Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal, commonly known as Slavia Praha or Slavia Prague, is a Czech professional football club in Prague. Founded in 1892, they are the second most successful club in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993.
Bohemians Praha 1905, commonly known as Bohemka, is a professional football club based in Vršovice, Prague, Czech Republic. The club competes in the Fortuna Liga, the top division in the Czech Republic football league system. Founded in 1905 as AFK Vršovice, the club won the 1982–83 Czechoslovak First League, its only league championship. Its colours are green and white.
Jaroslav Bednář is a Czech professional ice hockey winger, who currently plays with HC Vrchlabí in the Czech.2 Liga
HC Dynamo Pardubice is a professional ice hockey club that plays in the Czech Extraliga. Its home venue is Enteria arena located in Pardubice. The club was originally named LTC Pardubice, acquiring its current name at the start of the 2015–16 season.
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.
HC Energie Karlovy Vary is a professional ice hockey team based in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. They play in the highest-level national league, the Czech Extraliga.
Hokejový Klub HKM a.s. Zvolen is a professional Slovak ice hockey club based in Zvolen. The club has won the Slovak league championship three times and the IIHF Continental Cup in 2005. The team is nicknamed Rytieri; it means Knights in English.
Jaroslav Hlinka is a Czech former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League for the Colorado Avalanche. He is currently the Sports manager for his longtime club, HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga.
Jan Novák is a Czech professional ice hockey player. He spent nine seasons with HC Slavia Prague in the Czech Extraliga between 1997 and 2006, winning the championship in 2003. Novák moved to the Russian Super League in 2006 and played one season for Aq Bars Kazan. He later played for Skellefteå AIK of Elitserien in Sweden but left them early in the 2007–08 season for a move to HC Slavia Praha. On 12 January 2009 he was loaned to BK Mladá Boleslav. Novák currently plays with HC České Budějovice in the Czech Extraliga.
Sports play a significant part in the life of many Czechs who are generally loyal supporters of their favourite teams or individuals.
The Czech Ice Hockey Association, also known by the shortened name Czech Ice Hockey, is the governing body of ice hockey and sledge hockey in Czechia. It is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and controls the majority of organized ice hockey in the Czech Republic.
Jaroslav Nedvěd is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an assistant coach for HC Sparta Praha of the Czech Extraliga. He is the older brother of Petr Nedvěd.
HC Dukla Prague is a handball club from Prague, Czech Republic, that plays in the Chance Extraliga.
HC Olomouc is an ice hockey team in the Czech Extraliga from Olomouc. They won the Extraliga championship in the 1993/1994 season. In 1997 the club sold the Extraliga license to HC Karlovy Vary, and was thus relegated to the second-level league. They returned to the Extraliga in 2014.
Tomáš Kubalík is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He is the older brother to Dominik Kubalik who also plays professionally.
Petr Jelínek is a Czech professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for HC Bílí Tygři Liberec of the Czech Extraliga.
The Czech Extraliga is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season.
Jaroslav Hertl is a Czech former professional ice hockey defenceman.
The Czechoslovak Basketball League was the highest level professional club basketball competition for men in Czechoslovakia. Its successor national league in the Czech Republic became the Mattoni NBL, and its successor national league in Slovakia became the Extraliga.
Magdalena "Magda" Erbenová is a Czech ice hockey player and member of the Czech national ice hockey team, currently playing with the RPI Engineers women's ice hockey program in the ECAC Hockey conference of the NCAA Division I.
