The 2024–25 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsoring reasons) is the 128th season of
top-tier competitive
football
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in
Switzerland
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and the 22nd under its current name. It is the second season featuring a new format and increased number of participants, since the beginning of the Super League era in 2003.
are the defending champions,
having successfully defended their title in the
previous season.
Overview
Format and schedule
Since rebranding and restructuring the National League A to the Super League, starting with the
2003–04 season, the league has been running under the same format and the same number of teams until
2023
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. This is the second season to be played under the so-called Scottish Model and includes twelve participating teams.
[
The Swiss Football League (SFL) released a detailed schedule on 5 December 2023:]
Teams
Team changes
2023–24 Swiss Challenge League champions FC Sion
Football Club Sion, commonly known as simply FC Sion or Sion, is a Swiss Association football, football club from the city of Sion, Switzerland, Sion. The club was founded in 1909 and play their home matches at the Stade Tourbillon. They have wo ...
were directly promoted just one season after their relegation in the 2022-23 season.2023–24 Swiss Super League
The 2023–24 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Credit Suisse Super League for sponsoring reasons) was the 127th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland and the 21st under its current name. It was the first season under its ...
ending their single season stint in the top flight. Grasshopper Club Zurich
Grasshopper Club Zurich (GCZ), commonly referred to as Grasshopper Club or simply just GC, is a professional multisports club based in Zurich, Switzerland. They are nicknamed the ''Grasshoppers'' or sometimes just ''Hoppers''. The oldest and b ...
remain in the Super League, as the winner of the relegation play-off
Promotion and relegation is used by sports leagues as a process where teams can move up and down among divisions in a league system, based on their performance over a season. Leagues that use promotion and relegation systems are sometimes call ...
against the runners-up of last season's Challenge League, 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 ...
.
Stadia and locations
Personnel and kits
Managerial changes
Table
Results
First and second rounds
Third round
Split
After 33 matches, the league splits into two groups of six teams. The top six are grouped into the championship group and the bottom six into the relegation group, with the teams playing every other team in their group once (either at home or away).[ The exact matches are determined by the position of the teams in the league table at the time of the split.
]
Championship Group
Relegation Group
Relegation play-off
The relegation play-off was played in a two-legged game between the eleventh placed team of the Super League (5th of the relegation group) and the second placed team of the Challenge League. The two legs of the relegation play-offs were scheduled for 27 and 30 May 2025, respectively.[ On 28 March 2025, it was decided by draw that the representative of the Super League will host the first match.
The winner of the play-off was whichever team scored more goals over both games (no ]away goals rule
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 ...
).extra time
Overtime (OT) or extra time (ET) is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required t ...
(two times 15 minutes) were added, followed by a penalty shoot-out
The penalty shootout is a method of determining a winner in sports matches that would have otherwise been drawn or tied. The rules for penalty shootouts vary between sports and even different competitions; however, the usual form is similar to pe ...
, in case the teams were still tied.
First leg
Second leg
''Grasshopper
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Grassh ...
wins 4–1 on aggregate''
Statistics
Top goalscorers
References
External links
Official websiteuefa.com
soccerway.com
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