Pfadi Winterthur

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
2013–14	2014–15

AWAY
2011–12

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
2020–21	1QR	Handball Esch	33–30	Cancelled	33–30
2QR	GOG Håndbold	35–31	24–33	59–64
2021–22	Group Stage (Group A)	Wisła Płock	27–35	23–35	6th place
Fenix Toulouse	27–34	27–30
Füchse Berlin	27–30	29–35
Bidasoa Irun	23–37	28–32
Tatran Prešov	27–31	33–29
2023–24	QR	Águas Santas Milaneza	22–19	22–24	44–43
Group Stage (Group C)	RK Gorenje Velenje	32–31	26–34	4th place
REBI BM Cuenca	32–28	24–28
IK Sävehof	29–32	20–41

Current squad

Squad for the 2022–23 season

Goalkeepers 12 Switzerland Dennis Wipf 16 Bosnia and Herzegovina Admir Ahmetasevic Left wingers 21 Switzerland Joël Bräm 35 Switzerland Noam Leopold Right wingers 04 Switzerland Lukas Osterwalder 06 Switzerland Cédrie Tynowski Line players 26 Sweden Otto Lagerquist 31 Switzerland Henri Dörflinger 55 Portugal Eduardo Mendonca

Left backs 05 Norway Henrik Schönfeldt 17 Switzerland Lukas Heer 24 Spain Viran Morros 33 Algeria Moustafa Sadok Central backs 11 Switzerland Gian-Luca Bühlmann 20 Switzerland Kevin Jud 41 Switzerland Alessio Lioi Right backs 19 Serbia Aleksandr Radovanovic 22 Switzerland Stefan Freivogel 34 Switzerland Dominik Ruh

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining Germany Lukas Köder (RW) from Germany HSG Konstanz Switzerland Mehdi Ben Romdhane (CB) from Switzerland Kadetten Schaffhausen Switzerland Ukraine Daniel Parkhomenko (RB) from Switzerland HSC Suhr Aarau

Leaving Serbia Aleksandar Radovanović (RB) to Switzerland SG Wadenswil/Horgen Switzerland Laurin Rinderknecht (CB) to Switzerland Handball Stäfa

Notable former players

External links

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