1965–66 Nationalliga A

Statistics of Swiss Super League football (soccer) competition in the 1965–66 season.

Nationalliga A
Season1965–66

Overview

Fourteen teams contested the 1965–66 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1964–65 season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and Young Fellows Zürich. Zürich won the championship with 42 points and qualified for 1966–67 European Cup. They were seven points ahead of Servette in second place. Servette won the Swiss Cup and qualified for the 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup.[1]

League standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zürich (C) 26 18 6 2 73 25 +48 42 Swiss Champions, qualified for 1966–67 European Cup
2 Servette 26 14 7 5 57 45 +12 35 Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup
3 Lausanne-Sport 26 12 8 6 72 46 +26 32
4 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 12 7 7 53 42 +11 31 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
5 Young Boys 26 11 7 8 72 47 +25 29
6 Basel 26 10 7 9 64 57 +7 27
7 Grasshopper Club 26 11 5 10 55 54 +1 27
8 Sion 26 9 8 9 36 36 0 26 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
9 Lugano 26 6 10 10 27 37 −10 22
10 Biel-Bienne 26 6 10 10 38 56 −18 22 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
11 Grenchen 26 8 6 12 42 65 −23 22
12 Young Fellows Zürich 26 7 7 12 46 62 −16 21
13 Luzern 26 4 10 12 36 56 −20 18 Relegated to Nationalliga B
14 Urania Genève Sport 26 3 4 19 35 78 −43 10
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results
Home \ Away BAS BB CDF GCZ GRE LS LUG LUZ SER SIO UGS YB YFZ ZÜR
Basel 5–0 2–0 1–5 5–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 5–2 2–1 4–1 4–2 5–1 2–5
Biel-Bienne 1–1 1–3 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 7–1 1–1 0–3 1–1
Chaux-de-Fonds 2–1 4–0 4–0 4–2 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–2 1–2 4–2 4–2 1–4 4–2
Grasshopper 2–2 1–2 2–1 1–2 3–3 2–0 4–2 4–1 0–1 3–1 1–6 7–2 0–3
Grenchen 3–2 3–2 1–2 0–4 1–6 5–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–1 0–2 3–0 0–1
Lausanne-Sport 5–3 5–0 1–3 1–1 4–1 5–0 2–2 2–3 2–0 6–2 2–2 1–1 1–4
Lugano 2–2 2–2 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 3–0 4–2 1–0 2–0 0–1
Luzern 4–4 2–4 4–1 2–4 2–2 3–5 1–0 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–4
Servette 6–1 4–0 1–1 5–2 4–1 0–2 2–1 3–1 2–1 3–1 1–0 3–3 2–2
Sion 1–0 1–4 2–0 5–0 2–2 2–3 0–0 0–0 0–2 5–1 2–1 2–0 1–1
Urania 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–3 1–3 2–6 0–1 3–2 2–3 1–1 2–3 2–1 3–3
Young Boys 1–1 4–2 3–3 1–0 6–2 6–1 2–2 9–2 2–3 4–1 3–1 8–1 1–4
Young Fellows 5–4 2–1 1–1 2–3 7–0 1–5 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–2 4–2 2–2 2–4
Zürich 3–0 5–0 2–3 4–1 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 7–1 3–0 4–0 3–0 3–1
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1Switzerland Rolf BlättlerGrasshopper Club28
2Netherlands Lambert TheunissenYoung Boys27
3Netherlands Pierre KerkhoffsLausanne-Sport21
4Switzerland Robert HospLausanne-Sport20
5Switzerland Fritz KünzliFC Zürich18

References
  1. Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1965/66". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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