2020–21 FC Vaduz season

FC Vaduz
2020–21 season
Stadium	Rheinpark Stadion
Swiss Super League	10th (relegated)
UEFA Europa League	First qualifying round
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The 2020–21 FC Vaduz season was the club's 89th season in their existence and the first season since their return to the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the 2019–20 Swiss Challenge League. In addition to the 2020–21 Swiss Super League, Vaduz will participate in the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup. Teams from Liechtenstein are not allowed to enter the Swiss Cup, they play in the Liechtenstein Football Cup. The season covered the period from 19 September 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players

First-team squad

As of 1 August 2020.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	LIE	Benjamin Büchel (Captain)
4	DF	KOS	Denis Simani
6	DF	KOS	Fuad Rahimi
8	FW	MDA	Nicolae Milinceanu
9	FW	AUT	Manuel Sutter
10	FW	SEN	Mohamed Coulibaly
11	FW	SUI	Tunahan Cicek
12	DF	SUI	Gianni Antoniazzi
14	MF	SRB	Milan Gajić
15	DF	SUI	Yannick Schmid
17	MF	SUI	Dominik Schwizer (on loan from FC Thun)
18	GK	LIE	Justin Ospelt
19	FW	SUI	Dejan Đokić


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	SRB	Besart Bajrami
21	DF	GER	Pius Dorn
23	MF	LIE	Sandro Wieser
24	DF	SUI	Cédric Gasser
26	FW	LIE	Ferhat Saglam
28	MF	AUT	Boris Prokopič
30	MF	SUI	Gabriel Lüchinger
33	DF	LIE	Maximilian Göppel
35	MF	SUI	Yago Gomes do Nascimento
42	GK	SUI	Gion Chande
—	DF	GER	Nico Hug
—	FW	SUI	Matteo Di Giusto

Transfers

In

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Out

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Pre-season and friendlies

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Competitions

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Swiss Super League	August 2020	21 May 2021	Matchday 1	10th	36	9	9	18	36	58	−22	025.00
Total					36	9	9	18	36	58	−22	025.00

Source: Competitions

Swiss Super League

On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. FCV start the new season on Sunday 20 September with an away game against Basel in St. Jakob-Park. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed the times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games will follow by the end of the year.

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Lausanne-Sport	36	12	10	14	52	55	−3	46
7	St. Gallen	36	11	11	14	45	48	−3	44
8	Zürich	36	11	10	15	53	57	−4	43
9	Sion (O)	36	8	14	14	48	58	−10	38	Qualification for the relegation play-offs
10	Vaduz (R)	36	9	9	18	36	58	−22	36	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round and relegation to Challenge League^[a]

Source: Swiss Super League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.^[1]
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Vaduz qualified for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round by being declared winners of the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup.

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	0	1	1	2	3	−1

Last updated: August 2020.
Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	7	8
Ground	A	H	A	H	H
Result	D	L	L	D	L	D	W
Position			9		10

Updated to match(es) played on August 2020. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games for all 36 rounds followed at the end of the year.

20 September 2020 1	Basel	2–2	Vaduz	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
16:00	Cabral 5' Stocker 38'	SFL report	29' Sutter 78' Milinceanu	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Fedayi San (Gebenstorf)

27 September 2020 2	Vaduz	0–1	St. Gallen	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00	Simani 26' Prokopič 34' Schmid 90+3'	SFL summary	71' Vincent Rüfli 83' Ribeiro	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

4 October 2020 3	Young Boys	1–0	Vaduz	Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Nsame 62'	SFL summary		Attendance: 11,660 Referee: Lionel Tschudi

17 October 2020 4	Vaduz	1–1	Lugano	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Tunahan Cicek 45' Lüchinger 49' Schmid 56' Gasser 81'	SFL summary	7' Custodio 44' Lavanchy 90+2' Ošs	Attendance: 1,360 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet

24 October 2020 5	Vaduz	1–4	Zürich	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Lüchinger 39' Schmied 74'	SFL summary	Sobiech 6' Marchesano 23' Aiyegun 41' Ceesay 68' Gnonto 74' Schönbächler 76'Gnonto 78' Doumbia 82'	Attendance: 1396 Referee: Luca Piccolo

31 October 2020 6	Lausanne-Sport	3–0	Vaduz	Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
19:00	Zekhnini 40' Nanizayamo 42' Turkeš 59' Puertas 63' Turkeš 68' Geissmann 80'	SFL summary	34' 58' Wieser 90+1' Dorn	Attendance: 5 Referee: Luca Cibelli

7 November 2020 7	Vaduz	P – P	Servette	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00

21 November 2020 8	Luzern	1–1	Vaduz	Swissporarena, Luzern
19:00	Sorgić 31' Müller 39' Carbonell 49' 50' Emini 90+1'	SFL summary	20' Sutter 22' Simani 87' (pen.) Gajić 90+1' Gabriel Lüchinger	Attendance: 50 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, (Basel)

28 November 2020 9	Vaduz	4–1	Sion	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15	Cicek 23' Dorn 46' Cicek 54' Coulibaly 59' Simani 66' Gasser 84'	SFL summary	16' Hoarau 41' Uldriķis 47' Uldriķis 66' Serey Dié 90' Baltazar	Attendance: 50 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

5 December 2020 10

St. Gallen

P – P

Vaduz

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

9 December 2020 7	Vaduz	0–2	Servette	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Schmid 27' Simani 31' Gajić 61'	SFL summary	16' Sauthier 27' Stevanović (49) Kyei	Attendance: 50 Referee: Luca Piccolo

12 December 2020 11	Vaduz	0–2	Basel	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Coulibaly 21' Cicek 32' Prokopič 60' 68'	SFL summary	45+1' Zhegrova 62' 48' Marchand 55' Afimico Pululu 61' Petretta 79' Lindner	Attendance: 5 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, (Basel)

17 December 2020 12	Vaduz	0–2	Lausanne-Sport	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15	Wieser 25'	SFL summary	36' Jenz 49' Puertas 64' (pen.) Turkeš 67' Puertas	Attendance: 5 Referee: Stefan Horisberger

20 December 2020 13	Sion	2–1	Vaduz	Stade Tourbillon, Sion
16:00	Ruiz 17' Grgić 58' Zock 72' Zock 83' Abdellaoui 90'	SFL summary	5' Prokopič 29' Wieser 51' Lüchinger 76' Lüchinger	Attendance: 5 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

23 December 2020 14	Servette	v	Vaduz	Stade de Genève, Geneva
15:15

20 January 2021 10

St. Gallen

v

Vaduz

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

24 January 2021 15	Vaduz	v	Young Boys	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00

27 January 2021 16	Zürich	0–1	Vaduz	Letzigrund, Zürich
18:15	Kramer 44' 89' Ceesay 70'	Summary	31' Gajić 47' Obexer 61' Schmid 65' Wieser	Attendance: 5 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, Basel

Week 5 2021 17

Vaduz

v

Luzern

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Week 6 2021 18

Lugano

v

Vaduz

Cornaredo, Lugano

Second half of season

6 February 2021 19	Vaduz	3–2	Zürich	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Cicek 31' Gajić 42' 54' Schmied 64' Di Giusto 78' Rahimi 90+1'	Summary	43' 46' Marchesano 58' Winter 65' Džemaili 83' Aliti 90+4' Kramer	Attendance: 5 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

14 February 2021 20	Luzern	v	Vaduz	Swissporarena, Luzern
16:00

20 February 2021 21	Vaduz	v	St. Gallen	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15

28 February 2021 22	Sion	v	Vaduz	Stade Tourbillon, Sion
16:00

3 March 2021 23	Vaduz	v	Lausanne-Sport	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30

6 March 2021 24	Young Boys	v	Vaduz	Stadion Wankdorf, Bern
18:15

14 March 2021 25	Vaduz	0–3	Lugano	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00	Cicek 67' Ibrisimovic 77'	SFV report	3', 24' Ardaiz 26' Kecskés 69' Marić	Attendance: 5 Referee: Alain Bieri

21 March 2021 26	Servette	1–2	Vaduz	Stade de Genève, Geneva
16:00	Ondoua 63' Sauthier 75' Kyei 76' Sasso 90'	SFV report	25' Gasser 28' Dorn 50' Di Giusto 63' Simani 64' Lüchinger 89' Sutter	Attendance: 0 Referee: Stefan Horisberger

5 April 2021 27	Basel	1–2	Vaduz	St. Jakob-Park, Basel
16:00	Frei 23' Simani 56' (o.g.) Sene 83' Widmer 90+2'	SFV report	23' Simani 37' Schmied 90+3' Schmid	Attendance: 0 Referee: Nikolaj Hänni

10/11 April 2021 28

Vaduz

v

Sion

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

17/18 April 2021 29

Lausanne-Sport

v

Vaduz

Stade de la Tuilière, Lausanne

21 April 2021 30	Vaduz	1–1	Basel	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Gajić 83' (pen.)	FCB report	7' Zuffi 19' Zhegrova 44' Petretta 79' Kasami 86' Frei	Attendance: 25 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

24 April 2021 31	St. Gallen	1–0	Vaduz	Kybunpark, St. Gallen
18:15	Adamu 26' Duah 30' Stillhart 39'	Summary SVF	52' Schmied 76' Simani	Attendance: 100 Referee: Nikolaj Hänni

1/2 May 2021 32

Vaduz

v

Luzern

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

8/9 May 2021 33

Lugano

v

Vaduz

Cornaredo, Lugano

12/13 May 2021 34

Vaduz

v

Young Boys

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

16 May 2021 35	Vaduz	v	Servette	Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00

21 May 2021 36	Zürich	v	Vaduz	Letzigrund, Zürich
20:00

Liechtenstein Cup

UEFA Europa League

27 August 2020 First qualifying round	Vaduz	0-2	Hibernians	Vaduz, Liechtenstein
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Rheinpark Stadion

Statistics

Goalscorers

References

^ "Règlement de la compétition de la SFL" (PDF) (in French). sfl.ch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

External links

Official website

[table_note_res_RECL2Q0.89992688684721-1] Vaduz qualified for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round by being declared winners of the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup.

[2] "Règlement de la compétition de la SFL" (PDF) (in French). sfl.ch. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

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