Petr Němec

Němec as manager of Flota Świnoujście (2011)

Petr Němec (born 7 June 1957, Ostrava ) is a former Czech football player and current football coach.

Playing career

Němec began playing football at BANIK Heřmanice. At 15, he moved to Banik Ostrava. His military service completed, the midfielder from 1975 to 1977 in Dukla Tábor and then returned to Ostrava. With BANIK Němec twice won the Czechoslovak Liga titles and the Czechoslovak Cup. In the 1986/87 season he played for the then second division Sklo Union Teplice.

Němec participated in the 1980 Olympic Games in part in Moscow, where he won the gold medal with the Czechoslovak football selection.

Furthermore Němec took part in the European Football Championship 1980 in Italy, where he finished third with the team. However, the midfielder was not used.

Achievements

• Twice Czechoslovak champion (1980, 1981)
• Once Czechoslovak Cup Winners' Cup (1978 )
• Olympic champion in 1980

Coaching career

Němec began his coaching career as an assistant with the juniors of Sklo Union Teplice. From 1991 to 1997 he was a coach, sometimes player-coach with the Austrian amateur club UPS wholesale Gerungs. The former midfielder came back in 1997 back to Teplice, where he worked as an assistant coach until 2001. From 1998 to 2001 he was head coach of the B team.

Then Němec went to Poland. In the 2001 /02 season he coached Slask Wroclaw. Other stations of the Czechs were Widzew Łódź and KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in autumn 2003 and spring 2004. During the season 2006/ 07 he led Miedź Legnica in the 2nd league and in the 2007/ 08 season succeeded Němec with Flota Świnoujście promotion to the second highest division of the country's first league. From July 2011 to November 2012 trained Němec the second division Arka Gdynia.

On December 3, 2013 Němec was introduced as the new coach of third division OKS Odra Opole.