2024–25 Swiss Super League

The 2024–25 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsoring reasons) was the 128th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland and the 22nd under its current name. It was the second season featuring a new format and increased number of participants, since the beginning of the Super League era in 2003.^[1][2] Young Boys were the defending champions,^[3] having successfully defended their title in the previous season.

Swiss Super League

Season	2024–25
Dates	20 July 2024 – 24 May 2025
Champions	Basel (21st title)
Relegated	Yverdon-Sport
Champions League	Basel Servette
Europa League	Young Boys
Conference League	Lugano
Matches played	228
Goals scored	679 (2.98 per match)
Top goalscorer	Xherdan Shaqiri (18 goals)
Biggest home win	5–0 BAS – WIN (2 Nov '24) GCZ – YS (14 May '25)
Biggest away win	0–6 SER – BAS (11 Aug '24)
Highest scoring	3–4 STG – LS (4 Aug '24) WIN – LUZ (14 Dec '24)
← 2023–24 2025–26 →

Overview

Format and schedule

Since rebranding and restructuring the National League A to the Super League, starting with the 2003–04 season, the league has been running under the same format and the same number of teams until 2023. This is the second season to be played under the so-called Scottish Model and includes twelve participating teams.^[2][1]

The Swiss Football League (SFL) released a detailed schedule on 5 December 2023:^[4][5]

• The season will begin on 20 July 2024 and conclude on 24 May 2025.
• The league will go on winter break after matchday 18 on 15 December 2024 and resume on 18 January 2025. The final matchday of the relegation group will take place on, while the championship group will hold its last matches .
• The two legs of the relegation play-offs are scheduled for 27 and 30 May 2025, respectively.

The season is divided into two phases:

• In a first phase all twelve teams play each other three times each, for a total of 33 matchdays and concludes on 21 April 2025.
• Following that, the league is split into two groups of six each, one championship group and one relegation group. The second phase begins on 4 May 2025.
  • 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 24 May 2025.
  • The relegation group will play against relegation (last place) and qualification for the relegation play-off (second-to-last place). Final matchday will be on 22 May 2025.
• Points won in the first phase are carried over to the second phase.

Teams

Team changes

2023–24 Swiss Challenge League champions FC Sion were directly promoted just one season after their relegation in the 2022-23 season.^[6] They replace Stade Lausanne Ouchy, who were directly relegated as the last placed team of the 2023–24 Swiss Super League ending their single season stint in the top flight.^[7] Grasshopper Club Zurich remain in the Super League, as the winner of the relegation play-off against the runners-up of last season's Challenge League, FC Thun.^[8]

Stadia and locations

FC Basel	Grasshopper Club Zurich	FC Zürich	FC Lausanne-Sport	FC Lugano
St. Jakob-Park	Letzigrund		Stade de la Tuilière	Stadio Cornaredo
Basel	Zurich		Lausanne	Lugano
Capacity: 37,994[9]	Capacity: 26,103[10][11]		Capacity: 12,544[12]	Capacity: 6,390[13]
FC Luzern	Basel Grasshopper Lausanne Sport Lugano Luzern Servette Sion St. Gallen Winterthur Young Boys Yverdon Sport Zürich Location of the 2023–24 Swiss Super League teams			Servette FC
Swissporarena				Stade de Genève
Luzern				Geneva
Capacity: 16,490[14]				Capacity: 28,833[15]
FC Sion	FC St. Gallen	FC Winterthur	BSC Young Boys	Yverdon-Sport FC
Stade de Tourbillon	Kybunpark	Stadion Schützenwiese	Stadion Wankdorf	Stade Municipal
Sion	St. Gallen	Winterthur	Bern	Yverdon-les-Bains
Capacity: 14,283[16]	Capacity: 19,455[17]	Capacity: 8,400[18]	Capacity: 31,120[19]	Capacity: 6,600[20]

No. of teams	Cantons	Team(s)
3
	Zürich	Zürich, Grasshopper, Winterthur
2
	Vaud	Lausanne-Sport, Yverdon-Sport
1
	Bern	Young Boys
	Basel-Stadt	Basel
	Lucerne	Luzern
	St. Gallen	St. Gallen
	Valais	Sion
	Geneva	Servette
	Ticino	Lugano

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (front)[a]	Shirt sponsor (back)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)	Shorts sponsor
Basel	David Degen	Fabio Celestini	Xherdan Shaqiri	Macron	Novartis	None	Bank CIC, hoffmann automobile	Feldschlösschen
Grasshopper	Stacy Johns	Tomas Oral	Amir Abrashi	Capelli Sport	None	None	None	None
Lausanne-Sport	Leen Heemskerk	Ludovic Magnin	Olivier Custodio	In-house	Banque Cantonale Vaudoise	Ineos	Enzonet	None
Lugano	Philippe Regazzoni	Mattia Croci-Torti	Mattia Bottani	Erreà	AIL/Lugano’s Plan ₿ (in UEFA matches)	None	HRS Real Estate/AIL (in UEFA matches)	GTL Impresa Costruzioni
Luzern	Stefan Wolf, Josef Bieri (interim)	Mario Frick	Pius Dorn	Erreà	Otto’s	Luzerner Kantonalbank	mycasino	Maréchaux Elektro
Servette	Didier Fischer	Thomas Häberli	Jérémy Frick & Steve Rouiller	Adidas	MSC Cruises	None	None	Berney Associés, Ebury
Sion	Christian Constantin	Didier Tholot	Reto Ziegler	Macron	OIKEN (H)/Alloboisons (A), Christian Constantin SA (H)/Groupe Arsa (A)	Hestia Conseils	None	None
St. Gallen	Matthias Hüppi	Enrico Maaßen	Lukas Görtler	Puma	St.Galler Kantonalbank	Mettler Entwickelt	D+D Immobilien, Schützengarten	Malbuner, ZIMA Unternehmensgruppe
Winterthur	Mike Keller	Uli Forte	Granit Lekaj	gpard	Keller Druckmesstechnik, Init7	Schiess Reinigungen	Condecta, Mr. Green Recycling	Orgnet Immobilien, Göldi AG
Young Boys	Hanspeter Kienberger	Giorgio Contini	David von Ballmoos	Nike	Plus500	KPT Krankenkasse	Weiss+Appetito	AMAG, Komit
Yverdon-Sport	Jeffrey Saunders	Paolo Tramezzani	William Le Pogam	Macron	Kinetik	Shaw and Partners Financial Services	Energa	None
Zürich	Ancillo Canepa	Ricardo Moniz	Yanick Brecher	Castore	NOKERA	None	MG Cars	None

1. Institutional sponsor UBS Helpetica features on the front of the shirt for all teams participating in the Super League.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref.
Winterthur	Patrick Rahmen	Mutual consent	14 May 2024	Pre-season	Ognjen Zarić	1 July 2024	[21]
St. Gallen	Peter Zeidler		8 June 2024		Enrico Maaßen	1 July 2024	[22][23]
Young Boys	Joël Magnin	End of caretaker spell	14 May 2024		Patrick Rahmen	1 July 2024	[24]
Servette	René Weiler	Resigned	10 June 2024		Thomas Häberli	1 July 2024	[25]
Young Boys	Patrick Rahmen	Termination	8 October 2024	12th	Joël Magnin (caretaker)	8 October 2024	[26]
Grasshopper	Marco Schällibaum		5 November 2024	11th	Giuseppe Morello (caretaker)	5 November 2024	[27]
	Giuseppe Morello (caretaker)	End of caretaker spell	19 November 2024	11th	Tomas Oral	19 November 2024	[28]
Yverdon-Sport	Alessandro Mangiarratti	Termination	17 December 2024	10th	Paolo Tramezzani	28 December 2024	[29][30]
Winterthur	Ognjen Zarić		17 December 2024	12th	Uli Forte	24 December 2024	[31][32]
Young Boys	Joël Magnin	End of caretaker spell	18 December 2024	9th	Giorgio Contini	18 December 2024	[33]

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation[a]
1	Basel (C)	38	22	7	9	91	43	+48	73	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
2	Servette	38	17	12	9	64	55	+9	63	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
3	Young Boys	38	17	10	11	60	49	+11	61	Qualification for the Europa League play-off round[b]
4	Lugano	38	15	9	14	55	58	−3	54	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
5	Lausanne-Sport	38	14	11	13	62	54	+8	53	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
6	Luzern	38	14	10	14	66	64	+2	52
7	Zürich	38	15	8	15	56	57	−1	53
8	St. Gallen	38	13	13	12	52	53	−1	52
9	Sion	38	11	11	16	47	57	−10	44
10	Winterthur	38	11	7	20	43	68	−25	40
11	Grasshopper (O)	38	9	12	17	43	53	−10	39	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
12	Yverdon-Sport (R)	38	9	12	17	40	68	−28	39	Relegation to Swiss Challenge League

Source: Swiss Super League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored 6) Away goals scored; 7) Draw.^[34]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).
2. The 2024–25 Swiss Cup winner (Basel) qualifies for the Europa League play-off round. Since the cup winner finished in the top three, the remaining European berths were passed down to the next highest qualifying teams.

Results

First and second rounds Home \ Away BAS GCZ LS LUG LUZ SER SIO STG WIN YB YS ZÜR Basel 0–1 1–1 1–2 2–1 3–1 4–1 2–1 5–0 1–0 2–0 0–2 Grasshopper 0–3 2–2 1–1 2–2 2–2 3–1 1–2 1–1 0–0 1–1 1–2 Lausanne-Sport 3–2 3–0 1–2 0–0 1–0 1–0 3–4 2–0 1–2 3–1 3–0 Lugano 2–2 2–1 1–4 2–3 3–1 3–2 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–0 4–1 Luzern 1–0 2–0 2–2 1–4 1–2 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 2–3 3–1 Servette 0–6 1–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 3–0 1–1 1–1 3–1 3–2 1–1 Sion 1–1 0–1 4–0 0–0 4–2 3–3 2–2 2–0 3–1 1–1 0–2 St. Gallen 1–1 1–0 3–2 2–1 2–3 1–1 1–1 2–2 4–0 0–0 4–1 Winterthur 1–6 1–0 1–0 2–3 3–4 0–1 1–3 1–0 1–4 0–0 0–2 Young Boys 3–2 0–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 2–1 1–2 3–1 0–0 6–1 2–2 Yverdon-Sport 1–4 2–1 0–3 2–0 0–1 0–0 0–1 1–0 3–0 2–2 0–2 Zürich 0–1 1–1 2–0 1–1 1–1 1–3 1–0 0–2 4–2 0–0 1–0 Source: Swiss Football League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round Home \ Away BAS GCZ LS LUG LUZ SER SIO STG WIN YB YS ZÜR Basel 2–1 1–1 2–0 2–0 1–2 5–0 Grasshopper 3–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 Lausanne-Sport 2–2 2–0 1–4 0–1 2–0 4–1 Lugano 1–1 2–0 0–2 1–1 2–1 0–3 Luzern 1–1 2–1 1–1 3–2 5–0 Servette 2–1 2–1 3–1 0–1 2–3 Sion 2–1 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 St. Gallen 2–2 3–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 Winterthur 0–2 1–0 4–0 1–0 0–0 Young Boys 3–0 1–0 5–1 1–0 1–1 2–1 Yverdon-Sport 1–2 0–2 2–2 1–0 2–1 Zürich 0–4 2–2 3–2 1–3 1–2 2–1 Source: Swiss Football League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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).^[2] The exact matches are determined by the position of the teams in the league table at the time of the split.

Championship Group Home \ Away BAS SER YB LUZ LUG LS Basel 5–1 4–0 Servette 0–0 4–1 3–3 Young Boys 6–2 2–1 Luzern 3–4 0–2 1–1 Lugano 2–5 1–1 Lausanne-Sport 2–3 3–2 1–1 Source: Swiss Football League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation Group Home \ Away GCZ SIO STG WIN YS ZÜR Grasshopper 2–0 5–0 Sion 2–1 1–1 2–1 St. Gallen 1–4 3–2 Winterthur 2–0 2–0 2–2 Yverdon-Sport 1–1 1–1 3–2 Zürich 3–0 4–1 Source: Swiss Football League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-off

The relegation play-off was played in a two-legged game between the eleventh placed team of the Super League (5th of the relegation group) and the second placed team of the Challenge League. The two legs of the relegation play-offs were scheduled for 27 and 30 May 2025, respectively.^[5] On 28 March 2025, it was decided by draw that the representative of the Super League will host the first match.^[35]

The winner of the play-off was whichever team scored more goals over both games (no away goals rule).^[36] In case of a tie at the end of the two games, 30 minutes of extra time (two times 15 minutes) were added, followed by a penalty shoot-out, in case the teams were still tied.

First leg

27 May 2025 (2025-05-27)

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Grasshopper	4–0	Aarau
Young-jun 14' Schürpf 41' Muci 79' Seko 86' (pen.)	Report

Stadio Cornaredo, Lugano^[a]

Attendance: 3,800

Referee: Urs Schnyder

Second leg

30 May 2025 (2025-05-30)

20:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Aarau	1–0	Grasshopper
Obexer 82'	Report

Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau

Attendance: 8,450

Referee: Sandro Schärer

Grasshopper wins 4–1 on aggregate

1. Grasshoppers's home game will be played in Lugano, due to the Letzigrund being unavailable on the dates of the play-off.^[37]

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[38]
1	Xherdan Shaqiri	Basel	18
2	Dereck Kutesa	Servette	15
3	Willem Geubbels	St. Gallen	14
	Miroslav Stevanovic	Servette
5	Kevin Carlos	Basel	13
	Bénie Traoré	Basel
7	Alvyn Sanches	Lausanne-Sport	12
8	Christian Fassnacht	Young Boys	11
9	Thibault Klidjé	Luzern	10
	Albian Ajeti	Basel