Спарта / Sparta AC Praha

Full name AC Sparta Praha fotbal, a.s.

Nickname(s) Železná Sparta (Iron Sparta)
Founded 1893
Ground Toyota Arena, Prague
Capacity 20,111
Chairman Jozef Chovanec
Manager Michal Bílek
League Gambrinus liga
2005-06 Gambrinus liga, 5th

AC Sparta Praha (English: Sparta Prague) is the most popular and most successful Czech football club and one of the most successful clubs in Central and Eastern Europe. Sparta was long the main source for the Czechoslovakia national football team and, after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic national football team, however lately this has ceased to be the case, as the best Czech players almost all now play in higher-paying foreign leagues. There is a number of outstanding players which played for the team in the history. Sparta plays at Prague's Toyota Arena (called Letná Stadium).