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Forward-Morges HC

sports club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ1516619
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Forward-Morges HC is an ice hockey club from Morges, Switzerland. They currently play amateur men's hockey, focusing as a strong women's and junior development club. Forward Morges formerly played professionally in the National League B, the second level of Swiss ice hockey, but withdrew during the 2005–06 season due to financial problems. Their first team was later merged and currently plays as HC Star Forward in the Swiss 1. Liga. then, the team changed their name back to Forward-Morges HC in 2022.

History

The official foundation of the association took place on 3 March 1956 under the name HC Chigny-Vufflens . All 18 founding members approved the statutes of the association. Without having an ice rink, the members initially trained on ponds or the ice rink Cheseaux in Saint-Cergue . In 1957, the club completed its first official game in the 3rd league (fifth division), which ended with a 6: 9 defeat.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2022, 1956, 1957—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Forward-Morges, sports and club can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Forward-Morges HC” 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.