TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen

TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen

Surname	Gymnastics and Sports Club St. Otmar St. Gallen
Founded
Place of foundation	St. Gallen
Association headquarters	Zürcherstrasse 202 9014 St.Gallen
Departments	sports Handball Fistball tennis Soccer basketball gymnastics
Chairman	Kuno Rudolf-von-Rohr
Homepage	www.otmar.ch

The TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen is a polysportiver club in St. Gallen (Switzerland) and one of the biggest sports associations in the eastern Swiss metropolis. It includes six sports departments. The best known is the men's handball division . The Fanion team plays in the Swiss Handball League (SHL). The junior department is one of the most successful in Switzerland. St. Otmar plays his games in the Kreuzbleiche-Halle in St. Gallen.

Club history

The association was founded in 1924 as a Catholic youth association and named after Saint Otmar . The first president was E. Eichmann.

In 1931 the athletics group was founded. Only one year later, on May 25, 1932, the still existing Gymnastics & Games department was founded.

St. Otmar first took part in a handball championship in 1942 and took 3rd place in the field handball championship, which was held for the first time . A neat field handball stadium was built in the west of the city. In 1949, an indoor handball championship (called the St. Gall Championship) was held for the first time in winter , while field handball continued to be played in summer. In 1952, the Fanion team took second place in the National League B, Group East at the first Swiss championship in the hall.

Tennis has also been played in the club since 1959 . On July 1st, Beni Baumberger was elected 1st President of the Tennis Department.

In 1970, Stefan Matag initiated the establishment of the basketball department.

In 1972 50 football enthusiasts founded the football department. The games could be played on the field handball lawn in Lerchenfeld because this sport was discontinued and the handball championship was only held in the hall.

The fistball department was launched on August 18, 1978 .

TSV St. Otmar was purely a men's club until the basketball players set up the first women's team in 1980 and only a year later the women's handball team started the championship.

On July 1, 1996, the handball department was split into a men's and women's department.

The women's handball department was closed in summer 2010 due to financial and personnel difficulties.

Handball

TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen

Full name	Gymnastics and Sports Club St. Otmar St. Gallen
Abbreviation (s)	TSV
Founded	1942
Hall	Cross bleach
Places	3,500
president	Hans Wey
Trainer	Bo Spellerberg
league	National League A
2017/2018
rank	7th place
Website	www.otmar.ch
home Away
Greatest successes
National	Swiss champions 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1982, 1986, 2001 SHV-Cup 1980, 1981, 2000, 2001 SHV-SuperCup 2000, 2001 Swiss field handball champions 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 Cup winners field handball 1961, 1968, 1971, 1972
International	European Cup finalist 1982 European Cup semi-finalist 1987, 2005, 2009

The TSV St. Otmar St. Gallen currently plays in the Swiss Handball League in the National League A . For the 2018/19 season, the Danish international Bo Spellerberg was signed as a player-coach.

Squad season 2019/20

Trainer
	Dittert Andreas	1967
Player-coach
	4th	Spellerberg Bo	1979	Rear center
goal
	31	Bringolf Aurel	1987	goalkeeper
	12	Schaltegger Ramon	2000	goalkeeper
	20th	Kindler Jonas	1990	goalkeeper
field
	11	Bamert Simon	1996	Circular rotor
	7th	Fricker David	1998	Wing right
	13	Goat Benjamin	1990	Circular rotor
	8th	Gwerder Jan	1996	Wing left
	51	Höning Max	1993	Back right
	6th	Listener Ramon	1994	Wing right
	15th	Jurilj Dominik	1995	Back left
	26th	Emperor Severin	1994	Wing left
	29	Rares Jurca	1983	Back right
	9	Pendic Andrija	1987	Center back area
	14th	Smoke Julian	1988	Wing right
	24	Wetzel Tobias	1993	Circular rotor
	10	Wüstner Frédéric	1992	Back left

successes

• Swiss Supercup winner 2000, 2001
• Swiss indoor handball champions 1971, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1982, 1986, 2001
• Swiss indoor handball cup winner 1980, 1981, 2000, 2001
• Swiss field handball champions 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971
• Swiss field handball cup winner 1961, 1968, 1971, 1972
• European Cup finalist 1982
• European Cup semi-finalist 1987, 2005, 2009

Web links

• Homepage of the entire association
• Homepage Handball men
• Homepage football club St. Otmar
• Homepage St. Otmar Basketball Club
• Homepage of the St. Otmar tennis club
• St. Otmar St. Gallen in handball-hall-of-fame.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ handball-world: Bo Spellerberg becomes player-coach. Retrieved October 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Portraits of the SHL players | TSV St.Otmar Handball St.Gallen. Retrieved October 16, 2018 .