UHC Elch Wangen-Brüttisellen
The UHC Elch Wangen-Brüttisellen was a Swiss floorball club from Wangen-Brüttisellen . After the merger with the UHC Jump Dübendorf it was officially dissolved and its members integrated into the newly created UHC Glattal Falcons.
history
The UHC Elch Wangen-Brüttisellen was founded in 1983 by Thomas Roost and Urs Wäckerlin in Zurich as UHC Elch Zurich . A year earlier, players from the new club took part in an open championship organized by UHC Grün-Weiss Zurich . The name Elch has its background in the so-called «Elkland Sweden », which is the world leader in floorball.
After it was founded, the club took part in the National League A championships organized by the Landhockey Association at that time in 1983/84. The club reached its previous sporting highs in the years 1985 to 1987, where, among other things, a runner-up title and a semi-final participation in the cup were achieved. In 1989 the club was relegated to the National League B, the second team - previously located in the National League B - relegated to the 1st KF division. A year later, the men's team was relegated to the first division.
However, the club could not compete in the league due to a forgotten registration for the 1st division KF, but had to accept a forced relegation to the 3rd and thus deepest division. After that, the club fought its way back up to the first division small field. In 1992 you could get promoted to the 2nd division KF, while the women's team celebrated promotion to the National League B (the women's team later disbanded). In 1993 the men's team made it to the first division, but was relegated to the third division in the following two seasons. In 1998 the club relocated to Wangen-Brüttisellen because most of the members are based there and in 1999 the club secured the ticket for promotion to the newly established 2nd league Grossfeld by winning the group in the 3rd KF division.
In the meantime, floorball has developed strongly in Switzerland, in some places it is worked semi-professionally and with six-figure budgets, and many small clubs have merged with large ones. The UHC Elch has not followed this trend for a long time. The 2018 merger with the UHC Jump Dübendorf took place due to the different weak and strong age groups in these two clubs, which could be better absorbed with the merger.
Teams
In its prime, the club had over 150 active members.