HC Kometa Brno

HC Kometa Brno
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City:	Brno, Czech Republic
League:	Czech Extraliga
Founded:	1953
Home Arena:	Hala Rondo
Colors:	Blue and white
Head Coach:	Zdeněk Venera

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HC Kometa Brno (Kometa means 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 Brno). In 1962 the club changed its name to ZKL Brno and stopped being an army team. 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.

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)

History of the team name[]

1953 – Rudá hvězda Brno
1962 – 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

Notable players[]

Current players[]

Current roster for season 2010/2011

Position	#	Name	Acquired
G	35	Jiří Trvaj	2009
G	1	Sasu Hovi	2009
D	32	Radim Bičánek	2009
D	8	Juraj Valach	2011
D	89	Michal Kempný	2008
D	71	Tomáš Malec	2010
D	53	Jan Švrček	2011
D	23	Radim Ostrčil	2009
D	5	Tomáš Žižka	2011
D	3	Petr Šenkeřík	2011
D	72	Ondřej Dlapa	2011
F	41	Andrej Podkonický	2011
F	12	Leoš Čermák	2011
F	28	Radek Dlouhý	2009
F	29	Jakub Koreis	2011
F	9	Roman Erat	2009
F	16	Radim Hruška	2010
F	10	Petr Hubáček	2010
F	11	Miroslav Holec	2011
F	27	Tomáš Pospíšil	2010
F	67	Branislav Jankovič	2011
F	61	Jakub Svoboda	2010
F	26	Jaroslav Svoboda	2009
F	20	Hynek Zohorna