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and the 20th under its current name and format. With this season, the Swiss Super League became the longest continuously running top-flight national league.

Overview

A total of ten teams are competing in the league: nine teams of the previous season will participate in the league again.

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, who came in last place, were relegated and are replaced by the

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champions

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remains in the league as the winner of the Relegation/Promotion playoff.

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are the defending champions. After Swiss teams gained 7.75 points in European championships in the 2021–22 season, the

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jumped five spots in the UEFA association ranking to rank 14, granting them five spots in European championships in the 2023–24 season. This means that first and second ranked teams of the 2022–23 season will participate in the

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and

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rounds of the

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qualification, respectively, while the third and fourth enter the

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of the

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qualification. Furthermore, the champion of the 2022-23 Swiss Cup enters the third qualification round for the 2023–24 UEFA Europa League. Due to the format change and the increased number of teams starting with the 2023–24 Swiss Super League, this season will function as a transition season. As a result, no teams will be directly relegated to the 2023–24 Swiss Challenge League. Instead the last-placed team will play a relegation playoff against the third team of the 2022–23 Swiss Challenge League.

Schedule

The playing schedule of the season, as well as dates and times for the first nine matchdays were announced on 17 June 2022. The first matchday would be held on the weekend of 16 and 17 July 2022. However, the first round match

–

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is postponed until 10 August 2022, due to lack of venues. The match

–

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, originally scheduled for 31 July 2022 (Matchday 3), is also postponed to 9 November 2022. Furthermore, scheduled dates for champion

for matchdays 4, 5, and 8 may be swapped subject to their Champions League qualifier schedule. The exact schedule for matchdays 10 through 18 were announced on 2 September 2022. Due to the

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, which will be held in November and December 2022, the league will go on a two-month break, after matchday 16 on 13 November 2022. The winter break will thus occur two rounds earlier than usual, with matchdays 17 and 18 to be held in January 2023. On 22 November 2022, fixtures of matchdays 19 through 27 were scheduled. Matchdays 28 through 36 were scheduled on 15 March 2023. The last matchday will be on 29 May 2023. Following the end of the season, the two legs of the Relegation Play-off will be played on 3 and 6 June 2023, respectively.

Teams

Stadia and locations

Personnel and kits

Managerial changes

League table

Results

First and second rounds

Third and fourth rounds

Relegation play-off

The relegation play-off will be played in a two-legged game between the last place team of the Super League and the third placed team of the Challenge League. The first leg will be held on 3 June 2023, with the representative of the Super League hosting. The second leg will be held on 6 June 2023. Winner of the play-off is whichever teams scores most in both games (no

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). In case of a tie at the end of the two games, 30 minutes of

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(two times 15 minutes) are added, followed by a

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, in case the teams are still tied.

First leg

Second leg

: '' Lausanne-Ouchy wins 6–2 on aggregate, while Sion were relegated to the Swiss Challenge League.''

Statistics

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Top assists

Awards

Best Player

Player of the Round

The best player of the

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and Challenge League for each matchday is voted for by the viewers from among a selection of players.

Player of the Month

The ''Player of the Month'' in the

and Challenge League is chosen by the viewers from among five nominees. The following table shows the winner (in dark grey) and the other nominees for each month where a Player of the Month was chosen.

Overall

Team of the Season

The ''Team of the Season'' was selected by votes for each position by the viewers from among a selection. The winners were announced on 29 June 2023.

Teams

Attendance

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, 21,742, , 391,354 , - !3 , align=left, St. Gallen , 17,575, , 316,356 , - !4 , align=left,

, 15,387, , 276,968 , - !5 , align=left,

, 12,775, , 229,945 , - !6 , align=left, Servette , 8,431, , 151,762 , - !7 , align=left, Sion , 8,375, , 150,750 , - !8 , align=left,

, 8,228, , 148,100 , - !9 , align=left,

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, 6,753, , 121,560 , - !10 , align=left,

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, 3,353, , 60,355 , - !colspan=2, Totals !13,172!!2,370,901

Fair Play

On 14 June 2023,

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was awarded the Fair Play Trophy for the Credit Suisse Super League. {, class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size:95%" , - !width=15, !Club !width=15, Yellow card

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!width=15, Red card

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, 94, , 0, , 2, , 104 , - !4 , align=left,

, 90, , 2, , 2, , 106 , - !5 , align=left,

, 94, , 4, , 1, , 111 , - !6 , align=left,

, 89, , 2, , 6, , 125 , - !7 , align=left, St. Gallen , 90, , 3, , 6, , 129 , - !8 , align=left,

, 91, , 7, , 4, , 132 , - !9 , align=left,

, 106, , 2, , 5, , 137 , - !10 , align=left, Sion , 106, , 3, , 5, , 140 , - !colspan=2, League Total !907!!27!!36!!1168 , - !colspan=2, Average/game !5.04!!0.15!!0.2!!6.49

References

External links

Official websiteuefa.comsoccerway.com
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