Hockey Club Banes Motor ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice is a professional men's ice hockey club based in ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice, Czech Republic.
The long history started in 1911, when group of young gymnasium students devised a plan to start a bandy team. Their first hockey rinks were situated exactly where the Malà ¡e river and Vltava river merge. Dr. ZdenÃÂk ÃÂerný was the first coach, manager, as well as a player of the team. The bandy club lasted until World War I. Some of the first victims of the war were players from ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice such as ÃÂda Schrabal, Karel Selinka, Jan VrkoÃÂ, and Leo Feigl.
On 3 December 1921 SK ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice played its first amateur ice hockey match in Strakonice.
On 10 January 1928 a club known as AC Stadion ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice was founded by the merging two clubs in ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice - Viktoria and Slovan. The club joined Czechoslovak First Ice Hockey League, the nation's top ice hockey league, in 1936. In their first season, they finished third behind LTC Praha and AC Sparta Praha.
In the 1950âÂÂ51 season, the club, now called SKP ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice, won its first and only championship in any top-tier league. The club has failed to finish higher than third place (1952âÂÂ53) in the highest league ever since.
After a disastrous 1962âÂÂ63 season in which the team won none of the 32 games, the club was relegated to the Czechoslovak Second League until 1968. Overall, HC ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice had been relegated to the second-tier league five other times since the 1958-59 season ; in each case the club re-earned promotion to the top league the following season.
Although it lost in the semifinals of the 2007âÂÂ08 Czech Extraliga season, HC ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice qualified for the 2008âÂÂ09 Champions Hockey League as the winner of the regular season. However, its success was short-lived, as it finished eleventh and survived a relegation round the following season.
Following the 2012âÂÂ13 season, the Czech Extraliga reached a sponsorship deal with Radegast to sell its beer in all Extraliga arenas. This agreement conflicted with the deal ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice already had with Budweiser Budvar Brewery for their arena. Under the agreement, the club and the city of ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice would face stiff penalties for selling any beer other than Radegast products. Unable to resolve the dispute, the club decided on 18 June 2013 that no new agreement could be reached between the parties involved and voted to immediately relocate to Hradec Králové for the 2013-14 season.
In July 2013, plans were unveiled to resume professional hockey in ÃÂeské BudÃÂjovice, with a club playing in the Czech First National League.
Czechoslovak Second Ice Hockey League Championship (4): 1960, 1968, 1970, 1992 <br> 1st Czech Republic Hockey League Championship (4): 2005, 2017, 2019, 2020
<small>As of 4 March 2026.</small>