Primarily the lack of funds did not allow to management improvement of club cadre and the main coach resigned.

[4] Despite the departure of a number of players abroad in 2003, Kladno continued to perform well and celebrated return to the Czech highest-level league.

Jaromír Jágr played for his hometown Kladno for parts of four seasons, including during the NHL lockouts in 1994, 2004, and 2012.

In January 2018, Jágr was assigned to HC Kladno after a partial season with the Calgary Flames.

When the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia seized the Czechoslovak government in 1948, private sports clubs were reorganized as tělovýchovných jednot (TJ, lit.

The following year, the club became associated with the United Steelworks (Spojené ocelárny, národní podnik, SONP), a national enterprise which operated the former Poldi [cs; de] steelworks in Kladno, and its name was expanded to TJ Sokol SONP Kladno.

Following the Velvet Revolution in 1989, the club returned to private ownership and was called HC Poldi Kladno.