Two thousand fans welcome home Plzeň after dramatic Extraliga title win

Over 2,000 fans welcomed Plzeň’s ice hockey team to the West Bohemian city in the early hours of Monday morning, hours after they had won the Extraliga for the first time ever. Plzeň took the title following a fairytale 4:3 victory over Zlín on Sunday in the last game of the best-of-seven playoff final. The highly dramatic match went to two overtime periods and was decided after a record 96 minutes 15 seconds.