Pfadi Winterthur
Swiss handball club
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::summary Swiss handball club ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| clubname | Pfadi Winterthur |
| image | [[File:Pfadi Winterthur.png |
| fullname | Pfadi Winterthur |
| short name | Pfadi |
| founded | |
| ground | Winterthur Central Sports Hall |
| capacity | 2,000 |
| chairman | Jürg Hofmann |
| manager | Goran Cvetkovic |
| league | Swiss Handball League |
| season | 2020–21 |
| position | 1st |
| website | http://www.pfadi-winterthur.ch/ |
| colour1 | red |
| colour2 | white |
| pattern_la1 | _blackborder |
| pattern_b1 | _thinblacksides |
| pattern_ra1 | _blackborder |
| pattern_sh1 | _redbottom |
| leftarm1 | FF0000 |
| body1 | FF0000 |
| rightarm1 | FF0000 |
| shorts1 | 000000 |
| pattern_la2 | _redborder |
| pattern_b2 | _thinredsides |
| pattern_ra2 | _redborder |
| pattern_sh2 | _redbottom |
| leftarm2 | 000000 |
| body2 | FXxyxyxy |
| rightarm2 | 000000 |
| shorts2 | 000000 |
| :: |
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Pfadi Winterthur is a team handball club from Switzerland. 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 of the Schweizer Pfadfinderbund in 1938. The prefix Pfadi (Scout) commemorates the club's roots in the Scout Movement.
Crest, colours, supporters
Kits
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Honours
- Swiss champion: 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2021.
- Swiss Cup (SHV-Cup) winner: 1998, 2003, 2010, 2015, 2018.
- Swiss SuperCup winner: 2004, 2018, 2021.
- Swiss field handball-Cup winner: 1958, 1998, 2001.
- EHF Challenge Cup finalist: 2001.
- EHF Cup semifinalist: 1982.
- Euro City Cup semifinalist: 2000 (successor after 2000: EHF Challenge Cup)
- EHF Champions League quarterfinalist: 1997, 1998, 2003.
Sports Hall information
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- Arena: – Winterthur Central Sports Hall
- City: – Winterthur
- Capacity: – 2000
- Address: – Grüzefeldstrasse 32, 8400 Winterthur
European record
EHF European League
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| Season | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021–22 | Group Stage | ||||
| (Group A) | POL Wisła Płock | 27–35 | 23–35 | 6th place | |
| FRA Fenix Toulouse | 27–34 | 27–30 | |||
| GER Füchse Berlin | 27–30 | 29–35 | |||
| ESP Bidasoa Irun | 23–37 | 28–32 | |||
| SVK Tatran Prešov | 27–31 | 33–29 | |||
| 2023–24 | QR | POR Águas Santas Milaneza | 22–19 | 22–24 | 44–43 |
| Group Stage | |||||
| (Group C) | SLO RK Gorenje Velenje | 32–31 | 26–34 | 4th place | |
| ESP REBI BM Cuenca | 32–28 | 24–28 | |||
| SWE IK Sävehof | 29–32 | 20–41 | |||
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Current squad
:Squad for the 2022–23 season
;Goalkeepers
- 12 SUI Dennis Wipf
- 16 BIH Admir Ahmetasevic ;Left wingers
- 21 SUI Joël Bräm
- 35 SUI Noam Leopold ;Right wingers
- 4 SUI Lukas Osterwalder
- 6 SUI Cédrie Tynowski ;Line players
- 26 SWE Otto Lagerquist
- 31 SUI Henri Dörflinger
- 55 POR Eduardo Mendonca ;Left backs
- 5 NOR Henrik Schönfeldt
- 17 SUI Lukas Heer
- 24 SPA Viran Morros
- 33 ALG Moustafa Sadok ;Central backs
- 11 SUI Gian-Luca Bühlmann
- 20 SUI Kevin Jud
- 41 SUI Alessio Lioi ;Right backs
- 19 SRB Aleksandr Radovanovic
- 22 SUI Stefan Freivogel
- 34 SUI Dominik Ruh
Transfers
:Transfers for the 2025–26 season
;Joining [[File:Arrow-up.png]]
- GER Lukas Köder (RW) from GER HSG Konstanz
- SUI Mehdi Ben Romdhane (CB) from SUI Kadetten Schaffhausen
- SUIUKR Daniel Parkhomenko (RB) from SUI HSC Suhr Aarau
;Leaving [[File:Arrow-down.gif]]
- SRB Aleksandar Radovanović (RB) to SUI SG Wadenswil/Horgen
- SUI Laurin Rinderknecht (CB) to SUI Handball Stäfa
Notable former players
- KOR Paek Won-chul
- KOR Cho Chi-hyo
- KOR Kang Jae-won
- DEN Erik Veje Rasmussen
- DEN Hans Hattesen
- SUI Marc Baumgartner
- ARG Matías Schulz
- NOR Morten Schønfeldt
- GER Markus Baur
- SRB Goran Cvetković
References
References
- (June 18, 2021). "Pfadi Winterthur win Swiss title after 17 years!".
- https://www.handball-world.news/artikel/pfadi-winterthur-verpflichtet-schweizer-nationalspieler-von-ligakonkurrent-1118686
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