Swiss Challenge League
Season2013–14
ChampionsVaduz
PromotedVaduz
RelegatedLocarno
Matches played180
Goals scored520 (2.89 per match)
Top goalscorerPatrick Rossini
(22 goals)
Biggest home winBiel-Bienne 6–2 Wohlen
Vaduz 4–0 Winterthur
Biggest away winLocarno 1–4 Winterthur
0–3 7 games
Highest scoringWil 6–3 Winterthur

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 – Stade Nyonnais, Étoile Carouge, Delémont, Kriens and Brühl – were relegated to the newly formed 1. Liga Promotion. No teams replaced them due to the Challenge League being reduced from 16 to 10 teams.

Locations of clubs in the 2013–14 Challenge League
TeamCoachStadiumCapacity
FC Biel-BienneHans-Peter ZauggStadion Gurzelen3,000
FC ChiassoRyszard KomornickiStadio Communale11,168
FC LocarnoStefano MaccoppiStadio Lido6,600
FC LuganoSandro SalvioniStadio Cornaredo6,900
FC Schaffhausen1Maurizio JacobacciStadion Breite7,300
Servette FC2Jean-Michel AebyStade de Genève30,000
FC VaduzGiorgio ContiniRheinpark Stadion6,078
FC WinterthurBoro KuzmanovicSchützenwiese8,500
FC Wil 1900Axel ThomaSportpark Bergholz6,000
FC WohlenDavid SesaNiedermatten3,624

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 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
North Korea 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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