The following is a summary of the 2009–10 season of competitive football in

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

Super League

Final league table

Challenge League

Final league table

Promotion/relegation play-offs

AC Bellinzona AC Bellinzona is a Swiss football club based in Bellinzona. It was founded in 1904, and won the Swiss Super League in 1948. After being folded in 2013 declaring bankruptcy, the team played the Ticino Group of 2.Liga, the sixth tier of the Sw ...

as 9th-placed team of the 2009–10 Super League played a two-legged play-off against Challenge League runners-up

AC Lugano FC Lugano is a Swiss professional football club based in Lugano. The club was refounded as AC Lugano in 2004 as a result of relegation and the financial situation of FC Lugano, which was founded in 1908. In 2008, the club reverted to its origina ...

for a spot in the 2010–11 Super League. ---- ---- ---- ''Bellinzona won 2–1 on aggregate and remain in the

Swiss Super League The Super League (also known as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsorship reasons) is a professional association football league in Switzerland and the highest level of the Swiss football league system. It has been played in its current fo ...

Lugano Lugano ( , , ; ) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. It is the largest city in both Ticino and the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland. Lugano has a population () of , and an u ...

remain in the

Swiss Challenge League The Challenge League (known as the Dieci Challenge League for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest tier of the Swiss football league system and lower of two professional leagues in the country. Ten teams play in the Challenge League; the wi ...

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1. Liga

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Play-off against relegation

---- ---- FC Emmenbrücke is relegated to the 2. Liga Interregional.

Promotion play-offs

Qualifying Round

---- ---- ---- '' YF Juventus win 7–2 on aggregate'' ---- ---- ---- ''

Rapperswil-Jona Rapperswil-Jona is a municipality in the ''Wahlkreis'' (constituency) of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Besides Rapperswil and Jona, which were separate municipalities until 2006, Rapperswil-Jona also includes Bollinge ...

win 8–2 on aggregate'' ---- ---- ---- ''

Delémont Delémont (; ; , ) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Jura. The city has approximately 12,000 inhabitants . History The area of the municipality was already settled in the middle Bronze Age. Fifteen urn burials have been discovered in the ...

win 5–2 on aggregate'' ---- ---- ---- ''

Chiasso Chiasso (; ) is a Municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Mendrisio (district), Mendrisio in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Ticino in Switzerland. As Extreme points of Switzerland, the southernmost of Switzerland's ...

win 3–1 on aggregate''

Final round

---- ---- ---- ''

win 5–3 on aggregate and achieve peomotion'' ---- ---- ---- ''

win 3–0 on aggregate and achieve peomotion''

Swiss Cup

Semi-finals

The winners in the quarter-finals played in this round.

FC St. Gallen Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club based in the city of St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen. It is the oldest football club in continental Europe after Kjøbenhavns Boldklub. The tea ...

had beaten

FC Luzern Fussball-Club Luzern (), or simply abbreviated to FCL, is a Swiss sports club based in Lucerne (). It is best known for its professional association football, football team, which plays in the Swiss Super League, Super League, the top tier of the ...

4–1,

FC Lausanne-Sport Football Club Lausanne-Sport is a Swiss Association football, football club based in Lausanne in the canton of Vaud. Founded in 1896, Lausanne Sport compete in the top-tier Swiss Super League after being promoted in the 2022–23 Swiss Challeng ...

had also beaten Young Boys 4–1,

SC Kriens SC Kriens is a football club based in Kriens, Switzerland, that currently competing in the Promotion League, the third tier of Swiss football. The club uses Stadion Kleinfeld as home ground, and form a local rivalry with FC Luzern. SC Kriens ...

won 2–1 against

FC Thun Fussballclub Thun 1898 is a Swiss association football, football team from the Bernese Oberland town of Thun. The club plays in the Swiss Super League from 2025–26, the top tier of the Swiss football league system, following promotion from the ...

and

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

had been 3–1 winners against

Biel-Bienne Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording; German language, German: ''Biel'' ; French language, French: ''Bienne'' ; Bernese German, locally ; ; ; ) is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. With over 55,000 residents, it is the ...

. ---- ---- ----

Final

Note: Fair game, no yellow cards ----

Swiss Clubs in Europe

Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

as league champions: Champions League third qualifying round * Young Boys as runners-up: Europa League third qualifying round *

as third placed team: Europa League second qualifying round * Sion as

2008–09 Swiss Cup The 2008–09 Swiss Cup was the 84th season of Switzerland's annual cup competition. It began on 20 September with the first games of Round 1 and ended on 20 May 2009 with the Final held at Stade de Suisse, Bern. The winners earned a place in the ...

winners: Europa League play-off round *

Vaduz Vaduz (; or ; High Alemannic pronunciation: [])Hans Stricker, Toni Banzer, Herbert Hilbe: ''Liechtensteiner Namenbuch. Die Orts- und Flurnamen des Fürstentums Liechtenstein.'' Band 2: ''Die Namen der Gemeinden Triesenberg, Vaduz, Schaan.'' ...

as 2008–09 Liechtenstein Cup winners: Europa League second qualifying round

Zürich

Champions League

=Third qualifying round

= ''Zürich won 5–3 on aggregate.''

=Play-off round

= ''Zürich won 5–1 on aggregate.''

=Group stage / group C

Young Boys

Europa League

=Third qualifying round

= ''Young Boys 2–2 Athletic Bilbao on aggregate. Athletic Bilbao won on

away goals The away goals rule is a method of tiebreaking in association football and other sports when teams play each other twice, once at each team's home ground. Under the away goals rule, if the total goals scored by each team are equal, the team that ...

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Basel

Europa League

=Second qualifying round

= ''Basel won 7–1 on aggregate.''

=Third qualifying round

= ''Basel won 5–3 on aggregate.''

=Play-off round

= ''Basel won 8–2 on aggregate.''

=Group stage, group E

Sion

Europa League

=Play-off round

= ''Fenerbahçe won 4–2 on aggregate.''

Vaduz

Europa League

=Second qualifying round

= ''Vaduz won 2–1 on aggregate.''

=Third qualifying round

= ''Slovan Liberec won 3–0 on aggregate.''

References

Sources

Switzerland 2009–10 at RSSSF

1. Liga season 2009–10 at the official website

Cup finals at Fussball-Schweiz
* {{DEFAULTSORT:2009-10 in Swiss football Seasons in Swiss football