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BSV Bern

Swiss sports club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ797008 ↗
Source-derived summary

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

History

The club was founded in 1951. The club was founded by Emil Horle. 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.

Editorial summary

“BSV Bern” enters the record as swiss sports club. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bern, Swiss and sports can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1951, 1959, 1979, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bern, Swiss and sports.
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Why this record matters

“BSV Bern” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bern, Swiss and sports provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q797008. VIAF identifies the subject as 243248652. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1959, 1979 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “BSV Bern” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.