The 2006–07 Swiss 1. Liga was the 75th season of this league and, at this time, was the third tier of the Swiss football league system. The 1. Liga was the highest level of amateur football, although a number of teams had professional or semi-professional players in their ranks.
Format There were 48 teams in this division this season, including eight U-21 teams which were the eldest youth teams of the professional clubs in the Super League and the Challenge League. The 1. Liga was divided into three regional groups, each with 16 teams. Within each group, the teams would play a double round-robin to decide their positions in the league. The three groups winners and three runners-up, together with the two best third placed teams, then contested a play-off for the two promotion slots. The U-21 teams were not eligible for promotion and could not compete the play-offs. The two last placed teams in each group was relegated to the 2. Liga Interregional.
Group 1 Teams ClubCantonStadiumCapacityFC BexVaudRelaisFC BulleFribourgStade de BouleyresCS ChênoisGenevaStade des Trois-ChêneSC DüdingenFribourgStadion BirchhölzliFC EchallensVaudSportplatz 3 SapinsÉtoile Carouge FCGenevaStade de la FontenetteFC FribourgFribourgStade UniversitaireFC La Tour/Le PâquierFribourgStade de BouleyresES FC MalleyVaudCentre Sportif de la TuilièreFC Martigny-SportsValaisStade d'OctodureFC MeyrinGenevaStade des ArbèresFC NatersValaisSportanlage StapfenFC SerrièresNeuchâtelPierre-à-BotSion U-21ValaisStade de TourbillonFC Stade NyonnaisVaudStade de ColovrayUrania Genève SportGenevaStade de Frontenex
Final league table
Group 2 Teams ClubCantonStadiumCapacityBasel U-21Basel-CityStadion Rankhof orLeichtathletik-Stadion St. JakobFC Biel-BienneBernTissot ArenaSC ChamZugStadion EizmoosSC DornachSolothurnGigerslochFC GrenchenSolothurnStadium BrühlFC Kickers LuzernLucerneStadion Auf TribschenFC LaufenBasel-CountrySportplatz NauLuzern U-21LucerneStadion Allmend orAllmend SüdFC MünsingenBernSportanlage SandreutenenSV MuttenzBasel-CountrySportplatz MargelackerFC OltenSolothurnSportanlagen KleinholzFC SolothurnSolothurnStadion FC SolothurnFC Wangen bei OltenSolothurnSportplatz ChrüzmattYoung Boys U-21BernStadion Wankdorf orAllmend BernSC ZofingenAargauSportanlagen TrinermattenZug 94ZugHerti Allmend Stadion
Final league table
Group 3 Teams ClubCantonStadiumCapacityFC BadenAargauEsp StadiumGC BiaschesiTicinoCampo Sportivo "Al Vallone"FC BruggAargauStadion AuFC Chur 97GrisonsRingstrasse FC Gossau Gossau, St. Gallen Sportanlage Buechenwald Grasshopper Club U-21ZürichGC/Campus NiederhasliFC HerisauAppenzell AusserrhodenEbnetFC KreuzlingenThurgauSportplatz HafenarealFC MendrisioTicinoCentro Sportivo ComunaleFC Rapperswil-JonaSt. GallenStadion GrünfeldFC Red Star ZürichZürichAllmend BrunauFC Seefeld ZürichZürichSportanlage LenggSt. Gallen U-21St. GallenEspenmoos FC TuggenSchwyzLinthstrasseWinterthur U-21ZürichSchützenwiese orSchützenwiese SportplätzeZürich U-21ZürichSportplatz Heerenschürli
Final league table
Promotion play-off Qualification round
Aggregate 3–3, Cham win on away goals
Urania win 5–4 on aggregate
Gossau win 4–2 on aggregate
Biel-Bienne win 2–1 on aggregate Final round
Cham win 3–2 on aggregate
Gossau win 6–2 on aggregate
SC Cham and FC Gossau are promoted in Challenge League.
Summary Group 1 champions were Étoile Carouge and runners-up were Urania Genève Sport. Group 2 champions were Basel U-21, but they were not eligible to the play-offs, this right was passed down to second and third placed Biel-Bienne and FC Solothurn. Group 3 champions were Red Star Zürich. Runners-up were Zürich U-21, but too they were not eligible to the play-offs and this right was passed down to second placed FC Gossau. The best two third placed teams were Stade Nyonnais from group 1 and SC Cham from group 2. In the play-offs Cham and Gossau achieved promotion to the Challenge League.
From group 1 Martigny and Chênois were relegated. From group 2 Dornach and Kickers Luzern suffered relegation and from group 3 Seefeld and Chur suffered relegation too. The remaining teams in the division were to be joined in next season by FC Savièse, SV Lyss, FC Küsnacht, SV Schaffhausen, FC Schötz and BSC Old Boys, these beings the five 2. Liga Interregional group winners and by the best placed runners-up. They were also joined by FC Baulmes and SC YF Juventus who had just suffered relegation after the 2003–04 Challenge League.
References
Sources Switzerland 2006/07 at RSSSF Season 2006–07 at the official website