National League A (handball) 2016/17

National League A
master	Cadets Schaffhausen
Cup winners	Wacker Thun
Relegation ↑	TSV Fortitudo Gossau
Relegation ↓	Lakers Stafa
Relegated	RTV 1879 Basel
Teams	10
Games	154 + 2 relegation games  (154 played)
Gates	8247  (ø 53.55 per game)
spectator	95821  (ø 622 per game)
Top scorer	Gábor Császár  (215 goals)
Time penalties	1236  (ø 8.03 per game)
Red cards	29  (ø 0.19 per game)
← National League A 2015/16 National League A 2017/18 →
National League B 2016/17 ↓

Teams

The 2016/17 season was the 68th regular time of the Swiss National League A in handball . The season started on August 31st.

mode

The 10 teams play two double rounds of 18 games each.

Then a final round is played with the best six teams from the main round. The best four teams determine the Swiss champions in play-off style. The semi-finals and the final are played according to the best-of-five mode .

The other four teams from the main round determine the direct relegated team in a relegation round. The penultimate team of the relegation round played two barrage games against the second of the National League B.

Main round

Ranking list

League leader

Bottom of the table

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		Cadets Schaffhausen (M) (C)	18th	15th	00	03	0554: 4920	+62	0030: 6000
02.		Pathfinder Winterthur	18th	12	02	04th	0481: 4250	+56	0026:1000
03.		HC Kriens-Lucerne	18th	12	01	05	0498: 4550	+43	0025:1100
04th		Wacker Thun	18th	11	01	06th	0502: 4440	+58	0023:1300
05.		BSV Bern Muri	18th	07th	03	08th	0468: 4580	+10	0017:1900
06th		HSC Suhr Aarau (A)	18th	08th	01	09	0441: 4530	−12	0017:1900
07th		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	18th	07th	01	10	0487: 5340	−47	0015:2100
08th.		GC Amicitia Zurich	18th	05	03	10	0486: 4890	−3	0013:2300
09.		RTV 1879 Basel (R)	18th	04th	02	12	0429: 5150	−86	0010:2600
10.		TSV Fortitudo Gossau	18th	01	02	15th	0467: 5480	−81	0004:3200

As of October 19, 2017

At the end of the main round 2016/17:
	Qualification for the final round
	Relegation round
At the end of the 2015/16 season:
(M)	Swiss champions 2016/17: Cadets Schaffhausen
(C)	Cup winner 2016/17: Cadets Schaffhausen
(R)	Winner of the promotion / relegation round 2016/17 : TSV Fortitudo Gossau
(A)	Newcomers from the National League B 2016/17 : HSC Suhr Aarau

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the left column, the visiting team in the top row.

2016/17
BSV Bern Muri		21:21	19:27	23:24	30:31	25:24	28:28	29:20	31:18	23:28
GC Amicitia Zurich	27:27		25:28	22:31	29:34	25:30	28:23	36:24	24:17	25:22
HC Kriens-Lucerne	29:24	28:28		23:19	33:27	27:25	41:28	25:23	30:26	28:29
HSC Suhr Aarau	22:23	33:30	27:19		27:29	21:22	28:25	27:29	19:19	23:22
Cadets Schaffhausen	30:26	30:29	32:23	24:33		29:26	38:33	35:26	34:19	28:22
Pathfinder Winterthur	24:20	26:19	29:25	27:19	23:24		32:31	34:27	30:23	30:20
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	24:28	24:37	31:32	25:27	25:32	16:19		30:31	24:23	25:31
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	29:36	35:29	24:22	25:21	28:37	27:27	33:29		27:30	27:34
RTV 1879 Basel	22:33	25:24	19:31	35:24	30:27	25:31	25:25	26:32		26:30
Wacker Thun	29:22	31:28	20:27	31:16	30:32	22:22	35:21	27:20	39:21
As of October 19, 2017

Table history

	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
Cadets Schaffhausen	9	10	9	6th	4th	4th	3	4th	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Pathfinder Winterthur	6th	5	8th	5	3	3	4th	3	2	2	4th	4th	4th	3	3	2	2	2
HC Kriens-Lucerne	1	6th	7th	4th	2	2	2	1	1	4th	3	2	3	4th	2	3	3	3
Wacker Thun	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	4th	3	2	3	2	2	4th	4th	4th	4th
BSV Bern Muri	4th	8th	6th	9	9	9	7th	6th	6th	6th	7th	7th	8th	8th	8th	7th	6th	5
HSC Suhr Aarau	8th	3	4th	8th	6th	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	6th
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	3	7th	3	7th	8th	8th	9	9	9	8th	8th	8th	6th	6th	6th	6th	7th	7th
GC Amicitia Zurich	7th	4th	5	2	5	6th	6th	7th	8th	7th	6th	6th	7th	7th	7th	8th	8th	8th
RTV 1879 Basel	5	2	2	3	7th	7th	8th	8th	7th	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
As of October 19, 2017

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1.	Gábor Császár	215	6.3	Cadets Schaffhausen
2.	Nicolas Suter	174	5.8	GC Amicitia Zurich
3.	Tim Aufdenblatten	164	5.9	HSC Suhr Aarau
4th	Aleksandar Radovanović	148	4.6	HC Kriens-Lucerne
5.	Bruno Kozina	141	5.0	RTV 1879 Basel
6th	Patrick Romann	138	4.9	HSC Suhr Aarau
7th	Rareș Jurcă	137	5.3	RTV 1879 Basel
8th.	Ondřej Zdráhala	134	6.7	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
9.	Igor Milović	131	4.4	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
10.	Manuel Philipp Frietsch	130	4.6	GC Amicitia Zurich

Spectator table

	society	spectator	per game	workload	sold out
1.	Wacker Thun	16368	1091	54.55%	0/9
2.	Cadets Schaffhausen	14598	811	23.85%	0/9
3.	Pathfinder Winterthur	12300	723	31.43%	0/9
4th	HSC Suhr Aarau	10028	716	35.80%	0/9
5.	HC Kriens-Lucerne	11120	695	53.46%	0/9
6th	BSV Bern Muri	8590	613	40.87%	0/9
7th	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	9100	606	17.31%	0/9
8th.	TSV Fortitudo Gossau	4865	324	38.12%	0/9
9.	GC Amicitia Zurich	4482	298	9.93%	0/9
10.	RTV 1879 Basel	4370	291	19.40%	0/9
total		95821	622	32.47%	0/90
As of July 29, 2017

Relegation round

Ranking list

League leader

Bottom of the table

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	30th	12	01	17th	0818: 8620	−44	0025:3500
02.		GC Amicitia Zurich	30th	10	04th	16	0809: 8250	−16	0024:3600
03.		TSV Fortitudo Gossau	30th	10	02	18th	0800: 8520	−52	0022:3800
04th		RTV 1879 Basel	30th	08th	03	19th	0755: 8600	−105	0019:4100

As of July 29, 2017

At the end of the 2016/17 season:
	End of season
	Promotion / Relegation Round
	Direct relegation to the National League B 2017/18

Final round

Ranking list

Pl.		society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.		Cadets Schaffhausen	28	21st	02	05	0849: 7570	+92	0044:1200
02.		Pathfinder Winterthur	28	20th	03	05	0755: 6560	+99	0043:1300
03.		HC Kriens-Lucerne	28	17th	01	10	0748: 7240	+24	0035:2100
04th		Wacker Thun	28	16	02	10	0758: 6930	+65	0034:2200
05.		BSV Bern Muri	28	09	05	14th	0720: 7370	−17	0023:3300
06th		HSC Suhr Aarau	28	08th	03	17th	0663: 7090	−46	0019:3700

As of July 29, 2017

At the end of the main round 2016/17:
	Qualification for the playoff
	End of season

Promotion / Relegation Round

	total		First leg	Return leg
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	54:50	Lakers Stafa	28:29	26:21

Playoff

Play-off tree

	Semifinals					final
	1	Cadets Schaffhausen	3
	4th	Wacker Thun	0
						1	Cadets Schaffhausen	3
						2	Pathfinder Winterthur	0
	2	Pathfinder Winterthur	3
	3	HC Kriens-Lucerne	1

Semifinals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]	[FR]
Cadets Schaffhausen	-	Wacker Thun	3-0	30:20	30:29	28:26	-	-	[:]	[:]
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	HC Kriens-Lucerne	3: 1	21:30	23:20	26:25	25:22	-	[:]	[:]

HR = main round , FR = final round

final

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]	[FR]
Cadets Schaffhausen	-	Pathfinder Winterthur	3-0	31:18	30:26	30:28	-	-	[:]	[:]

HR = main round , FR = final round

Master team of the cadet Schaffhausen

Swiss master cadets Schaffhausen

Goalkeepers: Simon Kindle , Kaj Stokholm , Daniel Dupjachanec , Nikola Marinovic , Aurel Bringolf Left wing: Sergio Muggli , Andrija Pendic , Manuel Liniger Right wing: Nik Tominec , Markus Richwien Back space left: Luka Maros , Zoran Markovic, David Graubner Back center: Gábor Császár Right back: Michał Szyba , Dimitrij Küttel , Ron Delhees Circular runners : Johan Koch , Christoffer Brännberger , Lucas Meister Head coach: Peter Kukučka Assistant coach: Markus Krauthoff

Venues

The venues are arranged according to the capacity of the stadiums.

society	Stadion	capacity
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	Kreuzbleiche sports facility	3500
Cadets Schaffhausen	BBC arena	3400
GC Amicitia Zurich	Sports hall	2500
Pathfinder Winterthur	Eulachhalle	2300
Wacker Thun	Sports hall laughter	2000
HSC Suhr Aarau	Schachen sports hall	2000
RTV 1879 Basel	Basel Rankhof	1500
BSV Bern Muri	Sports hall Moos Gümligen	1500
HC Kriens-Lucerne	Mourning Hall	1300
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	Oberbüren Thurzelg	850

Individual evidence

1. ↑ table. In: handball.ch. SHV, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Games. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on May 22, 2015 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ table history. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on July 29, 2017 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Audience statistics main round. In: handball.ch. SHV, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Hall directory. (No longer available online.) In: handball.ch. SHV, archived from the original on October 18, 2015 ; accessed on May 1, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.