AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč
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| Full name | AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč | ||
| place | Lázně Bohdaneč | ||
| Founded | 1918 | ||
| Dissolved | around 2003 | ||
| Club colors | Blue White | ||
| Stadion | Well, Bašte | ||
| Top league | 1st League | ||
| successes | 16th place 1997/98 | ||
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The AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč was a Czech football club from the East Bohemian town of Bohdaneč Spa . The rise and fall of the club in the 1990s is closely linked to the local entrepreneur Jiří Novák, who led him to the top Czech league, the Gambrinus Liga , in 1997 .
Club history
Football has been played in Lázně Bohdaneč, a spa town not far from Pardubice , since 1918, initially under the name AFK , with a change in the balance of power from 1948 as Sokol . The team never got beyond the district league. This changed with the entry of the entrepreneur Jiří Novák, who acquired the local Hobé distillery through his company Atlantic after the Velvet Revolution .
Novák became president of the club and renamed him AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč . In November 1991, the club, whose team played in the 8th division, merged with the B-team from Tesla Pardubice , which took a class higher. Like many others, Novák financed the club almost single-handedly, he was president, patron and sponsor at the same time . The team was reinforced by footballers from higher leagues and won the championship in 1992/93 without defeat. This also succeeded in the sixth division in the 1993/94 season. AFK Atlantic then skipped the fifth division by swapping places with fourth division SK Holice .
Lázně Bohdaneč won both the Divize C 1994/95 and the ČFL 1995/96 sovereign and had arrived in the 2nd division . In the meantime, Novák had a stadium built for over 6,000 spectators, around twice the population of Lázně Bohdaneč. The squad included players like Marek Heinz , Jiří Kaufman , Luboš Kubík and Jaroslav Schindler , with whom they made it through to the first division.
On August 9, 1997 it came to the home premiere in the top division for Lázně Bohdaneč, opponent was the local rival SK Hradec Králové , who won 1-0. The players had to wait until matchday 7 for the first points when the team beat Viktoria Plzen 2-1. In the entire season, the AFK Atlantic won only once and went down with only eleven points without a sound, 23 points was the distance to the safe bank at the end.
After relegation, Lázně Bohdaneč played two years with varying success in the 2nd division, in 1998/99 the team finished seventh, the following year they were sixth. In the summer of 2000 the club merged with FK Slovan Pardubice to form FK Atlantic Slovan Pardubice , or FK AS Pardubice for short .
While no football was played in Lázně Bohdaneč in the 2000/01 season, Jiří Novák did not remain idle. Dissatisfied with the conditions in Pardubice, he got in at the neighboring club SK Stolany , whose seventh-class B-team played their championship games in Lázně Bohdaneč in 2001/02, where it was not legally possible to compete as AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč. The cooperation between SK Stolany and Jiří Novák was subsequently intensified, so that in the 2002/03 season a construct called AFK Atlantic Stolany-Lázně Bohdaneč in the Pardubický přebor , i.e. the 5th division, took up and won it. Novák tried now to sell the stadium in his possession in Lázně Bohdaneč for 15 million crowns to the city, but the city refused. Disappointed by the public lack of interest, Novák announced the team eligible for promotion and dissolved the club. Instead, he got involved with the neighboring club TJ Sokol Živanice .
statistics
- 1st Czech League 1997/98
| league | space | Games | Victories | draw | Defeats | Gates | Points |
| 1st league 1997/98 | 16th place | 30th | 2 | 5 | 23 | 18:61 | 11 |
League membership Czech Republic
| 93/94 | 94/95 | 95/96 | 96/97 | 97/98 | 98/99 | 99/00 | 00/01 | 01/02 | 02/03 | |
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| 1st League | 16. | |||||||||
| 2nd league | 2. | 7th | 6. 2 | |||||||
| 3rd league | 1. | |||||||||
| 4th league | 1. | |||||||||
| 5th league | 1. 3 | |||||||||
| 6th league | 1. 1 |
1 After the season, AFK Atlantic swapped places with fourth division SK Holice.
2 After the end of the season, merged with FK Slovan Pardubice to form FK AS Pardubice.
3 As AFK Atlantic Stolany-Lázně Bohdaneč
Club names
- 1918 AFK Lázně Bohdaneč
- 1948 Sokol Lázně Bohdaneč
- 1991 AFK Atlantic Lázně Bohdaneč
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 .