HC Dukla Prague

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Dukla Praha
Dukla Praha Logo.png
Full nameHC Dukla Praha
Founded1948
Arena
Capacity300
LeagueCzech Handball Extraliga
Website
Official site

HC Dukla Prague (Czech: HC Dukla Praha) is a Czech handball club. Dukla won three EHF Champions League titles as well as reaching two further finals. The club also won 30 national championships.[1]

History[]

Originally it was a part of a Czechoslovak army sports club supporting several different sports teams, including football, which was founded in 1948 as ATK Praha and later renamed Dukla Prague. The handball team of Dukla Praha was the most successful Czechoslovak handball team. They won the Czechoslovak handball league 28 times and after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia the Czech handball league twice. In 1956, 1963 and 1984 they won the European Champions' Cup (now EHF Champions League) and in 1967 and 1968 they finished in the finals. In 1982 they reached the final of the EHF Cup Winners' Cup. In 1963 they were awarded the team trophy of the Czechoslovak Sportsperson of the Year.

As of 2006, the club was playing outside of Prague in Louny.[2][3]

Team[]

Current squad[]

Squad for the 2020-21 season

Accomplishments[]

    • EHF Champions League:
    •  Gold: 1957, 1963, 1984,
    •  Silver: 1967, 1968,
    •  Bronze: 1962, 1966, 1980, 1985,
    • EHF Cup:
    •  Bronze: 1990
    • Czech Handball Extraliga:
    •  Gold: 1994, 2011, 2017,
    •  Silver: 1996, 2003, 2007, 2012, 2016,
    •  Bronze: 1997, 1999, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2018,
    • :
    •  Gold: 1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992,
    •  Silver: 1960, 1968, 1969, 1978, 1981,
    •  Bronze: 1971, 1975, 1989,

European record[]

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1956-57 EHF Champions League Quarterfinals Romania Bucuresti 24-19 24-19
Semifinals Denmark 25-18 25-18
Finals Örebro 21-13 21-13
1958-59 EHF Champions League R1 Poland wo wo
Quarterfinals Romania Dinamo Bucuresti 14-15 14-15
1959-60 EHF Champions League R1 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and now Bosnia and HerzegovinaBorac Banja Luka 31-19 31-19
Quarterfinals Romania Dinamo Bucuresti 23-22 23-22
2016–17 EHF Cup R1 Kosovo KH BESA Famiglia 31–35 31–23 62–58
R2 Croatia RK Nexe Našice 30–29 23–30 53–59

References[]

  1. ^ "Information".
  2. ^ Němý, Miroslav (12 April 2006). "Dukla Praha: slavné výhry i pád fotbalu" [Dukla Prague: famous highs and lows of football] (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
  3. ^ "History".

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