FC Zlín

FC Zlín is a professional football club from Zlín, Czech Republic. The club has spent a number of seasons in the top league of the country, both the Czechoslovak First League and later the Czech First League. They currently play in the Czech First League.

FC Zlín
Full nameFootball Club Zlín a.s.
Nickname(s)Ševci (The Cobblers)
Founded1919 (1919)
GroundLetná Stadion, Zlín
Capacity5,898
OwnerZdeněk Červenka
ManagerBronislav Červenka
LeagueCzech First League
2022–2315th of 16
WebsiteClub website

History

The club was founded in 1919 and played at the top level of football between 1938 and 1947, before being disqualified from the league due to manipulation of results.[1] The club then played in the top flight sporadically, just four more seasons before the establishment of a separate Czech league in 1993.[1] The club went on to spend a three-year spell in the Czech First League before returning to the second division in 1996. After regaining promotion to the First Division in 2002, the team recorded a number of steady performances in the league, recording a 7th-place finish twice, in 2003 and 2004, and later finishing 8th in the 2007–08 season.

At the start of the 2008–09 season the team struggled, scoring just 9 points from their opening 16 matches.[2] The club were battling relegation as the season came to a close despite a late run of good form in which they enjoyed an unbeaten run of six matches, including five wins.[3] They needed a win in their last match of the season against Baumit Jablonec to avoid relegation, but conceded after just two minutes, trailing 5–1 at half-time and finally losing by a 6–1 scoreline,[3] their biggest league defeat in 62 years, and dropped out of the Czech First League after seven years in the top flight. The club started the 2010–11 Czech 2. Liga with a sequence of four straight wins,[4] and began the following season with a sequence of six matches undefeated before losing to MFK Karviná in 2011–12 Czech 2. Liga,[5] although they did not manage to sustain their form on either occasion, finishing 11th and 10th respectively. The club marked the start of the 2012–13 Czech 2. Liga by changing their name, manager and captain, bringing in Aleš Křeček to manage the team, installing Tomáš Polách as club captain and signing a five-year deal with firm Fastav, replacing the former sponsorship deal with Tescoma to take the new name FC Fastav Zlín.[6] In May 2017, Zlín won the Czech Cup and subsequently qualified for the group stage of the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League.[7] The club marked the start of the 2022–23 Czech First League by changing their name, signing a three-year deal with firm TRINITY BANK, replacing the former sponsorship deal with Fastav to take the new name FC Trinity Zlín.[8] After only one season, main sponsor left and since 1 July 2023 club take the new name FC Zlín.[9]

Historical names
  • 1919 – SK Zlín (Sportovní klub Zlín)
  • 1922 – SK Baťa Zlín (Sportovní klub Baťa Zlín)
  • 1948 – SK Botostroj I. Zlín (Sportovní klub Botostroj I. Zlín)
  • 1958 – TJ Gottwaldov (Tělovýchovná jednota Gottwaldov) – merger of Spartak and Jiskra
  • 1989 – SK Zlín (Sportovní klub Zlín)
  • 1990 – FC Svit Zlín (Football Club Svit Zlín, a.s.)
  • 1996 – FC Zlín (Football Club Zlín, a.s.)
  • 1997 – FK Svit Zlín (Fotbalový klub Svit Zlín, a.s.)
  • 2001 – FK Zlín (Fotbalový klub Zlín, a.s.)
  • 2002 – FC Tescoma Zlín (Football Club Tescoma Zlín, a.s.)
  • 2012 – FC Fastav Zlín (Football Club Fastav Zlín, a.s.)[10]
  • 2022 – FC Trinity Zlín (Football Club Trinity Zlín, a.s.)[8]
  • 2023 – FC Zlín (Football Club Zlín, a.s.)[9]

Players

Current squad
As of 19 October 2023.[11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Slovakia SVK Matej Rakovan
2 DF Czech Republic CZE Dominik Simerský
3 DF Czech Republic CZE Tomáš Čelůstka
4 DF Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH Selmir Pidro (on loan from St. Louis City)
6 MF Cameroon CMR Joss Didiba
7 MF Czech Republic CZE Rudolf Reiter
9 FW Czech Republic CZE Filip Žák
10 MF Czech Republic CZE Tom Slončík
11 MF France FRA Youba Dramé
12 MF Czech Republic CZE David Tkáč
14 DF Czech Republic CZE Martin Cedidla
15 FW Czech Republic CZE Antonín Fantiš
17 GK Czech Republic CZE Stanislav Dostál
19 DF Czech Republic CZE Šimon Polášek
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 MF Czech Republic CZE Alexandr Bužek
22 MF Czech Republic CZE Lukáš Hrdlička
23 MF Czech Republic CZE Jan Hellebrand
24 DF Czech Republic CZE Jakub Černín
26 FW Senegal SEN El Hadji Ndiaye
27 DF Czech Republic CZE Patrik Kulíšek
28 DF Czech Republic CZE Jakub Kolář
29 MF Czech Republic CZE Adam Číž
31 DF Czech Republic CZE Lukáš Bartošák
64 GK Czech Republic CZE Štěpán Bachůrek
68 MF Czech Republic CZE Jakub Janetzký
72 FW Montenegro MNE Nedjeljko Kovinić
77 FW Serbia SRB Vukadin Vukadinović
— MF Spain ESP Pablo González

Notable former players

Reserves

As of 2023/24, the club's reserve team FC Zlín B plays in the Moravian-Silesian Football League (3rd tier of Czech football system).

Player records in the Czech First League
As of 25 September 2023.[12]

Highlighted players are in the current squad.

Most clean sheets
#NameClean sheets
1Czech Republic Vít Baránek36
2Czech Republic Stanislav Dostál34
3Czech Republic František Ondrůšek22

Managers

History in domestic competitions
  • Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 1/
  • Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 23
  • Seasons spent at Level 3 of the football league system: 0
  • Seasons spent at Level 4 of the football league system: 0

Czech Republic
Season League Placed Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Cup
1993–94 1. liga 11th 30 10 7 13 37 48 –11 37 Round of 16
1994–95 1. liga 14th 30 8 6 16 21 40 –19 30 Round of 16
1995–96 1. liga 15th 30 6 9 15 17 38 –21 27 Round of 32
1996–97 2. liga 3rd 30 12 12 6 55 33 +22 48 First round
1997–98 2. liga 5th 28 10 13 5 42 27 +15 43 Round of 32
1998–99 2. liga 8th 30 10 6 14 26 33 –7 36 Round of 32
1999–00 2. liga 8th 30 10 11 9 34 33 +11 41 Round of 16
2000–01 2. liga 5th 30 13 10 7 40 23 +17 49 Round of 64
2001–02 2. liga 2nd 30 18 10 2 56 24 +32 64 Round of 16
2002–03 1. liga 7th 30 11 9 10 34 41 –7 42 Semi-finals
2003–04 1. liga 7th 30 12 5 13 31 39 –8 41 Round of 16
2004–05 1. liga 10th 30 7 12 11 29 35 –6 33 Round of 16
2005–06 1. liga 11th 30 8 11 11 27 33 –6 35 Round of 32
2006–07 1. liga 13th 30 5 12 13 21 34 –13 27 Semi-finals
2007–08 1. liga 8th 30 10 8 12 28 31 –3 38 Round of 64
2008–09 1. liga 15th 30 7 8 15 26 49 –23 29 Quarter-finals
2009–10 2. liga 3rd 30 17 5 8 49 33 +16 56 Round of 32
2010–11 2. liga 11th 30 11 5 14 46 45 +1 38 First round
2011–12 2. liga 10th 30 9 9 12 28 36 –8 36 First round
2012–13 2. liga 6th 30 14 6 10 49 37 +12 48 Round of 32
2013–14 2. liga 11th 30 10 7 13 33 30 +3 37 Round of 32
2014–15 2. liga 3rd 30 16 7 7 53 32 +21 55 Round of 32
2015–16 1. liga 13th 30 7 9 14 34 50 –16 30 Round of 16
2016–17 1. liga 6th 30 11 8 11 34 35 –1 41 Winners
2017–18 1. liga 10th 30 8 9 13 31 48 –17 33 Semi-finals
2018–19 1. liga 8th 34 14 3 17 38 47 –9 45 Round of 16
2019–20 1. liga 13th 33 9 6 18 30 52 –22 33 Round of 16
2020–21 1. liga 14th 34 8 8 18 30 50 –20 32 Round of 64
2021–22 1. liga 12th 35 9 9 17 43 60 –17 36 Round of 16
2022–23 1. liga 15th 35 7 13 15 43 60 –17 34 Round of 16

European record
Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1970–71 European Cup Winners' Cup 1R Netherlands PSV Eindhoven 2–1 0–1 2–2(a)
2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Finland MyPa 3–2 1–1 4–3
2R Belgium Westerlo 3–0 0–0 3–0
3R Spain Atlético Madrid 2–4 2–0 4–4 (a)
2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1R Belarus Neman Grodno 0–0 1–0 1–0
2R Belgium Gent 0–0 0–1 0–1
2017–18 UEFA Europa League Group F Denmark Copenhagen 1–1 0–3 4th
Moldova Sheriff Tiraspol 0–0 0–1
Russia Lokomotiv Moscow 0–2 0–3

Honours

Club records

Czech First League records

References
  1. Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Český a československý fotbal – lexikon osobností a klubů (in Czech). Prague, Czech Republic: Grada Publishing. p. 225. ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5.
  2. "Pět důvodů, proč Zlín sestoupil z první ligy". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 2 June 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2013.
  3. "Po debaklu následuje pád do druhé ligy: Jablonec – Zlín 6:1". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 30 May 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  4. "Zlín zůstal bez ztráty bodu. Na čelo se dotahuje Žižkov, vyhrál potřetí za sebou". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 20 August 2010. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  5. "Zlín poprvé ve druhé lize prohrál, Brno pokračuje v mátožných výkonech". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 16 September 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  6. "Fotbalový Zlín posílil, o postupu do první ligy ale letos nahlas nemluví". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 9 February 2013.
  7. "Zlín celebrates Manchester United win and Europa League qualification". Radio Prague. 25 May 2017. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
  8. "Fotbalový Zlín už není Fastav. Ševci si plácli s novým titulárním partnerem". sport.cz (in Czech). 24 June 2022. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  9. @footballzlin (2 July 2023). "🆕 FOTBALOVÝ KLUB MĚNÍ OD 1.7. 2023 NÁZEV NA 💛 FC ZLÍN 💙 #NoveLogo #FCZlin" (Tweet). Retrieved 13 July 2023 – via Twitter.
  10. "Klub má nového partnera. Ševci si budou říkat FC Fastav Zlín". Deník (in Czech). 9 June 2012. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  11. "Soupiska" (in Czech). FC Zlín.
  12. "Detailed stats". Fortuna liga.
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