Pavel Horák

Pavel Horák

Pavel Horák (2018)
Player information
birthday	November 28, 1982
place of birth	Přerov , Czechoslovakia
citizenship	Czech
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	THW Kiel
Jersey number	28
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1991-1996	HC Přerov
1996-2001	Baník Karviná
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2001-2006	Baník Karviná
2006-2007	Ahlener SG
2007-2013	Fresh on Göppingen
2013-2015	Foxes Berlin
2015-2017	HC Erlangen
2017-2019	Brest GK Meshkov
2019–	THW Kiel
National team
Debut on	November 19, 2004
against	Hungary
	Games (goals)
Czech Republic	130 (352)
Status: July 22, 2020

Pavel Horák (born November 28, 1982 in Přerov , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech handball player . He is 1.98 m tall.

Horák is mostly used in the left back space.

Pavel Horák started playing handball in his hometown at HC Přerov. Later he came into the youth of serial master Baník Karviná, where he also made his debut in the Czech first division. There he won the Czech championship in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006 and the Czech Cup in 2001 and 2002. In 2006 he moved for one season to Ahlener SG in the German 2nd handball Bundesliga before joining the first division club Frisch Auf Göppingen in 2007. With Göppingen he won the EHF Cup in 2011 and 2012 . For the 2013/14 season he moved to Füchsen Berlin, with whom he won the DHB Cup in 2014 and the EHF Europe Cup in 2015 . From the 2015/16 season until the end of the 2016/17 season, Horak played for HC Erlangen . In summer 2017 he then moved to the Belarusian club Brest GK Meschkow , with which he won the Belarusian championship and the Belarusian cup in 2018.

For the 2019/20 season he moved to the German record champions THW Kiel , with whom he signed a one-year contract. With Kiel he won the German championship in 2020.

Pavel Horák has played 130 international matches for the Czech national team so far. With the Czech Republic he also took part in the 2007 World Cup in Germany and the 2008 European Championship in Norway , but retired from the former in the main round and the latter in the preliminary round.

Bundesliga record

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2007/08	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	32	111	5	106
2008/09	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	34	160	5	155
2009/10	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	8th	18th	0	18th
2010/11	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	20th	91	0	91
2011/12	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	26th	112	0	112
2012/13	Fresh on Göppingen	Bundesliga	26th	132	0	132
2013/14	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	22nd	78	0	78
2014/15	Foxes Berlin	Bundesliga	24	54	0	54
2016/17	HC Erlangen	Bundesliga	33	72	1	71
2007-2017	total	Bundesliga	225	828	11	817

Web links

• Pavel Horák in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Pavel Horák on the THW Kiel website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International match statistics by Pavel Horák. Český svaz házené, July 22, 2020, accessed on July 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Füchse Berlin set the course for the future. Reinickendorfer Füchse Handball Vermarktungsgesellschaft mbH, January 10, 2013, accessed on January 11, 2013 . 
3. ↑ hc-erlangen.de: World class approaching: Pavel Horák joins HC Erlangen on June 3, 2015, accessed on June 3, 2015
4. ↑ handball-world.com: HC Erlangen separates from backcourt player , from December 16, 2016, accessed on December 16, 2016
5. ↑ handball-world.news: Pavel Horák changes to THW Kiel on April 9, 2019, accessed on April 9, 2019