2025–26 Swiss Super League

The 2025–26 Super League (referred to as the Brack Super League for sponsoring reasons) is the 129th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland, and the 23rd under its current name. It is the third season featuring a new format and increased number of participants, since the beginning of the Super League era in 2003. The defending champions are Basel.

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2025–26 Swiss Super League

Overview

Format and schedule

The Swiss Football League (SFL) released a detailed schedule on 26 November 2024:

• The season will begin on 25 July 2025 and conclude on 17 May 2026. • The league will go on winter break after matchday 19 on 21 December 2025 and resume on 17 January 2026. The final matchday of the relegation group will take place on 16 May, while the championship group will hold its last matches 17 May 2026. • The two legs of the relegation play-offs are scheduled for 20 and 23 May 2026, respectively.

• In a first phase all twelve teams play each other three times each, for a total of 33 matchdays and concludes on 12 April 2026. • Following that, the league is split into two groups of six each, one championship group and one relegation group. The second phase begins on 25 April 2026. • Each team will play every other team in their group one time (five matches each), for a total of 38 matchdays. • The championship group will play for the title of Swiss Football Champion and qualification for European championships. Final matchday is on 17 May 2026. • The relegation group will play against relegation (last place) and the relegation play-off (second-to-last place). Final matchday will be on 16 May 2026. • Points won in the first phase are carried over to the second phase.

Team changes

FC Thun return to the top tier after a five-year absence. Yverdon-Sport FC were relegated to Challenge League after two years in the top tier.

Teams

Stadia and locations

<table><thead><tr><th>FC Basel</th><th>Grasshopper Club Zurich</th><th>FC Zürich</th><th>FC Lausanne-Sport</th><th>FC Lugano</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>St. Jakob-Park</td><td>Letzigrund</td><td>Stade de la Tuilière</td><td>Stadio Cornaredo</td></tr><tr><td>Basel</td><td>Zurich</td><td>Lausanne</td><td>Lugano</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 37,994</td><td>Capacity: 26,103</td><td>Capacity: 12,544</td><td>Capacity: 6,390</td></tr><tr><td>FC Luzern</td><td>BaselGrasshopperLausanne SportLuganoLuzernServetteSionSt. GallenWinterthurYoung BoysThunZürich Location of the 2025–26 Swiss Super League teams</td><td>Servette FC</td></tr><tr><td>Swissporarena</td><td>Stade de Genève</td></tr><tr><td>Luzern</td><td>Geneva</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 16,490</td><td>Capacity: 28,833</td></tr><tr><td>FC Sion</td><td>FC St. Gallen</td><td>FC Thun</td><td>FC Winterthur</td><td>BSC Young Boys</td></tr><tr><td>Stade de Tourbillon</td><td>Kybunpark</td><td>Stockhorn Arena</td><td>Stadion Schützenwiese</td><td>Stadion Wankdorf</td></tr><tr><td>Sion</td><td>St. Gallen</td><td>Thun</td><td>Winterthur</td><td>Bern</td></tr><tr><td>Capacity: 14,283</td><td>Capacity: 19,455</td><td>Capacity: 10,000</td><td>Capacity: 8,400</td><td>Capacity: 31,120</td></tr></tbody></table>

Managerial changes

<table><thead><tr><th>Team</th><th>Outgoing manager</th><th>Manner of departure</th><th>Date of departure</th><th>Position in table</th><th>Incoming manager</th><th>Date of appointment</th><th>Ref.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Zürich</td><td>Ricardo Moniz</td><td>Termination</td><td>Pre-season</td><td>Mitchell van der Gaag</td><td>31 May 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Basel</td><td>Fabio Celestini</td><td>Resignation</td><td>Ludovic Magnin</td><td>16 June 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Lausanne</td><td>Ludovic Magnin</td><td>Mutual consent</td><td>Peter Zeidler</td><td>21 June 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Grasshopper</td><td>Tomas Oral</td><td>Gerald Scheiblehner</td><td>24 June 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Servette</td><td>Thomas Häberli</td><td>Termination</td><td>4 August 2025</td><td>11th</td><td>Jocelyn Gourvennec</td><td>11 August 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Winterthur</td><td>Uli Forte</td><td>20 October 2025</td><td>12th</td><td>Patrick Rahmen</td><td>22 October 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Zürich</td><td>Mitchell van der Gaag</td><td>23 October 2025</td><td>8th</td><td>Dennis Hediger (interim)</td><td>23 October 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Young Boys</td><td>Giorgio Contini</td><td>31 October 2025</td><td>5th</td><td>Gerardo Seoane</td><td>31 October 2025</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Basel</td><td>Ludovic Magnin</td><td>26 January 2026</td><td>4th</td><td>Stephan Lichtsteiner</td><td>26 January 2026</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Grasshopper</td><td>Gerald Scheiblehner</td><td>Termination</td><td>16 March 2026</td><td>11th</td><td>Gernot Messner (interim)</td><td>16 March 2026</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

League table

2025–26 Swiss Super League

<table><thead><tr><th>Pos</th><th>Team</th><th>Pld</th><th>W</th><th>D</th><th>L</th><th>GF</th><th>GA</th><th>GD</th><th>Pts</th><th>Qualification or relegation</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Thun (V, X)</td><td>31</td><td>23</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>72</td><td>35</td><td>+37</td><td>71</td><td>Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>St. Gallen (V)</td><td>31</td><td>16</td><td>8</td><td>7</td><td>60</td><td>37</td><td>+23</td><td>56</td><td>Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Basel (V)</td><td>31</td><td>15</td><td>7</td><td>9</td><td>47</td><td>39</td><td>+8</td><td>52</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Lugano (V)</td><td>31</td><td>14</td><td>9</td><td>8</td><td>48</td><td>38</td><td>+10</td><td>51</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>5</td><td>Sion (V)</td><td>31</td><td>11</td><td>13</td><td>7</td><td>44</td><td>35</td><td>+9</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Young Boys (V)</td><td>31</td><td>13</td><td>7</td><td>11</td><td>61</td><td>56</td><td>+5</td><td>46</td></tr><tr><td>7</td><td>Luzern (W)</td><td>31</td><td>10</td><td>9</td><td>12</td><td>62</td><td>56</td><td>+6</td><td>39</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>8</td><td>Servette (W)</td><td>31</td><td>8</td><td>12</td><td>11</td><td>53</td><td>56</td><td>−3</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Lausanne-Sport (W)</td><td>31</td><td>9</td><td>9</td><td>13</td><td>45</td><td>53</td><td>−8</td><td>36</td></tr><tr><td>10</td><td>Zürich (W)</td><td>31</td><td>10</td><td>4</td><td>17</td><td>44</td><td>60</td><td>−16</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>11</td><td>Grasshopper (W)</td><td>31</td><td>5</td><td>9</td><td>17</td><td>38</td><td>61</td><td>−23</td><td>24</td><td>Qualification for the Relegation play-off</td></tr><tr><td>12</td><td>Winterthur (W)</td><td>31</td><td>4</td><td>7</td><td>20</td><td>34</td><td>82</td><td>−48</td><td>19</td><td>Relegation to 2026–27 Swiss Challenge League</td></tr></tbody></table>

Results

Split

After 33 matches, the league splits into two groups of six teams. The top six are grouped into the championship group and the bottom six into the relegation group, with the teams playing every other team in their group once (either at home or away).

Season statistics

Top scorers

<table><thead><tr><th>Rank</th><th>Player</th><th>Club</th><th>Goals</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>1</td><td>Christian Fassnacht</td><td>Young Boys</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>2</td><td>Chris Bedia</td><td>Young Boys</td><td>13</td></tr><tr><td>3</td><td>Alessandro Vogt</td><td>St. Gallen</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>4</td><td>Philippe Kény</td><td>Zürich</td><td>11</td></tr><tr><td>Rilind Nivokazi</td><td>Sion</td></tr><tr><td>6</td><td>Carlo Boukhalfa</td><td>St. Gallen</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Kevin Behrens</td><td>Lugano</td></tr><tr><td>Xherdan Shaqiri</td><td>Basel</td></tr><tr><td>9</td><td>Matteo Di Giusto</td><td>Luzern</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Christopher Ibayi</td><td>Thun</td></tr></tbody></table>

Hat tricks

<table><thead><tr><th>Player</th><th>Team</th><th>Opponent</th><th>Result</th><th>Date</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Luke Plange</td><td>Grasshopper</td><td>Young Boys</td><td>6–2 (A)</td><td>17 December 2025</td></tr></tbody></table>