- FC Winterthur
Football club infobox
clubname = FC Winterthur
fullname = Fussballclub Winterthur
nickname = FCW
founded =1896
ground =Schützenwiese ,Winterthur
capacity = 8,500
chairman =Hannes W Keller
manager = flagicon|SwitzerlandMathias Walther
league = Challenge League
season = 2007-08
position = Challenge League, 5th | FC Winterthur is a Swiss football club based inWinterthur ,Canton of Zürich . The club plays in the Swiss Challenge League, the second highest tier of Swiss football, and was founded in1896 . They play at theSchützenwiese Stadium .The
1896 founded club was Swiss champion three times (1906, 1908 and 1916). It played in the Swiss league-cup final two times and two times in the final of the Swiss Cup. The FC Winterthur is the best in the eternal table of the NLB(now called Challenge League). They famously lost toWest Auckland F.C. , an English amateur team in what is thought to be the first international football club competition, theSir Thomas Lipton Trophy .Currently
The team has been ranked in the middle of the league table of the Challenge League, the second league of Switzerland. In the season 05/06 they finished in 14th place.Whilst performing poorly in the Challenge League, Winterthur advanced into the semifinal of the Swiss Cup by defeating Grasshoppers, Lucerne and Servette. In the club's fourth semifinal participation in history, it lost to the eventual winner of the competition, Sion, at home.
Current Squad
"As of
2008-10-07 ."Famous players
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Jaime Ambriz
*Joachim Löw
*Dario Zuffi
*Daniel Gygax
*Charles Amoah
*Bora Milutinović
*Vits Rimkus
*Dieter Eckstein
*Pascal Renfer
*Boban Maksimović External links
* [http://www.fcwinterthur.ch Official site]
* [http://www.bierkurve-winterthur.ch "Bierkurve Winterthur" - the supporters of the club]
* [http://www.laufpass.ch.vu "Laufpass" - Fanzine]
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