2018–19 Czech First League

The 2018–19 Czech First League, known as the Fortuna liga for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league. The defending champions were Viktoria Plzeň, who won their fifth Czech title the previous season.^[1] The season was the first with a new league structure in which 16 clubs play each other home and away, until the league is split up into championship, Europa League and relegation groups.^[2] Dukla Prague lost seven consecutive games at the start of the season, becoming the first team in the Czech First League to do so.^[3]

Czech First League

Season	2018–19
Dates	20 July 2018 – 1 June 2019
Champions	Slavia Prague
Relegated	Dukla Prague
Champions League	Slavia Prague Viktoria Plzeň
Europa League	Sparta Prague Jablonec Mladá Boleslav
Matches played	277
Goals scored	743 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nikolay Komlichenko (29 goals)
Biggest home win	Viktoria Plzeň 6–1 Mladá Boleslav, Mladá Boleslav 6–1 Opava, Opava 5–0 Příbram
Biggest away win	Teplice 0–8 Mladá Boleslav
Highest scoring	Teplice 0–8 Mladá Boleslav, Dukla Prague 2–6 Jablonec
Longest winning run	6 matches Slavia Prague, Viktoria Plzeň
Longest unbeaten run	14 matches Viktoria Plzeň
Longest winless run	10 matches Dukla Prague
Longest losing run	7 matches Dukla Prague
Highest attendance	19,370
Lowest attendance	654
Average attendance	5,539
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2017–18 Czech National Football League	Relegated from 2017–18 Czech First League
SFC Opava 1. FK Příbram	FC Vysočina Jihlava FC Zbrojovka Brno

Stadiums and locations

Prague

Baník Ostrava

Jablonec

Karviná

Slovan Liberec

Mladá Boleslav

Opava

Příbram

Sigma Olomouc

Slovácko

Teplice

Viktoria Plzeň

Fastav Zlín

Prague teams:
Bohemians 1905
Dukla Prague
Slavia Prague
Sparta Prague

Locations of the 2018–19 Czech First League teams

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Ref.
Baník Ostrava	Ostrava	Městský stadion (Ostrava)	15,123	[4]
Bohemians 1905	Prague	Ďolíček	5,000	[5]
Dukla Prague	Prague	Stadion Juliska	8,150	[6]
Jablonec	Jablonec nad Nisou	Stadion Střelnice	6,108	[7]
Karviná	Karviná	Městský stadion (Karviná)	4,833	[8]
Mladá Boleslav	Mladá Boleslav	Městský stadion (Mladá Boleslav)	5,000	[9]
Opava	Opava	Městský stadion Opava	7,758	[10]
Příbram	Příbram	Na Litavce	9,100	[11]
Sigma Olomouc	Olomouc	Andrův stadion	12,483	[12]
Slavia Prague	Prague	Eden Arena	20,232	[13]
Slovácko	Uherské Hradiště	Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty	8,000	[14]
Slovan Liberec	Liberec	Stadion u Nisy	9,900	[15]
Sparta Prague	Prague	Generali Arena	18,887	[16]
Teplice	Teplice	Na Stínadlech	18,221	[17]
Viktoria Plzeň	Plzeň	Doosan Arena	11,700	[18]
Fastav Zlín	Zlín	Letná Stadion	5,783	[19]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slavia Prague	30	23	3	4	72	23	+49	72	Qualification for the championship group
2	Viktoria Plzeň	30	21	5	4	47	27	+20	68
3	Sparta Prague	30	17	6	7	52	27	+25	57
4	Jablonec	30	15	6	9	53	26	+27	51
5	Baník Ostrava	30	13	6	11	38	36	+2	45
6	Slovan Liberec	30	11	9	10	33	28	+5	42
7	Mladá Boleslav (O)	30	11	9	10	52	44	+8	42	Qualification for the Europa League play-offs
8	Sigma Olomouc	30	12	4	14	37	43	−6	40
9	Fastav Zlín	30	12	3	15	32	40	−8	39
10	Teplice	30	10	6	14	32	42	−10	36
11	Bohemians 1905	30	8	10	12	29	37	−8	34	Qualification for the relegation group
12	Slovácko	30	10	4	16	32	45	−13	34
13	Opava	30	9	6	15	39	49	−10	33
14	Příbram	30	8	7	15	33	63	−30	31
15	Karviná	30	8	5	17	39	53	−14	29
16	Dukla Prague	30	5	5	20	25	62	−37	20

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) Fair-play ranking; 8) Draw.^[20]
(O) Play-off winners

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	OPA	PRI	SIG	SLA	SLK	LIB	SPA	TEP	VPL	ZLN
Baník Ostrava	—	2–0	2–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	2–1	0–3	2–1	0–1	3–1	0–1	1–2
Bohemians 1905	0–1	—	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	2–2	0–1	0–3	2–1	0–0	1–1	2–3	2–2	0–1
FK Dukla Prague	1–1	0–1	—	2–6	2–1	2–2	1–0	1–2	0–4	1–5	1–2	2–0	2–3	1–0	1–3	1–1
Jablonec	4–0	3–1	2–1	—	4–1	0–3	2–2	3–0	3–0	0–2	2–0	0–0	1–2	2–1	3–0	4–0
Karviná	2–0	0–3	0–2	2–1	—	3–4	1–1	4–1	2–3	1–3	2–1	2–1	1–3	1–1	0–1	2–0
Mladá Boleslav	2–2	3–0	0–0	1–0	1–1	—	6–1	2–0	0–4	0–1	5–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	3–0
Opava	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–1	—	5–0	2–1	2–3	2–2	1–1	0–3	2–0	1–2	1–2
Příbram	0–2	4–2	4–0	0–6	2–1	3–0	3–1	—	1–0	0–2	0–3	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–1	3–2
Sigma Olomouc	1–4	2–3	1–0	1–2	3–2	0–4	2–2	2–0	—	0–3	1–0	2–1	1–0	2–0	0–1	1–1
Slavia Prague	4–0	1–0	4–1	0–2	4–0	3–2	3–1	4–1	2–1	—	4–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	4–0	3–1
Slovácko	2–1	1–1	1–0	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–2	2–0	3–1	1–3	—	0–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	0–4
Slovan Liberec	0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	1–2	4–0	3–0	0–1	3–2	—	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–0
Sparta Prague	3–2	1–0	2–0	0–0	1–3	4–1	2–0	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–0	4–1	—	0–1	4–0	2–0
Teplice	0–1	1–2	5–2	1–2	2–1	0–2	3–2	0–0	0–0	0–3	2–0	1–0	0–4	—	2–1	2–1
Viktoria Plzeň	2–1	3–2	4–0	1–0	2–1	6–1	1–0	1–1	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	—	1–0
Fastav Zlín	1–2	0–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	3–2	2–0	3–0	0–2	1–0	0–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	0–2	—

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

Championship group

Points and goals were carried over in full from the regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SLA	VPL	SPA	JAB	OST	LIB
1	Slavia Prague (C)	35	26	5	4	79	26	+53	83	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round		—	3–1	2–1	2–1	—	—
2	Viktoria Plzeň	35	24	6	5	57	32	+25	78	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round		—	—	4–0	2–1	1–1	—
3	Sparta Prague	35	20	6	9	59	33	+26	66	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round		—	—	—	2–0	3–0	1–0
4	Jablonec	35	17	6	12	58	32	+26	57	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round		—	—	—	—	2–0	1–0
5	Baník Ostrava	35	13	8	14	39	43	−4	47	Qualification for the Europa League play-offs final		0–0	—	—	—	—	0–1
6	Slovan Liberec	35	12	10	13	34	32	+2	46			0–0	0–2	—	—	—	—

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) Fair-play ranking; 8) Draw.^[20]
(C) Champions

Europa League play-offs

Teams placed between 7th and 10th position will take part in the Europa league play-offs. The best of them will play against the fifth-placed of the championship play-offs to determine the Europa League play-off winners. The winners will qualify for the second qualifying round of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League.

	First round						Second round
	Fastav Zlín (a)	1	2	3
	Sigma Olomouc	0	3	3
							Fastav Zlín	3	0	3
							Mladá Boleslav	1	3	4
	Teplice	0	1	1
	Mladá Boleslav	8	1	9

Final

1 June 2019 (2019-06-01)

15:00 CEST

Baník Ostrava	0–1	Mladá Boleslav
	Report	Komlichenko 12'

Městský stadion, Ostrava

Attendance: 10,368

Referee: Pavel Franěk

Relegation group

Points and goals were carried over in full from the regular season.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation		SLK	OPA	B05	PRI	KAR	DUK
11	Slovácko	35	13	6	16	43	47	−4	45			—	4–1	—	5–1	2–1	—
12	Opava	35	12	7	16	47	57	−10	43			—	—	—	2–1	1–0	3–2
13	Bohemians 1905	35	9	13	13	33	43	−10	40			0–0	2–1	—	1–4	—	—
14	Příbram (O)	35	11	7	17	43	73	−30	40	Qualification for the relegation play-offs		—	—	—	—	1–0	3–2
15	Karviná (O)	35	9	5	21	42	58	−16	32			—	—	0–1	—	—	3–0
16	Dukla Prague (R)	35	5	7	23	30	72	−42	22	Relegation to FNL		0–0	—	1–1	—	—	—

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) Fair-play ranking; 8) Draw.^[20]
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-offs

Teams placed 14th and 15th in the relegation group will face 2nd and 3rd teams from Czech National Football League for two spots in the next season.

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Karviná	3–2	Vysočina Jihlava	2–1	1–1
Zbrojovka Brno	3–3	Příbram	3–3	0–0

Match 1

28 May 2019 (2019-05-28)

18:00 UTC+2

Karviná	2–1	Vysočina Jihlava
Guba 8' Lingr 42'	Report	Klíma 53'

Městský stadion, Karviná

Attendance: 3,456

Referee: Milan Matějček

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2 June 2019 (2019-06-02)

18:30 UTC+2

Vysočina Jihlava	1–1	Karviná
Zoubele 14'	Report	Faško 70'

Stadion v Jiráskově ulici, Jihlava

Attendance: 3,150

Referee: Martin Nenadál

MFK Karviná won 3–2 on aggregate and retained their spot in the 2019–20 Czech First League; Vysočina Jihlava remained in the 2019–20 Czech National Football League.

Match 2

29 May 2019 (2019-05-29)

18:00 UTC+2

Zbrojovka Brno	3–3	Příbram
Magera 19' Šumbera 40' Magera 66'	Report	Matoušek 6' Kodr 11' Keita 89'

Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská, Brno

Attendance: 8,523

Referee: Ondřej Berka

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2 June 2019 (2019-06-02)

18:30 UTC+2

Příbram	0–0	Zbrojovka Brno
	Report

Na Litavce, Příbram

Attendance: 4,852

Referee: Petr Ardeleánu

1. FK Příbram won 3–3 on aggregate with away goals and retained their spot in the 2019–20 Czech First League; FC Zbrojovka Brno remained in the 2019–20 Czech National Football League.

Top scorers

Rank	Name	Club(s)	Goals
1	Nikolay Komlichenko	Mladá Boleslav	29
2	Martin Doležal	Jablonec	15
	Jean-David Beauguel	Fastav Zlín / Viktoria Plzeň
4	Tomáš Wágner	Karviná	13
	Tomáš Souček	Slavia Prague
6	Miroslav Stoch	Slavia Prague	12
	Guélor Kanga	Sparta Prague
8	Jakub Hora	Teplice	11
	Benjamin Tetteh	Sparta Prague
10	Michal Trávník	Jablonec	10
	Jan Matoušek	Příbram

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Slavia Prague	243,198	19,370	9,091	13,511	+8.7%†
2	Sparta Prague	199,299	17,398	6,420	11,072	−2.8%†
3	Baník Ostrava	187,837	15,100	5,115	10,435	+32.3%†
4	Viktoria Plzeň	159,892	11,489	5,316	8,883	−7.2%†
5	Slovan Liberec	85,000	9,546	1,958	5,000	+0.1%†
6	Sigma Olomouc	74,357	10,667	2,459	4,647	−12.9%†
7	Bohemians 1905	76,118	5,000	3,041	4,229	+2.7%†
8	Slovácko	75,345	6,586	2,823	4,186	−6.9%†
9	Fastav Zlín	65,087	5,898	3,065	3,829	−8.5%†
10	Teplice	56,694	15,131	1,187	3,543	−20.1%†
11	Příbram	58,145	7,132	1,638	3,420	n/a†
12	Opava	57,485	6,385	953	3,194	n/a†
13	Karviná	51,835	4,833	1,942	3,049	−14.2%†
14	Jablonec	49,252	5,950	1,608	2,897	−10.3%†
15	Mladá Boleslav	49,237	5,000	1,236	2,896	+0.4%†
16	Dukla Prague	45,595	7,765	654	2,682	−4.7%†
	League total	1,534,376	19,370	654	5,539	−0.1%†

Source: Fortunaliga.cz

See also

• 2018–19 Czech Cup
• 2018–19 Czech National Football League