BSV Bern

BSV Bern is a Swiss professional handball team located in Bern, that plays in the Quickline Handball League.

Bern

Location of BSV Bern

BSV Bern
Full name	Ball Spiel Verein Bern
Short name	BSV
Founded	1959; 66 years ago (1959)
Arena	Mobiliar Arena, Gümligen
Capacity	2,350
President	Anton Gäumann
Head coach	Martin Rubin
League	Quickline Handball League
Club colours
Website Official site

History

The club was founded in 1951. The club was founded by Emil Horle.^[1] The team was promoted to the first division in the 1959/60 season. The following year, the team became champions. In the 1979/80 season, the team won the Swiss championship title undefeated. No other team has managed to achieve this so far. BSV became champion again in the 1984/85 season. At the end of the 1998/99 season, the team was relegated from the first division after 39 years. In 2003, they reached the top flight again and have been playing there ever since. In 2002, BSV merged with Handball Muri Bern and continued under the name BSV Bern Muri. In 2018, they decided to go under the name BSV Bern again.

Crest, colours, supporters

Club crest

• 
  Old Logo
  (-2018)
• 
  New Logo
  (2018–present)

Kits

HOME
2016–17	2017–18	2020–21

AWAY
2018–19

Sports Hall information

Home hall: Mobiliar Arena

• Arena: - Mobiliar Arena^[2]
• City: - Gümligen
• Capacity: - 2350
• Address: - Rohrmattstrasse 12, 3073 Gümligen, Switzerland

Management

Position	Name
President	Anton Gäumann
Sport Director	Guido Frei
Club manager	Pascale Tiefenbach

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2023–24 season^[3]

BSV Bern

Goalkeepers 01 Fabio Brändle 12 Dario Ferrante 16 Mathieu Seravalli 30 Aurel Bringolf (c) Left Wingers 03 Daniel Weingartner 04 Nik Jauer 19 Marco Strahm Right Wingers 09 Simon Getzmann 18 Levin Wanner 26 Jan Allemann Line Players 20 Hannes Nyström 22 Matthias Widmer 23 Kaspar Arn 77 Mats Hirt Left Backs 06 Dominik Weiss 15 Samuel Weingartner 21 Lucas Rohr 25 Ivan Corluka 34 Ardin Berisha 96 Gabriel Ottrubay Central Backs 02 Nico Eggimann 05 Timo Lüthi 08 Tobias Spring 11 Felix Aellen Right Backs 13 Michael Kusio 24 Destiny Oyamendan 28 Claudio Vögtli 52 Sandro Gantner

Technical staff

• Head coach: Martin Rubin
• Assistant coach: David Staudenmann
• Goalkeeping coach: Antoine Ebinger
• Fitness coach: Matthias Heger
• Physiotherapist: Jonas Engel

Transfers

Transfers for the 2025–26 season

Joining

Leaving Dominik Weiss (LB) to HC Oppenweiler/Backnang[4] Felix Aellen (CB) to ThSV Eisenach[5] Claudio Vögtli (RB) to RTV 1879 Basel

Transfer History

Transfers for the 2023–24 season
Joining Dominik Weiss (LB) from VfL Lübeck-Schwartau[6] Levin Wanner (RW) from HC Kriens-Luzern[7] Daniel Weingartner (LW) from BSV Stans Michael Kusio (RB) from Kadetten Schaffhausen Leaving Ante Kaleb (CB) to GC Amicitia Zürich Pontus Zetterman (RB) to Önnereds HK

Titles

• Quickline Handball League
  • Winner (3) : 1961, 1980, 1985

EHF ranking

As of 26/10/2023^[8]

Rank	Team	Points
118	Beykoz BLD SK	39
119	HC Linz	38
120	HV Hurry-Up	37
121	BSV Bern	37
122	Dragūnas Klaipėda	37
123	Handball Sassari	37
124	Belenenses	36

Former club members

Notable former players

• Marc Baumgartner (1987–1994, 2005–2006)
• Aurel Bringolf (2022–)
• Antoine Ebinger [de] (2007–2019)
• Martin Friedli [de] (2006–2007)
• Thomas Furer [de] (1999–2003, 2011–2012)
• Thomas Gautschi [de] (1996–1997)
• Alen Milosevic (2007–2013)
• Nikola Portner (2010–2014)
• Severin Ramseier [de] (2012–2014)
• Samuel Röthlisberger (2011–2017)
• Levin Wanner [de] (2023–)
• Mario Cvitković [hr] (2020–2022)
• Ante Kaleb (2019–2023)
• Nikola Kedžo (2016–2017)
• Václav Lanča (2002)
• Martin Prachař [de] (2011–2015)
• Jakub Szymanski (2016–2019)
• Dominik Weiß [de] (2023–)
• Han Kyung-tai (2003–2007)
• Pedro Spínola [de] (2017–2020)
• Dragan Marjanac (2011–2018)
• Uroš Mitrović (2013–2019)
• Zlatko Portner (1994–1997, 1999–2002)
• Daniel Valo [de] (2003–2005)
• Pontus Zetterman [de] (2021–2023)

Former coaches

Seasons	Coach	Country
2017–2021	Aleksandar Stevic
2021–	Martin Rubin