 p.m. 22nd round	FC Winterthur	2-0	FC Vaduz	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,900 Referees: San
	Sprunger 34 ′ Zuffi 47 ′ Iten 87 ′	Play telegram	7 ′ Cvetinovic 43 ′ Bader 70 ′ Zanni

April 5, 2012, 7:45 p.m. 23rd round	FC Chiasso	1: 2	FC Winterthur	Stadio Comunale , Chiasso Spectators: 610 Referee: Hänni
	Gherardi 32 ′ Russo 72 ′	Play telegram	32 ′ Exouzidis 34 ′ Bengondo 44 ′ Kuzmanovic 85 ′ Lüscher

April 11, 2012, 7:30 p.m. 24th round	FC Wohlen	2: 3	FC Winterthur	Stadium Niedermatten , Wohlen Spectators: 750 Referee: Fähndrich
	Bijelic 63 ′ Romano 73 ′	Play telegram	15 ′ Iten 39 ′ Radice 71 ′ Antic 80 ′ 90 + 1 ′ Bengondo 90 + 2 ′ Freuler

April 21, 2012, 6:00 p.m. 25th round	FC Winterthur	0-0	Etoile Carouge	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 2,000 Referees: Good
	Zuffi 71 ′	Play telegram	29 ′ Mfuti 78 ′ Poceiro

April 28, 2012, 7:00 p.m. 26th round	FC St. Gallen	1: 1	FC Winterthur	AFG Arena , St. Gallen Spectators: 12,316 Referee: Jancevski
	Nushi 54 ′ Sutter 62 ′ Roduner 76 ′	Play telegram	10 ′ ( own goal ) Montandon 15 ′ Ritter 23 ′ Lüscher 66 ′ Bengondo

May 7, 2012, 8:10 p.m. 27th round	FC Wil	1: 1	FC Winterthur	IGP Arena , Wil Spectators: 1'350 Referee: Schärer
	Mijadinoski 15 ′	Play telegram	72 ′ Antic

May 12, 2012, 6:00 p.m. 28th round	FC Winterthur	2: 1	FC Biel	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,700 Referee: Huwiler
	Antic 10 ′ Bengondo 83 ′ 90 ′	Play telegram	70 ′ Sallaj 86 ′ Dussin

May 19, 2012, 6:00 p.m. 29th round	FC Lugano	1: 2	FC Winterthur	Stadio Cornaredo , Lugano Spectators: 810 Referee: Winter
	Da Silva 38 ′ Witschi 80 ′ Pimenta 90 + 1 ′ Bonanni 90 + 2 ′	Play telegram	30 ′ Sereinig 53 ′ Bengondo 90 ′ Ben Katanha

May 23, 2012, 8:15 p.m. 30th round	FC Winterthur	2: 1	Nyonnais Stadium	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,700 Referee: Huwiler
	Lenjani 20 ′ Exouzidis 31 ′ Antic 84 ′ Schuler 90 + 1 ′ Llumnica 90 + 3 ′	Play telegram	53 ′ Chentouf 65 ′ De Pierro 75 ′ Cavaglia 88 ′ Besseyre

Swiss Cup

See also : Swiss Cup 2011/12

September 18, 2011, 4:00 p.m. 1st round	FC Baden	0: 1	FC Winterthur	Stadium Esp , Baden Spectators: 800 Referee: Baeriswyl
	Makuka	Play telegram	23 ′ Llumnica

October 15, 2011, 6:00 p.m. 2nd round	FC Winterthur	2-0	SC Brühl St. Gallen	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 1,500 Referee: Laperrière
	Antic 14 ′ Sereinig 43 ′ Lüscher 62 ′	Play telegram	23 ′ Bellón

November 27, 2011, 2:30 p.m. Round of 16	FC Winterthur	2: 1 n.e.	BSC Young Boys	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 6,000 Referee: Wermelinger
	Iten 30 ′ Bengondo 46 ′ Lüscher Iten Llumnica Lenjani	Play telegram	38 ′ Nef 63 ′ Sword 73 ′ Zverotic 83 ′ Ojala 105 ′ Farnerud Farnerud Spycher Raimondi Sword Nuzzolo

March 21, 2012, 7:30 p.m. quarter-finals	FC Winterthur	3: 2 n.e.	FC St. Gallen	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 8,400 Referee: Klossner
	Radice 26 ′ Bengondo 82 ′ Zuffi Bengondo Iten Lenjani Sereinig	Play telegram	17 ′ 55 ′ Mathys 19 ′ Sutter Scarione Modou Montandon Muntwiler Regazzoni

April 15, 2012, 2 p.m. semi-finals	FC Winterthur	1: 2	FC Basel	Schützenwiese Stadium , Winterthur Spectators: 8,500 Referee: Bieri
	Bengondo 43 ′ Lüscher 68 ′ Kuzmanovic 90 + 3 ′ ( penalty )	Play telegram	26 ′ Yapi 38 ′ Streller 65 ′ F. Frei 89 ′ 90 + 4 ′ A. Frei

statistics

Team statistics

competition	Points	home					away					Total					Goal difference
		Sp	G	U	N	TV	Sp	G	U	N	TV	Sp	G	U	N	TV
Challenge League	53	15th	6th	4th	5	17:15	15th	9	4th	2	27:14	30th	15th	8th	7th	44:29	+15
Swiss Cup	-	4th	3	0	1	8: 5	1	1	0	0	1-0	5	4th	0	1	9: 5	+4
Total	-	19th	9	4th	6th	25:20	16	10	4th	2	28:14	35	19th	8th	8th	53:34	+19

Season course

Gameday	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th
Venue	H	A.	H	A.	H	A.	H	H	A.	H	A.	A.	H	A.	H	H	A.	A.	A.	H	A.	H	A.	A.	H	A.	A.	H	A.	H
result	N	U	N	S.	N	S.	N	N	N	U	S.	S.	U	S.	U	S.	S.	S.	U	S.	N	S.	S.	S.	U	U	U	S.	S.	S.
space	12	10	12	11	13	9	10	13	13	15th	14th	11	11	10	10	9	8th	6th	7th	7th	8th	6th	6th	5	6th	6th	6th	5	4th	4th

Source: Challenge League season archive - detailed ranking list 2011/12. Swiss Football League , accessed December 26, 2018 . Legend: Venue : H = home; A = away. Result : S / G = victory; U = tie; N / A = defeat 

Thanks to the revocation of the Neuchâtel Xamax's license in the Super League , only the last four clubs were relegated, the eleventh-placed (FC Wohlen) remained in the Challenge League .

Player statistics

player	Challenge League				Swiss Cup				Total
Goran Antic	29	5	5	0	3	1	0	0	32	6th	5	0
Patrick Bengondo	18th	6th	4th	0	3	2	0	0	21st	8th	4th	0
Newton Ben Katanha	15th	6th	3	0	2	0	0	0	17th	6th	3	0
Mbala Mbuta Biscotte	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Sawwas Exouzidis	27	2	6th	1	5	0	0	0	32	2	6th	1
Luis Frangão	7th	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7th	0	2	0
Remo Freuler	14th	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	15th	2	1	0
Kevin Hediger	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0
Stefan Iten	29	1	5	0	5	0	1	0	34	1	6th	0
Kristian Kuzmanovic	16	3	0	0	2	1	1	0	18th	4th	1	0
Christian Leite	28	0	1	1	5	0	0	0	33	0	1	1
Ermir Lenjani	25th	2	5	0	5	0	0	0	30th	2	5	0
Isuf Llumnica	11	1	2	0	3	1	0	0	14th	2	2	0
Sven Lüscher	29	4th	3	0	5	1	1	0	34	5	4th	0
Altin Osmani	21st	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	23	1	0	0
Luca Radice	22nd	0	2	0	4th	1	0	0	26th	1	2	0
Dominik Ritter	12	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	14th	0	2	0
Luca Russheim	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Patrik Schuler	6th	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	7th	0	1	0
Daniel Sereinig	27	5	4th	0	5	0	1	0	32	5	5	0
Michel Sprunger	24	4th	5	0	5	0	0	0	29	4th	5	0
Sascha Studer	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
Raymond Tinner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Josip Uzelac	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Murat Urals	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	5	0	0	0
Vaso Vasic	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0
Nick von Niederhäuser	22nd	0	4th	0	2	0	0	0	24	0	4th	0
Luca Zuffi	24	1	4th	0	5	0	0	0	29	1	4th	0

Web links

• Official website of FC Winterthur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: Training start with Osmani . In: The Landbote . June 14, 2011, p. 27 .
2. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: Only a new one for the FCW . In: The Landbote . June 15, 2011, p. 35 .
3. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: 1: 3 (1: 2) for weak FCW . In: The Landbote . July 30, 2011, p. 32 .
4. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: The lousy balance . In: The Landbote . July 2, 2011, p. 31 .
5. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: Luca Radice - After seven years in the high . In: The Landbote . August 10, 2013, p. 27 .
6. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: Llumnicas Comeback . In: The Landbote . July 15, 2011, p. 31 .
7. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: Last test - last new one . In: The Landbote . July 19, 2011, p. 25 .
8. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: “That's why I don't have to rush anything” . In: The Landbote . July 13, 2011, p. 31 .
9. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: “Big point” against “small” opponents . In: The Landbote . August 29, 2011, p. 23 .
10. ^ Hansjörg Schifferli: Last trip with Kuzmanovic? In: The Landbote . October 3, 2011, p. 29 .
11. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: “There is no decision to be made” . In: The Landbote . September 27, 2011, p. 27 .
12. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: A victory for a little rest . In: The Landbote . October 15, 2011, p. 37 .
13. ↑ If you include a penalty that was canceled due to moving too early, Leite even saved four penalties.
14. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: Again past the goal . In: The Landbote . December 9, 2011, p. 37 .
15. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: Training with father and son . In: The Landbote . January 6, 2012, p. 27 .
16. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: FCW: Sutter goes, first training . In: The Landbote . January 5, 2012, p. 31 .
17. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: The chance for a nice spring . In: The Landbote . February 18, 2012, p. 31 .
18. ^ Swiss Cup: Winterthur - St. Gallen. Swiss Radio and Television , March 22, 2012, accessed on December 31, 2018 . 
19. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: After the 2: 2 the barrier broke . In: The Landbote . March 23, 2012, p. 13 .
20. ↑ Alexander Kühn, Jan Derrer: "For me it was a clear penalty and red". In: Basler Zeitung . April 16, 2012, accessed December 31, 2018 . 
21. ^ Cup semi-final: Winterthur - Basel ("sportpanorama"). In: Sports panorama . Swiss radio and television , April 15, 2012, accessed on December 31, 2018 . 
22. ↑ Hansjörg Schifferli: From zero to one hundred . In: The Landbote . May 25, 2012, p. 13 .
23. ↑ FC Winterthur - squad 11/12. transfermarkt.ch , accessed on December 3, 2018 . 
24. ↑ FC Winterthur - Transfers 11/12. transfermarkt.ch , accessed on December 4, 2018 .