2022–23 Swiss Super League

The 2022–23 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsoring reasons) was the 126th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland and the 20th under its current name and format. With this season, the Swiss Super League became the longest continuously running top-flight national league.[2]

Swiss Super League
Season2022–23
Dates16 July 2022 – 29 May 2023
ChampionsYoung Boys
16th title
RelegatedSion
Champions LeagueYoung Boys
Servette
Europa LeagueLugano
Europa Conference LeagueLuzern
Basel
Matches played180
Goals scored539 (2.99 per match)
Top goalscorerJean-Pierre Nsame
(21 goals)
Biggest home win6–1
YBSER (22 Apr 2023)
STGBAS (14 May 2023)
Biggest away win0–6
WINLUZ (10 Sep 2022)
Highest scoring2–7
SIOSTG (12 Nov 2022)
Longest winning run4 matches
Luzern
Longest unbeaten run18 matches
Young Boys
Longest winless run13 matches
Zürich
Longest losing run3 matches
Highest attendance31,500
Young Boys
Total attendance2,370,901[1]
Average attendance13,172[1]

Overview

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A total of ten teams are competing in the league: nine teams of the previous season will participate in the league again. FC Lausanne-Sport, who came in last place, were relegated and are replaced by the 2021–22 Swiss Challenge League champions Winterthur. Luzern remains in the league as the winner of the Relegation/Promotion playoff. Zürich are the defending champions.

After Swiss teams gained 7.75 points in European championships in the 2021–22 season, the Swiss Football Association jumped five spots in the UEFA association ranking to rank 14, granting them five spots in European championships in the 2023–24 season. This means that first and second ranked teams of the 2022–23 season will participate in the third and second rounds of the 2023–24 UEFA Champions League qualification, respectively, while the third and fourth enter the second round of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualification. Furthermore, the champion of the 2022-23 Swiss Cup enters the third qualification round for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League.[3]

Due to the format change and the increased number of teams starting with the 2023–24 Swiss Super League, this season will function as a transition season. As a result, no teams will be directly relegated to the 2023–24 Swiss Challenge League. Instead the last-placed team will play a relegation playoff against the third team of the 2022–23 Swiss Challenge League.[4]

Schedule

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The playing schedule of the season, as well as dates and times for the first nine matchdays were announced on 17 June 2022.[2] The first matchday would be held on the weekend of 16 and 17 July 2022. However, the first round match LuzernGrasshoppers is postponed until 10 August 2022, due to lack of venues. The match LuzernBasel, originally scheduled for 31 July 2022 (Matchday 3), is also postponed to 9 November 2022.[5] Furthermore, scheduled dates for champion Zürich for matchdays 4, 5, and 8 may be swapped subject to their Champions League qualifier schedule.

The exact schedule for matchdays 10 through 18 were announced on 2 September 2022.[5] Due to the 2022 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in November and December 2022, the league will go on a two-month break, after matchday 16 on 13 November 2022. The winter break will thus occur two rounds earlier than usual, with matchdays 17 and 18 to be held in January 2023. On 22 November 2022, fixtures of matchdays 19 through 27 were scheduled.[6] Matchdays 28 through 36 were scheduled on 15 March 2023.[7]

The last matchday will be on 29 May 2023.[7] Following the end of the season, the two legs of the Relegation Play-off will be played on 3 and 6 June 2023, respectively.[8]

Teams

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Stadia and locations

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Location of the 2022–23 Swiss Super League teams
Club Location Stadium Capacity Ref
Basel Basel St. Jakob-Park 37,994 [9]
Grasshopper Zürich Letzigrund 26,103 [10]
Lugano Lugano Stadio Cornaredo 6,390 [11]
Luzern Lucerne Swissporarena 16,490 [12]
Servette Geneva Stade de Genève 28,833 [13]
Sion Sion Stade Tourbillon 14,283 [14]
St. Gallen St. Gallen Kybunpark 19,455 [15]
Winterthur Winterthur Stadion Schützenwiese 8,400 [16]
Young Boys Bern Stadion Wankdorf 31,120 [17]
Zürich Zürich Letzigrund 26,103 [18]

Personnel and kits

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Team President Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor
Basel   Reto Baumgartner   Heiko Vogel (interim)   Fabian Frei Macron Novartis
Grasshopper   András Gurovits   Giorgio Contini   Amir Abrashi Adidas Tianjin Seagull
Lugano   Philippe Regazzoni   Mattia Croci-Torti   Jonathan Sabbatini Erreà AIL
Luzern   Stefan Wolf   Mario Frick   Ardon Jashari Craft Otto’s
Servette   Didier Fischer   Alain Geiger   Jérémy Frick Adidas La Praille
M3 Groupe
Sion   Christian Constantin   Paolo Tramezzani   Anto Grgić Macron OIKEN
St. Gallen   Matthias Hüppi   Peter Zeidler   Lukas Görtler Jako St.Galler Kantonalbank
Winterthur   Mike Keller   Bruno Berner   Granit Lekaj gpard Keller Druckmesstechnik
Young Boys   Hanspeter Kienberger   Raphaël Wicky   Fabian Lustenberger Nike Plus500
Zürich   Ancillo Canepa   Bo Henriksen   Yanick Brecher Nike Nokera AG

Managerial changes

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Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of departure Position in table Incoming manager Date of appointment Ref.
Basel   Guille Abascal End of interim period 23 May 2022 Pre-season   Alexander Frei 23 May 2022 [19]
Winterthur   Alexander Frei Departure 23 May 2022   Bruno Berner 30 May 2022 [20]
Zürich   André Breitenreiter 24 May 2022   Franco Foda 8 June 2022 [21][22]
Young Boys   Matteo Vanetta End of interim period 2 June 2022   Raphaël Wicky 2 June 2022 [23]
Zürich   Franco Foda Termination 21 September 2022 9th   Genesio Colatrella (interim) 23 September 2022 [24][25]
Zürich   Genesio Colatrella (interim) End of interim period 10 October 2022 10th   Bo Henriksen 10 October 2022 [26]
Sion   Paolo Tramezzani Termination 20 November 2022   Fabio Celestini 21 November 2022 [27]
Basel   Alexander Frei 7 February 2023 7th   Heiko Vogel (interim) 7 February 2023 [28]
Sion   Fabio Celestini 3 March 2023 9th   David Bettoni 7 March 2023 [29][30]
Sion   David Bettoni Contract dissolution 15 May 2023 10th   Paolo Tramezzani 16 May 2023 [31][32]

League table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Young Boys (C) 36 21 11 4 82 30 +52 74 Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
2 Servette 36 14 16 6 53 48 +5 58 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3 Lugano 36 15 12 9 59 47 +12 57 Qualification for the Europa League play-off round
4 Luzern 36 13 11 12 56 52 +4 50 Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
5 Basel 36 11 14 11 51 50 +1 47
6 St. Gallen 36 11 12 13 66 52 +14 45
7 Grasshopper 36 12 8 16 56 64 −8 44
8 Zürich 36 10 14 12 41 55 −14 44
9 Winterthur 36 8 8 20 32 66 −34 32
10 Sion (R) 36 7 10 19 41 73 −32 31 Qualification for the relegation play-off
Source: Swiss Super League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.[33]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

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Relegation play-off

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The relegation play-off will be played in a two-legged game between the last place team of the Super League and the third placed team of the Challenge League.[4] The first leg will be held on 3 June 2023, with the representative of the Super League hosting.[8] The second leg will be held on 6 June 2023. Winner of the play-off is whichever teams scores most in both games (no away goals rule).[35] In case of a tie at the end of the two games, 30 minutes of extra time (two times 15 minutes) are added, followed by a penalty shoot-out, in case the teams are still tied.

First leg

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Sion0–2Lausanne-Ouchy
Report
  •   26' Mulaj
  •   57' Bamba
Attendance: 9,050
Referee: Luca Cibelli

Second leg

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Lausanne-Ouchy4–2Sion
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Attendance: 10,754
Referee: Urs Schnyder
Lausanne-Ouchy wins 6–2 on aggregate, while Sion were relegated to the Swiss Challenge League.

Statistics

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Awards

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Best Player

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Player of the Round

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The best player of the Super League and Challenge League for each matchday is voted for by the viewers from among a selection of players.

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4
# Nat Player Team L Ref # Nat Player Team L Ref # Nat Player Team L Ref # Nat Player Team L Ref
1   Samir Ramizi Winterthur (SL) [38] 10   Cedric Itten Young Boys (SL) [39] 19   André Moreira Grasshopper (SL) [40] 28   Pius Dorn Luzern (SL) [41]
2   Hayao Kawabe Grasshopper (SL) [42][43] 11   Mario Balotelli Sion (SL) [44] 20   Andy Diouf Basel (SL) [45] 29   Nicky Beloko Luzern (SL) [46]
3   Renat Dadashov Grasshopper (SL) [47] 12   Mohamed Dräger Luzern (SL) [48] 21   Zeki Amdouni Basel (SL) [49] 30 not awarded
4   Nicky Beloko Luzern (SL) [50] 13   Max Meyer Luzern (SL) [51] 22   Martin Frýdek Luzern (SL) [52] 31   Fabian Rieder Young Boys (SL) [53]
5   Lukas Görtler St. Gallen (SL) [54] 14   Dejan Sorgić Luzern (SL) [55] 23   Lawrence Ati-Zigi St. Gallen (SL) [56] 32   Anthony Racioppi Young Boys (SL) [57]
6   Lukas Watkowiak St. Gallen (SL) [58] 15   Lawrence Ati-Zigi St. Gallen (SL) [59] 24   Nicky Beloko Luzern (SL) [60] 33   André Moreira Grasshopper (SL) [61]
7   Daouda Guindo St. Gallen (SL) [62] 16   Emmanuel Latte Lath St. Gallen (SL) [63] 25   Noe Holenstein Winterthur (SL) [64] 34   Jean-Pierre Nsame Young Boys (SL) [65]
8   Ardon Jashari Luzern (SL) [66] 17   Pascal Schürpf Luzern (SL) [67] 26   Meritan Shabani Grasshopper (SL) [68] 35   Sofyan Chader Luzern (SL)
9   Marius Müller Luzern (SL) [69] 18   Max Meyer Luzern (SL) [70] 27   Sofyan Chader Luzern (SL) [71] 36   Franklin Sasere Vaduz (ChL) [72]

Team of the Season

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The Team of the Season was selected by votes for each position by the viewers from among a selection. The winners were announced on 29 June 2023.[92]

Pos Nat Playerf Team
GK   Lawrence Ati-Zigi St. Gallen
CB   Matej Maglica St. Gallen
CB   Marco Burch Luzern
RB   Michael Lang Basel
LB   Martin Frýdek Luzern
CM   Fabian Rieder Young Boys
CM   Max Meyer Luzern
WM   Patrick Pflücke Servette
WM   Christian Fassnacht Young Boys
FW   Zeki Amdouni Basel
FW   Cedric Itten Young Boys
M   Mario Frick Luzern

Teams

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