National League A (handball) 1995/96

National League A
master	Pathfinder Winterthur
Teams	8th
Games	147  (of which 147 played)
spectator	94900  (ø 646 per game)
Top scorer	Oystein Havang  (275 goals)
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National League B 1995/96 ↓

The 1995/96 season was the 47th 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	24
2.	BSV Borba Lucerne	14th	22nd
3.	ZMC Amicitia	14th	21st
4th	St. Otmar St. Gallen	14th	20th
5.	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	18th
6th	Wacker Thun	14th	14th
7th	BSV Bern	14th	14th
8th.	Grasshopper	14th	10
9.	TV Suhr	14th	9
10.	RTV 1879 Basel	13	7th
11.	BSV Stans	13	5
12.	TV Länggasse	14th	2
As of December 21, 1995

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

NLA final round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	Pathfinder Winterthur	11	21st
2.	Cadets Schaffhausen	11	15th
3.	St. Otmar St. Gallen	11	14th
4th	BSV Borba Lucerne	11	14th
5.	ZMC Amicitia	11	13
6th	BSV Bern	11	8th
7th	Wacker Thun	11	6th
8th.	Grasshopper	11	3
Status 3/11/1996

At the end of the final round:
	Playoff
	Season ended

NLB / NLA Promotion / Relegation Round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	TV Suhr (NLA)	5	9
2.	BSV Stans (NLA)	5	8th
3.	RTV 1879 Basel (NLA)	5	8th
4th	TV Endingen	5	5
5.	TV Uster	5	5
6th	TV Länggasse (NLA)	5	4th
7th	HC Dietikon / Urdorf	5	1
8th.	TV Zofingen	5	0
Status February 19, 1996

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
							Amicitia	0
		Amicitia Zurich	2
		Cadets Schaffhausen	1

Semifinals

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	2-0	28:24	24:17	-
Amicitia Zurich	-	Cadets Schaffhausen	2: 1	25:26	29:22	24:19

final

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	Amicitia Zurich	2-0	29:18	30:21	-

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1.	Oystein Havang	275	9.8	Grasshopper Club Zurich
2.	Beat Rellstab	237	7.9	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen
3.	Aleksander Vuga	230	7.9	Cadets Schaffhausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, December 21, 1995 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Le Nouvelliste, March 11, 1996 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, February 19, 1996 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 2, 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 .