2013–14 Swiss Challenge League

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The 2013–14 Swiss Challenge League (known for sponsorship reasons as the Brack.ch Challenge League) was the 11th season of the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier in the Swiss football pyramid. It began on 13 July 2013[1] and ended on 18 May 2014.

Teams

2012–13 Challenge League champions Aarau were promoted to the 2013–14 Super League. Due to financial irregularities, Bellinzona was ultimately relegated at the end of the season and later dissolved. Locarno was spared from relegation.

The bottom five teams –

1. Liga Promotion
. No teams replaced them due to the Challenge League being reduced from 16 to 10 teams.

Wil
Winterthur
Wohlen
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Locations of clubs in the 2013–14 Challenge League
Team Coach Stadium Capacity
FC Biel-Bienne Hans-Peter Zaugg Stadion Gurzelen 3,000
FC Chiasso Ryszard Komornicki Stadio Communale 11,168
FC Locarno Stefano Maccoppi Stadio Lido 6,600
FC Lugano Sandro Salvioni Stadio Cornaredo 6,900
FC Schaffhausen1 Maurizio Jacobacci Stadion Breite 7,300
Servette FC2 Jean-Michel Aeby Stade de Genève 30,000
FC Vaduz Giorgio Contini Rheinpark Stadion 6,078
FC Winterthur
Boro Kuzmanovic
 Schützenwiese 8,500
FC Wil 1900
 Axel Thoma Sportpark Bergholz 6,000
FC Wohlen David Sesa Niedermatten 3,624

1 Promoted from the

1. Liga Promotion

2 Relegated from the Raiffeisen Super League [2]

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Vaduz (C, P) 36 21 10 5 71 34 +37 73 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round and promotion to 2014–15 Swiss Super League
2 Lugano 36 19 7 10 55 46 +9 64
3
Wil
 36 18 9 9 74 45 +29 63
4 Schaffhausen 36 18 8 10 57 40 +17 62
5 Servette 36 18 7 11 49 48 +1 61
6 Winterthur 36 11 9 16 45 50 −5 42
7 Biel-Bienne 36 9 10 17 56 68 −12 37
8 Chiasso 36 7 12 17 35 52 −17 33
9 Wohlen 36 7 11 18 47 67 −20 32
10 Locarno (R) 36 5 11 20 31 70 −39 26 Relegation to
2014–15 1. Liga Promotion
Source: Swiss Challenge League (in German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Teams played each other twice over the course of the season, home and away, for a total of 36 matches per team.

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals
1 Switzerland Patrick Rossini Schaffhausen 22
2 Portugal João Paiva Wohlen 16
3 Switzerland Marco Aratore Winterthur 14
4 Switzerland Gianluca Frontino Schaffhausen 13
5 Switzerland Ivan Audino
Wil
 12
Austria Manuel Sutter Vaduz 12
6 Germany Markus Neumayr Vaduz 11
Pak Kwang-Ryong
 Vaduz 11
Switzerland Igor Tadić Servette 11
France Geoffrey Tréand Servette 11

Source:[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "Challenge League - Results and fixtures". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
  2. ^ "Klubs - Brack.ch Challenge League". Swiss Football League. Retrieved 2 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Torschützenkönige ab 2004/05 Challenge League Archiv Statistik". Swiss Super League (in German). Archived from the original on 2014-07-16. Retrieved 6 August 2014.
  4. ^ "Summary - Challenge League - Switzerland". soccerway.com. Retrieved 6 August 2014.

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