Valašský hokejový klub Vsetín, also known as Hockey Club Vsetín, is a professional
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...
team in the
Czech 1. liga (second-level league). The team is the most successful team in Czech Republic ice hockey history, winning five straight
Extraliga championships between 1995 and 1999, and another in 2001 for six titles in seven years. Their home arena is
Zimní stadion Na Lapači in
Vsetín
Vsetín () is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 25,000 inhabitants.
Originally a small town, Vsetín has become an important centre of industrial, economic, cultural and sports life during the 20th century.
Administ ...
. In the 2005–06 and 2006-07 seasons, they finished at the bottom of the league and did not participate in any competition in the 2007-08 season due to financial problems.
Hockey returned to Vsetín a year later, when a new team was founded. The team has been playing in the
Czech 1. liga since the 2017-18 season after being promoted from the
Czech 2. liga (third-level league) in 2016-17.
Honours
Domestic
Czech Extraliga
The Czech Extraliga () is the highest-level ice hockey league in the Czech Republic. It was created in 1993 following the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia midway through the 1992–93 Czechoslovak Extraliga season (which all Slovak and ...
* Winners (6):
1994–95,
1995–96,
1996–97,
1997–98,
1998–99,
2000–01
* Runners-up (1):
1999–2000
Czech 1. Liga
* Runners-up (2):
2021–22,
2022–23
* 3rd place (1):
2020–21
Pre-season
Rona Cup
* Winners (1): 1997
Club names
* 1905 – SK (Sportovní klub) Vsetín
* 1906 – Bruslařský klub Vsetín
* 1933 – Sokol Vsetín
* 1968 – Zbrojovka Vsetín
* 1994 – HC (Hockey club) Dadák Vsetín
* 1996 – HC Petra Vsetín
* 1998 – HC Slovnaft Vsetín
* 2001 – HC Vsetín
* 2003 – Vsetínská hokejová
* 2008 – Valašský hokejový klub (VHK)
* 2016 – VHK ROBE Vsetín
References
External links
*
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:VHK Vsetin
Ice hockey teams in the Czech Republic
Vsetín District
1905 establishments in Austria-Hungary
Ice hockey clubs established in 1905