Wikipedia / Czechoslovak First League
Wikipedia / Czechoslovak First League
The Czechoslovak First League (, ) was the premier football league in Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories. Until the 1934-35 season, no teams from Slovakia participated in the league.
Czechs were allowed to run their own league in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, while Slovaks were granted their own independent Slovak State and created their own league. After the World War II the league was recreated.
Description
The league was dominated by clubs from Prague with Sparta Prague winning 19 titles, Dukla Prague 11 and Slavia Prague 9.
The attendance record for the league was set on 4 September 1965, when 50,105 spectators attended a match between rivals Sparta and Slavia in Prague.
The Czechoslovak First League was succeeded in 1993 by the Czech First League in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Superliga in Slovakia.
Names
1925 First Association League () (teams from Prague only)
1925–29 Central Bohemian First League () (teams from Prague and Central Bohemia)
1929–34 First Association League () (expanded to include Moravian teams)
1934–38 State League () (expanded to include Slovak teams)
1938–44 Bohemian-Moravian League () (World War II, Czechoslovakia split)
1945–48 State League () (Czechoslovak Republic reinstated)
1949–50 First All-National Championship ()
1951–55 Republic Championship ()
1956–93 First League ()
Champions
1925–1938
Season | Champions | Runner-up | Third place | Top Goalscorer | Club |
Jan Vaník (13) | |||||
Jan Dvořáček (32) | |||||
Antonín Puč (13)Josef Šíma (13) | |||||
Karel Meduna (12) | |||||
Antonín Puč (13) | |||||
František Kloz (15) | |||||
Josef Silný (18) | |||||
Raymond Braine (16) | |||||
Gejza Kocsis (23) | |||||
Raymond Braine (18)Jiří Sobotka (18) | |||||
František Svoboda (27) | |||||
Vojtěch Bradáč (42) | |||||
František Kloz (28) | |||||
Josef Bican (22) |
Bohemia-Moravia 1938–1944
Season | Champions | Runner-up | Third place | Top Goalscorer | Club |
Josef Bican (29) | |||||
Josef Bican (50) | |||||
Josef Bican (38) | |||||
Josef Bican (45) | |||||
Josef Bican (39) | |||||
Josef Bican (57) |
1945–1993
Performance by club
Club | Winners | Winning Years |
1925–26, 1927, 1931–32, 1935–36, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1947–48, 1952, 1954, 1964–65, 1966–67, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1992–93 | ||
1925, 1928–29, 1929–30, 1930–31, 1932–33, 1934, 1934–35, 1936–37, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1946–47 | ||
Dukla Prague / ÚDA Prague | 1953, 1956, 1957–58, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1963–64, 1965–66, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1981–82 | |
SK Slovan Bratislava / NV Bratislava | ||
Player records
Josef Bican was the all-time top goalscorer of the league with 447 goals in 279 matches, of which 417 goals were scored for Slavia Prague and 30 goals for FC Vítkovice. The list below is not the league's top goalscorers all in all, only players who at some point played for Slavia Prague.
Top goalscorers (players who played for Slavia Prague only)
# | Name | Goals | Years |
1 | 447 | 1937–51, 1953–56 | |
2 | 252 | 1932–51 | |
3 | 175 | 1926–45 | |
4 |
| 163 | 1941–51 |
5 | 155 | 1926–36, 1937–45 | |
6 | 151 | 1939–65 | |
7 | 133 | 1937–65 | |
8 | 127 | 1923–33, 1934–40 | |
9 | 123 | 1925–40 | |
10 | 117 | 1953–67 |
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