HC Dukla Prague

HC Dukla Praha
Full name	Handball Club Dukla Praha
Founded	1948
President	Orság Vladimír
League	Extraliga házené

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.

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.^[1]

References

↑ 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.

External links

"Historie klubu". HC Dukla Praha. Retrieved 2009-09-15.

European Cup and EHF Champions League winners

European Cup	1956–57: Dukla Prague 1958–59: Redbergslids IK 1959–60: Frisch Auf Göppingen 1961–62: Frisch Auf Göppingen 1962–63: Dukla Prague 1964–65: Dinamo București 1965–66: DHfK Leipzig 1966–67: VfL Gummersbach 1967–68: Steaua București 1969–70: VfL Gummersbach 1970–71: VfL Gummersbach 1971–72: Partizan Bjelovar 1972–73: MAI Moscow 1973–74: VfL Gummersbach 1974–75: ASK Frankfurt/Oder 1975–76: Borac Banja Luka 1976–77: Steaua București 1977–78: Magdeburg 1978–79: TV Großwallstadt 1979–80: TV Großwallstadt 1980–81: Magdeburg 1981–82: Budapest Honvéd 1982–83: VfL Gummersbach 1983–84: Dukla Prague 1984–85: Metaloplastika 1985–86: Metaloplastika 1986–87: SKA Minsk 1987–88: CSKA Moscow 1988–89: SKA Minsk 1989–90: SKA Minsk 1990–91: Barcelona 1991–92: Zagreb 1992–93: Zagreb

EHF Champions League	1993–94: TEKA Santander 1994–95: Bidasoa Irún 1995–96: Barcelona 1996–97: Barcelona 1997–98: Barcelona 1998–99: Barcelona 1999–2000: Barcelona 2000–01: Portland San Antonio 2001–02: Magdeburg 2002–03: Montpellier 2003–04: Celje 2004–05: Barcelona 2005–06: Ciudad Real 2006–07: THW Kiel 2007–08: Ciudad Real 2008–09: Ciudad Real 2009–10: THW Kiel 2010–11: Barcelona 2011–12: THW Kiel 2012–13: HSV Hamburg 2013–14: Flensburg-Handewitt 2014–15: Barcelona

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