1962–63 Nationalliga A

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1962–63 season.

Nationalliga A

Season	1962–63
← 1961–62 1963–64 →

Overview

There were fourteen teams contesting in the 1962–63 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous season 1961–62 and the two newly promoted teams Chiasso and Sion. The Championship was played in a double round-robin, the champions were to be qualified for 1963–64 European Cup and the bottom placed two teams in the table were to be relegated. FC Zürich won the championship.^[1]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zürich (C)	26	20	4	2	81	33	+48	44	Swiss Champions, qualified for 1963–64 European Cup and entered 1963–64 Intertoto Cup
2	Lausanne-Sport	26	18	4	4	81	30	+51	40	Entered 1963–64 Intertoto Cup
3	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	12	8	6	55	44	+11	32
4	Young Boys	26	13	5	8	62	49	+13	31
5	Servette	26	11	4	11	54	39	+15	26
6	Basel	26	10	6	10	59	51	+8	26	Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup
7	Grasshopper Club	26	9	7	10	57	51	+6	25
8	Biel-Bienne	26	9	6	11	38	44	−6	24
9	Grenchen	26	8	7	11	40	49	−9	23
10	Luzern	26	7	9	10	41	54	−13	23
11	Chiasso	26	7	6	13	33	69	−36	20
12	Sion	26	6	7	13	37	69	−32	19
13	Young Fellows Zürich	26	7	3	16	34	58	−24	17	Relegated to Nationalliga B
14	Lugano	26	4	6	16	21	53	−32	14

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	BB	CDF	CHI	GCZ	GRE	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	YB	YFZ	ZÜR
Basel		3–2	3–4	2–2	1–2	3–5	3–1	3–0	0–2	3–2	8–1	2–2	2–1	0–1
Biel-Bienne	1–2		4–3	1–1	0–3	3–1	1–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	6–1	3–2	1–0	1–4
Chaux-de-Fonds	3–2	3–1		4–0	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	2–2	4–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	6–4
Chiasso	2–4	0–1	3–2		2–1	2–1	2–4	2–0	2–4	2–4	0–2	2–2	2–0	0–6
Grasshopper	3–0	0–0	5–4	9–1		1–1	4–2	0–0	4–1	0–3	6–1	0–0	3–3	1–3
Grenchen	3–2	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–1		0–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	5–0	2–4	1–0	0–6
Lausanne-Sport	0–0	1–1	1–0	4–1	6–2	3–0		3–2	6–2	2–1	5–0	4–0	6–0	9–1
Lugano	0–3	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–1		0–0	1–0	2–1	1–2	5–1	0–0
Luzern	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–0	4–2	2–1	2–1	2–2		1–1	1–2	2–5	1–3	3–5
Servette	3–1	4–1	3–1	0–0	3–1	4–1	1–3	5–1	0–0		6–0	2–3	3–0	0–1
Sion	3–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	3–5	7–1	1–1	1–0		0–1	3–0	0–1
Young Boys	2–2	3–0	3–0	3–4	6–3	6–0	1–6	4–1	3–0	2–0	2–2		1–2	1–5
Young Fellows	2–4	1–0	1–2	3–0	1–5	1–1	0–4	3–0	3–2	1–3	4–1	1–3		3–3
Zürich	3–2	3–1	0–0	7–0	4–0	2–1	1–1	5–0	4–1	3–1	6–2	2–0	1–0

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

Topscorers

Rank	Player	Goals	Club
1.	von Burg Peter	24	FC Zürich
2.	Bertschi Heinz	22	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
3.	Frigerio Roberto	21	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds
4.	Meier Eugen	18	BSC Young Boys
5.	Blumer Heinz	16	FC Basel
	Heuri Walter	16	Servette Genève
	Anker Francis	16	FC Sion
	Stürmer Klaus (GER)	16	FC Zürich
9.	Daina André	15	BSC Young Boys
10.	Odermatt Karl	14	FC Basel
	Kunz Georg	14	Grasshopper Club
12.	Charly Hertig	13	Lausanne-Sports
	Fischer Paul	13	FC Luzern
13.	Dürr Richard	12	Lausanne-Sports
	Brizzi Bruno	12	FC Zürich
15.	Hosp Robert	11	Lausanne-Sports
	Wechselberger Ernst (GER)	11	BSC Young Boys
	Benkö Josef (HUN)	11	Young Fellows
18.	Graf Edgar	10	FC Biel-Bienne
	Bergna Enzo	10	FC Chiasso
	Gronau Rolf	10	Grasshopper Club
	Duret Raymond	10	Grasshopper Club

References

1. Erik Garin. "Nationalliga A 1962/63". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

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Sources

• Switzerland 1962–63 at RSSSF