2017?18 Czech First League

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Czech First League
Season 2017?18
Dates 28 July 2017 ? 26 May 2018
Champions Viktoria Plze?
Relegated Vyso?ina Jihlava
Zbrojovka Brno
Champions League Viktoria Plze?
Slavia Prague
Europa League Jablonec
Sparta Prague
Sigma Olomouc
Matches played 240
Goals scored 572 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorer Michal Krmen?ik (16 goals)
Biggest home win Jablonec 5?0 Vyso?ina Jihlava
(17 September 2017)
Slavia Prague 5?0 Dukla Prague
(18 November 2017)
Biggest away win Zlin 1?5 Mlada Boleslav
(22 October 2017)
Zlin 0?4 Jablonec (3 March 2018)
Vyso?ina Jihlava 0?4 Jablonec
(17 March 2018)
Dukla Prague 1?5 Viktoria Plze?
(26 May 2018)
Highest scoring Karvina 3?5 Sigma Olomouc
(16 September 2017)

The 2017?18 Czech First League , known as the HET liga for sponsorship reasons, was the 25th season of the Czech Republic 's top-tier football league. The defending champions were Slavia Prague , who won their fourth Czech title the previous season . [1] The season began on 28 July 2017 and ended on 26 May 2018.

Viktoria Plze? made a league record by winning their first 14 league games of the season. [2]

Teams [ edit ]

Team changes [ edit ]

Promoted from
2016?17 Czech National Football League
Relegated from
2016?17 Czech First League
SK Sigma Olomouc
FC Banik Ostrava
FC Hradec Kralove
1. FK P?ibram

Stadiums and locations [ edit ]

Team Location Stadium Capacity Ref.
Banik Ostrava Ostrava M?stsky stadion (Ostrava) 15,123 [3]
Bohemians 1905 Prague ?oli?ek 5,000 [4]
Dukla Prague Prague Stadion Juliska 8,150 [5]
Jablonec Jablonec nad Nisou Stadion St?elnice 6,108 [6]
Karvina Karvina M?stsky stadion (Karvina) 4,833 [7]
Mlada Boleslav Mlada Boleslav M?stsky stadion (Mlada Boleslav) 5,000 [8]
Sigma Olomouc Olomouc Andr?v stadion 12,483 [9]
Slavia Prague Prague Eden Arena 20,232 [10]
Slovacko Uherske Hradi?t? M?stsky fotbalovy stadion Miroslava Valenty 8,000 [11]
Slovan Liberec Liberec Stadion u Nisy 9,900 [12]
Sparta Prague Prague Generali Arena 18,887 [13]
Teplice Teplice Na Stinadlech 18,221 [14]
Viktoria Plze? Plze? Doosan Arena 11,700 [15]
Vyso?ina Jihlava Jihlava Stadion v Jiraskov? ulici 4,500 [16]
Zbrojovka Brno Brno M?stsky fotbalovy stadion Srbska 10,200 [17]
Fastav Zlin Zlin Letna Stadion 5,783 [18]

Personnel and kits [ edit ]

Team Manager Captain Kit maker Shirt sponsor
FC Banik Ostrava Czech Republic Bohumil Panik Czech Republic Milan Baro? Adidas MW-DIAS
Bohemians 1905 Czech Republic Martin Ha?ek Czech Republic Josef Jind?i?ek Adidas Remal, Eltodo, Lion Sport
FK Dukla Prague Czech Republic Jaroslav Hynek Czech Republic Marek Hanousek Adidas Carbounion
FK Jablonec Czech Republic Zden?k Klucky Czech Republic Toma? Hubschman Nike Tipgames, CPP, SaM ?eska Lipa
MFK Karvina Czech Republic Josef Mucha Czech Republic Pavel Eismann Adidas OKD
FK Mlada Boleslav Czech Republic Jozef Weber Czech Republic Marek Mat?jovsky Adidas ?koda Auto , ?KO-ENERGO
SK Sigma Olomouc Czech Republic Vaclav Jilek Czech Republic Milo? Buchta Adidas Sigma Group, Olomouc, Gambrinus , GEMO Olomouc, Litovel
SK Slavia Prague Czech Republic Jind?ich Trpi?ovsky Czech Republic Ji?i Bilek Umbro CEFC China
1. FC Slovacko Czech Republic Stanislav Levy North Macedonia Veli?e ?umulikoski Nike Z-Group, Synottip
FC Slovan Liberec Czech Republic David Holoubek Czech Republic Vladimir Coufal Nike Preciosa
AC Sparta Prague Czech Republic Pavel Hapal Czech Republic David Lafata Nike Sazka BET
FK Teplice Czech Republic Daniel ?mejkal Bosnia and Herzegovina Admir Ljevakovi? Puma AGC, Umbro
FC Viktoria Plze? Czech Republic Pavel Vrba Czech Republic Roman Hubnik Puma Doosan
FC Vyso?ina Jihlava Czech Republic Ivan Kopecky Czech Republic Luka? Vaculik Adidas PSJ, Jihlava
FC Zbrojovka Brno Slovakia Roman Pivarnik Czech Republic Petr Pavlik Nike Synerga
FC Fastav Zlin Czech Republic Vlastimil Petr?ela Czech Republic Toma? Poznar Adidas Lukrom

League table [ edit ]

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Viktoria Plze? (C) 30 20 6 4 55 23 +32 66 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2 Slavia Prague 30 17 8 5 50 19 +31 59 Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3 Jablonec 30 16 8 6 49 27 +22 56 Qualification for the Europa League group stage [a]
4 Sigma Olomouc 30 15 10 5 41 22 +19 55 Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round [a]
5 Sparta Prague 30 14 11 5 43 25 +18 53 Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round [a]
6 Slovan Liberec 30 13 7 10 37 35 +2 46
7 Bohemians 1905 30 9 11 10 30 29 +1 38
8 Teplice 30 8 10 12 32 40 −8 34
9 Mlada Boleslav 30 9 7 14 31 43 −12 34
10 Fastav Zlin 30 8 9 13 31 48 −17 33
11 Dukla Prague 30 9 5 16 32 55 −23 32
12 Slovacko 30 6 13 11 23 32 −9 31
13 Banik Ostrava 30 7 10 13 36 43 −7 31
14 Karvina 30 7 9 14 32 40 −8 30
15 Vyso?ina Jihlava (R) 30 8 6 16 30 48 −18 30 Relegation to FNL
16 Zbrojovka Brno (R) 30 6 6 18 20 43 −23 24
Source: Fortuna liga , Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions, or relegation); 8) Draw. [19]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b c Since the winners of the 2017?18 Czech Cup , Slavia Prague , qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed to the third-placed team, the spot awarded to the third-placed team was passed to the fourth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team was passed to the fifth-placed team.

Results [ edit ]

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 30 matches played each.

Home \ Away OST B05 DUK JAB KAR MLA SIG SLA SLK LIB SPA TEP VPL JIH ZBR ZLN
Banik Ostrava 2?0 1?2 2?2 2?1 0?1 1?1 0?0 1?2 1?1 3?2 3?3 0?0 3?1 2?0 2?2
Bohemians 1905 2?1 2?0 0?1 2?1 1?3 1?1 0?0 1?0 0?0 0?0 2?0 5?2 1?1 1?0 1?1
Dukla Prague 2?0 2?0 0?1 3?2 4?1 2?3 0?2 1?1 2?0 0?0 0?2 1?5 1?3 2?1 1?0
Jablonec 2?0 2?1 2?2 2?1 3?1 0?0 1?1 2?0 2?0 0?3 2?1 0?1 5?0 1?0 2?0
Karvina 0?0 1?0 1?3 2?1 1?1 3?5 0?2 0?0 0?1 1?1 1?1 1?3 2?0 2?1 4?0
Mlada Boleslav 0?0 1?2 1?0 1?1 0?1 1?2 0?3 1?1 0?3 0?1 2?2 0?2 2?1 3?0 0?1
Sigma Olomouc 1?0 1?1 3?0 0?0 1?1 3?0 1?1 1?0 2?1 1?0 1?0 0?0 1?1 3?0 2?0
Slavia Prague 2?1 1?0 5?0 1?3 3?2 4?0 3?1 0?0 1?2 2?0 1?0 2?0 2?0 2?0 1?2
Slovacko 5?2 1?0 2?0 1?1 0?0 0?1 0?0 0?3 0?1 1?1 0?0 1?4 2?1 1?0 1?1
Slovan Liberec 2?1 1?0 3?0 4?1 2?2 1?0 1?0 0?0 1?1 1?1 1?2 0?3 1?3 2?0 1?0
Sparta Prague 3?2 1?1 3?0 2?0 2?0 3?0 1?0 3?3 1?0 2?0 3?0 0?1 1?0 1?1 2?1
Teplice 0?0 0?0 3?1 1?1 1?0 1?1 1?2 0?3 3?0 2?1 1?1 0?0 3?1 1?4 2?1
Viktoria Plze? 3?0 2?1 4?0 2?0 2?0 1?2 1?0 1?0 1?1 2?2 2?2 2?1 0?1 3?0 2?1
Vyso?ina Jihlava 2?1 2?4 3?2 0?4 0?2 0?0 0?1 1?0 0?0 3?1 0?1 3?1 1?2 0?2 1?1
Zbrojovka Brno 1?3 0?0 0?0 0?3 0?0 0?3 1?0 0?1 2?1 1?2 2?0 1?0 1?3 0?0 1?1
Fastav Zlin 0?2 1?1 1?1 0?4 1?0 1?5 1?4 1?1 2?1 3?1 2?2 2?0 0?1 2?1 2?1
Source: Fortuna liga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers [ edit ]

Rank Player Club Goals [20] [21]
1 Czech Republic Michal Krmen?ik Viktoria Plze? 16
2 Czech Republic Milan ?koda Slavia Prague 11
Czech Republic Stanislav Tecl Jablonec
Czech Republic Jakub Pl?ek Sigma Olomouc
5 Czech Republic David Van??ek Teplice 10
Czech Republic Mat?j Pulkrab Slovan Liberec
Latvia D?vis Ikaunieks Vyso?ina Jihlava
8 Czech Republic Milan Baro? Banik Ostrava 9
Czech Republic Josef ?ural Sparta Prague
Czech Republic Toma? Wagner Karvina

Attendances [ edit ]

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Slavia Prague 186,040 19,084 9,623 12,431 +6.9%
2 Sparta Prague 170,876 17,134 6,234 11,392 +13.8%
3 Viktoria Plze? 143,643 11,640 4,138 9,576 ?4.6%
4 Banik Ostrava 118,340 15,020 3,916 7,889 n/a
5 Sigma Olomouc 80,052 11,028 2,456 5,337 n/a
6 Slovan Liberec 74,892 9,900 2,446 4,993 +11.3%
7 Slovacko 67,425 6,127 3,594 4,495 +7.1%
8 Teplice 66,562 10,142 2,072 4,437 ?8.8%
9 Zbrojovka Brno 65,021 8,026 2,216 4,335 ?5.1%
10 Fastav Zlin 62,774 5,898 2,102 4,185 ?4.6%
11 Bohemians 1905 61,755 5,000 1,905 4,117 ?5.9%
12 Karvina 53,306 4,833 2,245 3,554 ?8.2%
13 Jablonec 48,457 5,426 1,710 3,230 +27.1%
14 Vyso?ina Jihlava 45,995 4,500 2,063 3,066 +5.2%
15 Mlada Boleslav 43,256 5,000 1,017 2,884 ?13.9%
16 Dukla Prague 42,202 7,324 827 2,813 +27.9%
League total 1,331,016 19,084 827 5,546 +13.5%

Number of teams by region [ edit ]

Rank Region Number of teams Club(s)
1   Prague 4 Bohemians 1905 , Dukla Prague , Sparta Prague , Slavia Prague
2   Liberec 2 Jablonec , Slovan Liberec
  Moravian-Silesian Banik Ostrava , Karvina
  Zlin Fastav Zlin , Slovacko
5   Central Bohemian 1 Mlada Boleslav
  Olomouc Sigma Olomouc
  Plze? Viktoria Plze?
  South Moravian Zbrojovka Brno
  Usti nad Labem Teplice
  Vyso?ina Vyso?ina Jihlava

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Slavia na Strahov? rozst?ilela Brno 4:0 a po osmi letech dosahla na titul" [Slavia Strahov blasted Brno 4:0 after eight years and reached the title]. ?eska televize (in Czech). 27 May 2017 . Retrieved 18 June 2017 .
  2. ^ "Plze? equal club record of 16 wins in succession" . Radio Prague . 19 November 2017 . Retrieved 28 November 2017 .
  3. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Banik Ostrava" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  4. ^ "Informace o klubu Bohemians Praha 1905" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  5. ^ "Informace o klubu Dukla Praha" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  6. ^ "Informace o klubu FK Jablonec" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  7. ^ "Informace o klubu MFK Karvina" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  8. ^ "Informace o klubu FK Mlada Boleslav" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  9. ^ "Informace o klubu SK Sigma Olomouc" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  10. ^ "Informace o klubu SK Slavia Praha" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  11. ^ "Informace o klubu 1. FC Slovacko" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  12. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Slovan Liberec" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  13. ^ "Informace o klubu AC Sparta Praha" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  14. ^ "Informace o klubu FK Teplice" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  15. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Viktoria Plze?" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  16. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Vyso?ina Jihlava" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  17. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Zbrojovka Brno" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  18. ^ "Informace o klubu FC Fastav Zlin" . hetliga.cz (in Czech). HET Liga . Retrieved 17 September 2017 .
  19. ^ "Czech Liga 2017/2018 - Season rules" . Scoresway . Retrieved 26 February 2019 .
  20. ^ "Czech first league: Top Scorers - World Match Centre" . Archived from the original on May 16, 2014 . Retrieved 6 August 2017 .
  21. ^ "Czech first league: Top Scorers" . Retrieved 6 August 2017 .

External links [ edit ]