HC Sparta Praha

HC Sparta Praha
City:	Prague, Czech Republic
League:	Czech Extraliga
Founded:	1903 (1903)
Home Arena:	O2 Arena
Colors:	blue, yellow, red

Hockey Club Sparta Praha, commonly known as HC Sparta Prague, is a Prague-based Czech professional ice hockey team playing in the Czech Extraliga. The club has won four Czech championships (most recently in 2007) 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.

History

Former names:

• 1909 - AC Sparta Praha
• 1948 - Sokol Sparta
• 1949 - Sokol Bratrství Sparta
• 1951 - Sokol Sparta Sokolovo
• 1953 - Spartak Praha Sokolovo
• 1965 - Sparta ČKD Praha
• 1990 - HC Sparta Praha

The Sparta Praha hockey club is one of the most successful and famous clubs in Czechoslovakian and later Czech ice hockey history. It was originally formed in 1903 as a bandy club but the hockey section was not created until 1909.

Sparta’s great successes were reached in the years following World War II as it won two national titles in a row - 1952/54 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 in 1992/93. Another recent achievement (along with two third place finishes in 1995/96 and 1996/97) was Sparta’s participation in the final group of the European League (EHL) in 1996/97.

After a few years unsuccessful years, 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 finish second two times in European team competitions – 1999/00 European Hockey League and 2016–17 Champions Hockey League.

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

• 1 ! Winners (4): 1999–00, 2001–02, 2005–06, 2006–07
• 1 ! Runners-up (3): 2000–01, 2015–16, 2021–22
• 1 ! 3rd place (7): 1995–96, 1996–97, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2008–09, 2013–14, 2020–21

Czechoslovak Extraliga

• 1 ! Winners (4): 1952–53, 1953–54, 1989–90, 1992–93
• 1 ! Runners-up (7): 1936–37, 1937–38, 1956–57, 1962–63, 1966–67, 1973–74, 1987–88
• 1 ! 3rd place (6): 1955–56, 1960–61, 1964–65, 1967–68, 1976–77, 1986–87

Bohemian-Moravian League

• 1 ! 3rd place (4): 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43

International

Spengler Cup

• 1 ! Winners (2): 1962, 1963
• 1 ! Runners-up (2): 2004, 2022

Tatra Cup

• 1 ! Winners (5): 1935/1936, 1950/1951, 1958/1959, 1959/1960, 1980

IIHF European Champions Cup

• 1 ! Runners-up (1): 2008

European Hockey League

• 1 ! Runners-up (1): 1999–00

Champions Hockey League

• 1 ! Runners-up (1): 2016–17

Pre-season

Tipsport Hockey Cup

• 1 ! Winners (2): 2001, 2009
• 1 ! Runners-up (1): 2003

Pre-1918 Match Results

Date	Location	Teams	Score	Attendance	Notes
25/26. December 1906	Prague	Sparta - CLTC	7:7		hry-Pokal
25/26. December 1906	Prague	Sparta - Akademicky SK	32:0		hry-Pokal
30. December 1906	Prague	Sparta - CLTK	8:2		hry-Pokal
1. January 1907	Prague	Sparta - Slavia	5:4(1-1,4-3)		hry-Pokal
6. January 1907	Prague	Sparta - Jungbunzlau	5:5
6. January 1908	Prague	Sparta - DEHG	4:5		Official: Mariau Aus-Hun Champ
26. January 1908	Jungbunzlau	Sparta - SK MI Boleslav	6:4		1908 Boh. Champ
26. January 1908	Jungbunzlau	Sparta - Slavia	NP		Sparta rejected official
3. January 1909	Prague	Sparta - Rovum	18:1		hry-Pokal
14. February 1909	Prague	Sparta - Horimyr	8:0
14. February 1909	Prague	Sparta - Akademicky	1:1
28. February 1909	Prague	Sparta - Novomestsky	5:0		1909 Boh. Champ
28. February 1909	Prague	Sparta - Akademicky	4:1		1909 Boh. Champ
28. February 1909	Prague	Sparta - Slavia	0:4		1909 Boh. Champ
15. January 1911	Prague	Sparta II - DEHG	2:4(0-2,2-2)
11. February 1912	Prague	Sparta - Union	14:1
11. February 1912	Prague	Sparta - DFC	6:0(0-0,6-0)
19. January 1913	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	4:3
18. January 1914	Prague	Sparta - Slavia II	6:1
18. January 1914	Prague	Sparta - DFC	7:1
25. January 1914	Prague	Sparta - DFC	1:1(0-0,1-1)
25. January 1914	Prague	Sparta II - Polabam Nimburg	6:10
8. February 1914	Prague	Sparta - Slavia	5:0(3-0,2-0)
1. January 1915	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	7:1
7. January 1915	Prague	Sparta II - Horymir	2:5
31. January 1915	Prague	Sparta - Pedestr. Weinberge	21:0		Prague Ch.
31. January 1915	Prague	Sparta II - Spolecnost	2:2		Prague Ch.
31. January 1915	Prague	Sparta - Cechie III	3:0		Prague Ch.
31. January 1915	Prague	Sparta - Sparta II	2:1		Prague Ch.
31. January 1915	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	3:1(1-1,2-0)		Prague Ch.
3. February 1915	Prague	Sparta - Slavia	3:0(0-0,3-0)		1915 Boh. Champ
3. February 1915	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	1:0(0-0,1-0)		1915 Boh. Champ
28. January 1917	Prague	Sparta - Viktoria Vysehrad	17:0(6-0,11-0)
28. January 1917	Prague	Sparta Jug. - Lawn Tennis Cercle	1:22(1-8,0-14)
28. January 1917	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	1:5		Sparta left after 30 min
11. February 1917	Prague	Sparta - Spolecnost	20:4(7-1,13-3)		Bandy 2x30Min.

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