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Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal ( Sports Club Slavia Prague – Football, pronounced [ ˈslaːvɪja ˈpraɦa ] ), normally known as Slavia Praha or Slavia Prague, is a czech professional football golf club in Prague. Founded in 1892, they are the second most successful club in the Czech Republic since its independence in 1993. [ 1 ]

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They play in the Czech First League, the highest contest in the Czech Republic. They play the Prague bowler hat with Sparta Prague, an crucial competition in Czech football. Slavia has won 21 titles, several Czech cups, and the Mitropa Cup in 1938. The club has won seven league titles since the initiation of the Czech league in 1993. They have besides reached the semi-finals of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup and qualified for the 2007–08 UEFA Champions League group stage for the first time in their history. In 2019, Slavia reached the quarter-finals of the 2018–19 UEFA Europa League and besides qualified for the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League group stage for the second time in their history. They once again reached the Europa League quarter-finals in 2020–21. In the title-winning 2020-21 the team completed an stallion season undefeated and set a czech record for the longest top-flight unbeaten league run at 54 games between 2020 and 2021. [ 2 ] In addition to their men ‘s police squad, Slavia Prague has military reserve, youth, and women ‘s teams .

history

Slavia was founded on 2 November 1892 by medicine students in Vinohrady, Prague, as a frolic club aimed at increasing sport natural process among students. initially the club focused on motorbike, and expanded to football in 1896. [ 3 ] On 25 March of that year, Slavia won their first match against AC Prague 5–0. [ 3 ] Four days late, Slavia played against Sparta Prague, with the match finishing 0–0, this match being the begin of the competition between these two clubs. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1905, Scottish coach and former Celtic actor Jake Madden brought new tactics and views on football from his home state to the cabaret . SK Slavia Prague team in 1901 He managed to set up an early aureate age for the club that lasted 25 years. Under Madden Slavia won 134 domestic matches out of a total of 169, and 304 internationals out of 429 between the years 1905 and 1930. In 1930, Madden retired from Slavia and master football at the old age of 66, though he remained in Prague for the pillow of his life. In the 1934 World Cup, the Czechoslovak national team included eight Slavia players. The second golden period came when Slavia bought Josef Bican from Admira Vienna. Slavia with Bican won titles in 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1943, while many football players were at war. In 1951 Slavia finished in 11th position in the league. Poor results continued during the 1950s and 1960s when Slavia were relegated doubly, in 1961 and 1963. They following played in the top grade of football in 1965. In 1996, Slavia won their 14th title after 49 years. [ 6 ] During this season, Slavia played in the semi-final of the UEFA Cup and four players of this team had bad importance for the silver medal medal-winning Czech team from UEFA Euro 1996. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Slavia participated in the qualify rounds for the UEFA Champions League five times ( 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005 ), being eliminated each time until finally qualifying for the group stage in the 2007–08 season following a 3–1 aggregate victory over Ajax in the third base qualify turn. For the group stage, Slavia were drawn in Group H along with Arsenal, Steaua București and Sevilla. They started with a 2–1 win at home against Steaua and a 4–2 loss to Sevilla. following came two matches against Arsenal ; Slavia lost 7–0 at the Emirates Stadium, but in the second base leg they managed to draw 0–0. In Bucharest came a 1–1 tie, which qualified the Czech team for the UEFA Cup round of 32, from one-third rate in Group H, in cattiness of a home 0–3 defeat against Sevilla. In October 2006, the construction of the new and long-awaited stadium at Eden for 21,000 spectators began. The stadium was opened on 7 May 2008 with an exhibition equal against Oxford University. [ 9 ] In the 2007–08 and 2008–09, Slavia were back-to-back Czech champions, although they did not play in the Champions League group stage due to elimination in the qualifying rounds by Fiorentina ( 0–2 on aggregate in 2008–09 ) and Sheriff Tiraspol ( 1–1 on away goals dominion in 2009–10 ). In the 2009–10 season the golf club managed lone seventh seat in the league. In the fall of 2010, the club found itself in crisis due to its economic problems. It was discovered that Slavia owed 112 million Czech koruna to the club ‘s erstwhile owner, ENIC Sports Ltd ( English National Investment Company ). [ 10 ] As a result of this, major cost-cutting was needed to service this debt and it was confirmed that the police squad would need to be purged. [ 10 ] In addition to the players sold, midfielder Petr Trapp left the clubhouse mid-season, claiming that Slavia had not paid his wages for three months. [ 11 ] On 5 May 2011, a cup semi-final against Olomouc was abandoned due to fans storming the pitch in protest against the deteriorating fiscal situation of the club. [ 12 ] In September 2015, CEFC China Energy Company bought the team. Since November 2018, the baseball club owners have been the Sinobo Group and CITIC Group .

diachronic names

  • 1892 – SK ACOS Praha (Sportovní klub Akademický cyklistický odbor Slavia Praha)
  • 1893 – SK Slavia Praha (Sportovní klub Slavia Praha)
  • 1948 – Sokol Slavia Praha
  • 1949 – ZSJ Dynamo Slavia Praha (Základní sportovní jednota Dynamo Slavia Praha)
  • 1953 – DSO Dynamo Praha (Dobrovolná sportovní organizace Dynamo Praha)
  • 1954 – TJ Dynamo Praha (Tělovýchovná jednota Dynamo Praha)
  • 1965 – SK Slavia Praha (Sportovní klub Slavia Praha)
  • 1973 – TJ Slavia Praha (Tělovýchovná jednota Slavia Praha)
  • 1977 – TJ Slavia IPS Praha (Tělovýchovná jednota Slavia Inženýrské průmyslové stavby Praha)
  • 1978 – SK Slavia IPS Praha (Sportovní klub Slavia Inženýrské průmyslové stavby Praha)
  • 1991 – SK Slavia Praha (Sportovní klub Slavia Praha – fotbal, a.s.)

Club symbols

ease up of SK Slavia Prague. The club ‘s colours, red and white, were chosen as standing for the heart and blood, and fair play and sportsmanship respectively. The inverted five-pointed ace was intended to symbolise “ new hope, everlastingly strengthening the mind and uplifting the spirit. ” [ 3 ] The mention “ Slavia ” is a latin condition used in older literature to denote the lands inhabited by Slavs. [ 13 ]

Supporters and rivalries

Slavia ‘s greatest rivals are Sparta Prague, with whom they contest the Prague bowler hat. A local Vršovice bowler hat is besides contested between Slavia and Bohemians 1905, whose stadium is situated a kilometer from Eden. [ 14 ] Slavia is widely misconceived as being a jewish club among other fans, peculiarly Sparta fans, and its fans and players are much subjected to anti-semitic mistreat. however, the club was not founded by Jews nor did it have any jewish history. Football historian Vladimír Zapotocký commented in an interview that were this the case, the Nazis would have shut the baseball club down during the wartime occupation, as they did with DFC Prag. The association stems from a friendly pit played against West Ham United in 1922, when Slavia insured the match against adverse weather conditions, and the match was later cancelled ascribable to rain. They then agreed with West Ham to play the repair the following day, while besides collecting money from the insurance caller for cancelling the regular. A week former in a Prague bowler hat fixture, Slavia were greeted onto the pitch by chants of “ vy židi ! ” ( “ you Jews ! ” ) from the Sparta fans. [ 15 ] In modern times, Slavia developed affinity with Hajduk Split .

Cooperations

In May 2018 a strategic cooperation with chinese club Beijing Sinobo Guoan for both professional and youth level football started. [ 16 ]

Players

stream team

As of 8 September 2021[17]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loanword

bill : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Reserve squad

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Plánička Lála Cipro Kubík Jarolím Kopecký

Veselý Knoflíček Puč Košek Bican[18] All clock best Slavia ‘s eleven selected by fans at the 125th club anniversary For the reserve team of SK Slavia Prague, see SK Slavia Prague B

noteworthy former players

For all players with a Wikipedia article, see class : SK Slavia Prague players The best know Slavia player of all time is possibly forward Josef “ Pepi ” Bican, one of the most prolific goalscorers in the history of football. other celebrated players include ahead Antonín Puč, goalkeeper František Plánička ( both of them members of the Czechoslovakia national team in two World Cups ) and midfielder František Veselý. other big names in club history are Karel Jarolím, Ivo Knoflíček, Vladimír Šmicer, Karel Poborský, Patrik Berger, Vladimír Coufal and Tomáš Souček. [ 3 ] [ 19 ]

player records in the Czech First League

As of 30 May 2021.[20]

Most blank sheets

ownership and finances

Under the Czech jurisdiction the club ‘s legal form is a joint-stock company ( update 1 August 2020 ) with the largest stockholder being the chinese real estate Sinobo Group, [ 21 ] which has on 11 November 2018 purchased a majority venture from CITIC, at the clock time holding 99.98 % of the 212,074 stocks worth of CZK 1.514 billion ( annual report from 30 June 2018 ). CITIC remains to be a minority shaholder and the companies did not reveal the distribution of the shares. According to their chair Jinhui Zhou, the Sinobo business model is a combination of very estate development and sports activities. [ 22 ] In a similar business model, Sinobo owns 64 % of the shares in the taiwanese club Beijing Guoan where the 36 % minority belongs to CITIC. Sinobo besides holds the name rights of the stadium, the Sinobo Stadium. The chinese investment activeness in Slavia has first started in September 2005, when a individual conglomerate CEFC acquired 59.97 % shares of the cabaret through its Czech subordinate CEFC Group ( Europe ) Company a.s. from Aleš Řebíček for CZK 27 million. Through the naturally of the years, the share has increased to 67 % and 80 %, and on 22 November 2016 CEFC has capitalized its loan into the fairness and increased their shares to 99.96 % which made them the lone owner. In early 2018, it turned out that CEFC had serious fiscal problems and CITIC bought the club and arena. In late 2018, CITIC transferred Slavia ‘s majority interest to the chinese company Sinobo Group. Slavia ‘s fiscal results for the 2017–18 temper express group tax income of CZK 837.4 million, with a net income before tax of CZK < 366.7 > million .
Financial data in CZK millions[23]

Year

2020-21

2019-20

2018-19

2017–18

2016–17

2015–16

2014–15

Revenue

942.133

837.390

430.070

204.806

137.909

Net Income

156.0 [24]

<219.208>

<366.376>

<263.442>

<117.099>

<61.503>

Assets

1,024.278

605.796

610.835

386.571

211.416

Employees

114

108

125

115

118

management

The baseball club ‘s stream director is Jindřich Trpišovský, who joined the cabaret in December 2017 from Slovan Liberec. He replaced Jaroslav Šilhavý, who was appointed in September 2016 and moved on to manage the Czech national team. There have been 65 managers in Slavia ‘s history. The golf club ‘s first professional coach, Jake Madden, was appointed in 1905, serving in that place until 1930. He remains the club ‘s longest-serving coach in terms of both length of tenure and number of games oversee. [ citation needed ]

  • Head Coach: Jindřich Trpišovský
  • Assistant Coach: Jaroslav Köstl
  • Assistant Coach: Zdeněk Houštecký
  • Assistant Coach: Pavel Řehák
  • Goalkeeper Coach: Štěpán Kolář
  • Goalkeeper Coach: Radek Černý
  • Fitness Coach: Martin Třasák
  • Fitness Coach: Aleš Píta

Managerial record of Jindřich Trpišovský in Slavia

From

To

Record[25]

22 Dec 2017

As of match played 15 July 2020

84
60
15
9
171
50

+121

0 71.43

early coaches

Only competitive matches are counted.

Honours

build up in UEFA competitions

Competition

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

GD

WPCT

UEFA Champions League

44

12

12

20

33

61

−28

27.27

UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup

8

3

3

2

11

9

+2

37.50

UEFA Cup / UEFA Europa League

140

52

38

50

175

167

+8

37.14

Total

192

67

53

72

219

237

−18

34.90
Updated to match ( e ) played on 15 April 2021. source : UEFA.com

UEFA club coefficient

As of 15 April 2021.[28]

baseball club records

  • Biggest win: Fenerbahçe 1–10 Slavia Prague (1923)

Czech First League records

Notes

  1. ^ Sešívaní means “ stitched together ”, referring to the dwelling kit with a crimson half and white one-half which were traditionally sewed in concert .

References