The 2012–13 Swiss Super League, also known as the Raiffeisen Super League for sponsoring purposes, was the 116th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. It began on 14 July 2012 and ended on 2 June 2013. Basel successfully defended their title.
The league comprised the best eight sides from the 2011–12 season, the 2011–12 Swiss Challenge League champions FC St. Gallen, and FC Sion, the winners of the relegation/promotion play-off between the ninth-placed Super League team and the Challenge League runners-up.
Since Switzerland climbed from sixteenth to fourteenth place in the UEFA association coefficient rankings at the end of the 2011–12 season, the league regained its second spot for the UEFA Champions League. In other changes, the league abolished the relegation/promotion play-off from this season after a structural change at lower tiers of the Swiss football league pyramid.
Teams No team were relegated on competitive grounds at the end of the 2011–12 season after Neuchâtel Xamax were expelled from the league over financial irregularities midway through the campaign. The club went into administration soon afterwards and was eventually liquidated. Its successors Neuchâtel Xamax 1912 were subsequently inserted into the fifth-tier 2. Liga Interregional. Xamax were replaced by 2011–12 Challenge League champions FC St. Gallen, who immediately returned to the highest football league of Switzerland.
A further spot in the league was contested in a relegation/promotion playoff between ninth-placed FC Sion and Challenge League runners-up FC Aarau. Both teams played a two-legged series, which was won by Sion, 3–1 on aggregate. The club from Valais thus remained in the league despite having received a 36-point deduction for fielding ineligible players during the season.
Stadia and locations
ClubLocationStadiumCapacityBaselSt. Jakob-Park38,512ZürichLetzigrund23,605LausanneStade Olympique de la Pontaise15,850LucerneSwissporarena17,500GenevaStade de Genève30,084SionStade Tourbillon16,500St. GallenAFG Arena19,694ThunArena Thun10,000BernStade de Suisse31,783ZürichLetzigrund23,605
Personnel and kits Team Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor Basel Murat Yakin Marco Streller adidas Novartis Grasshopper Uli Forte Vero Salatić Puma FROMM/Feldmann Bau AG Lausanne-Sport Laurent Roussey Gabri adidas Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Luzern Carlos Bernegger Florian Stahel adidas Otto's Servette Sébastien Fournier Lionel Pizzinat 14fourteen Journal GHI Sion Michel Decastel Gennaro Gattuso Erreà Baldini Transports St. Gallen Jeff Saibene Philippe Montandon Jako St. Galler Kantonalbank Thun Urs Fischer Roland Bättig Erima Panorama Center/Sky Work Young Boys Bernard Challandes Marco Wölfli Jako Bauhaus Zürich Urs Meier Philippe Koch Nike TalkEasy
League table
Results
First and Second Round
Third and Fourth Round
Season statistics
Top scorers RankPlayerClubGoals1 Ezequiel ScarioneSt. Gallen212 Marco StrellerBasel143 Josip DrmićZürich13 Marco SchneuwlyThun135 Anatole NgamukolGrasshopper / Thun126 Amine ChermitiZürich107 Mario GavranovićZürich9 Raphael NuzzoloYoung Boys99 Izet HajrovićGrasshopper8 Léo ItaperunaSion8 Chris MalongaLausanne-Sport8 Awards Annual awards Award Winner Club Raiffeisen Super League Best Player Mohamed Salah Basel Swiss Football League Best Youngster Michael Frey Young Boys Swiss Football League Best Coach Murat Yakin Basel Swiss Football League Best Goal Sven Lüscher Aarau RSL Dream Team See Team of the Season Raiffeisen Super League «Mon joueur» Mohamed Salah Basel Team of the Season
Raiffeisen Super League Dream Team 2013 Goalkeeper Yann Sommer(Basel) Defenders Kay Voser(Basel) Milan Vilotić(Grasshoppers) Fabian Schär(Basel) Michael Lang(Grasshoppers) Midfielders Valentin Stocker(Basel) Fabian Frei(Basel) Vero Salatić(Grasshoppers) Mohamed Salah(Basel) Forwards Josef Martínez(Thun) Marco Streller(Basel)
Attendances
References
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