1976–77 Nationalliga A

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1976–77 season.

Nationalliga A
Season1976–77

Overview

The Swiss Football Association had reformed the Swiss football league system that year, reducing the number of teams in the Nationalliga A from 14 to 12 and increasing the Nationalliga B teams from 14 to 16. The Nationalliga A season 1976–77 was contested by the first 11 teams from the 1975–76 season and the sole promoted team from Nationalliga B AC Bellinzona. The Nationalliga A was played in two stages. The qualification phase was played by all teams in a round robin and after completion was divided into two groups. The first six teams contended in the championship group (with half the obtained points as bonus) and the positions seventh to twelfth contended the relegation group (also with half the obtained points as bonus). Servette FC Genève and Basel finished the qualification phase in first and second position with 35 and 33 points from 22 games and so entered the championship group with a bonus of 18 and 17. At the end of the championship phase these two teams were level on 29 points. Therefore they had to compete a play-off match for champions. This play-off was held at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern in front of 55,000 supporters. Basel won the match 2–1 and were awarded the championship.

The playout round ended with FC Winterthur and AC Bellinzona being relegated.

First stage

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Servette FC Genève 22 14 7 1 68 27 +41 35 To championship round
2 FC Basel 22 14 5 3 54 30 +24 33
3 FC Zürich 22 12 7 3 49 18 +31 31
4 Neuchâtel Xamax 22 10 7 5 37 27 +10 27
5 BSC Young Boys 22 8 9 5 37 34 +3 25
6 Grasshopper Club Zürich 22 7 8 7 41 28 +13 22
7 Lausanne Sports 22 8 6 8 39 31 +8 22 To playout round
8 CS Chênois 22 6 8 8 29 39 −10 20
9 FC Sion 22 4 10 8 19 32 −13 18
10 FC St. Gallen 22 5 6 11 26 40 −14 16
11 AC Bellinzona 22 3 2 17 19 73 −54 8
12 FC Winterthur 22 1 5 16 19 58 −39 7
Source: rsssf.com

Results
Home \ Away BAS BEL CHÊ GCZ LS NX SER SIO STG YB WIN ZÜR
Basel 4–3 4–1 3–2 2–2 3–1 4–1 2–1 4–2 1–4 6–1 1–3
Bellinzona 1–2 1–1 1–3 1–0 2–2 0–4 2–1 0–1 0–2 4–1 0–3
Chênois 1–2 2–1 0–0 1–1 1–5 1–4 1–0 2–0 4–4 3–1 1–0
Grasshopper 1–1 8–2 1–1 4–0 0–1 1–1 0–2 1–1 1–3 4–0 2–2
Lausanne-Sports 0–1 5–0 3–0 1–2 1–2 3–7 3–0 5–0 0–0 3–0 1–1
Neuchâtel Xamax 0–2 5–0 0–0 3–2 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–0 2–2 2–0 2–1
Servette 2–2 10–0 2–1 2–1 3–0 1–1 6–0 4–1 3–1 2–0 2–1
Sion 0–0 2–1 1–1 1–3 2–2 0–3 1–1 3–1 0–0 2–0 1–1
St. Gallen 1–1 4–0 0–3 0–0 1–4 2–0 3–5 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–3
Young Boys 0–6 5–0 5–2 1–0 2–0 0–4 0–2 0–0 1–1 5–2 1–1
Winterthur 2–3 2–0 2–2 1–4 1–2 1–1 4–4 1–1 0–3 0–0 0–1
Zürich 1–0 6–0 2–0 1–1 1–1 6–1 1–1 3–0 2–1 5–1 4–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD BP Pts Qualification
1 FC Basel 10 5 2 3 19 16 +3 17 29 Play-off match
2 Servette FC Genève 10 5 1 4 16 14 +2 18 29
3 FC Zürich 10 5 1 4 24 18 +6 16 27
4 Grasshopper Club Zürich 10 5 2 3 15 10 +5 11 23
5 Neuchâtel Xamax 10 3 1 6 14 18 −4 14 21
6 BSC Young Boys 10 3 1 6 12 24 −12 13 20
Source: rsssf.com

Playoff match
Play-Off
Basel2 – 1Servette
Mundschin 37'
von Wartburg 75'		 [ Report] 30' Müller
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: Switzerland Ruedi Renggli

Results
Home \ Away BAS GCZ NX SER YB ZÜR
Basel 2–3 3–1 2–0 2–0 3–1
Grasshopper 6–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 0–2
Neuchâtel Xamax 0–0 0–1 4–2 2–0 2–0
Servette 2–0 3–0 3–1 4–1 1–0
Young Boys 0–3 0–3 2–1 2–1 1–5
Zürich 3–3 1–0 5–2 4–0 3–6
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD BP Pts Relegation
1 Lausanne Sports 10 7 3 0 24 7 +17 11 28
2 CS Chênois 10 5 4 1 24 13 +11 10 24
3 FC Sion 10 5 0 5 18 17 +1 9 19
4 FC St. Gallen 10 3 2 5 18 19 −1 8 16
5 FC Winterthur (R) 10 3 3 4 11 14 −3 4 13 Relegated
6 AC Bellinzona (R) 10 0 2 8 7 32 −25 4 6
Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated

Results
Home \ Away BEL CHÊ LS SIO STG WIN
Bellinzona 0–1 0–0 1–2 1–3 0–0
Chênois 6–2 1–1 3–2 0–1 4–0
Lausanne-Sports 5–0 2–2 2–0 3–1 1–0
Sion 7–1 1–1 0–4 3–1 1–1
St. Gallen 5–1 1–3 2–4 3–1 1–0
Winterthur 3–1 3–3 1–2 2–1 1–0
Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Sources
  • Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
  • Switzerland 1976–77 at RSSSF
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