Bohemian-Moravian national football team

Čechy a Morava
Bohemia and Moravia

Association	Český svaz footballový (ČSF)
Head coach	František Blažej
First jersey
statistics
First international match German Reich 3: 3 Bohemia and Moravia (Berlin; May 14, 1939)
Last game German Reich 4: 4 Bohemia and Moravia (Breslau; November 12, 1939)
Biggest victory Bohemia and Moravia 7: 3 Yugoslavia (Prague; August 27, 1939)
Biggest defeat Ostmark 7: 1 Bohemia and Moravia ( Vienna ; May 21, 1939 )
(Status: unknown)

The Czech-Moravian national soccer team is the name of the selected team of the ČSF during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . This team played six international games in 1939, with a game against the German Reich still counting as an official international game. In the statistics this team is listed as Čechy a Morava (Bohemia and Moravia).

Historical background

The Czechoslovak Football Association comprised five football associations organized according to ethnicity. These were the Czechoslovak, German , Jewish , Polish and Hungarian associations.

The First Czechoslovak Republic went under as a result of the so-called destruction of the rest of the Czech Republic by Nazi Germany in March 1939. The Slovakia agreed on March 14, 1939 regardless. Only the Czech Football Association remained, while the Jewish Football Association was dissolved in 1936/37 and the German, Polish and Hungarian football associations joined their respective national associations. The Czech Football Association remained a member of FIFA even after the protectorate was established in March 1939 .

In the spring of 1940 all travel to and from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was banned. This also affected the Protectorate's selection team, which from then on could no longer play games.

Games

The selection of Bohemia and Moravia played several games, including three games against the selection team of the DFB, which officially recognizes the first two as a representative game and the third as an international match. In addition, the selection of Bohemia and Moravia played a game against the Ostmark, although the international matches of this team have not been rated by the ÖFB to this day. The Czech association also speaks of a game against Yugoslavia (7: 3), which is not mentioned in the statistics of the FSJ, and another game against Ostmark, which is confused with a city game against Vienna A (5 : 5) acts.

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Type of game
May 14, 1939	Berlin	German Empire	3: 3 (1: 1)	Representative game
May 18, 1939	Stuttgart	German Empire	1: 1 (0: 1)	Representative game
May 21, 1939	Vienna	Ostmark	1: 7 (1: 5)	Unofficial international match
August 27, 1939	Prague	Yugoslavia	7: 3 (3: 1)	Official international match
October 22, 1939	Prague	Ostmark	5: 5 (1: 3)	Official international match
November 12, 1939	Wroclaw	German Empire	4: 4 (4: 2)	Official international match

Known players

• Josef Bican , Slavia Prague
• Jaroslav Burgr , Sparta Prague
• Oldřich Nejedlý , Sparta Prague
• Vlastimil Kopecký , Slavia Prague
• Antonín Puč , Viktoria Žižkov

Web links

• Radio Prague: "In the war years, Czech football lost its international connection"
• Article about the retrospective recognition of the 1939 games as official international matches, including precise statistics , in Czech
• International matches 1939 ( memorial from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Czech

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fotbal.cz: "Čechy a Morava 7 - 3 (3 - 1) Jugoslávie"
2. ↑ fotbal.cz: "Čechy a Morava ČR 5 - 5 (1 - 3) Ostmarka"

literature

• Radovan Jelínek, Miloslav Jenšík et al .: Atlas českého fotbalu od roku 1890, Prague 2005, ISBN 80-901703-3-9 .