Season | 2020–21 |
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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 |
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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.
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.
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] |
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 |
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 |
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] |
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.
Sion won 6–4 on aggregate.
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 |
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)
[18] Team of the Year was:
(Young Boys)
Benjamin Kololli (Zürich), Michel Aebischer (Young Boys), Jordi Quintillà (St.Gallen), Christian Fassnacht (Young Boys),
Arthur Cabral (Basel), Jean-Pierre Nsame (Young Boys)
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 |