2020–21 FC Vaduz season

The 2020–21 FC Vaduz season is the club's 89th season in their existence and the first season since their return to the top flight of Swiss football after their promotion from the 2019–20 Swiss Challenge League. In addition to the 2020–21 Swiss Super League, Vaduz will participate in the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup. Teams from Liechtenstein are not allowed to enter the Swiss Cup, they play in the Liechtenstein Football Cup. The season covers the period from 19 September 2020 to 30 June 2021.

Players[]

First-team squad[]

As of 1 August 2020.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	LIE	Benjamin Büchel (Captain)
4	DF	KVX	Denis Simani
6	DF	KVX	Fuad Rahimi
8	FW	MDA	Nicolae Milinceanu
9	FW	AUT	Manuel Sutter
10	FW	SEN	Mohamed Coulibaly
11	FW	SUI	Tunahan Cicek
12	DF	SUI	Gianni Antoniazzi
14	MF	SRB	Milan Gajić
15	DF	SUI	Yannick Schmid
17	MF	SUI	Dominik Schwizer (on loan from FC Thun)
18	GK	LIE	Justin Ospelt
19	FW	SUI	Dejan Đokić


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	SRB	Besart Bajrami
21	DF	GER	Pius Dorn
23	MF	LIE	Sandro Wieser
24	DF	SUI	Cédric Gasser
26	FW	LIE	Ferhat Saglam
28	MF	AUT	Boris Prokopič
30	MF	SUI	Gabriel Lüchinger
33	DF	LIE	Maximilian Göppel
35	MF	SUI	Yago Gomes do Nascimento
42	GK	SUI	Gion Chande
—	DF	GER	Nico Hug
—	FW	SUI	Matteo Di Giusto

Transfers[]

In[]

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Out[]

No.	Pos	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
15			TBD		1 July 2020

Pre-season and friendlies[]

Win Draw Loss Fixtures

Competitions[]

Overview[]

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Swiss Super League	August 2020	May 2021	Matchday 1	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	000.00
Swiss Cup	2020		TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	000.00

Last updated: October 2020
Source: Competitions

Swiss Super League[]

On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. FCV start the new season on Sunday 20 September with an away game against Basel in St. Jakob-Park. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed the times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games will follow by the end of the year.

League table[]

Pos

Team

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

GD

Pts

Qualification or relegation

6

Lausanne-Sport

36

12

10

14

52

55

−3

46

7

St. Gallen

36

11

14

45

48

−3

44

8

Zürich

36

11

10

15

53

57

−4

43

9

Sion (O)

36

8

14

48

58

−10

38

Qualification to relegation play-offs

10

Vaduz (R)

36

9

18

36

58

−22

36

Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round^[a]

Relegation to Swiss Challenge League

Source: Swiss Super League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Away goals scored; 6) Draw.^[1]
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Vaduz qualified for the Europa Conference League by being declared winners of the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup.

Results summary[]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	0	1	1	2	3	−1

Last updated: August 2020.
Source:^{[citation needed]}

Results by round[]

Round	1	2	3	4	5	7	8
Ground	A	H	A	H	H
Result	D	L	L	D	L	D	W
Position			9		10

Updated to match(es) played on August 2020. Source:^{[citation needed]}
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches[]

On Monday 31 August 2020 the Swiss Football League (SFL) published the schedule for the Raiffeisen Super League 2020–21. In a first step, the SFL published the schedule for the first 18 rounds, but only fixed times for the first nine rounds. The final schedule with all games for all 36 rounds followed at the end of the year.

First half of season[]

20 September 2020 Round 1	Basel	2 – 2	Vaduz	showSt. Jakob-Park, Basel
16:00	Cabral 5' Stocker 38'	SFL report	29' Sutter 78' Milinceanu	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Fedayi San (Gebenstorf)

27 September 2020 Round 2	Vaduz	0 – 1	St. Gallen	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00	Simani 26' Prokopič 34' Schmid 90+3'	SFL summary	71' Vincent Rüfli 83' Ribeiro	Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

4 October 2020 Round 3	Young Boys	1 – 0	Vaduz	showStadion Wankdorf, Bern
16:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Nsame 62'	SFL summary		Attendance: 11,660 Referee: Lionel Tschudi

17 October 2020 Round 4	Vaduz	1 – 1	Lugano	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Tunahan Cicek 45' Lüchinger 49' Schmid 56' Gasser 81'	SFL summary	7' Custodio 44' Lavanchy 90+2' Ošs	Attendance: 1,360 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet

24 October 2020 Round 5	Vaduz	1 – 4	Zürich	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Lüchinger 39' Schmied 74'	SFL summary	Sobiech 6' Marchesano 23' Aiyegun 41' Ceesay 68' Gnonto 74' Schönbächler 76'Gnonto 78' Doumbia 82'	Attendance: 1396 Referee: Luca Piccolo

31 October 2020 Round 6	Lausanne-Sport	3 – 0	Vaduz	showOlympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne
19:00	Zekhnini 40' Nanizayamo 42' Turkeš 59' Puertas 63' Turkeš 68' Geissmann 80'	SFL summary	34' 58' Wieser 90+1' Dorn	Attendance: 5 Referee: Luca Cibelli

7 November 2020 Round 7	Vaduz	P – P	Servette	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00

21 November 2020 Round 8	Luzern	1 – 1	Vaduz	showSwissporarena, Luzern
19:00	Sorgić 31' Müller 39' Carbonell 49' 50' Emini 90+1'	SFL summary	20' Sutter 22' Simani 87' (pen.) Gajić 90+1' Gabriel Lüchinger	Attendance: 50 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, (Basel)

28 November 2020 Round 9	Vaduz	4 – 1	Sion	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15	Cicek 23' Dorn 46' Cicek 54' Coulibaly 59' Simani 66' Gasser 84'	SFL summary	16' Hoarau 41' Uldriķis 47' Uldriķis 66' Serey Dié 90' Baltazar	Attendance: 50 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

5 December 2020 Round 10

St. Gallen

P – P

Vaduz

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

9 December 2020 Round 7	Vaduz	0 – 2	Servette	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
19:00	Schmid 27' Simani 31' Gajić 61'	SFL summary	16' Sauthier 27' Stevanović (49) Kyei	Attendance: 50 Referee: Luca Piccolo

12 December 2020 Round 11	Vaduz	0 – 2	Basel	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Coulibaly 21' Cicek 32' Prokopič 60' 68'	SFL summary	45+1' Zhegrova 62' 48' Marchand 55' Afimico Pululu 61' Petretta 79' Lindner	Attendance: 5 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, (Basel)

17 December 2020 Round 12	Vaduz	0 – 2	Lausanne-Sport	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15	Wieser 25'	SFL summary	36' Jenz 49' Puertas 64' (pen.) Turkeš 67' Puertas	Attendance: 5 Referee: Stefan Horisberger

20 December 2020 Round 13	Sion	2 – 1	Vaduz	showStade Tourbillon, Sion
16:00	Ruiz 17' Grgić 58' Zock 72' Zock 83' Abdellaoui 90'	SFL summary	5' Prokopič 29' Wieser 51' Lüchinger 76' Lüchinger	Attendance: 5 Referee: Alessandro Dudic

23 December 2020 Round 14	Servette	v	Vaduz	showStade de Genève, Geneva
15:15

20 January 2021 Round 10

St. Gallen

v

Vaduz

Kybunpark, St. Gallen

24 January 2021 Round 15	Vaduz	v	Young Boys	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00

27 January 2021 Round 16	Zürich	0 – 1	Vaduz	showLetzigrund, Zürich
18:15	Kramer 44' 89' Ceesay 70'	Summary	31' Gajić 47' Obexer 61' Schmid 65' Wieser	Attendance: 5 Referee: Adrien Jaccottet, Basel

Week 5 2021 Round 17

Vaduz

v

Luzern

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

Week 6 2021 Round 18

Lugano

v

Vaduz

Cornaredo, Lugano

Second half of season[]

6 February 2021 Round 19	Vaduz	3 – 2	Zürich	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Cicek 31' Gajić 42' 54' Schmied 64' Di Giusto 78' Rahimi 90+1'	Summary	43' 46' Marchesano 58' Winter 65' Džemaili 83' Aliti 90+4' Kramer	Attendance: 5 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

14 February 2021 Round 20	Luzern	v	Vaduz	showSwissporarena, Luzern
16:00

20 February 2021 Round 21	Vaduz	v	St. Gallen	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
18:15

28 February 2021 Round 22	Sion	v	Vaduz	showStade Tourbillon, Sion
16:00

3 March 2021 Round 23	Vaduz	v	Lausanne-Sport	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30

6 March 2021 Round 24	Young Boys	v	Vaduz	showStadion Wankdorf, Bern
18:15

14 March 2021 Round 25	Vaduz	0–3	Lugano	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00	Cicek 67' Ibrisimovic 77'	SFV report	3', 24' Ardaiz 26' Kecskés 69' Marić	Attendance: 5 Referee: Alain Bieri

21 March 2021 Round 26	Servette	1–2	Vaduz	showStade de Genève, Geneva
16:00	Ondoua 63' Sauthier 75' Kyei 76' Sasso 90'	SFV report	25' Gasser 28' Dorn 50' Di Giusto 63' Simani 64' Lüchinger 89' Sutter	Attendance: 0 Referee: Stefan Horisberger

5 April 2021 Round 27	Basel	1–2	Vaduz	showSt. Jakob-Park, Basel
16:00	Frei 23' Simani 56' (o.g.) Sene 83' Widmer 90+2'	SFV report	23' Simani 37' Schmied 90+3' Schmid	Attendance: 0 Referee: Nikolaj Hänni

10/11 April 2021 Round 28

Vaduz

v

Sion

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

17/18 April 2021 Round 29

Lausanne-Sport

v

Vaduz

Stade de la Tuilière, Lausanne

21 April 2021 Round 30	Vaduz	1–1	Basel	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
20:30	Gajić 83' (pen.)	FCB report	7' Zuffi 19' Zhegrova 44' Petretta 79' Kasami 86' Frei	Attendance: 25 Referee: Lukas Fähndrich

24 April 2021 Round 31	St. Gallen	1–0	Vaduz	showKybunpark, St. Gallen
18:15	Adamu 26' Duah 30' Stillhart 39'	Summary SVF	52' Schmied 76' Simani	Attendance: 100 Referee: Nikolaj Hänni

1/2 May 2021 Round 32

Vaduz

v

Luzern

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

8/9 May 2021 Round 33

Lugano

v

Vaduz

Cornaredo, Lugano

12/13 May 2021 Round 34

Vaduz

v

Young Boys

Rheinpark Stadion, Vaduz

16 May 2021 Round 35	Vaduz	v	Servette	showRheinpark Stadion, Vaduz
16:00

21 May 2021 Round 36	Zürich	v	Vaduz	showLetzigrund, Zürich
20:00

Liechtenstein Cup[]

UEFA Europa League[]

27 August 2020 First qualifying round	Vaduz	0-2	Hibernians	showVaduz, Liechtenstein
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)				Stadium: Rheinpark Stadion

Statistics[]

Goalscorers[]

References[]

^ "Règlement de la compétition de la SFL" (PDF) (in French). sfl.ch. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

External links[]

Official website

[vaduz-1] Vaduz qualified for the Europa Conference League by being declared winners of the 2020–21 Liechtenstein Cup.

[2] "Règlement de la compétition de la SFL" (PDF) (in French). sfl.ch. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

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