Club facts: Sparta
Monday, January 1, 2024
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AC Sparta Praha
Formed: 1893
Nickname: Železná Sparta (Iron Sparta)
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
None
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)League title: 38 (2024)
Czechoslovakian/Czech Cups: 16 (2024)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2023/24: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2022/23: UEFA Europa Conference League second qualifying round
2021/22: UEFA Europa Conference League knockout play-offs (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round and UEFA Europa League group stage)
2020/21: UEFA Europa League group stage
2019/20: UEFA Europa League third qualifying round
2018/19: UEFA Europa League second qualifying round
2017/18: UEFA Europa League third qualifying round
2016/17: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2015/16: UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2014/15: UEFA Europa League group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
Records
UEFA club competition
Biggest home win
10-0: Sparta v Anorthosis Famagusta
16/09/64, European Cup Winners' Cup preliminary round first leg
Biggest away win
0-6 twice, most recently v Spora Luxembourg
16/09/80, European Cup Winners' Cup first round first leg
Heaviest home defeat
1-5 twice, most recently v Liverpool
07/03/24, UEFA Europa League round of 16 first leg
Heaviest away defeat
6-1: Liverpool v Sparta
14/03/24, UEFA Europa League round of 16 second leg
5-0 three times, most recently v Lyon
08/12/04, UEFA Champions League group stage
UEFA Champions League (group stage to final)
Biggest home win
4-0 twice, most recently v Feyenoord
25/09/01, first group stage
Biggest away win
0-2: Feyenoord v Sparta
17/10/01, first group stage
Heaviest home defeat
0-3: Sparta v Borussia Dortmund
10/12/97, group stage
Heaviest away defeat
5-0 twice, most recently v Lyon (see above)