National League A (handball) 1997/98

National League A
master	Pathfinder Winterthur
Cup winners	Pathfinder Winterthur
Teams	8th
Games	156  (of which 156 played)
spectator	124555  (ø 798 per game)
Top scorer	Attila Kotorman  (237 goals)
← National League A 1996/97 National League A 1998/99 →
National League B 1997/98 ↓

The 1997/98 season was the 49th regular time of the Swiss National League A in handball .

mode

The 12 teams play 14 games each.

The championship is then divided into a final and promotion / relegation round.

The best 8 teams from the qualifying round play in the final round.

In the promotion / relegation round, the teams play in ranks 9th – 12th. with the best 4 of the NLB in a double round (14 games each) for promotion / relegation.

After the final round, the teams in ranks 1 to 4 play a playoff (1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd). The winner of the playoffs becomes Swiss champions.

Qualifying round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	Pathfinder Winterthur	14th	28
2.	St. Otmar St. Gallen	14th	23
3.	TV Suhr	14th	22nd
4th	Wacker Thun	14th	20th
5.	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	14th
6th	TV Zofingen	14th	13
7th	Grasshoppers	14th	10
8th.	ZMC Amicitia	14th	9
9.	BSV Bern	14th	9
10.	BSV Borba Lucerne	14th	8th
11.	TV Endingen	14th	6th
12.	BSV Stans	14th	6th
As of December 22nd, 1997

At the end of the main round:
	Championship round
	Relegation round

NLA final round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	Pathfinder Winterthur	14th	25th
2.	Wacker Thun	14th	21st
3.	TV Suhr	14th	19th
4th	St. Otmar St. Gallen	14th	17th
5.	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	16
6th	ZMC Amicitia	14th	10
7th	Grasshoppers	14th	6th
8th.	TV Zofingen	14th	4th
Status 6.4.1998

At the end of the final round:
	Playoff
	Season ended

NLB / NLA Promotion / Relegation Round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	BSV Borba Lucerne (NLA)	14th
2.	BSV Bern (NLA)	14th
3.	BSV Stans (NLA)	14th
4th	TV Endingen (NLA)	14th
5.	TV Möhlin	14th
6th	Yellow Winterthur	14th
7th	HC Horgen	14th
8th.	TV Horw	14th
As of April 27, 1998

At the end of the promotion round:
	NLA
	NLB

Playoff

Play-off tree

	Semifinals					final
		Pathfinder Winterthur	2
		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	0
							Pathfinder Winterthur	2
							TV Suhr	0
		TV Suhr	2
		Wacker Thun	0

Semifinals

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	2-0	30:20	30:28	-
TV Suhr	-	Wacker Thun	2-0	19:18	27:23	-

final

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	TV Suhr	2-0	31:25	29:28	-

List of goalscorers

If the number of hits is the same, the players are sorted alphabetically.

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1.	Attila Kotorman	237	8.8	Cadets Schaffhausen
2.	Goran Perkovac	235	7.3	TV Suhr
3.	Zlatko Portner	225	8th	TV Zofingen

6th championship title for Pfadi Winterthur

Swiss champion Pfadi Winterthur

Team: Goalkeeper: Field: Back center: Jae-Won Kang Head coach: Manager: Ernst Liniger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freiburger Nachrichten, December 22nd, 1997 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
2. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, April 6, 1998 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten April 27, 1998 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
4. ↑ All play-offs 1994 to 2015 in the flash view. (PDF) Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; Retrieved April 11, 2017 .