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| city = [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]]
| league = '''[[ICE Hockey League]]''' (2020–2022)
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| dissolved = {{Start date|2022}}
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| arena = [[Ondrej Nepela Arena]] (capacity 10,055)
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The '''Bratislava Capitals''' were a professional [[Slovakia|Slovak]] [[ice hockey]] club based in [[Bratislava]], [[Slovakia]]. They mostly played in the [[ICE Hockey League]] in Austria. The club was established in 2015 and ceased operations in 2022.

==History==
HC Bratislava was established in 2015 in response to the lack of a Bratislava senior team in Slovak competitions. In its first season in the second division, it finished 12th out of 16 teams. In the 2016/17 season, the club found a stable home in [[Vladimír Dzurilla Arena]] in [[Ružinov]]. The club stabilized, established itself in the second hockey league and finished fourth out of 20 teams. In 2019/20, the club went through a complete rebranding, changing its name to the Bratislava Capitals. That season, the team started playing its home games at [[Ondrej Nepela Arena]], also known as Slovnaft Arena.

After the 2019–20 season, the Capitals were accepted to play in the Austrian-based bet-at-home ICE Hockey League (formerly the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga) on 24 April 2020 beginning in the 2020/21 season.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://hokej.sk/clanok/163191-capitals-prijali-do-ebel-ligy | title=Capitals accepted into EBEL League | publisher=www.hokej.sk | accessdate= | archive-date=2020-04-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428170019/https://hokej.sk/clanok/163191-capitals-prijali-do-ebel-ligy | url-status=dead }}</ref>

On October 30, 2021, player Boris Sádecký collapsed during a game, reportedly due to cardiac arrest, and died three days later. On November 5, the team's general manager Dušan Pašek was found dead from suicide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.markerzone.com/news/index.php?no=63793|title=BRATISLAVA CAPITALS MAKE SPECIAL APPLICATION TO THE LEAGUE FOLLOWING BACK-TO-BACK TRAGEDIES|date=9 November 2021|access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> Following the incidents, the club suspended its season after 14 games,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iclinic-capitals.sk/vedenie-icehl-rozhodlo-o-ziadosti-iclinic-bratislava-capitals/ | title=Vedenie ICEHL rozhodlo o žiadosti iClinic Bratislava Capitals}}</ref> but announced its return for the 2022/23 season on May 16, 2022.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://iclinic-capitals.sk/caps-su-spat/ | title=CAPS SÚ SPÄŤ!}}</ref>

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