FK Hvězda Cheb

The FK Hvězda Cheb is a Czech football club from the West Bohemian town of Cheb. The predecessor club played in Czechoslovakia as an army sports club a role as a training center for young football players.

History

The club was founded in 1951 rose in 1979 to the first league and could remain there until 1992 when financial problems - the club now had to fund itself - led to the decline. 1993 could be elevated to the new independent league by the division of Czechoslovakia six teams, Union Cheb was a table fourth in the second league here. In the 1993/94 season the club reached the fourth place in the first league, the best result in their history.

The club could not keep them alive and had to declare bankruptcy in 1996 without government support. Overall, the club played 13 years in the 1st Czechoslovak league and therefore occupies position 21 of the eternal table after 1945. Three seasons in the Czech first league enough for number 22 in the eternal table.

2001, a successor organization called FK Union Cheb Founded in 2001, the rise in the 4th league in 2003, followed in 2006, the rise in the 3rd League ( CFL).

According to financial ruin in the 2008 /09 season Union Cheb plays since summer 2008 in the 5th league ( Karlovarsky Kraj Prebor ).

For the 2011/12 season, the club takes under the new name FK Hvězda Cheb. In addition, a B team will participate in the game mode.

European Cup statistics

Hvězda Cheb took 1979/80 as second division champions at the generally perceived as meaningless Mitropa part, four teams played in a group in return game against each other.

Club name

Well-known former players

  • Jozef Chovanec, 1979-1981, 52 matches, four goals (as Sparta Prague and PSV Eindhoven player)
  • Vladimír Hruska, 1979-1981, three matches, 1 goal (as Bohemians player)
  • Zdenek Koubek, 1979-1983, five internationals (as FK Teplice players )
  • Pavel Kuka, 1987-1989, 89 caps 1990-2001
  • Pavel Nedvěd, 1985-1986 in youth
  • Lubomir Pokluda 1979-1984, four caps, Olympian 1980 ( as Cheb player)
  • Petr Samec, 1992-1995, nine matches, two goals
  • Horst Siegl, 1989-1990, 23 caps, seven goals (as Sparta Prague player)
  • Jaroslav Šilhavý, 1980-1990
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