2012–13 in Swiss football

The following is a summary of the 2012–13 season of competitive football in Switzerland.

Football in Switzerland

Season	2012–13
Men's football
Super League	Basel
Challenge League	Aarau
Swiss Cup	Grasshopper Club Zürich
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Men's national team

The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.

  Win   Draw   Loss

2014 World Cup qualification

7 September 2012	Slovenia	0 – 2	Switzerland	Ljubljana, Slovenia
20:30 CEST		report	20' G. Xhaka  51' Inler  76'  Barnetta	Stadium: Stožice Stadium Attendance: 14'000 Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

11 September 2012	Switzerland	2 – 0	Albania	Lucerne, Switzerland
20:30 CEST	Shaqiri  23' Inler  68' (pen.)	report		Stadium: swissporarena Attendance: 15'600 Referee: Ovidiu Alin Hategan (Romania)

12 October 2012	Switzerland	1 – 1	Norway	Bern, Switzerland
20:30 CEST	Gavranović  79'	report	81' Hangeland	Stadium: Stade de Suisse Attendance: 30'712 Referee: David Fernández Borbalán (Spain)

16 October 2012	Iceland	0 – 2	Switzerland	Reykjavík, Iceland
18:30 GMT		report	65' Barnetta  79' Gavranović	Stadium: Laugardalsvöllur Attendance: 8'369 Referee: Alan Kelly (Ireland)

23 March 2013	Cyprus	0 - 0	Switzerland	Nicosia, Cyprus
18:30	Solomou  7' Theophilou  80'	Summary	Seferović  34' von Bergen  46' Senderos  89'	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 3,572 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

8 June 2013	Switzerland	1 - 0	Cyprus	Lancy, Switzerland
17:30 CEST	Inler  45' Djourou  86' Seferović  90'	Summary	Charalambous  13' Sotiriou  20' Makrides  33' Charalambous  67'	Stadium: Stade de Genève Attendance: 16,900 Referee: Paolo Mazzoleni

Friendly matches

29 February 2012	Switzerland	1 – 3	Argentina	Basel, Switzerland
20:30 CEST	Shaqiri  50'	report	20', 88', 92' (pen.) Messi	Stadium: St. Jakob-Park Attendance: 30,250 Referee: Florian Meyer (Germany)

26 May 2012	Switzerland	5 – 3	Germany	Basel, Switzerland
18:00 CEST	Derdiyok  21', 23', 50' Lichtsteiner  67' Mehmedi  77'	report	45' Hummels  64' Schürrle  72' Reus	Stadium: St. Jakob-Park Attendance: 27,381 Referee: Antony Gautier (France)

30 May 2012	Switzerland	0 – 1	Romania	Lucerne, Switzerland
20:15 CEST		report	57' Grozav	Stadium: swissporarena Attendance: 11,850 Referee: Svein Oddvar Moen (Norway)

15 August 2012	Croatia	2 – 4	Switzerland	Split, Croatia
20:15 CEST	Eduardo  20', 65'	report	11' Xhaka  11' Barnetta  52', 81' Gavranović	Stadium: Stadion Poljud Attendance: 10,000 Referee: Antonio Damato (Italy)

14 November 2012	Tunisia	1 – 2	Switzerland	Sousse, Tunisia
18:15 CET	Dhaouadi  59' Bédoui  74'	report	40' Derdiyok  90+6' Shaqiri	Stadium: Stade Olympique Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Cecil Amatey Fleisher (Ghana)

6 February 2013	Greece	0 - 0	Switzerland	Piraeus, Greece
21:45 EET		Summary		Stadium: Karaiskakis Stadium Attendance: 7,500 Referee: Alberto Undiano

Men's Olympic national team

The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.

  Win   Draw   Loss

2012 Summer Olympics

26 July 2012	Gabon	1 – 1	Switzerland	Newcastle, England
17:15 GMT	Aubameyang  45'	report	5' (pen.) Mehmedi	Stadium: St James' Park Attendance: 15,748 Referee: Wilmar Roldán (Colombia)

29 July 2012	South Korea	2 – 1	Switzerland	Coventry, England
17:15 GMT	Park Chu-Young  57' Kim Bo-Kyung  64'	report	60' Emeghara	Stadium: City of Coventry Stadium Attendance: 30,114 Referee: Raúl Orosco (Bolivia)

1 August 2012	Mexico	1 – 0	Switzerland	Cardiff, Wales
17:00 GMT	O. Peralta  69'	report		Stadium: Millennium Stadium Referee: Ravshan Irmatov (Uzbekistan)

Women's national team

The home team is on the left column; the away team is on the right column.

  Win   Draw   Loss

Euro 2013 qualifying

31 March 2012	Switzerland	5 – 0	Turkey	Aarau, Switzerland
18:00 CET	Mändly  3', 9' Bachmann  30' Crnogorčević  53' Dickenmann  87'	report		Stadium: Stadion Brügglifeld Attendance: 1,200 Referee: Marina Mamaeva (Russia)

5 April 2012	Switzerland	0 – 6	Germany	Aarau, Switzerland
18:15 CET		report	16', 38', 71', 85' Okoyino da Mbabi  24' Mittag  64' (o.g.) Egli	Stadium: Stadion Brügglifeld Attendance: 3,600 Referee: Tanja Schett (Austria)

16 June 2012	Switzerland	4 – 3	Spain	Aarau, Switzerland
18:30 CET	Bachmann  18', 80' Crnogorčević  54' Zumbühl  82'	report	25' Paz  37' García  73' (pen.) Boquete	Stadium: Stadion Brügglifeld Attendance: 760 Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)

21 June 2012	Romania	4 – 2	Switzerland	Buftea, Romania
18:00 CET	Rus  41', 60', 81' Duşa  61'	report	8' Crnogorčević  64' Abbé	Stadium: Stadionul Buftea Attendance: 100 Referee: Natalia Avdonchenko (Russia)

15 September 2012	Turkey	1 – 3	Switzerland	Istanbul, Turkey
17:00 CET	Uraz  27'	report	25' Dickenmann  69', 73' Bachmann	Stadium: Atatürk Olympic Stadium Attendance: 250 Referee: Ginta Pēce (Latvia)

19 September 2012	Kazakhstan	1 – 0	Switzerland	Karaganda, Kazakhstan
15:00 CET	Yalova  58'	report		Stadium: Shakhtyor Stadium Attendance: 250 Referee: Marija Damjanović (Croatia)

2012 Cyprus Cup

28 February 2012	France	3 – 0	Switzerland	Nicosia, Cyprus
14:30 EET	Delie  5' Thiney  18' Bompastor  38' (pen.)	report		Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 20 Referee: Jenny Palmqvist (Sweden)

1 March 2012	Switzerland	0 – 1	England	Larnaca, Cyprus
14:30 EET		report	77' Williams	Stadium: GSZ Stadium Attendance: 20 Referee: Kirsi Heikkinen (Finland)

4 March 2012	Finland	3 – 1	Switzerland	Paralimni, Cyprus
17:30 EET	Sällström  25', 33', 47'	report	58' Crnogorčević	Stadium: Paralimni Stadium Attendance: 100 Referee: Vivian Peeters (Netherlands)

6 March 2012	Northern Ireland	0 – 5	Switzerland	Larnaca, Cyprus
12:00 EET		report	Crnogorčević  16', 81' Mändly  54' Schwarz  76' Mehmeti  90'	Stadium: Ammochostos Stadium Attendance: 100

2013 Cyprus Cup

6 March 2012	Canada	2 – 0	Switzerland	Larnaca, Cyprus
14:30 EET	Schmidt  2' Matheson  79'	report		Stadium: GSZ Stadium Attendance: 50 Referee: Christina Husballe (Denmark)

8 March 2012	Switzerland	1 – 1	Netherlands	Nicosia, Cyprus
14:30 EET	Bachmann  24'	report	12' Martens	Stadium: GSP Stadium Attendance: 50

11 March 2012	Finland	2 – 3	Switzerland	Larnaca, Cyprus
17:30 EET	Saari  17' Talonen  25'	report	1' Bachmann  45' Dickenmann  63' Bernauer	Stadium: GSZ Stadium Attendance: 30 Referee: Rhona Dhaly (Ireland)

13 March 2012	New Zealand	2 – 1	Switzerland	Larnaca, Cyprus
14:30 EET	Hassett  85' Wilkinson  87'	report	23' Crnogorčević	Stadium: Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium Attendance: 30 Referee: Barbara Bollenberger (Austria)

Friendly matches

26 May 2012	Switzerland	1 – 0	Republic of Ireland	Wohlen AG, Switzerland
13:00 CET	Bachmann  46'	report		Stadium: Stadion Niedermatten Attendance: 400 Referee: Nicole Widmer (Switzerland)

22 August 2012	Austria	1 – 2	Switzerland	Altach, Austria
19:00 CET	Puntigam  63'	report	32' Moser  56' Dickenmann	Stadium: Cashpoint Arena Attendance: 853 Referee: Biljana Iskin (Albania)

23 October 2012	Sweden	3 – 0	Switzerland	Växjö, Sweden
19:00 CET	Jakobsson  1' Asllani  46' Göransson  77'	report		Stadium: Myresjöhus Arena Attendance: 4'905 Referee: Lina Lehtovaara (Finland)

16 January 2013	England	1 – 1	Switzerland	Cartagena, Spain
15:30 CET	69'		72'	Stadium: La Manga Club Attendance: closed

6 April 2013	Switzerland	3 – 1	Norway	Nyon, Switzerland
14:30 CET	Mändly  2' Crnogorčević  33', 77' (pen.)	report	45+2' Hegerberg	Stadium: Centre sportif de Colovray

19 June 2013	Finland	2 - 2	Switzerland	Helsinki, Finland
18:00 CET	Alanen  8', 72'	report	29' (o.g.) Kukkonen  78' Bachmann	Stadium: Olympic Stadium Attendance: 3000

League standings

Raiffeisen Super League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Basel (C)	36	21	9	6	61	31	+30	72	Qualification to Champions League third qualifying round
2	Grasshopper	36	20	9	7	48	32	+16	69
3	St. Gallen	36	17	8	11	54	36	+18	59	Qualification to Europa League play-off round
4	Zürich	36	16	7	13	62	48	+14	55	Qualification to Europa League third qualifying round
5	Thun	36	13	9	14	44	46	−2	48	Qualification to Europa League second qualifying round
6	Sion	36	13	9	14	40	54	−14	48
7	Young Boys	36	11	10	15	48	50	−2	43
8	Luzern	36	10	12	14	41	52	−11	42
9	Lausanne-Sport	36	8	9	19	32	51	−19	33
10	Servette (R)	36	6	8	22	32	62	−30	26	Relegation to Swiss Challenge League

Source: Swiss Super League (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.

Challenge League

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Aarau (C)	36	24	6	6	76	40	+36	78	Promotion to 2013–14 Swiss Super League
2	Bellinzona (R)	36	21	8	7	62	37	+25	64	Relegation to 2013–14 1. Liga Promotion[lower-alpha 1]
3	Winterthur	36	19	5	12	61	43	+18	62
4	Wil	36	15	6	15	59	65	−6	51
5	Biel-Bienne	36	13	8	15	59	59	0	47
6	Chiasso	36	13	8	15	42	51	−9	47
7	Lugano	36	11	11	14	52	50	+2	44
8	Wohlen	36	9	12	15	39	58	−19	39
9	Vaduz	36	10	7	19	41	52	−11	37
10	Locarno	36	5	9	22	32	68	−36	24

Source: Swiss Challenge League (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:

1. Due to financial irregularities, AC Bellinzona was discounted seven points and were ultimately relegated at the end of the season. FC Locarno was thus not relegated in spite of their last-place finish.

1. Liga Promotion