2016–17 Championnat LNA season

Championnat LNA
Championnat LNA
Number of teams	11
Regular season
Promoted	Lausanne
Finals
Champions	Monthey (3rd title)
Runners-up	Lions de Genève
	← 2015–16 2017–18 →

The 2016–17 Championnat LNA season was the 86th season of the top tier basketball league in Switzerland. Monthey won its third national championship.

Competition format

All teams played two times against each other for completing 20 games per team.

The six first qualified teams joined the group for places 1 to 6 while the other five teams will play the group for places 7 to 11. These two groups will be played with a one-legged round-robin format, where all teams from group 1 to 6 and the two first qualified teams from the group for the seventh position will be qualified for the playoffs. In this intermediate stage, teams start with the points accumulated by the winnings achieved in the first stage.

The quarterfinals and the semifinals were played as a best-of-five series while the final in a best-of-seven series.^[1]

Teams

Winterthur

Boncourt

Fribourg

Geneva

Lugano,
Massagno

Monthey

Basel

Neuchâtel

Lucerne

Lausanne

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Clubs of the Championnat LNA 2016–17

Regular season

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fribourg Olympic	20	17	3	1669	1336	+333	34	Qualification to group 1–6
2	Monthey	20	14	6	1602	1480	+122	28
3	Lugano Tigers	20	13	7	1493	1397	+96	26
4	Union Neuchâtel	20	13	7	1582	1492	+90	26
5	Lions de Genève	20	13	7	1600	1474	+126	26
6	Starwings Regio Basel	20	9	11	1370	1541	−171	18
7	Swiss Central	20	9	11	1403	1452	−49	18	Qualification to group 7–11
8	BBC Lausanne	20	7	13	1527	1563	−36	14
9	Boncourt Red Team	20	7	13	1526	1617	−91	14
10	5 Stelle Massagno	20	6	14	1559	1654	−95	12
11	Winterthur	20	2	18	1426	1751	−325	4

Source: LNBA.ch

Intermediate stage

Group 1–6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fribourg Olympic	5	4	1	376	335	+41	42	Qualification to playoffs
2	Monthey	5	4	1	378	350	+28	36
3	Lugano Tigers	5	2	3	346	351	−5	30
4	Lions de Genève	5	2	3	393	394	−1	30
5	Union Neuchâtel	5	0	5	341	394	−53	26
6	Starwings Regio Basel	5	3	2	378	388	−10	24

Source: LNBA.ch

Group 7–11

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	BBC Lausanne	4	4	0	363	288	+75	22	Qualification to playoffs
2	Swiss Central	4	1	3	297	328	−31	20	Qualification to playoffs
3	Boncourt Red Team	4	2	2	350	345	+5	18
4	5 Stelle Massagno	4	2	2	321	333	−12	16
5	Winterthur	4	1	3	298	335	−37	6

Source: LNBA.ch

Play-offs

Seeded teams played at home games 1, 2 and 5.

Quarter-finals						Semi-finals						Final



Fribourg Olympic	99	99	70	0	0

Swiss Central	44	48	57	0	0
						Fribourg Olympic	67	88	77	61	0

						Lions de Genève	53	96	79	70	0
Lions de Genève	77	84	77	76	0

Union Neuchâtel	70	78	78	70	0
												Lions de Genève	62	83	95	64	56	69	0

												Monthey	67	82	90	78	72	77	0
Monthey	70	74	96	0	0

Lausanne	64	53	85	0	0
						Monthey	90	69	72	77	85

						Lugano Tigers	78	81	77	75	74
Lugano Tigers	73	96	76	0	0

Starwings Regio Basel	58	74	67	0	0

Source:^[2]

References

^ "Formule des championnats" (in French). Swiss Basketball. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
^ Playoffs at LNBA.ch