HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi
| HC Slovan Ústí nad Labem | |
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| City | Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic |
| League |
Czech 1.liga
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| Founded | 1963 |
| Home arena | Zlatopramen Arena (6500 seats) |
| Colors | |
| General manager |
 Jan Čaloun |
| Head coach |
Miroslav Mach |
| Captain |
Jan Kloz |
| Franchise history | |
| 1966 - 2007 | HC Slovan Ústí nad Labem |
| 2007 - 2013 | HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi |
| 2013 - present | HC Slovan Ústí nad Labem |
Czech 1.liga
1993-1997, 2000-2007, 2008-present
HC Slovan Ústečtí Lvi is an ice hockey team in the Czech First League (1. národní hokejová liga) (the second division). Their home arena is Zlatopramen Arena in Ústí nad Labem. Before 2007, the team was known as HC Slovan Ústí nad Labem.
The beginning of ice hockey in Ústí nad Labem dates back to the end of the Second World War. In 1945 a group of enthusiastic people got together and with Jaroslav Kropáč as a leading figure they founded in 1946 hockey club Sokol Ústí nad Labem. After couple of months they took their cue from namesake in Prague and founded LTC (1946 – 1948). They entered West north group of winter sports and started to play in competitions regularly.
In the following years (1949 – 1959) the club changed its name to ZSJ Armaturka. In 1959 the club changed its owner and subsequently its name to TJ Chemička and played under this name until 1963. However, in this year the chemical company closed the hockey club for financial difficulties. After numerous meeting with the city representatives it was decided not to allow the end of hockey playing in the city. At that time TJ Slovan National Board came with the solution to run hockey club as their main field of activities. The hockey club was then handed in to chairman JUDr. Oldřich Rejna, who stayed in this position for another 23 years. In 1966 the team won TJ Slovan qualification to get to the second league, in which they played until 1972. After the season 1971/72 there was a change in the organisational structure of the whole competition. The First National League was created. So the club had to undertake very demanding hockey qualification to be admitted to the First National Hockey League. The team was very successful and reached 2nd place out of 10, only one point after Slezan Opava. Since then the team used to be on the top positions of the whole competition. In season 1979/80 the team won by 7 points in the A team of First National Hockey League but in qualification to get to Extra League the team lost with TJ Gottwaldov. In the following season Slovan won in its group again but didn’t reach any further when in the final got into the 3rd place out of 10.
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