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Skating Club Langnau (1946–1999) SCL Tigers (since 1999) |
| Location | Langnau i. E. , Switzerland |
| Parent club | Langnau ice skating club |
| Club colors | Yellow and red |
| league | National League |
| Venue | Ilfishalle |
| capacity | 6050 seats (including 3000 seats) |
| executive Director | Peter Müller |
| Head coach | Heinz Ehlers |
| captain | Pascal Berger |
| Season 2018/19 | 6th place, playoff quarter-finals |
The SCL Tigers are an ice hockey club from Langnau im Emmental , Switzerland , which has played mostly in the top Swiss league, today's National League , since it was founded. The team plays its home games in the Ilfishalle, which can hold 6050 spectators . In the 1975/76 season the club - which appeared under the name Schlittschuh-Club Langnau until 1999 - won its only Swiss championship title to date. In addition, the Langnauer have been champions of the second-highest Swiss league four times, most recently in the 2014/15 season .
history
The Langnau Ice Skating Club was founded on January 30, 1946. Due to difficulties in the production of ice - the weather prevented operation - it was not possible to skate in the winter of 1947/48, although ice could have been produced as early as December 1947. The 1948/49 season started in the summer due to the leveling on the Napro site where the ice rink was to be built. The ice rink was put into operation on December 26, 1948. SC Langnau, which has not yet played any championship games, secured the “Begert Cup”. Nine out of 16 games were won. The game against Rotblau Bern was attended by over 1000 spectators.
The ice rink was built near the Ilfis and the space problem ended. However, the work was completed later than planned. The place was equipped with lighting. The SC Langnau took part in the Swiss championship for the first time and started in the lowest league level of Swiss ice hockey. Opponents in the 1949/50 season were Roggwil, Olten, Münsingen and the second team from Rotblau Bern in Group 4 of Serie B. However, only one game was played against each team. Three out of four games were won and came second after leaders Roggwil. Three of the games took place in Langnau. In the 1950/51 season, the Langnauer took part in the Serie B division, Group 6 Central Switzerland. For the first time Langnau was group winner before Konolfingen tied on points, but lost in the fight for promotion to Bern. In contrast, Langnau won the Serie B Cantonal Cup . In that season, the team played a total of 23 games, 16 of them at home.
The SCL Tigers are the successor club to the Schlittschuh-Club Langnau ( SCL ) founded in 1946 , which was outsourced to SCL Tigers AG in 1999 under the direction of President René Zeh. Zeh became the first chairman of the board of directors. The tiger as the club's logo comes from the long-standing main sponsor, the traditional Langnau company "Tiger Cheese AG" founded in 1850 (" Emmi Fondue AG" since 2004 ), which has sponsored the club with its "Tiger" brand since the 1970s.
In October 2001 the businessman Ruedi Soltermann Zeh took over the office. In the summer of 2002, the AG confirmed that it had a debt amount of more than one million francs, and in the following years there were repeated financial problems. At the beginning of February 2005, Armin Müller resigned from the Board of Directors. According to the SCL, Müller, who is responsible for sponsoring in the VR, has promised advertising income of almost 1.3 million Swiss francs for the 2004/05 season, only a fraction of which was received. The SCL Tigers announced that they would be filing charges for forgery and unfaithful management. Board member Hans Grunder announced at the end of February 2005 that there was even a risk that wages could no longer be paid out. Soltermann resigned as Chairman of the Board of Directors in December 2005, at which point SCL Tigers AG was still in financial difficulties. Grunder took over the chairmanship of the committee as the new president.
At the end of the 2000s, the SCL once again went through difficult economic times, which led to the establishment of the “Save the Tiger” initiative in July 2009 with entrepreneur Peter Jakob at the helm. In September 2009, Jakob succeeded Grunder as Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCL Tigers AG, after the company had incurred high losses again in the previous year and Grunder himself had plugged a financial hole.
In the 2010/11 season , the Tigers made it into the playoffs for the first time since the introduction of the new mode with play-offs and play-outs. This succeeded seven games before the end of the qualification with a 3-2 away win at the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers .
The SCL Tigers' venue, the Ilfishalle , was extensively renovated in 2012.
On December 9, 2012, John Fust , who led the Tigers into the play-offs for the first time, was released. This happened because of the poor position in the table - last place with 13 points behind the second from bottom after 28 games. Alex Reinhard , who was assistant coach up to this point, was then appointed as the new head coach. The sporting situation did not improve significantly under Reinhard and his assistant, Konstantin Kuraschew, and so Jakob Kölliker and Alfred Bohren took over the management of the team on April 10, 2013 in order to prevent the threatened relegation. On April 16, 2013, the SCL Tigers lost the sixth league qualifying game against Lausanne HC 3-2 away , making this series 4-2 defeats. After 15 years of membership in the NLA, the SCL Tigers rose to the second highest division, the NLB.
In April 2014 Jörg Reber was hired as the new sports director. Almost two years after falling into the NLB, the Tigers were promoted back to the NLA on April 9, 2015 in their fourth league qualifier against the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers .
Despite the promotion, master maker Bengt-Åke Gustafsson had to leave. In the opinion of sports director Reber, the team in the NLA needed a "more aggressive style of play". This should be installed by the Canadian Benoît Laporte , who was hired in May 2015 as Gustafsson's successor as head coach.
Since Peter Jakobs took office as Chairman of the Board of Directors in 2009, SCL Tigers AG has seen an economic upswing: At the beginning of February 2016, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Langnau ice skating club, according to Der Bund : “Seven years later we are a very healthy company , are in the black and are among the ten largest SMEs in Langnau ». The AG was "de facto debt-free", Jakob continued in February 2016. Among other things, the improved audience figures in the renovated Ilfishalle and increased income in the catering sector contributed to the upswing.
In March 2016, Laporte was sacked after losing six in seven games. The new coach was Scott Beattie , who led the SCL to remain in the class, but had to leave in the early stages of the following season 2016/17. Under Beattie's leadership, the Emmental team only managed one win in ten games. The Dane Heinz Ehlers took over the coaching office. He led the SCL to tenth place in the qualification, in the playout relegation was secured as first in the table.
On March 2, 2019, the SCL Tigers secured their second playoff participation since the 2010/11 season. In the quarter-finals, the team was eliminated against Lausanne. Nevertheless, the 2018/19 season was classified as the best since 1976, which was especially attributed to coach Ehlers.
Squad for the 2019/20 season
As of October 10, 2019
- Trainer
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Heinz Ehlers | January 25, 1966 |
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Rikard Franzén | March 21, 1968 |
Youth movement
The SCL Tigers are known throughout Switzerland for their targeted promotion of young talent. Two of the most famous Swiss ice hockey players come from the Emmental: Reto von Arx , the first Swiss goalscorer in the National Hockey League , and Martin Gerber , who was also in action in the National Hockey League.
In 1999–2002, only the junior division was run under the name Schlittschuh-Club Langnau, but in 2002 it was renamed the “SCL Young Tigers”.
Fans
Even in the first division, the club had an average of over 4,000 spectators per game. But after several low blows (2 × relegation to the first division) and heights (re-promotion to the NLA in 1998), the fan culture between 2003 and 2005 partially collapsed. The reasons for this were wrong decisions in the club management, missing the playoffs in the last eleven years and wrong purchases in the squad.
In the 2010/2011 season, the SCL Tigers reached the playoffs for the first time, which triggered a real hype about the team and the Tigers. Although they were eliminated in the first round of play against SC Bern, it was one of the best seasons in terms of fans and the atmosphere in the stadium.
In the years that followed, several new fan clubs emerged and they continue to support their team in every game to this day.
Despite the relegation to the NLB in the 2012/2013 season, the low point of the last 15 years, the supporters of the SCL Tigers signaled their loyalty to the club. The qualification for the 2013/2014 season was attended by an average of 5000 fans at the home games.
Since 2006, the Langnau fan scene has been an association of SCL Tigers fan clubs with the aim of jointly preparing choreographies and improving the atmosphere at the games in the stadium.
There is a friendship between fans of HC Thurgau and the Kassel Huskies .
Stages
- 1946 - 1959 Oberfeld natural ice rink
- 1959 - 1975 KEB Langnau
- Since 1976 Ilfishalle Langnau
Blocked jersey numbers
- # 12 Todd Elik
- # 17 Daniel Aegerter
- # 26 Martin Gerber
- # 44 Walter Gerber
literature
- SCL Chronicle 1947–1981 . SC Langnau (Ed.), Langnau i. E. 1981.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SCL Tigers AG: loss of 700,000 francs . In: www.eishockey.ch . ( eishockey.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ gaf: SCL Tigers with more than a million in debt: Unrealistic budget . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 30, 2002, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ mro: Wages can no longer be paid: acute liquidity bottlenecks at the SCL Tigers . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 22, 2005, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ^ SCL Tigers in acute financial distress . In: www.eishockey.ch . ( eishockey.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Soltermann withdraws in Langnau . In: www.eishockey.ch . ( eishockey.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ www.20minuten.ch, 20 minutes, 20 minutes, www.20min.ch: Scandal at the SCL Tigers? In: 20 minutes . ( 20min.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ^ "Save the Tiger" association founded . In: www.eishockey.ch . ( eishockey.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Michael Schenk: The new management has taken over . In: Berner Zeitung, Berner Zeitung . September 23, 2009, ISSN 1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Waterloo im Emmental - Die Weltwoche, edition 33/2009. In: weltwoche.ch. 2009, accessed August 30, 2017 .
- ^ Jean-Marc Nia .: SCL President Grunder pays and provides office. In: tagesanzeiger.ch. August 7, 2009. Retrieved August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Philipp Rindlisbacher: Tigers: The assistant inherits the boss. In: bernerzeitung.ch. December 10, 2012, accessed August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Reber becomes the new head of sport at the SCL Tigers . In: Berner Zeitung, Berner Zeitung . November 4, 2014, ISSN 1424-1021 ( bernerzeitung.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ SCL Tigers split from promotion coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson. April 16, 2015, accessed April 1, 2017 .
- ↑ SCL Tigers: Benoît Laporte new trainer . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 19, 2015, ISSN 0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Stefan Sommer: A “perfectly healthy” jubilee . In: Der Bund, Der Bund . January 1, 2016, ISSN 0774-6156 ( derbund.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Tigers: Fortunately, the league is missing. (No longer available online.) In: luzernerzeitung.ch. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on May 19, 2017 ; accessed on August 30, 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.
- ↑ SCL Tigers separate from Benoît Laporte . ( suedostschweiz.ch [accessed April 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Angelo Rocchinotti: Scott Beattie fired as coach of the SCL Tigers. In: blick.ch. October 3, 2016, accessed August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Heinz Ehlers new head coach of the SCL Tigers - SCL Tigers. In: scltigers.ch. October 3, 2016, accessed August 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Stephan Roth: Despite Tigers-Out: A memorial for Heinz Ehlers! March 24, 2019, accessed March 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Website of the fan scene ( Memento of the original from April 7, 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. , accessed April 1, 2014.
