Pleased to report that the mighty Servette FC is back in the top division, after 3-1 win against second placed Lausanne Sports in front of rather decent 20000 people...
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Scotland had a number of seasons like this recently.
Norway had this for a number of seasons between the 1970s and 1990s, which marks the decline of Fredrikstad to the rise of Rosenborg. Specfically '73, which was the first time Fredrikstad (9 time champions) had been relegated, non-continuously to '95 when Rosenborg surpassed them for titles. Fredrikstad dropped to the 3rd tier for the first time in 1992 whilst still ahead 9-7 on crowns. They did subsequently make it back to the top flight around a decade ago, and won a cup and were also runners-up once (to a champion other than Rosenborg), but have since declined again and are now back two Divisions down the structure.
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And in historical terms, Germany had a notable example of this. Nuernberg were the most successful club in the pre-Bundesliga era with 8 titles. They were included in the new national Division on its formation, and won it to add a ninth crown in 1968. And then got relegated the following season! They have never really recovered from that, mostly being a second tier club since then, though they were back in the top flight when Bayern surpassed them for crowns in 1987.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostRuch Chorzów and Górnik Zabrze each have 14 Polish titles. Gornik are back in the Ekstraklassa, but where in the second tier as recently as 2010.
Saint-Etienne still have the French record (ten) and were out of Liguria 1 as recently as 2004.
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So, in the end the playoff ended up being between Aarau and Neuchatel Xamax (now managed by Henchoz but he is going to Sion next season)...Aarau won the first leg, in Neuchatel 4-0...so obviously Neuchatel won the return leg in Aarau 4-0...it went to penalties and they saved themselves by winning the shoot-out.
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