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)

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 200001 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
Qualification or relegation
1 Lugano 22 12 6 4 33 16+17 42
2 St. Gallen 22 11 7 4 43 18+25 40
3 Grasshopper Club Zürich 22 11 3 8 46 25+21 36
4 Lausanne-Sport 22 11 2 9 37 34+3 35
5 Basel 22 10 4 8 42 36+6 34
6 Servette 22 9 6 7 34 26+8 33
7 Sion 22 9 5 8 27 314 32
8 Zürich 22 8 7 7 36 29+7 31
9 Aarau 22 6 6 10 31 4312 24
10 Yverdon-Sport 22 5 6 11 27 4316 21
11 Neuchâtel Xamax 22 6 2 14 21 5332 20
12 Luzern 22 5 4 13 27 5023 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 (C) 14 8 4 2 29 14+15 46 2001–02 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round
2 Lugano 14 5 5 4 24 19+5 41 2001–02 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
3 St. Gallen 14 6 2 6 23 285 40 2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
4 Basel 14 4 8 2 18 16+2 37 2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
5 Servette 14 5 5 4 26 19+7 37 2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
6 Lausanne-Sport 14 4 3 7 15 2712 33 2001–02 UEFA Cup Qualifying round
7 Sion 14 4 4 6 16 226 32
8 Zürich 14 3 3 8 12 186 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
Qualification or relegation
1 Young Boys 22 13 6 3 42 20+22 45
2 Wil 22 14 3 5 47 28+19 45
3 Winterthur 22 11 8 3 41 21+20 41
4 Bellinzona 22 11 5 6 40 27+13 38
5 Thun 22 10 5 7 46 39+7 35
6 Delémont 22 9 4 9 43 39+4 31
7 Kriens 22 7 4 11 29 378 25
8 Locarno 22 6 6 10 28 4113 24
9 Wangen b.O. 22 5 7 10 26 3812 22
10 Baden 22 5 5 12 23 4017 20
11 Étoile Carouge 22 3 9 10 25 3611 18
12 Solothurn 22 4 6 12 16 4024 18

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.

Relegation playoffs

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

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
5 Delémont 14 6 5 3 24 20+4 39
6 Thun 14 5 4 5 24 21+3 37
7 Kriens 14 5 5 4 12 131 33
8 Baden 14 6 4 4 31 22+9 32
9 Locarno 14 5 4 5 17 247 31
10 Étoile Carouge 14 3 10 1 16 12+4 28
11 Wangen b.O. (R) 14 5 1 8 24 328 27
12 Solothurn (R) 14 1 7 6 22 264 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.

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
Qualification or relegation
1 Neuchâtel Xamax 14 7 6 1 24 16+8 27
2 Aarau 14 7 3 4 23 15+8 24
3 Luzern 14 7 3 4 24 18+6 24
4 Young Boys (P) 14 7 3 4 17 14+3 24
5 Yverdon-Sport (R) 14 4 7 3 23 20+3 19
6 Winterthur 14 5 2 7 18 213 17
7 Wil 14 2 5 7 17 225 11
8 Bellinzona 14 1 3 10 8 2820 6

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.

Results

Home ╲ Away AAR BEL LUZNXWILWINYBYS
Aarau 02 30 11 10 20 20 00
Bellinzona 16 01 12 00 00 23 11
Luzern 30 20 23 40 23 10 43
Neuchâtel Xamax 32 20 22 10 00 11 11
Wil 23 50 00 24 13 00 11
Winterthur 12 31 12 12 24 21 01
Young Boys 10 10 20 00 10 20 32
Yverdon-Sport 11 20 11 32 22 12 42

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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