2016–17 Swiss Handball League

The 2016–17 Nationalliga A (NLA) is the 68th season of the Swiss Handball League, Swiss's top-tier handball league. A total of ten teams contest this season's league, which began on 31 August 2016 and is scheduled to conclude in May 2017.

Nationalliga A

Season	2016–17
Champions	Kadetten Schaffhausen (10th title)
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 5 June 2017.

Kadetten Schaffhausen are the defending champions, having beaten Wacker Thun 3–2 in the previous season's playoff finals.

Format

The competition format for the 2016–17 season consists of two phases, both played in a home-and-away double round-robin system. The first six teams qualifies for a first play-off round, while the last four plays relegation round. At the end of this second round, the first four teams of the play-off round plays elimination rounds.

Teams

Bern Muri

HC Kriens-Luzern

Aarau

Schaffhausen

Winterthur

RTV Basel

GC Amicitia

Fortitudo

TSV St. Otmar

Wacker Thun

2016–17 Nationalliga A teams

The following 10 clubs compete in the Nationalliga A during the 2016–17 season. Lakers Stäfa was relegated from the previous season and HSC Suhr Aarau was promoted from 2015-16 Nationalliga B.

Team	City	Arena
BSV Bern Muri	Bern	Sporthalle Moos Gümligen
GC Amicitia Zürich	Zürich	Saalsporthalle
HC Kriens-Luzern	Kriens	Krauerhalle
HSC Suhr Aarau	Aarau	Schachenhalle
Kadetten Schaffhausen	Schaffhausen	BBC-Arena
Pfadi Winterthur	Winterthur	Eulachhalle
RTV 1879 Basel	Basel	Basel Rankhof
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	Gossau SG	Sporthalle Buchenwald
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	St. Gallen	Kreuzbleiche-Halle
Wacker Thun	Thun	Sporthalle Lachen

First phase

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kadetten Schaffhausen	18	15	0	3	554	492	+62	30	Play-off Group
2	Pfadi Winterthur	18	12	2	4	481	425	+56	26
3	HC Kriens-Luzern	18	12	1	5	498	455	+43	25
4	Wacker Thun	18	11	1	6	502	444	+58	23
5	BSV Bern Muri	18	7	3	8	468	458	+10	17
6	HSC Suhr Aarau	18	8	1	9	441	453	−12	17
7	TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	18	7	1	10	487	534	−47	15	Relegation Group
8	GC Amicitia Zürich	18	5	3	10	486	489	−3	13
9	RTV 1879 Basel	18	4	2	12	429	515	−86	10
10	TSV Fortitudo Gossau	18	1	2	15	467	548	−81	4

Updated to match(es) played on 5 June 2017. Source: Swiss Handball League

Results

Home \ Away	AAR	BAS	BER	GOS	KRI	SCH	STG	THU	WIN	ZUR
HSC Suhr Aarau		19–19	22–23	28–25	27–19	27–29	27–29	23–22	21–22	33–30
RTV 1879 Basel	35–24		22–33	25–25	19–31	30–27	26–32	26–30	25–31	25–24
BSV Bern Muri	23–24	31–18		28–28	19–27	30–31	29–20	23–28	25–24	21–21
TSV Fortitudo Gossau	25–27	24–23	24–28		31–32	25–32	30–31	25–31	16–19	24–37
HC Kriens-Luzern	23–19	30–26	29–24	41–28		33–27	25–23	28–29	27–25	28–28
Kadetten Schaffhausen	24–33	34–19	31–26	38–33	32–23		35–26	28–22	29–26	30–29
TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen	25–21	27–30	29–36	33–29	24–22	28–37		27–34	27–27	35–29
Wacker Thun	31–16	39–21	29–22	35–21	20–27	30–32	27–20		22–22	31–28
Pfadi Winterthur	27–19	30–23	24–20	32–31	29–25	23–24	34–27	30–20		26–19
GC Amicitia Zürich	22–31	24–17	27–27	28–23	25–28	29–34	36–24	25–22	25–30

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

Second phase

The points obtained during the regular season were kept for this second phase.

Play-off group

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification SCH WIN KRI THU BER AAR 1 Kadetten Schaffhausen 28 21 2 5 849 757 +92 44 Play-offs 26–30 32–21 30–29 38–30 31–17 2 Pfadi Winterthur 28 20 3 5 755 656 +99 43 28–30 30–22 23–19 29–20 25–24 3 HC Kriens-Luzern 28 17 1 10 748 724 +24 35 29–25 22–33 21–23 30–26 25–23 4 Wacker Thun 28 16 2 10 758 693 +65 34 25–25 21–23 33–28 21–25 32–25 5 BSV Bern Muri 28 9 5 14 720 737 −17 23 30–30 24–30 22–29 28–31 25–25 6 HSC Suhr Aarau 28 8 3 17 663 709 −46 19 26–28 23–23 22–23 21–22 16–22 Source: Swiss Handball League Relegation group Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification 1 TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen 30 12 1 17 818 862 −44 25 2 GC Amicitia Zürich 30 10 4 16 809 825 −16 24 3 TSV Fortitudo Gossau 30 10 2 18 800 852 −52 22 Relegation Round 4 RTV 1879 Basel 30 8 3 19 755 860 −105 19 Relegation Source: Swiss Handball League Home \ Away STG ZUR GOS BAS STG ZUR GOS BAS TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen 25–26 31–29 34–30 40–29 18–27 28–29 GC Amicitia Zürich 26–24 29–30 27–32 28–24 25–31 27–23 TSV Fortitudo Gossau 21–26 19–23 27–22 28–24 30–29 31–20 RTV 1879 Basel 26–29 30–30 29–30 29–28 28–24 28–30 Source: Swiss Handball League Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Play-offs Semifinals Final                             1 Kadetten Schaffhausen 30 30 28 4 Wacker Thun 20 29 26 1 Kadetten Schaffhausen 31 31 30 2 Pfadi Winterthur 18 26 28 3 HC Kriens-Luzern 30 20 25 22 2 Pfadi Winterthur 21 23 26 25 Relegation Round 13 May 16:30 Lakers Stäfa 29–28 TSV Fortitudo Gossau Frohberg Stäfa, Oetwil am See 20 May 17:30 TSV Fortitudo Gossau 26–21 Lakers Stäfa Sporthalle Buchenwald, Gossau SG TSV Fortitudo Gossau won 54-50 aggregate and stays in Nationalliga A. References External links Swiss Handball League