Darius1998 Posted January 25 Author Share Posted January 25 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2025-26 May Fixtures We ran out of steam a little towards the end. Two late goals helped us beat Lugano before a fighting draw in Bern where Young Boys most definitely had the upper hand and then lost to Luzern in a straight fight for 3rd place on the last day. This meant we went into the cup final knowing the result would be the difference between a Europa League playoff spot or the 2nd qualifying round of the Conference League. A superb win in Zurich gave us our first trophy since I took over. League table We finish 4th with Luzern pulling away a little with those last two games. We were the best in the league in the last 3 months, which is very pleasing progress indeed. Basel held off Young Boys to win their first title since 2017. Grasshopper had a shocking season and Switzerland's most successful club is back in the 2nd tier again. Career progress Season | Team | Country | Division | Position | Cup | Continental Comp. | Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2023-24 | NK Solin | Croatia | Prva NL | 5th | N.A | N.A | Nat. C and B licenses gained 2024-25 | NK Solin | Croatia | Prva NL | 1st | R1 | N.A | Promoted; Nat. A and Cont. C licenses gained 2025-26 | NK Solin | Croatia | Hrvatska NL | 4th* | QF | N.A | Cont. B license gained; resigned after 17 games -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2025-26 | Servette | Switzerland | Super League | 4th | Winners | EL Knockout Rnd | Joined after 18 games Edited January 26 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted January 26 Author Share Posted January 26 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 Preseason Squad Transfers (part 1) | Transfers (part 2) | (Some more) Transfers out We ended up making more of an overhaul than I initially planned. Young Boys came in for Rohner and I thought he was replaceable enough but unfortunately, they soon came in for Kutesa too, which was more annoying. Similarly, Lens turned Jeremy Frick's head and he's leaving after making close to 350 appearances for the club. Kutesa after some price negotiations is off to Mallorca for €6m, rising to €7m, while Frick will join Rosenborg for €6.75m in August. Both good players but we are getting decent fees for them, especially for Frick who is 33. Isak Alberg comes in to strengthen our defence with Novak Tepsic's loan not being renewed, breaking our transfer record in the process. Altimira had a mandatory buy-out clause while Martin Turk joins from Parma for €2.3m to replace Frick. Caliagra is a nice option in midfield while we brought in two ex-Man City youngsters in Bobb and Delap as Kutesa wished to leave. Delap's signing came after we missed out on Giuliano Simeone, who chose Bochum instead. Friendlies Preseason fixtures get split in two as it resumes well before the league reset date apparently. We only played some local teams to build up match fitness. Season preview The board and the media expect us to finish 3rd and I think on paper, that is about right. We were, however, the best team in the league from March onwards and if we can take that form into the new season, we might even upset the apple cart a little. I would like to give us a good go at challenging again for the Swiss Cup and hopefully, we can get into the Europa groups and eventually reach the knockout round again. Edited January 26 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 July & August Transfers No more major transfers out. Bursik joins as 2nd-choice keeper after a few players kicked off about not having any depth in that position. He's pretty good for a backup too so I will look to give him a few games here and there. Fixtures We started like a house on fire, destroying Thun and Zurich before easing past the title favourites in Young Boys. After going 2 up at Basel though, we couldn't keep it up though as they came from behind and in the end, we were perhaps a tad fortunate to get a point there. A nice win over Vaduz was followed by a more even game at Winterthur, where we were clinical. Unfortunately, we ended August by losing again to our regional rivals in Lausanne, with their keeper being the Player of the Match. A rotated team eased through in the cup. We got the toughest draw on paper in the Europa League playoffs. However, we absolutely dominated them at home and should probably have scored more than 2. Away from home, we looked on course for a total FM-ing as Besiktas went 3-0 up by the 48th minute. Delap levelled the tie and Bobb put us in front. Cognat's late strike was a massive relief as we drew on the night to make it through to the league stage. That's a tough draw on paper. 5 teams from the top 5 leagues with Braga and Club Brugge also being solid sides. League table With YB starting slowly, it has been between us and Basel so far. Lausanne have also hit some form after the derby win over us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Improved to excellent now. Unfortunately, the training facilities are average and the board refuses to upgrade them despite having well over €20m in the bank. Took a fair amount of arguing but they eventually agreed with me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 September 2026 Fixtures Not the most convincing month in the league. St. Gallen have had a poor start and we took a while to get the winner before succumbing to a poor display of shooting at Luzern. Our final game of the month brought a welcome change as we blew Lugano away yet again. We have had some bad luck with injuries which has stopped me from being able to rotate better which might be a reason for the unconvincing displays. Guillemenot and Ltaief both missed 4 weeks each, Severin and Altimira are out for 3 months each while there's been a few smaller injuries causing players to miss a week or two. The cup game wasn't particularly convincing either as a rotated side found themselves behind at half-time. We did keep creating chances though and the pressure ultimately told. It's like we have a completely different side playing in Europe! Qarabag were arguably the easiest team that we had drawn and we swept them away before turning on the style in Geneva as we stunned Koln. League table Luzern are on a tear and have gone top while Young Boys seem to be moving up the gears too. There's a 3 week break for internationals so it will be interesting to see how things develop after that. The brilliant start has put us up in 2nd already. Our next game here is against Spurs, who put 8 past CFR Cluj in their second game. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted January 27 Author Share Posted January 27 Final one on its way! Third time lucky. Can't believe it took them this long to approve a €1.1m upgrade. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 October 2026 Fixtures Smooth sailing in the league until we met Young Boys. We really deserved 3 points there but instead, ended up requiring a late equaliser from Bobb. The previous cup rounds had some shaky moments, this one was anything but. Into the Quarters we go! We did well to restrict Spurs to just one and then got one for ourselves through David Douline's head. League table 1 out of 4 rounds done and we are in a good position. Still early days here although we have started as well as I could have hoped for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 (edited) Another upgrade. Almost all of our best prospects are strikers or wide forwards so we could do with a few players coming through in other positions too. Edited February 2 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 November & December 2026 Fixtures November saw us hit the skids somewhat performance wise. Basel matched us all the way in a ding-dong battle and could very well have won it before Vaduz ruthlessly punished us. A more confident performance saw us beat Winterthur and smash Lausanne in the Leman derby. The first half of the season was rounded off by sweeping aside St. Gallen before beating Luzern for the first time under my reign. In between the Basel and Vaduz games, we produced what might be the worst performance of my time at Servette. We scored with our first two shots but Braga came from behind and created an xG of 4.49 to our 0.83. It's a miracle that we didn't take a battering. A superb display in the Black Country saw us sweep away Wolves while Hoffenheim proved too strong for us. League table The game against Luzern was very much a six pointer and the win puts us 6 clear at the top heading into the winter break. We've slipped out of the automatic qualification spots but are crucially still in the top 16, which would have us seeded for the Knockout Round draw. Club Brugge (H) and Villarreal (A) await us in January. Edited February 2 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 A year ago, I would have been all over this. At the moment though, I would rather stay at Servette a little while longer. Interview declined. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 Mid-season break Friendlies Just a couple of games this time. No major transfers either so far. St. Gallen came in for Magnin and I was happy to let him go, with Esteves replacing him to rotate at RB with Loun Srdanovic. Mesonero was about 5th choice at CB and I wasn't going to turn down Sion's advances. If he hits all those appearance related objectives, we will recoup the entire fee the club previously paid for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 January 2027 Fixtures We resumed in style, winning 3/3 and conceding none. Lugano frustrated us for a while before we got a penalty while the other two were smooth sailing. We've only gone and done it. Club Brugge were much worse than I expected before we completed a superb smash-and-grab in Spain. Villarreal have had a tycoon takeover and spent a fair amount of cash too, which makes it all the more surprising and impressive. No goals conceded in January in any competition. League table A defeat for Luzern in the last round of the month sends us 9 clear at the top. The win over Villarreal saw us sneak into a top 8 spot, guaranteeing EL Round of 16 football for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Awards seem to work based on the calendar year as opposed to the league season here. Turk still won best goalkeeper despite being here for half a season, while Kutesa made the team of the season/year even though he left in the summer. New league record now! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 February 2027 Fixtures Not the most convincing month but we get 9 points out of 12 nevertheless. Young Boys handed us our first home defeat since May but worse than that, Liam Delap broke his ankle and is likely out for the season. Timothe Cognat then picked up a hip injury a couple of days later and will be out for a while too. We did manage to beat Basel despite not playing well while Vaduz also gave us a hard time. We came from behind twice before winning it through an OG. Easy enough game in the cup as we beat local side Nyon. League table Our lead drops by 1 point. The Europa League knockout round took place and we are up against Sevilla in the Round of 16 in March. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 4 Author Share Posted February 4 Upgraded to 'good' now. Didn't take much convincing this time around! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 March 2027 Fixtures The tetchy run in February continued into March as we slid to defeat at Winterthur. However, we turned it around with a thumping Leman derby win before following it up by smashing St. Gallen. No issues in Europe though as we stunned Sevilla at their place before two early goals saw us ease to the quarters. Koln are up next. League table Luzern edge a point closer. Our injuries are piling up in crucial positions though which is concerning. Youth candidates Fynn Czerwinski | Fabio Sousa | Andrea Fabiano Quite a pleasing intake in the end. Czerwinski looks like he has the potential to go far while Fabiano and Sousa are pretty decent too. Also nice to get a big prospect from a unique nation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 Big improvement from €1.1k p/w although that still leaves me well behind what the average first team player earns. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 April 2027 Fixtures We're very much trying to stumble over the line now. Luzern's two first half goals consigned us to defeat and although we played well against Sion, Lugano were a good match for us. The cup game against Lugano went much better though, as we absolutely demolished them. Koln were a step too far for our depleted side. We beat them easily earlier in the season but were lucky to get a draw at home and then nearly FM'd them at their place before they scored a couple of late goals. League table Luzern are closing in. We do have a game in hand though and also play Luzern themselves in the final game of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 May 2027 Fixtures So, here's how it went down: Luzern 0-0 Zurich Servette 3-0 Winterthur Servette 0-1 Young Boys (game in hand) Winterthur 2-1 Luzern Servette 0-2 Basel 76 points to 73. Then we went to Zurich and won, a game where we could easily have lost as well but we came through, with 17 yr old Rafael Saenz scoring his first goal for the club. This put us 6 clear of Luzern with a healthy GD advantage and a day later, they lost 4-2 at home to YB, therefore mathematically confirming our title! The final game saw a somewhat rotated team draw at home to Luzern, despite leading twice. League table A fantastic season sees us win the title at least a year before I anticipated. Luzern completely collapsed and even missed out on a CL qualifying round spot. Our first win in a long, long while! Edited February 7 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 7 Author Share Posted February 7 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2026-27 May 2027 Cup final A week after the league season concluded, we were back in action in the Swiss Cup final. With the likes of Timothe Cognat and Fabrizio Caligara returning from injury, we saved our best performance for the last, turning on the style to demolish Young Boys. It did take a while as they scored an equaliser against the run of play, only for substitute Antunes to kill off our opponents. I guess this award is an end of the season one instead of a end of the year thing? Career progress Season | Team | Country | Division | Position | Cup | Continental Comp. | Notes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2023-24 | NK Solin | Croatia | Prva NL | 5th | N.A | N.A | Nat. C and B licenses gained 2024-25 | NK Solin | Croatia | Prva NL | 1st | R1 | N.A | Promoted; Nat. A and Cont. C licenses gained 2025-26 | NK Solin | Croatia | Hrvatska NL | 4th* | QF | N.A | Cont. B license gained; resigned after 17 games -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2025-26 | Servette | Switzerland | Super League | 4th | Winners | EL Knockout Rnd | Joined after 18 games 2026-27 | Servette | Switzerland | Super League | 1st | Winners | EL Quarter Final | Double winners; Cont. A license gained Edited February 7 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2027-28 Preseason Squad Transfers (Part 1) | Transfers (Part 2) Like last season, we got some excellent deals on free transfers again. Iago comes in to compete with Mazikou at left back, Evjen came in to strengthen our midfield while Archer was initially signed to replace Bedia in the starting XI. Then Brentford triggered Delap's release clause, giving us €9.5m in pure profit for a player who looked decent but didn't exactly set things on fire before missing the season run in anyway. 18 year old Czech U21 international Novotny comes in to replace him for a club record fee, almost doubling our previous record. He also has a €12.5m release clause for the next two years so I doubt we will keep him around for long but boy, does he look good. Jancic has gone straight into our U21 side for the moment but with interest in Payen from other Swiss clubs, he might well be getting promoted soon. Normally, I would like keeping homegrown players but he's unambitious and has pretty low determination, resulting in him not exactly improving much. Preseason Usual preseason. Season preview Nothing crazy here. The board want us to finish ahead of one of Young Boys/Basel again while the media think we would just miss out on a top 2 finish. The end of season report indicated a big rise in fair weather fans. Maybe that is the category suddenly buying tickets. Edited February 14 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2027-28 July & August 2027 Transfers I didn't have any plans to conduct more transfer business until Basel offered us big money for Antunes. Good squad player who played a fair amount but I couldn't turn that much down. Payen eventually left for Schalke while Severin left around the time our window closed. He was 3rd/4th choice at CB anyway and wanted to play more. Letting him go also means we can open up another non-Swiss spot in our squad for the future. Fixtures Near perfect start in the league. A couple of late goals saw us ease past Lausanne before Vaduz held us to a draw in a chaotic game. We followed it up with a perfect August as Archer and Novotny got their first league hattricks. Novotny also scored a treble in the cup right before that as we flew past Langenthal. League table Early days but we have started brilliantly. Young Boys are the only ones with a perfect record though. CL fixtures are out and it was always going to be tough. AEK and Bodo/Glimt are obviously going to be our best targets to get some points on board and then we need to do whatever we can to get something from our other home games if we are to progress further. Edited February 20 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 Weird one, the cup final happened a while ago! The training facilities are now considered 'great'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 (edited) Servette Swiss Super League 2027-28 September 2027 Fixtures Another perfect month in the league, despite every game being away. A superb win at Basel was followed by late drama in Zurich as Archer struck in injury time before Sion were easily brushed aside. No issues whatsoever in the cup as a rotated team struck 5. An excellent start to the league stage as we secured a thumping victory in Athens but couldn't repeat the trick in Rome. We played well but Lazio did just enough to see us off. League table We remain top but Young Boys' perfect start continues. Our first game against them has been postponed a couple of times too. The win in Athens briefly sent us 2nd in the CL league stage. I imagine that's the highest position we will get to this season. Edited February 24 by Darius1998 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 All done! I haven't criticised a player in ages, possibly since I was last at Solin. Looks like the adaptability and working with youngsters still don't work properly, unfortunately. Being fluent in 9 languages with only 2 adaptability looks pretty amusing though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Servette Swiss Super League 2027-28 October 2027 Fixtures With the long international break over, we were thrust into action in October with 3 games in a week in the league. Vaduz were swept away but Young Boys defeated us, becoming the first team to beat us at home this season, continuing their perfect start in the process. We recovered to see off our next 3 opponents without conceding a single goal. An easy Leman derby victory sees us through in the cup. Just the one CL game this month, and Man City outclassed us as expected. We did well to keep the score down though. Tickets in Geneva are expensive. League table Young Boys hit a wretched run of form after beating us and have suddenly fallen away. Continuing to slide in the CL. We have Leipzig away and Rennes at home next month. A best goal award for Bobb rounded off the month. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Lyon have fallen on hard times, only avoiding relegation in a play off last season (after winning on the final day to climb into a playoff position). I attended the interview... ...and then rejected the job offer. I did manage to get another training upgrade out of the board though! In most cases, Lyon would be an excellent offer, especially with the chance to bring through world class talents. However, they were never part of the Holy Roman Empire, nor ruled by a Habsburg king. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darius1998 Posted February 24 Author Share Posted February 24 Nah. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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