The following is a summary of the 1989–90 season of competitive football in Switzerland.
Nationalliga A
Qualification phase
Championship group The first eight teams of the qualification phase competed in the Championship round. The teams took half of the points (rounded up to complete units) gained in the qualification as bonus with them.
Nationalliga B Qualification phase Group East <onlyinclude>
Group West <onlyinclude>
Promotion/relegation round Group A
Group B
Relegation round NLB/1. Liga The last six teams in each of the two qualification phase groups competed in two relegation groups against relegation to the 1. Liga 1991–92. The teams received ranking bonus points from their qualifying groups (7th place 6 pts; 8th place 5 pts; 9th place 4 pts; etc). There was to be one direct relegation in each group, plus a play-out against relegation between both second last placed teams.
Group A
Group B
Relegation play-out
FC Montreux-Sports won 7–1 on aggregate and FC Zug were relegated to 1990–91 1. Liga.
1. Liga
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Promotion play-off Qualification round
Urania Genève Sport win 2–0 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
Concordia/Folgore Lausanne win 2–0 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
SC Burgdorf win 4–1 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
SC Kriens win 3–2 on aggregate and continue to the finals.
Final round
SC Burgdorf win 6–3 on aggregate and are promoted to Nationalliga B.
Urania Genève Sport win 7–4 on aggregate and are promoted to Nationalliga B.
Decider for third place The play-off for the third promotion place was played on 16 June 1990 in Châtel-St-Denis.
Concordia/Folgore Lausanne win, but refused promotion, so SC Kriens are promoted to Nationalliga B.
Decider for championship The play-off for the 1. Liga championship was played on 16 June 1990 in Châtel-St-Denis.
Urania Genève Sport win and become 1. Liga champions.
Relegation play-out First round
FC Raron continue to the final.
FC Vaduz continue to the final.
Final round
FC Raron win 4–3 on aggregate and remain in the division. FC Vaduz are relegated to 2. Liga.
Swiss Cup
Early rounds The routes of the finalists to the final, played on 4 June 1990 at the Wankdorf in Bern:
Round 3
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|2 September 1989
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|23 September 1989
Round 4
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|6 April 1990
Round 5
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|22 April 1990
Quarter-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|1 May 1990
Semi-finals
|colspan="3" style="background-color:#99CCCC"|22 May 1990
Final
Swiss Clubs in Europe Luzern as 1988–89 Nationalliga A champions: 1989–90 European Cup and entered 1989 Intertoto Cup Grasshopper Club as 1988–89 Swiss Cup winners: 1989–90 Cup Winners' Cup and entered 1989 Intertoto Cup Sion as league third placed team: 1989–90 UEFA Cup Wettingen as league fourth placed team: 1989–90 UEFA Cup and entered 1989 Intertoto Cup Bellinzona: entered 1989 Intertoto Cup
Luzern European Cup
First round
PSV Eindhoven won 5–0 on aggregate.
Intertoto Cup
Group 1
Grasshopper Club Cup Winners' Cup
First round
Grasshopper Club won 4–3 on aggregate.
Second round
Grasshopper Club won 4–1 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
Sampdoria won 4–1 on aggregate.
Intertoto Cup
Group 4
Sion UEFA Cup
First round
Sion won 2–1 on aggregate.
Second round
Karl-Marx-Stadt won 5–3 on aggregate.
Wettingen UEFA Cup
First round
Wettingen won 5–0 on aggregate.
Second round
Napoli won 2–1 on aggregate.
Intertoto Cup
Group 7
Bellinzona Intertoto Cup
Group 3
References
Sources Switzerland 1989–90 at RSSSF Cup finals at Fussball-Schweiz Intertoto history at Pawel Mogielnicki's Page