AC Sparta Prague

**Athletic Club Sparta Praha** (), commonly known as **Sparta Prague**, is a soccer club from the Czech Republic.  It is the most successful football club in the Czech Republic. His nickname is Iron Sparta. His biggest rival is Slavia Prague.

## Accomplishments

The A.C. Sparta Prague has: (_source_:)
- Won 38 Czech and Czechoslovak league titles
- Won 19 Czech and Czechoslovak league cups
- Won 3 Mitropa Cups in Europe
- Played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League knockout rounds

## History

In 1991, Sparta came in third place in the Champions League.  The other finalists were F.C. Barcelona, F.C. Porto, and F.C. Spartak Moscow.

Sparta last won a title in the Czech Republic during the 2013/2014 season.  Sparta also won the Czech League Cup and the Super Cup that season.  Because of this, Sparta fans call the 2013/2014 season the "Sparta treble season."

In the 2015/2016 season of the Europa League, Sparta made it to the quarterfinals but lost to Villarreal C.F.

## Famous players

Famous players who have played for Sparta include Pavel Nedvěd, Jan Koller, Andrej Kvašňák, Jan Berger, Tomáš Rosický, Horst Siegl, Václav Mašek, Jiří Novotný, Jiří Jarošík, Libor Sionko, Wilfried Bony, and Leonard Kweuke.

Sparta's most famous coach was Václav Ježek.

## European cups all-time statistics

The following is a list of the all-time statistics from Sparta's games in the three UEFA tournaments it has participated in, as well as the overall total. The list contains the tournament, the number of seasons (S), games played (P), won (W), drawn (D), and lost (L). The statistics include qualification matches.
- _As of 10 August 2021_

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|scope="row" align="left"|Champions League|146|54|29|63|190|204|–14||||||||
|scope="row" align="left"|Cup Winners' Cup|30|15|5|10|68|32|+36||||||||
|scope="row" align="left"|Europa League|118|48|33|37|169|144|+25||||||||

### UEFA club coefficient ranking

_As of 12.02.2021, Source: _

|Rank|Team|Points|
| --- | --- | --- |
|40|West Ham United|17.713|
|41|Hapoel Be'er Sheva|17.500|
|42|**AC Sparta Prague**|17.500|
|43|BATE Borisov|17.500|
|44|Rapid Wien|17.000|

## References

**Notes**

## Infobox (football club)

- **nickname**: _Železná Sparta_ (Iron Sparta)
 _Rudí_ (The Reds/The Maroons)
_Letná, Letenští_
- **ground**: Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena
- **capacity**: 19,416
- **clubname**: Sparta Prague
- **image size**: 150px
- **fullname**: Athletic Club Sparta Praha Fotbal Joint-stock company#Czech Republic and Slovakia, a.s.
- **owner**: J&T Credit Investments (60%)
Daniel Křetínský (40%)
- **chairman**: Daniel Křetínský
- **chrtitle**: President
- **manager**: Brian Priske
- **mgrtitle**: Head coach
- **league**: Czech First League
- **season**: 2022–23
- **position**: 1:t
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- **current**: 2021–22 AC Sparta Prague season
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