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9-743: As there is no national league in Liechtenstein, the Liechtenstein Football Cup is the only national football competition in the country. The country has only seven clubs, all of which historically have already established themselves in the Swiss league competitions . The national cup competition is currently the only route for Liechtenstein to be represented at the European football club competitions, since Liechtensteiner clubs are prevented from qualifying for European competition via

18-467: A draw is made to determine which of the third-teams are required to participate in this round. FC Vaduz have won the competition on 50 occasions, which is a domestic football cup world record. A list of all Liechtenstein clubs reflecting their success in the Liechtenstein Cup after 76 competitions (from 1946 to 2023, exclude 2019-2021). "League Tier" indicates in which tier of

27-745: The Swiss Football League the clubs are active (status: season 2023–24). Swiss Football League The Swiss Football League is the organization that controls and directs the professional football in Switzerland and Liechtenstein . Founded in 1933 as the National League (in German Nationalliga , in French Ligue Nationale ), it assumed its current name in 2003. It deals with

36-605: The Swiss Super League and Challenge League championships and is therefore made up of 22 clubs. The National League was founded between 15 and 16 June 1933 in Vevey , where representatives of several clubs had gathered to end years of discussions on the reform of national football. At that time there were two organizations within the federation, the Zusammenschluss der unteren Serien (ZUS), founded in 1921 by

45-618: The Serie B and Serie C and the Association Suisse de Série A (ASSA), founded in 1925, to which the teams of the maximum series belonged. In the 1931-1932 the National League championship was created, although only two years later the control body of the same name was born. The reform that gave birth to the single group championship was implemented for the 1933-1934 season. On 28 August 1933, the first matches were played under

54-487: The Supervisory Commission for transfers of the National League, announced the possibility of transferring a player from one club to another, in exchange of a sum of money, without a request for authorization to TRAKO itself. As a consequence of this, the status of Swiss footballers, who until then had remained officially "amateur", became "semi-professional". This practice was, moreover, already followed by

63-472: The Swiss league system. The competition has an unusual format in that not only can the first teams of the main seven football clubs enter, but also the reserve sides, which all play in lower divisions in the Swiss league system. This can lead to some unusual scenarios, such as in the second round of the 2006–07 cup, where FC Triesenberg 's second team went through, but the first team was knocked out. Teams from

72-566: The aegis of the new league. With the reform called "Wiederkehr project", approved during the extraordinary federal assembly held in Lugano on 9 October 1943, starting from the 1944-1945 season the National League championship was split into two distinct categories, called Lega National A and National League B ., each of which is made up of 14 teams On 5 July 1960, a circular from the Transfer- und Aufsichtskommission der National-Liga (TRAKO),

81-426: The same football club can be drawn together from the semi-finals onwards. In the 2009–10 competition semi-final stage, USV Eschen/Mauren were drawn with USV Eschen/Mauren II, and again in 2022-23 semi-finals, where FC Balzers were drawn with FC Balzers II. The top 3 clubs based on league position can only meet from the quarter-finals onwards. A qualifying round also takes place if more than 16 teams enter, and

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