1971–72 Nationalliga A

Nationalliga A

Season	1971–72
← 1970–71 1972–73 →

Statistics of Swiss Super League in the 1971–72 season.

Overview

14 teams contested in the 1971–72 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1970–71 season and the two newly promoted teams St. Gallen and Grenchen. The championship was played in a double round robin. The champions would qualify for the 1972–73 European Cup and the last two teams in the table at the end of the season were to be relegated. Basel remained undefeated in the league during the first 24 rounds. Of their 26 league games Basel won 18, drawing seven, losing just once, scoring 66 goals conceding 28. Basel won the championship four points ahead of Zürich and five points ahead of the Grasshoppers. Zürich were Swiss Cup winners and qualified for 1972–73 Cup Winners' Cup. Grasshopper Club and Lausanne-Sport qualified for 1972–73 UEFA Cup. Luzern and Biel-Bienne suffered relegation.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Basel (C)	26	18	7	1	66	28	+38	43	Swiss champions, qualified for 1972–73 European Cup
2	Zürich	26	17	5	4	55	28	+27	39	Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1972–73 Cup Winners' Cup and entered 1972 Intertoto Cup
3	Grasshopper Club	26	16	6	4	56	24	+32	38	Qualified for 1972–73 UEFA Cup and entered 1972 Intertoto Cup
4	Lausanne-Sport	26	11	8	7	50	36	+14	30	Qualified for 1972–73 UEFA Cup
5	Young Boys	26	12	5	9	46	31	+15	29	Entered 1972 Intertoto Cup
6	Winterthur	26	12	4	10	37	32	+5	28
7	Sion	26	9	8	9	37	36	+1	26
8	Servette	26	10	5	11	39	47	−8	25
9	Lugano	26	8	7	11	33	39	−6	23
10	Grenchen	26	6	11	9	27	40	−13	23
11	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	7	7	12	25	45	−20	21
12	St. Gallen	26	4	7	15	27	46	−19	15
13	Luzern	26	6	3	17	24	49	−25	15	Relegated to Nationalliga B
14	Biel-Bienne	26	2	5	19	26	67	−41	9

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	BB	CDF	GCZ	GRE	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	STG	WIN	YB	ZÜR
Basel		6–2	6–2	2–1	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–0	5–1	3–0	3–0	2–1	1–1	4–0
Biel-Bienne	1–2		2–2	1–2	2–2	1–5	1–3	0–1	0–2	2–4	2–1	1–3	0–3	1–4
Chaux-de-Fonds	1–3	1–2		1–2	0–0	2–1	0–2	3–2	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–2
Grasshopper	1–2	1–1	5–0		4–0	4–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	0–0	2–0	3–0	1–1	1–2
Grenchen	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–2		3–2	1–1	1–0	2–2	0–1	2–1	2–2	3–3	1–1
Lausanne-Sports	1–1	4–0	1–1	3–3	2–1		2–0	4–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	3–2	3–1	2–0
Lugano	0–3	2–2	0–1	1–2	3–1	3–1		1–1	3–0	2–2	3–3	0–0	1–0	1–3
Luzern	1–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	0–1	0–2	0–1		2–2	0–3	2–0	0–2	1–2	0–4
Servette	0–2	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–2	1–0	3–1	3–0		4–0	3–2	0–3	2–1	1–2
Sion	3–3	4–1	2–2	1–2	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–2	1–0		3–1	0–1	0–1	1–1
St. Gallen	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–4	0–0	0–1	2–0	3–0	2–2	1–1		0–1	2–1	1–4
Winterthur	2–4	2–0	1–1	0–2	3–0	0–3	3–1	2–1	2–0	1–0	3–1		1–3	0–1
Young Boys	4–1	3–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	2–2	0–0	2–3	6–0	1–0	3–1	2–1		0–2
Zürich	3–3	4–1	4–0	1–1	3–1	2–3	0–1	3–1	3–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	2–1

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

Sources

• Switzerland 1971–72 at RSSSF