HC Baník OKD Karviná

In 2007 the handball club of Baník OKD Karviná successfully defended the title of the Czech Champion. Apart from the home competition the handball players will strive to achieve the best place among the European handball teams. The team’s results are backed by a long-time collaboration with the general partner OKD.

More detailed information can be found at www.hcb-karvina.cz.

Overview of results

• 41 seasons in the highest handball league
• 25 continuous seasons in the highest handball league
• 1st place 8x
• 2nd place 6x
• 3rd place 8x
• 19 years of uninterrupted presence in the European Cup competitions – that means that for 19 years this club has not finished worse than at the 4th place in the highest domestic league
• Since the 1993-94 season, when EHF was formed, they managed to get among the 16 best clubs in Europe in terms of points gained in European competitions. Junior teams have since 1990 achieved the total of 40 Czech Champions.
  

Club history

Handball emerged in Karviná more than fifty years ago in the form of the boys’ club in the apprentice school of the May 1st Mine. Shortly thereafter the Baník Karviná team gradually fought their way from the regional championship to the highest league and in 1968 won the first champion’s title. Since then the handball players of Baník have belonged to the top teams of the Czechoslovakian league and since 1993 in the Czech Republic. They won the league eight times (1968, 1972, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006), the Czech Cup three times, the Czech-Slovak extra-league twice (2001, 2002). They participated in European competitions – the Cup of European Champions, Cup Winners’ Cup, IHF, City Cup, and in 2000-2006 they played the most prestigious handball club competition – the Champions’ League. The basis for the top results at the Czech as well as the international level is traditionally a long-time and successful work with the youth, supported systematically by the town of Karviná.