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Swiss football/soccer : Swiss Super League 2011/2012 season preview

Basel retain Swiss title

Basel won the Swiss league for the second time in the two-season reign of coach Thorsten Fink following a comfortable 3-0 win against Luzern in the final game of the season. Basel, who will go into the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League this campaign, finished one point clear of old rivals Zurich who beat Thun 1-0 in their final game. Zurich will also go into the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds.

St. Gallen were relegated having finished bottom after a 4-2 defeat Young Boys on the last day of the season. Bellinzona, who started the day in last place, finished a point ahead of St. Gallen thanks to a 2-0 win over Grasshoppers. However, Bellinzona were also relegated following a two-legged relegation play-off against second division runners-up Servette. Servette won 3-2 on aggregate and returned to the Super League after six years.

teamtitles2006/072007/082008/092009/102010/11
Grasshoppers2664437
Servette17-----
Basel1421311
Zurich1213172
Young Boys1142223
Lausanne7-----
Xamax2-8788
Sion237854
Luzern186946
Thun-710--5

The table shows the overall number of titles for each club in Swiss Super League since the 1898/99 season and their league standings in the last five campaigns.

Young Boys hire Christian Gross

Young Boys have fired coach Vladimir Petkovic and hired Christian Gross to take charge this season. Petkovic's departure follows a run of poor results that left the club a distant third in the league behind Zurich and Basel. Gross won four league titles in 10 years at Basel before being fired in 2009. The former Tottenham coach then joined Germany's Stuttgart but was fired last October.

This page is introduction to the 2011/2012 Swiss Super League season. Latest news, statistics, results and predictions you can find on our main Euro Football > Switzerland page.

Luzern appoint Murat Yakin as coach

Murat Yakin has been hired to coach the Lucerne team captained by his younger brother Hakan. Yakin replaces Rolf Fringer who was fired in April when the team slumped to fifth in the Swiss league after leading at the midseason break. Luzern say Yakin agreed a two-year contract to leave his job coaching Thun. The 36-year-old played 49 times for Switzerland.

Thun, meanwhile, have appointed Bernard Challandes as their coach for the 2011/12 season. Challandes was fired by Sion in February following a poor run of results. His replacement Laurent Roussey becomes Sion's 22nd coach in six seasons. Roussey coached Sion nine seasons ago and led Saint-Etienne to a fifth-place finish in the French league in 2008. Another Frenchman Francois Ciccolini, a former Bastia coach, will lead Xamax this season.

#teampoints g.dif. win-draw-loss
1Basel733221-10-5 (36)
2Zurich723021-9-6 (36)
3Young Boys571515-12-9 (36)
4Sion541115-9-12 (36)
5Thun49511-16-9 (36)
6Luzern48513-9-14 (36)
7Grasshoppers41-910-11-15 (36)
8Xamax32-238-8-20 (36)
9Bellinzona32-337-11-18 (36)
10St. Gallen31-338-7-21 (36)

Swiss Super League standings for the 2010/2011 season.

Basel favored to win title

Bookmakers have every confidence that Basel will repeat last season's success. According to their odds, Basel's main title rivals will be Zurich and Young Boys.

teamoddsteamodds
Basel1.83Zurich4.5
Young Boys4.5Sion15
Xamax18Grasshoppers18
Luzern30Thun70
Servette70Lausanne100

Preseason odds for the outright winner of the 2011/12 Swiss football league.

Swiss Cup finals in last five seasons

2007   Basel - Luzern   1:0
2008   Basel - Bellinzona   4:1
2009   Sion - Young Boys   3:2
2010   Basel - Lausanne   6:0
2011   Sion - Xamax   2:0
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key players
(with transfer market value in m€)

Basel

Goalkeeper Yann Sommer (1.5); Defense: Radoslav Kovac (3), Aleksandar Dragovic (2.5), David Abraham (2); Midfield: Kay Voser (0.9), Xherdan Shaqiri (8), Valentin Stocker (3.5), Gilles Yapi (2.3), Granit Xhaka (1.5); Forward: Alexander Frei (3), Marco Streller (2.5).

Grasshoppers

Goalkeeper Roman Burki (0.4); Defense: Guillermo Vallori (1), Michael Lang (0.6), Paulo Menezes (0.6); Midfield: Toko (0.9), Steven Zuber (0.8), Daniel de Ridder (0.8), Ricardo Cabanas (0.7), Davide Calla (0.7); Forward: Innocent Emeghara (1.2), Frank Feltscher (0.8).

Lausanne-Sport

Goalkeeper Fabio Coltorti (1); Defense: Frederic Page (0.4), Guillaume Katz (0.3), Baptiste Buntschu (0.2); Midfield: Marko Muslin (0.4), Nicolas Marin (0.4), Thierno Bah (0.4), Steven Lang (0.4); Forward: Emil Lyng (0.4), Matt Moussilou (0.4), Jocelyn Roux (0.3).

Luzern

Goalkeeper David Zibung (0.9); Defense: Tomislav Puljic (0.7), Claudio Lustenberger (0.7), Jerome Thiesson (0.5); Midfield: Hakan Yakin (0.9), Daniel Gygax (0.9), Xavier Hochstrasser (0.9), Nelson Ferreira (0.8), Burim Kukeli (0.7); Forward: Cristian Florin Ianu (1.5), Janko Pacar (0.4).

Servette

Goalkeeper David Gonzalez (0.4); Defense: Christian Schlauri (0.2), Pedro Mendes (0.2), Issaga Diallo (0.2); Midfield: Laglais Xavier Kouassi (0.4), Carlos Varela (0.4), Antonio Marcos De Azevedo (0.3), Ishmael Yartey (0.3), Matias Vitkieviez (0.3); Forward: Eudis (0.4), Julian Esteban (0.3).

Sion

Goalkeeper Andris Vanins (1.5); Defense: Michael Dingsdag (1.8), Adailton (1.1), Vilmos Vanczak (1), Jose Goncalves (0.7); Midfield: Giovanni Sio (1.2), Serey Die (1.1), Alvaro Dominguez (0.8), Abdoul Karim Yoda (0.8); Forward: Dragan Mrdja (1.8), Pascal Feindouno (1).

Thun

Goalkeeper David da Costa (0.5); Defense: Benjamin Luthi (0.5), Nicolas Schindelholz (0.4), Andreas Wittwer (0.3); Midfield: Dario Lezcano (0.5), Stephan Andrist (0.5), Muhamed Demiri (0.5), Dennis Hediger (0.4), Christian Schneuwly (0.4); Forward: Mauro Lustrinelli (0.3), Milaim Rama (0.2).

Xamax

Goalkeeper Logan Bailly (1); Defense: David Navarro (4), Stephane Besle (0.7), Abdulla Omar (0.7), Sander Keller (0.6), Paito (0.6); Midfield: Victor Sanchez (1), Gilles Binya (0.8), Sebastien Wuthrich (0.7); Forward: Federico Almerares (0.5), Admir Aganovic (0.3).

Young Boys Bern

Goalkeeper Marco Wolfli (1.5); Defense: Emiliano Ariel Dudar (1.5), Francois Affolter (1.5), Ammar Jemal (1.5), Scott Sutter (1.5); Midfield: Michael Silberbauer (2.5), Alexander Farnerud (2), David Degen (1.5), Moreno Costanzo (1.4); Forward: Henri Bienvenu (2.5), Emmanuel Mayuka (1.8).

Zurich

Goalkeeper Johnny Leoni (0.5); Defense: Jorge Teixeira (2), Philippe Koch (1), Mathieu Beda (0.9), Ludovic Magnin (0.8); Midfield: Dusan Djuric (2.5), Xavier Margairaz (1.2), Yassine Chikhaoui (1); Forward: Mohamed Amine Chermiti (2.3), Admir Mehmedi (1.3), Alexandre Alphonse (1.2).

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