| HC Rytíři Kladno | |
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| City | Kladno, Czech Republic |
| League | Czech Extraliga |
| Founded | 1924 |
| Home arena | Zimní Stadion |
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| Head coach | Zdeněk Vojta |
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Website www.hc-kladno.cz |
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Rytíři Kladno (Kladno Knights) is a Czech professional ice hockey team based in the city of Kladno. They are currently a member of the Czech Extraliga, the top flight level of ice hockey in the Czech Republic.
Teams in the Czech Extraliga are known by the names of sponsors, which can change periodically; the Kladno team is currently known as Rytíři Kladno ("The Knights"). Their home arena is Zimní Stadion Kladno.
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Kladno was a particularly strong team in the late 1970s, when it won four consecutive league titles (1975–1978), and again in 1980. The team's star, Milan Nový, was league MVP in 1977, 1981, and 1982, and won six scoring titles. František Pospíšil was league MVP in 1971 and 1972. Jaromír Jágr played for his hometown Kladno for part or all of the four seasons he played in Czechoslovakia.
Kladno has produced several National Hockey League (NHL) players, including Jaromír Jágr, Patrik Eliáš, Tomáš Vokoun, Marek Židlický, Radek Smoleňák, Michal Pivoňka, Martin Procházka, Pavel Patera, Milan Hnilička, Tomáš Plekanec, brothers Tomáš and František Kaberle, David Krejčí, Milan Nový, Jaroslav Jiřík, Ondřej Pavelec, Jakub Voráček, Michael Frolík, Jiří Tlustý, Petr Tenkrát, Ivan Huml, Petr Tatíček, Miloslav Hořava, Pavel Skrbek, Zdeněk Nedvěd, Jiří Fischer, Ladislav Kohn.
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