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HC Kometa Brno 
City Brno, Czech Republic League Czech Extraliga Founded 1953 Home arena Hala Rondo Colors Blue and white Head coach Zdeněk Venera HC Kometa Brno ("Comet" in English) is the second most successful ice hockey club in the Czech Republic with 11 Czechoslovak league titles (right after HC Dukla Jihlava which have 12 titles). With three European Cup titles, Kometa is also the most successful Czech club in international ice hockey. The club was founded in 1953 as an army ice hockey club with the name Rudá hvězda Brno ("Red Star"). The majority of players were transferred from 2 hockey clubs in Brno (TJ Spartak Brno Zbrojovka and TJ Spartak GZ Královo Pole[1]). In 1962 the club changed its name to ZKL Brno (ZKL is abbreviation of "Ball Bearing Factory")[2] and stopped being an army team. In 1976 the name was changed to Zetor Brno. Shortly after revolution (1994), club changed its name to HC Kometa Brno.
In 1996 the team relegated from Czech Extraliga to the second highest ice hockey league – Czech 1. liga. On 1 April 2009, Kometa bought the licence for Czech Extraliga from another South Moravian club, HC Znojemští Orli. This club will now serve as a farm team for Brno.[3]
- Czechoslovak league titles: 11 (1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966)
- European cup champion: 3 (1966, 1967, 1968)
- Spengler cup winner: 1 (1955)
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History of the team name
- 1953 – Rudá hvězda Brno
- 1962 – TJ ZKL Brno
- 1976 – TJ Zetor Brno
- 1990 – HC Zetor Brno
- 1993 – HC Královopolská Brno
- 1994 – HC Kometa Brno
- 1995 – HC Kometa Brno BVV
- 1997 – HC Kometa Brno
Current players
Current roster for season 2010/2011[4]
Position # Name Acquired G 35 
Jiří Trvaj2009 G 1 
Sasu Hovi2009 D 32 Radim Bičánek2009 D 6 Tomáš Houdek2007 D 89 Michal Kempný2008 D - 
Tomáš Malec2010 D 53 Pavel Mojžíš2009 D 23 Radim Ostrčil2009 D 12 Tomáš Protivný2008 D 5 Martin Richter2009 D 25 Pavel Zubíček2007 F - Jozef Balej2010 F 27 Kamil Brabenec2008 F 28 Radek Dlouhý2009 F 20 Jiří Dopita2009 F 9 Roman Erat2009 F - Radim Hruška2010 F 10 Petr Hubáček2010 F 81 Ivan Huml2009 F - Tomáš Pospíšil2010 F 21 Radek Procházka2009 F - Jakub Svoboda2010 F 26 Jaroslav Svoboda2009 F - Ondřej Veselý2010 Notes
- ^ http://www.hc-kometa.cz/historie.asp
- ^ Originally Závody kuličkových ložisek; this factory – now ZKL Group Brno – became main sponsor of the club
- ^ http://www.hokej.cz/index.php?lng=CZ&view=clanek&id=43278
- ^ http://hc-kometa.cz/soupiska.asp
External links
Czech ExtraligaBílí Tygři Liberec · HC Mountfield (České Budějovice) · HC Energie Karlovy Vary · HC ČSOB Pojišťovna Pardubice · HC Plzeň 1929 · PSG Zlín · HC VERVA Litvínov · Rytíři Kladno · HC Slavia Praha · HC Sparta Praha · HC Oceláři Třinec · HC Vítkovice Steel · BK Mladá Boleslav · HC Kometa BrnoRelated articles: Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League · IIHF · IIHF Continental Cup · IIHF European Champions Cup
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