1. FC Slovácko

The first FC Slovácka is a Czech football club from the city of Uherské Hradiště, the center of Moravian Slovakia region. The club plays in the Gambrinus Liga. Founded the 1st FC Slovácka in 2000, as were the FC SYNOT from Staré Město and FC Slavia SYNOT Slovácká Uherské Hradiště merged and 1.FC SYNOT.

• 2.1 bribery scandal and relegated from League 1

• 3.1 Mestsky fotbalový stadium Uherské Hradiště
• 3.2 Stadium Širůch

Club history

In 2000 came the merger of two regional rivals, namely the FC SYNOT from Staré Město and FC Slavia SYNOT Slovácká Uherské Hradiště. Target was the long -term establishment of Erstligafußballs in Moravian Slovakia. In the season 1999/2000 FC SYNOT had promotion to the Gambrinus League managed during Slovácká Slavia Uherské Hradiště had won the Group D of the 4th Division ( Divize ).

FC SYNOT

In Staré Město young men played since the 1910s and formed football teams such as Meteor, Victoria or SK. Only in 1927 was from the SK Staré Město is a membership organization, who played in the Hanácká župa. 1942 Victoria Stare Mesto joined the SK. When Stare Mesto was incorporated into Uherské Hradiště on January 9, 1944, the club changed its name to SK Staroměstský Uherské Hradiště.

After the seizure of the Communist Party in 1948 there were several reorganizations of the Czechoslovak football in the 1950s. In 1952, renamed in ZSJ Chemists Staré Město club played from 1951 to 1954 in the second highest Czechoslovak league, but that included more than 200 teams. On January 1, 1953 designated officials at the club again: in Jiskra Staré Město. This name remained the club for the next 40 years will receive.

In the 1960s and 1970s Jiskra hovered between fifth and fourth league. The rise in the third- highest division managed the team in the 1981 season / 82nd After a tight relegation Staré Město occupied in subsequent years usually a mid-table. In the late 1980s, the club glanced further up. An indication was reaching the quarter- finals in the Czech Cup competition in season 1987/88. A year later, the team escaped the rise only slightly in the second league.

The upheavals after the Velvet Revolution also met the club from Staré Město. The state operating Barvy a laky discontinued the support of the Association, whose leadership now had to look for a new financial backer. Almost by chance, found the club officials in the holding SYNOT a financially strong partner. SYNOT is a corporation of the Valenta family from Uherské Hradiště. The name of the holding company resulting from an acronym of the name SYNOVÉ a OTEC to German sons ( Ivo and Miroslav Valenta ) and father ( Miroslav Valenta senior). SYNOT is mainly in the area of ​​gambling works, but the holding companies grouped many other industries.

With SYNOT back in the football department left the main club in 1993 and traded from now on as FC SYNOT Staré Město. The rise in the second league succeeded in increasing team in the season 1996 / 97th In the second- highest Czech league, the team took went straight to number four. 1998 the club's management decided to wipe the place name Staré Město from the association name. After a third place in 1998/99 FC SYNOT rose in the season 1999/ 00 sovereignly in the Gambrinus Liga. In the summer of 2000 it came to the merger with the neighboring club from Uherské Hradiště.

Well-known former players

• Lubomir Blaha
• Libor Došek
• Patrik Holomek
• Jiří Kowalík
• Miloslav Kufa
• Vladimír Malár
• Miloslav Penner
• Libor Soldán
• Petr Švancara
• Libor Zapletal

Club name

FC Slavia SYNOT Slovácká Uherské Hradiště

The club was founded on 15 May 1919 as AC Slovácká Slavia Uherské Hradiště and first played in the župa II.třída the Hanácká. 1928 succeeded the team promotion to the then third-rate 1.A třída. In 1948, named the club in Spartak Let Uherské Hradiště to 1956 the club merged with the neighbor club Spartak Hradišťan Mařatice to Spartak Hradišťan Uherské Hradiště.

In the 1960/61 season the team rose to the second league in which it was able to hold until 1966. 1967, changed the club name in TJ Uherské Hradiště, 1969 in TJ Slavia Slovácká Uherské Hradiště. After a reorganization of the Czechoslovak leagues Slovácká Slavia was only viertklassig from 1981/82. Already this season, missed the team climb back into the 3rd league only just a year later, but the rise was then perfect.

In the 1984/85 season Uherské Hradiště stood before the rise in the second league, but eventually finished behind Ostroj Opava only the second place. In the season 1989/90, the club celebrated its move into the final of the Czech Cup the greatest success in its history. After a 3-1 Uherské Hradiště lost against Dukla Prague with 3:5.

After the Velvet Revolution and the end of the previous system, the club came in 1993 in financial trouble. The money worries solved the local companies TIC ( Trade Investment Consulting ), which stuck around 25 million crowns in the club. In 1993 /94, strengthened team rose to the second league and marched 1994/95 in the first league through. Already in early 1995 began the financial worries again. The previous sponsor T.I.C. withdrew and left the bike manufacturer JOKO the entrepreneur Josef Kozumplík the field.

The first league was too much for the club, its structures and, finally, were not also team on the appropriate level. With only three wins FC Slavia JOKO Slovácká Uherské Hradiště dismount again. JOKO jumped off again as a sponsor in the 1996/97 season the team managed just under the league in the second league.

In July 1997, the flood of March flooded the city Uherské Hradiště. Even the club's stadium destroyed the water masses completely. In the second division 1997/98 season the team was therefore all home games in Kunovice off with only two wins, the team got off. Due to outstanding salary payments the team went on strike in the last three games of the season. With A- teens and some players from the B team Uherské Hradiště lost the game with 0:7, 0:7 and 1:9 clearly. The 3rd League ( MSFL ) could not keep the team in 1998/99.

In preparation for the merger with FC SYNOT from Staré Město the SYNOT holding rose with a 80 % stake in the club from Uherské Hradiště, both clubs joined on 1 July 2000 to 1 FC SYNOT together.

Well-known former players and

• Zdeněk Caudr
• Bronislaw Červenka
• Vratislav Chaloupka
• Richard Dostálek
• Zdeněk Jánoš
• Michal Kadlec
• Miroslav Kadlec
• Milan Kerbr
• Karel Cuba
• Marcel Litos
• Pavel Němčický
• Jiří Ondra
• Milan Pauřík
• Lubomir Vlk
• Miroslav Vybiral

Club name

1.FC SYNOT

In his first season the new club 1.FC SYNOT which fought out their home games at Širuch Stadium in Stare Mesto, the 11th rank in the Gambrinus League occupied. This was enough to participate in the Intertoto Cup. In the first round the team defeated Universitatea Craiova, the second-round opponents Stade Rennes proved too strong. An eighth place in the game year 2002/2003 eligible for re- participation in the Intertoto Cup. After it had been turned off in the first round of OFK Belgrade 1-0 and 3-3, one difference against VfL Wolfsburg 0:1 and 0:2. On 12 October 2003, the new stadium in Uherské Hradiště was inaugurated with a match against Borussia Moenchengladbach.

Bribery scandal and relegated from League 1

The best result achieved 1.FC SYNOT in the season 2003/2004, this success was overshadowed by a corruption scandal. The sports director Jaroslav Hastík had several referees handed money so this made ​​decisions in favor of the 1.FC SYNOT. The police exposed the illegal practices by intercepting telephone conversations. As a result of this bribery scandal, the SYNOT Holding withdrew from the association, which now 1.FC Slovácka called. For the 2004/ 05 season the 1.FC Slovácka were deducted 12 points, but it was enough to easily avoid relegation.

After a repeated change of ownership, the team was relegated from in the season 2006/ 07 from the Gambrinus League.

Stadiums

Mestsky fotbalový stadium Uherské Hradiště

In Uherské Hradiště a football stadium was built in the 1920s. The place in the 1930s, got a wooden stand that has been extended and roofed in the 1950s. Until 1960, the court also received a cinder track and additional concrete stands, a wall with a large clock and a scoreboard.

The old wooden grandstand was demolished in 1978, in its place was built a new grandstand for 1,000 spectators. Two years later there was a Spartakiade on the court.

Fundamental changes got the stadium in the 1990s. In 1993, the speaker cab has been rebuilt, 1995 seats mounted on the main grandstand, which now had 1,150 seats and some standing in the top row, thanks to a steel structure.

The flood of March in Juli1 1997 destroyed the playing surface and large parts of the stadium. From September to November 1997, the lawn was reconstructed and installed a soil heating. The rooms inside the stands were rebuilt.

The first game on the reconstructed space took place on 22 August 1998. In the MSFL separated Uherské Hradiště Boby Brno B in front of 400 spectators 2:2 draw. The last game before the complete conversion, which practically resembled a demolition of the old stadium, took place on 13 May 2000.

Between June 2000 and October 2003, the stadium was built, which corresponded to the latest criteria of the Czech Football Association and can accommodate more than 8,000 people. The costs amounted to 250 million crowns, which paid the 1st FC Synot 18 million, the Czech state 102 million and the rest of the city Uherské Hradiště.

The opening of the Municipal Football stadium ( Mestsky fotbalový stadium ) took place on 12 October 2003. The first FC Synot received Borussia Moenchengladbach and won before 6,500 spectators 3-2. The first league game was exactly one week later on the program. The hosts beat Sigma Olomouc 3-2.

On 16 August 2006, the Czech national team played their first international match in Uherské Hradiště. Against Serbia, the team of Karel Brückner lost before 8,121 spectators with 1:3. It was also the last international Pavel Nedvěd, which was officially adopted.

Stadium Širůch

Since 1931 is located on the so-called Širůch a football field where previously had stood barns that were burned this year. Early 1960s was the place a wooden grandstand in 1969 /70 from the ash a lawn.

In 1977, the wooden grandstand was demolished and a new grandstand for 500 spectators. During this time, the stand behind concrete, called Hrázka arose to German: small wall.

1988 was at the stadium a new club building, which was rebuilt in 1996 to SYNOT hotel. After promotion to the Gambrinus League in 2000, the club built on steel pipe stands to increase capacity. In mid-2006, there were several months of reconstruction of the Širůch. The club left the grandstand rebuild, installed floodlights, a lawn heating and moved a new lawn.

After the relocation of the professionals in the 2003 Mestsky opened fotbalový stadium in Uherské Hradiště the stadium will Širůch mainly used by the junior teams of the 1st FC Slovácka.

International Competitions

Well-known former players

• Martin Abraham
• Tiago Bernardi
• Lubomir Blaha
• Petr Čoupek
• Libor Došek
• Richard Dostálek
• Petr Dragoun
• Ivan Dvořák
• Milan Ivana
• Lukáš Jarolím
• Michal Kadlec
• Michal Kolomazník
• Daniel Kolář
• Jiří Koubský
• Lukáš Kubáň
• Ondřej Kúdela
• Mario Lička
• Michal Meduna
• Milan Petržela
• Zbynek Pospěch
• January Rajnoch
• Marek Střeštík
• Vít Valenta