Here is my ideal situiation: ACB gets relegated with the automatic relegation, replaced by FC Lugano. GCZ and Servette have the playoffs and Servette sends GCZ into the DCL. Thant would be great. I also think that Xamax is safe, they have been playing well over the past few matches.
received license to play in super league: Basel Bellinzona Grasshoppers Luzern Xamax Sion St. Gallen Thun YB Zürich Servette Genf Vaduz Wil not received: Lugano Lausanne license for Challenge League received: Biel Chiasso Delémont Lausanne Locarno Lugano Nyonnais Schaffhausen Winterthur Wohlen Yverdon not received: Aarau Kriens not sure why Lugano and Lausanne have not received the SL licenses yet, but probably will get it anyway after appealing. Lugano might have to play in another stadium in Superleague and Lausanne might have to add security measures or play elsewhere until the new stadium is finished (first they have to start) For Aarau it will be very difficult to avoid relegation, but they want to appeal the decision
Wow, that is a quick drop for Aarau. With Aarau and Kriens not making the grade, Yverdon, who has been horrible this season, might stay in the DCL. Interesting that GCZ received their license, despite not having a home stadium next season.
Thanks, I messed that. April 28 Zurich 3 - 0 Neuchatel Xamax April 30 17:45 Grasshoppers ? - ? Lucerne 20:15 Young Boys Bern ? - ? Thun May 1 16:00 Bellinzona ? - ? Zurich 16:00 Neuchatel Xamax ? - ? St. Gallen 16:00 Sion ? - ? Basel
GCZ wins and moves farther away from the drop. They are starting to look safer. Grasshoppers [2 - 1] Lucerne 25' [1 - 0] B. Smiljanic (pen.) 38' [2 - 0] S. Zuber 67' [2 - 1] R. Bürki (o.g.)
Mehmedi and Prijovic winning points for the NT. Xamax won with 8 players vs St.Gallen! we'll have Zurich-Basel for the title and Bellinzona-St.Gallen for relegation in the next but one round (Wed 11). And there are other several direct confrontations in the relegation fight yet. Also in CL the next but one round is quite important as Vaduz needs to lose points and Servette to win in Lugano ;-) Besides, at Lucerne Yakin is not captain any more. Afterwards, Yakin, Gygax and Zibung apparently complained to the chairman about Fringer and the chairman attacked Fringer verbally…
Fringer is gone, but it's not very professional from Yakin and Gygax to smoke at the training... both Leverkusen and OM are interested in Emeghara
So Xamax is getting sold to the (Russian) owner of Terek Grozny. Hope it works out better for them than FC Wil...
I was wondering the same thing. http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=reu-europeswissneuchatel “I’m very happy to lead Neuchatel onto the path of national victory,” he said. “With a motivated and well-prepared team, we will quickly accept the most incredible challenges in Europe, starting with the Champions League.”
May 7 17:45 Grasshoppers ? - ? Neuchatel Xamax 17:45 Lucerne ? - ? Young Boys Bern 17:45 Thun ? - ? Sion May 8 16:00 Basel ? - ? Bellinzona 16:00 St. Gallen ? - ? Zurich
May 7 FT Grasshoppers 3 - 1 Neuchatel Xamax FT Lucerne 1 - 1 Young Boys Bern FT Thun 3 - 1 Sion May 8 FT Basel 2 - 0 Bellinzona FT St. Gallen 2 - 2 Zurich Wed in Zurich FCZ-FCB.
May 10 FT Sion 3 - 2 Lucerne FT Young Boys Bern 2 - 2 Grasshoppers May 11 19:45 Bellinzona ? - ? St. Gallen 19:45 Neuchatel Xamax ? - ? Thun 20:15 Zurich ? - ? Basel
Zurich vs Basel 2:2 St.Gallen won in Bellinzona thanks to the referee... Lopar should have seen red and Bellinzona received a penalty as it was 1-1. minutes after that St.Gallen got a penalty
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-neuchatel-coachfired Neuchatel Xamax has fired coach Didier Olle-Nicolle during a week of Swiss media speculation linking it with Diego Maradona.
well, that was only speculation, he didn't come yesterday and neither did Figo. however, Xamax will have a new coach today, B.Challandes
Frei with two goals as he was whistled a lot. He's one of the rare swiss players who managed to fight back when he was undervalued (at Rennes) or whistled. Others were often giving up themselves a bit, but not him. with all the good and bad about him, at least on the pitch he is giving always the right answer contrary to interviews where he's complained to much as others... unfortunately, other swiss players had often complained abroad instead of showing in trainings that they want to play and convince the coach in every training. In that sense, they could take Frei as an example and show on the pitch what their value is
May 14 17:45 Bellinzona ? - ? Neuchatel Xamax 17:45 St. Gallen ? - ? Lucerne May 15 16:00 Basel ? - ? Thun 16:00 Grasshoppers ? - ? Zurich 16:00 Young Boys Bern ? - ? Sion
Johan Neeskens have expressed a great interest in managing a Swiss team, preferably FC Luzern. Could be a good move for them. Petkovic should also be on their list alongside Murat Yakin and Marcel Koller.
1. Basel 34 +29 69 2. Zürich 34 +24 66 3. Sion 34 +13 53 4. YB 34 +12 51 5. Luzern 34 +13 48 6. Thun 34 +4 46 7. GC 34 -9 38 8. NE Xamax 34 -22 31 9. St. Gallen 34 -31 30 10. Bellinzona 34 -33 29 Xamax with a late goal for the draw. FCZ lost to GCZ ending their hopes.
http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/news?slug=ap-lucerne-yakin Former Switzerland international Murat Yakin has been hired to coach the FC Lucerne team captained by his younger brother Hakan. Lucerne says Yakin agreed a two-year contract to leave his job coaching FC Thun.
May 22 16:00 Grasshoppers ? - ? Sion 16:00 Lucerne ? - ? Zurich 16:00 Neuchatel Xamax ? - ? Young Boys Bern 16:00 St. Gallen ? - ? Basel 16:00 Thun ? - ? Bellinzona
May 22 FT Grasshoppers 2 - 0 Sion FT Lucerne 0 - 5 Zurich FT Neuchatel Xamax 1 - 2 Young Boys Bern FT St. Gallen 0 - 0 Basel FT Thun 3 - 1 Bellinzona All to play for wednesday. 1. Basel 35 +29 70 2. Zürich 35 +29 69 3. YB 35 +13 54 4. Sion 35 +11 53 5. Thun 35 +6 49 6. Luzern 35 +8 48 7. GC 35 -7 41 8. NE Xamax 35 -23 31 9. St. Gallen 35 -31 31 10. Bellinzona 35 -35 29 Basel plays home to Luzern and FCZ is home to Thun. On the other end, FCSG is at YB, Xamax at Sion, and ACB home to GCZ. I honestly do not know who will emerge out of those three. I can see both Xamax and FCSG falling away from home. The question is can ACB defeat a GCZ team with nothing to play for, but has been playing well?