Basketbal Ladies Club Sparta Praha is a women's
basketball club from
Prague founded in 1939 as a section of
omnisport club
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Sparta Praha
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Sparta was the most successful team in the
Czechoslovak Championship with 23 titles between 1948 and 1987, and in 1976 it defeated
Clermont UC in the
European Cup
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's final to become the first Czechoslovak team to win the competition, ending the 12-years winning streak of
Daugava Riga, which had defeated Sparta in its previous five appearances in the final. Sparta reached the final for the last time in 1978, losing to
Geas Basket. The club declined following the
dissolution of Czechoslovakia
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, and currently plays in the second tier.
Top-flight teams
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Coaches and final league standings
* 1947-1954 : Josef Ezr: 5x champion (1948-1950, 1952-1953), 2nd (1951), 4th (1954)
* 1954-1955 : Miloslav Kříž: 5th (1955)
* 1955-1957 : Jiří Adamíra: 2x 2nd (1956-1957)
* 1957-1964 : Miloslav Kříž Miloslav Kříž (29 May 1924 – 20 May 2013) was a Czech professional basketball player and coach. As a player, he played first for Uncas Prague, and later for Sparta Prague, but he was better known as a head coach and trainer, especially as the ...
:Lubor Blažek
Lubor Blažek (born 28 February 1954) is a Czech basketball coach. At the 2012 Summer Olympics
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: 2nd (1991), 5th (1992)
* 1992-1993 : Milena Jindrová: 12th (1993)
Titles
* European Cup For Women’s Champions Clubs
** 1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
** runner-up (6) : 1964, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1978
* Czechoslovak Championship
** (23) 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1986, 1987
* Czechoslovak Cup
** (6) 1964, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1975, 1978
References
External links
Official website
Sparta Prague
Basketball teams established in 1939
Sparta Prague
Sparta basketball women
1939 establishments in Czechoslovakia
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