The SC Langenthal Damen to withdraw from the Women's League

Financial reasons and the awareness of the difficulty of putting together a team in the immediate future that meets the requirements of the Women's League led the Board of Directors of the club to the decision to withdraw the team. The team will be disbanded, and SC Langenthal will temporarily no longer have a women's team.

Among the reasons, the club also cites the difficulty of competing with bigger clubs that have come onto the scene in recent years: over the past three years, the club has lost several players to ambitious clubs associated with National League clubs. At the same time, the gaps that arose had to be filled in part with expensive foreign players.

Walter Ryser, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SC Langenthal AG, is disappointed about the ending of the team and believes this is food for thought: “This decision is incredibly bitter for us and gives us pause for thought concerning Swiss hockey and the development of women's hockey, because we have ended up in this predicament through no fault of our own”. 

"Continuing this project would have been irresponsible because the development we had embarked on was a bottomless pit for us, and we are not in a position to compete economically with the National League clubs,” concludes Ryser.

As a consequence of this withdrawal, there will be no league qualification between the PostFinance Women's League and SWHL-B in the current season, the SIHF announces. No team will thus be relegated from the PostFinance Women's League, and the SIHF will discuss with the SWHL-B teams ready for promotion to ensure that the Women's League can continue with eight teams in the coming season.