Football Association of the Czech Republic

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 and Czech Cup. On the other hand, the professional Czech First League and Czech Second League are organized independently.

Football Association of the Czech Republic

UEFA
Founded	19 October 1901
Headquarters	Prague
FIFA affiliation	1907–1908 (as Bohemia), 1994–present
UEFA affiliation	1954
President	Petr Fousek
Website	facr.fotbal.cz

History

The first predecessor was 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 (Czech: Českomoravský fotbalový svaz; ČMFS) until June 2011.^[1]

On 3 May 2017, Police of the Czech Republic raided the headquarters of the association and other institutions in connection with the redistribution of state subsidies by the Ministry of Education for 2017. Chairman of the association, Miroslav Pelta, was arrested during the event.^[2] Another raid on the association's headquarters took place on 16 October 2020, with 20 people detained, including vice-chairman Roman Berbr [cs].^[3]

Petr Fousek has served as chairman of the association since 2021, been elected at the 23rd general meeting held on 3 June after defeating Karel Poborský by 15 votes.^[4]

Structure

No.	President	Tenure
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 [cs]	2011–2017
6.	Martin Malík [cs]	2017–2021
7.	Petr Fousek	2021–present

Competitions

• Czech First League
• Czech Second League
• Czech Women's First League
• Czech Cup
• Czech Supercup
• Czech Women's Cup

Divisions

• Czech Republic national football team
• Czech Republic women's national football team
• Czech Republic women's national under-19 football team
• Czech Republic women's national under-17 football team
• National under-21 football team
• National under-19 football team
• National under-18 football team
• National under-17 football team

See also

• Slovak Football Association

References

1. "Český fotbal nyní řídí Fotbalová asociace ČR". ČT Sport (in Czech). Czech Television. 26 June 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
2. "Policie spustila razii kvůli sportovním dotacím. Zadržen Jansta, Pelta i Březina". ČT24 (in Czech). Czech Television. 3 May 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
3. Nohl, Radek; Mádl, Luděk; Koutník, Ondřej (16 October 2020). "Policejní zásah v českém fotbale, obviněn Berbr a 19 dalších osob". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Seznam.cz. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
4. Mádl, Luděk (3 June 2021). "Fotbalovým předsedou je Fousek, se spojenci má ve vedení většinu". Seznam Zprávy (in Czech). Seznam.cz. Retrieved 3 January 2025.

External links

• Official website (in Czech)
• Czech Republic at FIFA.com (archived)