2017–18 Czech First League

The 2017–18 Czech First League, known as the HET liga for sponsorship reasons, was the 25th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league. The defending champions were Slavia Prague, who won their fourth Czech title the previous season.^[1] The season began on 28 July 2017 and ended on 26 May 2018.

Czech First League

Season	2017–18
Dates	28 July 2017 – 26 May 2018
Champions	Viktoria Plzeň
Relegated	Vysočina Jihlava Zbrojovka Brno
Champions League	Viktoria Plzeň Slavia Prague
Europa League	Jablonec Sparta Prague Sigma Olomouc
Matches played	240
Goals scored	572 (2.38 per match)
Top goalscorer	Michal Krmenčík (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Jablonec 5–0 Vysočina Jihlava (17 September 2017) Slavia Prague 5–0 Dukla Prague (18 November 2017)
Biggest away win	Zlín 1–5 Mladá Boleslav (22 October 2017) Zlín 0–4 Jablonec (3 March 2018) Vysočina Jihlava 0–4 Jablonec (17 March 2018) Dukla Prague 1–5 Viktoria Plzeň (26 May 2018)
Highest scoring	Karviná 3–5 Sigma Olomouc (16 September 2017)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Viktoria Plzeň made a league record by winning their first 14 league games of the season.^[2]

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2016–17 Czech National Football League	Relegated from 2016–17 Czech First League
SK Sigma Olomouc FC Baník Ostrava	FC Hradec Králové 1. FK Příbram

Stadiums and locations

Prague

Baník Ostrava

Zbrojovka Brno

Jablonec

Karviná

Slovan Liberec

Mladá Boleslav

Sigma Olomouc

Slovácko

Teplice

Viktoria Plzeň

Vysočina Jihlava

Fastav Zlín

Prague teams:
Bohemians 1905
Dukla Prague
Slavia Prague
Sparta Prague

Locations of the 2017–18 Czech First League teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Ref.
Baník Ostrava	Ostrava	Městský stadion (Ostrava)	15,123	[3]
Bohemians 1905	Prague	Ďolíček	5,000	[4]
Dukla Prague	Prague	Stadion Juliska	8,150	[5]
Jablonec	Jablonec nad Nisou	Stadion Střelnice	6,108	[6]
Karviná	Karviná	Městský stadion (Karviná)	4,833	[7]
Mladá Boleslav	Mladá Boleslav	Městský stadion (Mladá Boleslav)	5,000	[8]
Sigma Olomouc	Olomouc	Andrův stadion	12,483	[9]
Slavia Prague	Prague	Eden Arena	20,232	[10]
Slovácko	Uherské Hradiště	Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty	8,000	[11]
Slovan Liberec	Liberec	Stadion u Nisy	9,900	[12]
Sparta Prague	Prague	Generali Arena	18,887	[13]
Teplice	Teplice	Na Stínadlech	18,221	[14]
Viktoria Plzeň	Plzeň	Doosan Arena	11,700	[15]
Vysočina Jihlava	Jihlava	Stadion v Jiráskově ulici	4,500	[16]
Zbrojovka Brno	Brno	Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská	10,200	[17]
Fastav Zlín	Zlín	Letná Stadion	5,783	[18]

Personnel and kits

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit maker	Shirt sponsor
FC Baník Ostrava	Bohumil Páník	Milan Baroš	Adidas	MW-DIAS
Bohemians 1905	Martin Hašek	Josef Jindřišek	Adidas	Remal, Eltodo, Lion Sport
FK Dukla Prague	Jaroslav Hynek	Marek Hanousek	Adidas	Carbounion
FK Jablonec	Zdeněk Klucký	Tomáš Hübschman	Nike	Tipgames, CPP, SaM Česká Lípa
MFK Karviná	Josef Mucha	Pavel Eismann	Adidas	OKD
FK Mladá Boleslav	Jozef Weber	Marek Matějovský	Adidas	Škoda Auto, ŠKO-ENERGO
SK Sigma Olomouc	Václav Jílek	Miloš Buchta	Adidas	Sigma Group, Olomouc, Gambrinus, GEMO Olomouc, Litovel
SK Slavia Prague	Jindřich Trpišovský	Jiří Bílek	Umbro	CEFC China
1. FC Slovácko	Stanislav Levý	Veliče Šumulikoski	Nike	Z-Group, Synottip
FC Slovan Liberec	David Holoubek	Vladimír Coufal	Nike	Preciosa
AC Sparta Prague	Pavel Hapal	David Lafata	Nike	Sazka BET
FK Teplice	Daniel Šmejkal	Admir Ljevaković	Puma	AGC, Umbro
FC Viktoria Plzeň	Pavel Vrba	Roman Hubník	Puma	Doosan
FC Vysočina Jihlava	Ivan Kopecký	Lukáš Vaculík	Adidas	PSJ, Jihlava
FC Zbrojovka Brno	Roman Pivarník	Petr Pavlík	Nike	Synerga
FC Fastav Zlín	Vlastimil Petržela	Tomáš Poznar	Adidas	Lukrom

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Viktoria Plzeň (C)	30	20	6	4	55	23	+32	66	Qualification for the Champions League group stage
2	Slavia Prague	30	17	8	5	50	19	+31	59	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round
3	Jablonec	30	16	8	6	49	27	+22	56	Qualification for the Europa League group stage[a]
4	Sigma Olomouc	30	15	10	5	41	22	+19	55	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[a]
5	Sparta Prague	30	14	11	5	43	25	+18	53	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round[a]
6	Slovan Liberec	30	13	7	10	37	35	+2	46
7	Bohemians 1905	30	9	11	10	30	29	+1	38
8	Teplice	30	8	10	12	32	40	−8	34
9	Mladá Boleslav	30	9	7	14	31	43	−12	34
10	Fastav Zlín	30	8	9	13	31	48	−17	33
11	Dukla Prague	30	9	5	16	32	55	−23	32
12	Slovácko	30	6	13	11	23	32	−9	31
13	Baník Ostrava	30	7	10	13	36	43	−7	31
14	Karviná	30	7	9	14	32	40	−8	30
15	Vysočina Jihlava (R)	30	8	6	16	30	48	−18	30	Relegation to FNL
16	Zbrojovka Brno (R)	30	6	6	18	20	43	−23	24

Source: Fortuna liga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored; 7) Play-off (only if deciding champion, UEFA competitions, or relegation); 8) Draw.^[19]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Since the winners of the 2017–18 Czech Cup, Slavia Prague, qualified for European competition based on league position, the spot awarded to the cup winners was passed to the third-placed team, the spot awarded to the third-placed team was passed to the fourth-placed team, and the spot awarded to the fourth-placed team was passed to the fifth-placed team.

Results

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 30 matches played each.

Home \ Away	OST	B05	DUK	JAB	KAR	MLA	SIG	SLA	SLK	LIB	SPA	TEP	VPL	JIH	ZBR	ZLN
Baník Ostrava	—	2–0	1–2	2–2	2–1	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	1–1	3–2	3–3	0–0	3–1	2–0	2–2
Bohemians 1905	2–1	—	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	2–0	5–2	1–1	1–0	1–1
Dukla Prague	2–0	2–0	—	0–1	3–2	4–1	2–3	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–5	1–3	2–1	1–0
Jablonec	2–0	2–1	2–2	—	2–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	0–3	2–1	0–1	5–0	1–0	2–0
Karviná	0–0	1–0	1–3	2–1	—	1–1	3–5	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–1	1–1	1–3	2–0	2–1	4–0
Mladá Boleslav	0–0	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–1	—	1–2	0–3	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–2	0–2	2–1	3–0	0–1
Sigma Olomouc	1–0	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	—	1–1	1–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–0
Slavia Prague	2–1	1–0	5–0	1–3	3–2	4–0	3–1	—	0–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–2
Slovácko	5–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–3	—	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–4	2–1	1–0	1–1
Slovan Liberec	2–1	1–0	3–0	4–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–0	1–1	—	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–3	2–0	1–0
Sparta Prague	3–2	1–1	3–0	2–0	2–0	3–0	1–0	3–3	1–0	2–0	—	3–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–1
Teplice	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–3	3–0	2–1	1–1	—	0–0	3–1	1–4	2–1
Viktoria Plzeň	3–0	2–1	4–0	2–0	2–0	1–2	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	—	0–1	3–0	2–1
Vysočina Jihlava	2–1	2–4	3–2	0–4	0–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	3–1	0–1	3–1	1–2	—	0–2	1–1
Zbrojovka Brno	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–0	0–3	1–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–0	1–3	0–0	—	1–1
Fastav Zlín	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–4	1–0	1–5	1–4	1–1	2–1	3–1	2–2	2–0	0–1	2–1	2–1	—

Source: Fortuna liga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[20][21]
1	Michal Krmenčík	Viktoria Plzeň	16
2	Milan Škoda	Slavia Prague	11
	Stanislav Tecl	Jablonec
	Jakub Plšek	Sigma Olomouc
5	David Vaněček	Teplice	10
	Matěj Pulkrab	Slovan Liberec
	Dāvis Ikaunieks	Vysočina Jihlava
8	Milan Baroš	Baník Ostrava	9
	Josef Šural	Sparta Prague
	Tomáš Wágner	Karviná

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Slavia Prague	186,040	19,084	9,623	12,431	+6.9%†
2	Sparta Prague	170,876	17,134	6,234	11,392	+13.8%†
3	Viktoria Plzeň	143,643	11,640	4,138	9,576	−4.6%†
4	Baník Ostrava	118,340	15,020	3,916	7,889	n/a†
5	Sigma Olomouc	80,052	11,028	2,456	5,337	n/a†
6	Slovan Liberec	74,892	9,900	2,446	4,993	+11.3%†
7	Slovácko	67,425	6,127	3,594	4,495	+7.1%†
8	Teplice	66,562	10,142	2,072	4,437	−8.8%†
9	Zbrojovka Brno	65,021	8,026	2,216	4,335	−5.1%†
10	Fastav Zlín	62,774	5,898	2,102	4,185	−4.6%†
11	Bohemians 1905	61,755	5,000	1,905	4,117	−5.9%†
12	Karviná	53,306	4,833	2,245	3,554	−8.2%†
13	Jablonec	48,457	5,426	1,710	3,230	+27.1%†
14	Vysočina Jihlava	45,995	4,500	2,063	3,066	+5.2%†
15	Mladá Boleslav	43,256	5,000	1,017	2,884	−13.9%†
16	Dukla Prague	42,202	7,324	827	2,813	+27.9%†
	League total	1,331,016	19,084	827	5,546	+13.5%†

Source: FortunaLiga.cz

Number of teams by region

Rank	Region	Number of teams	Club(s)
1	Prague	4	Bohemians 1905, Dukla Prague, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague
2	Liberec	2	Jablonec, Slovan Liberec
	Moravian-Silesian		Baník Ostrava, Karviná
	Zlín		Fastav Zlín, Slovácko
5	Central Bohemian	1	Mladá Boleslav
	Olomouc		Sigma Olomouc
	Plzeň		Viktoria Plzeň
	South Moravian		Zbrojovka Brno
	Ústí nad Labem		Teplice
	Vysočina		Vysočina Jihlava

See also

• 2017–18 Czech Cup
• 2017–18 Czech National Football League