A total of ten teams contest this season's league, which began on 31 August 2016 and is scheduled to conclude in May 2017.
Kadetten Schaffhausen were the defending champions, having beaten Wacker Thun 3–2 in the previous season's playoff finals.
[2] The competition format for the 2016–17 season consists of two phases, both played in a home-and-away double round-robin system.
Lakers Stäfa was relegated from the previous season and HSC Suhr Aarau was promoted from 2015-16 Nationalliga B.
TSV Fortitudo Gossau won 54-50 aggregate and stayed in Nationalliga A.