2020–21 Swiss Super League

The 2020–21 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Raiffeisen Super League for sponsoring reasons) was the 124th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland and the 18th under its current name and format.

Swiss Super League

Season	2020–21
Dates	19 September 2020 – 21 May 2021[1]
Champions	Young Boys 15th title
Champions League	Young Boys
Europa Conference League	Basel Servette Luzern Vaduz
Matches played	180
Goals scored	515 (2.86 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jean-Pierre Nsame (19 goals)
Longest winning run	6 matches Young Boys
Longest unbeaten run	21 matches Young Boys
Longest winless run	8 matches St. Gallen Vaduz
Longest losing run	5 matches Vaduz
← 2019–20 2021–22 →

A total of ten teams competed in the league: the eight best teams from the 2019–20 season, the 2019–20 Swiss Challenge League champions Lausanne-Sport and relegation play-off winners Vaduz. Young Boys were the three-time defending champions, and successfully defended their title.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Basel

Lausanne-Sport

Lugano

Luzern

Servette

Sion

St. Gallen

Vaduz

Young Boys

Zürich

Location of the 2020–21 Swiss Super League teams

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Basel	Basel	St. Jakob-Park	37,994[2]
Lausanne-Sport	Lausanne	Stade de la Tuilière[3] (as of 29 November) Stade Olympique de la Pontaise	12,544 12,500
Lugano	Lugano	Stadio Cornaredo	6,390[4]
Luzern	Lucerne	Swissporarena	16,490[5]
Servette	Geneva	Stade de Genève	30,084
Sion	Sion	Stade Tourbillon	14,283[6]
St. Gallen	St. Gallen	Kybunpark	19,456[7]
Vaduz	Vaduz	Rheinpark Stadion	7,584
Young Boys	Bern	Stade de Suisse	31,789[8]
Zürich	Zürich	Letzigrund	26,104[9]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Basel	Patrick Rahmen (interim)	Valentin Stocker	Adidas	Novartis
Lausanne-Sport	Giorgio Contini	Stjepan Kukuruzović	Le Coq Sportif	BCV
Lugano	Maurizio Jacobacci	Jonathan Sabbatini	Acerbis	AIL Casinò Lugano
Luzern	Fabio Celestini	Christian Schwegler	Craft	Otto’s
Servette	Alain Geiger	Anthony Sauthier	Puma	La Praille M3 Groupe
Sion	Marco Walker	Serey Dié	Macron	Capital Markets Consulting
St. Gallen	Peter Zeidler	Silvan Hefti	Jako	St.Galler Kantonalbank
Vaduz	Mario Frick	Benjamin Büchel	Puma	National Bank of Liechtenstein MBPI
Young Boys	Gerardo Seoane	Fabian Lustenberger	Nike	Plus500
Zürich	Massimo Rizzo	Yanick Brecher	Nike	AntePay

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Sion	Paolo Tramezzani	End of contract	7 August 2020	Pre-season	Fabio Grosso	25 August 2020[10]
Basel	Marcel Koller	End of contract	31 August 2020	Pre-season	Ciriaco Sforza	1 September 2020[11]
Zürich	Ludovic Magnin	Sacked	5 October 2020[12]	10th	Massimo Rizzo	5 October 2020
Sion	Fabio Grosso	Sacked	5 March 2021[13]	10th	Christian Constantin (interim)	5 March 2021
	Christian Constantin (interim)	End of interim	11 March 2021	9th	Ugo Raczynski (interim)	11 March 2021[14]
	Ugo Raczynski (interim)	End of interim	16 March 2021	9th	Marco Walker	16 March 2021[15]
Basel	Ciriaco Sforza	Sacked	6 April 2021[16]	5th	Patrick Rahmen (interim)	6 April 2021

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Young Boys (C)	36	25	9	2	74	29	+45	84	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Basel	36	15	8	13	60	53	+7	53	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round
3	Servette	36	14	8	14	45	56	−11	50
4	Lugano	36	12	13	11	40	42	−2	49
5	Luzern	36	12	10	14	62	59	+3	46	Qualification for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round[a]
6	Lausanne-Sport	36	12	10	14	52	55	−3	46
7	St. Gallen	36	11	11	14	45	48	−3	44
8	Zürich	36	11	10	15	53	57	−4	43
9	Sion (O)	36	8	14	14	48	58	−10	38	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
10	Vaduz (R)	36	9	9	18	36	58	−22	36	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round and relegation to Challenge League[b]

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.^[17]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Luzern qualified for the Europa Conference League third qualifying round as winners of the 2020–21 Swiss Cup.
2. Vaduz qualified for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round by being declared winners of the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup.

Results

First and second round Home \ Away BAS LAU LUG LUZ SER SIO StG VAD YB ZÜR Basel — 2–1 2–2 3–2 1–0 4–2 0–0 2–2 0–2 1–4 Lausanne-Sport 1–3 — 0–1 2–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 3–0 0–3 4–0 Lugano 1–0 0–0 — 2–1 1–1 2–2 1–0 1–1 0–2 0–1 Luzern 1–2 2–2 1–1 — 3–0 2–0 2–2 1–1 2–3 0–0 Servette 1–0 1–1 1–1 1–3 — 1–1 2–2 1–1 0–0 2–1 Sion 2–3 0–0 1–1 1–2 2–0 — 3–2 2–1 0–0 2–2 St. Gallen 1–3 2–2 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 — 2–0 1–2 2–3 Vaduz 0–2 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–2 4–1 0–1 — 0–0 1–4 Young Boys 2–1 1–0 2–2 2–1 1–2 2–1 0–0 1–0 — 2–1 Zürich 1–0 4–0 2–2 2–0 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 1–4 — Source: Soccerway Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third and fourth round Home \ Away BAS LAU LUG LUZ SER SIO StG VAD YB ZÜR Basel — 0–0 2–0 4–1 5–0 2–2 1–0 1–2 1–1 4–0 Lausanne-Sport 3–3 — 2–0 2–1 3–1 1–3 4–3 2–1 2–4 2–2 Lugano 2–1 1–0 — 2–3 0–1 3–1 2–0 0–2 1–3 0–1 Luzern 3–4 1–0 1–2 — 3–0 1–1 4–2 4–0 2–2 3–1 Servette 2–1 1–4 1–1 4–2 — 3–5 1–2 1–2 2–1 3–1 Sion 4–0 1–1 0–3 1–1 1–2 — 1–1 0–2 0–3 2–2 St. Gallen 3–1 5–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 0–3 — 1–0 2–2 1–1 Vaduz 1–1 0–3 0–3 1–2 1–3 3–0 2–1 — 0–2 3–2 Young Boys 2–0 4–2 3–0 5–2 2–0 2–1 2–0 1–1 — 4–0 Zürich 2–0 1–1 3–0 1–2 1–2 1–1 2–2 4–1 1–2 — Source: Swiss Super League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

The ninth-placed team of the 2020–21 Swiss Super League, Sion, played against the runners-up of the 2020–21 Swiss Challenge League, Thun.

First leg

Thun	1–4	Sion
Salanović 89'	Report	Hoarau 13', 63' (pen.) Tosetti 15' Uldrikis 86'

27 May 2021

20:30

Stockhorn Arena, Thun

Attendance: 100

Referee: Sandro Schärer

Second leg

Sion	2–3	Thun
Tupta 30', 45+2'	Report	Dzonlagic 3' Schmidt 38' Havenaar 55'

30 May 2021

16:00

Stade de Tourbillon, Sion

Attendance: 100

Referee: Fedayi San

Sion won 6–4 on aggregate.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Jean-Pierre Nsame	Young Boys	19
2	Arthur Cabral	Basel	18
3	Antonio Marchesano	Zürich	11
	Grejohn Kyei	Servette
	Jordan Pefok	Young Boys
	Dejan Sorgić	Luzern
7	Pajtim Kasami	Basel	10
8	Anto Grgić	Sion	9
	Kwadwo Duah	St. Gallen
	Alex Schalk	Servette

Awards

Annual awards

Player of the Season

Player of the Season awarded to Arthur Cabral (Basel)

Young Player of the Season

Young Player of the Season awarded to Kastriot Imeri (Servette)

Coach of the Season

Coach of the Season awarded to Gerardo Seoane (Young Boys)

Goal of the Season

Goal of the Season awarded to Alexander Gerndt (Lugano)

Team of the Year

Balmos

Lustenberger

Widmer

Cömert

Hefti

Aebisher

Quintillà

Fassnacht

Gabral

Nsasme

Kolloli

^[18] Team of the Year was:

• Goalkeeper: David von Ballmoos (Young Boys)
• Defence': Silvan Widmer (Basel), Fabian Lustenberger (Young Boys), Eray Cömert (Basel), Silvan Hefti

(Young Boys)

• Midfield:

Benjamin Kololli (Zürich), Michel Aebischer (Young Boys), Jordi Quintillà (St.Gallen), Christian Fassnacht (Young Boys),

• Attack:

Arthur Cabral (Basel), Jean-Pierre Nsame (Young Boys)

Clean sheets

As of matches played 21 February 2021

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	David von Ballmoos	Young Boys	9
2	Lawrence Ati-Zigi	St. Gallen	8
3	Yanick Brecher	Zürich	7
4	Mory Diaw	Lausanne	6
	Noam Baumann	Lugano
6	Heinz Lindner	Basel	4
	Marius Müller	Luzern
	Jérémy Frick	Servette
9	Kevin Fickentscher	Sion	3
10	Timothy Fayulu	Sion	2
	Benjamin Büchel	Vaduz

References

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10. "Fabio Grosso ist neuer Sion-Coach". www.srf.ch. 25 August 2020.
11. "Ciriaco Sforza als Trainer vorgestellt". www.fcb.ch.
12. "FCZ bestätigt Magnin-Entlassung – kommt nun Schneider?". Watson. 5 July 2020.
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14. Center, Sport (12 March 2021). "Ugo Raczynski à la barre du FC Sion". Le Matin (in French). Retrieved 13 March 2021.
15. Center, Sport (16 March 2021). "Marco Walker est le nouveau coach du FC Sion". Le Matin (in French).
16. "FCB und Sforza gehen getrennte Wege". srf.ch. 6 April 2021.
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18. "SAFP Golden 11 Winners 2020". Golden11. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.

External links

• Official website
• uefa.com
• soccerway.com