Super League 2012/13 (Switzerland)

Raiffeisen Super League 2012/13
master	FC Basel
Champions League qualification	FC Basel Grasshopper Club Zurich
Europa League qualification	FC St. Gallen FC Zurich FC Thun
Cup winners	Grasshopper Club Zurich
Relegated	Servette FC
Teams	10
Games	180
Gates	462  (ø 2.57 per game)
spectator	2 163 517  (ø 12 020 per game)
Top scorer	Oscar Scarione ( FC St. Gallen ) (21)
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Challenge League 2012/13 ↓

The 2012/13 Raiffeisen Super League was the 116th season of the top Swiss league in men's football and comprised ten teams. After eight years, the league received a new sponsor, Raiffeisen Switzerland . FC Basel became Swiss champions for the fourth time in a row and for the sixteenth time overall , three points ahead of Grasshopper Club Zurich . After only two seasons in the Super League, Servette FC had to accept relegation as the bottom of the table.

mode

FC Basel BSC Young Boys FC Luzern FC Sion FC Lausanne Sports Servette FC FC St. Gallen FC Thun FC Zurich / Grasshopper Club Zurich

Venues

In the Super League, the ten clubs competed four times against each opponent, twice in their home stadiums and twice away. In total, each team played 36 games.

The barrage was eliminated, the last placed rose to the Challenge League .

As Switzerland moved up to 14th place in the UEFA five-year ranking, the runners-up also received the right to qualify for the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League .

Both clubs started in the third round of qualifying. The Swiss champion took part in the champions route, the runner-up got the chance to qualify for the premier class via the placement route.

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	FC Basel (M, C)	36	21st	9	6th	061:310	+30	72
2.	Grasshopper Club Zurich	36	20th	9	7th	048:320	+16	69
3.	FC St. Gallen (N)	36	17th	8th	11	054:360	+18	59
4th	FC Zurich	36	16	7th	13	062:480	+14	55
5.	FC Thun	36	13	9	14th	044:460	−2	48
6th	FC Sion	36	13	9	14th	040:540	−14	48
7th	BSC Young Boys	36	11	10	15th	048:500	−2	43
8th.	FC Luzern	36	10	12	14th	041:520	−11	42
9.	FC Lausanne Sports	36	8th	9	19th	032:510	−19	33
10.	Servette FC	36	6th	8th	22nd	032:620	−30	26th

Swiss champions and participation in qualifying for the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League (3rd qualifying round)

Participation in qualifying for the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League (2nd qualifying round)

Participation in qualifying for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League (play-off round)

Participation in qualifying for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League (3rd qualifying round)

Participation in qualifying for the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League (2nd qualifying round)

Relegation to the Challenge League

(M)	Reigning Swiss champion
(C)	Reigning Swiss Cup winner
(N)	Promoted from the Challenge League 2011/12

Table history

League leader

Bottom of the table

Color legend

FC Sion FC St. Gallen Grasshopper Club Zurich FC Basel Servette FC

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)										2012/13	Second half of the season (rounds 19-36)
										society
	4-0	2-0	2: 2	3: 2	4: 1	1-0	3: 1	2-0	0-0	FC Basel		0-0	2-0	0: 3	2-0	3-0	1-0	1-0	3-0	3: 1
2: 2		1: 1	2-0	1-0	0: 2	1-0	1-0	3: 2	1-0	Grasshopper Club Zurich	1-0		4: 1	0-0	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	0: 2	2-0	0: 1
1: 1	0: 2		1-0	5: 1	0: 2	0: 1	3-0	2: 1	0: 2	FC Lausanne Sports	1: 2	0-0		3-0	3-0	1: 3	1: 3	2: 4	0-0	1: 1
1-0	0: 2	0-0		1: 1	0: 3	1: 1	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	FC Luzern	0: 4	1: 1	1-0		1: 1	2-0	2-0	0-0	3: 1	1: 1
0: 1	2-0	0: 1	0: 2		0: 2	1: 1	0-0	1: 1	1: 1	Servette FC	1: 2	0: 1	1-0	3: 4		4-0	1: 3	2-0	0: 1	1: 2
1: 1	1: 1	1: 1	3: 2	1-0		0: 3	2: 1	1-0	2: 2	FC Sion	0: 1	0: 4	0: 1	2: 1	1: 1		1-0	0: 1	0-0	4: 2
2: 1	1: 1	2: 1	1: 1	2-0	0: 3		1-0	1: 1	3: 1	FC St. Gallen	1: 1	1: 2	3: 1	4-0	4: 1	5-0		0-0	3: 1	1: 2
3: 2	2: 3	0-0	2: 1	3-0	1: 1	0: 1		2: 1	1: 4	FC Thun	2: 2	1-0	2-0	1: 1	1: 1	4-0	3-0		2: 2	0: 4
1: 1	0: 1	0-0	2: 1	6: 2	3: 1	0-0	3-0		4: 1	BSC Young Boys	0: 1	4-0	3: 1	3: 2	0: 2	0-0	2-0	1: 2		2: 4
1: 2	0: 1	4-0	0: 2	0: 2	1-0	0: 2	0: 2	1: 1		FC Zurich	3: 1	2: 4	2-0	4: 1	4-0	3: 1	1: 3	2-0	4-0

List of goalscorers

Pl.	Surname	team	Gates
1.	Ezequiel Scarione	FC St. Gallen	21st
2.	Marco Streller	FC Basel	14th
3.	Josip Drmić	FC Zurich	13
	Marco Schneuwly	FC Thun	13
5.	Anatole Ngamukol 1	FC Thun (6) Grasshopper Club Zurich (6)	12
6th	Amine Chermiti	FC Zurich	10
7th	Mario Gavranović	FC Zurich	9
	Raphaël Nuzzolo	BSC Young Boys	9
9.	Izet Hajrovic	Grasshopper Club Zurich	8th
	Léo Itaperuna	FC Sion	8th
	Chris Malonga	Lausanne sport	8th
Final score

¹ Anatole Ngamukol moved from FC Thun to Grasshopper Club Zurich during the season .

Teams

The following ten clubs formed the Raiffeisen Super League in the 2012/13 season:

	team	Trainer	Outfitter	sponsor
	FC Basel	Heiko Vogel (1-12) Murat Yakin (13-36)	adidas	Novartis
	BSC Young Boys	Martin Rueda (1-26) Bernard Challandes (27-36)	JAKO	bauhaus
	Servette FC	João Alves (1-8) Sébastien Fournier (9-36)	14fourteen	Journal GHI
	FC Lausanne Sports	Laurent Roussey	adidas	BCV / SportXX
	FC Luzern	Murat Yakin (1-6) Ryszard Komornicki (7-25) Gerardo Seoane (26, interim) Carlos Bernegger (27-36)	adidas	Otto's
	FC Sion	Sébastien Fournier (1-8) Michel Decastel (9-14) Pierre-André Schürmann (15-18) Víctor Muñoz (19-21) Gennaro Gattuso (22-24) 1 Arno Rossini (25-28) 1 Michel Decastel (29 -36) 1	Erreà	Meubles Descartes Saxon
	FC St. Gallen	Jeff Saibene	JAKO	St.Galler Kantonalbank
	FC Thun	Bernard Challandes (1-16) Mauro Lustrinelli (17-18, interim) Urs Fischer (19-36)	Erima	Panorama Center / Sky Work
	FC Zurich	Rolf Fringer (1-17) Urs Meier (18-36)	Nike	TalkEasy
	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Uli Forte	puma	FROMM / Feldmann Bau AG

¹Unofficially, Gattuso acted as a coach until the 33rd match day, but he lacked the necessary coaching license. De facto, Decastel only took over FC Sion again from matchday 34.

Venues, venues and spectators

city	Residents	society	Stadion	capacity	total	cut	± to 2011/12
Basel	169 0190	FC Basel	St. Jakob Park	038 512	522 653	029 036	- 02.48%
Bern	131 4660	BSC Young Boys	Stade de Suisse	031 783	310 275	017 237	- 18.32%
Geneva	191 2370	Servette FC	Stade de Genève	030 084	119 992	006 666	- 37.68%
Lausanne	125 8850	FC Lausanne Sports	Olympique de la Pontaise stadium	015 850	103 200	005 733	- 08.54%
Lucerne	076 7020	FC Luzern	Swissporarena	017,000	222 916	012 384	- 12.67%
Sion	029 7180	FC Sion	Tourbillon Stadium	016 500	182 700	010 150	- 01.23%
St. Gallen	072 6420	FC St. Gallen	AFG Arena	019 694	257 574	014 309	+ 33.59%
Tuna	042 3300	FC Thun	Arena Thun	010,000	095 903	005 327	- 12.67%
Zurich	385 4680	FC Zurich	Letzigrund	025 500	193 341	010 741	+ 02.19%
Zurich	385 4680	Grasshopper Club Zurich	Letzigrund	025 500	154 800	008 600	+ 51.00%
Source:

The championship team of FC Basel

1.

FC Basel

Goal : Yann Sommer (36 / -) Defense : Arlind Ajeti (4 / -), Philipp Degen (21/3), Aleksandar Dragović (32/3), Joo-ho Park (21/1), Gastón Sauro (16/1), Fabian Schär (21/4 ), Markus Steinhöfer (29 / -), Kay Voser (13 / -) Midfield : Stephan Andrist (1 / -), Cabral (27 / -), David Degen (26/3), Marcelo Díaz (26/4), Serey Die (14/1), Mohamed Elneny (15 / -), Fabian Frei (27/4), Darko Jevtić (2 / -), Mohamed Salah (29/5), Valentin Stocker (31/6), Gilles Yapi Yapo (12/2) Storm : Endogan Adili (1 / -), Raúl Bobadilla (10/1), Simon Grether (2 / -), Marco Streller (32/14), Jacques Zoua (24/1) Trainer : Murat Yakin

• Alexander Frei (18/7), Radoslav Kováč (5/1) and Stjepan Vuleta (2 / -) left the club during the season.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of goalscorers sfl.ch
2. ↑ Audience figures Raiffeisen Super League sfl.ch