Pavel Košťál

Pavel Kostal 11 July 2009

Pavel Kostal ( [ pavɛl kɔʃʄa ˑ l]; born 17 September 1980 in Hradec Králové, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech footballer who is employed in central defense.

Career

Beginnings in the Czech Republic

His footballing career began born in Czechoslovak Hradec Králové Kostal at the age of seven years at Sokol Praskačka, a club from the suburb Královér Praskačka. Already In 1989, Kostal the most successful club of the city, the SK Hradec Králové and went through the following of which all youth teams.

After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Gambrinus League was formed as a top division of the newly Czech Republic, at which time, also the SK Hradec Králové had participated. 1999/2000 the club was relegated from this division, however, had in 2000/ 01 to reach its chances of promotion from the second-rate Druhá league. In the following Premiership season 2001 /02 the team therefore played first against the renewed descent, with coach Petr Uličný also began Kostal first time. How did this on 2 December 2001 by Substitutes his debut in the top division of the Czech Republic, but on further missions he had to wait until a new Substitutes in May 2002. Although Hradec Králové finally as a twelfth of the final table reached the league, Kostal then moved in the summer of 2002 the club.

Kostal joined below the FC MUS Most of who played in the second-rate Druhá League 2002/ 03. Under coach Michal Zach, he established himself in the team from the North Bohemian Most immediately as a regular player and completed 27 of 30 games this season. The team eventually finished only fifth place of the final table, and thus missed out on promotion to the top flight. In the first round 2003/ 04 Kostal then played in 15 games for Most in the second division, made by his achievements but also the leaders of the first division side FC Slovan Liberec attention to himself, so he moved into the winter break to Liberec.

Kostal Slovan Liberec

In Liberec Kostal initially could not prevail as a regular player and was only used by the trainer Vítězslav Lavička in the second half of the season 2003 /04 the last three games, which were hardly of importance for Liberecs sporty performance in mid-table. In the following season 2004/ 05, in which there Liberec could improve only slightly with the fifth place in the final table, Kostal was initially not a regular player, but no later was able to offer more and more often to the starting lineup from the second round. This Kostal for Liberec was partly accumulated in the UEFA Intertoto Cup, for the club by the league rankings in both 2004 and 2005, may qualify, however, the possible qualification for the UEFA Cup in Liberec missed two sweeps.

2005/ 06 finally Kostal was a top performer in the still supervised by Lavička team and played in 27 of the 30 season games, according to which Liberec took first place in the final table, and thus was able to win the second championship in club history. In qualifying for the UEFA Champions League 2006 /07 failed Kostal then indeed with Liberec Spartak Moscow, but then after all took part in the UEFA Cup 2006/ 07, from which the team was eliminated in the group stage.

In league play 2006/ 07 Kostal completed under its 29 inserts for Liberec, however, the title defense failed the club so that instead of fourth place was occupied, the only legitimate but repeated participation in the Intertoto Cup. In 2007 /08 it was not possible Liberec, to build on the previous services it provides, notwithstanding the intervening period coaching change of Lavička to Ladislav Škorpil nothing changed. After 25 missions Kostal finished with the club only the sixth.

2008/ 09 Kostal played another 28 times for Liberec in the Gambrinus league in which the club eventually finished in third place in the table. At season's end, he finally left not only Liberec, but moved from Czech Republic to Austria. Overall he had 129 league games for the club disputed.

About Austria to Germany

In summer 2009, Kostal signed for Bundesliga - promoted SC Wiener Neustadt a two -year contract. With the team trained first by Helmut Kraft and from Winter by Peter Schöttel played Kostal 2009/10 in 31 league games and finished the season in fifth place in the table. He also reached the final of the team OFB Cup 2010, which was, however, lost 0-1 against Sturm Graz. In league play 2010/11 Kostal then played another 29 times for Wiener Neustadt, before he left the club in the summer of 2011 in the direction of Germany.

By the end of May 2011 had Kostal a two-year contract with FC Hansa Rostock signed, in which he was in the plans of coach Peter Vollmann for the season 2011/12 German Bundesliga 2 as the designated service providers in defense. Also due to a stress fracture in his foot Vollmann but could only use it during the first round eight times in the 2nd Bundesliga. In the first two games of the season Wolfgang Wolf attacked, after the first round of the succession Vollmanns as manager of relegation-threatened FC Hansa took over, back to Košťáls services, but should this his last missions for Rostock remain: In January 2012, Kostal an operation had to undergo, which had become necessary due to complications during the healing of his broken foot, so that he in the remaining course of the season no longer was available. With the descent finally made ​​Rostock end of the season Košťáls contract with Hansa then lost its validity, whereupon he left the club.

Return to the Czech Republic

After a year's break Kostal was taken in October 2013 by the Czech first division team FC Zbrojovka Brno for one year under contract.