European Football Championship 2008 / Czech Republic

The Czech national football team at the 2008 European Football Championship in Austria and Switzerland :

European Championship qualification 2008

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
09/02/2006	Teplice	Wales	2: 1 (0: 0)	1: 0, 2: 1 D. Lafata (76th, 89th), 1: 1 M. Jiránek (85th) ( ET )
09/06/2006	Bratislava	Slovakia	3: 0 (2: 0)	1: 0, 2: 0 L. Sionko (10th, 21st), 3: 0 J. Koller (57th)
07/10/2006	Liberec	San Marino	7: 0 (4: 0)	1: 0 M. Kulič (15th), 2: 0 J. Polák (22nd), 3: 0, 7: 0 M. Baroš (32nd, 68th), 4: 0, 6: 0 J. Koller , 5: 0 D. Jarolim (49.)
10/11/2007	Dublin	Ireland	1: 1 (0: 0)	1: 0 K. Kilbane (62.), 1: 1 J. Koller (64.)
03/24/2007	Prague	Germany	1: 2 (0: 1)	0: 1, 0: 2 K. Kurányi (42nd, 62nd), 1: 2 M. Baroš (77th)
03/28/2007	Liberec	Cyprus	1: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 R. Kováč (22.)
06/02/2007	Cardiff	Wales	0-0
09/08/2007	Serravalle	San Marino	3: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 T. Rosický (33.), 2: 0 M. Jankulovski (75.), 3: 0 J. Koller (90. + 3)
09/12/2007	Prague	Ireland	1: 0 (1: 0)	1: 0 M. Jankulovski (15th)
10/17/2007	Munich	Germany	3: 0 (2: 0)	1: 0 L. Sionko (2nd), 2: 0 M. Matějovský (23rd) 3: 0 J. Plašil (63th)
11/17/2007	Prague	Slovakia	3: 1 (1: 0)	1: 0 Z. Grygera (13th), 2: 0 M. Kulič (76th), 2: 1 M. Kadlec (79th) ( ET ), 3: 1 T. Rosický (83th)
11/21/2007	Nicosia	Cyprus	2: 0 (1: 0)	1-0 D. Pudil (11th), 2-0 J. Koller (74th)

table

space	team	Games	Victories	draw	defeat	Gates	difference	Points
1.	Czech Republic	12	9	2	1	27: 5	+22	29
2.	Germany	12	8th	3	1	35: 7	+28	27
3.	Ireland	12	4th	5	3	17:14	+3	17th
4th	Slovakia	12	5	1	6th	33:23	+10	16
5.	Wales	12	4th	3	5	18:19	−1	15th
6th	Cyprus	12	4th	2	6th	17:24	−8	14th
7th	San Marino	12	0	0	12	2:57	−55	0

(As of November 21, 2007)

The first two teams qualify directly for the EURO 2008 .

Czech contingent

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the European Championship	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Petr Čech	Chelsea FC	05/20/1982	3	0	0	0	0
16	Jaromír Blažek	1. FC Nuremberg	December 29, 1972	0	0	0	0	0
23	Daniel Zítka	RSC Anderlecht	06/20/1975	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Zdeněk Grygera	Juventus Turin	May 14, 1980	3	0	0	0	0
5	Radoslav Kováč	Spartak Moscow	11/27/1979	1	0	0	0	0
6th	Marek Jankulovski	Udinese Calcio	05/09/1977	3	0	0	0	0
12	Zdeněk Pospěch	FC Copenhagen	December 14, 1978	0	0	0	0	0
13	Michal Kadlec	Sparta Prague	12/13/1984	1	0	0	0	0
18th	Tomáš Sivok	Sparta Prague	09/15/1983	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Tomáš Ujfaluši	AC Florence	March 24, 1978	3	0	1	0	0
22nd	David Rozehnal	Lazio Rome	07/05/1980	3	0	0	0	0
midfield player
3	Jan Polák	RSC Anderlecht	03/14/1981	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Tomáš Galásek	1. FC Nuremberg	January 15, 1973	3	0	1	0	0
7th	Libor Sionko	FC Copenhagen	02/01/1977	3	1	0	0	0
14th	David Jarolím	Hamburger SV	05/17/1979	3	0	0	0	0
17th	Marek Matějovský	Reading FC	December 20, 1981	2	0	0	0	0
19th	Rudolf Skácel	Hertha BSC	07/17/1979	0	0	0	0	0
20th	Jaroslav Plašil	CA Osasuna	05/01/1982	3	1	0	0	0
striker
8th	Martin Fenin	Eintracht Frankfurt	04/16/1987	0	0	0	0	0
9	Jan Koller	1. FC Nuremberg	03/30/1973	3	1	0	0	0
10	Václav Svěrkoš	Baník Ostrava	11/01/1983	1	1	0	0	0
11	Stanislav Vlček	RSC Anderlecht	02/26/1976	3	0	0	0	0
15th	Milan Baroš	Portsmouth FC	10/28/1981	1	0	1	0	0
Trainer
	Karel Brückner		11/13/1939

Games of the Czech Republic

Crew quarters

The preparation for the tournament took place between May 20 and 26, 2008 in Bad Kleinkirchheim in Carinthia .

Preliminary round

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Portugal	3	2	0	1	005: 300	+2	06th
2.	Turkey	3	2	0	1	005: 500	± 0	06th
3.	Czech Republic	3	1	0	2	004: 600	−2	03
4th	Switzerland	3	1	0	2	003: 300	± 0	03
For positions 1 and 2 as well as 3 and 4, the direct comparison is decisive (see mode ).

• Switzerland - Czech Republic 0: 1 (0: 0)
• Czech Republic - Portugal 1: 3 (1: 1)
• Turkey - Czech Republic 3: 2 (0: 1)

For details see European Football Championship 2008 / Group A