Swiss Cup
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Key facts
- Founded
- 1925 ; 101 years ago ( 1925 )
- Region
- Switzerland
- Qualifier for
- UEFA Europa League
- Current champions
- FC St. Gallen , (2nd title)
- Most championships
- Grasshoppers , (19 titles)
- Broadcaster
- SRG SSR
- Website
- www .football .ch /it /ASF /Coppa-Svizzera /Coppa-Svizzera-Uomini /Statistiche-e-risultati-Coppa-Svizzera .aspx (in Italian)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The Swiss Cup (German: Schweizer Cup; French: Coupe de Suisse; Italian: Coppa Svizzera; Romansh: Cuppa Svizra) is a football cup competition that has been organised annually since 1925–26 season by the Swiss Football Association.
The Swiss Cup final is usually the most important game of the year with a high attendance. The competition is also shaped by games in the first rounds when villages celebrate the tie of their club with a professional team leading to infrastructure improvements and often thousands of spectators at the local football pitch. Since 1999 the cup winners earns the chance to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the UEFA Conference League in accordance with the rankings of Switzerland in the UEFA coefficient.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swiss Cup” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.