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1970–71 Nationalliga A

74th season of top-tier Swiss football

Field	Value
season	1970–71
competition	Nationalliga A
winners	Grasshopper Club
relegated	Fribourg
Bellinzona
league topscorer	Walter Müller (Young Boys)
19 goals
prevseason	1969–70
nextseason	1971–72

Bellinzona 19 goals FC Grenchen Urania Genève 20 goals

The following is the summary of the Swiss National League in the 1970–71 football season, both Nationalliga A and Nationalliga B. This was the 74th season of top-tier and the 73rd season of second-tier football in Switzerland.

Overview

The Swiss Football Association (ASF/SFV) had 28 member clubs at this time which were divided into two divisions of 14 teams each. The teams played a double round-robin to decide their table positions. Two points were awarded for a win and one point was awarded for a draw. The top tier (NLA) was contested by the top 12 teams from the previous 1969–70 season and the two newly promoted teams Sion and Luzern. The champions would qualify for the 1971–72 European Cup, the second and third placed teams would qualify for the newly created 1971–72 UEFA Cup and the last two teams in the league table at the end of the season were to be relegated.

The second-tier (NLB) was contested by the two teams that had been relegated from the NLA, FC Wettingen and St. Gallen, the teams that had been in third to twelfth position last season and the two newly promoted teams Vevey-Sports and FC Monthey. The top two teams at the end of the season would be promoted to the 1971–72 NLA and the last two teams would be relegated to the 1971–72 Swiss 1. Liga.

At the end of the NLA season it came to an extraordinary situation, FC Basel finished the regular season level on points with Grasshopper Club Zürich and so these two teams had to contest a play-off game on 8 June 1971 to decide the championship title. Grasshopper won the play-off 4–3 after extra time. Bellinzona finished last in the table and were relegated. Sion and Fribourg, were level on points, both classes as second last, so they had to compete a play-out against relegation. Sion won 1–0 and remained in the top-tier and Fribourg were relegated.

Nationalliga A

Teams, locations

Team	Based in	Canton	Stadium
FC Basel	Basel	Basel-Stadt	St. Jakob Stadium
AC Bellinzona	Bellinzona	Ticino	Stadio Comunale Bellinzona
FC Biel-Bienne	Biel/Bienne	Bern	Stadion Gurzelen
FC Fribourg	Fribourg	Fribourg	Stade Universitaire
Grasshopper Club Zürich	Zürich	Zürich	Hardturm
FC La Chaux-de-Fonds	La Chaux-de-Fonds	Neuchâtel	Centre Sportif de la Charrière
FC Lausanne-Sport	Lausanne	Vaud	Pontaise
FC Lugano	Lugano	Ticino	Cornaredo Stadium
FC Luzern	Lucerne	Lucerne	Stadion Allmend
Servette FC	Geneva	Geneva	Stade des Charmilles
FC Sion	Sion	Valais	Stade de Tourbillon
FC Winterthur	Winterthur	Zürich	Schützenwiese
BSC Young Boys	Bern	Bern	Wankdorf Stadium
FC Zürich	Zürich	Zürich	Letzigrund

Final league table

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Results

Championship play-off

Grahn Meier Wenger Benthaus

Grasshopper Club were championship play-off winners and thus qualified for 1971–72 European Cup. As runners-up Basel qualified for 1971–72 UEFA Cup.

Relegation play-out

Sion won the play-out and remained in the top-tier. Fribourg were relegated to 1971–72 Nationalliga B

Nationalliga B

Teams, locations

Team	Based in	Canton	Stadium
FC Aarau	Aarau	Aargau	Stadion Brügglifeld
SC Brühl	St. Gallen	St. Gallen	Paul-Grüninger-Stadion
FC Chiasso	Chiasso	Ticino	Stadio Comunale Riva IV
Étoile Carouge FC	Carouge	Geneva	Stade de la Fontenette
FC Grenchen	Grenchen	Solothurn	Stadium Brühl
FC Martigny-Sports	Martigny	Valais	Stade d'Octodure
Mendrisiostar	Mendrisio	Ticino	Centro Sportivo Comunale
FC Monthey	Monthey	Valais	Stade Philippe Pottier
FC St. Gallen	St. Gallen	St. Gallen	Espenmoos
Urania Genève Sport	Genève	Geneva	Stade de Frontenex
Vevey Sports	Vevey	Vaud	Stade de Copet
FC Wettingen	Wettingen	Aargau	Stadion Altenburg
Neuchâtel Xamax FC	Neuchâtel	Neuchâtel	Stade de la Maladière
FC Young Fellows Zürich	Zürich	Zürich	Utogrund

Final league table

Further in Swiss football

References

Sources

Switzerland 1970–71 at RSSSF

seasons in Switzerland

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