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Full name AC Dukla Praha
Founded 1948
Ground Na Julisce,
Prague
(Capacity 28,800 (before reconstruction))
Chairman Marek Lukáš
Manager Günter Bittengel
League Czech 2. Liga
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Dukla Prague (Czech: AC Dukla Praha) is a football team from Prague in the Czech Republic. Football club names are a part of the sport 's culture reflecting century-old traditions Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Na Julisce Stadion is a multi-use Stadium in Prague, Czech Republic. Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. The following is a list of Association football stadia. They are ordered by their capacity, that is the maximum number of spectators that the The 2 liga or Druhá liga (second division is the second highest football league in the Czech Republic. Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic ( ˈt͡ʃɛskaː ˈrɛpuˌblɪka short form in Česko ˈt͡ʃɛskɔ also called Czechia, During its heydey the club won 11 Czechoslovak league titles and nine Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966-67 season, reached the semifinals of the European Cup. As late as 1986-87 they reached the Cup Winners' Cup semi-final and it also made a great impact in the American Challenge Cup competition in New York City with four wins between 1961 and 1964. The City of New York

Dukla Prague football club was connected to clubs of other sports, but this connection continues no longer. Separate athletics, rowing, handball, modern pentathlon, cycling etc. GB coxless pair of Toby Garbett & Rick Dunn at Henley Royal Regatta 2004 Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, or Olympic handball) is a Team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six The modern pentathlon is a Sports contest that includes five events derived from the Greek root of pente, meaning five Cycling is the use of Bicycles or - less commonly - Unicycles Tricycles Quadricycles and other similar wheeled Human powered vehicles clubs named Dukla Praha however still prepare world class athletes in their respective sports (like Roman Šebrle and others). Roman Šebrle 'roman 'ʃɛbr̩lɛ (born November 26, 1974) is an athlete from the Czech Republic. In contradiction to the soccer clubs, these ones are still under patronage of the Czech Army. The Czech Armed Forces ( Czech: Armáda České republiky) consists of Land and Air Forces and of specialized support units

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History

Foundation and First Decade

The club that ultimately became Dukla Prague was originally formed by the Czech army in 1947 and was initially known as ATK (Czech: Armádní tělovýchovný klub; English: Army Club of Physical Training). An army (from Latin Armata "act of arming" via Old French armée) in the broadest sense is the land-based Armed forces Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States It immediately got a chance to qualify for the top league and it won qualification playoff against the winner of trade-union competition, MZK Pardubice. In its first league season, ATK lost to the eventual champion SK Slavia Praha 2-8, but anyway finished in 8th place of 14 teams in 1948 (only one half of season was played as the league system was changed from an autumn-spring to a spring-autumn season), and jumped up to fourth in 1949, the best result of the first years of the club.

In 1952 ATK Prague won its first trophy – the Czechoslovak Cup after beating “Builders’ XI” (team completed of two clubs from Teplice and Liberec) in the semifinal and Škoda Hradec Králové 4-3 in the final. In time for the start of the 1953 season the club began to play under the name ÚDA (Czech: Ústřední dům armády; English: Central House of Army). Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Czech (ˈʧɛk čeština ˈʧɛʃcɪna in Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers it is the majority language in the English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States It was time of the politically motivated reorganization of the Czechoslovak sport and physical culture. The team went on the season winning first championship with only one loss of 13 games (the league clubs played only once each other due to a big number of international matches that year).

The top players of the first era of Dukla Praha include Ota Hemele, Václav Pavlis, Karol Dobay, Ladislav Přáda, Ladislav Novák, Rudolf Kučera and others. Otto Hemele ( 22 January, 1926 &ndash 31 May, 2001) was a Czech football player who was a devoted player of Dukla Praha Ladislav Novák (born 5 December, 1931) is a Czech football defender and later a football manager

Glorious late 1950s and 1960s

Finally in 1956 the club was renamed Dukla Prague in honour of the Slovak village that withstood a German onslaught during World War II. Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Slovakia (long form Slovak Republic; Slovak:, long form, is a Landlocked country in Central Europe with a population of over five million Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Again, in the year of the change of name, the club wins the Czechoslovak Championship five points clear of Slovan Bratislava, it beat third place Spartak Praha Sokolovo, now known as Sparta Prague 9-0!

The club regained its title in 1957-1958 season, which started in 1957 spring and finished in 1958 spring. ŠK Slovan Bratislava is a Slovak Sports club, based in Bratislava. Spartak Praha Sokolovo, tied on 40 points, lost the title by two goals of goal difference. Dukla also won its first European Cup match, beating Manchester United at home 1-0 (after losing 0-3 in the first leg). The team then repeatedly finished in top three positions of the league.

Coach Karel Kolský was signed under first titles of Dukla, in 1961 Jaroslav Vejvoda took the club under its auspices and they won the fourth title seven points ahead of ČH Bratislava and clinched the double after the Czechoslovak Cup final 3-0 win over Dynamo Žilina. MŠK Žilina is a Slovak football club playing in the town of Žilina and is one of the most successful teams in Slovak top division (since It started series of four consecutive titles and between 1961 and 1964.

Josef Masopust, key player of Dukla's midfield, was elected European Footballer of the Year in 1962, when Czechoslovakia finished runner-up in the World Cup. Josef Masopust (born February 9, 1931 in Most) is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach The "fr '''Ballon d'Or'''" ( French for " Golden Ball " often referred to as the European Footballer of the Year award is an association football The 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup was held in Chile from May 30 to June 17.

In 1962 and 1964, the reigning Czechoslovak champion Dukla Praha participated in the Champions Cup and reached the quarterfinal both time beating the likes of Servette FC and Gornik Zabrze, losing to Tottenham Hotspur, Benfica Lisbon and Borussia Dortmund in sequence. Servette FC is a Swiss football club based in Geneva. They currently play in the Swiss Challenge League, the second highest tier of Swiss Górnik Zabrze ( pron ˈgurɲik ˈzabʐɛ) is a Polish football club from Zabrze. Tottenham Hotspur, ˈtɒʔnəm is an English professional football club which currently plays in the Premier League. Sport Lisboa e Benfica (spɔɾ liʒˈboɐ i bɐ̃ĩˈfikɐ commonly referred to as simply Benfica, S BV Borussia Dortmund is a German football club based in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia and one of the most successful clubs

The supremacy of Dukla was supported by performances of its reserve team, which even qualified to the top league in 1965 by winning the second league, but could not be promoted because of Dukla’s first team participation in the competition.

Dukla won its last title of the 1960s in 1966 with the same record of 13 wins, 7 ties and six losses and +17 goals difference as the second place Sparta Praha. The team however got new top class reputation as a cup champion winning the Czechoslovak Cup in 1965, 1966 and 1969. Dukla confirmed its cup quality in the European Cup 1966-67, eliminating Esbjerg fB, R.S.C. Anderlecht and Ajax Amsterdam on its defeat-less way to the semifinal, where it lost 1-3 on aggregate to eventual trophy winners Celtic F.C.. Esbjerg forenede Boldklubber (EfB is a Danish football club from the port city of Esbjerg. Royal Sporting Club Anderlecht, usually known as Anderlecht or RSCA, is a Belgian football club from Anderlecht, in the Brussels Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax ( also referred to as AFC Ajax, or simply Ajax, is a professional football club from Amsterdam The Celtic Football Club is a Scottish football club based in the east end of Glasgow, which currently plays in the Scottish Premier League.

The top players of this era of Dukla Praha included Ladislav Novák, Svatopluk Pluskal, Josef Masopust, Pavel Kouba, Jaroslav Borovička, František Šafránek, Václav Samek and others. Ladislav Novák (born 5 December, 1931) is a Czech football defender and later a football manager Svatopluk Pluskal ( 28 October 1930, Zlín &ndash 29 May 2005, Ústí nad Labem) was a Czechoslovak footballer Josef Masopust (born February 9, 1931 in Most) is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach Pavel Kouba ( 1 September 1938 &ndash 13 September 1993) was a Czech football player

American Challenge Cups

In 1961, Dukla Prague was invited to New York participate in the second edition of the International Soccer League, competition of 16 elite world teams. Dukla spent all summer in the United States, playing games and between them training in famous Central Park. Central Park is a large public Urban park in New York City, with about twenty-five million visitors annually

Dukla played seven matches in the round-robin stage with following results:

The team’s biggest threat was the midfield line of Svatopluk Pluskal and Josef Masopust; Rudolf Kučera was the top scorer of the tournament and the most popular player of the team for the New York City audience. Hapoel Petah Tikva is an Israeli football club based in the city of Petah Tikva. The Sportklub Rapid Wien (Rapid Vienna is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Concordia University is a comprehensive Public university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Association Sportive de Monaco Football Club is a Monegasque football club founded in 1919 RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona is a Sports club based in Barcelona. Shamrock Rovers Football Club (Cumann Peile Ruagairí na Seamróige are a football club from Dublin, Ireland. Svatopluk Pluskal ( 28 October 1930, Zlín &ndash 29 May 2005, Ústí nad Labem) was a Czechoslovak footballer Josef Masopust (born February 9, 1931 in Most) is a Czechoslovakian former football player and coach The starting lineup of Dukla was as follows: Kouba - Šafránek, Čadek, Novák - Pluskal, Masopust - Brumovský, Vacenovský, Borovička, Kučera, Jelínek (Coach Vejvoda).

The final was a rematch duel against Everton, which started the first game with a great pressure, but after failing to convert a penalty kick (saved by Pavel Kouba Dukla took the control of the game and took advantage of technical combination play. Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the city of Liverpool. Pavel Kouba ( 1 September 1938 &ndash 13 September 1993) was a Czech football player After leading 5-0 in the half-time, Dukla won the game 7-2 and it went on to beat Everton in the rematch 2-0. Dukla’s participation in the American Cup ended with eight wins of nine games and score of 39-11.

Czech writer and sports journalist Ota Pavel wrote a unique book about Dukla’s first victory and named it Dukla mezi mrakodrapy English: Dukla among skyscrapers. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States [1]

The supremacy of Dukla was so undisputed the organizers decided to establish the American Challenge Cup as the final of next International Soccer League editions, in which Dukla was invited to play against the winners of the group stage. Dukla won three American Challenge Cups, over Brazil’s America Rio de Janeiro in 1962 (1-1 and 2-1), over West Ham United in 1963 (1-0 and 1-1) and over Zagłębie Sosnowiec in 1964 (3-1 and 1-1)[2]. } West Ham United Football Club is an English football club based in Upton Park, London Borough of Newham, East London, who have played Zagłębie Sosnowiec, pron zagˈwɛmbʲɛ sɔsˈnɔvʲɛts is a Football (soccer club based in Sosnowiec, Poland. Only in 1965, in the last edition of the competition, Dukla was beaten in the American Challenge Cup by Polonia Bytom 0-2 and 1-1. TS Polonia Bytom, pron pɔˈlɔɲa ˈbɨtɔm is a Polish football club founded January 4 1920 in the city of Bytom, during the hectic months of

Dukla's overall record in the International Soccer League and the American Challenge Cup thus comprises 11 wins, four draws and one loss with a score of 49-19. [3]

Cup successes of the 1970s and early 1980s

Despite the 11th place league finish in 1971, the worst Dukla's result between the club foundation and 1992-1993 season, Dukla played on at the top of the championship, finishing on the podium again. Although it fell down to ninth place in 1975, it was back on top again two years later, winning the championship four points ahead of Inter Bratislava. FK Inter Bratislava is a Slovak football club playing in the city of Bratislava. In these years, Dukla could relay on two elite scorers – Ladislav Vízek and Zdeněk Nehoda, who helped it to another title in 1979. Ladislav Vízek (born 22 January, 1955 in Chlumec) is a Czech football player Zdeněk Nehoda (born May 9 1952 in Hulín) is a Czech football forward

In 1976, when Czechoslovakia won the European Championships, goalkeeper Ivo Viktor and Nehoda were key players of the team, based otherwise mostly on league’s runner-up Slovan Bratislava. The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Yugoslavia. Ivo Viktor (born 21 May, 1942 in Křelov) was a Czech football goalkeeper ŠK Slovan Bratislava is a Slovak Sports club, based in Bratislava.

Dukla participated in four editions of European Cups between 1969 and 1977, but won only four of its ten games and only one two-leg tie. But in 1979, the club commemorated its success again in the UEFA Cup. Although Dukla met strong West-European teams of Lanerossi Vicenza – without its last season top scorer Paolo Rossi, Everton F.C., it went on to the third round, where it beat VfB Stuttgart 4-0 (goals by D. Vicenza Calcio is an Italian football club based in Vicenza, Veneto. Paolo Rossi (born September 23, 1956) is an Italian former Football (soccer player Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the city of Liverpool. Verein für Bewegungsspiele Stuttgart 1893 e V, commonly known as VfB Stuttgart, is a German Sports club based in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg Hoeness – own goal, Vízek, Pelc and Gajdůšek two minutes before the end) after losing the away game 1-4. In the cup’s quarterfinals, Dukla was eventually eliminated, drawing the away game 1-1 but losing at home to Hertha BSC Berlin 1-2. Hertha BSC Berlin is a German football club based in Berlin. Hertha BSC Berlin was a founding club of the DFB Those games were watched by 29,000 spectators. In the next years Dukla was an ordinary participant of the European competitions, but struggled to go past the first round until 1985-1986 season.

In 1982 Dukla finished first in the league and Vízek was the joint winner of the scorers rankings with 15 season’s goals.

One year before, in 1981, Dukla won the Czech Cup and went on to the Czechoslovak Cup final, where it smashed Dukla Banská Bystrica 4-1 with two goals of both Nehoda and Vízek in the second half. FK Dukla Banská Bystrica is a Slovak football club playing in the town of Banská Bystrica. Dukla thus started series of six consecutive participations in the Czech Cup finals and won three Czechoslovak Cups between 1981 and 1985.

As the national cup winner, Dukla qualified also to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1985-86 and mounted its another European-scene peak. By beating AEL Limassol, AIK Fotboll and S.L. Benfica, Dukla reached the semifinals, where it was eliminated by Oleg Blokhin‘s FC Dynamo Kyiv, which eventually won the trophy. A E Lemesos (Athlitiki Enosis Lemesou - AEL Αθλητική Ένωσις Λεμεσού - ΑΕΛ Athletic Union of Lemesos is a Greek Cypriot multisport club AIK, pron. 'ɑikɔː Abbreviation for Allmänna Idrottsklubben, is a Swedish football club based at Råsunda stadium Sport Lisboa e Benfica (spɔɾ liʒˈboɐ i bɐ̃ĩˈfikɐ commonly referred to as simply Benfica, S Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (born November 5, 1952) is a Ukrainian football coach FC Dynamo Kyiv (ФК Динамо Київ FK Dynamo Kyiv; Динамо Киев Dinamo Kiev) is a professional football Club from the A year later, Dukla eliminated Bayer Leverkusen from the UEFA Cup before being knocked out by F.C. Internazionale Milano, Leverkusen won the trophy the next season. Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball is a German football club based in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Football Club Internazionale Milano, most commonly referred to as simply Internazionale, or Inter, is an Italian professional football club

The domestic and especially international position of Dukla at the very end of the 1980s was a little weaker, but its player Milan Luhový won the top scorers competition twice in 1988 and 1989. Milan Luhový (born January 1, 1963 in Ružomberok, Slovakia) is a former football player

The most famous players of this era were: Ivo Viktor, Ladislav Vízek, Zdeněk Nehoda, František Štambachr, Stanislav Pelc, Miroslav Gajdůšek, Luděk Macela, Karel Stromšík, Jan Fiala or Milan Luhový. Karel Stromšík (born April 12, 1958) is a former football Goalkeeper from Czechoslovakia.

Crisis of 1990s

Yet in 1990, after the Velvet Revolution, after which the reputation of the army club had fallen, Dukla won the Czechoslovak Cup, winning three of last four games in the competition on penalty shootouts. The " Velvet Revolution " (sametová revoluce nežná revolúcia ( November 16 &ndash December 29 1989) refers to a non-violent The next year, Dukla was eliminated from the Cup Winners‘ Cup symbolically by its 1986 semifinal opponent, Dynamo Kyiv, but now in the second round only.

Since the beginning of the 1990s the club had fallen on increasingly hard times. Their major rivals, such as Sparta Prague, had started to acquire major sponsorship deals. Dukla found it hard to acquire the same level of sponsorship, mainly due to the communist past which tainted the club. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based

It stayed in the championships until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. The dissolution of Czechoslovakia, which took effect on January 1 1993, saw Czechoslovakia split into two separate countries the Czech Republic In 1993-1994 season the fabled club won only one league game and for the first time since its foundation it was relegated, due to financial reasons directly to the third division.

The club's best players in this era were: Pavel Nedvěd, Karel Rada, Günter Bittengel and others. Pavel Nedvěd pronounced (born August 30 1972 in Cheb, Czech Republic, at that time Czechoslovakia) is a Czech professional Karel Rada (born March 2, 1971 in Karlovy Vary) is a former Czech football defender

Mergence with FC Příbram and Lapse

Slovak-origin Czech entrepreneur Bohumil Ďuričko finally took the plunge and agreed to save the ailing former giants. Ďuričko's first move was to buy rival team FC Příbram who at the time was in the Czech second division. The two clubs were merged and the newly formed club took the place of Přibram in the Czech second division, playing its games in Prague.

After one year, Dukla Praha managed to win the second division and to be promoted back to the top level of Czech football in 1997 with the help of the cash injection. Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar As the second-division team, Dukla played the Czech Cup final, but lost to SK Slavia Praha on the golden goal rule. The golden goal is a method used to decide the winner of games in elimination matches which end in a draw after the end of regulation time The club management however could not make an agreement with army as the owner of the stadium and moved the club to Příbram and subsequently renamed to FC Dukla and later to Dukla Příbram. Příbram (ˈpr̝̊iːbram Pibrans earlier Freiberg in Böhmen) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic with a population of 35147

Václav Koloušek, Antonín Kinský and 1990 World Cup veteran Ivo Knoflíček were the most famous players of this era’s Dukla Praha. Václav Koloušek (born 13 April, 1976 in Mladá Boleslav) is a football player from the Czech Republic who currently plays for Antonín Kinský (born May 31, 1975) is a Czech football player who as of 2004 was playing for Saturn Ramenskoye where he is the Ivo Knoflíček (born February 23, 1962) is a Czech football player

The club now has a name of FK Marila Příbram.

New Dukla Prague in Czech local competitions

The name of Dukla Praha disappeared from the Czech football for several years, but not for ever. Dukla Dejvice, local Prague team founded in 1959, began playing in Na Julisce stadium and adopted Dukla Praha's yellow and red colors. [4]

The Dukla Prague association was founded again and the club with the famous name took Prague Championship (level four in the Czech football league system) over from Dukla Dejvice.

The club entered Prague Championship again in 2006. In November 2006, Dukla Prague management however informed, that it agreed on takeover of second league rights of the Jakubčovice team. [5]

Back in the Czech Second Division

Dukla Prague is back, now in second Czech division, having entered it in 2007.

Former Notable Players

Trivia

References

  1. ^ Czech article on the Czech Radio website
  2. ^ R.S.S.S.F.: USA - International Soccer League II
  3. ^ International Soccer League statistics on Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation (R. S. S. S. F. ) website
  4. ^ archived Czech article of Prague 6 local newspaper
  5. ^ Czech article in the Sport daily from November 19, 2006

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