A new season starts in two months, and preseason games begin in early July. Brno, Stare Mesto and Liberec will have a short off-season because they have entered the Inter-Toto Cup. There are some interesting transfer rumours floating around the Czech Republic during the off-season. Grygera (Sparta) might be going to either CSKA Moscow, Arsenal, Juventus or Dortmund. Sverkos (Ostrava) who was one of the top scorers in the league as a 19-year old might be on his way to Lokomotiv Moscow. Olomouc has lost two key players in the back. Rozehnal has left the club for Brugges ($750,000 transfer fee) and Kovac has left for Sparta Praha. Kovac is one of the best young defenders in the Czech league, and he will certainly be missed.
Even though the season just ended about three weeks ago, preperations for the 2003/04 have already started. Brno beat Postorna (Div III) 4-0 a few days ago. Brno hosts Kotajk Abovjan (Armenia) this weekend in the first round of the Inter-Toto Cup.
Anybody got any idea when the fixtures are coming out? I may be in Prague for the first weekend in August and it'd be nice to see a game after failing to the previous two times I was there.
Last season, they started July 28 so I'd imagine you're in luck. They'll probably set the schedule pretty soon.
If you are in Prague during the weekend of August 2nd you will be able to watch Opava at Sparta. Full schedule http://fotbal.idnes.cz/fotbal.asp?y=fotbal/los0203.htm
About Czech Championship I cant find when the transfer period in Czech Championship ends. Can anyone help me? Thanks
Re: About Czech Championship I believe the transfer period ends during the last few days of January, but I am not 100% positive. I don't think anyone can sign new players after the winter break.
CMFS Czech cup started a few days ago... I won't bother posting the results of the first round, but the second round starts today with the first and second division teams... result to come later...
CMFS Czech Cup --- 2nd Round I will only post results of the teams from the first two divisions.... just too many to list! Strizkov (III) 0 Sparta Praha (I) 1 Morke Lazce 0 Opava (II) 3 Mìsto Albrechtice 0 Vitkovice (II) 5 Baník Albrechtice 0 Ostrava (I) 3 Loko Pardubice 0 Jablonec (I) 6 Mutìnice 1 Brno (I) 9 Vyškov 2 Stare Mesto (I) 3 Strakonice 0 Èeské Budìjovice (I) 0 (4-5 on PK's) Prostìjov 0 HFK Olomouc (II) 3 : Èeský Dub 2 Liberec (I) 5 Mladá Boleslav (II) 0 Hradec Kralove (II) 1 Velim 1 Zizkov (I) 3 Choceò 0 AS Pardubice (II) 0 (4-2 on PK's) Sparta Krè (III) 0 Blsany (I) 2 Velké Karlovice 0 Zlin (I) 2 Uherský Brod 2 Kunovice (III) 0 Kladno 0 Pribram (I) 0 (3-4 on PK's) Rakovník 2 Chomutov (II) 4 Most (II) 0 Teplice (I) 0 (6-7 on PK's) Hulín (IV) 1 Sigma Olomouc 9 Náchod 1 Slavia (I) 1 (8-9 on PK's) Trebon 0 Bohemians Praha (II) 1 Interesting to see Slavia and Sparta both struggle in the first round. One can only assume that they both played with mostly reserves... Impressive win by Sigma over a much weaker Hulin club. I think Sigma plays Unicov (Div III) in the next round. I was at the Sigma-Unicov 2nd round game last year and Sigma rolled over Unicov 5-0.
The 03/04 season begins this weekend... Sparta at Teplice Ceske Budejovice at Ostrava Jablonec at Pribram Zlin at Olomouc Zizkov at Slavia Opava at Brno Plzen at Stare Mesto Blsany at Liberec Opava and Plzen are the two promoted teams this year.
Slavia played a virtual reserve team but as the game wore on, several first-team players came on as substitutes. Eventually Kuka equalised with a mere 15 minutes to go. The reason given was that after playing 9 (!) pre-season games in Germany, some of the squad were either injured or tired. As usual, the main ambition is to finally qualify for the Champions League but should they beat Leotar they will face Celta De Vigo - not the best draw they could've had.
Last night's results from the first round of League games : Teplice 1 Sparta 1 Olomouc 2 Zlin 0 Pribram 4 Jablonec 1 Slavia 2 Zizkov 0 Slavia & Olomouc both 2 points ahead of Sparta - long may it continue !! In the Intertoto Cup, Liberec beat Santander 2-1 to progress 3-1 on aggregate, although Synot lost 2-0 to Wolfsburg and are out.
Thanks SS... Did you get a chance to see the Slavia-Zizkov game? I heard that Slavia dominated the match... Ostrava beat Ceske Budjeovice 3-1 today.
Back in Scotland so didn't see the match. Those who did assure me Slavia dominated and looked quite sharp. The first goal was fortunate though, the ball was cleared and deflected off Pitak and into the net. Zizkov appear not to have lost the physical aspects of their game, with Slavia's Brazilian Adauto apparently on the receiving end of some tough tackling. I'm told Ostrava were impressive today. It will be interesting to see how Brno & Liberec perform over the next couple of days. Hopefully this season will be a lot closer - as long as Slavia manage to triumph in the end !
Results from the weekend... Jablonec 0 Sigma 2 Blsany 0 Slavia Praha 2 Plzen 0 Zizkov 2 Brno 3 Synot Stare Mesto 1 Ostrava 1 Liberec 1 Sparta Praha 4 Opava 0 Two games on Monday: Pribram at Teplice Ceske Budejovice at Zlin Good to see Sigma score a few goals and get an important road victory. They struggled all of last year on the road. Sigma and Slavia are tied for first place... Sigma "B" defeated Sparta "B" 2-0 in the second division today. It is always great to beat Sparta... at any level.
3rd Round draw for Czech Cup October 29th FK Tabor - AC Sparta Praha FC Vitkovice - SFC Opava FC MSA Dolni Benesov- FC Banik Ostrava SK Slovan Varnsdorf - FK Jablonec 97 Horacky FK Trebic - 1.FC Brno 1.FK Drnovice - 1.FC Synot Stare Mesto SK Strakonice 1908 - 1.HFK Olomouc SK Hradec Kralove - FC Slovan Liberec FK Agria Chocen - FK Viktoria Zizkov SC Xaverov Horni Pocernice - FK Chmel Blsany CSK Uhersky Brod - FC Tescoma Zlin FK Chomutov - FC Marila Pribram MFK Usti nad Labem - FK Teplice SK UNEX Unicov - SK Sigma Olomouc Bohemians Praha - FC Viktoria Plzen FC Vysocina Jihlava - SK Slavia Praha
Scores from today Teplice 1 Pribram 0 - six yellow cards in the game and Pribram had two players sent off. Zlin 2 Ceske Budejovice 0
A few make-up games from Round 1 were played this week. Liberec 1 Blsany 0 Brno 2 Opava 0 After three games Brno is in first place.
Round 4 Zlin 0 Liberec 0 Brno 2 Zizkov 1 Ostrava 5 Blsany 2 Teplice 2 Opava 0 Plzen 2 Slavia Praha 1 Jablonec 1 Synot 0 Pribram 1 Olomouc 1 Sparta Praha-Ceske Budejovice (played on Monday) Plzen beating Slavia Praha is a huge shock. It appears that Blsany are destined for the second division. Ceske Budejovice are probably not far behind them. Sigma Olomouc came away with a good result on the road. Althought they did have a 1-0 lead until Pribram scored in the 69th minute.
Last game from Round 4th of the Gambrinus Liga (played today) Sparta gets a comfortable 3-0 win over Ceske Budejovice (soon to be playing in the second division!).
Slavia Praha 0 Jablonec 0 Synot 0 Zlin 0 Olomouc 1 Sparta Praha 1 Zizkov 1 Ostrava 2 Blsany 1 Plzen 2 Ceske Budejovice 1 Teplice 1 Opava 3 Pribram 2 Brno at Liberec will be played on Tuesday. A few interesting results this weekend... - Slavia is held at home by Jablonec? - Vyskocil scores in the 90th minute for Olomouc to give them an important tie against Sparta. - Ostrava continues their surprising early season form. - Blsany cannot be saved. They are headed for the second division. - Opava gets their first win of the season.
Slavia Just got back from a couple of weeks in Europe and I caught a Slavia game in Prague. It was earlier in August, a 2-0 home win over Zlin. They were always in control but didn't put them away until late. A good night out. Is their stadium new? It's pretty nice, I thought. Up on the hill by the castle. Is it a sign they're building up? Or is this a case where they need to skimp on players for awhile to pay it off? One other question -- the fans kept chanting something that sounded like "Slavia, go to ho." What's that mean in English?
You must have seen Slavia at the massive Strahov stadium on the hill. Actually, that's not their home ground, which is a smaller, more compact soccer specific stadium which is being rebuilt or built anew over in Prague 10 -- or so I'm told. I haven't been there because when I lived in Prague two years ago Slavia were still playing at Strahov, where I saw them a few times. But the best place to see games at Zizkov on Sunday mornings. Grab a beer and a parky -- and you're off! Of course, it's nice to see Barcelona come to town in the CL against Sparta as well.
Steigs: What you heard is "Slavia, do toho." It means something like "Go to it, Slavia." Anybody who's Czech is better than mine, feel free to correct me. Canadian: Thanks for the Zizkov compliment. However, it appears that the feds finally told them to stop the 10 am nonsense. I wonder if it's still the best place in an all-seater at normal times of the day? There was something in the camaraderie of standing to watch crap soccer while hungover and freezing, but still managing to down a beer by halftime!