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
HOME
AWAY
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
Arena: – Winterthur Central Sports Hall City: – Winterthur Capacity: – 2000 Address: – Grüzefeldstrasse 32, 8400 Winterthur
European record
EHF European League
Season Round Club Home Away Aggregate 2020–211QR Handball Esch33–30Cancelled33–302QR GOG Håndbold35–3124–3359–64 2021–22Group Stage (Group A) Wisła Płock27–3523–356th place Fenix Toulouse27–3427–30 Füchse Berlin27–3029–35 Bidasoa Irun 23–3728–32 Tatran Prešov 27–3133–29 2023–24QR Águas Santas Milaneza22–1922–2444–43Group Stage (Group C) RK Gorenje Velenje32–3126–344th place REBI BM Cuenca32–2824–28 IK Sävehof29–3220–41
Current squad Squad for the 2022–23 season
Goalkeepers 12 Dennis Wipf 16 Admir Ahmetasevic Left wingers 21 Joël Bräm 35 Noam Leopold Right wingers 4 Lukas Osterwalder 6 Cédrie Tynowski Line players 26 Otto Lagerquist 31 Henri Dörflinger 55 Eduardo Mendonca
Left backs 5 Henrik Schönfeldt 17 Lukas Heer 24 Viran Morros 33 Moustafa Sadok Central backs 11 Gian-Luca Bühlmann 20 Kevin Jud 41 Alessio Lioi Right backs 19 Aleksandr Radovanovic 22 Stefan Freivogel 34 Dominik Ruh
Transfers Transfers for the 2026–27 season
Joining
Leaving Niclas Mierzwa (LW) to Rhein-Neckar Löwenhttps://www.rhein-neckar-loewen.de/schweizer-top-talent-wechselt-nach-mannheim-970320
Transfer History
Transfers for the 2025–26 seasonJoining Lukas Köder (RW) from HSG Konstanz Mehdi Ben Romdhane (CB) from Kadetten Schaffhausenhttps://www.handball-world.news/artikel/pfadi-winterthur-verpflichtet-schweizer-nationalspieler-von-ligakonkurrent-1118686 Daniel Parkhomenko (RB) from HSC Suhr Aarau
Leaving Aleksandar Radovanović (RB) to SG Wadenswil/Horgen Laurin Rinderknecht (CB) to Handball Stäfa
Notable former players
Paek Won-chul Cho Chi-hyo Kang Jae-won Erik Veje Rasmussen Hans Hattesen Marc Baumgartner Matías Schulz Morten Schønfeldt Markus Baur Goran Cvetković
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