GC Amicitia Zurich
Full name | Grasshopper Club Amicitia Zurich | ||
Abbreviation (s) | GCA | ||
Founded | 2010 by Grasshopper Club Zurich & ZMC Amicitia Zurich | ||
Club colors | blue White | ||
Hall | Sports hall | ||
Places | 2300 | ||
president |
President NLA team
Philip Hohl |
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Trainer | Jakub Szymanski | ||
league | Men: National League A Women: SPAR Premium League 1
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Website | www.gc-handball.ch | ||
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Greatest successes | |||
National |
Swiss Champion (Halle) Grasshopper Club Zurich 1949/50 , 1950/51 , 1951/52 , 1953/54 , 1954/55 , 1955/56 , 1956/57 , 1961/62 , 1962/63 , 1963/64 , 1964 / 65 , 1965/66 , 1967/68 , 1968/69 , 1969/70 , 1974/75 , 1975/76 , 1976/77 , 1978/79 , 1989/90 , 1990/91 ZMC Amicitia Zurich 1986/87 , 1987 / 88 , 1988/89 , 2007/08 , 2008/09 Swiss Cup Winner (Halle) Women: |
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International |
European Cup Winners' Cup ZMC Amicitia Zurich 2nd place: 1986/87 |
The GC Amicitia Zurich is a Swiss handball club . Both the men's team ( National League A ) and the women's team ( SPAR Premium League 1 ) play in the highest Swiss handball league.
history
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GC Amicitia Zurich with its predecessor clubs |
The club emerged in 1962 from the merger of the clubs HC Amicitia (founded in 1931) and ZMC 61 (founded in 1961).
In 1986 the girls department of the association was founded. In 1989 a further fusion with the DHC ( D Amen h andball c lub) Zurich for ZMC Amicitia Zurich.
The name Amicitia means friendship, ZMC stands for Z ürcher M ittelschul C lub .
On August 23, 2010, the club merged with the handball department of the Grasshopper Club (GC) , which is also based in Zurich, and now forms the largest handball club in Switzerland under the name GC Amicitia Zurich.
For the 2017/18 season, the ZMC Amicitia logo disappeared from the team's logo, which previously consisted of two logos.
The section president is Markus Frauenfelder.
Sporting successes
The men's team of HC Amicitia was Swiss champion in 1937 in field handball, which is no longer played today . The club won the Swiss indoor handball championship in 1987, 1988, 1989, 2008, 2009 and the SHV Cup in 2009 . The greatest success was reaching the European Cup final in 1987, which was lost to CSKA Moscow . In the same year, the club was awarded the Swiss team athlete of the year award.
The women's team became Swiss champions in 2003 and cup winners in 2004. In 2009, 2010 and 2011, various junior teams were also able to become Swiss champions in their respective age groups.
Squad for the 2020/21 season
First men's team
New arrivals in 2020/21 | Departures 2020/21 |
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First women's team
New arrivals in 2020/21 | Departures 2020/21 |
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Well-known former players
- Darko Stanic
- Branko Kokir
- Edin Bašić
- Toni Kern
- Vladan Krasavac
- Stevan Kurbalija
- Tomislav Brož
- Andy Schmid (handball player)
- Karl Schmid (rower)
Seasonal balance sheets
Season balance since the merger of ZMC Amicitia Zurich and the GCZ handball section .
season | league | rank | SHV Cup | SuperCup |
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2017/18 | NLA | 9 | 1/16 final | - |
2016/17 | NLA | 8th. | Semifinals | - |
2015/16 | NLA | 7th | Round of 16 | - |
2014/15 | NLA | 6th | Round of 16 | - |
2013/14 | NLA | 7th | 1/16 final | - |
2012/13 | NLA | 9. | Round of 16 | - |
2011/12 | NLA | 8th. | Round of 16 | - |
2010/11 | NLA | 7th | Round of 16 | - |
2009/10 | NLA | 2. | final | winner |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Offers of the Saalsporthalle ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. stadt-zuerich.ch, accessed on October 7, 2014
- ^ History of the ZMC Amicitia Zurich and GC Handball gc-amicitia.ch, accessed on October 7, 2014
- ^ GC and Amicitia officially "married". blick.ch, 23 August 2010, accessed on 7 October 2014 .
- ↑ Achievements of the association , accessed on July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Information from the association ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Information from the association ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 12, 2016.
- ↑ Handball | Grasshopper Club Zurich. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .
- ^ NLA statistics. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 17, 2017 ; accessed on October 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.