Challengers Baseball Club Zurich

Zurich Challengers founded in 1980

abbreviation
CHA
Club colors
Navy blue, red, white
league
NLA NLB 1st League Cadets Juveniles Softball
Ball park (s)
Heerenschürli baseball stadium
president
Serge Kuenzler
successes
Swiss baseball champions (9): 1982, 1983, 1986, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2018 Swiss Cup Winner Baseball (2): 2004, 2007 Swiss champion softball (1): 2006
Website : challengers.ch

The Challengers Baseball Club Zurich (abbreviated CBCZ ) is a club of the Swiss Baseball and Softball Federation (SBSF) based in the city of Zurich . The club was officially founded on December 5, 1980 as the first baseball club in Switzerland . He has been playing in the top Swiss league, the NLA , since 1982 .

title

Swiss baseball champions : (9) 1982, 1983, 1986, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2018
Swiss softball champions : (1) 2006
Swiss Cup Winner Baseball : (2) 2004, 2007

The titles of the second team:

Swiss champions 1st league 1992, 1996, 2006

Swiss champion NLB 1993, 1995, 2002, 2018

The titles of the Cadets:

Swiss champions 1989, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009

The titles of the juveniles:

Swiss champions 2016, 2018, 2019

Known players

Tobias Siegrist (since 1999)
Thomas Landis (1992-2010)
Vladi Pusec (1984–1990)
Werner Zingg (1984-1994)
Enrico Zingg (1984–1994)
Adris Linares (1992-1995)

Members of the SBSF Hall of Fame

2017 Werner Zingg
2017 Enrico Zingg
2017 Vladimir Pusec
2017 Thomas Landis
2018 Anubis Benitez
2018 Jose Valdez
2019 Adris Linares

Uniform numbers that are no longer assigned

1 Marianne Blickenstorfer
8 Danny Spiegelberg
34 Thomas Landis
41 Werner Zingg
42 Chris Palatinus
44 Enrico Zingg

International

The Challengers have already participated in the following European Cup events:

Paris (FRA) 1993
Vienna (AUT) 1995 and 1997
Cologne (DEU) 1998
Braschaat (BEL) 1999
Skofja Loka (SLO) 2000
Stockholm (SWE) 2001
Sopron (HUN) 2002
Leksand (SWE) 2003
Karlovac (CRO) 2005
Belgrade (SRB) 2006
Brest (BLR) 2008
Braschaat (BEL) 2014
Brno (CZE) 2019