2012–13 FC Sion season

In the 2012–13 season, Sion competes in the Swiss Super League and the Swiss Cup. In the summer transfer window, they brought in Italian World Cup winner Gennaro Gattuso, as well as Kyle Lafferty (former of Rangers). In addition, they bought an until then unknown Brazilian footballer called Léo Itaperuna from the 5th division Club of Arapongas and another forward Mathieu Manset from Reading. Already signed six months earlier, Oussama Darragi coming from Esperance de Tunis joined the team along with André Marques from Sporting Lisabon.

Sion
2012–13 season
ChairmanChristian Constantin
Manager
Michel Decastel
13 May 2013 -
StadiumStade Tourbillon
Swiss Super League6th
Swiss CupSemi-final vs Basel
Top goalscorerLeague: Léo Itaperuna (8)
All: Léo Itaperuna (9)
Highest home attendance14,850 vs Basel
4 August 2012
Lowest home attendance5,800 vs Thun
22 September 2012 (majority of the stadium was closed due to sanctions by the SFL)
Average home league attendance11,380
20 December 2012

The 2012–13 season began well with Sion staying at the top till the 8th round. Fournier played with a 4-2-3-1 system.

On 4 September 2012, Manset, Joaquim Adão and Darragi were all disciplined after being found in the early hours of the morning in a Lausanne nightclub the day before Sion's game away to FC Zürich. Manset's contract with the club was canceled, Adão was demoted to the youth team for one month and Darragi was handed a large fine.[2] This huge upset resulted in the resignation of Sebastien Fournier as coach.

Following this change, the results were not as convincing as they were at the beginning. Although Sion scored more goals in the second part of the first half, they ended fourth during the winter break, one point away from 2nd and 5 points from first. This increase in goals was due to the change to a 4-4-2 system with Itaperuna and Laffery as center forwards.

The weak spot during the first half was the absence of a winger on the left side. This was because Yoda and Wüthrich were injured at the beginning of the season and never recovered to their original strength. In addition to that, the defense was not as solid as the years before. That resulted in more goals received as in other seasons. The reasons for that were the transfer of the center back Adaílton to Henan Jianye and the simultaneous injuries of Aislan, Vanczák and Sauthier. Vanczák broke this cheekbone, but did play again after two weeks with a mask as there were no backups available. During that time, Basha (normally a defensive midfielder) played as a fullback at the position of Vanczák, while he moved into the center to his original position as a center back.

Squad edit

No. Name Nationality Position Date of birth (Age) Signed from
Goalkeepers
1 Andris Vanins   GK (1980-04-30) 30 April 1980 (age 44) Ventspils
18 Kevin Fickentscher   GK (1988-07-06) 6 July 1988 (age 35) La Chaux-de-Fonds
88 João Couto   GK (1998-03-04) 4 March 1998 (age 26) Estagiário
Defenders
3 Aislan   CB (1988-01-11) 11 January 1988 (age 36) Guarani
4 Adaílton   CB (1983-04-14) 14 April 1983 (age 41) Henan Jianye
5 André Marques   CB (1987-08-01) 1 August 1987 (age 36) Sporting CP
15 Michael Dingsdag   CB (1982-10-18) 18 October 1982 (age 41) Heerenveen
20 Vilmos Vanczák   CB (1983-06-20) 20 June 1983 (age 40) Újpest
27 Léo Lacroix   CB (1992-02-27) 27 February 1992 (age 32) Trainee
31 Arnaud Bühler   CB (1985-01-17) 17 January 1985 (age 39) Sochaux
Midfielders
2 Benjamin Kololli    MF (1992-02-15) 15 February 1992 (age 32) Trainee
7 Sébastien Wüthrich   MF (1990-05-29) 29 May 1990 (age 33) Neuchâtel Xamax
8 Gennaro Gattuso   MF (1978-01-09) 9 January 1978 (age 46) A.C. Milan
10 Oussama Darragi   MF (1987-04-03) 3 April 1987 (age 37) Espérance
14 Vullnet Basha    MF (1990-07-11) 11 July 1990 (age 33) Neuchâtel Xamax
16 Didier Crettenand   MF (1986-02-24) 24 February 1986 (age 38) Lausanne-Sport
23 Xavier Margairaz   MF (1984-01-07) 7 January 1984 (age 40) Zürich
26 Gelson Fernandes   MF (1986-07-02) 2 July 1986 (age 37) Loan from Sporting Lisabon
29 Alberto Regazzoni   CB (1983-05-04) 4 May 1983 (age 41) St. Gallen
32 Anthony Sauthier   MF (1991-02-05) 5 February 1991 (age 33) Trainee
Forwards
9 Abdoul Yoda   ST (1988-10-25) 25 October 1988 (age 35) Servette
11 Léo Itaperuna   ST (1989-04-12) 12 April 1989 (age 35) Arapongas
12 Kyle Lafferty   ST (1987-09-16) 16 September 1987 (age 36) Rangers
21 Yannick N'Djeng   FW (1990-03-11) 11 March 1990 (age 34) Espérance
22 Dragan Mrđa   FW (1984-01-23) 23 January 1984 (age 40) Vojvodina
25 Evan Melo   FW (1993-05-31) 31 May 1993 (age 30) Trainee

Out on loan edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
9 FW   BRA Danilo (at   Zorya Luhansk)
17 FW   SUI Danick Yerly (at Chiasso)
No. Pos. Nation Player
34 FW   SUI Aleksandar Prijovic (at   Tromsø IL)

Transfers edit

Summer edit

Winter edit

Match results edit

Legend edit

  Win   Draw   Loss   Void

Super League edit

Results summary edit

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
36 13 9 14 40 54  −14 48 6 6 5 17 20  −3 7 3 9 23 34  −11

Last updated: 3 June 2013.
Source: Fussballdaten.de

Results edit

15 July 2012 1 Grasshopper 0 – 2 Sion Zürich
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Léo Itaperuna   39', 77' Stadium: Letzigrund
Attendance: 7,900
Referee: Stephan Klossner
22 July 2012 2 Sion 1 – 0 Servette Sion
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Manset   86' (pen.) Summary Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 14,500
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Basel)
29 July 2012 3 Luzern 0 – 3 Sion Lucerne
16:00 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Margairaz   29'
Lafferty   90'
Die   90'
Stadium: Swissporarena
Attendance: 13,298
Referee: Cyril Zimmermann
4 August 2012 4 Sion 1 – 1 Basel Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Léo Itaperuna   80' Summary Kováč   49' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 14,850
Referee: Nikolaj Hänni
11 August 2012 5 Lausanne-Sport 0 – 2 Sion Lausanne
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Vanczák   12'
Margairaz   86'
Stadium: Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Attendance: 8,750
Referee: Ludovic Gremaud
19 August 2012 6 Sion 1 – 0 Young Boys Sion
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Crettenand   23' Summary Nuzzolo   79' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 13,500
Referee: Sascha Kever
26 August 2012 7 Zürich 1 – 0 Sion Zürich
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Chiumiento   35' (pen.) Summary Stadium: Letzigrund
Attendance: 11,016
Referee: Daniel Wermelinger
1 September 2012 8 Sion 0 – 3 St. Gallen Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Mathys   12', 43'
Scarione   90+3'
Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 13,800
Referee: Sascha Amhof
22 September 2012 9 Sion 2 – 1 Thun Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Itaperuna   14', 61' Summary Ngamukol   42' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 5,800
Referee: Sascha Kever
26 September 2012 10 Basel 4 – 1 Sion Basel
20:30 CEST (UTC+2) P.Degen   42', 55'
Stocker   74'
Sauro   80'
Summary Gattuso   43' Stadium: St. Jakob-Park
Attendance: 27,575
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)
30 September 2012 11 Sion 2 – 2 Zürich Sion
16:00 CEST (UTC+2) Lafferty   7'
Margairaz   26'
Summary Gavranović   46'
Teixeira   90+1'
Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,200
Referee: Patrick Graf
7 October 2012 12 Sion 3 – 2 Luzern Sion
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Margairaz   30'
Die   19'   32'
Lafferty   38'
Bühler   74'
Summary Andrist   20' (pen.)
Puljić   90' (pen.)
Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 8,850
Referee: Nikolaj Hänni
20 October 2012 13 Thun 1 - 1 Sion Thun
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Ghezal   44' Summary Margairaz   85' Stadium: Arena Thun
Attendance: 5,148
Referee: Sebastien Pache
27 October 2012 14 Sion 1 - 1 Lausanne-Sport Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Vanczák   50' Summary Marazzi   81' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 8,800
Referee: Ludovic Gremaud
4 November 2012 15 St. Gallen 0 - 3 Sion St. Gallen
16:00 CET (UTC+1) Mutsch   37' Summary Bühler   38'
Crettenand   83'
Wüthrich   90+2'
Stadium: AFG Arena
Attendance: 15,241
Referee: Stephan Studer
18 November 2012 16 Servette 0 - 2 Sion Geneva
13:45 CET (UTC+1) Summary Lafferty   45+1' (pen.)
Itaperuna   77'
Stadium: Stade de Genève
Attendance: 11,923
Referee: Damien Carrel
24 November 2012 17 Sion 1 - 1 Grasshopper Sion
19:45 CET (UTC+1) Itaperuna   30' Summary Gashi   3' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 13,200
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)
2 December 2012 18 Young Boys 3 - 1 Sion Bern
13:45 CET (UTC+1) Ojala   27'
Nef   45+2'
Nuzzolo   79' (pen.), 90+4'
Summary Dingsdag   29' Stadium: Stade de Suisse
Attendance: 17,737
Referee: Nikolaj Hänni
9 February 2013 19 Basel 3 – 0 Sion St. Jakob-Park, Basel
16:00 CET (UTC+1) Streller   45'
P. Degen   50'
Salah   52'
Stocker   58'
Summary   44' Gattuso
  50' Dingsdag
  57' Fernandes
  64' 'Djeng
Attendance: 24,265
Referee: Stephan Studer
16 February 2013 20 Sion 1 - 0 St. Gallen Sion
19:45 CET (UTC+1) Montandon   64' (o.g.) Summary Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)
24 February 2013 21 Thun 4 - 0 Sion Thun
13:45 CET (UTC+1) Salamand   8'
Ferreira   10'
Schneuwly   35'
Sadik   74'
Summary Stadium: Arena Thun
Attendance: 4,374
Referee: Sascha Kever
2 March 2013 22 Zürich 3 - 1 Sion Zürich
19:45 CET (UTC+1) Drmić   13', 63'
Schönbächler   38'
Summary N'Djeng   61' Stadium: Letzigrund
Attendance: 8,325
Referee: Stephan Klossner
10 March 2013 23 Sion 0 - 1 Lausanne-Sport Sion
13:45 CET (UTC+1) Basha   31'   41' Summary Malonga   14' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,300
Referee: Patrick Graf
17 March 2013 24 Young Boys 0 - 0 Sion Bern
13:45 CET (UTC+1) Summary Stadium: Stade de Suisse
Attendance: 15,173
Referee: Sascha Amhof
30 March 2013 25 Sion 1 - 1 Servette Sion
17:45 CET (UTC+1) Itaperuna   61'
Adaílton   23'   63'
Summary De Azevedo   77' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 11,800
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)
6 April 2013 26 Sion 2 - 1 Luzern Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Lacroix   27'
Lafferty   67'
Summary Wiss   51' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,800
Referee: Patrick Graf
14 April 2013 27 Grasshopper 1 - 1 Sion Zürich
16:00 CEST (UTC+2) Feltscher   37' Summary Yoda   66' Stadium: Letzigrund
Attendance: 6,700
Referee: Stephan Studer
21 April 2013 28 Sion 0 - 0 Young Boys Sion
16:00 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,100
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (Basel)
27 April 2013 29 Servette Postponed Sion Geneva
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Stadium: Stade de Genève
Referee: Stephan Klossner
5 May 2013 30 Sion 0 - 1 Basel Sion
13:45 CEST (UTC+2) Dingsdag   51'   90+3' Summary Díaz   44' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 9,500
Referee: Sascha Kever
8 May 2013 31 Lausanne-Sport 1 - 3 Sion Lausanne
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Sonnerat   28' Summary N'Djeng   17' (pen.)
Kololli   43'
Darragi   74'
Stadium: Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Attendance: 5,200
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)
11 May 2013 32 St. Gallen 5 - 0 Sion St. Gallen
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Wüthrich   10'
Scarione   16', 27', 68' (pen.)
Jagne   89'
Summary Stadium: AFG Arena
Attendance: 13,274
Referee: Sascha Amhof
16 May 2013 33 Sion 0 - 4 Grasshopper Sion
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Summary Gashi   25'
Zuber   33'
Ngamukol   64'
Brahimi   90+1'
Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 6,800
Referee: Stephan Klossner
22 May 2013 29 Servette 4 - 0 Sion Geneva
19:45 CEST (UTC+2) Vitkieviez   2'
Tréand   19'
Karanović   55', 68'
Summary Stadium: Stade de Genève
Attendance: 10,622
Referee: Stephan Klossner
25 May 2013 34 Sion 0 - 1 Thun Sion
17:45 CEST (UTC+2) André Marques   55'   83' Summary Schneuwly   58' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 8,200
Referee: Nikolaj Hänni
29 May 2013 35 Luzern 2 - 0 Sion Lucerne
20:30 CEST (UTC+2) Gygax   17', 84'
Stahel   29'
Summary Adaílton   12'
Darragi   77'
N'Djeng   78'
Margairaz   89'
Stadium: Swissporarena
Attendance: 11,724
Referee: Patrick Graf
1 June 2013 36 Sion 4 - 2 Zürich Sion
20:30 CEST (UTC+2) Vanczák   54'
Kololli   61'
Karlen   73'
Veloso   86'
Summary Gavranović   50'
Drmić   56'
Stadium: Stade Tourbillon
Attendance: 6,200
Referee: Alain Bieri (Solothurn)

League table edit

Swiss Cup edit

16 September 2012 First Round FC Richemond 0 - 1 Sion Fribourg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2) Die   22' Stadium: St. Leonard Stadion
11 November 2012 Second Round FC Hergiswil 0 - 3 Sion Hergiswil
14:30 CET (UTC+1) Margairaz   25'
Itaperuna   34'
Lafferty   89'
Stadium: Sportplatz Grossmatt
3 February 2013 Third Round SC Kriens 0 - 4 Sion Kriens
14:30 CET (UTC+1) Lafferty   25', 38'
N'Djeng   83'
Mrđa   90'
Stadium: Stadion Kleinfeld
Attendance: 1,500
Referee: Nikolaj Hänni
27 February 2013 Quarter-final FC Lausanne-Sport 0 – 2 Sion Lausanne
20:30 CET (UTC+1) Summary Vanczák   28'
N'Djeng   90+4' (pen.)
Stadium: Stade Olympique de la Pontaise
Attendance: 4,000
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet
17 April 2013 Semi-final Sion 0 - 1 FC Basel Sion
20:45 CET (UTC+1) Summary Stocker   73' Stadium: Stade Tourbillon

Squad statistics edit

As of 3 June 2013

Appearances and goals edit

No. Pos Nat Player Total Super League Swiss Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK   LVA Andris Vanins 39 0 36+0 0 3+0 0
2 MF   SUI Benjamin Kololli 7 2 5+2 2 0+0 0
3 DF   BRA Aislan 15 0 13+1 0 0+1 0
4 DF   BRA Adaílton 15 0 14+0 0 1+0 0
5 DF   POR André Marques 23 0 14+7 0 1+1 0
6 MF   ANG Joaquim Adão 12 0 0+12 0 0+0 0
8 MF   ITA Gennaro Gattuso 29 1 25+2 1 2+0 0
9 MF   SUI Abdoul Yoda 7 1 2+5 1 0+0 0
10 MF   TUN Oussama Darragi 24 1 20+4 1 0+0 0
11 FW   BRA Léo Itaperuna 36 9 25+8 8 3+0 1
12 FW   NIR Kyle Lafferty 27 8 16+9 5 2+0 3
14 MF   ALB Vullnet Basha 27 0 18+6 0 3+0 0
15 DF   NED Michael Dingsdag 32 1 29+0 1 3+0 0
16 MF   SUI Didier Crettenand 30 2 19+8 2 1+2 0
17 FW   SUI Matteo Fedele 4 0 1+3 0 0+0 0
19 FW   SUI Gaëtan Karlen 3 1 0+3 1 0+0 0
20 DF   HUN Vilmos Vanczák 32 3 29+1 3 2+0 0
21 FW   CMR Yannick N'Djeng 17 3 13+3 2 1+0 1
22 FW   SRB Dragan Mrđa 6 1 0+5 0 0+1 1
23 MF   SUI Xavier Margairaz 22 6 17+3 5 2+0 1
24 MF   POR Max Veloso 3 1 3+0 1 0+0 0
25 FW   SUI Evan Melo 3 0 1+1 0 0+1 0
26 MF   SUI Gelson Fernandes 15 0 14+0 0 1+0 0
27 DF   SUI Léo Lacroix 9 1 9+0 1 0+0 0
29 MF   SUI Alberto Regazzoni 11 0 9+2 0 0+0 0
31 DF   SUI Arnaud Bühler 36 2 33+0 2 3+0 0
32 MF   SUI Anthony Sauthier 17 0 9+5 0 3+0 0
33 FW   SUI Edimilson Fernandes 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
34 MF   SEN Ndoye Birama 3 0 3+0 0 0+0 0
Players away from the club on loan:
7 MF   SUI Sébastien Wüthrich 14 1 3+10 1 1+0 0
9 FW   BRA Danilo 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
17 FW   SUI Danick Yerly 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
34 FW   SUI Aleksandar Prijovic 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
Players who appeared for Sion no longer at the club:
4 DF   POR José Gonçalves 1 0 0+1 0 0+0 0
19 FW   FRA Mathieu Manset 5 1 2+3 1 0+0 0
26 MF   CIV Serey Die 12 2 9+2 1 1+0 1

Top scorers edit

Place Position Nation Number Name Super League Swiss Cup Total
1 FW   11 Léo Itaperuna 8 1 9
2 FW   12 Kyle Lafferty 5 3 8
3 MF   23 Xavier Margairaz 5 1 6
4 DF   20 Vilmos Vanczák 3 0 3
FW   21 Yannick N'Djeng 2 1 3
6 DF   31 Arnaud Bühler 2 0 2
MF   16 Didier Crettenand 2 0 2
MF   2 Benjamin Kololli 2 0 2
MF   26 Serey Die 1 1 2
10 FW   19 Mathieu Manset 1 0 1
MF   8 Gennaro Gattuso 1 0 1
MF   7 Sébastien Wüthrich 1 0 1
DF   15 Michael Dingsdag 1 0 1
DF   27 Léo Lacroix 1 0 1
MF   9 Abdoul Yoda 1 0 1
MF   10 Oussama Darragi 1 0 1
MF   24 Max Veloso 1 0 1
FW   19 Gaëtan Karlen 1 0 1
FW   22 Dragan Mrđa 0 1 1
Own Goal 1 0 1
TOTALS 40 8 48

Disciplinary record edit

Number Nation Position Name Super League Swiss Cup Total
           
1   GK Andris Vanins 3 0 0 0 3 0
3   DF Aislan 4 0 0 0 4 0
4   DF Adaílton 1 0 0 0 1 0
4   DF José Gonçalves 3 1 0 0 3 1
5   DF André Marques 4 1 1 0 5 1
7   MF Sébastien Wüthrich 1 0 0 0 1 0
8   MF Gennaro Gattuso 11 0 0 0 11 0
10   MF Oussama Darragi 7 0 0 0 7 0
11   FW Léo Itaperuna 6 0 0 0 6 0
12   FW Kyle Lafferty 10 0 1 0 11 0
14   MF Vullnet Basha 6 1 0 0 6 1
15   DF Michael Dingsdag 9 1 0 0 9 1
16   MF Didier Crettenand 1 0 0 0 1 0
19   FW Mathieu Manset 1 0 0 0 1 0
20   DF Vilmos Vanczák 8 0 0 0 8 0
21   FW Yannick N'Djeng 3 0 0 0 3 0
23   MF Xavier Margairaz 7 0 0 0 7 0
26   MF Gelson Fernandes 4 0 1 0 5 0
26   MF Serey Die 4 1 0 0 4 1
27   DF Léo Lacroix 1 0 0 0 1 0
29   MF Alberto Regazzoni 2 0 0 0 2 0
31   DF Arnaud Bühler 1 0 0 0 1 0
32   MF Anthony Sauthier 1 0 0 0 1 0
TOTALS 96 5 3 0 99 5

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