Pfadi Winterthur
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Pfadi Winterthur
Founded 1938
Full Name Pfadi Winterthur
Arena Eulachhalle
Eulachhalle
Eulachhalle is an arena in Winterthur, Switzerland. It is primarily used for team handball and is the home arena of Pfadi Winterthur and Yellow Winterthur. Eulachhalle holds 2,300 people....

Club Colours Red & Black
Website www.pfadi-winterthur.ch


Pfadi Winterthur is a team handball
Team handball
Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club from Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. Currently, Pfadi Winterthur competes in the Swiss First League of Handball.

The club developed out of an informal handball team which won the competitions during the national jamboree
Jamboree (Scouting)
In Scouting, a jamboree is a large gathering of Scouts who rally at a national or international level.The 1st World Scout Jamboree was held in 1920, and was hosted by the United Kingdom...

 of the Schweizer Pfadfinderbund
Swiss Guide and Scout Movement
The Swiss Guide and Scout Movement is the national Scouting and Guiding association of Switzerland...

 in 1938. The prefix Pfadi (Scout) commemorates the club's roots in the Scout Movement
Scouting
Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, that they may play constructive roles in society....

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Honours

  • Swiss champion: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004
  • Swiss-Cup (SHV-Cup) winner: 1998, 2003, 2010
  • Swiss field handball
    Field handball
    Field handball was the original form of what is now team handball and was played at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin....

    -Cup winner: 1958
  • EHF Challenge Cup
    EHF Challenge Cup
    The EHF Challenge Cup is an official European Handball Federation competition for men's clubs of Europe and takes place every year. Before 1999/2000, it was called EHF City Cup....

     finalist: 2001
  • EHF Cup
    EHF Cup
    The EHF Cup is an official competition for men's handball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. From 2012/13 it will be merged with EHF Cup Winners' Cup to EHF European Cup....

     semifinalist: 1982
  • Euro City Cup semifinalist: 2000 (successor after 2000: EHF Challenge Cup)
  • EHF Champions League
    EHF Champions League
    The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...

    quarterfinalist: 1997, 1998, 2003

2007/08 Team

Martin Pramuk (GK)
Gian Ryffel (GK)
Daniel Stahl
Markus Baur
Marcel Misteli
Marc Meili
Roland Hochreutner
Alexander Mierzwa
Valentin Bay
Daniel Schmid
Erich Studer
Philipp Rüeger
Ladislav Tarhai
Oliver Scheuner
Mike Kipili
Erich Studer
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