SSV Bolzano

The SSV Bozen is a sports club from Bozen , which is and was successful in various sports. The club has around 2,400 active members (as of 2007) and 13 sections (departments), making it South Tyrol's largest sports club.

history

A gymnastics club was founded in Bolzano as early as 1862 , which was dissolved by the fascist city administration in 1926 and its club headquarters in Vintlerstraße expropriated.

The SSV Bozen was founded on November 17, 1945 with seven sections. In 1946, the sports teacher Anna Gummerer-Masetti (1920–2017) founded a leisure gymnastics group that still exists today. With this, the association has achieved its two goals right from the start: that of promoting young people with the resulting competitive athletes and that of popular sports, with numerous leisure teams, in various sports and their own section (seniors aged 60+).

The first president at the time, Luis Sand, was followed by Alfons Loacker, Luis Oberrauch, Hugo Reinisch and, for 17 long years, Thomas Pan as president. Everyone shaped the big club in their own way, which grew and was sportily successful. Under the leadership of Thomas Pan, the swimming, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, squash and leisure sections were established. Herbert Mayr , Bolzens Vice Mayor at the time, was elected President in 1987, followed by Michael (Much) Pichler in March 1994. Evi Seebacher Cazzanelli has been president of the association since March 2004.

Sections (selection)

Handball

The handball section was founded in 1965. The men are the most successful (Italian champions 2011/12); there are also youth teams of various ages and genders as well as a team of old men ( rough diamonds ).

volleyball

The women from SSV Bozen have been playing volleyball in Serie D for years and in 2007 they were promoted to the highest regional league, Serie C.

In the 2007/08 season, the SSV women won the Serie C championship. However, the team decided not to move up to the national Serie B.

Fistball

The SSV Bozen still provides the only fistball team in South Tyrol and was the only fistball club in Italy for a long time (the association was only founded in 2005). Up until then, the women, men, U18 and U21 teams were international as the Italian national team. As such, the club hosted the first male youth fistball world championship in 2003 . At the European Championship 2008 in Stuttgart-Stammheim , the club was the Italian national team fourth behind the top teams from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Italian fistball association was founded by members of the SSV Bozen and has its seat in Bolzano. The people of Bolzano were also involved in founding the International Fistball Association . SSV Bozen has been taking part in Austria's 2nd Bundesliga since the 2007–2008 season, and the U18 team has been taking part in the third Bundesliga in 2008/09. In 2011 the first team was promoted to the first Bundesliga and the second to the 2nd Bundesliga West.

In 2012, work was carried out on the fistball field at the Bolzano water wall in order to equip the field with the outlet necessary for the league operation, at the same time new changing rooms in container construction were built.

Floorball - floorball

The floorball team was five times Italian champions on the large field, twice on the small field, three times with the U19 juniors, and won six of the seven women's trophies.

swim

The swimming section, which has existed since 1972, has already produced several top swimmers and has been organizing the annual swimming meeting in the Bolzano-Pfarrhof sports zone since 1997.

Table tennis

The table tennis department at SSV Bozen is one of the established table tennis clubs in South Tyrol. In the 2017/18 season, five men's teams will contest the championship of series C1, C2, D2 and the veterans. From 1999 to 2003 the first team achieved the best sporting result so far and played in the 4th Italian league (Serie B2).