a0fc5f2bb79e8358d0896e0abb4a107f91baa274.txt 2019–20 Swiss Promotion League

2019–20 Swiss Promotion League

Swiss Promotion League
Season2019–2020
ChampionsNone[1]
PromotedNone[1]
RelegatedNone[1]
Matches played136

The 2019–20 Promotion League season was the 8th edition (the 6th since its name change).[2] The Promotion League is the 3rd division of Swiss Football and the third highest level of the football hierarchy in Switzerland, behind the Super League and the Challenge League. The Championship had 16 teams and each team were to play 30 games in a round robin format.

Corona

The season started as normal, but due to the corona-virus and the measures against the illness, suddenly things changed. On 28 February the Swiss Football League postponed all Super and Challenge League matches. The postponement came after the Swiss Federal Council banned all major events until 15 March due to the COVID-19 outbreak.[3] Due to the corona-virus measures, the start of the second half of the Promotion League season, planned for the end of February 2020, was postponed. On 30 April the Swiss Football Association decided that all suspended championship and cup competitions in Switzerland will be cancelled (with the exception of the Super League, the Challenge League and the Swiss Cup). This meant that all competitions in the lower tiers (Promotion League, 1st League, qualification for the Swiss Cup for the next 2020/2021 season) have been cancelled. They were not counted and there were no promotions or relegations.[1]

Teams

In the previous season Stade Lausanne Ouchy became division champions and had been promoted. La Chaux-de-Fonds had ended the season in last position and Wohlen in second last position and they were both relegated. Therefore, the 2019–20 season saw three new clubs join the division, FC Black Stars Basel and Étoile Carouge FC had both been promoted from the 1. Liga Classic and Rapperswil-Jona joined the division, after suffering relegation from the 2018–19 Swiss Challenge League.

Club Canton Stadium Capacity
Basel U-21 Basel-City Stadion Rankhof or
Youth Campus Basel 		7,000
1,000
FC Bavois Vaud Terrain des Peupliers 659
AC Bellinzona Ticino Stadio Comunale Bellinzona 5,000
FC Black Stars Basel Basel-City Buschwilerhof 1,200
FC Breitenrain Bern Bern Spitalacker 1,450
SC Brühl St. Gallen Paul-Grüninger-Stadion 4,200
SC Cham Zug Stadion Eizmoos 1,800
Étoile Carouge FC Geneva Stade de la Fontenette 3,690
FC Köniz Bern Liebefeld 1,000
FC Münsingen Bern Sportanlage Sandreutenen 1,400
FC Stade Nyonnais Vaud Stade de Colovray 7,200
Rapperswil-Jona St. Gallen Stadion Grünfeld 2,500
Sion U-21 Valais Stade de Tourbillon 20,200
SC Young Fellows Juventus Zürich Utogrund 2,850
Yverdon-Sport FC Vaud Stade Municipal 8,200
Zürich U-21 Zürich Sportplatz Heerenschürli 1,120

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Yverdon-Sport 17 11 5 1 45 15 +30 38 No promotion
2 Rapperswil-Jona 17 9 4 4 31 24 +7 31
3 Stade Nyonnais 17 9 3 5 37 21 +16 30
4 Étoile Carouge FC 17 8 6 3 35 22 +13 30
5 Black Stars 17 8 5 4 26 19 +7 29
6 Bellinzona 17 8 3 6 33 24 +9 27
7 Brühl 17 8 2 7 31 33 −2 26
8 Basel U-21 17 5 7 5 21 18 +3 22
9 Breitenrain 17 6 4 7 32 33 −1 22
10 Sion U-21 17 6 2 9 21 25 −4 20
11 Köniz 17 6 2 9 22 38 −16 20
12 SC Cham 17 4 7 6 22 30 −8 19
13 Zürich U-21 17 4 6 7 25 31 −6 18
14 Bavois 17 3 7 7 21 35 −14 16
15 YF Juventus 17 3 6 8 24 35 −11 15 No relegation
16 Münsingen 17 2 3 12 19 42 −23 9
Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.

NB: the season was abandoned due to the COVID-19 pandemic; there were no promotions or relegations

References

  1. ^ a b c d Archived 1 May 2020 at el-pl.ch (Error: unknown archive URL), Website der Ersten Liga.
  2. ^ (si) (28 October 2013). "Promotion League: Neuer Name" [Promotion League: New name] (in Swiss High German). Walliser Bote [de]. Retrieved 2023-11-16.
  3. ^ "Bundesrat streicht Grossanlässe: Fussballpartien am Wochenende abgesagt – Geisterspiele im Eishockey". Bluewin. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2020.