The current Super League mode has had its day. Too few areas of tension, too repetitive when the teams duel four times a season and the league is too small anyway with only ten clubs. After all, you can't expect clubs in the Challenge League to have 1A stadiums and professional structures if there is little prospect of a place in the Super League.

For a long time, the Super League clubs have resisted the increase, because they prefer to divide the TV revenues by ten rather than twelve clubs. Now, however, a rethinking has taken place. The committee of the Swiss Football League proposes a 12-team league from the 2023/24 season. The Challenge League, on the other hand, will continue to comprise ten teams.



The twelve teams each play each other twice. After that, the six clubs in the two groups will again play a home and away match against each other.

The championship will be decided in a play-off between the first and second place. The third phase is the real masterpiece of the new mode. It's the time for the ultimate thrill. Playoff is the magic word. For the teams in places three to ten, the season is not over after the second phase - they also fight in playoffs for the European Cup places. This means: Whoever is in twelfth and last place after the first phase still has the opportunity to qualify for the European Cup. This is called equal opportunities.

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Rech built a tight-knit leadership team. They tried to win back the fans who had drifted away from the club, selecting only players from the city and encouraging more families to go to matches. The plan was to put Santa Cruz back at the centre of the community again.

“In the first game of the season, I was expecting 200 supporters, but there were 1,000, with queues to get in,” Rech explains. “During that match, I had to go to the supermarket four times to buy more sausages for the hotdog kiosk. I didn’t even see the match.”

Red Star football club celebrated the title of Serbian champion, as well as reaching the group stage of the European Champions League, but the celebration was clouded by the information that it owes a total of close to 76 million euros.

Zvezda's biggest rival, Belgrade-based Football Club Partizan, owes nearly 36million euros, according to data from the Business Registers Agency (APR), cited by the media.

<In June 2022> Mali also presented data on financial contributions to football and basketball clubs over the past ten years.

"FK Crvena zvezda received 17.6 million euros from the state<...>. FK Partizan received 14 million euros in that same period," he said.

In the past 10 years, KK Crvena zvezda received 26 million euros from the state, and in the same period BC Partizan 24.4 million euros, and there is also a sponsorship agreement with the Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS), he said.