Good to see the Bundesliga title-race will be another exciting one...
Goals galore in the Challenge League tonight!
5 games, 25 goals. Every match had at least 3.
Stade Nyonnais v Aarau a particular highlight: ending 5-4 to the visitors after a crazy game.
New Pod: Swiss Stadia Ep 4 - SC Cham and Football in Zug
Cham's victory over Lugano in the 1st Round (along with Zug 94's progression) inspired me to release a pod I had written a few months ago, but hadn't released. You can listen on all the platforms linked in my bio.
What a day yesterday in Cham 🔥
A 3-2 win over Lugano, with a 93rd minute winner. Unbelievable.
Post (and pod) coming soon.
Just snuck the win.
Maybe someone already lined up?
Thomas Häberli fired by Servette after a poor start to the season. 0 points in the league and out of the Champions League qualifiers.
Harsh, given that the season has only just started + the loss of players like Kutesa and Crivelli, but Servette are an ambitious club.
Question is, who takes over?
Super League Round 2
Lugano lose 4-0 away to leaders Sion, carrying on a worrying start to 25/26. Basel back to winning ways against GC, while FCSG picked up another valuable victory against Servette (also with both domestic & European issues).
Thun continued their great start against Lausanne.
I hope none of them left early to catch the boat back to Schaffhausen...
Important season for Schaffhausen. They've had a very tough time of late, so a positive start is essential, especially against a newly-promoted side.
🇨🇭⛴️ Landlocked Switzerland is set for an unusual away day when the Promotion League, the country's third tier, gets under way today.
The fans of FC Schaffhausen have organised a boat to take them down the Rhine for their game against Kreuzlingen on the shores of Lake Constance.
Happy #Switzerland and #Yorkshire Day!
I might be a tad biased, but is there a better day in the calendar? Celebrating the two most glorious places in the world?
I don't think so.
Lugano had two goals ruled out against Cluj 🇷🇴 before losing their Europa League qualifier in extra time.
They now drop into the Conference League qualifiers to play Celje of Slovenia 🇸🇮 who knocked them out of the Conference League on penalties last season.
Servette will play Utrecht 🇳🇱 in the next round of the Europa League qualifiers after dropping out of the Champions League.
A 7-2 aggregate win over Sheriff Tiraspol has seen the Dutch side comfortably into the next round.
Nottingham Forest have completed a club-record deal for Bologna winger Dan Ndoye.
Ndoye has signed a five-year deal at the City Ground in a deal set to eclipse Forest’s previous record transfer – the capture of Elliot Anderson from Newcastle last summer.
More from @nottmtails.bsky.social ⬇️
What a masterclass from Lausanne 🔥
5-0 up, 6-2 on aggregate, and firmly in the next round.
Now just a trip to Kazakhstan to play Astana to deal with 🙃
FT: Servette 1-3 Plzen (2:3 agg)
Despite leading 2-0 on aggregate, Servette are out of the #UCL qualifiers at the first hurdle.
A second half penalty gave the Czech side their way through and left Servette rueing their multiple mistakes on the night.
Disappointing.
Plzen going down to 10 might have helped Servette regain control if Yoan Severin hadn't picked up his own second yellow a few minutes later 🙃
*WHAT* are Servette doing?
In the space of 3 minutes, they've thrown away a 2-goal lead. First, a man left completely unmarked at the back post, then an AWOL defensive line and some poor goalkeeping from Joel Mall lets Plzen right back into the game.
I'll still be attempting to write and record Swiss Stadia episodes, as well as the occasional Ausländers special, but this won't be on any kind of schedule.
I'll also try to keep up with the Super League round-ups on here and Instagram, so it's not a goodbye; more an "auf wiedersehen".
Podcast Update:
After the birth of our second child, and all the extras that come along with double the kids and a full-time job, I'll be putting the Swiss Football Podcast on hold for the time being.
I just don't have the time to prep, record, and edit on even a semi-regular basis.
Elsewhere, Lausanne, Luzern & Sion all won 3-2 to kick off their respective campaigns, but it's Young Boys who take top spot after the first week after that 3-1 victory.
See you all after August 1st 🇨🇭 🎆
Super League Round 1
Did anyone expect Lugano, Basel & Servette to make up the bottom 3 at the end of Round 1?
The reigning champs lost in St Gallen, while Lugano gave up a 1-0 lead to lose to newly-promoted Thun. Servette's trip to Bern was made harder by an early red for Bradley Mazikou.
Sion turn a 2-goal deficit around in the final 10 minutes to win the opening game of 25/26 2-3 in Zürich.
A Steven Zuber wonderstrike kicked things off, before a huge error in the FCZ backline allowed Sion an open goal to win the game in the 92nd minute.
Welcome back to Swiss Football 🫡
While England and Italy battle a semi-final in Geneva, Servette have been in Czechia, picking up an incredibly valuable 1-0 win against Plzen in the #UCL qualifiers.
New boy Samuel Mraz got the only goal of the game. What a way to start.
HOPP SCHWIIZ!! 🇨🇭🇨🇭
#WEURO2025
Devastating news about Diogo Jota. My thoughts with all those connected to him.
RIESEN!
1-0 Switzerland 🥳
#WEURO2025
🏆 Women's Euro 2025 Group A Predictions:
🇳🇴 Norway: Team Rating 76 | QF Chance 70.3%
🇮🇸 Iceland: Team Rating 70 | QF Chance 54.1%
🇫🇮 Finland: Team Rating 65 | QF Chance 38.2%
🇨🇭 Switzerland: Team Rating 64 | QF Chance 37.4%
#GroupA #WEURO2025
Euro 2025, let's go!
Switzerland kick off their campaign this evening against strong opposition: former European champs, Norway.
The Swiss have a tough group, with Iceland and Finland completing the set, so getting into the knockouts has to be the only focus for now.
