Founded1893
Sparta was founded in Prague in 1893 as AC Kralovske Vinohrady and took the Sparta name the following year. It is the most successful club in Czech football with a record 38 Czechoslovak and Czech league titles and 16 domestic cups, and it won the Mitropa Cup, the leading interwar continental competition, three times. Sparta reached the European Cup semi-final in 1992 and plays at the Letna stadium, now known as the epet Arena; its meetings with Slavia are the Prague derby.