| Competition: | Swiss Super League |
| Season: | 2016–17 |
| Dates: | 23 July 2016 – 2 June 2017 |
| Winners: | Basel 20th title 8th consecutive title |
| Relegated: | Vaduz |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Basel Young Boys |
| Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Lugano Sion Luzern Vaduz |
| Matches: | 180 |
| Total Goals: | 582 |
| League Topscorer: | Seydou Doumbia (20 goals)[1] |
| Biggest Away Win: | Vaduz 1–5 Basel (31 July 2016) |
| Highest Scoring: | Young Boys 7–2 Lausanne-Sport (20 August 2016) |
| Highest Attendance: | 31,120 Young Boys 4–1 Thun (6 August 2016) |
| Attendance: | 1,789,873 |
| Average Attendance: | 9,944 |
| Prevseason: | 2015–16 |
| Nextseason: | 2017–18 |
The 2016–17 Swiss Super League, also known as the Raiffeisen Super League for sponsoring purposes, was the 120th season of top-tier football in Switzerland and the 14th in the current format. Basel were the defending champions. The fixtures were published on 17 June 2016.[2]
A total of 10 teams competed in the league: the 9 best teams from the 2015–16 season and the 2015–16 Swiss Challenge League champion Lausanne-Sport. The season started on the weekend of 23 and 24 July 2016 and ended on 2 June 2017.
On 28 April 2017, Basel won their 20th league title following their 2–1 away win against Luzern, with six games to spare.[3] It is also their 8th consecutive title.
| Club | Location | Stadium | Capacity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basel | St. Jakob-Park | 38,512 | ||
| Zürich | Letzigrund | 23,605 | ||
| Lausanne | 15,850 | |||
| Lugano | Lugano | Stadio Cornaredo | 10,500 | |
| Lucerne | Swissporarena | 17,500 | ||
| Sion | Stade Tourbillon | 16,500 | ||
| St. Gallen | kybunpark | 19,694 | ||
| Thun | Stockhorn Arena | 10,000 | ||
 Vaduz | Rheinpark Stadion | 7,584 | ||
| Bern | Stade de Suisse | 31,783 |
| Team | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basel | Urs Fischer |  Matías Delgado | Adidas | Novartis | |
| Grasshopper | Carlos Bernegger |  Munas Dabbur1 | Puma | Ducksch&Anliker/Priora/Kinnarps | |
| Lausanne-Sport | Fabio Celestini |  Andrea Maccoppi2 | Adidas | BCV | |
| Lugano | Paolo Tramezzani | Antoine Rey | Acerbis | AIL SA | |
| Luzern | Markus Babbel | Claudio Lustenberger | Adidas | Otto's | |
| Sion | Sébastien Fournier |  Elsad Zverotić | Erreà | AFX Group | |
| St. Gallen | Giorgio Contini | Martin Angha | Jako | St.Galler Kantonalbank | |
| Thun | Mauro Lustrinelli | Dennis Hediger | Nike | Panorama Center/Schneider Software | |
| Vaduz | Roland Vrabec | Franz Burgmeier | Adidas | Liechtensteinische Landesbank | |
| Young Boys |  Adi Hütter | Steve von Bergen | Nike | Honda |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of departure | Position in table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of contract | 4 June 2016[6] | Pre-season | Andrea Manzo (interim) | 17 June 2016[7] | |||
| Mutual consent | 12 August 2016[8] | 10th | 22 August 2016[9] | ||||
| Lugano | Andrea Manzo | Sacked | 19 December 2016[10] | 8th | 20 December 2016[11] | ||
| Mutual consent | 7 March 2017[12] | 10th | 22 March 2017[13] | ||||
| Sacked | 12 March 2017[14] | 8th | 12 March 2017 | ||||
| 19 March 2017[15] | 7th | Mauro Lustrinelli (interim) | 19 March 2017 | ||||
| Sion | "Rested" pending further decision by the board | 25 April 2017[16] | 3rd | 25 April 2017 | |||
| Mutual consent | 30 May 2017[17] | 4th | |||||
| Sacked | 4 May 2017[18] | 8th | 4 May 2017 |
| Award | Winner | Club | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Player of the Season |  Guillaume Hoarau | Young Boys | |
| Young Player of the Season | Denis Zakaria | Young Boys | |
| Coach of the Season |  Fabio Celestini | Lausanne-Sport | |
| Goal of the Season | Carlitos | Sion |
| Team of the Year[20] | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goalkeeper | Vaclik (Basel) | ||||||||||||
| Defence | Michael Lang (Basel) | Marek Suchý (Basel) | Reto Ziegler (Sion) | Jan Lecjaks (Young Boys) | |||||||||
| Midfield | Ezgjan Alioski (Lugano) | Denis Zakaria (Young Boys) | Matías Emilio Delgado (Basel) | Carlitos (Sion) | |||||||||
| Attack | Marco Schneuwly (Luzern) | Guillaume Hoarau (Young Boys) | |||||||||||
| Team | Total | Average | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basel | 476,705 | 26,484 | |
| Young Boys | 325,316 | 18,073 | |
| St. Gallen | 225,592 | 12,533 | |
| Luzern | 196,557 | 10,920 | |
| Sion | 165,100 | 9,172 | |
| Thun | 97,288 | 5,405 | |
| Grasshopper | 90,200 | 5,011 | |
| Lausanne-Sport | 80,722 | 4,485 | |
| Vaduz | 73,549 | 4,086 | |
| Lugano | 72,498 | 4,027 | |
| League total | 1,803,518 | 10,020 |
