The bottom team from the Super League is automatically relegated & the top team from the Challenge League is automatically promoted.
‡ FC Sion & Neuchâtel Xamax
In December 2011 FC Sion were deducted 36 points for fielding ineligible players. This equalled three points deducted, for each of the 12 games that FC Sion had fielded any of the ineligible players.
Neuchatel Xamax had their Swiss Super League licence withdrawn in January 2012, due to financial irregularities. Having lost an appeal they declared themselves bankrupt on 26 January 2012. Their results stand for the other teams, as they had completed half of the season.
2011/12 season Super League play-offs
* The team finishing 9th in the Super League, goes into a play-off with the team finishing 2nd in the Challenge League, for the remaining place in the Super League.
