The Super League kicks off the 2025/26 season today, Friday. 4 of the 12 teams have a new coach on the sidelines. We ask ourselves: Which coach will be the first to be sacked? You can vote here.
Dismissal barometer - where is the greatest risk?
🚨 Enjoys full backing
🚨🚨 Sits relatively securely in the saddle
🚨🚨🚨🚨 The pressure increases with a weak start
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Results must be produced immediately, otherwise it will be uncomfortable
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Red alert!
FC Basel
Ludovic Magnin
🚨🚨🚨 Magnin is following in the big footsteps of Fabio Celestini, who took FCB from the bottom of the table to double winners. Magnin already has the players behind him with his direct and humorous manner, but if he misses the Champions League qualifiers and the first league results are not good either, things could quickly become uncomfortable for him. Expectations have risen again in Basel and club boss David Degen has already shown that he can react quickly. Timo Schultz had to leave two years ago after just 11 games.
Servette FC
Thomas Häberli
🚨🚨🚨🚨 With Dereck Kutesa, Enzo Crivelli and Keigo Tsunemoto, three key players have left the club. In addition, sporting director René Weiler, who brought in Häberli, has lost a major source of support. The runners-up appear weaker on paper than last season, but were able to make a first statement with their first-leg victory in the Champions League qualifier at Viktoria Pilsen.
BSC Young Boys
Giorgio Contini
🚨🚨🚨 He took over from interim coach Joël Magnin in December and raised his points average from 1.43 to 1.71. After the recent numerous coaching changes in Bern, Contini seems to be a good fit. The strong rhetorician certainly enjoys a lot of credit, but he cannot afford to make such a blatant false start as Patrick Rahmen did last season. YB want to get back to the top of the league and have signed two big names in Gregory Wüthrich and Edimilson Fernandes.
FC Lugano
Mattia Croci-Torti
🚨🚨 No question: he is the figurehead of FC Lugano. The Ticino native is loved by the fans. Last season, they were long regarded as the favourites for the championship and were still playing in three competitions in the spring. However, within a few weeks, all the skins swam away. The cheerful Croci-Torti is therefore not yet counted out. But Lugano want to do more than just play at the top, otherwise a player of the caliber of Ezgjan Alioski would not have returned. The ambitions have grown in Ticino, as has the pressure.
Lausanne-Sport
Peter Zeidler
🚨🚨🚨 Last year, he was sacked in Bochum after just eight games (7 defeats, 1 draw). Zeidler will be given more time in Lausanne, even if the Vaud team's ambitions have risen after finishing fifth in the previous season. The German's mission is not an easy one; his predecessor Ludovic Magnin was a Lausanne man and has done a top job in the last three years, leading the club from the Challenge League to Europe.
FC Lucerne
Mario Frick
🚨🚨🚨 "We certainly don't want to go into the last year of his contract (with Mario Frick)," FCL sporting director Remo Meyer told blue Sport back in May. But that's exactly what will happen now that Frick's dream of moving abroad has been dashed, at least for the time being. Frick has been working in Lucerne for almost four years - mainly with young players. The end of the season at the latest. It is very possible that he will part ways sooner if things don't work out.
FC Zurich
Mitchell van der Gaag
🚨🚨🚨Fo r the fourth time in the last five years, FC Zurich is starting the new season with a new head coach. Van der Gaag has spent the last few years as assistant coach to Erik ten Hag (Ajax, Manchester United), but now he wants to try his hand as head coach again. The Dutchman has already seen a lot, but does not know Swiss football.
FC St.Gallen
Enrico Maassen
🚨🚨🚨🚨 After his strong start at St.Gallen, Maassen came under criticism towards the end of last season. The team from eastern Switzerland missed out on the top 6 and the goals were much more ambitious. The team played neither more attractively nor more successfully under him than under his predecessor Zeidler. Nevertheless, FCSG stuck with the German. However, Maassen will hardly be able to afford a false start to the new season, as he no longer enjoys as much credit as he did a year ago.
FC Sion
Didier Tholot
🚨🚨🚨🚨 Tholot is actually one of the longest-serving coaches in the Super League. You have to achieve that as Sion coach! Only Croci-Torti (Lugano), Frick (Lucerne) and Lustrinelli (Thun) have been in office longer. Nevertheless, Sion boss Christian Constantin publicly criticized his coach several times last season. If the results are not good, things could quickly become tight again for Tholot.
FC Winterthur
Uli Forte
🚨🚨Fo rte made the impossible possible with Winterthur and actually managed to stay in the league. He was rightly celebrated for this. Forte is currently firmly in the saddle after this great performance and the final spurt last season. This season too, staying in the league will be the big goal.
Grasshopper Club
Gerald Scheiblehner
🚨🚨 There have been numerous changes since GC passed from Chinese to American hands in January 2024. Countless player transfers, a new head of sport in Alain Sutter - and now the fourth new coach in Gerald Scheiblehner. Will he manage to lead GC through another quiet season? He should certainly have time. The first Sutter coach will have full backing.
FC Thun
Mauro Lustrinelli
🚨 No other Super League coach can feel as confident as Lustrinelli. The promotion-winning coach is eager to attack and is not declaring relegation as his goal for the season, but even wants to "play an important role" with Thun. Even if the Bernese Oberlanders struggle at the start, Lustrinelli will be given time. His contract runs until 2028.
