Vítězslav Lavička

Vítězslav Lavička
Vítězslav Lavička (2009)
Personnel
birthday	April 30, 1963
place of birth	Pilsen ,  Czechoslovakia
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1972-1980	Škoda Pilsen
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1980-1982	Škoda Pilsen	25 (4)
1983-1984	Sparta Prague	46 (4)
1985-1986	RH Cheb	53 (7)
1987-1989	Sparta Prague	53 (9)
1990	Spartak Hradec Králové
1990-1992	Sparta Prague	33 (5)
1992-1994	FC Bohemians Prague	35 (2)
1994-1996	SK Chrudim	0 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1996-1997	SK Chrudim
1998-2002	Sparta Prague (assistant coach)
2002	Sparta Prague
2002-2003	Viktoria Žižkov
2004-2007	Slovan Liberec
2007-2008	Czech Republic U-21
2008	Sparta Prague
2009–2012	Sydney FC
2012-2015	Sparta Prague
2015-2018	Czech Republic U-21
2019–	Śląsk Wrocław
1 Only league games are given.

Vítězslav Lavička (born April 30, 1963 in Pilsen ) is a former Czech football player and current football coach .

Player career

Vítězslav Lavička played for Škoda Pilsen in his youth . At the age of 16, he made the leap into the men's team at the then second division. In early 1983, the midfielder moved to Sparta Prague , from where he went to RH Cheb in 1985 to do his military service, and returned in 1987. In the 1989/90 season he played briefly for Spartak Hradec Králové before returning to Prague .

In 1992 he moved to city rivals FC Bohemians Prague , and from 1994 to 1996 he ended his career with SK Chrudim in the 3rd division. Lavička played a total of 198 games in the 1st Czechoslovak League and scored 26 goals.

Coaching career

1997/98 Vítězslav Lavička took over the SK Chrudim in the 2nd division, but already went to Sparta Prague as an assistant coach during the winter break, where he won four championship titles in a row. In April 2002 Sparta separated from his then coach Jaroslav Hřebík and Lavička became head coach. He was unable to achieve his goal of winning the title and his contract was not extended. He accepted Viktoria Žižkov's offer . The team played for the title for a long time, but only finished third in the end. In early September 2003 he was sacked after just two wins in six games.

In January 2004 he became a coach at Slovan Liberec together with Stanislav Griga . When Griga resigned after the end of the 2004/05 season, Lavička looked after the team alone and won the Czech championship with her in 2005/06. After Slovan Liberec missed participation in the European Cup in 2006/07 Lavička resigned and coached the Czech U21 team in the 2007/08 season.

At the beginning of the 2008/09 season Lavička took over Sparta Prague for the second time after 2002. However, he was released there at the end of September 2008. In early February 2009 he then succeeded the fired John Kosmina at Sydney FC in Australia . He led the team straight to winning the Australian Championship in its first season. After two more seasons, in which Sydney could no longer build on the successes of Lavička's first season, the club announced in February 2012 that Lavička's contract, which expires at the end of the season, will no longer be extended.

successes

• Czech champion 2006 with Slovan Liberec
• Australian champions 2010 with Sydney FC
• Czech champion 2014 with Sparta Prague

Individual evidence

1. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Vitezslav Lavicka Out At End Of Season (Feb. 3, 2012)