FC Grenchen

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FC Grenchen

Full name

Football Club de Grenchen

Founded

1906

Ground

Stadium Brühl
Grenchen
Switzerland
(Capacity 15,100)

Chairman

Jorge Tomas

Manager

Kurt Baumann

League

1. Liga (Group 2)





Home colours

FC Grenchen is a Swiss football club, based in Grenchen. They currently play in the 1. Liga, and play their matches at the Brühl Stadium.

1 History
2 Stadium
3 Uhrencup
4 Honours
5 External links

[edit] History

FC Grenchen was founded in 1906. In 1937 they gained promotion to the first tier of Swiss football, Nationalliga A, in these inter-war years they came runners-up in this league three times, and runner up in the cup, but their biggest success came post-war coming second in the league one further time before wining the cup the following season in 1960.

They got relegated from the top flight in 1986, and played in Nationalliga B until 1995 when they got relegated to the 1st Liga., where they currently play.

[edit] Stadium

Brühl Stadium is the biggest in the Canton of Solothurn. It comprises of a space for 13,000 standing and a grandstand with 1,300 covered seats and 800 uncovered seats.

[edit] Uhrencup

Main article: Uhrencup

The Uhrencup is a pre-season football tournament hosted annually by FC Grenchen since 1962 (with the exception of 1967 and 1974), and is the oldest such tournament in Switzerland. They have won this tournament six times.