SC Herisau

  • Master NLB 1997
  • Rise in the NLA 1997

The SC Herisau is a Swiss ice hockey club from Herisau, which was founded in 1942 and plays in the first third-rate league since 2009. Play their home games, the club from the sports center Herisau, that sums up 3152 spectators.

History

The SC Herisau was founded in 1942 and was its home games on the first Herisauer military area between the barracks and today's sports center. 18 years after the founding of the club moved to the neighboring St. Gallen in the Lerch field where the teams of the SC Herisau played in the 1960s and 1970s. Only in 1974 could the SC Herisau move into the new sports center at the Barracks Road. The club played at this time in the second league, a short time later, however, the SC Herisau rose in the first league in 1981 and managed to move up to the NLB. President of the Association at the time was the later Federal Councillor Hans -Rudolf Merz, during the chairmanship of the club played for several years in the NLB.

At the end of the season 1984/85 the club while dismounted in the first league, but managed a year later its chances of promotion. Players this time were successful, among other things Dave Delich, Björn Kinding, Giovanni Conte, Arno Del Curto, Olli Hietanen and Lance Nethery. Due to the success of the first team, the SC Herisau made ​​a good name in the national ice hockey. In Herisau euphoria created and the youth department brought some seasoned players out, like, among others, Jörg Eberle and Jonas Hiller.

In the season 1996/97 the SC Herisau then managed the biggest success in club history. Against the Grasshopper Zurich SC won the NLB Championship and was allowed as part of the increase in the National League A rise in this. However, the rise of the SC Herisau in the NLA brought the club into financial difficulties. Through a necessary renovation and expansion of the ice rink, the club came into liquidity problems and increased after only one year in the elite class again. For the 1998/99 season was renamed SCH Santis, of which the Board hoped for a better bond and support in the region. As the new name had but taken care of by a non-uniform notation in the media for confusion, the management dismissed the renaming after only four months, starting from the season 1999 /2000. The President of the Sports Centre, Richard Kunz, financial situation described in 2001 with the following words: "It's us badly, we ran out of money; the year was a balancing act between closure and persistence. "From the financial difficulties followed in 1999 the bankruptcy and the club withdrew from the NLA in the first league back.

In the following season the first team to win the championship of the first league. Then the SC Herisau was resumed in the NLB, but withdrew due to continued financial difficulties, the club before the 2001/ 02 season in the second league back. Since then, the SC Herisau consolidated and tried with a good youth development program to train young hockey players and integrate them later in the first team. In December 2006, the renovation was completed at the sports center at the barracks road, so the club are appropriate training conditions. At the end of the 2008 /09 promotion to the 1st League.

Well-known former players

  • Jörg Eberle
  • Jonas Hiller
  • Thomas Lamb
Swiss 1. Liga (ice hockey) Federal Council (Switzerland) Hans-Rudolf Merz
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