This hasn’t happened in 70 years: the league newcomer is just short of winning the club’s first championship title in history

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The small Swiss town of Thun with a population of about 45 thousand people is reluctant to transform into the main football center of the region. Last summer, the Swiss Football Association announced the establishment of a new training center called Swiss Football Home.

Recently, the local football club Thun began to write, perhaps, the most sensational tale in the history of Swiss football. After five losses in another division, the club reached the Super League in 2025.

The team ended the season with another cheapest warehouse from the championship, and the main goal was simply to win the game. But now this newcomer is just a short time away from achieving the first championship title in his history. Vostanna Tun recognized lesions in the middle of the chest. The team won 12 of its remaining 13 official matches, scoring the most and conceding the fewest of all league participants.

For all matches until the end of the season, the lead against the closest match - St. Gallen - is 16 points.. The traditional football elite of Switzerland, including the venerable winner of the golden double Basel (along with captain Xherdan Shakiri), the dominant Young Boys and the Zurich giants, was lost far behind.

This extraordinary story recalls the triumph of the English Leicester in 2016 and the German Kaiserslautern in 1998 (which also became a champion immediately after entering the elite). In Switzerland itself, such a trap has happened more than once and over 70 years ago: in the distant 1952, the Grasshopper club won the title as a newcomer to the league, although with an advantage of less than one point.

Tsikavo, that the very same Grasshopper of the past weekend was defeated by Thun with a score of 5:1 at the renovated 10,000-capacity Stockhorn Arena - behind the battle, perhaps a quarter of the population of the place was guarded.

Until now, Thun has never won a gold trophy (the Dvichi Club lost in the Cup finals). The team's greatest achievements in the championship were in 2005, after which the club sensationally made its way to the Champions League.

The main heroes of that success now play key roles in the new division: the formidable striker Mauro Lustrinelli is the head coach, and ex-professional Andreas Gerber is the president and sporting director of the club. The secret of our success lies in local patriotism and stability.

The warehouse has no light-scale stars. The main leaders are 32-year captain and defensive stalwart Marco Burki (the younger brother of ex-Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Burki) and Leonardo Bertone, who is already equal to David Beckham for his numerous free kicks.. The most promising talent is considered to be the 20-year-old member of the Swiss youth team, Franz-Ethan Meichtry, who is already prophesying a call to the head team of the country.

Infection Tun is rapidly rushing to his historical first gold, which is why today's football still has a place for the right divas.

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