1976–77 Nationalliga A

80th season of top-tier Swiss football

Football league season

Nationalliga A
Season	1976–77
← 1975–76 1977–78 →

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1976–77 season.

Overview

The Swiss Football Association had reformed the Swiss football league system that year, reducing the number of teams in the Nationalliga A from 14 to 12 and increasing the Nationalliga B teams from 14 to 16. The Nationalliga A season 1976–77 was contested by the first 11 teams from the 1975–76 season and the sole promoted team from Nationalliga B AC Bellinzona. The Nationalliga A was played in two stages. The qualification phase was played by all teams in a round robin and after completion was divided into two groups. The first six teams contended in the championship group (with half the obtained points as bonus) and the positions seventh to twelfth contended the relegation group (also with half the obtained points as bonus). Servette FC Genève and Basel finished the qualification phase in first and second position with 35 and 33 points from 22 games and so entered the championship group with a bonus of 18 and 17. At the end of the championship phase these two teams were level on 29 points. Therefore they had to compete a play-off match for champions. This play-off was held at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern in front of 55,000 supporters. Basel won the match 2–1 and were awarded the championship.

The playout round ended with FC Winterthur and AC Bellinzona being relegated.

First stage

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Servette FC Genève	22	14	7	1	68	27	+41	35	To championship round
2	FC Basel	22	14	5	3	54	30	+24	33
3	FC Zürich	22	12	7	3	49	18	+31	31
4	Neuchâtel Xamax	22	10	7	5	37	27	+10	27
5	BSC Young Boys	22	8	9	5	37	34	+3	25
6	Grasshopper Club Zürich	22	7	8	7	41	28	+13	22
7	Lausanne Sports	22	8	6	8	39	31	+8	22	To playout round
8	CS Chênois	22	6	8	8	29	39	−10	20
9	FC Sion	22	4	10	8	19	32	−13	18
10	FC St. Gallen	22	5	6	11	26	40	−14	16
11	AC Bellinzona	22	3	2	17	19	73	−54	8
12	FC Winterthur	22	1	5	16	19	58	−39	7

Source: rsssf.com

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	BEL	CHÊ	GCZ	LS	NX	SER	SIO	STG	YB	WIN	ZÜR
Basel		4–3	4–1	3–2	2–2	3–1	4–1	2–1	4–2	1–4	6–1	1–3
Bellinzona	1–2		1–1	1–3	1–0	2–2	0–4	2–1	0–1	0–2	4–1	0–3
Chênois	1–2	2–1		0–0	1–1	1–5	1–4	1–0	2–0	4–4	3–1	1–0
Grasshopper	1–1	8–2	1–1		4–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–3	4–0	2–2
Lausanne-Sports	0–1	5–0	3–0	1–2		1–2	3–7	3–0	5–0	0–0	3–0	1–1
Neuchâtel Xamax	0–2	5–0	0–0	3–2	0–2		1–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	2–0	2–1
Servette	2–2	10–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	1–1		6–0	4–1	3–1	2–0	2–1
Sion	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–3	2–2	0–3	1–1		3–1	0–0	2–0	1–1
St. Gallen	1–1	4–0	0–3	0–0	1–4	2–0	3–5	1–1		0–0	2–0	1–3
Young Boys	0–6	5–0	5–2	1–0	2–0	0–4	0–2	0–0	1–1		5–2	1–1
Winterthur	2–3	2–0	2–2	1–4	1–2	1–1	4–4	1–1	0–3	0–0		0–1
Zürich	1–0	6–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	6–1	1–1	3–0	2–1	5–1	4–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Championship group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Basel	10	5	2	3	19	16	+3	17	29	Play-off match
2	Servette FC Genève	10	5	1	4	16	14	+2	18	29	Play-off match
3	FC Zürich	10	5	1	4	24	18	+6	16	27
4	Grasshopper Club Zürich	10	5	2	3	15	10	+5	11	23
5	Neuchâtel Xamax	10	3	1	6	14	18	−4	14	21
6	BSC Young Boys	10	3	1	6	12	24	−12	13	20

Source: rsssf.com

Playoff match

28 June 1977

Play-Off

Basel	2 – 1	Servette
Mundschin 37' von Wartburg 75'	[ Report]	30' Müller

Wankdorf Stadium, Bern

Attendance: 55,000

Referee:

Ruedi Renggli

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	GCZ	NX	SER	YB	ZÜR
Basel		2–3	3–1	2–0	2–0	3–1
Grasshopper	6–1		2–1	0–0	0–0	0–2
Neuchâtel Xamax	0–0	0–1		4–2	2–0	2–0
Servette	2–0	3–0	3–1		4–1	1–0
Young Boys	0–3	0–3	2–1	2–1		1–5
Zürich	3–3	1–0	5–2	4–0	3–6

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Playout group

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	BP	Pts	Relegation
1	Lausanne Sports	10	7	3	0	24	7	+17	11	28
2	CS Chênois	10	5	4	1	24	13	+11	10	24
3	FC Sion	10	5	0	5	18	17	+1	9	19
4	FC St. Gallen	10	3	2	5	18	19	−1	8	16
5	FC Winterthur (R)	10	3	3	4	11	14	−3	4	13	Relegated
6	AC Bellinzona (R)	10	0	2	8	7	32	−25	4	6	Relegated

Source: rsssf.com
(R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BEL	CHÊ	LS	SIO	STG	WIN
Bellinzona		0–1	0–0	1–2	1–3	0–0
Chênois	6–2		1–1	3–2	0–1	4–0
Lausanne-Sports	5–0	2–2		2–0	3–1	1–0
Sion	7–1	1–1	0–4		3–1	1–1
St. Gallen	5–1	1–3	2–4	3–1		1–0
Winterthur	3–1	3–3	1–2	2–1	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Sources

Rotblau: Jahrbuch Saison 2015/2016. Publisher: FC Basel Marketing AG. ISBN 978-3-7245-2050-4
Switzerland 1976–77 at RSSSF

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