Tatra Cup

The Tatra Cup (Slovak: Tatranský pohár) is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Poprad, Slovakia. It is the second oldest European club tournament, after the Spengler Cup. 
The first installment took place in 1929 in Novy Smokovec. Between the years 1932 and 1935 there were two different tournaments held, a national one and international one. There were only two tournaments held from 1952 to 1968 because of the organizational problems, both of them won by Sparta Praha Sokolovo. In later years international teams started to participate as well, e.g. Kölner EC in 1969. One year later for the first time a Swedish team played at the Tatra Cup – Surahammars IF, together with German SC Riessersee.
After a new hockey stadium was build in Poprad in 1973, conditions for the organization of the tournament improved considerably. In the anniversary year of the tournament 1979 a hockey club from East Germany Dynamo Weißwasser was invited.
Nowadays, the Tatra Cup is taking place every year in late August as a preparatory tournament for the next season, at which mostly the Czech and Slovak teams take part.
== Tatra Cup winners ==
Season/Year	Type 	Winner
	1929/1930 		international		 	Slavia Praha
	1930/1931 		international		 	LTC Praha
	1931/1932 		international		 	LTC Praha
	1932/1933 		international		 	SK Prostějov
	1932/1933 		national 		 	Skiklub Bratislava
	1933/1934 		international		 	Slavia Praha
	1933/1934 		national 		 	AC Nitra
	1934/1935 		international		 	EKE Wien
	1934/1935 		national 		 	ŠK Vysoké Tatry
	1935/1936 		international		 	HC Tatry
	1936/1937 		national 		 	HC Tatry
	1937/1938 		national 		 	HC Tatry
	1938/1939 		national 		 	HC Tatry
	1939/1940 		national 		 	not played
	1940/1941 		international		 	ŠK Slávia Prešov
	1941/1942 		national 		 	HC Tatry
	1942/1943 		national 		 	HC Tatry1
	1945/1946 		national 		 	SK Prostějov
	1946/1947 		national 		 	HC Tatry
	1949/1950 		national 		 	LTC Praha
	1950/1951 		national 		 	Sparta Praha Sokolovo
	1951/1952 		national 		 	SK Prostějov
	1957/1958 		national 		 	Sparta Praha Sokolovo
	1958/1959 		international		 	Sparta Praha Sokolovo
	1968/1969 		international		 	VŽKG Ostrava
	1969/1970 		international		 	Slovak National Team
	1974 		international		 	Slovan CHZJD Bratislava
	1975 		international		 	Slovan CHZJD Bratislava
	1976 		international		 	Czechoslovak National Team
	1977 		international		 	Czechoslovak National Team
	1978 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1979 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1980 		international		 	Sparta Praha
	1981 		international		 	Slezan STS Opava
	1982 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1983 		international		 	Dinamo Riga
	1984 		international		 	Tesla Pardubice
	1985 		international		 	HC Dukla Trenčín
	1986 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1987 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1988 		international		 	VSŽ Košice
	1989 		international		 	HK Sokol Kiev
	1990 		international		 	ŠK Slovan Bratislava
	1991 		international		 	Czechoslovakia U-20
	1992 		international		 	HC Košice
	1993 		international		 	HC Košice
	1994 		international		 	Slovakia U-20
	1995 		international		 	HC ŠKP PS Poprad
	1996 		international		 	HC Dukla Trenčín
	1997 		international		 	HC Slovan Bratislava
	1998 		international		 	HC Slovan Bratislava
	1999 		international		 	Slovak Olympic Team
	2000 		international		 	HC ŠKP Poprad
	2001 		international		 	HC ŠKP Poprad
	2002 		international		 	HC Vítkovice
	2003 		international		 	HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk
	2004 		international		 	Slovakia U-23
	2005 		international		 	HK Tatravagónka ŠKP Poprad
	2006 		international		 	HC Vítkovice
	2007 		international		 	HC Vítkovice
	2008 		international		 	HC Košice
	2009 		international		 	HC Vítkovice Steel
	2010 		international		 	HC Oceláři Třinec
	2011 		international		 	Kölner Haie
	2012 		national 		 	HK Poprad
	2013 		international		 Graz 99ers
	2014 		international		 HK Poprad
	2015 		international		 Graz 99ers
	2016 		international		 	Lahti Pelicans
	2017 		international		 	HC Košice
	2018 		international		 HK Poprad
	2019 		international		 DVTK Jegesmedvék
	2020 		national 		 HK Poprad
	2021 		international		 HC Pustertal
2022 	international	HC '05 Banská Bystrica
2023 	international	HK Poprad
1. HC Tatry is sometimes documented as having won the 1943 Tatra Cup, although there are no contemporary references of a tournament having been played that year.
==Performances==
===By club (international tournaments)===
Club 	Won	Years won
HC Košice 	10 	1978, 1979, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1992, 1993, 2008, 2017
HK Poprad 	7 	1995, 2000, 2001, 2005, 2014, 2018, 2023
HC Vítkovice 	5 	1968/1969, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2009
Slovak National Team 	4 	1969/1970, 1994, 1999, 2004
HC Slovan Bratislava 	4 	1974, 1990, 1997, 1998
HC Sparta Praha 	4 	1935/1936, 1958/1959, 1959/1960, 1980
Czechoslovak National Team	3 	1976, 1977, 1991
HC Slavia Praha 	2 	1929/1930, 1933/1934
LTC Praha 	2 	1930/1931, 1931/1932
HK Dukla Trenčín 	2 	1985, 1996
Graz 99ers 	2 	2013, 2015
SK Prostějov 	1 	1932/1933
EKE Wien 	1 	1934/1935
ŠK Slávia Prešov 	1 	1940/1941
Slezan STS Opava 	1 	1981
Dinamo Riga 	1 	1983
Tesla Pardubice 	1 	1984
HC Sokol Kiev 	1 	1989
HC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk	1 	2003
HC Oceláři Třinec 	1 	2010
Kölner Haie 	1 	2011
Lahti Pelicans 	1 	2016
DVTK Jegesmedvék 	1 	2019
HC Pustertal 	1 	2021
HC '05 Banská Bystrica 	1 	2022
===By club (national tournaments)===
Club 	Won	Years won
HC Tatry 	5 	1936/1937, 1937/1938, 1938/1939, 1941/1942, 1946/1947
SK Prostějov 	2 	1945/46, 1951/1952
HK Poprad 	2 	2012, 2020
Skiklub Bratislava 	1 	1932/1933
AC Nitra 	1 	1933/1934
ŠK Vysoké Tatry 	1 	1934/1935
LTC Praha 	1 	1949/1950
HC Sparta Praha 	1 	1950/1951
Slovan CHZJD Bratislava	1 	1975
===By country (international tournaments)===
Nation	Winners
 	27
 	18
 	5
 	3
 	2
 	1
 	1
 	1
 	1
 	1
== External links == 
* History of Slovak hockey
* Tatranský pohár - history
Category:Tournaments