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Sports governing body in the Czech Republic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Football Association of the Czech Republic (Czech: Fotbalová asociace České republiky; FAČR), or colloquially the Czech Football Association, is the governing body of association football in the Czech Republic based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country (the professional Czech First League and Czech Second League are organized independently) and the Czech Cup.
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| Founded | 19 October 1901 |
| Headquarters | Prague |
| FIFA affiliation | 1907-1908 (as Bohemia), 1994- |
| UEFA affiliation | 1954 |
| President | Petr Fousek |
| Website | facr |
First predecessor were established as Bohemian Football Union on 19 October 1901 in Austro-Hungarian constituency Kingdom of Bohemia. From 1922 to 1993, during the existence of Czechoslovakia, the association was known as the Czechoslovak Football Association (Czech: Československá asociace fotbalová; ČSAF) and controlled the Czechoslovakia national football team. After the partition of Czechoslovakia the association took the name Bohemian-Moravian Football Federation (Českomoravský fotbalový svaz; ČMFS) until June 2011.
| No. | President | Tenure |
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| Bohemian–Moravian Football Federation | ||
| 1. | František Chvalovský | 1993–2001 |
| 2. | Jan Obst | 2001–2005 |
| 3. | Pavel Mokrý | 2005–2009 |
| 4. | Ivan Hašek | 2009–2011 |
| Football Association of the Czech Republic | ||
| 5. | Miroslav Pelta | 2011–2017 |
| 6. | Martin Malík | 2017–2021 |
| 7. | Petr Fousek | 2021–present |
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