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HC Kometa Brno
City	Brno, Czech Republic
League	Czech Extraliga
Founded	1953 (1953)
Home arena	Winning Group Arena (capacity: 7,700)
Colours	Blue, white
Owner(s)	Libor Zábranský
Head coach	Kamil Pokorný
Captain	Martin Zaťovič
Affiliate	SK Horácká Slavia Třebíč
Website	www.hc-kometa.cz

HC Kometa Brno ("Comet" in English) is a professional ice hockey team based in Brno, Czech Republic. They play in the Czech Extraliga. Kometa is the most successful ice hockey club in the Czech Republic with 13 Czechoslovak (and Czech) league championship titles. Holding three European Cup titles, Kometa ranks as the most successful Czech club in international ice hockey. The team HC Kometa Brno has won two Czech championships seasons, capturing the title in both 2016–17 and in 2017–18.

History

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 two hockey clubs in Brno (TJ Spartak Brno Zbrojovka and TJ Spartak GZ Královo Pole). In 1962, the club changed its name to ZKL Brno (ZKL is an abbreviation of "Ball Bearing Factory") and stopped being an army team. In 1976, the name was changed to Zetor Brno. Shortly after the revolution (1994), the club changed its name to HC Kometa Brno. "Kometa" was the team's nickname since the 1950s (as opposed to the official "Red Star") and the team was commonly referred to by this name since its beginning.

In 1996, the team was relegated from Czech Extraliga to the second highest ice hockey league, the 1st Czech Republic Hockey League. For many years, the team struggled due to poor financing and multiple changes of owners, facing relegation again in 2001–2002. The club almost ceased to exist, playing in the East division of the third-highest Czech ice hockey league. By the 2003–2004 season, it returned to the first league. In 2004, Kometa played its first playoff series since 1997, reached the semifinals in 2008, and reached the finals in 2009.

On 1 April 2009, Kometa bought the licence for another South Moravian club, HC Znojemští Orli. This club began to serve as a farm team for Brno.

In March 2012, the team managed to defeat HC Sparta Praha, the winner of the 2011–12 Czech Extraliga regular season, in six games, qualifying for the playoff semifinals. In the semifinals, they defeated HC Plzeň 1929, the runner-up of the regular season, in five games. In the final, Kometa lost the Czech Extraliga championship final to HC Pardubice in six games.

Honours

Domestic

Czech Extraliga

• Winners (2): 2016–17, 2017–18
• Runners-up (2): 2011–12, 2013–14
• 3rd place (1): 2014–15

Czech 1. Liga

• Winners (1): 1994–95
• Runners-up (1): 2008–09
• 3rd place (1): 1993–94

Czechoslovak Extraliga

• Winners (11): 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1964–65, 1965–66
• Runners-up (4): 1953–54, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1970–71
• 3rd place (3): 1958–59, 1966–67, 1969–70

1st. Czech National Hockey League

• Winners (3): 1980–81, 1988–89, 1990–91
• 3rd place (1): 1992–93

International

IIHF European Cup

• Winners (3): 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68

Pre-season

Spengler Cup

• Winners (1): 1955
• Runners-up (1): 1957

Rona Cup

• Winners (1): 2014

Tipsport Hockey Cup

• Winners (1): 2008

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

Players

Current roster

Source: hc-kometa.czSource: eliteprospects.comAs of January 25, 2022.

No.	Nat	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
88		Kristián Pospíšil	LW	L	28	2022	Zvolen, Slovakia
95		Lukáš Doudera	D	L	26	2021	Kladno, Czech Republic
98		Radovan Pavlík	LW	L	26	2021	Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
38		Adam Zbořil	C	L	29	2021	Brno, Czech Republic
7		Tomáš Bartejs	D	L	32	2016	Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
29		Jan Mlčák	D	L	23	2017	Přerov, Czech Republic
61		Daniel Rákos	LW	L	37	2019	Pardubice, Czechoslovakia
93		Rhett Holland	D	R	31	2020	Calgary, Alberta, Canada
24		Michal Gulaši	D	L	38	2016	Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
26		Martin Zaťovič (C)	C	L	39	2016	Přerov, Czechoslovakia
81		Tomáš Vincour	RW	R	34	2016	Brno, Czechoslovakia
92		Petr Holík	C	L	32	2018	Zlín, Czechoslovakia
44		David Ostřížek	LW	L	34	2021	Frýdek-Místek, Czechoslovakia
4		Radek Kučeřík	D	L	22	2020	Kyjov, Czech Republic
8		Marek Ďaloga	D	L	35	2021	Zvolen, Czechoslovakia
16		Luboš Horký	RW	R	27	2016	Znojmo, Czech Republic
25		Vladimír Roth	D	R	34	2021	Prague, Czechoslovakia
72		Andrej Kollár	C	R	25	2021	Nitra, Slovakia
90		Martin Dočekal	LW	L	34	2021	Třebíč, Czechoslovakia
6		Lukáš Cingel	C	L	32	2023	Žilina, Slovakia
65		Tomáš Marcinko	C	R	36	2023	Poprad, Czechoslovakia
9		Jakub Flek	LW	L	31	2022	Mariánské Lázně, Czechoslovakia

Gallery

• Playoff match against PSG Zlín 2011
• PSG Zlín match
• PSG ZLín full play
• The old stadium behind Lužánky park
• The closing of the season 2011
• DRFG Arena - main entrance
• The former logo

Notes

1. "Historie » Info". hc-kometa.cz.
2. Originally Závody kuličkových ložisek; this factory – now ZKL Group Brno Archived 21 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine – became the main sponsor of the club.
3. "Hokej.cz - Kometa Brno se po třinácti letech vrací do extraligy! Koupila licenci od Znojma". Archived from the original on 5 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
4. "Kometa je v euforii a už mluví o titulu. Máme na to, tvrdí hráči". Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). iDnes. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
5. "Pardubice – Brno 5:6. Stav série 1:1. Drama pro kardiaky. Kometa přetlačila Pardubice, padlo 11 gólů!" (in Czech). Sport.cz. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
6. "Team Roster / HC Kometa Brno". www.hc-kometa.cz. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
7. "Team Roster / HC Kometa Brno". www.eliteprospects.com. Retrieved 28 March 2020.

External links

• Official website
• Modrobílí - HC Kometa Brno fans
• HC Kometa Brno - Facebook

• Ice hockey teams in the Czech Republic
• Ice hockey teams in Czechoslovakia
• Sport in Brno
• Ice hockey clubs established in 1953
• 1953 establishments in Czechoslovakia