1972–73 Nationalliga A

Nationalliga A

Season	1972–73
← 1971–72 1973–74 →

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1972–73 season.

Overview

14 teams contested in the 1972–73 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1971–72 season and the two newly promoted teams Chiasso and Fribourg. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1973–74 European Cup, the second and third placed teams were to qualify for 1973–74 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel won the championship four points ahead of Grasshopper Club and six ahead of the Sion. Basel won 17 of their 26 league games, drew five and lost four. They scored a total of 57 goals conceding 30. Ottmar Hitzfeld (Basel) was joint leagues top goal scorer with Ove Grahn of Lausanne-Sports both with 18 league goals.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Basel (C)	26	17	5	4	57	30	+27	39	Swiss champions, qualified for 1973–74 European Cup
2	Grasshopper Club	26	14	7	5	54	32	+22	35	Qualified for 1973–74 UEFA Cup and entered 1973 Intertoto Cup
3	Sion	26	13	7	6	35	30	+5	33	Qualified for 1973–74 UEFA Cup
4	Servette	26	14	3	9	41	23	+18	31
5	Winterthur	26	12	6	8	40	29	+11	30	Entered 1973 Intertoto Cup
6	Lausanne-Sport	26	11	6	9	46	27	+19	28
7	Zürich	26	10	8	8	38	33	+5	28	Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1973–74 Cup Winners' Cup and entered 1973 Intertoto Cup
8	Lugano	26	9	9	8	31	30	+1	27	Entered 1973 Intertoto Cup
9	Young Boys	26	9	5	12	39	40	−1	23
10	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	8	7	11	30	43	−13	23
11	Chiasso	26	8	5	13	21	48	−27	21
12	St. Gallen	26	7	5	14	31	49	−18	19
13	Fribourg	26	4	7	15	24	43	−19	15	Relegated to Nationalliga B
14	Grenchen	26	4	4	18	23	53	−30	12

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	CDF	CHI	FRI	GCZ	GRE	LS	LUG	SER	SIO	STG	WIN	YB	ZÜR
Basel		7–1	4–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	2–1	5–2	2–2	2–3	4–3	3–1	2–0	2–1
Chaux-de-Fonds	2–3		1–1	2–0	0–1	1–1	0–4	3–1	1–3	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–1	1–1
Chiasso	0–0	2–0		3–2	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–0	0–0
Fribourg	0–1	1–2	0–1		0–0	3–2	0–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	2–2	1–0
Grasshopper	1–2	2–3	7–0	3–1		3–0	2–1	3–1	2–0	2–2	2–2	2–2	3–1	3–0
Grenchen	1–2	1–1	3–1	1–0	1–2		1–3	0–1	0–3	1–3	1–0	2–3	1–1	1–4
Lausanne-Sports	0–0	1–1	8–0	2–2	2–2	2–0		1–0	1–0	0–1	2–2	2–1	5–1	1–2
Lugano	0–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	3–2	1–0		0–1	1–1	4–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
Servette	0–0	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–1	2–0	1–0	0–1		2–2	4–0	3–0	1–0	5–1
Sion	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	1–3	1–0	1–0		1–0	1–0	0–3	2–2
St. Gallen	3–4	2–1	2–1	0–0	2–3	1–0	3–1	2–0	1–5	0–0		0–4	0–0	1–3
Winterthur	3–1	1–1	3–2	4–2	3–1	0–0	1–0	1–3	3–0	0–1	1–0		1–0	3–0
Young Boys	2–3	2–0	3–2	2–0	4–3	6–3	3–2	1–1	0–1	4–1	1–0	2–2		0–1
Zürich	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–2	3–1	4–0	0–0	1–1	3–2	1–2	5–3	0–0	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Sources

• Switzerland 1972–73 at RSSSF