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Urs Lindt / freshfocus
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1.7
The way is clear for 12 teams in the Super League.
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Urs Lindt / freshfocus
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2.7
A representative of the league says: “The increase is coming, that’s almost a hundred percent resolved.”
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Andy Mueller / freshfocus
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3.7
The mode should also be new.
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Marc Schumacher / freshfocus
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7.7
A two-thirds majority is needed.
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Somehow it seems clear to everyone that something has to change in our football. In Europe we have been overtaken on the left and left unchanged by countries like Austria, Denmark, Cyprus and Scotland. We are still number 20 in Europe. We have never been so bad!
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A new mode should now remedy the situation. Because the number of teams that are suitable for the Super League makes this model plausible. Challenge League leader Lausanne gets a new stadium and has tens of millions behind it. The new GC is well on the way to recovery.
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So the way is clear for twelve teams. On Monday, at a meeting of the 20 Swiss Football League (SFL) clubs, a consultative vote resulted in a clear majority for the increase: 15 to 5 votes. Only this was not the official vote, because a detailed analysis of the new mode associated with the increase is needed first. “But the increase is coming, that’s almost a hundred percent resolved,” said a representative of the Super League before the League’s Award Night.
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So that should be clear. Just like the mode. Even if a representative of a well-known Challenge League club regretted: «I don’t know if they checked this: we are voting on an increase. But the mode is not yet clear. It looks very strange. »
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However, the will is also uniform here. The solution is called Scottish half-height. Because nobody wants a return of the final and promotion / relegation round, one copies the model used in Scotland for 20 years: The 12 clubs of the highest league hold 38 rounds per season. After 33 match days in which all teams compete against each other three times, the league is divided into two groups with 6 clubs each. The teams of the two groups play against each other once in 5 further rounds – either for the championship or against relegation.
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What’s next? In mid-March, an extraordinary league meeting will make a final decision. A two-thirds majority is needed. If that doesn’t happen, everything stays the same. But this can no longer be assumed. The increase would apply after a transition season 2020/21 with possibly no relegation (these details are not yet fixed).
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