ISBHF | International Street & Ball Hockey Federation
Welcome to the city of Most!
Welcome to the city of Most, Czech Republic, which this year host the hockeyball World Championships in the U18 and U16 categories. The city of Most is situated approximately 90 km from Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Most has 70 thousand inhabitants and is one of the industrial centres of the region known mainly for its coal mining and petrochemical industries.
Most is a modern dynamic city with all kinds of sports to interest a variety of tastes. Most can boast to having many sport centres and facilities and every year hosts the FIA the European Truck Racing Championship at the motor racing circuit (Autodrom Most). The Most horseracing course – hippodrome (Hipodrom Most) is famous in the Czech Republic and holds most of the most important national horse races over flat, obstacle and steeplechase courses.
Most has its own women’s handball team which plays in the Czech Premier League. The city’s football team plays in the Republic's second highest league as does our (is it ice hockey?) hockey team. The city of Most also has some great individual sportsmen and women in various sports such as kickboxing and athletics among other sports.
The city of Most has a ball street hockey tradition stretching back more than 20 years, including ten years playing in a special hockeyball arena at the highest national level – the extraleague. The Most club won third place in the 2003 Champions league and in the seasons 2002/2003 and 2008/2009 they finished in third place in the extraleague. The younger members of Most’s hockeyball club are also very successful. The juniors were twice champions of the Czech Republic and finished in third place in another season. The youth team finished in second and third place in recent seasons. The club has 21 players who were members of the Czech national ball street hockey team at the World and European Championships from which they brought back medals. Eight of them in the senior category and 13 in the under 16 and under 18 categories. Two of Most’s players, Slavomír Švancar and Aleš Kypet, won gold medals at the 2009 Pilsen World Championships in the senior category.
Litvínov, near Most, is the second biggest town in region and is well
known for its ice hockey team which has been playing in the highest Czech national hockey league (extraleague) for more than 50 years. The Litvínov ice hockey club has produced a number of excellent players who have became world champions, Olympic Games winners or have been members of famous NHL teams.