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 (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.

Players in HC Sparta Praha jerseys
Since 2015, the home stadium of the team is O2 arena

HC Sparta Praha
CityPrague, Czech Republic
LeagueCzech Extraliga
Founded6 December 1903 (1903-12-06)
Home arenaO2 Arena
ColoursBlue, yellow, burgundy[1]
     
Owner(s)Kaprain Group
General managerBarbora Snopková Haberová
Head coach Josef Jandač
Captain Michal Řepík
Websitehcsparta.cz
Franchise history
1903–1948AC Sparta Praha
1948–1949Sokol Sparta Bubeneč
1949–1951ZSJ Bratrství Sparta Praha
1951–1953ZSJ Sparta ČKD Sokolovo Praha
1953–1965TJ Spartak Praha Sokolovo
1965–1990TJ Sparta ČKD Praha
1990–presentHC Sparta Praha

Milestones

Highest national league participation: From the league foundation in 1936 to 1950 and from 1951 up to this day.

History

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 Czechoslovak 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 (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 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 2001/02, 2005/06 and 2006/07. 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.

  • 1993-2014
  • 2014-
  • Alternative logo

Honours

Domestic

Czech Extraliga

Czechoslovak Extraliga

Bohemian-Moravian League

International

Spengler Cup

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

Tatra Cup

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

IIHF European Champions Cup

  • Runners-up (1): 2008

European Hockey League

Champions Hockey League

Pre-season

Tipsport Hockey Cup

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

Players

Current roster

Source: hcsparta.cz[2]Source: eliteprospects.com[3]As of August 27, 2021.

# Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
31 Jakub Neužil G L 27 2020 Prague, Czech Republic
47 Jan Buchtele LW L 31 2017 Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia
63 Martin Jandus D R 24 2016 Prague, Czech Republic
14 Filip Chlapík C L 24 2021 Prague, Czech Republic
20 Tomáš Dvořák D L 26 2017 Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic
33 Julius Hudáček G R 33 2022 Spisska Nova Ves, Czechoslovakia
88 Miroslav Forman RW L 31 2010 Mělník, Czechoslovakia
19 Tomáš Pavelka D L 28 2017 Ostrava, Czech Republic
86 Erik Thorell LW L 30 2021 Karlstad, Sweden
16 Adam Polášek D L 30 2020 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
11 David Dvořáček LW L 29 2019 Brno, Czechoslovakia
70 Patrik Prymula F L 20 2020 Czech Republic
84 Milan Jurčina D R 38 2019 Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia
42 David Vitouch LW L 20 2019 Neratovice, Czech Republic
77 David Němeček D L 26 2020 Plzeň, Czech Republic
26 Michal Řepík (C) RW R 33 2019 Vlašim, Czechoslovakia
51 Roman Horák C L 30 2020 České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia
73 Michal Moravčík D L 27 2021 Klatovy, Czech Republic
25 David Kaše RW L 25 2021 Kadaň, Czech Republic
71 Vladimír Sobotka C L 34 2020 Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
7 Ondřej Mikliš D L 25 2021 Šumperk, Czech Republic
93 Zdeněk Doležal RW R 28 2021 Lysá nad Labem, Czech Republic
52 Maksim Matushkin D L 32 2021 Minsk, Belarus
95 Gennady Stolyarov C L 35 2021 Moscow, Russia

References
  1. "Historie HC Sparta Praha". sparta.cz. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. "Team Roster / HC Sparta Praha". www.hcsparta.cz. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
  3. "Team Roster / HC Sparta Praha". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
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