In the first phase, the Swiss Football League determined matches for the first 22 matchdays and the first eleven rounds of the Super League. The new season – with a new mode – starts on July 22. And this is with the game of FC St. Gallen.

These are the first games of FC St. Gallen:

– Saturday, July 22, 18:00: FC St. Gallen – FC Basel
– Saturday, July 29, 18:00: FC Lugano – FC St. Gallen
– Sunday, August 6, 16:30: FC St. Gallen – FC Lucerne
– Saturday 12 August 20:30: Servette FC – FC St.Gallen (postponed if Servette is active in the Champions League: Sunday 12 August 16:30)
– Saturday, 26 August, 18:00: FC Zurich – FC St. Gallen
– Saturday, 2 September, 18:00: FC St. Gallen – Lausanne-Sport
– Saturday 23 September 20:30: GC v FC St. Gallen
– Wednesday 27 September 20:30: FC St. Gallen – YB
– Sunday, October 1, 14:15: Yverdon-Sport v FC St. Gallen
– Saturday 7 October, 20:30: FC St. Gallen – Stade Lausanne-Ouchy
– Sunday, October 22, 14:15: FC Winterthur – FC St. Gallen

Games in bold are broadcast on free-to-air television.

Other FC St. Gallen games:

– FC St. Gallen – GC (weekend 28/29 October)
– Stade Lausanne-Ouchy – FC St. Gallen (weekend 4/5 November)
– FC St. Gallen – FC Winterthur (weekend 11/12 November)
– FC Basel – FC St. Gallen (weekend 25/26 November)
– FC St. Gallen – Yverdon Sport (weekend 2/3 December)
– YB – FC St. Gallen (weekend 9/10 December)
– FC St. Gallen – FC Zurich (weekend 16/17 December)
– Lausanne-Sport – St. Gallen (weekend 20/21 January)
– FC St. Gallen – FC Lugano (weekend from 27 to 28 January)
– FC St. Gallen – Servette (during the week from January 30 to February 1)
– FC Lucerne – FC St. Gallen (weekend 3/4 February)

These are the Challenge League games featuring Eastern Switzerland:

– Sunday, July 23, 14:15: Bellinzona – Wil
– Sunday, July 23, 14:15: Vaduz – Sion
– Sunday, July 30, 14:15: Wil – Vaduz
– Friday, August 4, 20:15: Schaffhausen – Wil
– Sunday, August 6, 14:15: Vaduz – Nyonne
– Friday, August 11, 20:15: Wil – Sion
– Sunday, August 13, 14:15: Baden – Vaduz
– Sunday, August 27, 14:15: Baden – Wil
– Sunday, August 27, 14:15: Vaduz – Xamax
– Saturday, September 2, 18:00: Thun – Wil
– Sunday, September 3, 14:15: Vaduz – Schaffhausen
– Friday, September 22, 19:30: Bellinzona – Vaduz (subject to change to Sunday)
– Friday, September 22, 19:30: Wil – Xamax
– Monday 25 September, 19:30: Aarau – Vaduz (subject to rescheduling to Wednesday)
– Tuesday, September 26, 19:30: Nyonne – Ville
– Friday, September 29, 19:30: Wil – Aarau (subject to change to Sunday)
– Sunday, October 1, 14:15: Vaduz – Thun

Other games are not yet fixed in time.

Here’s how the mode works

In the first 33 rounds, the clubs meet three times. In the last five rounds of the championship, the table is split in half and the clubs ranked 1st to 6th and 7th to 12th meet again. This gives each club a total of 38 rounds.

Points, goals and statistics from the preliminary round count towards the final round. The winner of the top half of the table is the champion of Switzerland, the rest of the clubs compete for starting places in European competition.

In the bottom half, the club drops directly to 12th, 11th competing against 2nd in the Challenge League.

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