1970–71 Nationalliga A

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1970–71 season.

Nationalliga A

Season	1970–71
← 1969–70 1971–72 →

Overview

14 teams contested in the 1970–71 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1969–70 season and the two newly promoted teams Sion and Luzern. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1971–72 European Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated. FC Basel finished the regular season level on points with Grasshopper Club Zürich and so these two teams had to contest a play-off game on 8 June 1971 to decide the title winners. Grasshopper won the play-off 4–3 after extra time.^[1] Bellinzona finished last and the table and were relegated. Sion and Fribourg, level on points, were both second last and thus they had to have a play-off against relegation. Sion won 1–0, so Fribourg were relegated.^[2]

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	FC Basel	26	18	6	2	67	26	+41	42	Championship play-off
2	Grasshopper Club Zürich (C)	26	20	2	4	59	21	+38	42	Championship play-off winners, thus qualified for 1971–72 European Cup and entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
3	FC Lugano	26	11	9	6	50	34	+16	31	Entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
4	Lausanne Sports	26	12	6	8	51	43	+8	30
5	FC Zürich	26	11	6	9	41	42	−1	28	Entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
6	FC Winterthur	26	11	5	10	36	38	−2	27
7	Servette FC Genève	26	8	10	8	39	36	+3	26	Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1971–72 Cup Winners' Cup and entered 1971 Intertoto Cup
8	BSC Young Boys	26	10	6	10	43	46	−3	26
9	FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	9	6	11	46	47	−1	24
10	FC Biel-Bienne	26	6	9	11	32	43	−11	21
11	FC Lucerne	26	8	4	14	39	48	−9	20
12	FC Sion	26	5	9	12	32	46	−14	19	Relegation play-off winners
13	FC Fribourg (R)	26	6	7	13	35	63	−28	19	Relegation play-off losers, relegated to Nationalliga B
14	AC Bellinzona (R)	26	1	7	18	24	61	−37	9	Relegated to Nationalliga B

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	BEL	BB	CDF	FRI	GCZ	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	WIN	YB	ZÜR
Basel		5–2	2–0	2–0	3–0	3–1	5–3	4–1	5–0	2–2	2–0	5–0	3–2	4–2
Bellinzona	0–2		1–1	1–2	1–2	0–3	0–0	0–3	0–0	3–2	1–1	0–5	1–3	1–2
Biel-Bienne	1–1	2–1		2–1	0–3	0–3	1–4	3–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	4–0	0–1
Chaux-de-Fonds	0–1	2–2	1–0		4–1	3–1	1–3	1–0	2–0	3–2	3–3	0–1	1–1	2–2
Fribourg	2–3	2–1	2–2	3–1		0–5	1–1	1–1	3–2	0–3	2–2	0–0	1–3	2–0
Grasshopper	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–1	10–1		1–0	2–1	2–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–2
Lausanne-Sports	2–2	3–1	1–0	3–2	4–2	1–3		0–0	1–0	2–2	3–1	4–0	1–0	5–0
Lugano	1–1	4–1	1–1	4–2	1–1	0–0	5–1		4–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	3–3
Luzern	1–1	4–0	1–2	4–3	3–1	0–2	4–1	3–2		3–1	0–2	0–2	1–2	3–3
Servette	1–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–1		1–1	1–1	2–2	2–0
Sion	0–1	2–2	1–1	2–4	2–0	1–1	5–1	1–2	0–2	2–1		2–1	1–3	0–1
Winterthur	2–1	2–1	2–0	2–1	4–3	1–2	1–1	1–2	3–1	1–0	3–0		0–0	0–1
Young Boys	1–6	3–3	2–1	1–3	4–1	0–1	3–1	3–3	1–3	1–1	3–1	2–0		2–1
Zürich	0–1	2–0	4–2	1–1	1–1	1–4	2–5	0–1	1–1	1–0	3–0	5–1	2–0

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

Championship play-off

8 June 1971

Grasshopper	4 – 3 (a.e.t.)	Basel
Ohlhauser   16' Ove Grahn   75', 97' Peter Meier   106'		Mundschin   21' Wenger   70' Benthaus   119' (pen.)

Wankdorf, Bern

Relegation play-off

9 June 1971

Sion	1 – 0	Fribourg
Elsig   13'

Lausanne

References

1. "Grasshopper Club - FC Basel 4:3 n.V. (2:2, 1:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
2. Erik Garin, Luc Nackaerts. "Nationalliga A 1970/71". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

Sources

• Switzerland 1970–71 at RSSSF