Super League 2011/12 (Switzerland)

Axpo Super League 2011/12
master	FC Basel
Champions League qualification	FC Basel
Europa League qualification	FC Luzern , BSC Young Boys , Servette FC
Cup winners	FC Basel
Relegation ↓	FC Sion (3-0 and 0-1 against FC Aarau )
Relegated	Neuchâtel Xamax
Teams	10 (second round: 9)
Games	162 + 2 relegation games
Gates	425  (ø 2.62 per game)
spectator	1 985 055  (ø 12 253 per game)
Top scorer	Alexander Frei (24) ( FC Basel )
← Super League 2010/11 Super League 2012/13 →
Challenge League 2011/12 ↓

The Axpo Super League 2011/12 was the 115th season of the top Swiss league in men's football. It took place from July 16, 2011 to May 23, 2012. Ten teams took part, with two teams each meeting four times. FC Lausanne-Sport and Servette FC Genève were promoted and thus new participants .

After Neuchâtel Xamax's license revocation on January 18, 2012, nine teams played the second half of the season, so the season consisted of 34 instead of 36 games per club. For the third time in a row, the championship was won by FC Basel .

statistics

table

FC Basel BSC Young Boys FC Luzern Neuchâtel Xamax FC Sion FC Lausanne Sports Servette FC FC Thun FC Zurich / Grasshopper Club Zurich

Venues

rank	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Pt.
01.	FC Basel (M)	34	22nd	8th	4th	78:33	+45	74
02.	FC Luzern	34	14th	12	8th	46:32	+14	54
03.	BSC Young Boys	34	13	12	9	52:38	+14	51
04th	Servette FC Genève (N)	34	14th	6th	14th	45:53	- 08	48
05.	FC Thun	34	11	10	13	38:41	- 03	43
06th	FC Zurich	34	11	8th	15th	43:44	- 01	41
07th	FC Lausanne-Sport (N)	34	8th	6th	20th	29:61	−32	30th
08th.	Grasshopper Club Zurich	34	7th	5	22nd	32:66	−34	26th
09.	FC Sion (C)	34	15th	8th	11	40:35	+ 05	17th
10.	Neuchâtel Xamax ¹	18th	7th	5	6th	22:22	± 00	26th
source

Legend
	Swiss champions, participation in the UEFA Champions League qualification (second qualifying round)
	Participation in the UEFA Europa League qualification (play-off)
	Participation in the UEFA Europa League qualification (second qualifying round)
	Barrage games against the runner-up in the Challenge League
	Forced relegation to the 2nd interregional league
(M)	reigning Swiss champion
(C)	Swiss Cup winner last season
(N)	Newcomers last season

¹ Forced relegation to the 2nd interregional league , points from the preliminary round remain.

FC Sion points deduction

Fifa imposed a one-year transfer ban on FC Sion in early June 2009. The club management violated the ban rigorously and signed several players. President Christian Constantin took the position that the ban affected the amateur section of the club. The professional department is operated by the AG "Olympique des Alpes". In the 2011/12 season , FC Sion started in the play-off (the last qualifying round) of the UEFA Europa League and beat Celtic Glasgow (A 0: 0 / H 3: 1). Due to the use of players who were not eligible to play due to the transfer ban, both matches were rated 0: 3 against Sion. On September 13, UEFA declined to appeal the decision. Meanwhile, had FIFA the Swiss Football Association threatened exclusion from FIFA, the dispute over the FC Sion until January 14, 2012 should not be clarified. This would also have had an impact on FC Basel , which was still playing in the Champions League at the time . On December 30th, FC Sion was punished by the Swiss Football Association with a point deduction of 36 points. Thus, on December 30, 2011, after the point deduction, FC Sion was in last place instead of third with five minus points. These points were definitively withdrawn on April 19 by the Bern Higher Court. Now FC Sion would only have had to go to the Federal Supreme Court , which would not have changed the table, as a decision could not have been made until autumn 2012.

Revocation of license for Neuchâtel Xamax

Since May 2011 the Chechen businessman Bulat Tschagajew , then living in Geneva , son-in-law of the last head of the Chechen Communist Party in Soviet times, has owned Neuchâtel Xamax. However, after the players' wages were not paid and the Swiss Football Association had received no guarantees for Tschagajew's solvency, Neuchâtel Xamax was punished several times with point deductions. On January 18, 2012, the SFL announced that Neuchâtel Xamax would have its license withdrawn. As a result, Neuchâtel Xamax was immediately excluded from gaming operations. It was not until the following season that the newly founded Neuchâtel Xamax was allowed to start over in the second interregional league in 1912 .

Crosstab

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

First round (rounds 1–18)										2011/12	Second half of the season (rounds 19-36)
										society
	4: 1	6-0	1-0	2-0	2-0	3: 3	2: 1	1-0	1: 2	FC Basel		6: 3	3: 1	3: 1	5-0	0-0	2: 1	1: 2	1-0
2: 2		2-0	0: 1	0: 1	1: 4	2: 1	1-0	0: 3	3-0	Grasshopper Club Zurich	0: 2		0-0	2: 2	0: 3	0: 2	0: 1	2-0	0: 1
2: 3	2: 1		0: 1	1: 3	0-0	0: 2	1-0	0: 3	2: 1	FC Lausanne Sports	0: 2	2: 1		0-0	3: 1	1-0	1-0	0-0	0: 1
3: 1	2: 1	2-0		1: 2	1: 2	2-0	0-0	1: 1	3: 1	FC Luzern	1: 1	1-0	3: 2		3: 1	0-0	0: 1	2-0	1: 1
1: 1	2-0	2: 2	0: 3		0-0	0: 3	4-0	0-0	3: 1	Neuchâtel Xamax
0: 4	3: 4	4: 2	0: 2	2: 1		0: 2	1: 2	1-0	0: 1	Servette FC Genève	2: 1	3: 1	0-0	2: 1		2: 2	0: 2	2: 1	1: 1
0: 1	2-0	1-0	1: 1	2-0	0: 4		2-0	1: 2	1-0	FC Sion	0: 3	3: 2	1-0	1: 3	0: 1		1-0	0: 1	2: 1
1: 1	3-0	5: 2	3: 1	0-0	3-0	0: 3		1: 1	0: 2	FC Thun	2: 3	0-0	2-0	1: 1	1-0	1: 1		2: 2	2: 4
1: 1	0: 1	4: 1	1-0	4: 1	1: 1	1: 1	0: 2		2: 3	BSC Young Boys	2: 2	2: 2	1: 3	2: 2	3: 1	3-0	4-0		1-0
0: 1	6-0	4: 1	1: 1	0: 2	2: 3	1: 1	0-0	1: 2		FC Zurich	1: 5	2-0	2-0	0-0	0: 1	0: 1	1: 1	2: 2

The championship team of FC Basel

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FC Basel

Goal : Massimo Colomba (2 / -), Marcel Herzog (1 / -), Yann Sommer (31 / -) Defense : David Abraham (23/3), Arlind Ajeti (1 / -), Scott Chipperfield (6 / -), Philipp Degen (9/1), Aleksandar Dragović (28/1), Radoslav Kováč (15 / -), Genséric Kusunga (6 / -), Joo-Ho Park (26 / -), Markus Steinhöfer (29/1), Kay Voser (6 / -) Midfield : Stephan Andrist (17/2), Cabral (20/1), Fabian Frei (31/4), Benjamin Huggel (23/4), Xherdan Shaqiri (31/9), Valentin Stocker (15/4), Fwayo Tembo (5 / -), Gilles Yapi-Yapo (15 / -), granite Xhaka (24/1), Taulant Xhaka (4 / -) Storm : Roman Buess (1 / -), Alexander Frei (31/24), Kwang-Ryong Pak (13/1), Marco Streller (30/13), Jacques Zoua (26/7) Trainer : Heiko Vogel

* Pascal Schürpf (3 / -) left the club during the season.

Goalscorer table

Source;

rank	Gates	Surname	country	society
01	24	Alexander Frei		FC Basel
02	13	Marco Streller		FC Basel
03	9	Emmanuel Mayuka		BSC Young Boys
	9	Xherdan Shaqiri		FC Basel
	9	Vilmos Vanczák		FC Sion
	9	Matías Vitkieviez		BSC Young Boys
07th	8th	Goran Karanović		Servette FC Genève
	8th	Matt Moussilou		FC Lausanne Sports
	8th	Christian Schneuwly		FC Thun
	8th	Ishmael Yartey		Servette FC Genève
	8th	Steven Zuber		Grasshopper Club Zurich

Venues, venues and spectators

source

city	Residents	society	Stadion	capacity	total	cut	± to 2010/11
Basel	169 0190	FC Basel	St. Jakob Park	038 512	506 171	029 774	+ 02.51%
Bern	131 4660	BSC Young Boys	Stade de Suisse	031 783	358 763	021 103	- 01.85%
Geneva	191 2370	Servette FC Genève	Stade de Genève	030 084	181 848	010 696	+ 77.50%
Lausanne	125 8850	FC Lausanne Sports	Olympique de la Pontaise stadium	015 850	106 568	006 268	+92.51%
Lucerne	076 7020	FC Luzern	Swissporarena	017,000	241 064	014 180	+77.41%
Neuchâtel	032 8190	Neuchâtel Xamax	Stade de la Maladière	012 500	037 341	004 149	−19.22%
Sion	029 7180	FC Sion	Tourbillon Stadium	020 200	174 700	010 276	- 02.60%
Tuna	042 3300	FC Thun	Arena Thun	010,000	103 700	006 100	+ 27.30%
Zurich	385 4680	FC Zurich	Letzigrund	025 500	178 700	010 511	−10.55%
Zurich	385 4680	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Letzigrund	025 500	096 200	005,658	−16.65%

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ranking list of the Super League on the Swiss Football League website
2. ↑ 20 minutes online - "It was the only possible sanction" - football
3. ↑ NZZ online: Happy sanctions against FC Sion
4. ↑ NZZ online: Constantin does what he wants
5. ↑ NZZ online: New player for Sion - despite transfer ban
6. ↑ Celtic protests against the evaluation of the Sion Games accepted
7. ↑ UEFA rejects Sion's protest , accessed September 13, 2011
8. ↑ Sion case: Fifa threatens Swiss association with suspension. Spiegel Online , December 17, 2011, accessed December 17, 2011 . 
9. ↑ According to the FIFA ultimatum: 36 points deduction for FC Sion ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ^ Decision of the Bern Higher Court of April 19, 2012
11. ↑ Xamax: Chronology of the decline on the Swiss television page of January 18, 2012
12. ^ List of goalscorers on the website of the Swiss Football League
13. ^ Switzerland »Super League 2011/2012» Spectators »Home games