SK Čechie Praha VIII

Čechie VIII

Full name

place

Founded

1903

Dissolved

unknown

Club colors

Black-and-white

Stadion

Trojmezní ulice

Top league

1st Czechoslovak League

successes

12th place 1925/26

home

Away

SK Čechie Praha VIII was a Czech football club from Prague . Founded in 1903, the team from the working-class Libeň was top notch in the 1925/26 season. The club, which was officially a professional club from 1925 to 1934 , but in fact played under amateur conditions , dissolved in 1949. In the all-time table of the Czechoslovak League, Čechie VIII occupies 64th and last place.

Club history

Čechie VIII took part in the Central Bohemian Championship from 1920, where it was divided into the second highest division, the II. Třída . However, the team did not get beyond midfield placements.

With the introduction of paid football in Czechoslovakia in 1925, Čechie VIII signed up for the professional camp in order to compete with the best teams in the country such as Sparta Prague or Slavia Prague . Economically, but also athletically, the workers' club could not compete with the big clubs. The press even described the club as pseudo-professional. In the first season of the Asociační liga Čechie VIII was divided into the six-team second division, in which she finished penultimate with one win and four draws from ten games.

Because the first division was expanded to twelve clubs in the 1925/26 season, Čechie VIII also received first-class status. But the best Czech clubs turned out to be too much for the small club. Čechie VIII was able to win just one game, it was the derby against neighboring SK Meteor Praha VIII . At home it was enough to draw two, the team lost all eleven away games. At the end of the season there was a disastrous record: 19 defeats in 22 games and a goal difference of 23 to 122. As bottom of the table, Čechie VIII rose. The following eight seasons Čechie VIII spent in the second professional league with placements at the bottom of the table, there was no relegation from the closed society. When the distinction between professional and amateur clubs was abolished in the 1934/35 season, the former first division team occupied third from bottom in the second division and had to be relegated.

The club, renamed Sokol Čechie Libeň in 1948, disbanded in 1949.

statistics

1st Czechoslovak League 1925/26:

league	space	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	Points
Středočeská 1st league 1925/26	12th place	22nd	1	2	19th	23: 122	4th

Club names

1903–1948 SK Čechie Praha VIII
1948–1949 Sokol Čechie Libeň

Others

In Prague there were several clubs with the name SK Čechie, not to be confused with SK Čechie Praha I and SK Čechie Praha III .

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 .
Karel Vaněk a kol. (Ed.): Malá encyklopedie fotbalu. Olympia, Prague 1984.