Václav Kotal (born 2 October 1952) is a

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former

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player and current manager. As a player, he spent ten seasons at

Sparta Prague Athletic Club Sparta Praha (), commonly known as Sparta Prague and Sparta Praha, is a professional football club based in Prague. It is the most successful club in the Czech Republic and one of the most successful in central Europe, winning t ...

, playing 168 matches in the

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and winning two

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s. He was announced as the new manager of

Hradec Králové Hradec Králové (; ) is a city of the Czech Republic. It has about 94,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Hradec Králové Region. The historic centre of Hradec Králové is well preserved and is protected as an Cultural monument (Czech R ...

on 24 March 2009, replacing manager Oldřich Machala. In his first full season, the 2009–10 Czech 2. Liga, Kotal led Hradec Králové to the Czech 2. Liga title and therefore promotion to the top flight. In two seasons of the Czech First League, Hradec finished in 8th and 13th place. In 2012 Kotal moved to fellow Czech First League outfit

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. He was sacked before the end of the 2012–13 season with the club lying in fifth place in the league after a 5–1 defeat against

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. Kotal returned to management in September 2013 as the new manager of

FC Zbrojovka Brno FC Zbrojovka Brno is a professional football club based in the city of Brno, South Moravian Region, Czech Republic and named after Zbrojovka Brno, a firearms manufacturer. Founded in 1913 as SK Židenice, the club later became known as Zbrojovk ...

Honours

Player

; Sparta Prague

(2): 1975–76, 1979–80

Managerial

; Hradec Králové Czech 2. Liga (1): 2009–10 ; Sparta Prague *

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(1): 2019–20

References

External links

Profile at idnes.cz
1952 births Living people Czechoslovak men's footballers AC Sparta Prague players Czech football managers Czech First League managers FC Hradec Králové managers FK Jablonec managers FK Náchod players Men's association football forwards FC Zbrojovka Brno managers AC Sparta Prague managers Czech men's footballers Sportspeople from Náchod FC Hradec Králové players Omonia Aradippou players Footballers from the Hradec Králové Region FK Viktoria Žižkov managers Bohemian Football League managers {{CzechRepublic-footy-forward-stub