Královští Lvi

• Master of the 2nd League 1978
• Rise in the Extraliga 1993

The Mountfield HK is an ice hockey club from Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. He plays for a license purchase in July 2013 in the top division of the Czech Republic, the Extraliga. Play their home games, the club since 1957 in Hradec Králové from Zimni stadium that offers 7700 spectators.

History

1925 Bruslařský club Hradec Králové was established in Hradec Králové, who belonged to the Czech Ice Hockey Association from 1926. After the Second World War, the club was renamed Škoda Sokol Hradec Králové in 1948, played his first team at the regional level. Four years later, the club was renamed again: As Spartak Hradec Králové ACR you took continues to participate in regional competitions because there was no artificial ice surface in Hradec Králové. Finally, in 1956 began the construction of an outdoor stadium, so that the teams of the club from 1957 had better training facilities. The first game in the new stadium Spartak lost against Dukla Litomerice with 6:9. End of the 1950s (1958 ) created the first team of Spartak promotion to the second division. At the end of the season 1962/63 they only occupied the last place of the second division, but since there was not promoted because of financial reasons, Spartak remained in the second division.

Ascents and descents (1967-2013)

In the late 1960s showed the first team of the club up to that their best performances: She won both in 1967 than in 1968 their season of second division and was thus entitled to participate in the respective promotion round. In the following years, kept the club in mid-table of the Second Division. In 1973, a new league structure was created to Spartak not qualified for the new 1 ČNHL, but rose from the third-rate second ČNHL. Three years later, the team got the chance to climb: She won the Group B match of the third class and sat in the promotion round against the second team of SONP Kladno and TZ Trinec by. This Spartak was returned to the second division of Czechoslovakia. Connected with the rise was a renaming of the club in TJ Stadion Hradec Králové. In the following seasons, the first team of the club rose regularly and on again before it has established itself in the second division in the 1980s. In 1983, the club vice-champion of the second division. Only in 1992 and 1993, this success could be repeated so that the club in 1993, rising to become HC Stadion Hradec Králové in the newly founded Extraliga. However, they finished at the end of the season 1993/94 only eleventh place, so that one descent into second-rate first league. 1997 even followed the descent into the second league

In summer 2000, the corporation HC Hradec Králové was as established, in which the city Hradec Králové, the HC Moeller Pardubice and a civic association were involved. This company managed to finance the sport of ice hockey in Hradec Králové and to find sponsors for the club. 2002 was achieved by acquiring the license of HC Šumperk the promotion back to the 1st league in which the club played until 2013. Twice managed the club during this period in the semifinals of the playoffs the first league.

Buying a Extraliga license ( since 2013)

During the 2012/13 season, the Extraliga agreed a sponsorship deal with the Radegast brewery, which received the exclusive serving approvals at all stages of the game class from the following season. This contract collided with the agreement between the city of České Budějovice and the Budweiser Budvar Brewery provides regarding the name and dispensing rights of Budvar Aréna, the high penalties for serving a different brand of beer as Budweiser in the arena. No agreement between the parties could be reached, the Extraliga license ( including the current players and staff contracts) was sold the HC Mountfield to a new operating company was founded, Mountfield HK as, from Hradec Králové.

Home ground

The club plays its home matches at the stadium Zimni Hradec Králové, which was opened in 1957 as an open air stadium. In 1969, the stadium was covered and has since been a capacity of 7700 spectators, with 4200 standing and 3500 seats are available. The best average attendance in recent years has been achieved in the 2006 / 07, as an average of 2266 spectators watched the home games of the club.

Well-known former players

• Libor Barta
• Roman Červenka
• Jakub Ficenec
• January Hrdina
• Jaroslav Kudrna
• Patrik Martinec
• Petr Průcha
• Petr Zajonc