FC Sion demands and penalized Sion 36 standings points (based on how many matches ineligible players were involved), moving the club to last place in the league standings and putting the club at risk of relegation if the ruling stood. Sion finished the 2011–12 season in ninth place, which qualified them to the relegation matches against Aarau, whom they defeated 2–1 on aggregate to stay in the Swiss Super League. But for their 36-point deduction, Sion would have finished in the third place, which would have qualified them into the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League. Prior to the start of the 2012–13 season,
Lauda Sion Lauda Sion "Lauda Sion Salvatorem" is a sequence prescribed for the Roman Catholic Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi. It was written by St. Thomas Aquinas around 1264, at the request of Pope Urban IV for the new Mass of this feast, along with "Pange lingua", "Sacris solemniis", "Adoro te devote", and "Verbum supernum prodiens", which are used in the Divine Office. The Gregorian melody of the "Lauda Sion" is borrowed from the eleventh-century sequence "Laetabundi iubilemus" attributed to Adam of Saint Victor. The hymn tells of the institution of the Eucharist and clearly expresses the belief of the