1970–71 Nationalliga A

Nationalliga A
Season1970–71
ChampionsGrasshopper Club
RelegatedFribourg
Bellinzona
Top goalscorerWalter Müller (Young Boys)
19 goals
Nationalliga B
Season1970–71
ChampionsSt. Gallen
PromotedSt. Gallen
FC Grenchen
RelegatedYoung Fellows
Urania Genève
Top goalscorerFranz Meier (Wettingen)
20 goals

The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1970–71 football season, both Nationalliga A and Nationalliga B. This was the 74th season of top-tier and the 73rd season of second-tier football in Switzerland.

Overview

The Swiss Football Association (ASF/SFV) had 28 member clubs at this time and these were devided into two divisions of 14 teams each. The teams played a double round-robin to decide their table positions. Two points were awarded for a win and one point was awarded for a draw. The top tier (NLA) was contested by the top 12 teams from the previous 1969–70 season and the two newly promoted teams Sion and Luzern. The champions would qualify for the 1971–72 European Cup, the second and third placed teams would qualify for the newly created 1971–72 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated.

The second-tier (NLB) was contested by the two teams that had been relegated from the NLA, FC Wettingen and St. Gallen, the teams that had been in third to twelfth position last season and the two newly promoted teams Vevey-Sports and FC Monthey. The top two teams at the end of the season would be promoted to the 1971–72 NLA and the last two teams would be relegated to the 1971–72 Swiss 1. Liga.[1]

At the end of the NLA season it came to an extraordinary situation, FC Basel finished the regular season level on points with Grasshopper Club Zürich and so these two teams had to contest a play-off game on 8 June 1971 to decide the championship title. Grasshopper won the play-off 4–3 after extra time.[2] Bellinzona finished last in the table and were relegated. Sion and Fribourg, were level on points, both classes as second last, so they had to compete a play-out against relegation. Sion won 1–0 and remained in the top-tier and Fribourg were relegated.[3]

Nationalliga A

Teams, locations

Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity
FC Basel Basel  Basel-Stadt St. Jakob Stadium 36,800
AC Bellinzona Bellinzona  Ticino Stadio Comunale Bellinzona 5,000
FC Biel-Bienne Biel/Bienne  Bern Stadion Gurzelen 15,000
FC Fribourg Fribourg  Fribourg Stade Universitaire 9,000
Grasshopper Club Zürich Zürich  Zürich Hardturm 20,000
FC La Chaux-de-Fonds La Chaux-de-Fonds  Neuchâtel Centre Sportif de la Charrière 12,700
FC Lausanne-Sport Lausanne  Vaud Pontaise 15,700
FC Lugano Lugano  Ticino Cornaredo Stadium 6,330
FC Luzern Lucerne  Lucerne Stadion Allmend 25,000
Servette FC Geneva  Geneva Stade des Charmilles 27,000
FC Sion Sion  Valais Stade de Tourbillon 16,000
FC Winterthur Winterthur  Zürich Schützenwiese 8,550
BSC Young Boys Bern  Bern Wankdorf Stadium 56,000
FC Zürich Zürich  Zürich Letzigrund 25,000

Final league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Basel[4] 26 18 6 2 67 26 +41 42 To championship play-off
2 Grasshopper Club 26 20 2 4 59 21 +38 42 To championship play-off
and entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
3 Lugano 26 11 9 6 50 34 +16 31 Qualified for 1971–72 UEFA Cup
and entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
4 Lausanne-Sport 26 12 6 8 51 43 +8 30
5 Zürich[5] 26 11 6 9 41 42 −1 28 Entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
6 Winterthur 26 11 5 10 36 38 −2 27
7 Servette[6] 26 8 10 8 39 36 +3 26 Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1971–72 Cup Winners' Cup
and entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
8 Young Boys[7] 26 10 6 10 43 46 −3 26
9 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 9 6 11 46 47 −1 24
10 Biel-Bienne 26 6 9 11 32 43 −11 21
11 Luzern 26 8 4 14 39 48 −9 20
12 Sion 26 5 9 12 32 46 −14 19 To relegation play-off
13 Fribourg 26 6 7 13 35 63 −28 19 To relegation play-off
14 Bellinzona 26 1 7 18 24 61 −37 9 Relegated to 1971–72 Nationalliga B
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers;

Results

Home \ Away BAS BEL BB CDF FRI GCZ LS LUG LUZ SER SIO WIN YB ZÜR
Basel 5–2 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 5–3 4–1 5–0 2–2 2–0 5–0 3–2 4–2
Bellinzona 0–2 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–3 0–0 0–3 0–0 3–2 1–1 0–5 1–3 1–2
Biel-Bienne 1–1 2–1 2–1 0–3 0–3 1–4 3–2 2–1 2–2 1–1 1–1 4–0 0–1
La Chaux-de-Fonds 0–1 2–2 1–0 4–1 3–1 1–3 1–0 2–0 3–2 3–3 0–1 1–1 2–2
Fribourg 2–3 2–1 2–2 3–1 0–5 1–1 1–1 3–2 0–3 2–2 0–0 1–3 2–0
Grasshopper Club 2–1 1–0 2–1 3–1 10–1 1–0 2–1 2–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 2–1 1–2
Lausanne-Sports 2–2 3–1 1–0 3–2 4–2 1–3 0–0 1–0 2–2 3–1 4–0 1–0 5–0
Lugano 1–1 4–1 1–1 4–2 1–1 0–0 5–1 4–1 3–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 3–3
Luzern 1–1 4–0 1–2 4–3 3–1 0–2 4–1 3–2 3–1 0–2 0–2 1–2 3–3
Servette 1–1 3–1 2–2 2–2 2–0 0–1 1–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 2–0
Sion 0–1 2–2 1–1 2–4 2–0 1–1 5–1 1–2 0–2 2–1 2–1 1–3 0–1
Winterthur 2–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 4–3 1–2 1–1 1–2 3–1 1–0 3–0 0–0 0–1
Young Boys 1–6 3–3 2–1 1–3 4–1 0–1 3–1 3–3 1–3 1–1 3–1 2–0 2–1
Zürich 0–1 2–0 4–2 1–1 1–1 1–4 2–5 0–1 1–1 1–0 3–0 5–1 2–0
Source: rsssf.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Championship play-off

Grasshopper Club4–3 (a.e.t.)Basel
Ohlhauser 16'
Grahn 75', 97'
Meier 106'		 FCB summary Mundschin 21'
Wenger 70'
Benthaus 119' (pen.)
Attendance: 51,000
Referee: Switzerland Ulysse Darbellay Roche

Grasshopper Club were championship play-off winners and thus qualified for 1971–72 European Cup. As runners-up Basel qualified for 1971–72 UEFA Cup.

Relegation play-out

Sion1–0Fribourg
Elsig 13'
Attendance: 20,000
Referee: Switzerland Pius Paul Kamber (Zürich)

Sion won the play-out and remained in the top-tier. Fribourg were relegated to 1971–72 Nationalliga B

Nationalliga B

Teams, locations

Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity
FC Aarau Aarau  Aargau Stadion Brügglifeld 9,240
SC Brühl St. Gallen  St. Gallen Paul-Grüninger-Stadion 4,200
FC Chiasso Chiasso  Ticino Stadio Comunale Riva IV 4,000
Étoile Carouge FC Carouge  Geneva Stade de la Fontenette 3,690
FC Grenchen Grenchen  Solothurn Stadium Brühl 15,100
FC Martigny-Sports Martigny  Valais Stade d'Octodure 2,500
Mendrisiostar Mendrisio  Ticino Centro Sportivo Comunale 4,000
FC Monthey Monthey  Valais Stade Philippe Pottier 1,800
FC St. Gallen St. Gallen  St. Gallen Espenmoos 11,000
Urania Genève Sport Genève  Geneva Stade de Frontenex 4,000
Vevey Sports Vevey  Vaud Stade de Copet 4,000
FC Wettingen Wettingen  Aargau Stadion Altenburg 10,000
Neuchâtel Xamax FC Neuchâtel  Neuchâtel Stade de la Maladière 25,500
FC Young Fellows Zürich Zürich  Zürich Utogrund 2,850

Final league table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 St. Gallen 26 18 5 3 55 24 +31 41 NLB Champions and promoted to 1971–72 Nationalliga A
2 FC Grenchen 26 18 3 5 53 21 +32 39 Promoted to 1971–72 Nationalliga A
3 Neuchâtel Xamax 26 13 5 8 46 32 +14 31
4 Mendrisiostar 26 9 10 7 28 27 +1 28
5 SC Brühl 26 11 5 10 45 42 +3 27
6 FC Aarau[8] 26 7 13 6 28 31 −3 27
7 Etoile Carouge FC 26 9 8 9 43 43 0 26
8 FC Monthey 26 9 7 10 44 42 +2 25
9 FC Chiasso 26 6 11 9 24 36 −12 23
10 FC Wettingen 26 8 6 12 47 48 −1 22
11 Vevey-Sports 26 8 6 12 27 41 −14 22
12 FC Martigny-Sports 26 8 6 12 26 42 −16 22
13 Young Fellows[9] 26 7 4 15 30 35 −5 18 Relegated to 1971–72 1. Liga
14 Urania Genève Sport[9] 26 3 7 16 23 55 −32 13 Relegated to 1971–72 1. Liga
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers;

Further in Swiss football

References

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  7. ^ (red) BSC Young Boys AG (2024). "Saison 1970/71" [Season 1970/71] (in German). BSC Young Boys AG. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  8. ^ Beck, Stephan (2023). "Schweizer Meisterschaft 1969/70 FCA Rangliste" [Swiss Championshi p 1969/70FCA Ranking] (in Swiss High German). arowa.ch. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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Sources

Preceded by
1969–70 		Nationalliga
seasons in
Switzerland 		Succeeded by
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