2011–12 Swiss 1. Liga

The 2011–12 Swiss 1. Liga was the final season of this league as the third highest tier in the Swiss football league system. From next season it would become the fourth highest tier. The 1. Liga is and remains the highest tier in Swiss amateur football, but many teams at that time had professional or semi-professional players.

1. Liga

Season	2011–12
Champions	Group 1: Sion U-21 Group 2: BSC Old Boys Group 3: FC Tuggen
Promoted	Clubs FC Fribourg Yverdon-Sport FC BSC Old Boys FC Breitenrain Bern FC Tuggen Schaffhausen SC Young Fellows Juventus Youth teams Sion U-21 Zürich U-21 Basel U-21 St. Gallen U-21
Europa League	USV Eschen/Mauren
Matches played	720
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

Format

The 1. Liga in the 2011–12 season 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. Due to the creation of the 1. Liga Promotion that was due to commence the following year, this season would see the number of teams in the groups reduced from 16 to 14 and it would be renamed as 1. Liga Classic. The new Promotion League would serve as the semi-professional link to amateur football. Six clubs could achieve promotion to the new third division, if they had applied for the semi-professional status. Due to the bankruptcy of Xamax in January 2012 it resulted that seven clubs were promoted. The four best U-21 teams would receive a wild card and advance as well. This reconstruction was done to decrease the competitive gap between the professional two top tiers and the amateur leagues.^[1][2]

Group 1

Teams

Club	Canton	Stadium	Capacity
FC Baulmes	Vaud	Stade Sous-Ville	2,500
FC Bulle	Fribourg	Stade de Bouleyres	7,000
SC Düdingen	Fribourg	Stadion Birchhölzli	3,000
FC Echallens	Vaud	Sportplatz 3 Sapins	2,000
FC Fribourg	Fribourg	Stade Universitaire	9,000
Grand-Lancy FC	Geneva	Stade de Marignac	1,500
FC Le Mont	Vaud	Centre Sportif du Châtaignier	2,500
ES FC Malley	Vaud	Centre Sportif de la Tuilière	1,500
FC Martigny-Sports	Valais	Stade d'Octodure	2,500
FC Meyrin	Geneva	Stade des Arbères	9,000
FC Monthey	Valais	Stade Philippe Pottier	1,800
FC Naters	Valais	Sportanlage Stapfen	3,000
Sion U-21	Valais	Stade de Tourbillon	20,200
Urania Genève Sport	Geneva	Stade de Frontenex	4,000
Young Boys U-21	Bern	Stadion Wankdorf or Allmend Bern	32,000 2,000
Yverdon-Sport FC	Vaud	Stade Municipal	6,600

Final group table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sion U-21	30	17	5	8	70	41	+29	56	Youth team wild card
2	Young Boys U-21	30	16	4	10	74	50	+24	52	To 1. Liga Classic
3	FC Fribourg	30	16	4	10	52	40	+12	52	Promoted to 2012–13 1. Liga Promotion
4	Yverdon-Sport FC	30	15	7	8	53	44	+9	52
5	FC Le Mont	30	15	6	9	51	45	+6	51	To 1. Liga Classic
6	Grand-Lancy FC	30	13	9	8	56	44	+12	48
7	FC Meyrin	30	13	6	11	57	42	+15	45
8	SC Düdingen	30	14	3	13	63	59	+4	45
9	FC Echallens	30	12	8	10	62	49	+13	44
10	FC Martigny-Sports	30	11	8	11	51	50	+1	41
11	ES FC Malley	30	10	8	12	66	61	+5	38
12	FC Bulle	30	10	7	13	46	59	−13	37
13	Urania Genève Sport	30	10	6	14	51	67	−16	36
14	FC Monthey	30	7	9	14	50	66	−16	30
15	FC Naters	30	8	5	17	42	72	−30	29
16	FC Baulmes	30	3	5	22	25	80	−55	14

Source: Erste Liga official website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.

Group 2

Teams

Club	Canton	Stadium	Capacity
FC Baden	Aargau	Esp Stadium	7,000
Basel U-21	Basel-City	Stadion Rankhof or Youth Campus Basel	7,000 1,000
FC Breitenrain Bern	Bern	Spitalacker	1,450
SC Dornach	Solothurn	Gigersloch	2,500
Grasshopper Club U-21	Zürich	GC/Campus Niederhasli	2,000
FC Grenchen	Solothurn	Stadium Brühl	15,100
FC Münsingen	Bern	Sportanlage Sandreutenen	1,400
SV Muttenz	Basel-Country	Sportplatz Margelacker	3,200
BSC Old Boys	Basel-City	Stadion Schützenmatte	8,000
FC Schötz	Lucerne	Sportplatz Wissenhusen	1,750
FC Serrières	Neuchâtel	Pierre-à-Bot	1,700
FC Solothurn	Solothurn	Stadion FC Solothurn	6,750
Thun U-21	Bern	Stadion Lachen	10,350
FC Wangen bei Olten	Solothurn	Sportplatz Chrüzmatt	3,000
SC Zofingen	Aargau	Sportanlagen Trinermatten	2,000
Zürich U-21	Zürich	Sportplatz Heerenschürli	1,120

Final group table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	BSC Old Boys	30	20	2	8	68	36	+32	62	Promoted to 2012–13 1. Liga Promotion
2	FC Breitenrain Bern	30	18	7	5	54	25	+29	61
3	FC Baden	30	19	3	8	61	31	+30	60	To 1. Liga Classic
4	Zürich U-21	30	16	3	11	55	49	+6	51	Youth team wild card
5	FC Münsingen[3]	30	14	8	8	42	36	+6	50	To 1. Liga Classic
6	Basel U-21	30	13	8	9	56	36	+20	47	Youth team wild card
7	FC Solothurn	30	13	6	11	52	43	+9	45	To 1. Liga Classic
8	SC Dornach	30	12	8	10	54	50	+4	44
9	FC Schötz	30	12	6	12	54	57	−3	42
10	Grasshopper Club U-21	30	12	4	14	50	58	−8	40
11	FC Wangen bei Olten	30	8	9	13	29	47	−18	33
12	FC Serrières	30	7	11	12	43	47	−4	32
13	FC Grenchen	30	8	5	17	29	64	−35	29
14	SV Muttenz	30	8	3	19	41	74	−33	27
15	Thun U-21	30	6	8	16	46	58	−12	26
16	SC Zofingen	30	5	7	18	35	58	−23	22

Source: Erste Liga official website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.

Group 3

Teams

Club	Canton	Stadium	Capacity
FC Balzers		Sportplatz Rheinau	2,000
GC Biaschesi	Ticino	Campo Sportivo "Al Vallone"	2,850
SC Cham	Zug	Stadion Eizmoos	1,800
USV Eschen/Mauren		Sportpark Eschen-Mauren	6,000
FC Gossau	St. Gallen	Sportanlage Buechenwald	3,500
SV Höngg	Zürich	Hönggerberg	1,000
Lugano U-21	Ticino	Cornaredo Stadium	6,330
Luzern U-21	Lucerne	Swissporarena or Allmend Süd	16,800 2,000
FC Mendrisio	Ticino	Centro Sportivo Comunale	4,000
FC Muri[4]	Aargau	Stadion Brühl	2,350
Rapperswil-Jona	St. Gallen	Stadion Grünfeld	2,500
FC Schaffhausen	Schaffhausen	Stadion Breite	7,300
St. Gallen U-21	St. Gallen	Espenmoos or Kybunpark	3,000 19,264
FC Tuggen	Schwyz	Linthstrasse	2,800
Winterthur U-21	Zürich	Schützenwieseor Schützenwiese Sportplätze	8,550 1,500
SC YF Juventus	Zürich	Utogrund	2,850

Final group table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Tuggen	30	22	3	5	69	31	+38	69	Promoted to 2012–13 1. Liga Promotion
2	FC Schaffhausen	30	21	3	6	88	28	+60	66
3	SC Young Fellows Juventus	30	20	4	6	83	34	+49	64
4	USV Eschen/Mauren	30	15	8	7	56	43	+13	53	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round[a]
5	St. Gallen U-21	30	14	8	8	52	43	+9	50	Youth team wild card
6	FC Rapperswil-Jona	30	11	14	5	60	51	+9	47	To 1. Liga Classic
7	SC Cham	30	13	6	11	58	46	+12	45
8	FC Mendrisio	30	12	6	12	38	33	+5	42
9	Luzern U-21	30	12	4	14	56	59	−3	40
10	FC Balzers	30	10	5	15	48	66	−18	35
11	Winterthur U-21	30	9	5	16	37	57	−20	32
12	GC Biaschesi	30	6	11	13	39	53	−14	29
13	Lugano U-21	30	8	4	18	36	64	−28	28
14	FC Muri	30	7	7	16	35	66	−31	28
15	SV Höngg	30	6	5	19	31	70	−39	23
16	FC Gossau	30	5	5	20	42	84	−42	20

Source: Erste Liga official website
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.
Notes:

1. USV Eschen/Mauren qualified as 2011–12 Liechtenstein Cup winners.

See also

• 2011–12 Swiss Super League
• 2011–12 Swiss Challenge League
• 2011–12 Swiss Cup