AC Prague

AC Praha
Full name	Athletic Club Praha
place
Founded	1891
Dissolved	unknown
Club colors	Red White
Stadion	Letná site
Top league	Czech football championship
successes	Czech runner-up in 1898

The Athletic Club Praha , or AC Praha for short , was a Czech sports club from Prague .

The club was founded in 1891 as the first sports club in Bohemia . Football was only played later, according to some statements from 1893, according to others not until 1895/96. For several years the club did not have its own space, but eventually found a home on the Letná site in the vicinity of AC Sparta .

In the spring of 1896 AC Prague took part in the first Czech football championship and played the first officially organized football match in Bohemia on March 22nd. The opponent was the ČFK Kickers . With the score of 1-0 for the ČFK Kickers, the players of the AC Prague left the pitch in protest against the referee's performance and never came back. Against SK Slavia , the AC lost 5-0 and ended the championship without winning points in fourth and last place. At the second organized championship in autumn 1896, AC, who played in white and red jerseys, lost 0:11 to DFC Prague and AC Sparta 0: 6. Since the third opponent, the SK Slavia did not play for the game against AC, this two points were credited, whereby the championship could be finished before Slavia in third place.

As early as 1898, Slavia and the AC were so superior to the other teams that the first class championship consisted of a game between these two clubs. Slavia won 2-0. In the 1899 championship, AC Prague did not take part due to a lack of players.

When the Bohemian Football Association was founded in 1901 , AC Prague was one of the founding members. In this time the official championship in 1902, the white-reds took part without significant success. In the same year, the soccer department of AC Prague dissolved. At the general meeting, the players were accused of not paying their membership fees, even though the club provided them with shirts, shoes and balls. Most of the players joined other clubs.

In 1900 the following players ran for AC Prague: Fiřtík - Novák, Strnad - Krajíček, Růžička, Buda - Makovička, Doležal, Otradovec, Čmelinský, Turnovský.

AC Sparta emerged from AC Prague in 1893 when dissatisfied members resigned and founded AC Vinohrady, which in turn became AC Sparta a year later.

literature

• Jindřich Horák, Lubomír Král: Encyclopedie našeho fotbalu. Sto let českého a slovenského fotbalu. Domací soutěže. Libri, Praha 1997, ISBN 80-85983-22-2 .
• Igor Mráz, Jindřich Pejchar, Josef Pondělík, František Žemla: Svět devadesáti minut. Z dějin Československé kopané. Díl 1: 1901– 1945. Olympia, Praha 1976.
• Karel Vaněk a kol. (Ed.): Malá encyklopedie fotbalu. Olympia, Prague 1984.