European Football Championship 2021 / Czech Republic

This article covers the Czech national team at the Pan-European Football Championship in 2021 . It is the seventh participation for the Czech team, which has been there since 1996.

qualification

Patrik Schick , best Czech scorer in qualification

For the qualification , the Czech team was drawn from the group with England, Kosovo, Bulgaria and Montenegro. The Czechs won their four home games, but only away in Kosovo. After winning the penultimate game, the qualification was certain. Of all the directly qualified teams, the Czechs have the worst goal difference with +2.

Overall, national coach Jaroslav Šilhavý , who has coached the team since October 2018, used 31 players, of whom Ondřej Čelůstka , Jakub Jankto , Lukáš Masopust and Tomáš Souček played all eight games. Alex Král had seven appearances , who only did not play in the first game and played his first international match in the friendly against Brazil four days after the first qualifying match, as did Ondřej Kúdela . In addition, Zdeněk Ondrášek and Petr Ševčík came in the qualifying games for their first international match.

The top scorer with four goals, which he scored in six games, was Patrik Schick . Their first international goals were scored in qualifying by Jakub Brabec (to equalize 1-1) and Zdeněk Ondrášek (to score 2-1 on his debut against England) and Lukáš Masopust (to make it 2-0 in a 3-0 win against Montenegro). A total of nine players contributed to 12 qualifying goals. The Czechs also benefited from an own goal by Boris Kopitović .

Games

date	Venue	opponent	Result	Goal scorers
March 22, 2019	London	England	0: 5 (0: 2)	Raheem Sterling (24th, 68th, 84th), Harry Kane (45th + 2 / penalty), 3-0 (62 '), Tomáš Kalas (84th / own goal)
07.06.2019	Prague	Bulgaria	2: 1 (1: 1)	Ismail Isa (3rd), Patrik Schick (19th, 50th)
06/10/2019	Olomouc	Montenegro	3: 0 (1: 0)	Jakub Jankto (18th), Boris Kopitović (49th / own goal), Patrik Schick (82nd / Elfm.)
07.09.2019	Pristina	Kosovo	1: 2 (1: 1)	Patrik Schick (16); Vedat Muriqi (20th), Mërgim Vojvoda (66th)
09/10/2019	Podgorica	Montenegro	3: 0 (0: 0)	Tomáš Souček (54th), Lukáš Masopust (58th), Vladimír Darida (90th + 4)
10/11/2019	Prague	England	2: 1 (1: 1)	Harry Kane (5th / 11th floor); Jakub Brabec (9th), Zdeněk Ondrášek (85th)
11/14/2019	Pilsen	Kosovo	2: 1 (0: 0)	Atdhe Nuhiu (50th); Alex Král (71.), Ondřej Čelůstka (79.)
11/17/2019	Sofia	Bulgaria	0: 1 (0: 0)	Vasil Bozhikov (56th)

Closing table

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	8th	7th	0	1	037: 600	+31	21st
2.	Czech Republic	8th	5	0	3	013:110	+2	15th
3.	Kosovo	8th	3	2	3	013:160	−3	11
4th	Bulgaria	8th	1	3	4th	006:170	−11	06th
5.	Montenegro	8th	0	3	5	003:220	−19	03

Finals

Initially, the Czech Republic and Slovakia had expressed an interest in a two-way candidacy. After the decision was made to host the final as a pan-European final, the Czech Republic applied to host games with the still-to-be-built New National Stadium in Prague , but later withdrew. At the draw, the Czechs were drawn into the group with qualifying opponents England and Croatia as well as a team that still has to qualify via the playoffs in March 2020. There have been three games against Croatia so far, with one defeat and two draws, most recently in the group stage of Euro 2016. Against England there were two defeats, one draw and one win, the only defeat for England in qualifying.

If the Czech team wins the group, they would play in Dublin against the runner-up in Group F with Germany, world champions France or defending champions Portugal - subject to the fact that the venues are retained - as runner-up a day earlier in Copenhagen against the runner-up in Group E, e.g. B. Poland, Sweden or Spain. If they were one of the top four group thirds they would either be group B winners with Belgium, group C winners with Netherlands or group E winners in the round of 16, where they would play in Bilbao or Budapest or Glasgow .

Group games

Pl.	country	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	England	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
2.	Croatia	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
3.	Playoff winner way C	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00
4th	Czech Republic	0	0	0	0	000-000	± 0	00

June 14, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. in Glasgow
Playoff winner way C	-	Czech Republic	-: - (- :–)
June 18, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. in Glasgow
Croatia	-	Czech Republic	-: - (- :–)
June 22, 2021 at 9:00 p.m. in London
Czech Republic	-	England	-: - (- :–)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ radio.cz: "Football: Jaroslav Šilhavý new Czech national coach"
2. ↑ dw.com: "Three countries for a European Football Championship"