1965–66 Nationalliga A

Statistics of Swiss Super League football (soccer) competition in the 1965–66 season.

Nationalliga A
Season1965–66

Overview

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Fourteen teams contested the 1965–66 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1964–65 season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and Young Fellows Zürich. Zürich won the championship with 42 points and qualified for 1966–67 European Cup. They were seven points ahead of Servette in second place. Servette won the Swiss Cup and qualified for the 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup.[1]

League standings

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Zürich (C) 26 18 6 2 73 25 +48 42 Swiss Champions, qualified for 1966–67 European Cup
2 Servette 26 14 7 5 57 45 +12 35 Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup
3 Lausanne-Sport 26 12 8 6 72 46 +26 32
4 La Chaux-de-Fonds 26 12 7 7 53 42 +11 31 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
5 Young Boys 26 11 7 8 72 47 +25 29
6 Basel 26 10 7 9 64 57 +7 27
7 Grasshopper Club 26 11 5 10 55 54 +1 27
8 Sion 26 9 8 9 36 36 0 26 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
9 Lugano 26 6 10 10 27 37 −10 22
10 Biel-Bienne 26 6 10 10 38 56 −18 22 Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
11 Grenchen 26 8 6 12 42 65 −23 22
12 Young Fellows Zürich 26 7 7 12 46 62 −16 21
13 Luzern 26 4 10 12 36 56 −20 18 Relegated to Nationalliga B
14 Urania Genève Sport 26 3 4 19 35 78 −43 10
Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

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Home \ Away BAS BB CDF GCZ GRE LS LUG LUZ SER SIO UGS YB YFZ ZÜR
Basel 5–0 2–0 1–5 5–1 1–1 3–1 2–0 5–2 2–1 4–1 4–2 5–1 2–5
Biel-Bienne 1–1 1–3 0–0 2–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 2–2 7–1 1–1 0–3 1–1
Chaux-de-Fonds 2–1 4–0 4–0 4–2 2–2 1–1 2–1 1–2 1–2 4–2 4–2 1–4 4–2
Grasshopper 2–2 1–2 2–1 1–2 3–3 2–0 4–2 4–1 0–1 3–1 1–6 7–2 0–3
Grenchen 3–2 3–2 1–2 0–4 1–6 5–1 0–1 1–1 2–2 2–1 0–2 3–0 0–1
Lausanne-Sport 5–3 5–0 1–3 1–1 4–1 5–0 2–2 2–3 2–0 6–2 2–2 1–1 1–4
Lugano 2–2 2–2 1–1 2–2 1–2 1–0 0–1 0–0 3–0 4–2 1–0 2–0 0–1
Luzern 4–4 2–4 4–1 2–4 2–2 3–5 1–0 2–2 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 1–4
Servette 6–1 4–0 1–1 5–2 4–1 0–2 2–1 3–1 2–1 3–1 1–0 3–3 2–2
Sion 1–0 1–4 2–0 5–0 2–2 2–3 0–0 0–0 0–2 5–1 2–1 2–0 1–1
Urania 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–3 1–3 2–6 0–1 3–2 2–3 1–1 2–3 2–1 3–3
Young Boys 1–1 4–2 3–3 1–0 6–2 6–1 2–2 9–2 2–3 4–1 3–1 8–1 1–4
Young Fellows 5–4 2–1 1–1 2–3 7–0 1–5 0–0 1–1 2–0 0–2 4–2 2–2 2–4
Zürich 3–0 5–0 2–3 4–1 1–1 0–0 2–0 1–0 7–1 3–0 4–0 3–0 3–1
Source: [citation needed]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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Rank Player Club Goals
1   Rolf Blättler Grasshopper Club 28
2   Lambert Theunissen Young Boys 27
3   Pierre Kerkhoffs Lausanne-Sport 21
4   Robert Hosp Lausanne-Sport 20
5   Fritz Künzli FC Zürich 18

References

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  1. ^ Erik Garin. "Switzerland 1965/66". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 2019-11-16.

Sources

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