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1992–93 in Swiss football

overview of association football-related events in Switzerland during the 1992–1993 season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ127432980 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a summary of the 1992–93 season of competitive football in Switzerland.

Nationalliga A

Qualification phase

Championship group

The first eight teams of the qualification phase competed in the Championship round. The teams took half of the points (rounded up to complete units) gained in the qualification as bonus with them.

Nationalliga B

Qualification phase

Group East

Group West

Promotion/relegation round NLA/NLB

Group A

Group B

Relegation round NLB/1. Liga

The last six teams in each of the two qualification phase groups competed in two relegation groups against relegation to the 1. Liga 1993–94. The teams received ranking bonus points from their qualifying groups (7th place 6 pts; 8th place 5 pts; 9th place 4 pts; etc). There were to be three direct relegations in each group and a play-out against relegation between the two third placed teams.

Group A

Group B

Relegation play-out

Urania Genève Sport win 6–1 on aggregate. SC Bümpliz 78 are relegated to 1.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1992–93 in Swiss football” as overview of association football-related events in Switzerland during the 1992–1993 season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Swiss, football and overview.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Swiss, football and overview providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q127432980. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “1992–93 in Swiss football” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.