2010–11 Swiss Super League

Swiss Super League
Season	2010–11
Champions	Basel
Relegated	Bellinzona St. Gallen
Champions League	Basel Zürich
Europa League	Sion Young Boys Thun
Matches played	180
Goals scored	537 (2.98 per match)
Top goalscorer	Alexander Frei (27 goals)
Biggest home win	Zürich 5–0 Bellinzona
Biggest away win	Luzern 0–5 Zürich
Highest scoring	Luzern 6–2 Bellinzona
← 2009–10 2011–12 →

The 2010–11 Swiss Super League was the 114th season of top-tier football in Switzerland. It began on 17 July 2010 and ended on 25 May 2011.^[1] The league comprised ten teams.

FC Basel successfully defended their league title, maintaining a one-point edge over runners-up FC Zürich at the end of the season. It was the 14th league title overall for the club.

Teams

FC Aarau were relegated after finishing in last place of the table after the 2009–10 season. They were replaced by 2009–10 Challenge League champions FC Thun.

Ninth-placed AC Bellinzona and Challenge League runners-up FC Lugano competed in a two-legged relegation play-off after the end of the 2009–10 season. Bellinzona won 2–1 on aggregate and thus retained their Super League spot.

Stadia and locations

Location of teams in the 2010–11 Swiss Super League

Club	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Basel !FC Basel	Basel	St. Jakob-Park	38,512
Bellinzona !AC Bellinzona	Bellinzona	Stadio Comunale Bellinzona	8,740
Grasshoppers !Grasshopper Club Zürich	Zürich	Letzigrund	23,605
Lucerne !FC Luzern	Emmenbrücke	Stadion Gersag	8,700
Neuchatel !Neuchâtel Xamax	Neuchâtel	Stade de la Maladière	12,000
Sion !FC Sion	Sion	Stade Tourbillon	16,500
St Gallen !FC St. Gallen	St. Gallen	AFG Arena	19,694
Thun !FC Thun	Thun	Stadion Lachen	10,350
Young Boys !BSC Young Boys	Bern	Wankdorf	31,783
Zurich !FC Zürich	Zürich	Letzigrund	23,605

League table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Basel !Basel (C)	36	21	10	5	76	44	+32	73	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Group stage ¹
2	Zürich !Zürich	36	21	9	6	74	44	+30	72	2011–12 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
3	Young Boys !Young Boys	36	15	12	9	65	50	+15	57	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round
4	Sion !Sion	36	15	9	12	47	36	+11	54	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Play-off round ²
5	Thun !Thun	36	11	16	9	48	43	+5	49	2011–12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
6	Luzern !Luzern	36	13	9	14	62	57	+5	48
7	Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	36	10	11	15	45	54	−9	41
8	Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	36	8	8	20	44	67	−23	32
9	Bellinzona !Bellinzona (R)	36	7	11	18	42	75	−33	32	Relegation play-offs
10	St. Gallen !St. Gallen (R)	36	8	7	21	34	67	−33	31	Relegation to 2011–12 Challenge League

Updated to games played on 25 May 2011.
Source: Super League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Due to the winners of 2010-11 UEFA Champions League, Barcelona, having qualified for the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League group phase via their domestic leagues and the subsequent vacation of the title holder spot, Basel as Swiss champions were moved up from the third qualification round into the group stage.
²By winning the 2010–11 Swiss Cup. The team was later disqualified from the Europa League after Celtic's successful protest over the team's use of ineligible players.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Relegation play-offs

Bellinzona as 9th-placed Super League team played a two-legged play-off against 2010–11 Challenge League runners-up Servette.

Bellinzona v Servette

28 May 2011
16:45 CEST

Bellinzona	1 – 0	Servette
Pergl 88'	Report (German)

Stadio Comunale Bellinzona
Attendance: 4,800
Referee: Alain Bieri

Servette v Bellinzona

31 May 2011
19:15 CEST

Servette	3 - 1	Bellinzona
de Azevedo 11' Baumann 45' 56'	Report (German)	Lustrinelli 69'

Stade de Genève
Attendance: 23,338
Referee: Hänni Nikolaj

Results

Teams played each other four times over the course of the season, twice at home and twice away, for a total of 36 matches per team.

First half of season

Home ╲ Away	Basel !BAS	Bellinzona !BEL	Grasshopper Club Zürich !GCZ	Luzern !LUZ	Neuchâtel Xamax !NX	Sion !SIO	St. Gallen !STG	Thun !THU	Young Boys !YB	Zürich !ZÜR
Basel !Basel		3–1	2–2	1–4	4–1	1–1	3–0	1–3	3–1	3–2
Bellinzona !Bellinzona	1–0		1–1	0–3	3–3	0–2	1–3	2–2	2–1	1–2
Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	2–1	2–3		0–3	1–1	0–4	2–0	0–0	1–2	1–2
Luzern !Luzern	1–1	6–2	3–2		4–2	2–3	4–0	1–1	2–0	1–1
Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	1–2	1–2	1–1	2–1		0–3	0–1	2–3	2–4	3–4
Sion !Sion	1–2	1–1	2–0	4–1	1–2		0–2	1–1	2–0	1–1
St. Gallen !St. Gallen	1–3	3–2	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–1		2–1	1–2	0–3
Thun !Thun	1–1	0–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	1–0	3–0		1–1	1–3
Young Boys !Young Boys	2–2	1–1	1–0	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–1	2–2		1–0
Zürich !Zürich	1–4	2–2	2–0	2–2	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–2

Source: Swiss Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second half of season

Home ╲ Away	Basel !BAS	Bellinzona !BEL	Grasshopper Club Zürich !GCZ	Luzern !LUZ	Neuchâtel Xamax !NX	Sion !SIO	St. Gallen !STG	Thun !THU	Young Boys !YB	Zürich !ZÜR
Basel !Basel		2–0	2–2	3–0	1–0	1–0	3–0	5–1	2–1	3–1
Bellinzona !Bellinzona	0–4		2–0	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–3	1–1	1–5	0–1
Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	1–2	2–2		2–1	3–1	2–0	1–3	0–0	3–2	3–1
Luzern !Luzern	0–1	3–2	1–0		2–1	0–1	1–1	0–1	1–1	0–5
Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	2–2	1–2	0–0	2–1		1–0	2–1	1–4	1–2	1–2
Sion !Sion	3–0	1–0	2–0	3–2	0–0		2–0	1–0	0–2	0–2
St. Gallen !St. Gallen	0–0	1–0	1–4	0–4	1–1	0–1		0–1	0–2	2–2
Thun !Thun	2–3	3–1	0–1	3–3	1–0	3–1	0–0		1–1	2–3
Young Boys !Young Boys	3–3	4–0	2–2	3–1	3–2	1–1	4–2	0–1		4–2
Zürich !Zürich	2–2	5–0	1–0	2–0	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	2–1

Updated to games played on 25 May 2011.
Source: Swiss Football League
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Source:Swiss Football League

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Alexander Frei	Basel	27
2	Henri Bienvenu	Young Boys	16
3	Mauro Lustrinelli	Bellinzona	14
4	Hakan Yakin	Luzern	12
5	Alexandre Alphonse	Zürich	10
	Giovanni Sio	Sion	10
	Admir Mehmedi	Zürich	10
	Marco Streller	Basel	10
	Innocent Emeghara	Grasshopper	10
10	Nelson Ferreira	Luzern	9
	Ezequiel Scarione	Thun	9
	Emmanuel Mayuka	Young Boys	9
	Amine Chermiti	Zürich	9

References

↑ "Super League - Results and fixtures". Soccerway. Retrieved 26 April 2011.

External links

Super league website (German)
soccerway.com

Seasons of Swiss Football League

Serie A era, 1897–1931

Seasons	1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31

Nationalliga era, 1931–1944

Seasons	1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44

Nationalliga A era, 1944–2003

Seasons	1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03

Super League era, 2003–present

Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

2010–11 in Swiss football

« 2009–10

2011–12 »

Domestic leagues

Domestic cups

Women's competitions

Nationalliga A
Nationalliga B
Swiss Cup

International club
competitions

Men	Champions League Europa League

Women	Women's Champions League

Related to
national teams

Men	UEFA Euro 2012 qualifying (Group G) 2011 UEFA Under-21 Championship 2010 UEFA Under-17 Championship 2011 UEFA Under-17 Championship qualification

Women	2011 FIFA Women's World Cup (Qualification) 2011 UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship (Qualification)

Club seasons

Super League

Basel
Bellinzona
Grasshopper Club
Luzern
Neuchâtel Xamax
Sion
St. Gallen
Thun
Young Boys
Zürich

Challenge League

Aarau
Biel-Bienne
Chiasso
Delémont
Kriens
Lausanne-Sport
Locarno
Lugano
Schaffhausen
Servette
Stade Nyonnais
Vaduz
Wil
Winterthur
Wohlen
Yverdon-Sport

2010–11 in European football (UEFA)

« 2009–10 2011–12 »

Domestic leagues	Albania Andorra Armenia '10 '11 Austria Azerbaijan Belarus '10 '11 Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia '10 '11 Faroe Islands '10 '11 Finland '10 '11 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '10 '11 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '10 '11 Latvia '10 '11 Lithuania '10 '11 Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '10 '11 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '10 '11 Romania Russia '10 '11–'12 San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '10 '11 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

Domestic cups	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Faroe Islands '10 '11 Finland '10 '11 France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland '10 '11 Israel Italy Kazakhstan '10 '11 Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway '10 '11 Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland '10 '11 Romania Russia San Marino Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden '10 '11 Switzerland Turkey Ukraine Wales

League cups	England Finland '10 '11 France Hungary Iceland '10 '11 Israel Northern Ireland Portugal Republic of Ireland '10 '11 Scotland Wales

UEFA competitions	Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Europa League qualifying phase and play-off round group stage knockout phase Final Super Cup

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