Swiss floorball championship 1983/84

Swiss floorball championship 1983/84

master	UHC Urdorf
Teams	10
Games	90

prehistory

In 1983 the Swiss Landhockey Association founded the floorball sub-section with the aim of establishing a national league A and a national league B for the relatively new sport of floorball in Switzerland and to hold an official Swiss championship. An official set of rules was drawn up and between February 1983 and May 1983 a qualifying round for the new national league A and B was contested with 22 floorball teams at the university sports facility in Zurich-Fluntern on four different tournament days. The top ten teams of this tournament qualified for the first official championship of National League A in floorball, ranks 11-20 formed the new National League B. The highest number of points at this tournament was achieved by the UHC Grün-Weiss Zurich , which is why the club is sometimes called first, but not officially recognized Swiss floorball champion.

championship

In September 1983, began with the playing season 1983 / 1984 the first official Swiss championship of the National League A in floorball. After Sweden launched the world's first national floorball championship in the 1982/83 season, the 1983/84 Swiss Floorball Championship is considered the second-oldest official floorball championship in the world. In this early phase , Zurich was the undisputed stronghold of the new unihockey sport. In the first season, eight out of ten teams in National League A came from the greater Zurich area. Between September 1983 and March 1984, three games per championship round were played in six championship rounds. The championship was held at three different venues. The games, which at that time were still played on the small field with a goalkeeper and three field players, lasted 2 × 20 minutes.

Swiss Masters NLA 1983/84, above: Ruedi Schärer, Raymond Vogel, Roger Diethelm, Jürg Schärer, Marcel Scacchi below: Igor Beltrami, Marcel Kägi, Bruno Schärer, Hanspeter Kunz, Christoph Gubser

Last game round

The last round of the 1983/1984 championship took place on March 11, 1984 in the Greifensee sports complex. The UHC Urdorf went with a two-point lead over second-placed as the clear favorite to win in the final championship round. But the team, whose squad only consisted of ten players at the time, was severely weakened on this final match day of the championship. One of the defenders was in the hospital with appendicitis, the captain of the team was weakened by the flu and the goalkeeper was only partially operational due to an injury he had suffered in the previous round. Nevertheless, the UHC Urdorf was able to win its first game with a 10: 8 victory over the UHC Giants-Kloten and increase the lead over the second placed to four points. With just one point from the next game, UHC Urdorf could have secured the title of Swiss champion. But the Urdorfer lost the second encounter against the strong UHC Grün-Weiss Zürich with a bitter 3: 8 defeat.

First Swiss champion

Before the last game of the championship round, the UHC Grün-Weiss Zurich , the UHC Giants-Kloten and the UHC Urdorf were tied on points. However, since this last game was played by UHC Urdorf , the Urdorf team was the only team to have the opportunity to win the championship on their own. And with a 3: 3 draw against the surprisingly strong UHT LC Dübendorf and the supporters of the two second-placed teams who supported their opponents very loudly, the Urdorfer succeeded.

On March 11, 1984, the UHC Urdorf in Greifensee became the first Swiss floorball champion in the history of the National League A after six championship rounds and a dramatic final .

source

Limmat newspaper from March 12, 1984