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HC Košice
HC Košice
Nickname	Oceliari
League	Slovak Extraliga
Founded	1920; 104 years ago
Home arena	Steel Arena; (capacity: 8,378)
Colours	Black, white, orange;
President	Július Lang
Head coach	Dan Ceman
Captain	Michal Chovan
Website	hckosice.sk

Hockey Club Košice is a Slovak professional ice hockey club based in Košice that competes in the Slovak Extraliga, the top tier of Slovak ice hockey. It is the most successful hockey club in Slovakia and the former Czechoslovakia, having won the Tipos Extraliga nine times, the Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League twice, the 1st. Slovak National Hockey League once, the IIHF Continental Cup once, the Tatra Cup 11 times, and the Rona Cup four times. The club is nicknamed "Oceliari" ("Steelers" in English). The team plays at the Steel Arena in Košice.

History

The club was established in Košice in 1962 as an army hockey club called TJ Dukla Košice. At that time, there were two weak regional ice hockey clubs in the city. The new club was much stronger and joined the Czechoslovak Hockey League within two years. In 1966, Dukla changed its name to TJ VSŽ Košice. In 1986, the club became the Ice Hockey Champions of Czechoslovakia for the first time, beating HC Dukla Jihlava in the finals. It won again in 1988, beating HC Sparta Prague. At that time, the club was the second-best ice hockey club in Europe after CSKA Moscow. After Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, VSŽ Košice became a member of the Slovak Extraliga, which it soon went on to win three times. In 1998, the club changed its name to HC Košice.

On 24 February 2006, Košice left Lokomotíva Košice Stadium and moved to the newly constructed Steel Aréna. The arena is named in honour of the club's sponsor, U. S. Steel Košice, and is also known as L. Troják Stadium after one of the club's most popular players. Košice won the league for the fourth time by defeating HK 36 Skalica to end the 2008–09 season. A victory over HC Slovan Bratislava at the end of the 2009–10 season saw the club win the league for the second year in a row and the fifth time in total, which it followed up by beating HK Poprad in the finals of the 2010–11 season to secure the league for the third year in a row (the first "hat trick" in the league's history) and the sixth time in total. Košice qualified for the finals for the sixth time in a row at the 2012–13 season, but suffered a loss to HKm Zvolen. A victory over HK Nitra in the finals of the 2013–14 season led Košice to its seventh league victory. The club won its eighth and most recent league during the 2014–15 season, defeating HC '05 Banská Bystrica in the finals.

Honours

Domestic

Slovak Extraliga

Winners (9): 1994–95, 1995–96, 1998–99, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2022–23
Runners-up (7): 1993–94, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2002–03, 2007–08, 2011–12, 2012–13
3rd place (3): 2001–02, 2006–07, 2015–16

Czechoslovak Extraliga

Winners (2): 1985–86, 1987–88
Runners-up (1): 1984–85
3rd place (1): 1988–89

1st. Slovak National Hockey League

Winners (1): 1963–64

International

IIHF European Cup

Runners-up (2): 1986–87, 1988–89

IIHF Continental Cup

Winners (1): 1997–98
Runners-up (1): 1998–99

IIHF Super Cup

Runners-up (1): 1998

Pre-season

Tatra Cup

Winners (11): 1978, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 2008, 2017, 2024

Rona Cup

Winners (4): 1995, 1996, 2009, 2013

Players

Current roster

As of 23 November 2024.


No.	Player	Pos	S/G	Age	Acquired	Birthplace
93	Olivier Archambault	LW	L	31	2024	Le Gardeur, Quebec, Canada
61	Marek Bartánus (A)	RW	R	37	2021	Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia
55	Antonin Bartoš	D	R	21	2022	České Budějovice, Czech Republic
91	Michal Chovan (C)	LW	L	37	2019	Zvolen, Czechoslovakia
18	Radek Deyl (A)	D	L	35	2020	Košice, Czechoslovakia
89	Jakub Ferenc (A)	D	R	35	2022	Levoča, Czechoslovakia
56	Max Gildon	D	L	25	2024	Houston, Texas, United States
24	Matúš Havrila	C	L	25	2020	Košice, Slovakia
32	Jaroslav Janus	G	L	35	2022	Prešov, Czechoslovakia
84	Joona Jääskeläinen	LW	R	28	2022	Imatra, Finland
82	Dávid Kohút	C	L	26	2024	Handlová, Slovakia
72	Filip Krivošík	C	R	25	2023	Bratislava, Slovakia
63	Patrik Lamper	LW	L	31	2022	Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
47	Mário Lunter	LW	L	30	2023	Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
12	Danick Martel	LW	L	30	2024	Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
23	Tomáš Mikúš	C	L	31	2023	Skalica, Slovakia
6	Blake Parlett	D	R	35	2024	Bracebridge, Ontario, Canada
8	Simon Petras	RW	R	28	2024	Bratislava, Slovakia
39	Brett Pollock	C	L	28	2022	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
20	Peter Repčík	C	L	20	2024	Košice, Slovakia
33	Dominik Riečický	G	L	32	2020	Košice, Czechoslovakia
77	Patrik Rogon	RW	L	28	2021	Žilina, Slovakia
44	Mislav Rosandić	D	L	29	2024	Zagreb, Croatia
71	Eduard Šedivý	D	L	32	2021	Myjava, Czechoslovakia
92	Eduard Šimun	C	L	29	2023	Topoľčany, Slovakia
62	Josh Teves	D	L	29	2024	Calgary, Alberta, Canada