Club facts: Sparta
Sunday, August 1, 2021
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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: 37 (2023)
Czechoslovakian/Czech Cups: 15 (2020)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League unless indicated otherwise)
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: group stage
2019/20: third qualifying round
2018/19: second qualifying round
2017/18: third qualifying round
2016/17: round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2015/16: quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2014/15: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2013/14: second 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 Cup/UEFA Europa League
Biggest home win
5-0: Sparta v Sarajevo
28/07/11, third qualifying round first leg
Biggest away win
1-4: Celtic v Sparta
05/11/20, group stage
0-3 three times, most recently v Lazio
17/03/16, round of 16 second leg
Heaviest home defeat
1-5: Sparta v Liverpool (see above)
Heaviest away defeat
6-1: Liverpool v Sparta (see above)