SC Brühl

The SC Brühl St. Gallen is a Swiss football club from the city of St. Gallen.

History

20th century

The official foundation of the association of Brühl was on 27 March 1901 but it is already 1890 Brühler a team under the name Football Club Gymnasia documented. The name comes from the Celtic Pryel Brühl, which can mean fat floodplain or wet meadow.

As of October 5, 1905, the games were held on the Kreuzbleiche. Since 1909, the games were held on the present site of the shopping center Grossacker the east of the city of St. Gallen after an interlude on the Weiherweid in St. Georgen.

In the 1914/15 season, the St. Gallen Swiss champion, the greatest success yet in club history were. In 1922 the Englishman George Handley was the first professional coach to Brühl.

1926, the sports field Krontal was purchased. 12 years later, the stadium was expanded so that it captured 4,000 spectators. After a grandstand fire on 13 October 1958, the Krontal was rebuilt on February 1960. During this time, the Brühl played in the stadium of FC St. Gallen Espenmoos.

With a win in the last game of the season 1972/1973 against FC Aarau of the NLB League receipt could have been done, but the game went to 4100 spectators in Krontal lost with 3:4. The descent into the 1st League was after 14 years of membership in the NLB.

After the 1979/80 season had the SC Brühl and train a first - League relegation in a play out among themselves. Up to 118 minutes it was in the game on an adjacent location in Letzigrund 3:3 before the SC train from a set of 4:3 winning goal succeeded. The initial descent into the second league was the result.

Already in the 1984/85 season under coach Isidore managed Brühl Cina 's re-emergence in the first league. A year later, however, was the renewed decline in the second league. Only after the 1987/88 season Bruhl succeeded in establishing itself again in the first league. In the years 1990, 1991 and 1995, Brühl played for the promotion to the NLB, the third attempt it. Coached by Ernst-August Künnecke The former coach of FC Basel had been committed within the farm team idea of ​​FC St. Gallen to the SC Brühl. However, early in the following year Brühl rose again from the 2nd league. The idea of ​​the SCB as a farm team of the FCSG was also the descent from the table. Since this descent of the SC Brühl played within the League 2.

21st Century

From 1996 to 2010, the SC Brühl played within the League 2nd interregional, the fourth highest league in Switzerland.

2006 the renovated and remodeled stadium Krontal was renamed Paul Green Ingersoll Stadium, in honor of former refugee Saviour, St. Gallen police commander and president of the SC Brühl Paul Green Ingersoll.

After victories in the Cup Qualifiers 2nd Liga Interregional against FC Dürrenast, SC Dornach and an away win at FC Breitenrain the SC Brühl played in the 2008 /09 season in the first round of the Swiss Cup against Grasshopper Club Zurich, lost However, the game 0:5.

The season 2009/10 ended the crowns on the first place, which at the same time the rise in the first league, the highest amateur class meant. For the following season the former Dutch football player Erik Regtop was committed as a coach. Brühl was this year, " Swiss champion of the 1st league " and rose to the Challenge League. This year, again found championship derby against FC St. Gallen, which has descended to this year. Brühl was 2011/2012 Table and rose from the newly founded League 1 promotion.

Rivalries

The SC Brühl was long regarded as the club of the lower layer, while the FC St. Gallen and the now defunct Blue Stars St. Gallen were regarded as associations of the upper class. Therefore, the Brühler could also count on a strong following. Due to this circumstance feel even today some - especially the elderly - St. Gallen rather connected to the SC Brühl as with FC St. Gallen.

Known Brühler

• Paul Green Ingersoll (President 1924-1927 and 1937-1940 )
• Peterli Ernst, Max Schmid, Gust Gezer, Toni Ruesch, Richard Dürr, Hans Peter Zwicker (all with vocations to the national team, partly after their time at FC / SC Brühl)
• Marc Zellweger, former Swiss international