2000–01 Swiss Football League

Nationalliga A
Season	2000–01
Champions	Grasshopper Club 26th title
Relegated	Yverdon Sport
Top goalscorer	Stéphane Chapuisat (21) Christian Giménez (21)
← 1998–99 2000–01 →

The 2000–01 season Swiss Football League contains two divisions, the Swiss Super League, at the time called Nationalliga A, and the Swiss Challenge League, at the time called Nationalliga B (in French: Ligue Nationale A/B and Italian: Lega Nazionale A/B). At the end of the season, Nationalliga A held its own championship playoffs, and Nationalliga B held its own relegation playoffs. Additionally, the last 4 teams from A and top 4 teams from B held a relegation/promotion playoff.

Nationalliga A

Regular season

The Qualification Round to the League season 2000–01 was contested by twelve teams. The first eight teams of the regular season (or Qualification) then competed in the Championship Playoff Round. The teams in the ninth to twelfth positions completed with the top four teams of the Nationalliga B in a Nationalliga A/B Playoff round. The regular season (Grunddurchgang) started on 15 July and ended on 10 December. At the end of the season Grasshopper Club Zürich won the championship.


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Lugano !Lugano	22	12	6	4	33	16	+17	42
2	St. Gallen !St. Gallen	22	11	7	4	43	18	+25	40
3	Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich	22	11	3	8	46	25	+21	36
4	Lausanne-Sport !Lausanne-Sport	22	11	2	9	37	34	+3	35
5	Basel !Basel	22	10	4	8	42	36	+6	34
6	Servette !Servette	22	9	6	7	34	26	+8	33
7	Sion !Sion	22	9	5	8	27	31	−4	32
8	Zürich !Zürich	22	8	7	7	36	29	+7	31
9	Aarau !Aarau	22	6	6	10	31	43	−12	24
10	Yverdon-Sport !Yverdon-Sport	22	5	6	11	27	43	−16	21
11	Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	22	6	2	14	21	53	−32	20
12	Luzern !Luzern	22	5	4	13	27	50	−23	19

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Champion playoffs

The first eight teams of the regular season (or Qualification) competed in the Championship Playoff Round. They took half of the points (rounded up to complete units) gained in the Qualification as Bonus with them.


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Grasshopper Club Zürich !Grasshopper Club Zürich (C)	14	8	4	2	29	14	+15	46	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2	Lugano !Lugano	14	5	5	4	24	19	+5	41	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3	St. Gallen !St. Gallen	14	6	2	6	23	28	−5	40	2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
4	Basel !Basel	14	4	8	2	18	16	+2	37	2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
5	Servette !Servette	14	5	5	4	26	19	+7	37	2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
6	Lausanne-Sport !Lausanne-Sport	14	4	3	7	15	27	−12	33	2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
7	Sion !Sion	14	4	4	6	16	22	−6	32
8	Zürich !Zürich	14	3	3	8	12	18	−6	28

Source: RSSSF
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹As Swiss Cup 2000–01 winner.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Nationalliga B

Regular season


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Young Boys !Young Boys	22	13	6	3	42	20	+22	45
2	Wil !Wil	22	14	3	5	47	28	+19	45
3	Winterthur !Winterthur	22	11	8	3	41	21	+20	41
4	Bellinzona !Bellinzona	22	11	5	6	40	27	+13	38
5	Thun !Thun	22	10	5	7	46	39	+7	35
6	Delémont !Delémont	22	9	4	9	43	39	+4	31
7	Kriens !Kriens	22	7	4	11	29	37	−8	25
8	Locarno !Locarno	22	6	6	10	28	41	−13	24
9	Wangen b.O. !Wangen b.O.	22	5	7	10	26	38	−12	22
10	Baden !Baden	22	5	5	12	23	40	−17	20
11	Étoile Carouge !Étoile Carouge	22	3	9	10	25	36	−11	18
12	Solothurn !Solothurn	22	4	6	12	16	40	−24	18

Relegation playoffs

Each team was awarded half of the points from the regular season.


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
5	Delémont !Delémont	14	6	5	3	24	20	+4	39
6	Thun !Thun	14	5	4	5	24	21	+3	37
7	Kriens !Kriens	14	5	5	4	12	13	−1	33
8	Baden !Baden	14	6	4	4	31	22	+9	32
9	Locarno !Locarno	14	5	4	5	17	24	−7	31
10	Étoile Carouge !Étoile Carouge	14	3	10	1	16	12	+4	28
11	Wangen b.O. !Wangen b.O. (R)	14	5	1	8	24	32	−8	27
12	Solothurn !Solothurn (R)	14	1	7	6	22	26	−4	19

Nationalliga A/B playoffs

The teams in the ninth to twelfth positions in Nationalliga A competed with the top four teams of Nationalliga B in a Nationalliga A/B Playoff round.

Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	14	7	6	1	24	16	+8	27
2	Aarau !Aarau	14	7	3	4	23	15	+8	24
3	Luzern !Luzern	14	7	3	4	24	18	+6	24
4	Young Boys !Young Boys (P)	14	7	3	4	17	14	+3	24
5	Yverdon-Sport !Yverdon-Sport (R)	14	4	7	3	23	20	+3	19
6	Winterthur !Winterthur	14	5	2	7	18	21	−3	17
7	Wil !Wil	14	2	5	7	17	22	−5	11
8	Bellinzona !Bellinzona	14	1	3	10	8	28	−20	6

Results

Home ╲ Away	Aarau !AAR	Bellinzona !BEL	Luzern !LUZ	Neuchâtel Xamax !NX	Wil !WIL	Winterthur !WIN	Young Boys !YB	Yverdon-Sport !YS
Aarau !Aarau		0–2	3–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	2–0	0–0
Bellinzona !Bellinzona	1–6		0–1	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–3	1–1
Luzern !Luzern	3–0	2–0		2–3	4–0	2–3	1–0	4–3
Neuchâtel Xamax !Neuchâtel Xamax	3–2	2–0	2–2		1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1
Wil !Wil	2–3	5–0	0–0	2–4		1–3	0–0	1–1
Winterthur !Winterthur	1–2	3–1	1–2	1–2	2–4		2–1	0–1
Young Boys !Young Boys	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	2–0		3–2
Yverdon-Sport !Yverdon-Sport	1–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	2–2	1–2	4–2

Source: RSSSF
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

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Seasons of Swiss Football League

Serie A era, 1897–1931

Seasons	1897–98 1898–99 1899–1900 1900–01 1901–02 1902–03 1903–04 1904–05 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31

Nationalliga era, 1931–1944

Seasons	1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44

Nationalliga A era, 1944–2003

Seasons	1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03

Super League era, 2003–present

Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

Swiss Challenge League seasons

1. Liga era, 1931–1944

Seasons	1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44

Nationalliga B era, 1944–2003

Seasons	1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03

Challenge League era, 2003–present

Seasons	2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16

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