Switzerland's top league will be missing a club when the season resumes this weekend following confirmation that Servette Geneva are no longer in business.
The Genevan side announced on Wednesday that a late bid to rescue the bankrupt club had failed to materialise.
Formed 115 years ago, Servette were the only Swiss club never to have been relegated from the top division.
Matters off the pitch were to ensure the club's collapse, however, following the club's takeover by former player's agent Marc Roger.
The Frenchman ran up debts of more than ten million Swiss francs after authorising the acquisition last summer of 21 players, including French World Cup winner Christian Karembeu.
Many of the players, including Karembeu, have since left the club after their wages stopped being paid.
Servette Geneva will continue to exist only as an under-21 side, playing in Switzerland's lower divisions.
Points taken from matches against Servette this season will still be valid as every club in the division had played the Genevan side twice before the winter break.
