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1961–62 Nationalliga A

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Nationalliga A
Season1961–62
ChampionsServette
RelegatedSchaffhausen
Fribourg
Top goalscorerJacques Fatton (Servette)
25 goals
Nationalliga B
Season1961–62
ChampionsChiasso
PromotedChiasso
Sion
RelegatedMartigny-Sports
Yverdon-Sport
Top goalscorerFrancis Anker (Sion)
23 goals

The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1961–62 football season, both Nationalliga A and Nationalliga B. This was the 65th season of top-tier and the 64th season of second-tier football in Switzerland.

Overview

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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 1960–61 season and the two newly promoted teams FC Lugano and FC Schaffhausen. The champions would qualify for the 1962–63 European 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 at the end of the last season, FC Winterthur and FC Chiasso, the ten teams that had been in third to twelfth position last season and the two newly promoted teams FC Porrentruy and FC Bodio. The top two teams at the end of the season would be promoted to the 1962–63 NLA and the two last placed teams would be relegated to the 1962–63 Swiss 1. Liga.[1]

The Swiss champions received a slot in the 1962–63 European Cup and the Cup winners received a slot in the 1962–63 Cup Winners' Cup.

Nationalliga A

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Teams, locations

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Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity
FC Basel Basel  Basel-Stadt Landhof 4,000
FC Biel-Bienne Biel/Bienne  Bern Stadion Gurzelen 5,500
FC Fribourg Fribourg  Fribourg Stade Universitaire 9,000
Grasshopper Club Zürich Zürich  Zürich Hardturm 20,000
FC Grenchen Grenchen  Solothurn Stadium Brühl 10,900
FC La Chaux-de-Fonds La Chaux-de-Fonds  Neuchâtel Centre Sportif de la Charrière 10,000
FC Lausanne-Sport Lausanne  Vaud Pontaise 30,000
FC Lugano Lugano  Ticino Cornaredo Stadium 6,330
FC Luzern Lucerne  Lucerne Stadion Allmend 25,000
FC Schaffhausen Schaffhausen  Schaffhausen Stadion Breite 7,300
Servette FC Geneva  Geneva Stade des Charmilles 27,000
BSC Young Boys Bern  Bern Wankdorf Stadium 56,000
FC Young Fellows Zürich  Zürich Utogrund 2,850
FC Zürich Zürich  Zürich Letzigrund 25,000

Final league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Servette[2] 26 18 4 4 93 30 +63 40 Swiss Champions qualified for 1962–63 European Cup
and entered 1962–63 Intertoto Cup
2 Lausanne-Sport 26 15 5 6 63 38 +25 35 Swiss Cup winners qualified for 1962–63 Cup Winners' Cup
3 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 16 2 8 72 45 +27 34 Entered 1962–63 Intertoto Cup
4 Grasshopper Club 26 12 7 7 61 52 +9 31
5 Young Boys[3] 26 13 3 10 61 51 +10 29 Entered 1962–63 Intertoto Cup
6 Luzern 26 11 6 9 45 38 +7 28
7 Basel[4] 26 10 8 8 51 54 −3 28 Entered 1962–63 Intertoto Cup
8 Biel-Bienne 26 7 10 9 45 49 −4 24
9 Zürich[5] 26 8 6 12 53 57 −4 22
10 Lugano 26 6 10 10 32 60 −28 22
11 Grenchen 26 7 7 12 39 59 −20 21
12 Young Fellows Zürich 26 7 6 13 53 63 −10 20
13 Schaffhausen 26 6 7 13 40 65 −25 19 Relegated to 1962–63 Nationalliga B
14 Fribourg 26 2 7 17 33 80 −47 11 Relegated to 1962–63 Nationalliga B
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers;

Results

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Home \ Away BAS BB CDF FRI GCZ GRE LS LUG LUZ SHA SER YB YFZ ZÜR
Basel 4–2 3–2 4–3 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–2 1–2 2–1 1–1 6–2 2–2 4–2
Biel-Bienne 4–4 2–3 2–1 3–3 1–0 2–3 1–1 2–2 2–1 1–0 1–4 3–3 3–0
La Chaux-de-Fonds 3–0 3–2 6–1 3–2 2–0 2–3 0–3 1–3 4–0 0–2 2–2 3–0 1–2
Fribourg 1–1 0–0 3–6 2–1 0–4 0–6 1–1 1–2 0–1 0–3 2–2 0–5 2–2
Grasshopper Club 4–3 2–2 0–1 3–1 2–2 2–1 4–0 1–1 4–0 3–2 3–1 2–2 3–4
Grenchen 0–1 2–2 1–3 3–2 2–0 1–2 0–2 2–0 2–2 2–2 2–9 2–0 2–3
Lausanne-Sports 6–1 0–0 3–2 3–2 3–0 1–1 4–1 1–3 6–0 4–0 0–4 2–1 2–2
Lugano 2–2 3–2 1–3 0–3 2–5 0–0 1–1 2–1 1–1 0–4 1–1 3–2 1–1
Luzern 1–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–2 1–1 1–4 3–1 4–3 0–1 2–1 3–0 6–2
Schaffhausen 1–2 2–1 0–5 2–2 2–2 4–0 3–0 2–2 1–3 0–5 4–2 6–1 1–4
Servette 5–1 4–1 3–3 9–2 7–0 11–2 4–2 5–0 3–1 4–0 3–0 4–2 4–0
Young Boys 1–4 0–2 3–2 5–1 4–7 2–0 4–1 1–0 3–1 4–0 2–1 0–3 1–0
Young Fellows 1–0 3–2 3–7 7–2 1–3 2–3 1–3 2–2 0–0 1–1 2–5 1–2 4–2
Zürich 4–1 0–0 2–3 2–1 1–2 3–4 0–2 11–0 0–2 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–4
Source: rsssf.com
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Topscorers

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Rank Player Goals Club
1. Jacques Fatton 25 Servette
2. Roberto Frigerio 22 La Chaux-de-Fonds
3. Eugen Meier 19 Young Boys
Peter von Burg 19 Grasshopper Club
5. Heinz Bertschi 18 La Chaux-de-Fonds

Nationalliga B

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Teams, locations

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Team Based in Canton Stadium Capacity
FC Aarau Aarau  Aargau Stadion Brügglifeld 9,240
AC Bellinzona Bellinzona  Ticino Stadio Comunale Bellinzona 5,000
FC Bern Bern  Bern Stadion Neufeld 14,000
FC Bodio[6] Bodio  Ticino Campo comunale Pollegio 1,000
SC Brühl St. Gallen  St. Gallen Paul-Grüninger-Stadion 4,200
FC Chiasso Chiasso  Ticino Stadio Comunale Riva IV 4,000
FC Martigny-Sports Martigny  Valais Stade d'Octodure 2,500
FC Porrentruy[7] Porrentruy  Jura Stade du Tirage 4,226
FC Sion Sion  Valais Stade de Tourbillon 16,000
FC Thun Thun  Bern Stadion Lachen 10,350
Urania Genève Sport Genève  Geneva Stade de Frontenex 4,000
Vevey Sports Vevey  Vaud Stade de Copet 4,000
FC Winterthur Winterthur  Zürich Schützenwiese 8,550
Yverdon-Sport FC Yverdon-les-Bains  Vaud Stade Municipal 6,600

Final league table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 FC Sion 26 14 7 5 62 36 +26 35 To play-off for title
2 FC Chiasso 26 14 7 5 54 30 +24 35
3 FC Winterthur 26 13 6 7 56 37 +19 32
4 AC Bellinzona 26 11 7 8 56 46 +10 29
5 Urania Genève Sport 26 11 5 10 52 48 +4 27
6 FC Thun 26 10 7 9 50 47 +3 27
7 FC Aarau[8] 26 9 8 9 37 39 −2 26
8 Vevey Sports 26 10 5 11 40 48 −8 25
9 FC Porrentruy 26 10 5 11 38 51 −13 25
10 SC Brühl 26 9 6 11 44 51 −7 24
11 FC Bern 26 8 6 12 59 48 +11 22
12 FC Bodio 26 6 10 10 38 47 −9 22
13 FC Martigny-Sports[1] 26 5 9 12 29 58 −29 19 Relegated to 1962–63 1. Liga
14 Yverdon-Sport FC[1] 26 4 8 14 36 65 −29 16 Relegated to 1962–63 1. Liga
Source: rsssf.com
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference within the league, however with play-off for qualifiers;

Play-off for title

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Sion and Chiasso finished level on points in joint first position and had both achieved promotion to 1962–63 Nationalliga A. However, it required a play-off to decide the title as NLB champions.

Team 1  Score  Team 2
Chiasso 4–3 (a.e.t.) Sion

Chiasso won the NLB championship.

Further in Swiss football

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Erste Liga (SFV) (2018). "Statistik der Ersten Liga über Aufstieg und Abstieg ab Saison 1931/32 bis 2018" [First League statistics on promotion and relegation from the 1931/32 season to 2018] (PDF). PDF page 5 (in German). Erste Liga, Abteilung des SFV. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  2. ^ Reichmuth, Daniel (2024). "Servette 1961/62" (PDF) (in French). super-servette-ch. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  3. ^ (red) BSC Young Boys AG (2024). "YB Saison 1961/62" [YB season 1961/62] (in German). BSC Young Boys AG. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  4. ^ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv" (2024). "Rangliste 1961/62" [Ranking 1961/62] (in Swiss High German). Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv". Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  5. ^ (red) dbFCZ (2023). "FCZ Saison 1961/62" [FCZ season 1961/62] (in Swiss High German). dbFCZ. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  6. ^ (red) Federazione ticinese di calcio (2024). "FC Bodio" (in German). Federazione ticinese di calcio. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  7. ^ (red) Association de football Berne/Jura (2024). "FC Porrentruy" (in French). Association de football Berne/Jura. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  8. ^ Beck, Stephan (2023). "Schweizer Meisterschaft 1961/62 FCA Rangliste" [Swiss Championship 1961/62 FCA Ranking] (in Swiss High German). arowa.ch. Retrieved 2024-11-16.

Sources

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Preceded by
1960–61 		Nationalliga
seasons in
Switzerland 		Succeeded by
1962–63
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