Lars Leuenberger

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Lars Leuenberger
Date of birth March 29, 1975
place of birth Niederuzwil , Switzerland
Size 172 cm
Weight 72 kg
position striker
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1993-1994 EHC Uzwil
1994-2000 SC Bern
2000-2002 Friborg-Gottéron
2002-2003 SC Bern
2003-2004 EHC Basel
2004-2006 HC Ambrì-Piotta

Lars Leuenberger (born March 29, 1975 in Niederuzwil ) is a former Swiss ice hockey player and has been an ice hockey coach since retiring . Since May 2017 he has been responsible for strategic development and player screening at SC Bern . His brother Sven and cousin Marc played ice hockey professionally.

Player career

Leuenberger was a Swiss junior national player. He was best known as a player in SC Bern , with whom he won the Swiss championship title in 1997. As an active player he also played for Friborg-Gottéron , EHC Basel and HC Ambrì-Piotta in the National League A (NLA). He ended his career in 2006.

Coaching career

After coaching the Elite A-Juniors for a while, Lars Leuenberger was promoted to assistant coach at SC Bern . From the 2011/12 season he was assistant coach and supported head coach Antti Törmänen . After Törmänen's dismissal in November 2013, Leuenberger was initially promoted to head coach on an interim basis and then confirmed until the end of the 2013/14 season.

On January 27, 2014, SC Bern announced the engagement of Guy Boucher as the new head coach. Leuenberger was then demoted to assistant coach again.

On November 18, 2015, he took over the post of head coach again - after Guy Boucher's dismissal . Under Leuenberger's leadership, the SCB completed the qualification in eighth place and won the championship title in the following playoffs. Despite this performance, SC Bern signed Kari Jalonen as his successor even before the play-offs . After his coaching time at SCB, Leuenberger sat in with coaches abroad and worked as an expert for the television station Teleclub . In May 2017 he returned to the SCB and took over the areas of strategic development and player screening, which his brother Sven had previously been responsible for before he moved to the ZSC Lions as head of sport . At the end of January 2020, Lars Leuenberger at SC Bern, in addition to his duties as head of sports strategy, took on the position of assistant coach to Hans Kossmann , who had been hired as the successor to the dismissed Kari Jalonen. Leuenberger remained assistant coach beyond the end of the 2019/20 season.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lars Leuenberger remains SCB head coach. In: bernerzeitung.ch/. Retrieved April 11, 2016 .
  2. ↑ SCB: Guy Boucher gone - Lars Leuenberger takes over. In: srf.ch. November 18, 2015, accessed November 25, 2015 .
  3. ↑ The SCB is the Swiss champion. In: derbund.ch/. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Neue Zürcher Zeitung , master trainer, unemployed, looking for , September 4, 2016
  5. ↑ zeb: Leuenberger: “It is not an advantage to be Swiss”. February 27, 2017. Retrieved March 18, 2017 .
  6. ^ St. Galler Tagblatt AG, Switzerland: Lars Leuenberger becomes a TV expert . In: St.Galler Tagblatt Online . ( archive.org [accessed March 19, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Lars Leuenberger new Chief Scout and Strategic Sport Developer . In: SCB Eishockey AG . ( scb.ch [accessed on May 3, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Hans Kossmann replaces Kari Jalonen. In: SC Bern. Retrieved January 28, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  9. ↑ Chatelain's successor - Florence Schelling becomes head of sport at SC Bern. In: SRF Swiss radio and television. April 8, 2020, accessed April 22, 2020 .
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personal data
SURNAME Leuenberger, Lars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss ice hockey player and ice hockey coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzwil