Pfadi Winterthur
The club was founded in 1938 in Winterthur Scout handball during the 1990s, the strongest team in the Swiss league. It was a total of 9 times Swiss champion.
Club history
Scout Winterthur was founded in 1938 at the Boy Scout camp in Federal Zurich.
In 1947 the fledgling club for the first time can ascend into the major league.
Scout and relegated to the first division football club Winterthur decide to carry out double games ( field handball and football ). This idea will be rewarded impressive. Up to 4,000 spectators flock to the games on the Schützenwiese.
1950 a non- scout was on the team at the General Assembly for the first time.
Scout plays first time in 1983 in the newly built Eulachhalle.
With the commitment by Erik Rasmussen Veje, Roman Brunner and Stefan Schärer scout lands in 1990 a hussar string in the transfer market and thus heralds the successful 90s one.
In the season 1991/92 Scout gets his first title and the first title in a team sport for the city of Winterthur for 75 years.
1993 Robert Meyer new president Scout. The bank manager rings along with former scout players Ernst Liniger as a manager and the advertising expert Walter Baer in a new era. This set-up to the new millennium.
In the 1997/98 season Scout creates as group winners in the EHF Champions League on Ademar León, Belgrade and Drammen HK the quarter-finals. Opponents there is the finalist from 1997, Badel Zagreb. After the first leg in Croatia is almost lost with 24:27, it is the second leg of their strong home Pfader in Winterthur scandal. The two Russian referee Daniela and Kiselyov whistle the game follows and obviously one-sided that there is extraordinary turmoil at the end and the accusation of bribery is loud. The referee had to be rushed out of the hall under police protection. Some local prominences from politics and business participated in the riots, which was prepared with relish of local newspapers and initiated great readers' letters. Scout finally sets in the EHF a protest, which is - for lack of evidence, however, dismissed in the second instance - combined with the announcement of improvements and selective measures.
For the 2007/08 season, the club committed to the German national player Markus Baur as player-coach. On 30 October 2007 Scout announces that Baur despite the current contract leaves the club already at the end again and takes over as coach at TBV Lemgo. At the same time agreed to scout a partnership with the TBV.
Achievements
- Indoor handball Swiss Champion 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2004
- SHV - Cup 1998, 2003, 2010
- Swiss field handball Cup Winner 1958
- EHF Challenge Cup Finalist 2001
- IHF Cup semi-finalists in 1982
- City Cup semi-finalists in 2000
- EHF Champions League quarter-finalists in 1997, 1998, 2003