Holding three European Cup titles, Kometa ranks as the most successful Czech club in international ice hockey.

For many years, the team struggled due to poor financing and multiple changes of owners, facing relegation again in 2001–2002.

The club almost ceased to exist, playing in the East division of the third-highest Czech ice hockey league.

On 1 April 2009, Kometa bought the licence for another South Moravian club, HC Znojemští Orli.

[3] In March 2012, the team managed to defeat HC Sparta Praha, the winner of the 2011–12 Czech Extraliga regular season, in six games, qualifying for the playoff semifinals.