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2012–13 Swiss Challenge League
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| competition | Swiss Challenge League |
| season | 2012–13 |
| winners | Aarau |
| promoted | Aarau |
| relegated | Bellinzona |
| league topscorer | Armando Sadiku |
| (20 goals) | |
| biggest home win | Bellinzona 8–0 Wil |
| biggest away win | Locarno 0–5 Winterthur |
| highest scoring | Vaduz 5–3 Aarau |
| Aarau 5–3 Wohlen | |
| Bellinzona 8–0 Wil | |
| Locarno 2–6 Bellinzona | |
| matches | 180 |
| total goals | 523 |
| longest wins | 6 games |
| Aarau | |
| longest unbeaten | 14 games |
| Bellinzona | |
| longest winless | 10 games |
| Lugano | |
| longest losses | 7 games |
| Locarno | |
| highest attendance | 6,100 |
| Aarau 3–3 Wohlen | |
| lowest attendance | 203 |
| Biel-Bienne 7–0 Wohlen | |
| average attendance | 1,454 |
| prevseason | 2011–12 |
| nextseason | 2013–14 |
(20 goals) Aarau 5–3 Wohlen Bellinzona 8–0 Wil Locarno 2–6 Bellinzona Aarau Bellinzona Lugano Locarno Aarau 3–3 Wohlen Biel-Bienne 7–0 Wohlen
The 2012–13 Swiss Challenge League was the tenth season of the Swiss Challenge League, the second tier of the Swiss football league pyramid. It began on 14 July 2012 and ended on 2 June 2013.
Teams
2011–12 Challenge League champions St. Gallen were promoted to the 2012–13 Super League. They weren't replaced by another team due to Neuchâtel Xamax being demoted to the 4th tier of Swiss football for financial irregularities. 2011–12 Challenge League runners-up Aarau had to compete in a promotion/relegation playoff against 9th-placed Super League team Sion and remained in the Challenge League after losing 3–1 on aggregate.
The bottom five teams – Stade Nyonnais, Étoile Carouge, Delémont, Kriens and Brühl – were relegated to the newly formed 1. Liga Promotion with no teams replaced them due to the Challenge League reducing from 16 to 10 teams.
| Club | City | Stadium | 2011–12 season |
|---|---|---|---|
| FC Aarau | Aarau, Aargau | Stadion Brügglifeld | 2nd in Challenge League |
| AC Bellinzona | Bellinzona, Ticino | Stadio Comunale | 3rd in Challenge League |
| FC Biel/Bienne | Biel/Bienne, Bern | Gurzelen Stadion | 10th in Challenge League |
| FC Chiasso | Chiasso, Ticino | Stadio Comunale | 7th in Challenge League |
| FC Locarno | Locarno, Ticino | Stadio del Lido | 9th in Challenge League |
| FC Lugano | Lugano, Ticino | Cornaredo Stadium | 5th in Challenge League |
| FC Vaduz | Vaduz, Liechtenstein | Rheinpark Stadion | 8th in Challenge League |
| FC Wil 1900 | Wil, St. Gallen | Stadion Bergholz | 6th in Challenge League |
| FC Winterthur | Winterthur, Zürich | Stadion Schützenwiese | 4th in Challenge League |
| FC Wohlen | Wohlen, Aargau | Stadion Niedermatten | 11th in Challenge League |
League table
Results
Teams played each other four times (twice home and twice away) over the course of the season, home and away, for a total of 36 matches per team.
First and Second Round
Third and Fourth Round
Season statistics
Top scorers
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALB Armando Sadiku | Lugano | 20 |
| 2 | SUI Davide Callà | Aarau | 19 |
| 3 | POR Luís Pimenta | Chiasso | 14 |
| 4 | CMR Patrick Bengondo | Winterthur | 12 |
| SRB Kristian Kuzmanović | Winterthur | 12 | |
| 6 | SUI Charles-André Doudin | Biel-Bienne | 11 |
| SUI Sven Lüscher | Winterthur / Aarau | 11 | |
| ITA Giuseppe Morello | Biel-Bienne | 11 | |
| ALB Drilon Pacarizi | Locarno | 11 | |
| 10 | SEN Matar Coly | Biel-Bienne | 9 |
| SUI Stefano Milani | Wohlen | 9 | |
| CMR Landry Mouangue | Wil | 9 |
Assists
| Rank | Player | Club | url=http://www.sfl.ch/de/Challenge-League/Statistik-Challenge-League/Assistliste-Challenge-League.aspx | title=Assistliste – Challenge League | work=Swiss Challenge League | accessdate=4 November 2012 | language=German | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115202439/http://www.sfl.ch/de/Challenge-League/Statistik-Challenge-League/Assistliste-Challenge-League.aspx | archive-date=15 January 2013 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GER Markus Neumayr | Bellinzona | 15 | ||||||||
| 2 | SUI Sven Lüscher | Winterthur / Aarau | 14 | ||||||||
| 3 | SUI Davide Callà | Aarau | 13 | ||||||||
| 4 | SUI Charles-André Doudin | Biel-Bienne | 11 | ||||||||
| ARG Dante Senger | Aarau | 11 | |||||||||
| SUI Alain Schultz | Aarau | 11 | |||||||||
| 7 | SUI Pascal Cerrone | Wil | 9 | ||||||||
| SEN Matar Coly | Biel-Bienne | 9 | |||||||||
| SUI Steven Ukoh | Biel-Bienne | 9 | |||||||||
| 10 | POR Carlos da Silva | Lugano | 8 | ||||||||
| SUI Martin Steuble | Wil | 8 |
Hat-tricks
| Player | For | Against | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SEN | Biel-Bienne | Vaduz | 4–2 | |
| MKD | Wil | Chiasso | 4–1 | |
| SUI | Aarau | Wohlen | 5–3 | |
| SRB | Winterthur | Bellinzona | 5–1 | |
| ITA | Biel-Bienne | Aarau | 5–1 | |
| CMR | Wil | Winterthur | 4–0 | |
| SUI | Aarau | Wohlen | 3–1 | |
| SUI | Bellinzona | Wil | 8–0 | |
| NGA | Biel-Bienne | Wohlen | 7–0 |
Scoring
- First goal of the season: Gezim Shalaj for Lugano against Wil (14 July 2012)
- Fastest goal of the season: Mirko Facchinetti for Chiasso against Bellinzona (27 August 2012)
- Largest winning margin: 8 goals
- Bellinzona 8–0 Wil (18 April 2013)
- Highest scoring game: 8 goals
- Vaduz 5–3 Aarau (6 August 2012)
- Aarau 5–3 Wohlen (28 October 2012)
- Bellinzona 8–0 Wil (18 April 2013)
- Locarno 2–6 Bellinzona (8 May 2013)
- Most goals scored by a single team: 8 goals
- Bellinzona 8–0 Wil (18 April 2013)
- Most goals scored by a losing team: 3 goals
- Vaduz 5–3 Aarau (6 August 2012)
- Aarau 5–3 Wohlen (28 October 2012)
- Lugano 4–3 Bellinzona (2 June 2013)
Clean sheets
- Most clean sheets: 15
- Bellinzona
- Fewest clean sheets: 4
- Locarno
Discipline
- Most yellow cards (club): 86
- Chiasso
- Most yellow cards (player): 14
- Pietro Di Nardo (Biel-Bienne)
- Most red cards (club): 10
- Chiasso
- Most red cards (player): 2
- Marko Bašić (Lugano)
- Igor Djuric (Chiasso)
- Cha Jong-Hyok (Wil)
- Charles-André Doudin (Biel-Bienne)
- Emiliano Dudar (Chiasso)
- Pavel Pergl (Bellinzona)
- Mirko Quaresima (Chiasso)
References
References
- "Zuschauerzahlen – Challenge League". Swiss Challenge League.
- "Challenge League - Results and fixtures". Soccerway.
- "Torschützenliste – Challenge League". Swiss Challenge League.
- "Assistliste – Challenge League". Swiss Challenge League.
- (19 August 2012). "Lugano setzt sich an die Spitze". Swiss Challenge League.
- (28 October 2012). "Aarau zum zehnten Mal in Folge ungeschlagen". Swiss Challenge League.
- (4 November 2012). "Bellinzona mit kapitalem Fehltritt". Swiss Challenge League.
- (2 December 2012). "Aarau überwintert auf Platz 1". Swiss Challenge League.
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