Czech national soccer team

This article is about the Czech men's national football team . For the women's team, see Czech women's national football team .

Czech Republic
Česká republika

Association	Fotbalová asociace České republiky
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	puma
Head coach	Jaroslav Šilhavý (since September 2018)
Assistant coach	Tomáš Galásek Jiri Chytry
captain	Vladimír Darida
Record scorer	Jan Koller (55)
Record player	Petr Čech (124)
FIFA code	CZE
FIFA rank	40th (1458.81 points) (as of May 27, 2021)
home Away
Balance sheet
306 games 166 wins 57 draws 83 defeats
statistics
First international match Turkey 1: 4 Czech Republic ( Istanbul , Turkey ; February 23, 1994 )
Biggest victories Czech Republic 8: 1 Andorra ( Liberec , Czech Republic ; June 4, 2005 ) Czech Republic 7: 0 San Marino ( Liberec , Czech Republic ; October 7, 2006 ) Czech Republic 7: 0 San Marino ( Uherské Hradiště , Czech Republic ; September 9, 2009 )
Biggest defeat England 5-0 Czech Republic ( London , England ; March 22, 2019 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2006 )
Best results	Preliminary round ( 2006 )
European Championship
Participation in the finals	7 ( first : 1996 )
Best results	Runner-up ( 1996 )
Confederations Cup
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 1997 )
Best results	Third 1997
(As of June 27, 2021)

The Czech national soccer team (Czech: Česká fotbalová reprezentace ) is the formal successor to the Czechoslovak national soccer team, which existed after the split of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia on January 1, 1993 until the unsuccessful completion of the qualifying round for the 1994 World Cup at the end of 1993.

The Czech team was reorganized in 1994 as the selection team of the Bohemian-Moravian Football Association . At the European Football Championship in England in 1996, the German team only lost in the extension of the final . At the European Championships in 2000 , 2008 and 2016 , the team was eliminated in the preliminary round, while it made it to the semi-finals at the 2004 European Championships and reached the quarter-finals in 2012 . After two relegation games against Norway , the Czech Republic qualified for the 2006 World Cup for the first time to take part in a World Cup . In the tournament, the team was eliminated after the preliminary round.

As for Slovakia , FIFA also takes into account the results of the Czechoslovak team for the Czech Republic , such as winning the European Football Championship in 1976 and reaching the finals of the 1934 and 1962 World Cups .

Trainer

Parts of this article seem out of date as of 2009 .
Please help to research and insert the missing information .

The post of national coach was held by Ivan Hašek until October 2009 , who was also chairman of the Czech football association ČMFS . The former national coach Karel Brückner and Michal Bílek, who had coached the Czech record champions Sparta Prague until 2008 and then coached the Slovak first division club MFK Ružomberok , acted as coaching advisors . Hašek had taken over the post from František Straka who had looked after the team from mid-May 2009 to the end of June 2009 for a friendly against Malta (1-0 result). After failing to qualify for the World Cup, Hašek resigned. Michal Bílek succeeded him in October 2009.

Trainer since 1994

• Dušan Uhrin (1994 - December 1997)
• Jozef Chovanec (January 1998 - December 2001)
• Karel Brückner (December 2001 - June 2008)
• Petr Rada (July 2008 - April 2009)
• František Straka (May 2009 - June 2009)
• Ivan Hašek (August 2009 - October 2009)
• Michal Bílek (October 2009 - September 2013)
• Josef Pešice (September 2013 - January 2014)
• Pavel Vrba (January 2014 - June 2016)
• Karel Jarolím (August 2016 - September 2018)
• Jaroslav Šilhavý (since September 2018)

Squad

The following 26 players are in the squad for the 2021 European Championship and the preparatory international matches against Italy on June 4 and Albania on June 8, 2021. Due to persistent back problems, goalkeeper Jiří Pavlenka had to leave the quarter after the tournament and before the Czech Republic's first game was replaced by Tomáš Koubek.

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
Tomáš Koubek	08/26/1992	06th	0	Rennes stadium	2016	18th November 2020
Aleš Mandous	April 21, 1992	01	0	Sigma Olomouc	2019	September 7, 2020
Tomáš Vaclík	March 29, 1989	41	0	Sevilla FC	2012	June 27, 2021
Defense
Jan Bořil	January 11, 1991	26	0	Slavia Prague	2017	June 22, 2021
Jakub Brabec	August 6, 1992	21	1	Viktoria Plzen	2016	June 4, 2021
Ondřej Čelůstka	June 18, 1989	30th	3	Sparta Prague	2013	June 27, 2021
Vladimír Coufal	22nd August 1992	20th	1	West Ham United	2017	June 27, 2021
Tomáš Holeš	March 31, 1993	12th	2	Slavia Prague	2020	June 27, 2021
Pavel Kadeřábek	April 25, 1992	48	3	TSG 1899 Hoffenheim	2014	June 27, 2021
Tomáš Kalas	05/15/1993	27	2	Bristol City	2012	June 27, 2021
Aleš Matějů	June 3, 1996	04th	0	Brescia Calcio	2020	18th November 2020
David Zima	November 8, 2000	02	0	Slavia Prague	2021	June 4, 2021
midfield
Antonín Barák	3rd December 1994	22nd	6th	Hellas Verona	2016	June 27, 2021
Vladimír Darida	August 8, 1990	74	9	Hertha BSC	2012	June 22, 2021
Adam Hložek	July 25, 2002	07th	0	Sparta Prague	2020	June 27, 2021
Jakub Jankto	January 19, 1996	39	4th	Sampdoria Genoa	2017	June 27, 2021
Alex Král	May 19, 1998	22nd	2	Spartak Moscow	2019	June 27, 2021
Lukáš Masopust	February 12, 1993	26	2	Slavia Prague	2018	June 27, 2021
Jakub Pešek	June 24, 1993	02	1	Slovan Liberec	2020	June 8, 2021
Michal Sadílek	May 31, 1999	02	0	Slavia Prague	2021	June 27, 2021
Petr Ševčík	May 4, 1994	11	0	Slavia Prague	2019	June 27, 2020
Tomáš Souček	February 27, 1995	39	7th	West Ham United	2016	June 27, 2021
Storm
Michal Krmenčík	March 15, 1993	32	9	PAOK	2016	June 27, 2021
Tomáš Pekhart	May 26, 1989	23	2	Legia Warsaw	2010	June 22, 2021
Patrik Schick	January 24, 1996	30th	15th0	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	2016	June 27, 2021
Matěj Vydra	May 1, 1992	38	6th	Burnley FC	2012	June 22, 2021

→ Main article : European Football Championship 2021 / Czech Republic

Participations

Soccer world championships

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The Czech Republic was part of Czechoslovakia during the World Cup tournaments held until 1990 . After separating from Slovakia, the team was only able to qualify for a World Cup after five attempts. The Czech Republic met Slovakia in qualifying for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification of Spain and Yugoslavia failed.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualification in the relegation play the runners-up of Belgium failed after the group stage behind Denmark 2nd place was occupied.
2006	Germany	Preliminary round	Italy , Ghana , USA	20th	Karel Brückner
2010	South Africa	not qualified				In qualifying at Slovakia and Slovenia failed.
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy and Denmark failed.
2018	Russia	not qualified				Failed in the qualification to Germany and Northern Ireland
2022	Qatar	Qualification is in progress

European football championships

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As part of Czechoslovakia, the Czech Republic took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992. After the division of Czechoslovakia into two independent states, the Czech Republic took part in qualifying for the European Championship in 1996 for the first time and has been able to qualify since then, while Slovakia only managed to qualify for a final round in 2016 .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	final	Germany	2nd place	Golden Goal defeat
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	Preliminary round	Netherlands , France , Denmark	-	After two defeats and one victory, eliminated as third in the group.
2004	Portugal	Semifinals	Greece	-	Defeat in extra time
2008	Austria and Switzerland	Preliminary round	Switzerland , Portugal , Turkey	-	Eliminated as third in the group after one win and two defeats.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	Quarter finals	Portugal	-	Group winners after an opening defeat against Russia and two subsequent wins, out in the quarter-finals against Portugal (0: 1)
2016	France	Preliminary round	Spain , Croatia , Turkey	-	Eliminated as last group.
2021	Europe	qualified			After a win against Scotland , a draw against Croatia and a defeat against England , the Czech Republic qualified for the round of 16 against the Netherlands , which they won and qualified for the quarter-finals against Denmark .

Games against German-speaking national teams

(Results from a Czech perspective)

International matches against Germany

1. June 9, 1996 in Manchester (European Championship preliminary round) : 0: 2 (0: 2)
2. June 30, 1996 in London (European Championship final) : 1: 2 (0: 0, 1: 1) n.GG.
3. June 3, 2000 in Nuremberg: 2: 3 (0: 1)
4. June 23, 2004 in Lisbon (European Championship preliminary round) : 2: 1 (1: 1)
5. March 24, 2007 in Prague (European Championship qualification) : 1: 2 (0: 1)
6. October 17, 2007 in Munich (European Championship qualification) : 3: 0 (2: 0)
7. October 8, 2016 in Hamburg (World Cup qualification) : 0: 3 (0: 1)
8. September 1, 2017 in Prague (World Cup qualification) : 1: 2 (0: 1)
9. November 11, 2020 in Leipzig: 0: 1 (0: 1)

International matches against Switzerland

1. April 20, 1994 in Zurich 0: 3 (0: 3)
2. June 1, 1996 in Basel 2: 1 (1: 1)
3. August 18, 1999 in Drnovice 3: 0 (0: 0)
4. June 7, 2008 in Basel 1: 0 (0: 0)

International matches against Austria

1. May 29, 1996 in Salzburg 0: 1 (0: 0)
2. April 2, 2003 in Prague 4: 0 (2: 0) (European Championship qualification)
3. October 11, 2003 in Vienna 3: 2 (1: 0) (European Championship qualification)
4. August 22, 2007 in Vienna 1: 1 (1: 0)
5. June 3, 2014 in Olomouc 1: 2 (1: 1)

International matches against Liechtenstein

1. October 12, 2010 in Vaduz 2-0 (2-0) (European Championship qualification)
2. March 29, 2011 in České Budějovice 2-0 (1-0) (European Championship qualification)

International matches

→ Main article : List of international matches for the Czech national football team

Record player

Of the currently active players, Vladimír Darida has played the most international matches with 75 games.

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	World Cup games	EM games
01.	Petr Čech	124	0	goal	2002-2016	3	14th
02.	Karel Poborský	118	8th	midfield	1994-2006	3	14th
03.	Tomáš Rosický	105	23	midfield	2000-2016	3	10
04th	Jaroslav Plašil	103	7th	midfield	2004-2016	3	11
05.	Milan Baroš	93	41	attack	2001-2012	1	10
06th	Jan Koller	91	55	attack	1999-2009	1	10
07th	Pavel Nedvěd	91	18th	midfield	1994-2006	3	12th
08th.	Vladimír Šmicer	80	27	midfield	1994-2005	0	11
09.	Marek Jankulovski	78	11	Defense / midfield	2000-2009	3	9
10.	Tomáš Ujfaluši	78	2	Defense	2001-2009	2	7th

Record goal scorers

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period	World Cup goals	EM goals
01.	Jan Koller	55	91	0.60	1999-2009	1	3
02.	Milan Baroš	41	93	0.44	2001-2012	0	5
03.	Vladimír Šmicer	27	80	0.34	1994-2005	0	4th
04th	Tomáš Rosický	23	105	0.22	2000-2016	2	0
05.	Pavel Kuka	22nd	63	0.35	1984-1997	0	1
06th	Pavel Nedvěd	18th	91	0.20	1994-2006	0	1
07th	Patrik Berger	18th	42	0.43	1994-2001	0	1
08th.	Patrik Schick	15th	30th	0.50	2016–	0	4th
09.	Vratislav Lokvenc	14th	74	0.19	1995-2006	0	0
10.	Tomáš Necid	12th	44	0.29	2008-2016	0	1

Swell:

As of June 27, 2021

List of national players

A list of all national players can be found under List of Czech National Football Players .

Remarks

1. ↑ For the Czech national team, FIFA also takes into account the successes of the former Czechoslovak national soccer team http://de.fifa.com/associations/association=cze/index.html
2. ↑ ^{a b} In addition, a game for the Czechoslovakia team
3. ^ In addition, seven goals for the Czechoslovak team
4. ↑ In addition, 24 games for the Czechoslovak team
5. ^ In addition, two games for the Czechoslovak team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. May 27, 2021, accessed June 2, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Sport.cz: Hráči ani trenéři Problem v koučích Haškovi a Brücknerovi nevidí (Czech) as of July 8, 2009
3. ↑ Sport.de: http://sport.rtl.de/sportartikel/fussball/fussball_45387_1335153.php . As of July 8, 2009.
4. ↑ goal.com: Bilek new coach in the Czech Republic
5. ↑ Back problems: EM for Czech goalkeeper Pavlenka ended - Koubek nominated , transfermarkt.de, accessed on June 12, 2021
6. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930-2010 (PDF; 195 kB)
7. ↑ fotbal.cz: Česká republika - Historické statistiky - Nejvíce startů (as of June 27, 2021)
8. ↑ eu-football.info: Player Czech Republic

Web links

Commons : Czech national soccer team  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Czech Association ( Czech / English)
• Football dossier Czech Republic from the Federal Agency for Civic Education