Sensation – newly promoted FC Thun shortly before the championship

Football sensation is emerging

“We were before death, but we fought”

The biggest football sensation of the year is brewing in Switzerland. A newcomer is on the verge of winning the championship by a large margin.

Football produces them more and more rarely, but always: the unexpected masters who contradict all the laws of the modern game. Those who overcome the myth that only the richest teams, those with the greatest concentration of stars, can win a title. 1. FC Kaiserslautern, who won the German championship as a promoted team in 1998. Greece, which won the European Championship title in 2004. Leicester City, which beat the “Big Six”, England’s biggest clubs, in 2016 and was crowned champions. Eintracht Frankfurt, which won the DFB Cup in 2018 two years after almost relegation.

This line of Goliath-conquering Davids will soon be growing – and he comes from one of the most unlikely corners of the football world. From a tranquil town in the Swiss Aare Valley. Between Bern and Interlaken, where football rarely seeks the big stage. Where a year ago the game was still second-class. FC Thun, based there, is preparing to win the national championship immediately after promotion.

After 31 match days, the promoted team already has 71 points, 15 more than their first rival St. Gallen. Seven rounds before the end of the season, FC Thun’s sensational championship can hardly be taken away. Timm Klose, former Swiss national player and Bundesliga professional, said in an interview with t-online on behalf of an entire nation: “It’s over. We all know that, even the players in Thun realize it.”

It will be the first championship in the club’s history. And under such special circumstances. “It’s a great story, it’s a fairy tale,” said Klose, who now works as head of training at FC Basel and as a TV expert for Blue.

FC Thun is currently writing a completely different kind of work than the club has otherwise presented to its fans in the club’s almost 128-year history. With two second division championships, FC Thun has as many titles as sex scandals in its own chronicle. In 2007, several professionals were suspected of having carried out sexual acts with a minor. In four cases a fine followed. In 2016, three former players were charged with rape allegations but were ultimately acquitted. The FCT’s work has certainly not been a success story for years.