Unihockey Prime League Men (also known as Lidl Unihockey Prime League Men due to sponsorship, abbreviated as L-UPL Men) is the top men's floorball league in Switzerland. The league consists of 12 teams. It was first played in the 1983–84 season.
The champion of the league is eligible to compete at the Champions Cup. The lower league is National League B.
The most successful team in the league, with 13 titles, the most recent in 2023, is SV Wiler-Ersigen. In the last 2025–26 season, the team HC Rychenberg Winterthur won the championship for the first time.
History
Since its founding, the league was known as National League A (NLA). Between the 2007–08 and 2012–13 seasons, it was renamed Swiss Mobiliar League (SML) due to sponsorship, before reverting to NLA. The league adopted its current name in the 2022–23 season following a new sponsorship agreement.
The Superfinal, a single match deciding the championship title, was introduced in 2015.
Competition format
In the regular season, taking place approximately from September to March, all teams play each other twice, resulting in a total of 22 rounds. Teams earn 3 points for a win, 2 points for an overtime win, and 1 point for an overtime loss.
At the end of the regular season, the top eight teams advance to the playoff, which starts usually in March and culminates in April. The top three teams get to choose their opponents from the bottom four in the quarterfinals. Semifinal matchups are determined based on regular season standings. The quarterfinals and semifinals are played in a best-of-seven format. The final consists of a single match, held alongside the women's league final as part of the Superfinal event. The league champion qualifies for the Champions Cup. If the same team wins both the league and the Swiss Cup, the league runner-up also qualifies. The finalists of both competitions face off in the Supercup.
The bottom four teams of the regular season (11th to 14th place) compete in a play-out (consisting of two best-of-seven rounds) to determine which team is relegated directly to the National League B (NLB). The team that loses the second round of the play-out is replaced by the NLB champion. The defeated NLB finalist then competes in a promotion/relegation series against the winner of the second round of the Super League play-out, which is also played as a best-of-seven series.
Current teams
Teams in 2025–26 season: Floorball Chur United (Bern) (Weinfelden) Grasshopper Club Zürich HC Rychenberg Winterthur (Winterthur) SV Wiler-Ersigen (Zäziwil) (Malans)
(Oberwil and Basel) WASA St. Gallen Zug United
Previous finalists Finalists in past seasons: Season Champions Runner-up 1984 UHC Urdorf 1985 UHT Zäziwil 1986 UHC Giants-Kloten 1987 UHT Zäziwil 1988 UHT Zäziwil 1989 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur UHC Elch Zürich 1990 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur 1991 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur 1992 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur HC Rychenberg Winterthur 1993 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur HC Rychenberg Winterthur 1994 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur UHC Alligator Malans 1995 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur 1996 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur Torpedo Chur 1997 UHC Alligator Malans UHC Rot-Weiss Chur 1998 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur UHC Alligator Malans 1999 UHC Alligator Malans UHC Rot-Weiss Chur 2000 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur UHC Alligator Malans 2001 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur UHC Alligator Malans 2002 UHC Alligator Malans SV Wiler-Ersigen 2003 UHC Rot-Weiss Chur SV Wiler-Ersigen 2004 SV Wiler-Ersigen UHC Alligator Malans 2005 SV Wiler-Ersigen Grasshopper Club Zürich 2006 UHC Alligator Malans SV Wiler-Ersigen 2007 SV Wiler-Ersigen Unihockey Tigers Langnau 2008 SV Wiler-Ersigen Floorball Köniz 2009 SV Wiler-Ersigen Unihockey Tigers Langnau 2010 SV Wiler-Ersigen HC Rychenberg Winterthur 2011 SV Wiler-Ersigen UHC Alligator Malans 2012 SV Wiler-Ersigen Grasshopper Club Zürich 2013 UHC Alligator Malans Floorball Köniz 2014 SV Wiler-Ersigen Unihockey Tigers Langnau 2015 SV Wiler-Ersigen UHC Alligator Malans 2016 Grasshopper Club Zürich Floorball Köniz 2017 SV Wiler-Ersigen UHC Alligator Malans 2018 Floorball Köniz SV Wiler-Ersigen 2019 SV Wiler-Ersigen Grasshopper Club Zürich 2020 The season was cancelled 2021 Floorball Köniz SV Wiler-Ersigen 2022 Grasshopper Club Zürich SV Wiler-Ersigen 2023 SV Wiler-Ersigen Floorball Köniz 2024 Zug United SV Wiler-Ersigen 2025 Zug United Unihockey Tigers Langnau 2026 HC Rychenberg Winterthur Zug United
References
External links
Leagues on unihockey.swiss Prime League on flashscore.com