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,
Sion, Switzerland the "Bibliothèque municipale de Sion", the "HES-SO Valais Médiathèque santé-social" and the "HES-SO Valais, Domaine Sciences de l'ingénieur". There was a combined total () of 690,513 books or other media in the libraries, and in the same year a total of 294,320 items were loaned out. Sion has two high schools (colleges) Sion is also host to the : The HES-SO Valais offers education in Sciences, Engineering, Economics, Information Technology and Health Sciences. Sion is situated on the main railway line and the motorway, and also has an airport (Sion Airport). From the , 21,220 or 78.1% were Roman Catholic,