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Urs Lindt / freshfocus
![BLICK asked the clubs if they would like to resume the championship on June 19.]()
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BLICK asked the clubs if they would like to resume the championship on June 19.
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Urs Lindt / freshfocus
![The result: A majority will probably vote for a restart on May 29th.]()
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The result: A majority will probably vote for a restart on May 29th.
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![YB is one of the clubs that want to continue the championship under all circumstances.]()
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YB is one of the clubs that want to continue the championship under all circumstances.
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Urs Lindt / freshfocus
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“Yes,” says YB sports director Christoph Spycher. «Solutions are needed with the parties involved, i.e. with the players and, in the case of loan agreements, with the owner clubs.
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No, the 20 clubs of the Swiss Football League will not be a heart and soul if their representative meets with the top of the league on May 29 to discuss the future of Swiss professional football. On the contrary: in the last few days, the clubs have given a picture of great controversy and an impression of irreconcilability.
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There are those who want to continue the championship under all circumstances, with YB, Servette and most Challenge League clubs at the top. In the meantime, the FCB and FCZ also belong to this group. Then there are those who – cut or stabbed in the true sense of the word – want to break off, namely the relegation candidates Sion, Lugano and Xamax. The third faction is the one that absolutely wants a 12-league. Here, Challenge Leader Lausanne-Sport has taken control, faithfully followed by Sion and Lugano.
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And then there is the top of the league, which is vehemently opposed to both abandoning the championship and the 12-league. Last week she put a muzzle around her and didn’t publicly take a stand on the upcoming club massacre. Because on May 29, the league is about a lot.
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The organization “lives” primarily from TV money and marketing revenue. The wages of employees are largely paid from this money. If the season is canceled, these funds will not flow for the last 13 games, i.e. for more than a third of the season. Claudia Lässer, head of sports at rights holder Teleclub, does not say this explicitly, but she lets it through: “It is clear that we, too, will have to protect our interests in this case.”
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Swiss pioneering role?
If the club representatives say yes to the continuation of the championship from June 19, Switzerland would be a pioneer country. It would be the first country in Europe to decide to continue playing beyond the ominous June 30th. So beyond the date on which the ending player contracts generally expire. The Bundesliga season will then be over. This is not a major problem for someone like YB sports director Christoph Spycher. «Solutions are required with the parties involved, ie with the players and, in the case of loan agreements, with the owner clubs. We are starting these discussions so that the contracts can be extended accordingly. »
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Christian Constantin sees things quite differently. For the quarrelsome Sion president, playing beyond June 30 was an insurmountable obstacle. His position: “Competition law would be violated because you would then no longer end the season with the same parameters as before. Equal opportunities would no longer be guaranteed because some clubs have more contracts expiring than others. »
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He has already sent all clubs a legal opinion. Now CC is doing what he does so often: he threatens to go to the courts. This threat hovers like a sword of Damocles over the decisions of May 29.
However: If the courts did not have a provisional measure prohibiting the resumption of the championship, CC would chill and still let it play. Despite the missing five stars (Johan Djourou, Xavier Kouassi, Alex Song, Seydou Doumbia and Christian Zock), the CC dismissed because of the short-time affair without notice.–
Is the 12 league coming?
Another possibility that Sion will not try the courts: The clubs decide to immediately increase the Super League to 12 teams. Then the relegation ghost would be chased away. It doesn’t matter whether the game continues or not. And that shows how “tricky” the voting procedure on May 29 will be: Which request will be decided first? Do Super and Challenge League vote separately? Servette, for example, is only for an increase if the season is canceled. Otherwise you would vote no in Geneva. One decision depends directly on the other. The SFL committee decides on the modalities.
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Lausanne confident of victory
Initiator Lausanne believes that 15 votes for reform can be won. That now seems to be too optimistic, as the research by SonntagsBlick has shown. Too many obstacles stand in the way of an immediate increase. On the one hand, some club bosses consider it an anti-democratic compulsion to put the almost identical desire back on the tapes for the 2021/22 season just five weeks after the refusal of the 12-league. At that time, the vote ended 10 to 10.
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Only on April 23, two things were fundamentally different: At that time, a two-thirds majority would have been needed because the number of SFL clubs would have increased from 20 to 22.
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And you could vote on a mode. That was the unpopular Scottish mode (33 plus 5 games), which is impossible for YB, for example. This time the number of teams remains the same, only they would be distributed differently: 12 teams in the Super, 8 in the Challenge League. Why a simple majority is enough. So the thing was eaten with eleven yes votes. But a Challenge League with only eight clubs? FC Winterthur, for example, is against it because “the proposal is the beginning of the end of the Challenge League and the pioneer for a closed league – and thus the end of various traditional clubs that could live well in the Challenge League”. It sounds similarly from multimillionaire Vartan Sirmakes, President of Stade-Lausanne-Ouchy.
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Clubs are becoming financially weaker
The league for its part is vehemently opposed to an increase. Because the resulting scheduling problems are absolutely unsolvable. Because
TV rights holder Teleclub is also against it and could not handle 44 games at all, there would be four full rounds. And because a mode would still have to be worked out, which is why voting without a mode is a no-go. And and and.–
Showdown on May 29th. Somewhere in Bern. Where is the secret command search. The league wants to prevent the conference venue from being flooded by media representatives. Only one thing is certain: No matter how the votes turn out. The matter will not be over afterwards. Just because ghost games are already looming for the whole of 2020 and the clubs would become financially weaker and weaker as a result.
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PS: Two days before the extraordinary general assembly of the Swiss Football League, the Federal Council must give the final okay for a championship with ghost games. But that’s only a matter of form, because the executive has already basically allowed a season to continue, even on June 8th, which is why many clubs are already back in training and the falling number of cases makes it impossible to reverse the decision made.
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