Czech Republic national football team

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The Czech Republic national football team ( Czech : Česká fotbalová reprezentace ) represents the Czech Republic in international football. The team is controlled by the Football Association of the Czech Republic ( FAČR ). Historically, the team participated in FIFA and UEFA competitions as Bohemia and Czechoslovakia.

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Following the dissolving of Czechoslovakia, the foremost international contest of the Czech Republic was the UEFA Euro 1996, where they finished runner-up, and they have taken part in every european Championship since. Following the interval, they have featured in one FIFA World Cup, the 2006 tournament .

history [edit ]

1990s [edit ]

When Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the Czech Republic team was formed. They played their first friendly match aside to Turkey on 23 February 1994. The newly formed team played their inaugural home game in Ostrava, against Lithuania, in which they registered their first home win. Their first competitive match was part of the UEFA Euro 1996 qualifying campaign, in which they defeated Malta 6–1 in Ostrava. During the campaign, the Czech Republic registered six wins, three draw, and a defeat against Luxembourg, finishing their modify Group 5 in first place, ahead of group favourites the Netherlands. In the final tournament, hosted by England, the Czechs progressed from the group degree, despite a 2–0 opening game frustration to Germany. They progressed to the UEFA Euro 1996 Final, losing 2–1 to Germany at Wembley Stadium. The Czechs finished third in the 1998 FIFA World Cup qualifying group, behind Spain and Yugoslavia, and subsequently missed the tournament .

2000s [edit ]

The Czech Republic qualified for Euro 2000, winning all of their group games and conceding five goals. [ 3 ] In the finals the team were drawn in Group D, aboard France, the Netherlands and Denmark. [ 4 ] The team lost to the Netherlands after last-minute punishment [ 5 ] and lost the second match against France, which eliminated them from advancing to the hard round. The Czech Republic managed a 2–0 succeed against Denmark in their final game courtesy of two goals from Vladimír Šmicer. [ 5 ] once again, the Czech Republic failed to qualify for the World Cup, this fourth dimension finishing second in their 2002 qualification group, behind Denmark, and then being beaten 1–0 in both legs by Belgium in the UEFA play-offs for a place in the finals. A team settled with Pavel Nedvěd, Jan Koller, Tomáš Rosický, Milan Baroš, Marek Jankulovski, Tomáš Galásek together with the egress of goalkeeper Petr Čech were unbeaten in 2002 and 2003, scoring 53 goals in 19 games and qualifying for Euro 2004 in the march. The Czech Republic went on a 20-game unbeaten streak, which last ended in Dublin on 31 March 2004 in a friendly couple against the Republic of Ireland. [ 6 ] The Czechs entered the Euro finals in Group D, alongside the Netherlands, Germany and Latvia. [ 7 ] The team trailed 2–0 to the Netherlands before winning the game 3–2 and beat Germany in the concluding group match. [ 8 ] The Czech Republic beatnik Denmark in the quarter-final, went into the semi-final against Greece and Tomáš Rosický hit the browning automatic rifle after equitable two minutes, Jan Koller had shots saved by the Greek goalkeeper and Pavel Nedvěd left the pitch injured in the conclusion of the first half. It was not to be as the 90 minutes finished scoreless and Greece won the game in the last minute of the inaugural half of extra-time with a ash grey finish. [ 9 ]
The Czech Republic achieved their record win during the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification ( UEFA ), thrashing Andorra 8–1 in a qualification match in Liberec. In the like catch, Jan Koller became the all-time lead scorekeeper for the national team with his 35th external goal. [ 10 ] At the end of the campaign, after finishing in second set in Group 1 then defeating Norway in a playoff, the Czechs qualified for their first FIFA World Cup. [ 11 ] The team was boosted prior to the play-off matches by the return of Pavel Nedvěd, [ 12 ] who had initially retired from external football after Euro 2004. The police squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany included 18 of the Euro 2004 team which reached the semi-finals. With the team ranked second base in the worldly concern, [ 13 ] they started the tournament with a 3–0 win over the United States. During the game, however, Jan Koller was forced to leave with a hamstring wound, [ 14 ] putting him out of the tournament. In the following game, with Koller absent and Milan Baroš still recovering from injury, the team suffered a 2–0 loss to Ghana. [ 13 ] Baroš returned for the final examination game against Italy which the Czechs had to win to progress. The team were reduced to ten men as Jan Polák was dismissed before half-time for two bookable offences. [ 14 ] Italy went on to win 2–0. Pavel Nedvěd, Karel Poborský and Vratislav Lokvenc retired from the national team after this tournament. [ 15 ] In the qualify crusade for Euro 2008, they finished top of their group, above Germany on tete-a-tete records. The Czech Republic beat co-hosts Switzerland 1–0 in their open game of the final tournament, before being beaten 3–1 by Portugal, meaning that they and Turkey carried identical records going into the final group game. Although the Czechs took a 2–0 lead just past the hour scar and looked set to qualify, Turkey scored three goals in the concluding 15 minutes of the game to win the game 3–2. [ 16 ] The Czechs faced World Cup qualification, being drawn in Group 3, under the guidance of coach Petr Rada. They started with a 0–0 away draw against Northern Ireland, before losing to Poland. A recently goal from Libor Sionko won the following game 1–0 against Slovenia. This was followed by a acquire against San Marino, and a scoreless absorb in Slovenia. In their following peer, against neighbours Slovakia, a 2–1 frustration at home plate left Czech Republic in a parlous qualifying placement. Manager Petr Rada was dismissed and six players were suspended. [ 17 ] Ivan Hašek took irregular charge as coach, [ 18 ] gaining four points from his first two matches, as the team drew away to group leaders Slovakia and thrashed San Marino 7–0 in Uherské Hradiště. They subsequently beat Poland in Prague but followed this solution with a scoreless draw against Northern Ireland, finishing third in the group and failing to qualify for the World Cup. Hašek announced his contiguous resignation. [ 19 ]

2010s [edit ]

A changed team under Michal Bílek entered the Euro 2012 qualifiers and began with a home loss to Lithuania. But a win at home to Scotland was followed by wins against Liechtenstein. Spain defeated Czech Republic in between the Liechtenstein games, but the play-off spot was still in their hands. In the next bet on, a last minute penalty from Michal Kadlec away to Scotland secured a 2–2 draw. [ 20 ] Despite Scotland winning their adjacent two games and the Czechs again being defeated by Spain, the team could finish second if they could beat Lithuania away from home in the concluding game, assuming Spain would beat Scotland at home. Spain won 3–1 and Czech Republic defeated Lithuania 4–1 to seal second spot and a place in the play-offs. Czech Republic were drawn to face Montenegro in the two-legged play-off. A goal from Václav Pilař and a last minute irregular from Tomáš Sivok helped the Czechs to a 2–0 first leg lead. In the moment leg in Podgorica, a recently goal from Petr Jiráček sealed a 1–0 gain and the Czechs ran out 3–0 aggregate winners and qualified for Euro 2012. At the tournament, the Czechs lost their opening game 4–1 to Russia, with their only finish coming from Václav Pilař. In their second match, against Greece, the Czech Republic went 2–0 up within the first six minutes thanks to goals from Petr Jiráček and a second from Pilař. Following the half-time substitution of captain Tomáš Rosický, Greece scored a second-half goal following a mistake from Czech goalkeeper Petr Čech, although there were no more goals and the Czech Republic recorded their first winnings of the tournament. [ 21 ] Going into their third and final group match, the Czech Republic needed at least a draw against co-hosts Poland to advance to the knock-out stagecoach of the tournament. A second-half strike by Jiráček proved the dispute between the teams as the Czechs ran out 1–0 winners. Due to Greece beating Russia in the other group game, the Czech Republic subsequently finished top of Group A, [ 22 ] becoming the first team to ever win a group at the european Championships with a negative goal dispute. [ 23 ] The Czech team faced Portugal in the quarter-finals. Portugal finally made the discovery with 11 minutes remaining through a header from Cristiano Ronaldo to win the meet 1–0 and eliminate Czech Republic. Bílek stayed on as bus, despite unrest amongst fans, and was tasked with qualifying for the 2014 World Cup. [ 24 ] The Czechs were drawn into UEFA Qualifying Group B along with Italy, Denmark, Bulgaria, Armenia and Malta. The begin of the campaign was [ 24 ] two scoreless draws with Denmark and Bulgaria, paired with a narrow succeed against Malta, capping off their first three games. The team then lost 0–3 to Denmark at home. The team was able to win against Armenia and draw with group leaders Italy, but lost to both Armenia and Italy in the rematches. [ 24 ] Bílek resigned [ 24 ] after the passing and was replaced with adjunct passenger car Josef Pešice. [ 25 ] In their last two games with their newfangled coach, the Czechs recorded wins over Malta and Bulgaria but lost to Italy, leaving them in third base place and ending their reservation hopes. Pešice resigned as coach following the decision of qualifying. Pavel Vrba was appointed as the team ‘s new coach on the first day of 2014, ahead of Euro 2016 qualifying. [ 26 ] The Czech team was drawn into [ 27 ] Group A, along with Netherlands, Turkey, Iceland, Latvia and Kazakhstan. The Czech team began with a winnings, defeating Netherlands, and followed up with victories over Turkey, Kazakhstan and Iceland, leaving them as group leaders with utmost points after four matches. A draw at home against Latvia followed ; however, Czech Republic remained group drawing card, and on 6 September 2015, qualified for their sixth european Championship. They merely got one detail from a draw with Croatia, losing to Spain and Turkey. During a friendly equal against Australia on 1 June 2018, the Czechs recorded their biggest defeat losing 0–4 in Sankt Pölten, Austria. [ 28 ] It was surpassed during their first modifier for Euro 2020, as they were beaten 0–5 at Wembley Stadium by England. [ 29 ]

team visualize [edit ]

Since 1994, the Czech Republic home kit has primarily been loss shirts, with either blue or crimson shorts. While their away kit has been white shirts with blank shorts. Although the team wore aristocratic shorts for a short period between 2010 and 2011. In 2020 the team introduced a new alternate semblance as the aside kit for the first base time. [ 30 ]

Stadiums [edit ]

Ten different cities hosted national team matches of the Czech Republic between 1994 and 2011. [ 31 ] The most commonly-used stadium is Generali Arena, the home stadium of AC Sparta Prague. As of 3 June 2014, the team has played 36 of 92 home matches there. Since 2012, competitive games have besides been held Doosan Arena, Plzeň. Stadiums which have hosted Czech Republic international football matches :

current competitions [edit ]

2022 FIFA World Cup qualification [edit ]

UEFA
Rules for classification: source : FIFA Rules for categorization : Tiebreakers

Results and fixtures [edit ]

2021 [edit ]

2022 [edit ]

Coaching staff [edit ]

Coaching history [edit ]

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

The play along squad was called up for the matches against Kuwait and Estonia on 11 and 16 November 2021. [ 32 ] [ 33 ]

recent call-ups [edit ]

The following players have besides been called up to the Czech Republic police squad within the last twelve months :

INJ = Withdrew due to an injury.
PRE = Preliminary squad.
RET = Retired from international football.
WD = Withdrew due to non-injury related reasons.

Player statistics [edit ]

As of 3 July 2021[34]

Players in bold are still active with Czech Republic.

This list does not include players that won caps for Czechoslovakia.

Most cap players [edit ]

Petr Čech, the most capped player in the history of the Czech Republic with 124 caps

top goalscorers [edit ]

Jan Koller, the top scorer in the history of the Czech Republic with 55 goals

competitive record [edit ]

FIFA World Cup [edit ]

UEFA european championship [edit ]

UEFA Nations League [edit ]

UEFA Nations League record

Season

Division

Group

2018–19
B
1

2nd

20th

2020–21
B
2

1st

19th

2022–23
A
To be determined

Total