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HC Kometa Brno
CityBrno, Czech Republic
LeagueCzech Extraliga
Founded1953 (1953)
Home arenaWinning Group Arena
(capacity: 7,700)
ColoursBlue, white
   
Owner(s)Libor Zábranský
Head coachKamil Pokorný
CaptainJakub Flek
AffiliateSK Horácká Slavia Třebíč
Websitewww.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 14 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 three Czech Extraliga championships, capturing the title back-to-back in 2016–17 and 2017–18, and for a third time in 2024–25, so therefore, the club is also the current champion (2025) of the Czech Republic, a country that is the current world champion.

History

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Auditorium PSG Zlín match, 29 November 2011

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[1]). In 1962, the club changed its name to ZKL Brno (ZKL is an abbreviation of "Ball Bearing Factory")[2] 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.

Players and fans of Kometa during 2011 post-season friendly match

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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[5]

The name

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The club's name has been formally Kometa for 31 years. In reality, however, it is much older. It has existed as an informal, yet completely dominant, automatic name used by fans, rivals, the general public, public authorities including those responsible for sports and the media since at least the mid-1960s. Formally used names: ZKL or Zetor are synonyms of the same entity, which was the tractor manufacturer ZETOR. This company was an investor in the club between 1962 and 1992. Even at this time, only the name KOMETA was used in public (albeit informally, but without reservation)


Players

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Honours

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Domestic

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Czech Extraliga

Czech 1. Liga

Czechoslovak Extraliga

1st. Czech National Hockey League

International

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IIHF European Cup

Pre-season

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Spengler Cup

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners (1): 1955
  • 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runners-up (1): 1957

Rona Cup

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners (1): 2014

Tipsport Hockey Cup

  • 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winners (1): 2008

History of the team name

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  • 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

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Current roster

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Source: hc-kometa.cz[6]Source: eliteprospects.com[7]As of January 25, 2022.

No. Nat Player Pos S/G Age Acquired Birthplace
7 Czech Republic Tomáš Bartejs D L 32 2016 Třebíč, Czech Republic
92 Canada Nicolas Beaudin D L 25 2024 Châteauguay, Quebec, Canada, Canada
21 Czech Republic Adam Boltvan LW L 27 2021 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
25 Czech Republic Dany Chludil C L 18 2021 Brno, Czech Republic
26 Canada Brandon Davidson C L 33 2016 Lethbridge, Alberta Canada
8 Slovakia Marek Ďaloga D L 36 2021 Zvolen, Czechoslovakia
3 Czech Republic Tomáš Dujsík D L 23 2017 Brno, Czech Republic
10 Czech Republic Jan Ekrt LW L 20 2019 Pardubice, Czechoslovakia
21 Czech Republic Radim Ferda LW L 38 2019 Pardubice, Czechoslovakia
9 Czech Republic Jakub Flek (C) LW L 32 2022 Mariánské Lázně, Czechoslovakia
24 Czech Republic Michal Gulaši D L 38 2016 Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
95 Canada Rhett Holland D R 31 2020 Calgary, Alberta, Canada
75 Finland Arttu Ilomäki C L 33 2016 Tampere, Finland
75 Czech Republic Filip Král D L 25 2016 Blansko
72 Slovakia Andrej Kollár C R 25 2021 Nitra, Slovakia
81 Czech Republic Tomáš Vincour RW R 25 2016 Brno, Czechoslovakia
15 Czech Republic Jakub Kos C L 22 2016 Přerov, Czechoslovakia
37 Slovenia Gašper Krošelj G L 38 2016 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
14 Czech Republic Jakub Malý C L 23 2016 Brno, Czech Republic
86 United States Peter Mueller C L 37 2016 Bloomington, United States
34 Czech Republic Michal Postava G L 23 2016 Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic
30 Czech Republic Tomáš Rachůnek C L 33 2016 Přerov, Czechoslovakia
83 Czech Republic Šimon Stránský C L 28 2016 Ostrava, Czech Republic
13 Czech Republic Denis Svoboda C L 40 2016 Brno, Czechoslovakia
21 Czech Republic Adam Veselský C L 19 2016 Přerov, Czecho Republic
28 Czech Republic Libor Zábranský C L 25 2016 Brno, Czech Republic
18 Czech Republic Adam Zbořil C L 29 2016 Brno, Czech Republic
28 Czech Republic Hynek Zohorna C L 34 2016 Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia
37 Czech Republic Tomáš Zohorna C L 40 2016 Havlíčkův Brod, Czechoslovakia
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See also

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* Královo pole
* Lužánky
* Královo Pole indoor arena

Notes

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  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.

Further reading

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