List the things that Switzerland is most famous for, and football doesn’t necessarily come out on top. But that doesn’t mean that the Swiss Super League doesn’t pack a punch when it comes to footballing action.
So, whether you fondue or fon(don’t) know all about the Swiss Super League, at BetVictor we’ll be there with all the action from the Alps to the lakes.
The top 10 teams from the Swiss footballing pyramid do battle across a 36 game season, with the champions heading into the Champions League play-off round, with the runners up going into the second qualifying round of Europe’s premier competition.
Half of the teams in the league have the promise of European football the following season, with those that finish in third to fifth also securing passage to various stages of next season’s Europa League.
Current champions are Young Boys of Bern, with only their second Super League title, their first-ever coming just the season before. Can they make it a hat-trick of triumphs this season?
The Swiss Super League as we know it now, began life for the 2003-04 season, replacing the Nationaliga which had been running from 1933. The league was originally called Swiss Serie A when first formed in 1898.
Overall the most successful side in Swiss league football history is Grasshoppers, with 27 league titles in total although none since the introduction of the Super League. Since the change in name, Basel have been the dominant team with 11 Super League wins, adding to their previous nine titles.
Only three teams have enjoyed Super League triumphs with Young Boys and Zurich tied on two.
The current leading lights in the Swiss Super League player markets include Noah Okafor (Basel), Roger Assale (Young Boys), and Kevin Ruegg (FC Zurich), while current English Premier League stars Granit Xhaka, Mo Salah, and Xherdan Shaqiri once called it home.
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