Olomouc

== Sport ==
[[File:Andruv stadion 3.jpg|thumb|[[Andrův stadion]]]]
Olomouc is home to the professional football club [[SK Sigma Olomouc]] playing in the [[Czech First League]]. Its reserve team, SK Sigma Olomouc B, plays in the [[Czech National Football League]]. Sigma Olomouc plays its home matches at [[Andrův stadion]] with a capacity of 12,474 seats, which regularly hosts international matches as well. The second football club in the city is [[1. HFK Olomouc]].

The city's ice hockey club is [[HC Olomouc]], playing in the [[Czech Extraliga]] (top tier). It plays its home matches at [[Zimní stadion Olomouc]]. [[RC Olomouc]] is a rugby club, playing in the third-tier competition.

On the north west side and adjacent of the Andrův stadion was a facility called the [[Spartakiad Stadium]], which was built after World War II. The stadium was used for various purposes and promoted the [[Spartakiad (Czechoslovakia)]], most notably during the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olomoucky.rej.cz/clanky/historie/2608-spartakiada-1960-olomouci-prosel-pruvod-24-tisic-cvicencu-zaujaly-dorostenky-s-obrucemi |title=Spartakiad 1960: A parade of 24,000 trainees passed through Olomouc. Teen girls with hoops were interested |website=Oolomoucky.rej|access-date=30 March 2024}}</ref> The site also held [[motorcycle speedway]] and hosted a final round of the [[Czech Republic Individual Speedway Championship|Czechoslovak Individual Speedway Championship]] in 1964, 1968 and 1969.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historyspeedway.nstrefa.pl/indmczechoslowacji.php|title=Individual Czechoslovak Championship |website=Historia Sportu Zuzlowego|access-date=30 March 2024}}</ref>