2012–13 1. Liga Promotion

In the summer of 2012, the Swiss Football Association restructured their league system. The top tier, Super League, remained unchanged. The second tier, Challenge League, was reduced from 16 to 10 teams. A new division was introduced to become the new third highest tier. Initially introduced as the 1. Liga Promotion, two years later it would be renamed to Promotion League.{{cite web | last = (si) | date = 28 October 2013 | url = https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=WAB20131028-01.2.18.45 | title = Promotion League: Neuer Name | publisher = Walliser Bote | language = de-ch | trans-title = Promotion League: New name | access-date = 2023-11-16}} The existing 1. Liga was subsequently the fourth tier and renamed to 1. Liga Classic. This reconstruction was done to decrease the competitive gap between the two top tiers by converting the second to a purely professional league. The new Promotion League would therefore serve as the semi-professional link to amateur football.{{Cite news|date=6 May 2011|title=Die Dreiviertelfrage|language=de|work=Walliser Bote|url=https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=WAB20110506-01.2.18.2}} The number of U-21 teams, the eldest youth teams of the Super League clubs, permitted in this division was limited to four (until 2022) and they were not eligible to promotion.{{cite web | last = Swiss Football Verband (SFV) | year = 2021 | url = https://www.football.ch/sfv/news-seite/der-sfv-reformiert-die-spielklassenstruktur-und-baut-die-nachwuchsfoerderung-weiter-aus.aspx | title = Der SFV reformiert die Spielklassenstruktur und baut die Nachwuchsförderung weiter aus | publisher = SFV | language = de-ch | trans-title = The SFV is reforming the league structure and further expanding the promotion of young talent | access-date = 2023-11-16}}

Originally, for its maiden season, six teams were to be relegated after the 2011–12 Challenge League season and ten teams would be promoted from the 1. Liga, which was the division immediately below.{{Cite web|date=12 November 2010|title=Challenge League wird reduziert|url=http://www.fussball.ch/Challenge+League+wird+reduziert/464546/detail.htm|website=fussball.ch|language=de}} However, due to the financial crises under club owner Bulat Tschagajew, the club Neuchâtel Xamax declared bankruptcy on 26 January 2012.{{cite web | first = Philipp | last = Reich | date = 23 August 2016 | url = https://www.watson.ch/sport/fussball/996161287-wie-bulat-tschagajew-xamax-in-den-abgrund-stuerzte-ein-drama-in-35-akten | title = Wie Bulat Tschagajew Xamax in den Abgrund stürzte | trans-title = How Bulat Chagayev plunged Xamax into the abyss |publisher=Watson| language = de | access-date = 2023-11-16}} The club was consequently excluded from the Super League and demoted to the sixth tier. Therefore, only five teams were relegated and eleven were brought up.{{cite web |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/wires/01/26/2080.ap.soc.xamax.bankruptcy.2nd.ld.writethru.0578/index.html |title=Swiss club Xamax bankrupt, Chechen owner arrested - - SI.com |publisher=Sportsillustrated.cnn.com |access-date=2012-01-27 |archive-date=2013-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412091458/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/soccer/wires/01/26/2080.ap.soc.xamax.bankruptcy.2nd.ld.writethru.0578/index.html |url-status=dead }}

The five teams relegated from the Challenge League were Stade Nyonnais, Carouge, Delémont, Kriens and Brühl. The four youth teams were Basel U-21, Sion U-21, St. Gallen U-21 and Zürich U-21. The other clubs who won promotion from the 1. Liga were Fribourg, Yverdon-Sport, Old Boys, Breitenrain, Tuggen, Schaffhausen and YF Juventus.

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|team5=TUG |name_TUG=FC Tuggen

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|team8=SRD |name_SRD=SR Delémont

|team9=OBO |name_OBO=BSC Old Boys

|team10=SNY |name_SNY=FC Stade Nyonnais

|team11=BRE |name_BRE=FC Breitenrain Bern

|team12=SCB |name_SCB=SC Brühl

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|team14=ETC |name_ETC=Étoile Carouge FC

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|team16=YVE |name_YVE=Yverdon-Sport FC

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|source=[https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwit2013.html#1prom RSSSF]

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{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book |title=FC Basel 1893. Die ersten 125 Jahre |author=Josef Zindel |publisher=Friedrich Reinhardt Verlag |location=Basel |year=2018 |isbn=978-3-7245-2305-5 |language=de}}
• [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesz/zwit2013.html#1prom Switzerland 2012/13 at RSSSF]

• {{Official website|https://www.el-pl.ch}}

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