2025–26 Swiss Super League

The 2025–26 Swiss Super League (referred to as the Brack Super League for sponsoring reasons) was the 129th season of top-tier competitive football in Switzerland, and the 23rd under its current name. It was 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 were Basel.

Swiss Super League

Season	2025–26
Dates	25 July 2025 – 17 May 2026
Champions	Thun 1st title
Relegated	Winterthur
Champions League	Thun
Europa League	St. Gallen
Conference League	Lugano Sion
Matches	228
Goals	691 (3.03 per match)
Top goalscorer	Christian Fassnacht (18 goals)
Biggest home win	St. Gallen 5–0 Winterthur (10 August 2025) Young Boys 5–0 Winterthur (22 November 2025)
Biggest away win	Thun 3–8 Young Boys (14 May 2026)
Highest scoring	Thun 3–8 Young Boys (14 May 2026)
Longest winning run	8 matches Thun
Longest unbeaten run	8 matches Thun
Longest winless run	11 matches Winterthur
Longest losing run	5 matches Winterthur
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 21 May 2026.

Overview

Format and schedule

The Swiss Football League (SFL) released a detailed schedule on 26 November 2024:

• 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 returned to the top tier after a five-year absence. They later won the title. Yverdon-Sport FC were relegated to the Challenge League after two years in the top tier.

Teams

Stadia and locations

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	Capacity: 26,103		Capacity: 12,544	Capacity: 6,390
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				Capacity: 28,833
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	Capacity: 19,455	Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 8,400	Capacity: 31,120

Managerial changes

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
Basel	Fabio Celestini	Resignation			Ludovic Magnin	16 June 2025
Lausanne	Ludovic Magnin	Mutual consent			Peter Zeidler	21 June 2025
Grasshopper	Tomas Oral				Gerald Scheiblehner	24 June 2025
Servette	Thomas Häberli	Termination	4 August 2025	11th	Jocelyn Gourvennec	11 August 2025
Winterthur	Uli Forte		20 October 2025	12th	Patrick Rahmen	22 October 2025
Zürich	Mitchell van der Gaag		23 October 2025	8th	Dennis Hediger (interim)	23 October 2025
Young Boys	Giorgio Contini		31 October 2025	5th	Gerardo Seoane	31 October 2025
Basel	Ludovic Magnin		26 January 2026	4th	Stephan Lichtsteiner	26 January 2026
Grasshopper	Gerald Scheiblehner		16 March 2026	11th	Gernot Messner (interim)	16 March 2026
Zürich	Dennis Hediger		14 April 2026	10th	Carlos Bernegger (interim)	14 April 2026
Lausanne	Peter Zeidler		16 April 2026	9th	Markus Neumayr & Migjen Basha (interim)	16 April 2026
Grasshopper	Gernot Messner (interim)	End of interim period	4 May 2026	11th	Peter Zeidler	1 May 2026

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Thun (C)	38	24	3	11	80	52	+28	75	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	St. Gallen	38	20	10	8	72	47	+25	70	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
3	Lugano	38	19	10	9	59	42	+17	67	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round
4	Sion	38	16	15	7	63	40	+23	63
5	Basel	38	16	8	14	55	58	−3	56
6	Young Boys	38	15	10	13	80	69	+11	55
7	Luzern	38	14	11	13	76	66	+10	53
8	Servette	38	13	14	11	71	63	+8	53
9	Lausanne-Sport	38	11	9	18	53	67	−14	42
10	Zürich	38	11	5	22	49	72	−23	38
11	Grasshopper (O)	38	8	9	21	48	74	−26	33	Qualification for the Relegation play-off
12	Winterthur (R)	38	5	8	25	44	100	−56	23	Relegation to 2026–27 Swiss Challenge League

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.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

Results

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.

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).

Championship Group

Home \ Away	BAS	LUG	SIO	STG	THU	YB
Basel			0–2	1–3	3–1
Lugano	4–0			1–2		1–0
Sion		2–2			2–0
St. Gallen			0–3		1–1
Thun		0–1				3–8
Young Boys	3–0		3–3	1–2

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	0–2	3–2
Lausanne-Sport	1–3		1–3			3–0
Luzern				3–3		1–0
Servette		2–0			5–3
Winterthur		2–1	0–3			2–2
Zürich	2–1			0–2

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.

Relegation play-off

The relegation play-off between the eleventh placed team of the Swiss Super League and the runner up of the 2025–26 Swiss Challenge League will be held following the conclusion of the regular season. The play-off is held over two legs, played home and away, and was originally scheduled on the 20 and 23 May 2026. A draw held on 13 March 2026 decided that the Challenge League side will host the first leg and the Super League side will host the second leg.

Grasshopper's place in the play-off was confirmed on 12 May 2026, following a 3–2 home win against Winterthur. It will be their third consecutive participation in the relegation play-off. Aarau failed to secure direct promotion on the last matchday of the Challenge League on 15 May 2026, but will receive a second chance in the play-off. It will be a reprise of last year's play-off. The relegation play-off was pushed forward by two days, as eleventh placed Grasshopper's home ground Letzigrund would not be available on the date of the second leg. The new dates will be 18 and 21 May 2026.

First leg

18 May 2026 (2026-05-18)

20:15 CEST (UTC+2)

Aarau	0–0	Grasshopper
	Report

Stadion Brügglifeld, Aarau

Attendance: 8,450

Referee: Anojen Kanagasingam

Second leg

21 May 2026 (2026-05-21)

20:15 CEST (UTC+2)

Grasshopper	2–1 (a.e.t.)	Aarau
Zvonarek 30' Lee  88' Ngom 110' (pen.)	Report	Filet 44'  105' Obexer

Letzigrund, Zürich

Attendance: 18,763

Referee: Urs Schnyder

Grasshopper wins 2–1 on aggregate.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 14 May 2026

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Christian Fassnacht	Young Boys	18
2	Chris Bedia	Young Boys	17
3	Alessandro Vogt	St. Gallen	15
	Elmin Rastoder	Thun
5	Miroslav Stevanović	Servette	14
6	Philippe Kény	Zürich	13
	Rilind Nivokazi	Sion
8	Matteo Di Giusto	Luzern	12
	Carlo Boukhalfa	St. Gallen
10	Xherdan Shaqiri	Basel	11
	Florian Ayé	Servette
	Aliou Baldé	St. Gallen
	Kevin Behrens	Lugano
	Leonardo Bertone	Thun
	Andrin Hunziker	Winterthur

Hat tricks

Player	Team	Opponent	Result	Date
Luke Plange	Grasshopper	Young Boys	6–2 (A)	17 December 2025

Awards

• Super League Player of the Season: Lukas Görtler (St. Gallen )
• Super League Coach of the Season : Enrico Maaßen (St. Gallen )

Swiss Golden Player Awards 2025–26

Position	Player	Club
Goalkeeper	Anthony Racioppi	FC Sion
Defender	Flavius Daniliuc	FC Basel 1893
Defender	Antonios Papadopoulos	FC Lugano
Defender	Jozo Stanić	FC St. Gallen 1879
Midfielder	Leonardo Bertone	FC Thun
Midfielder	Matteo Di Giusto	FC Luzern
Midfielder	Anto Grgić	FC Lugano
Midfielder	Alvyn Sanches	BSC Young Boys
Forward	Chris Bedia	BSC Young Boys
Forward	Elmin Rastoder	FC Thun
Forward	Alessandro Vogt	FC St. Gallen 1879
Individual awards
Golden Player	Valon Fazliu	—