HC Sparta Praha


Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague based Czech ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships and four Czechoslovak championships, as well as two Spengler Cups, making it one of the most successful hockey clubs in Czech history. The team HC Sparta Praha plays its home games at O2 Arena, the largest arena in the country.

Milestones

Highest national league participation: From the league foundation in 1936 to 1950 and from 1951 up to this day.
The HC Sparta Praha hockey club is one of the oldest hockey clubs in the world and one of the most successful and famous clubs in Czechoslovakian and later Czech ice hockey history.
Sparta’s great successes were reached in the years following World War II as it won two national titles in a row—1952–53 and 1953–54—under the name Spartak Sokolovo. The next highly successful period came much more recently when Sparta won the national league in 1989–90 and again in 1992–93. Another recent achievement was Sparta’s participation in the final group of the European League in 1996–97.
After a few years of bad luck and less success, Sparta returned to the top of the Czech Extraliga in 1999/00 when they were crowned league champions. That victory was the first of four championships they would win over seven seasons, adding Extraliga titles in 2002, 2006 and 2007. In addition to those achievements, Sparta managed to be part of the Top Four in the European League again in 1999–2000 and achieved the greatest result in Czech hockey history: second place.

Present

HC Sparta Praha has regularly been one of the best teams in the Czech Extraliga, making the playoffs almost every year. HC Sparta Praha's home games are played at O2 Arena which is the largest hockey arena in the Czech Republic with a capacity of over 17,300 spectators. They moved there from the Tipsport Arena in 2015.

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Honours

Domestic

Czech Extraliga
Czechoslovak Extraliga
Bohemian-Moravian League
Spengler Cup
Tatra Cup
IIHF European Champions Cup
European Hockey League
Champions Hockey League
Tipsport Hockey Cup
Updated September 20, 2018