FC Viktoria PlzeÅˆ

FC Viktoria Plzeň, FC Viktoria Plzeň as officially, is a Czech football club from the western Bohemian city of Pilsen. He plays in the 1st Czech league, the Gambrinus Liga. It was founded in 1911 as SK Viktoria Plzeň. In the season 2010/11 Victoria won for the first time in club history the Czech Championship. 2012/13 the second championship was won.

Club history

Viktoria Pilsen rose for the first time in 1931 in the highest Czechoslovak league, and remained there until 1938. Best finish was a third place in 1933. A renewed promotion to 1945, 1952 was followed by the descent, was again the third place in the season of 1947, the best result. Further appearances were Pilsen 1961/62 1962 /63 1967/68 to 1970 /71.

This season the club won the Czech Cup competition. In the final first leg at home, it was enough just to a draw against the B team of Sparta Prague. When, after a 3-3 draw in the return match in Prague and the shoot ended 5:5, the Škoda Plzeň Los certain winner. In the Czechoslovak Škoda Plzeň Cup final was indeed a chance against Spartak Trnava, but since the Slovaks had also become masters, Škoda Plzeň had the right to start as runners- Europe in the Cup Winners' Cup, and as the second division. Opponents in the first round was the FC Bayern Munich. In Pilsen, the eleven won by Franz Beckenbauer 1-0 in the second leg of Bayern Škoda Plzeň clearly defeated by 6-1.

It was not until 1972, Škoda Plzeň could a little longer to establish in the first league, the next relegation followed in 1980. 1985, the club was back in the first league. The descent was followed by the immediate re-emergence in 1988 and this once again the immediate descent.

1993 Viktoria Plzen qualified third in League 2 for the Czech first league, the team took an excellent fifth place in their inaugural season. After various midfield positions came 1999, the descent into the second league. As the mid-1980s was Pilsen to a lift club. 2000 rose to the team, only to immediately re-descend. The next climb was taken in 2003, but this time, Victoria was able to keep only one season in the Upper House.

2005, the club managed to unexpectedly the next ascent. After the withdrawal of the 1st FK Drnovice from the first league filed a third place, in order to qualify for the Gambrinus League. In the 2009/10 season, the club qualified as a Czech Cup winners for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League 2010/11. There, however, it failed because of the Turkish team Beşiktaş Istanbul. 2010 took over the entrepreneur Tomáš Paclík the ownership of the club. In the season 2010/11 was Viktoria Plzen of Czech football champions for the first time.

On August 24, 2011, Plzen qualified for the first time in club history for participation in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League after defeating the three required qualification rounds FC Pjunik Yerevan, Rosenborg and FC Copenhagen. There, they met in the group stage against FC Barcelona, AC Milan and BATE Borisov. With a draw against BATE Borisov (1-1) and against AC Milan (2-2 by 0-2 residue ) and a win against BATE Borisov Plzen finished third place in the table of the H group and thus qualified for the round of the UEFA Europa League. In the Round of the team met the FC Schalke 04 after a 1-1 draw in the first leg in Pilsen - led there until the 75th minute and 1-0 - Victoria was in the return leg at the Veltins - Arena to 88 minutes with 0: 1 back before František Rajtoral compensated for the Pilsner and the reigning Czech champions thus reached the extension. There, however, they lost with 1:3.

2012/13 as they played in qualifying for the Europa League. There were successively Metalurgi Rustavi (2nd qualifying round), Ruch Chorzów (3rd qualifying round) and Sporting Lokeren (play- off) eliminated. At the end of the qualification was for the actual competition. In the group stage the Pilsner met Académica Coimbra, Atlético Madrid, Hapoel Tel Aviv. The Czechs won the last match surprisingly win the group after surprisingly defending champion Atletico Madrid was defeated. In the Round of Pilsner were again followed by a sensation by eliminated Napoli. A 3-0 win away in Naples was followed by a 2-0 in front of their home crowd. In the second round was then Pilsen Fenerbahce opposite; Turkish giants should also mean terminus for the Pilsner. While in the first leg against the groups a brief 0-1 defeat was booked, the team did not come in the return game in Istanbul to a 1-1 draw; A 2-1 win would have been enough on the away goals rule.

Viktoria Pilsen was in season 2012/2013 for the second time Czech champion. At the end, distanced Sparta Prague by two points. In the following season, Viktoria Plzen JK Nõmme Kalju and NK Maribor was in qualifying for the Champions League against FK Željezničar Sarajevo, interspersed and qualify for the group stage. There, the team are in Group D on the title-holders FC Bayern Munich and Manchester City and CSKA Moscow. After five defeats in succession, the Czechs succeeded in the last game, a 2-1 win over CSKA Moscow, which thus gave to reach the final sixteenth of the UEFA Europa League due to the rule of direct comparison to the 3rd place and.

Achievements

National

2x Czech football champions: 2011, 2013
Czech Cup Winners: 1971, 2010
Czech Super Cup winner: 2011

Internationally

Reaching the final of the UEFA Champions League: 2011/ 12, 2013/14

European Cup statistics

Current squad

As of December 11, 2013

Well-known former players

Cub Franjo, Croatian - Yugoslav striker, 1935-37
January Berger, 1976-78
Petr Čech, Goalkeeper, 1989-99 in youth
Tomáš Heřman, 1992-98
Pavel Nedvěd, Youth and 1990-91
František Plass, 1963-76, eleven matches ( 1968-72 )
Horst Siegl, 2004
Stanislav Štrunc 1961-65 and 1972-77

Club name

The club was founded in 1911 as SK Viktoria Plzeň. Renaming there were 1949 in Škoda Plzeň Sokol, 1952 in Sokol ZVIL Plzeň, 1953 in DSO Spartak LZ Plzeň, 1962 in TJ Spartak LZ Plzeň, Škoda Plzeň 1965 in TJ, 1981 TJ Škoda Plzeň - fotbal 1992 and FC Viktoria Plzeň.

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