1965–66 Nationalliga A

Nationalliga A

Season	1965–66
← 1964–65 1966–67 →

Statistics of Swiss Super League football (soccer) competition in the 1965–66 season.

Overview

Fourteen teams contested the 1965–66 Nationalliga A. These were the top 12 teams from the previous 1964–65 season and the two newly promoted teams Urania Genève Sport and Young Fellows Zürich. Zürich won the championship with 42 points and qualified for 1966–67 European Cup. They were seven points ahead of Servette in second place. Servette won the Swiss Cup and qualified for the 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup.

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zürich (C)	26	18	6	2	73	25	+48	42	Swiss Champions, qualified for 1966–67 European Cup
2	Servette	26	14	7	5	57	45	+12	35	Swiss Cup winners, qualified for 1966–67 Cup Winners' Cup
3	Lausanne-Sport	26	12	8	6	72	46	+26	32
4	La Chaux-de-Fonds	26	12	7	7	53	42	+11	31	Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
5	Young Boys	26	11	7	8	72	47	+25	29
6	Basel	26	10	7	9	64	57	+7	27
7	Grasshopper Club	26	11	5	10	55	54	+1	27
8	Sion	26	9	8	9	36	36	0	26	Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
9	Lugano	26	6	10	10	27	37	−10	22
10	Biel-Bienne	26	6	10	10	38	56	−18	22	Entered 1966–67 Intertoto Cup
11	Grenchen	26	8	6	12	42	65	−23	22
12	Young Fellows Zürich	26	7	7	12	46	62	−16	21
13	Luzern	26	4	10	12	36	56	−20	18	Relegated to Nationalliga B
14	Urania Genève Sport	26	3	4	19	35	78	−43	10

Source: rsssf.com
(C) Champions

Results

Home \ Away	BAS	BB	CDF	GCZ	GRE	LS	LUG	LUZ	SER	SIO	UGS	YB	YFZ	ZÜR
Basel		5–0	2–0	1–5	5–1	1–1	3–1	2–0	5–2	2–1	4–1	4–2	5–1	2–5
Biel-Bienne	1–1		1–3	0–0	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	7–1	1–1	0–3	1–1
Chaux-de-Fonds	2–1	4–0		4–0	4–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–2	4–2	4–2	1–4	4–2
Grasshopper	2–2	1–2	2–1		1–2	3–3	2–0	4–2	4–1	0–1	3–1	1–6	7–2	0–3
Grenchen	3–2	3–2	1–2	0–4		1–6	5–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	0–2	3–0	0–1
Lausanne-Sport	5–3	5–0	1–3	1–1	4–1		5–0	2–2	2–3	2–0	6–2	2–2	1–1	1–4
Lugano	2–2	2–2	1–1	2–2	1–2	1–0		0–1	0–0	3–0	4–2	1–0	2–0	0–1
Luzern	4–4	2–4	4–1	2–4	2–2	3–5	1–0		2–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–4
Servette	6–1	4–0	1–1	5–2	4–1	0–2	2–1	3–1		2–1	3–1	1–0	3–3	2–2
Sion	1–0	1–4	2–0	5–0	2–2	2–3	0–0	0–0	0–2		5–1	2–1	2–0	1–1
Urania	2–2	0–1	0–0	1–3	1–3	2–6	0–1	3–2	2–3	1–1		2–3	2–1	3–3
Young Boys	1–1	4–2	3–3	1–0	6–2	6–1	2–2	9–2	2–3	4–1	3–1		8–1	1–4
Young Fellows	5–4	2–1	1–1	2–3	7–0	1–5	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–2	4–2	2–2		2–4
Zürich	3–0	5–0	2–3	4–1	1–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	7–1	3–0	4–0	3–0	3–1

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rolf Blättler	Grasshopper Club	28
2	Lambert Theunissen	Young Boys	27
3	Pierre Kerkhoffs	Lausanne-Sport	21
4	Robert Hosp	Lausanne-Sport	20
5	Fritz Künzli	FC Zürich	18

Sources

• Switzerland 1965–66 at RSSSF