2011–12 Swiss 1. Liga

Liga is and remains the highest tier in Swiss amateur football, but many teams at that time had professional or semi-professional players.

Within each group, the teams would play a double round-robin to decide their positions in the league.

Liga Promotion that was due to commence the following year, this season would see the number of teams in the groups reduced from 16 to 14 and it would be renamed as 1.

The new Promotion League would serve as the semi-professional link to amateur football.

This reconstruction was done to decrease the competitive gap between the professional two top tiers and the amateur leagues.