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2019–20 Czech Women's First League
The 2019–20 Czech Women's First League was the 27th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league for women. Sparta Prague were the defending champions. On 7 April 2020, the Football Association of the Czech Republic's board of directors agreed to cancel the season early during the COVID-19 pandemic. Format The eight teams will play each other twice for a total of 14 matches per team. After that the top four teams will play a championship round for another six matches per team. The bottom placed four teams play the relegation round. The champion and runners-up qualify for the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League. Teams Stadia and locations Regular season Standings The regular season ended on 7 April 2020. Results Final stage On 7 April 2020, the league announced that the play-offs would be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the regular season standings being used to determine the champions of the league. Personnel and kits Note: Flags indicate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Women's First League
The Czech Women's First League (), known as the FORTUNA=LIGA for sponsorship reasons, is the top level women's football league of the Czech Republic. The league is dominated by teams of Prague. Slavia Prague won the last championships, Sparta Prague was runner-up. The winning team and runners-up of the league qualifies for the UEFA Women's Champions League. History and format As Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ... dissolved in 1993, also the Czechoslovak women's football championships competitions were discontinued. The I. liga started as a competition for 12 teams, each playing all other teams twice. In 2002, the number of teams was reduced to ten and after the regular season was followed with a playoff with eight best teams. In 2006, the system w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puma (brand)
Puma SE is a German multinational corporation which designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear, apparel, and accessories, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. Puma is the third largest sportswear manufacturer in the world. The company was founded in 1948 by Rudolf Dassler (1898–1974). In 1924, Rudolf and his brother Adolf Dassler, Adolf "Adi" Dassler had jointly formed the company ('Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory'). The relationship between the two brothers Dassler brothers feud, deteriorated until they agreed to split in 1948, forming two separate entities, Adidas and Puma. Following the split, Rudolf originally registered the newly established company as ''Ruda'' (derived from Rudolf Dassler, as Adidas was based on Adi Dassler), but later changed the name to ''Puma''. Puma's earliest logo consisted of a square and beast jumping through a ''D'', which was registered, along with the company's name, in 1948. Puma's shoe and clothing designs feature the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adidas
Adidas AG (; stylized in all lowercase since 1949) is a German athletic apparel and footwear corporation headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria, Germany. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike. It is the holding company for the Adidas Group, which also owns an 8.33% stake of the football club Bayern Munich, and Runtastic, an Austrian fitness technology company. Adidas's revenue for 2024 was listed at €23 billion. The company was started by Adolf Dassler in his mother's house. He was joined by his elder brother Rudolf in 1924 under the name ''Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik'' ("Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory"). Dassler assisted in the development of spiked running shoes ( spikes) for multiple athletic events. To enhance the quality of spiked athletic footwear, he transitioned from a previous model of heavy metal spikes to utilising canvas and rubber. Dassler persuaded U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens to use his ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preciosa (corporation)
Preciosa is the brand name for a range of cut lead crystal glass and related products produced by Preciosa a.s. of Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic. Brand name and logo The Preciosa brand name was first registered in Bohemia in 1915. Products Preciosa manufactures a range of colored glass and leadless crystalline glass. Preciosa crystals contain approximately 30% lead to maximize refraction. Since 2013, however, Preciosa has also produced a lead-free crystal, known as the Crystal Faerie After Hours. History Pre-Cold War The history of glassmaking in the Jablonec region has been documented since 1548, when the Wander family founded the first glassworks in Mšeno. Afterwards, settlers from the Jizera Mountains began passing down the craft of glassmaking from generation to generation. In 1680, Johann Kaspar Kittel created the first necklaces made of Bohemian glass beads in Jiřetín pod Jedlovou. After refining the beads, Kittel sells them all over the Bohemian and Saxon lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plzeň
Plzeň (), also known in English and German as Pilsen (), is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 188,000 inhabitants. It is located about west of Prague, at the confluence of four rivers: Mže, Úhlava, Úslava and Radbuza, together forming the Berounka River. Founded as a royal city in the late 13th century, Plzeň became an important town for trade on routes linking Bohemia with Bavaria. By the 14th century it had grown to be the third largest city in Bohemia. The city was besieged three times during the 15th-century Hussite Wars, when it became a centre of resistance against the Hussites. During the Thirty Years' War in the early 17th century the city was temporarily occupied after the Siege of Plzeň. In the 19th century, the city rapidly industrialised and became home to the Škoda Works, which became one of the most important engineering companies in Austria-Hungary and later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Viktoria Plzeň (women)
Football Club Viktoria Plzeň () is a Czech professional football club based in Plzeň. It plays in the Czech First League, the top division of football in the country. As runner-up in the 1970–71 Czechoslovak Cup, the club competed in the following season's Cup Winners' Cup – the winner Spartak Trnava also won the championship and played in the European Cup. In 2010, Viktoria Plzeň competed in the UEFA Europa League after it won the 2009–10 Czech Cup. The club won the Czech league for the first time in 2011, and participated in the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League group stage, won their first Champions League match, and finished on five points, qualifying for the Round of 32 in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League. The club won its second Czech league title in the 2012–13 season. In 2013–14, the team participated in the UEFA Champions League group stage and finished third. They then reached the round of 16 in UEFA Europa League before being eliminated by Lyon. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strahov Stadium
The Great Strahov Stadium () is a stadium in the Strahov district of Prague, Czech Republic. It was built for displays of synchronized gymnastics on a massive scale, with a field three times as long and three times as wide as the standard association football pitch. Its capacity of 250,000 spectators (56,000 seated) made it larger than any current or former sports stadium, and the second largest sports venue ever. the stadium is no longer in use for competitive sports events. It is a training centre for Sparta Prague and hosts pop and rock concerts. The stadium is located on Petřín Hill, overlooking the old city. It can be accessed by taking the Petřín funicular up the hill through the gardens, or by taking tram lines 22, 23, or 25 to Malovanka station. Construction Construction began based on plans by the architect Alois Dryák, on a wooden stadium in 1926, which was replaced by concrete grandstands in 1932. Further construction occurred in 1948 and 1975. The playi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Městský Fotbalový Stadion Miroslava Valenty
Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty is a multi-use stadium in Uherské Hradiště, Czech Republic. It is used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of 1. FC Slovácko. The stadium has an all-seated capacity of 8,121 people. The first match to take place at the stadium was a friendly match on 12 October 2003, with Slovácko hosting German side Borussia Mönchengladbach. The hosts won 3–2. During the 2003–04 Czech First League, Synot played their home games for the first part of the season at Brno and Drnovice. Their first home league match at the stadium was on 18 October 2003 against Olomouc Olomouc (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 103,000 inhabitants, making it the Statutory city (Czech Republic), sixth largest city in the country. It is the administrative centre of the Olomouc Region. Located on the Morava (rive .... In August 2009, it was announced that the stadium would be renamed ''Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uherské Hradiště
Uherské Hradiště (; ) is a town in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 25,000 inhabitants. The agglomeration with the two neighbouring towns of Staré Město (Uherské Hradiště District), Staré Město and Kunovice has over 37,000 inhabitants. The town is the centre of the cultural region of Moravian Slovakia. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Administrative division Uherské Hradiště consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Uherské Hradiště (12,714) *Jarošov (2,120) *Mařatice (6,891) *Míkovice (814) *Rybárny (258) *Sady (1,609) *Vésky (613) Etymology The name can be literally translated as "Hungarian Gord (archaeology), gord", meaning "a fortified settlement near the Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian border". Geography Uherské Hradiště is located about southwest of Zlín. It creates an urbanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberec
Liberec (; ) is a city in the Czech Republic. It has about 108,000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in the country. It lies on the Lusatian Neisse River, in a basin surrounded by mountains. The city centre is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech Republic)#Monument zones, urban monument zone. Liberec was once home to a thriving textile industry and hence nicknamed the "Manchester of Bohemia". A symbol of the city and the main landmark of the panorama of Liberec is the Ještěd Tower. Since the end of the 19th century, the city has been a conurbation with the suburb of Vratislavice nad Nisou and the neighbouring city of Jablonec nad Nisou. Administrative division Liberec consists of 33 municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Liberec I-Staré Město (9,793) *Liberec II-Nové Město (2,979) *Liberec III-Jeřáb (5,657) *Liberec IV-Perštýn (3,117) *Liberec V-Kristiánov (5,312) *Liberec VI-Rochlice (17,268) *Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
