GENEVA (AP) — Young Boys sealed its sixth Swiss league title in seven years by winning at Servette 1-0 on Monday to complete a late-season rally after firing coach Raphaël Wicky.
Wicky, the former Chicago Fire and United States Under-17s coach, was fired in March after losing three games in a week. Under-21s coach Joël Magnin took interim charge.
Young Boys will enter the revamped 36-team Champions League in the qualification playoffs round in August because Switzerland no longer has a direct entry into the main phase. Young Boys played in a group with Manchester City this season.
Needing just a point at Servette in the second-to-last round, Young Boys took all three on Guinea defender Mohamed Ali Camara’s header in the 73rd minute as a severe rainstorm swept across the stadium.
Young Boys moved nine points clear of second-placed Lugano which lost at Zurich 2-1. Servette is four points further back, meaning Lugano will finish runner-up and enter the Champions League in July at the second qualifying round stage.
The champion from Bern has 17 Swiss league titles to tie Servette in third place on the all-time list.
AP soccer: https://apnews.com/hub/soccer
Iran helicopter crash that killed President Raisi could reverberate across the Middle East
Ohio lawmakers negotiate to assure Biden makes the state's fall ballot
Hairy Biker Dave Myers left wife Liliana £1.4m it's revealed
Britain's new bonkers EV: Callum Skye is an £80k electric buggy built in Warwickshire
The body types that raise the risk of colon cancer
Tennessee lawmakers join movement allowing some teachers to take guns into schools
Ancestry website cataloguing names of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
What's next for Iran after death of its president in crash?
Why AP called the Pennsylvania 12th District primary for Summer Lee
Elon Musk gets approval from FDA to implant his Neuralink brain chip into a second patient
Pilot reported fire onboard plane carrying fuel, attempted to return to Fairbanks just before crash