FC Baník Ostrava is a professional
football
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club from
Ostrava
Ostrava (; ; ) is a city in the north-east of the Czech Republic and the capital of the Moravian-Silesian Region. It has about 283,000 inhabitants. It lies from the border with Poland, at the confluences of four rivers: Oder, Opava (river), Opa ...
in the
Czech Republic
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. The club competes in the
Czech First League
The Czech First League () also known as the Chance Liga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in the Czech Republic and the highest level of the Czech Republic football league system. Seasons typically run from A ...
, the top tier of Czech football.
Founded in 1922 as SK Slezská Ostrava, Baník has won the Czech First League once, as well as the
Czechoslovak First League
The Czechoslovak First League (, ) was the premier football (soccer), football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Ga ...
three times. Internationally the club won the
Mitropa Cup
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in 1988 and the Mitropa Super Cup the following year.
History
Formation and history to 1937
The club was founded on 8 September 1922 as ''SK Slezská Ostrava'', when 20 activists signed the establishment treaty in the ''U Dubu'' restaurant. The signatories were mostly poor coal miners from the Kamenec coal mining settlement in Ostrava. The founders were Karel Aniol, Arnošt Haberkiewicz, Petr Křižák, František Mruzek and Jaroslav Horák.
SK Slezská Ostrava was a poor club; raising money for the functioning of the club was a common concern. They didn't have their own playing field and were forced to loan fields from wealthier clubs. The first field of its own was built in autumn of 1925 at Kamenec. It was however stony and did not meet requirements of the football officials. In 1934 club activists succeeded in renting the land at ''Stará střelnice'' from regional wealthy industrialist Count Wilczek. During the summer of 1934 a new field was built there. Many workers volunteered to help with the construction for free. Workers and coal miners often came directly from shifts to build the field.
SK Slezská Ostrava began to compete with other teams in the league system in the spring of 1923. They started in the lowest division ''(III. třída župy)'' and were promoted to the higher division the same year. It took, however, some time for the club to reach the highest divisions of football in Czechoslovakia. In 1934 the club won promotion to the Moravian-Silesian Division, one of the highest leagues in the country. The promotion made SK Slezská Ostrava a popular team in the city and public interest was rising. The 1935 derby against Slovan Ostrava at ''Stará střelnice'' was watched by 5,400 spectators.
From 1937 to 1952
The
Czechoslovak First League
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was dominated by
Prague
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teams at that time, which were advanced in all aspects. Promotion to the First League was, therefore, a big success for SK Slezská Ostrava. In 15 years the team advanced from being obscure minnows to the highest level of football in the country. The first league match at ''Stará střelnice'' was played on 22 August 1937 against
1. ČsŠK Bratislava. In the second match, the newcomer team faced famous
Sparta Prague
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It is the most successful club in the Czech Republic and one of the most successful in central Europe, winning t ...
in Prague. Though Sparta's roster was full of
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
players, Baník won 3–2 and caused an immediate sensation. SK Slezská Ostrava survived three seasons in the First League before being relegated in 1940.
SK Slezská Ostrava played at a lower level until 1943, when they were again promoted to the First League. Promotion to the highest league sparked even stronger interest for football in local people. Later, famed opera singer
Rudolf Asmus even sang a new anthem for the club. In the 1943–44 season the home attendances of SK Slezská Ostrava reached the highest level so far. The match against
Slavia Prague
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was attended by 33,000 people.
From 1952 to 1967
In 1952 the club adopted the name ''DSO Baník Ostrava''. Since then the name went only through slight changes. In the
1954 season, Baník achieved their biggest league success so far, finishing second in the league behind Sparta. In 1959 Baník played for the last time at the old ''Stará střelnice'' stadium. ''Stará střelnice'' did not meet the requirements set by the football association. The pitch was not grassy, but covered with
slag
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, which was also a reason to close down the stadium.
Bazaly stadium was constructed in 1959 in
Slezská Ostrava
Slezská Ostrava (, lit. 'Silesian Ostrava'), till 1919 Polnisch Ostrau (, , lit. 'Polish Ostrava'), is a district of the city of Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic. It lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia, not coun ...
, and was opened on 19 April that year.
In the
1965–66 season Baník were weakened by the generation change. They finished 13th in the league table and were relegated to the Second League. After winning the Second League in 1966–67, Baník were promoted back to the top division.
The Golden Era
In 1972–73 and 1977–78 Baník won the
Czechoslovak Cup
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The cup was played throughout Czechoslovakia until 1968–69. F ...
. In the
1975-76 season, the club won the Czechoslovak First League for the first time.
The team's squad was stable in the Golden Era years. The best players like
Verner Lička
Verner Lička (; often written as Werner) (born 15 September 1954) is a Czech professional football manager and former player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 9 matches and scored 1 goal.
Career
In his country, he played for ...
and
Rostislav Vojáček were regularly playing for the national team. Others like
Libor Radimec,
Zdeněk Rygel,
Petr Němec and
Zdeněk Šreiner played for the Olympic team. In the
1979–80 season Baník won their second Czechoslovak title,
finishing five points ahead of
Zbrojovka Brno
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. In the
1980–81 season of the
UEFA European Cup
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Baník reached the quarter-finals, where they were knocked out by
Bayern Munich
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. In the
same season's league, Baník won the First League for the third time.
For the next two seasons, Baník finished second in the league table. After the 1982–83 season, coach Hadamczik resigned, thus symbolically ending the Golden Era of the club.
From 1983
In the following years, Baník was unable to reach the highest positions in the league. The team was undergoing another generation change and young players did not maintain their performance for the whole season. Baník however regularly appeared in the upper part of the league table. In the 1988–89 and 1989–90 seasons they finished second in the league. In 1991, Baník won the
Czechoslovak Cup
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The cup was played throughout Czechoslovakia until 1968–69. F ...
by beating
Spartak Trnava
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Founded in ...
6–1 in the final.
In the
2003–04 season they won the Czech Republic league.
From 2016: the Václav Brabec era
In the winter break of the
2015–16 season Baník were last in the league and in financial distress. At this point the club was bought by Czech businessman Václav Brabec. They were relegated to the Czech Second League for the 2016–17 season. In the
2016–17 season they finished 2nd and started their rebuild to compete in the Czech First League for the 2017–18 season.
With no youth training facilities before the new ownership, under Václav Brabec the team began investing 150 million Kč in three facilities.
1) A partnership in 2017 with K-9 Grade School of J. Šoupal, where they have at their disposal 2 natural fields and 1 artificial field for the youth development.
2) building (''expected complete early 2019'') new training grounds at Vista that will enable the team to have 2 more artificial fields and 1 natural field for their youth teams.
3) The team is working with the Dvořák High School that will enable their athletes to finish a degree in sports management as well as all 20–25 individuals to train together.
Václav Brabec hired former Baník Ostrava star and home-grown player
Marek Jankulovski
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to take over the role of
Dušan Vrťo as the team's Sport Director. Jankulovski brought in a few players such as
Daniel Holzer,
Patrizio Stronati and
Adam Jánoš for the
2018–19 season.
In the
2020–21 season Marek Jankulovski
Marek Jankulovski (born 9 May 1977) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a defender. His most notable achievements include winning the UEFA Champions League with AC Milan and being voted the 2007 Czech Footballer of the Ye ...
stepped down from his role to take the Chairman Board of Directors role.
Milan Baroš
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In 2005, he was part of the Liverpool team which won the UEFA Champions League. He went on to win Ligue 1 with Lyon in 2007, the FA Cup w ...
retired. Acquisitions before the 2020–21 campaign came from
FC Slovácko in
Jan Juroška and
Tomáš Zajíc.
Historical names
* 1922 — SK Slezská Ostrava (Sport Club Slezská Ostrava)
* 1945 — SK Ostrava (Sport Club Ostrava)
* 1948 — Sokol Trojice Ostrava
* 1951 — Sokol OKD Ostrava (Sokol Ostrava-Karviná Mines Ostrava)
* 1952 — DSO Baník Ostrava (Volunteers Sport Organisation Baník Ostrava)
* 1961 — TJ Baník Ostrava (Physical Education Unit Baník Ostrava)
* 1970 — TJ Baník Ostrava OKD (Physical Education Unit Baník Ostrava Ostrava-Karviná Mines)
* 1990 — FC Baník Ostrava (Football Club Baník Ostrava, a.s.)
* 1994 — FC Baník Ostrava Tango (Football Club Baník Ostrava Tango, a.s.)
* 1995 — FC Baník Ostrava (Football Club Baník Ostrava, a.s.)
* 2003 — FC Baník Ostrava (Football Club Baník Ostrava Ispat, a.s.)
* 2005 — FC Baník Ostrava (Football Club Baník Ostrava, a.s.)
Stadiums
In the early beginnings from 1922 to 1925, the club was without its own ground or stadium. The first ground was completed in Ostrava's miner district "Kamenec" in 1925. Banik was playing there for 9 years and moved to southern part of Silesian Ostrava near by a park "Stará střelnice" (Old Shooting range). It was a special place, because a cable car with coal was running above one of the wooden stands. That was also one of the reasons why the stadium started to fail league criteria in the early 1950s.
The club management was looking for a new place for the new stadium and found it in the area of former basalt quarry. They then started building a new stadium for more than 30,000 spectators and named it Bazaly after the basalt. It was Banik's home from 1959 to 2015 and later had a capacity of approximately 17,500 seats. Currently, Bazaly is being transformed into a youth academy that will have 5 training fields.
In 2015 the club moved to
Ostrava's Městský stadion, which has a capacity of 15,275.
Supporters

In the late 2000s Baník had attendances higher than most within the
Czech First League
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.
Ultra
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supporters of Baník call themselves ''Chachaři'', which means "bad boys" in the local dialect. Some of the ultras' songs contain lyrics proudly demonstrating willingness to not only sing, but also fight for their club. Baník's ultras have made friendships over the years, and in 2006 celebrated 10 years of partnership with 2nd division
Poland
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club,
GKS Katowice
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History
In 1963 in Katowice a spe ...
. The celebration took the form of a game between the two teams, organised by the clubs' directors. The fixture took place at GKS's stadium, where throughout the 90 minutes the opposing sets of fans sung one another's songs. At the end of the game, both sets of fans climbed over metal fences in order to race onto the pitch come the final whistle to embrace and exchange scarves.
Players
Current squad
.
Out on loan
Former players
Player records in the Czech First League
.
Highlighted players are in the current squad.
Most appearances
Most goals
Most clean sheets
Managers
* Glass (1923–1935)
*
Karel Nenál (Feb 1936 – Sept 1936)
*
Karel Böhm (Sept 1936 – Feb 1937)
*
Karel Hromadník (Feb 1937 – Sept 1937)
*
Ladislav Holeček (Oct 1937 – Dec 1937)
*
Vilém Lugr (Jan 1938)
*
Karel Böhm (Jan 1938 – March 1938)
*
Karel Texa (March 1938 – April 1938)
*
Karel Böhm (April 1938 – June 1938)
*
Zdeněk Stefflik (July 1938 – June 1939)
*
Antonín Křišťál (June 1939 – Jan 1940)
*
Karel Böhm (Jan 1940 – May 1941)
*
Evžen Šenovský (May 1941 – Aug 1941)
*
Antonín Rumler (Aug 1941 – Aug 1942)
*
Václav Horák
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He was a devoted player of SK Slavia Praha.
Horák played for the Czechoslovakia national football team, Czechoslovak ...
(Sept 1942 – Aug 1943)
*
František Jurek (Aug 1943 – Aug 1945)
*
František Bělík (Sept 1945 – Feb 1946)
*
František Kuchta (Feb 1946 – June 1946)
*
Josef Kuchynka
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A locksmith by profession, Kuchynka played as ...
(June 1946 – March 1948)
*
Jan Gavač
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(March 1948 – May 1948)
*
Václav Horák
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He was a devoted player of SK Slavia Praha.
Horák played for the Czechoslovakia national football team, Czechoslovak ...
(May 1948 – Jan 1949)
*
Miroslav Bartoš (Jan 1949 – Oct 1949)
*
František Bičiště
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* Frank Daniel (Franti ...
(Oct 1949 – Sept 1950)
*
Jaroslav Šimonek (Sept 1950 – Feb 1951)
*
Rudolf Vytlačil (March 1951 – Jan 1952)
*
Bedřich Šafl (Feb 1952 – Nov 1952)
*
Jaroslav Šimonek (Dec 1952 – Feb 1956)
*
František Szedlacsek (Feb 1956 – April 1957)
*
Antonín Honál (April 1957 – May 1957)
*
František Bičiště
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* Frank Daniel (Franti ...
(June 1957 – June 1958)
*
Jaroslav Vejvoda (July 1958 – July 1960)
*
František Bufka (Aug 1960 – Dec 1964)
*
Zdeněk Šajer (Jan 1965 – Dec 1965)
*
František Bičiště
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* Frank Daniel (Franti ...
(Jan 1966 – June 1966)
*
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*Georg Benda (Jiří Antonín Benda), Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeist ...
(July 1966 – Dec 1966)
*
Jozef Čurgaly (Jan 1967 – July 1967)
*
Oldřich Šubrt (July 1967 – Aug 1969)
*
Jiří Rubáš (Aug 1969 – June 1970)
*
František Ipser (July 1970 – Aug 1971)
*
Zdeněk Stanco (Aug 1971 – Dec 1971)
*
Karol Bučko (Jan 1972 – Aug 1972)
*
František Šindelář
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* Frank Daniel (Fr ...
(Aug 1972 – Oct 1972)
*
Tomáš Pospíchal (Oct 1972 – Dec 1975)
*
Jiří Rubáš (Jan 1976 – Dec 1977)
*
Evžen Hadamczik
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(Jan 1978 – June 1983)
*
Stanislav Jarábek (July 1983 – June 1984)
*
Josef Kolečko (July 1984 – June 1986)
*
Milan Máčala
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He has previously coached in the area with the national teams of Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwai ...
(July 1986 – June 1990)
*
Jaroslav Gürtler (July 1990 – June 1992)
*
Ivan Kopecký (July 1992 – Nov 1992)
*
Jaroslav Janoš (Nov 1992 – Dec 1992)
*
Verner Lička
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Career
In his country, he played for ...
(Dec 1992 – April 1995)
*
Jaroslav Janoš (April 1995 – June 1995)
*
Ján Zachar (July 1995)
*
Jaroslav Jánoš (July 1995 – Aug 1995)
*
Ján Zachar (Sept 1995 – July 1996)
*
Petr Uličný (July 1996 – Sept 1997)
*
Verner Lička
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Career
In his country, he played for ...
(Sept 1997 – March 2000)
*
Rostislav Vojáček (March 2000 – June 2000)
*
Milan Bokša (July 2000 – Nov 2000)
*
Jaroslav Gürtler (Nov 2000 – April 2001)
*
Verner Lička
Verner Lička (; often written as Werner) (born 15 September 1954) is a Czech professional football manager and former player. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 9 matches and scored 1 goal.
Career
In his country, he played for ...
(May 2001)
*
Jozef Jarabinský (June 2001 – May 2002)
*
Erich Cviertna
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(June 2002 – April 2003)
*
Pavel Vrba
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(May 2003)
*
František Komňacký (June 2003 – Oct 2004)
*
Jozef Jarabinský (Oct 2004 – Aug 2005)
*
Pavel Hapal
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Playing career
As a footballer, Hapal played for Dukla Prague, CD Tenerife, Sparta Prague, and SK Dynamo České Budějovice. At international level, he ...
(Aug 2005 – June 2006)
*
Karel Večeřa (July 2006 – April 2009)
*
Verner Lička
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Career
In his country, he played for ...
''(interim)'' (April 2009 – June 2009)
*
Miroslav Koubek (June 2009 – Oct 2010)
*
Verner Lička
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Career
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(Oct 2010 – Nov 2010)
*
Karol Marko
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(Nov 2010 – July 2011)
*
Pavel Malura (July 2011 – March 2012)
*
Radoslav Látal (March 2012 – Oct 2012)
*
Martin Pulpit (Oct 2012 – May 2013)
*
Martin Svědík
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Playing career
As a player, Svědík played as a forward. He started playi ...
(May 2013 – Dec 2013)
*
František Komňacký (Dec 2013 – April 2014)
*
Tomáš Bernady (April 2014 – Dec 2014)
*
Petr Frňka (Dec 2014 – June 2015)
*
Radomír Korytář (June 2015 – Jan 2016)
*
Vlastimil Petržela (Jan 2016 – May 2017)
*
Radim Kučera (June 2017 – March 2018)
*
Bohumil Páník (March 2018 – Dec 2019)
*
Luboš Kozel
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(Dec 2019 – Feb 2021)
*
Ondřej Smetana (Feb 2021 – April 2022)
*
Tomáš Galásek (April 2022 – June 2022 )
*
Pavel Vrba
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As a player, Vrba played for several clubs ...
(July 2022 – October 2022)
*
Pavel Hapal
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Playing career
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(October 2022 – )
History in domestic competitions
* Seasons spent at Level 1 of the
football league system
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: 31
* Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 1
* Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 0
* Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 0
Czech Republic
History in European competitions since 1993–94
Honours
Domestic
*
Czechoslovak First League
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/
Czech First League
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**Champions (4):
1975–76,
1979–80,
1980–81,
2003–04
**Runners-up (6):
1954
Events
January
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* January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
,
1978–79,
1981–82,
1982–83,
1988–89,
1989–90
*
Czechoslovak Cup
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The cup was played throughout Czechoslovakia until 1968–69. F ...
/
Czech Cup
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The Czech Cup was first held in 1961. The winner ...
**Winners (4): 1972–73, 1977–78, 1990–91,
2004–05
**Runners-up (4): 1978–79,
2003–04,
2005–06,
2018–19
European
*
Mitropa Cup
The Mitropa Cup, officially called Coupe de l'Europe Centrale, Mitteleuropäischer Pokal or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European association football, football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the suc ...
**Winners: 1988
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Mitropa Super Cup
**Winners:
1989
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Club records
Czech First League records
Source:
*Best position: 1st (
2003–04)
*Worst position: 16th (
2015–16)
*Biggest home win: Ostrava 6–0
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 P ...
(
2005–06), Ostrava 6–0
Slovácko
Moravian Slovakia, also called Slovácko (, older ''Moravské Slovensko'') is a cultural region in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic. It lies in the historical region of Moravia, on the border with Slovakia (the Slovak region of Záhor ...
(
2023–24)
*Biggest away win:
Teplice
Teplice (, until 1948 Teplice-Šanov; , ''Teplitz-Schönau'') is a city in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 51,000 inhabitants. It is the most populous Czech spa town, followed by Karlovy Vary. The historic city cen ...
0–5 Ostrava (
2022–23)
*Biggest home defeat: Ostrava 1–5
Sparta
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(
2000–01), Ostrava 0–4
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 pr ...
(
2004–05), Ostrava 0–4
Jablonec (
2013–14), Ostrava 0–4
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 P ...
(
2015–16)
*Biggest away defeat:
Slavia 7–0 Ostrava (
2002–03)
References
Bibliography
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External links
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Fan site
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Football clubs in the Czech Republic
Association football clubs established in 1922
Ostrava, Banik
Ostrava, Banik
Sport in Ostrava
Ostrava, Banik
Mining association football clubs in the Czech Republic
1922 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Czech National Football League clubs