How does promotion work from the 3 Groups of 1.Liga into the Challenge League? It looks like last year the top 2 teams from each group, as well as the two best 3rd place teams, were drawn into an 8-team playoff for two spots. However, when I look at the official football.ch web site, and the way the lines are drawn under certain clubs in the Group standings, it doesn't match up. It looks like Nyonnais should already be qualified for the playoffs since they have a big lead with just one match to play. Can anyone who is more familiar with this clear it up for me? Many thanks, Dave
well, the playoff for the two spots has been drawn already. The semi-final fixtures are Stade Nyonnais - Biel Cham - Carouge --------------------- UGS - Red Star Gossau - Solothurn the winners play in the final for a place in Challenge League
SC Cham - Etoile-Carouge FC 1 : 1 Stade Nyonnais - FC Biel-Bienne 1 : 1 FC Gossau - FC Solothurn 1 : 2
in case at the end of the return match, the two teams are level on goal do the away goals count double (like in the Champions League)?
Gossau (3:0 away victory) in the finals against UGS (2:2 at Red Star) and Biel (1:0 against St. Nyonnais) also qualified Carouge - Cham is ongoing at the moment
http://www.lematin.ch/pages/home/sports/football/sports_football__1?contenu=269111 looks like UGS was the better team...
I'm definitely pulling for Urania. Now that's a club with history and tradition... (1929 Swiss Cup Winner)
they even won the Paris-Cup I think which then became the UEFA-Cup btw, Bertarelli is a friend of the UGS president, so there would be financial potential behind but they are not allowed to waste their opportunities as in the first leg although I'm for Servette, I would be very interested in seeing UGS in CL again