2025–26 Swiss Super League

The 2025–26 Super League (referred to as the Brack Super League for sponsoring reasons) is the 129th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland, and the 23rd under its current name. It is the third season featuring a new format and increased number of participants, since the beginning of the Super League era in 2003. The defending champions are Basel.^[1]

Season2025–26

Dates25 July 2025 – 17 May 2026

Matches155

Goals518 (3.34 per match)

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Super League
Season	2025–26
Dates	25 July 2025 – 17 May 2026
Matches	155
Goals	518 (3.34 per match)
Top goalscorer	Chris Bedia Christian Fassnacht Alessandro Vogt (15 goals)
Biggest home win	St. Gallen 5–0 Winterthur (10 August 2025) Young Boys 5–0 Winterthur (22 November 2025)
Biggest away win	Young Boys 2–6 Grasshopper (17 December 2025)
Highest scoring	Young Boys 2–6 Grasshopper (17 December 2025)
Longest winning run	Thun (8 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Thun (8 matches)
Longest winless run	Winterthur (11 matches)
Longest losing run	Winterthur (5 matches)
Highest attendance	31,500 Young Boys 0–0 Basel (2 November 2025) Young Boys 1–2 St. Gallen (19 October 2025)
Lowest attendance	2,898 Lugano 1–1 Lausanne-Sport (18 September 2025)
Average attendance	12,817
← 2024–25 2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 6 April 2026.

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Overview

Format and schedule

The Swiss Football League (SFL) released a detailed schedule on 26 November 2024:^[2]^[3]

The season will begin on 25 July 2025 and conclude on 17 May 2026.
The league will go on winter break after matchday 19 on 21 December 2025 and resume on 17 January 2026. The final matchday of the relegation group will take place on 16 May, while the championship group will hold its last matches 17 May 2026.
The two legs of the relegation play-offs are scheduled for 20 and 23 May 2026, respectively.

The season is divided into two phases:

In a first phase all twelve teams play each other three times each, for a total of 33 matchdays and concludes on 12 April 2026.
Following that, the league is split into two groups of six each, one championship group and one relegation group. The second phase begins on 25 April 2026.
- Each team will play every other team in their group one time (five matches each), for a total of 38 matchdays.
- The championship group will play for the title of Swiss Football Champion and qualification for European championships. Final matchday is on 17 May 2026.
- The relegation group will play against relegation (last place) and the relegation play-off (second-to-last place). Final matchday will be on 16 May 2026.
Points won in the first phase are carried over to the second phase.

Team changes

FC Thun return to the top tier after a five-year absence.^[4] Yverdon-Sport FC were relegated to Challenge League after two years in the top tier.^[5]

Teams

Stadia and locations

More information FC Basel, Grasshopper Club Zurich ...

FC Basel	Grasshopper Club Zurich	FC Zürich	FC Lausanne-Sport	FC Lugano
St. Jakob-Park	Letzigrund		Stade de la Tuilière	Stadio Cornaredo
Basel	Zurich		Lausanne	Lugano
Capacity: 37,994^[6]	Capacity: 26,103^[7]^[8]		Capacity: 12,544^[9]	Capacity: 6,390^[10]

FC Luzern	Basel Grasshopper Lausanne Sport Lugano Luzern Servette Sion St. Gallen Winterthur Young Boys Thun Zürich Location of the 2025–26 Swiss Super League teams			Servette FC
Swissporarena				Stade de Genève
Luzern				Geneva
Capacity: 16,490^[11]				Capacity: 28,833^[12]

FC Sion	FC St. Gallen	FC Thun	FC Winterthur	BSC Young Boys
Stade de Tourbillon	Kybunpark	Stockhorn Arena	Stadion Schützenwiese	Stadion Wankdorf
Sion	St. Gallen	Thun	Winterthur	Bern
Capacity: 14,283^[13]	Capacity: 19,455^[14]	Capacity: 10,000^[15]	Capacity: 8,400^[16]	Capacity: 31,120^[17]

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Managerial changes

More information Team, Outgoing manager ...

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of departure	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment	Ref.
Zürich	Ricardo Moniz	Termination	Pre-season		Mitchell van der Gaag	31 May 2025	^[18]
Basel	Fabio Celestini	Resignation			Ludovic Magnin	16 June 2025	^[19]^[20]
Lausanne	Ludovic Magnin	Mutual consent			Peter Zeidler	21 June 2025	^[20]^[21]
Grasshopper	Tomas Oral	Mutual consent			Gerald Scheiblehner	24 June 2025	^[22]^[23]
Servette	Thomas Häberli	Termination	4 August 2025	11th	Jocelyn Gourvennec	11 August 2025	^[24]^[25]
Winterthur	Uli Forte		20 October 2025	12th	Patrick Rahmen	22 October 2025	^[26]^[27]
Zürich	Mitchell van der Gaag		23 October 2025	8th	Dennis Hediger (interim)	23 October 2025	^[28]
Young Boys	Giorgio Contini		31 October 2025	5th	Gerardo Seoane	31 October 2025	^[29]^[30]
Basel	Ludovic Magnin		26 January 2026	4th	Stephan Lichtsteiner	26 January 2026	^[31]^[32]
Grasshopper	Gerald Scheiblehner		16 March 2026	11th	Gernot Messner (interim)	16 March 2026	^[33]
Zürich	Dennis Hediger		14 April 2026	10th	Carlos Bernegger (interim)	14 April 2026	^[34]
Lausanne	Peter Zeidler		16 April 2026	9th	Markus Neumayr & Migjen Basha (interim)	16 April 2026	^[35]
Grasshopper	Gernot Messner (interim)	End of interim period	4 May 2026	11th	Peter Zeidler	1 May 2026	^[36]

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League table

More information Pos, Team ...

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation^[a]
1	Thun (X)	34	24	2	8	75	38	+37	74	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	St. Gallen	34	18	9	7	66	41	+25	63	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round^[b]
3	Lugano	34	17	9	8	51	38	+13	60
4	Sion	34	14	13	7	53	35	+18	55
5	Basel	34	15	8	11	51	47	+4	53
6	Young Boys	34	13	9	12	66	62	+4	48

7	Luzern	34	11	10	13	66	62	+4	43
8	Servette	34	10	13	11	62	60	+2	43
9	Lausanne-Sport	34	11	9	14	50	57	−7	42
10	Zürich	34	10	4	20	45	66	−21	34
11	Grasshopper	34	6	9	19	41	67	−26	27	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
12	Winterthur	34	4	7	23	38	91	−53	19	Relegation to 2026–27 Swiss Challenge League

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Updated to match(es) played on 26 April 2026. Source: Brack Super League - Tabelle
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goals scored 6) Away goals scored; 7) Draw.^[37]
(X) Assured at least Conference League qualification
Notes:

[a]
Teams play each other three times (33 matches), before the league is split into two groups (the top six and the bottom six).
[b]
The 2025–26 Swiss Cup winner qualifies for the Europa League first qualifying round. If the cup winner finishes in the top three, the remaining European berths will pass down to the next highest qualifying teams.

Results

More information Home \ Away, BAS ...

First and second rounds

Home \ Away	BAS	GCZ	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	STG	THU	WIN	YB	ZÜR
Basel		2–1	0–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	3–0	4–1	2–0
Grasshopper	1–1		3–1	1–1	2–3	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–3	2–2	3–3	3–0
Lausanne-Sport	5–1	1–1		0–0	0–4	1–3	2–2	1–2	2–1	3–2	5–0	1–2
Lugano	3–1	2–1	1–1		2–0	4–2	1–1	1–3	1–2	4–1	3–0	1–0
Luzern	1–2	6–0	2–2	2–5		2–2	3–3	2–2	1–2	1–3	1–2	1–1
Servette	0–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–2		3–3	1–4	0–1	4–0	4–4	1–1
Sion	0–1	1–0	0–0	4–0	1–1	0–2		3–2	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–2
St. Gallen	2–1	5–0	1–0	1–0	0–1	2–4	3–1		1–2	5–0	1–4	1–2
Thun	1–3	1–1	2–1	0–1	4–1	3–1	2–1	0–2		3–0	4–1	4–2
Winterthur	1–2	0–1	2–1	2–4	2–2	4–2	2–3	1–5	1–4		1–1	1–3
Young Boys	0–0	2–6	1–3	3–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	1–2	4–2	5–0		3–0
Zürich	3–4	1–0	1–2	0–1	3–2	2–1	2–3	3–1	0–4	2–2	2–3

Source: Swiss Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Third round

Home \ Away	BAS	GCZ	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	STG	THU	WIN	YB	ZÜR
Basel		1–0		1–1		3–1					3–3	2–1
Grasshopper			2–3	1–0			0–4				1–1	1–2
Lausanne-Sport	1–2					3–3		1–1		2–1	0–2
Lugano			2–1		1–3	1–1	2–1		1–0
Luzern	4–2	4–3	4–0					2–2		1–2	1–2
Servette		5–0			3–0		0–0	1–1	1–3			2–1
Sion	2–0		3–0		0–0			1–1		1–1	3–1
St. Gallen	3–0	0–0		1–1						2–1	2–1	2–1
Thun	3–1	5–1	5–1		2–1		1–0	2–2
Winterthur	0–2	0–2		1–1		1–1			0–3
Young Boys				1–1		1–1			1–2	6–1		3–0
Zürich			1–2	0–1	1–4		1–2		2–1	3–0

Source: Swiss Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

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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).^[38]

More information Home \ Away, BAS ...

Championship Group

Home \ Away	BAS	LUG	SIO	STG	THU	YB
Basel			0–2	14 May	2 May
Lugano	17 May			10 May		3 May
Sion		14 May			10 May
St. Gallen			3 May		17 May
Thun		0–1				14 May
Young Boys	10 May		17 May	1–2

Updated to match(es) played on 26 April 2026. Source: Swiss Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation Group

Home \ Away	GCZ	LS	LUZ	SER	WIN	ZÜR
Grasshopper			1–2	3 May	12 May
Lausanne-Sport	16 May		2 May			3–0
Luzern				9 May		12 May
Servette		12 May			5–3
Winterthur		9 May	16 May			2 May
Zürich	9 May			16 May

Updated to match(es) played on 26 April 2026. Source: Swiss Football League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

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Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 6 April 2026^[39]

More information Rank, Player ...

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Christian Fassnacht	Young Boys	15

	Chris Bedia	Young Boys
Alessandro Vogt	St. Gallen
4	Philippe Kény	Zürich	12
	Rilind Nivokazi	Sion
	Matteo Di Giusto	Luzern
	Elmin Rastoder	Thun
8	Carlo Boukhalfa	St. Gallen	11
	Xherdan Shaqiri	Basel
	Miroslav Stevanović	Servette