1992–93 in Swiss football explained

Country:	Switzerland
Season:	1992–93
Division1:	Nationalliga A
Champions1:	Aarau
Division2:	Nationalliga B
Champions2:	No champions declared
Division3:	1. Liga
Champions3:	Group 1: Monthey Group 2: Serrières Group 3: Sursee Group 4: Gossau
Domestic:	Swiss Cup
Dchampions:	Lugano
Wdivision1:	Swiss Women's Super League
Wchampions1:	SV Seebach Zürich
Wdomestic:	Swiss Cup
Wdchampions:	SV Seebach Zürich
Prevseason:	1991–92
Nextseason:	1993–94
Flagicon:	yes

The following is a summary of the 1992–93 season of competitive football in Switzerland.

Nationalliga A

See main article: 1992–93 Nationalliga A.

Qualification phase

Championship group

The first eight teams of the qualification phase competed in the Championship round. The teams took half of the points (rounded up to complete units) gained in the qualification as bonus with them.

Nationalliga B

Qualification phase

Group East

Group West

Promotion/relegation round NLA/NLB

Group A

Group B

Relegation round NLB/1. Liga

The last six teams in each of the two qualification phase groups competed in two relegation groups against relegation to the 1. Liga 1993–94. The teams received ranking bonus points from their qualifying groups (7th place 6 pts; 8th place 5 pts; 9th place 4 pts; etc). There were to be three direct relegations in each group and a play-out against relegation between the two third placed teams.

Group A

Group B

Relegation play-out

Urania Genève Sport win 6–1 on aggregate. SC Bümpliz 78 are relegated to 1. Liga 1993–94.

1. Liga

See main article: 1992–93 Swiss 1. Liga.

Promotion play-off

Qualification round FC Gossau win 4–1 on aggregate and continue to the finals. FC Monthey win 10–1 on aggregate and continue to the finals. FC Renens win 8–3 on aggregate and continue to the finals. FC Sursee win 7–3 on aggregate and continue to the finals.

Final round 2–2 on aggregate, FC Gossau win 7–6 on penalties and are promoted to 1993–94 Nationalliga B. FC Sursee win 2–1 on aggregate and are promoted to 1993–94 Nationalliga B.

Decider for promotion FC Monthey win and are promoted to 1993–94 Nationalliga B.

Relegation play-out

First round FC Glarus continue to the final. SC Burgdorf continue to the final.

Final round FC Glarus win 4–2 on aggregate and remain in 1993–94 1. Liga. SC Burgdorf are relegated to 2. Liga.

Swiss Cup

See main article: 1992–93 Swiss Cup. The routes of the finalists to the final, played on 31 May 1993 at the Wankdorf in Bern:

Early rounds

Round 3|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|3 October 1992|-|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|4 October 1992|}

Round 4|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|21 March 1993|}

Round 5|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|6 April 1993|}

Quarter-finals|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|20 April 1993|}

Semi-finals|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|4 May 1993|}

Final

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Swiss Clubs in Europe

• Sion as 1991–92 Nationalliga A champions: 1992–93 UEFA Champions League first round
• Luzern as 1991–92 Swiss Cup winners: 1992–93 Cup Winners' Cup first round
• Xamax as league second placed team: 1992–93 UEFA Cup
• Grasshopper Club as league third placed team: 1992–93 UEFA Cup and entered 1992 Intertoto Cup
• Young Boys entered 1992 Intertoto Cup
• Lausanne Sports entered 1992 Intertoto Cup
• St. Gallen entered 1992 Intertoto Cup
• Vaduz as 1991–92 Liechtenstein Cup winners: 1992–93 Cup Winners' Cup qualifying round

Sion

Champions League

See main article: 1992–93 UEFA Champions League.

First round

Sion won 7–2 on aggregate.

Second round

Porto won 6–2 on aggregate.

Luzern

Cup Winners' Cup

See main article: 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup.

First round

2–2 on aggregate. Luzern won on away goals.

Second round

Feyenoord won 4–2 on aggregate.

Xamax

UEFA Cup

See main article: 1992–93 UEFA Cup.

First round

BK Frem won 6–3 on aggregate.

Grasshopper Club

UEFA Cup

See main article: 1992–93 UEFA Cup.

First round

Grasshopper won 4–3 on aggregate.

Second round

Roma won 6–4 on aggregate.

Intertoto Cup

See main article: 1992 Intertoto Cup.

Group 1

Young Boys

Intertoto Cup

See main article: 1992 Intertoto Cup.

Group 4

St. Gallen

Intertoto Cup

See main article: 1992 Intertoto Cup.

Group 3

Lausanne-Sports

Intertoto Cup

See main article: 1992 Intertoto Cup.

Group 2

Vaduz

Cup Winners' Cup

See main article: 1992–93 European Cup Winners' Cup.

Qualifying round

Chornomorets Odesa won 12–1 on aggregate.

Sources

• Switzerland 1992–93 at RSSSF
• Cup finals at Fussball-Schweiz
• Intertoto history at Pawel Mogielnicki's Page
• Book: FC Basel 1893. Die ersten 125 Jahre . Josef Zindel . Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag . Basel . 2018 . 978-3-7245-2305-5 . de.