ČAFC Praha

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ČAFC Praha
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Basic data
Surname ČAFC Praha
Seat Prague
founding November 15, 1899
Colours green white
Website cafcpraha.cz
First soccer team
Venue ČAFC
Places 2,000
league Přebor Jihomoravský kraj
2007/08 1st place (1.A třída sk. A)
Away

ČAFC Praha is a Czech football club from Prague . Founded in 1899 as Český Athletic & Football Club Královské Vinohrady , the club became the first official champion of the Bohemian Football Association ( ČSF) in 1902 . From 1925 to 1928 and 1929/30, Čafka , as the club is popularly known, was first class. From the 2008/09 season, the club plays in the fifth-rate Krajský přebor , after they were champions of the 1st A třída in the previous season.

history

On November 15, 1899, sports enthusiasts founded a sports club in Královské Vinohrady called Český Athletic & Football Club , or ČAFC for short , whose football team took part in the 1901 Czech championship. In 1902 the Bohemian Football Federation (ČSF) organized the first official championship, but without the strongest team by far, Slavia Prague . In the final, ČAFC defeated AFK Kolín 2-2 and 5-1.

In the ranks of the club were several later Czechoslovak national players, including Karel Pešek-Káďa , Karel Čipera , František Hojer , Antonín Kaliba , Václav Pilát , Rudolf Sloup-Štapl . Ladislav Ženíšek , vice world champion in 1934 , came from the youth of the club.

In the following years, ČAFC was one of the leading Bohemian clubs, even if it should no longer be enough to win a title. When professionalism was introduced in 1925, ČAFC was part of the professional camp, but did not get beyond midfield placements in the first division. In the years 1925 and 1926, the team moved into the final of the Central Bohemian Cup , but were clearly inferior with 0: 7 against Sparta Prague and 0:10 against Slavia Prague.

In the 1927/28 season, Čafka took seventh and last place, but managed to rise again immediately in 1928/29. The 1929/30 season, however, was the last first division season for the Prague suburbs.

The ČAFC held professional status until 1935, when the separation between professional and amateur football was abolished in Czechoslovakia. How good the club's youth work was later on was shown by winning the junior championship in 1942.

After the Second World War , the sponsoring company of the club changed several times, which in 1953 even had to compete as Tatran Stavomontáže B after a merger with Sparta Krč . Between 1968 and 1979 the club was allowed to use its traditional name, then until the Velvet Revolution the club was called Tatran Stavební závody. In these years, and even after, Čafka did not get beyond the fourth highest division.

Venues

The club's first place was between Kolínská and Čáslavská streets . In 1903, ČAFC had to move for the first time and found a new venue not far from Flora , which the club lost again in 1905. In 1908, ČAFC found a new stadium at today's Jiřího z Lobkovic square . The club lost this venue in 1928 and moved to Spořilov . The stadium there gave way to an expressway in 1982, and a replacement was given to ČAFC not far from Záběhlice Castle , where the club still plays today.

Well-known former players

Club names

  • 1899 - 1918 ČAFC Královské Vinohrady
  • 1918 - 1948 ČAFC Vinohrady
  • 1948 - 1950 Sokol ČAFC Vinohrady
  • 1951 - 1952 Instalační závody ČAFC
  • 1952 - 1953 Tatran Stavomontáže B
  • 1953 - 1968 Tatran Pozemní stavby
  • 1968 - 1979 ČAFC Praha
  • 1979 - 1990 Tatran Stavební závody
  • 1990 - now ČAFC Praha

literature

  • Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyclopedie našeho fotbalu. Sto let českého a slovenského fotbalu. Domací soutěže. Libri, Praha 1997, ISBN 80-85983-22-2
  • Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík et al .: Atlas českého fotbalu od roku 1890. Radovan, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-901703-3-9 .

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