Bílí Tygři Liberec (English: ''Liberec White Tigers'') are a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

club based in Liberec,

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. The team competes in the

Czech Extraliga The Czech Extraliga ( cs, Extraliga ledního hokeje, ELH) is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created by the 1993 split of the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League following the breakup of Czechoslovakia. The le ...

, the highest level of play in professional Czech ice hockey.

History

The first hockey club in Liberec was founded in 1934 under the name ''SK Rapid Horní Růžodol''. After the

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, there have been two sections: ''Jiskra Kolora'' and ''Tatran''. In 1956, a new ice rink was built in Liberec and the clubs agreed to merge, under the name ''TJ Lokomotiva Liberec''. Since 1961, the club have been named: ''Stadion Liberec''. Since 1985, the level of Liberec hockey began to decline and the team played in the third highest competition. It has been given its current name since 2000 and the team returned to the

in 2002. On 5 October 2010, as the first Czech ice hockey club played on their home ice with an NHL team, specifically in the preparatory match with the

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. In the 2015/16 season, Liberec won its first ever Czech Champion title.

Honours

Domestic

* Winners (1): 2015–16 * Runners-up (3): 2016–17, 2018–19, 2020–21 * 3rd place (2): 2004–05, 2006–07 Czech 1. Liga * Winners (1): 2001–02 * Runners-up (2): 1997–98, 2000–01

Players

Current roster

References

External links

Official website

Official Bílí Tygři Liberec website
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