National League A (handball) 1996/97

National League A
master	Pathfinder Winterthur
Teams	8th
Games	147  (of which 147 played)
spectator	106867  (ø 727 per game)
Top scorer	Jae-Won Kang  (256 goals)
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National League B 1996/97 ↓

The 1996/97 season was the 48th 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	22nd
3.	TV Suhr	14th	20th
4th	Wacker Thun	14th	18th
5.	ZMC Amicitia	14th	15th
6th	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	15th
7th	BSV Borba Lucerne	14th	14th
8th.	BSV Stans	14th	11
9.	Grasshoppers	14th	10
10.	TV Endingen	14th	8th
11.	BSV Bern	14th	7th
12.	RTV 1879 Basel	14th	0
As of December 23, 1996

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

NLA final round

rank	society	Games	Gates	Points
1.	Pathfinder Winterthur	14th		31
2.	St. Otmar St. Gallen	14th		18th
3.	ZMC Amicitia	14th		16
4th	Cadets Schaffhausen	14th	383: 371	14th
5.	Wacker Thun	14th	366: 364	14th
6th	TV Suhr	14th		10
7th	BSV Stans	14th		8th
8th.	BSV Borba Lucerne	14th		7th
Status March 29, 1997

At the end of the final round:
	Playoff
	Season ended

NLB / NLA Promotion / Relegation Round

rank	society	Games	Points
1.	BSV Bern (NLA)	14th	21st
2.	Grasshopper (NLA)	14th	19th
3.	TV Endingen (NLA)	14th	19th
4th	TV Zofingen	14th	16
5.	Yellow Winterthur	14th	15th
6th	GG Bern	14th	13
7th	TV Solothurn	14th	5
8th.	RTV 1879 Basel (NLA)	14th	4th
As of April 21, 1997

At the end of the promotion round:
	NLA
	NLB

Playoff

Play-off tree

	Semifinals					final
		Pathfinder Winterthur	2
		Cadets Schaffhausen	0
							Pathfinder Winterthur	2
							TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	0
		TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	2
		Amicitia Zurich	1

Semifinals

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	Cadets Schaffhausen	2-0	32:18	32:22	-
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	-	Amicitia Zurich	2: 1	25:27	24:19	28:20

final

Modus is best of three

			series	1	2	3
Pathfinder Winterthur	-	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	2-0	29:20	32:30	-

List of goalscorers

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

Pl.	player	Gates	cut	team
1.	Jae-Won Kang	256	8th	Pathfinder Winterthur
2.	Attila Kotorman	238	8.5	Cadets Schaffhausen
3.	Tettey Sowah Banfro	222	7.2	ZMC Amicitia Zurich

5th championship title for Pfadi Winterthur

Swiss champion Pfadi Winterthur

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freiburger Nachrichten, December 23, 1996 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
2. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten March 29, 1997 - e-newspaperarchives.ch. Retrieved May 14, 2019 . 
3. ^ Freiburger Nachrichten, April 21, 1997 - 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 .