David Jablonský (born 8 October 1991) is a

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professional

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who plays as a

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Career

On 9 January 2017, Jablonský signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Bulgarian club

Levski Sofia PFC Levski Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 by a group of high sc ...

. On 4 March, he scored his first goal in the Bulgarian league, the winner in the Bulgarian eternal derby against

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, which finished 2–1. Jablonský went on to establish himself as a vital part of the team, being responsible for ten clean sheets in the first half of the 2017–18 season, while also being the top scorer of Levski with nine goals. He managed to get himself on the scoresheet in another Eternal derby, netting the first goal in a 2–2 draw. In September 2020, he was banned by

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from any football activities for 18 months for match-fixing while playing for

FK Teplice FK Teplice is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Teplice. The club competes in Czech First League, the top tier of Czech football. The club was founded after World War II in 1945. The club advanced to the Czechoslovak First ...

in 2012. He returned to training in early 2022.

Honours

Cracovia *

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: 2019–20 Cracovia II * IV liga Lesser Poland West: 2019–20 Individual *

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Best Defender: 2017

References

Guardian Football
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Profile at LevskiSofia.info
1991 births Living people Sportspeople from Sokolov Footballers from the Karlovy Vary Region Men's association football defenders Czech men's footballers FK Teplice players FK Čáslav players FK Viagem Ústí nad Labem players FK Baník Sokolov players FC Tom Tomsk players PFC Levski Sofia players KS Cracovia players Czech First League players Russian Premier League players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Ekstraklasa players IV liga players Czech expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Czech expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate men's footballers in Bulgaria Czech expatriate sportspeople in Bulgaria Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Czech expatriate sportspeople in Poland 21st-century Czech sportsmen {{CzechRepublic-footy-defender-stub