Season 2012–13 Promoted Aarau Biggest away win Locarno 0–5 Winterthur Champion FC Aarau Relegated AC Bellinzona Matches played 180 | Champions Aarau Biggest home win Bellinzona 8–0 Wil Dates 14 Jul 2012 – 2 Jun 2013 Location Switzerland Goals scored 523 | |
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Top goalscorer Armando Sadiku
(20 goals) Similar 2010–11 Swiss Challeng, 2015–16 Swiss Challeng, 2008–09 Swiss Super Le | ||
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.
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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.
League table
Source: Swiss Challenge League (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Due to financial irregularities, AC Bellinzona was discounted seven points and were ultimately relegated at the end of the season. FC Locarno was thus not relegated in spite of their last-place finish.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
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.