Viktoria Plzen

Viktoria Plzen
Basic data
Surname	FC Viktoria Plzeň as
Seat	Pilsen , Czech Republic
founding	1911
Colours	Red Blue
president	Tomáš Paclík
Board	Adolf Šádek
Website	fcviktoria.cz
First soccer team
Head coach	Adrian Gula
Venue	Doosan Arena
Places	11,700
league	Fortuna League
2019/20	2nd place
home Away Alternatively

The FC Viktoria Pilsen , officially FC Viktoria Plzeň as is a Czech football club from the West Bohemian town of Pilsen . He plays in the Czech first division . It was founded in 1911 as SK Viktoria Plzeň. Viktoria became Czech champion in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2018 .

Club history

Viktoria Pilsen rose to the top Czechoslovak league for the first time in 1931 and stayed there until 1938. The best place was a third place in 1933. A renewed promotion was achieved in 1945, followed by relegation in 1952, and again third place in the 1947 season was the best result. Pilsen gave further guest performances in 1961/62, 1962/63, 1967/68 and 1970/71.

This season the club won the Czech cup competition. In the first leg of the final it was only enough at home to draw against the B-team from Sparta Prague . When after a 3: 3 in the second leg in Prague the penalty shoot-out ended 5: 5, the lot Škoda Plzeň determined the winner. In the final of the Czechoslovak Cup, Škoda Plzeň had no chance against Spartak Trnava , but since the Slovaks had also become champions, Škoda Plzeň had the right to start as an inferior finalist in the European Cup Winners' Cup , and that as a second division. The opponent in the first round was Bayern Munich . In Pilsen, the team led by Franz Beckenbauer won 1-0, in the second leg FC Bayern defeated Škoda Plzeň by a clear 6-1.

Only from 1972 could Škoda Plzeň establish itself a little longer in the first division, the next relegation followed in 1980. 1985 the club was back in the first division. The descent was followed by an immediate ascent in 1988 and this again by an immediate descent.

In 1993 Viktoria Pilsen qualified as third in the 2nd division for the Czech 1st division, in whose first season the team took an excellent fifth place. After various midfield placements in 1999 came relegation to the 2nd division. As in the mid- 1980s , Pilsen became an elevator crew . In 2000 the team was promoted, only to be relegated immediately. The next promotion followed in 2003, but this time too Viktoria was only able to stay in the House of Lords for one season.

In 2005, the club unexpectedly managed the next promotion. After the withdrawal of 1. FK Drnovice from the first division, a third place was enough to qualify for the Gambrinus League . In the 2009/10 season, the club qualified as the Czech cup winner for the third qualifying round for the 2010/11 UEFA Europa League . There you failed, however, on the Turkish team from Beşiktaş Istanbul . In 2010 the entrepreneur Tomáš Paclík took ownership of the association. In the 2010/11 season Viktoria Pilsen was Czech football champion for the first time. The captain and playmaker Pavel Horváth and coach Pavel Vrba played an important role. Both are considered club legends.

Viktoria Pilsen started as champions in the second qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League and was eliminated after finishing third in the Champions League group stage in the round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League , not until the round of 16 in 2012/13. Viktoria Pilsen became Czech champions again in the 2012/13 season and was eliminated from the Champions League the following season after the group stage. In the 2013/14 season Viktoria Pilsen was runner-up and reached the cup final; in both competitions they were left behind against Sparta Prague. In the 2014/15 season, the team was eliminated in the third qualifying round for the Europa League . In 2014/15 they became champions again. After Miroslav Koubek failed to qualify with the team for the group stage of the Champions League and the results in the league did not meet expectations, there was a dismissal and Karel Krejčí was introduced as the new coach. He immediately qualified for the group stage of the Europa League after being kicked out in the play-offs FK Vojvodina Novi Sad . There the Pilsner were eliminated as third party.

At the end of the 2015/16 season Viktoria Pilsen managed to win the championship and then prevailed against Qarabağ Ağdam in the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League , but was eliminated in the play-offs against Ludogorez Razgrad . In the group stage of the UEFA Europa League Viktoria Plzen was eliminated again as third party. In the league, the Pilsen runners-up behind Slavia Prague and then eliminated in the third qualifying round for the UEFA Champions League against FCSB Bucharest , prevailing in the play-offs for the UEFA Europa League against AEK Larnaka . As a result, they were group winners and were only eliminated in the round of 16 against Sporting Lisbon . In 2018 Viktoria Pilsen was again champion and qualified directly for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League by placing the Czech league in the UEFA five-year ranking . The Pilsner were eliminated in third place behind defending champions Real Madrid and last year's semi- finalists AS Roma , but took part in the round of 32 of the UEFA Europa League and were eliminated from Dinamo Zagreb . In 2019 Viktoria Pilsen had to give way to Slavia Prague again in the championship fight.

successes

National

• Czech football champions (5): 2011 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018
• Czech Cup Winner (2): 1971, 2010
• Czech Supercup winner (2): 2011, 2015

International

• Round of 16 Mitropa Cup 1935
• Quarter-finals Mitropa Cup 1971
• Reaching the finals of the UEFA Champions League : 2011/12 , 2013/14 , 2018/19

European Cup balance sheet

season	competition	round	opponent	total	To	Back
1971/72	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1 round	FC Bayern Munich	1: 7	0: 1 (A)	1: 6 (H)
2010/11	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Beşiktaş Istanbul	1: 4	1: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2011/12	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	FC Pyunik Yerevan	9: 1	4: 0 (A)	5: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Rosenborg Trondheim	4: 2	1: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
		Play-offs	FC Copenhagen	5: 2	3: 1 (A)	2: 1 (H)
		Group stage	BATE Baryssau	2: 1	1: 1 (H)	1: 0 (A)
			AC Milan	2: 4	0: 2 (A)	2: 2 (H)
			FC Barcelona	0: 6	0: 2 (A)	0: 4 (H)
2011/12	UEFA Europa League	Round of 16	FC Schalke 04	2: 4	1: 1 (H)	1: 3 a.d. (A)
2012/13	UEFA Europa League	2nd qualifying round	Metalurgi Rustavi	5: 1	2: 0 (A)	3: 1 (H)
		3rd qualifying round	Ruch Chorzów	7-0	2: 0 (A)	5: 0 (H)
		Play-offs	Sporting Lokeren	( a ) 2: 2(a)	1: 2 (A)	1: 0 (H)
		Group stage	Académica de Coimbra	4: 2	3: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
			Atlético Madrid	1: 1	0: 1 (A)	1: 0 (H)
			Hapoel Tel Aviv	6: 1	2: 1 (A)	4: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	SSC Naples	5-0	3: 0 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	1: 2	0: 1 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2013/14	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	FK Željezničar Sarajevo	6: 4	4: 3 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		3rd qualifying round	JK Nõmme Kalju	10: 20	4: 0 (A)	6: 2 (H)
		Play-offs	NK Maribor	4: 1	3: 1 (H)	1: 0 (A)
		Group stage	Manchester City	2: 7	0: 3 (H)	2: 4 (A)
			FC Bayern Munich	0: 6	0: 5 (A)	0: 1 (H)
			CSKA Moscow	4: 4	2: 3 (A)	2: 1 (H)
2013/14	UEFA Europa League	Round of 16	Shakhtar Donetsk	3: 2	1: 1 (H)	2: 1 (A)
		Round of 16	Olympique Lyon	3: 5	1: 4 (A)	2: 1 (H)
2014/15	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Petrolul Ploiesti	2: 5	1: 1 (A)	1: 4 (H)
2015/16	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	Maccabi Tel Aviv	2: 3	2: 1 (A)	0: 2 (H)
2015/16	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	FK Vojvodina Novi Sad	5-0	3: 0 (H)	2: 0 (A)
		Group stage	FK Dinamo Minsk	2: 1	2: 0 (H)	0: 1 (A)
			Villarreal CF	3: 4	0: 1 (A)	3: 3 (H)
			SK Rapid Vienna	3: 5	2: 3 (A)	1: 2 (H)
2016/17	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	FK Qarabağ Agdam	( a ) 1: 1(a)	0: 0 (H)	1: 1 (A)
		Play-offs	Ludogorez Razgrad	2: 4	0: 2 (A)	2: 2 (H)
2016/17	UEFA Europa League	Group stage	AS Roma	2: 5	1: 1 (H)	1: 4 (A)
			FK Austria Vienna	3: 2	0: 0 (A)	3: 2 (H)
			Astra Giurgiu	2: 3	1: 2 (H)	1: 1 (A)
2017/18	UEFA Champions League	3rd qualifying round	FCSB Bucharest	3: 6	2: 2 (A)	1: 4 (H)
2017/18	UEFA Europa League	Play-offs	AEK Larnaka	3: 1	3: 1 (H)	0: 0 (A)
		Group stage	FCSB Bucharest	2: 3	0: 3 (A)	2: 0 (H)
			Hapoel Beer Sheva	5: 1	3: 1 (H)	2: 0 (A)
			FC Lugano	6: 4	2: 3 (A)	4: 1 (H)
		Round of 16	FK Partizan Belgrade	3: 1	1: 1 (A)	2: 0 (H)
		Round of 16	Sporting Lisbon	2: 3	0: 2 (A)	2: 1 a.d. (H)
2018/19	UEFA Champions League	Group stage	PFK CSKA Moscow	4: 3	2: 2 (H)	2: 1 (A)
			AS Roma	2: 6	0: 5 (A)	2: 1 (H)
			real Madrid	1: 7	1: 2 (A)	0: 5 (H)
2018/19	UEFA Europa League	Round of 16	Dinamo Zagreb	2: 4	2: 1 (H)	0: 3 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	Olympiacos Piraeus	0: 4	0: 0 (H)	0: 4 (A)
2019/20	UEFA Europa League	3rd qualifying round	Royal Antwerp	(a)2: 2 ( a )	0: 1 (A)	2: 1 a.d. (H)
2020/21	UEFA Champions League	2nd qualifying round	AZ Alkmaar	1: 3	1: 3 a.d. (A)

Legend: (H) - home game, (A) - away game, (N) - neutral place, (a) - away goal rule , (i. E.) - on penalties , (n. V.) - after extra time

Overall record: 99 games, 42 wins, 20 draws, 37 defeats, 154: 156 goals (goal difference −2)

Trainer

A chronological overview of all the club's coaches since 1969.

Term of office Nat. Trainer 1969-1970 Karel Kolský - - - 1978-1979 Svatopluk Pluskal - - - 1980-1981 Svatopluk Pluskal 1981-1984 František Plass - - - 1995-1996 Jaroslav Hřebík - - - 1997-1999 Petr Uličný - - -

Term of office Nat. Trainer 2003-2004 František Cipro 2004-2005 Martin Pulpit - - - 2006-2008 Stanislav Levý 2008 Jaroslav Šilhavý 2008-2013 Pavel Vrba 2013-2014 Dušan Uhrin junior - - - 2016-2017 Roman Pivarník Since 2017 Pavel Vrba

player

• Stanislav Štrunc (1961–1965, 1972–1977)
• František Plass (1963–1976)
• Tomáš Heřman (1992–1998)
• Vladimír Darida (1995–2010) youth, (2010–2013) player,

Club names

The club was founded in 1911 as SK Viktoria Plzeň. It was renamed Sokol Škoda Plzeň in 1949, Sokol ZVIL Plzeň in 1952, DSO Spartak LZ Plzeň in 1953, TJ Spartak LZ Plzeň in 1962, TJ Škoda Plzeň in 1965, TJ Škoda Plzeň - fotbal in 1981 and FC Viktoria Plzeň in 1992.

Web links

• Official website