2019–20 Czech First League

The 2019–20 Czech First League, known as the Fortuna liga for sponsorship reasons, was the 27th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football league. The defending champions were Slavia Prague, who won their fifth Czech title in the previous season. This season was the second one with a new league structure in which 16 clubs play each other home and away, until the league is split up in championship, Europa League and relegation groups.^[1]

Czech First League

Season	2019–20
Dates	12 July 2019 – 26 July 2020
Champions	Slavia Prague 6th Czech First League title 20th Czech title
Relegated	No relegation
Champions League	Slavia Prague Viktoria Plzeň
Europa League	Sparta Prague Jablonec Slovan Liberec
Matches played	271
Goals scored	708 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer	Libor Kozák, Petar Musa (14 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Ondřej Kolář (19 clean sheets)
Biggest home win	Jablonec 6–0 Slovácko, Mladá Boleslav 6–0 Příbram, Viktoria Plzeň 7–1 Mladá Boleslav
Biggest away win	Teplice 1–5 Slavia Prague
Highest scoring	Viktoria Plzeň 7–1 Mladá Boleslav
Longest winning run	8 Slavia Prague
Longest unbeaten run	20 Slavia Prague
Longest winless run	18 Příbram
Longest losing run	6 Příbram
Highest attendance	19,370 Slavia Prague 1–1 Sparta Prague 8 March 2020
Lowest attendance	25 Karviná 1–4 Sparta 31 May 2020
Total attendance	1,153,357
Average attendance	4,470
← 2018–19 2020–21 →

Season events

On 12 March, the League Football Association announced that all Fortuna liga games had been postponed for the foreseeable future due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2]

After 2 months, on 12 May, the League Football Association announced that the Fortuna liga would resume on 25 May.^[3] The regular season concluded on 14 June 2020.^[4]

On 23 July, when the Champions group and the Europa League playoffs had already been finalized, SFC Opava - a team holding 15th place in the table had a suspected coronavirus case among their team members. The Czech League Football Association said it was not possible to complete the league's relegation group as a result of this, and the team was forced to quarantine. None of the three teams in danger of being relegated to the second league, namely Karviná, Opava and Příbram, would be relegated. From the Second League, the victorious Pardubice, and second-placed Zbrojovka Brno would advance to the first league, while third-placed Dukla Praha would not. The relegation group matches were suspended and no team was relegated.^[5]

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2018–19 Czech National Football League	Relegated from 2018–19 Czech First League
České Budějovice	Dukla Prague

Stadiums and locations

Prague

České Budějovice

Jablonec

Karviná

Slovan Liberec

Mladá Boleslav

Sigma Olomouc

Opava

Baník Ostrava

Viktoria Plzeň

Příbram

Slovácko

Teplice

Fastav Zlín

Prague teams:
Bohemians 1905
Slavia Prague
Sparta Prague

Locations of the 2019–20 Czech First League teams

Bohemians

Slavia

Sparta

Prague teams in 2019–20 Czech First League

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Ref.
Bohemians 1905	Prague	Ďolíček	5,000	[6]
SK Dynamo České Budějovice	České Budějovice	Stadion Střelecký ostrov	6,681	[7]
FK Jablonec	Jablonec nad Nisou	Stadion Střelnice	6,108	[8]
MFK Karviná	Karviná	Městský stadion (Karviná)	4,833	[9]
FC Slovan Liberec	Liberec	Stadion u Nisy	9,900	[10]
FK Mladá Boleslav	Mladá Boleslav	Lokotrans Aréna	5,000	[11]
SK Sigma Olomouc	Olomouc	Andrův stadion	12,483	[12]
SFC Opava	Opava	Městský stadion (Opava)	7,758	[13]
FC Baník Ostrava	Ostrava	Městský stadion (Ostrava)	15,123	[14]
FC Viktoria Plzeň	Plzeň	Doosan Arena	11,700	[15]
1. FK Příbram	Příbram	Na Litavce	9,100	[16]
SK Slavia Prague	Prague	Sinobo Stadium	19,370	[17]
1. FC Slovácko	Uherské Hradiště	Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty	8,000	[18]
AC Sparta Prague	Prague	Generali Česká pojišťovna Arena	18,944	[19]
FK Teplice	Teplice	Na Stínadlech	18,221	[20]
FC Fastav Zlín	Zlín	Letná Stadion	5,783	[21]

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slavia Prague	30	22	6	2	58	10	+48	72	Qualification for the championship group
2	Viktoria Plzeň	30	20	6	4	60	22	+38	66
3	Sparta Prague	30	14	8	8	55	35	+20	50
4	Jablonec	30	14	7	9	46	41	+5	49
5	Slovan Liberec	30	14	5	11	50	38	+12	47
6	Baník Ostrava	30	12	9	9	42	34	+8	45
7	České Budějovice	30	13	4	13	46	45	+1	43	Qualification for the Europa League play-offs
8	Bohemians 1905	30	12	6	12	38	41	−3	42[a]
9	Slovácko	30	11	9	10	35	35	0	42[a]
10	Mladá Boleslav	30	11	7	12	48	52	−4	40
11	Sigma Olomouc	30	8	12	10	36	37	−1	36	Qualification for the relegation group
12	Teplice	30	7	10	13	29	49	−20	31
13	Fastav Zlín	30	7	6	17	25	47	−22	27
14	Karviná	30	5	11	14	23	39	−16	26
15	Opava	30	5	8	17	16	47	−31	23
16	Příbram	30	5	6	19	19	54	−35	21

Source: Fortuna Liga
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.^[22]
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Bohemians 1905 4, Slovácko 1.

Results

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

Home \ Away	B05	CBU	JAB	KAR	LIB	MLA	OLO	OPA	OST	PLZ	PRI	SLA	SLO	SPA	TEP	ZLN
Bohemians 1905	—	3–2	3–0	0–0	2–1	3–0	3–2	1–0	0–2	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	4–0	2–2
České Budějovice	3–2	—	1–1	3–0	0–1	3–0	2–0	0–1	0–2	0–3	2–0	0–3	2–0	2–2	3–1	2–0
Jablonec	2–0	0–1	—	1–0	0–1	2–1	2–2	2–1	2–1	1–2	4–0	0–2	6–0	2–2	4–1	1–0
Karviná	0–0	0–0	0–1	—	0–1	2–2	1–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–4	3–0	2–0
Liberec	3–1	4–2	2–2	3–0	—	2–2	0–1	4–0	0–0	1–2	3–2	0–3	3–1	3–1	1–1	5–0
Mladá Boleslav	2–1	4–2	2–3	1–0	1–3	—	0–2	4–1	2–0	2–1	6–0	0–1	0–0	4–3	3–1	1–1
Olomouc	1–1	1–3	1–1	1–1	1–0	2–2	—	2–0	2–3	0–1	1–2	0–0	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0
Opava	0–1	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–0	2–1	—	0–2	0–3	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–3
Ostrava	4–2	2–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–3	2–2	0–0	—	0–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	0–0	0–1	4–0
Plzeň	1–0	1–0	3–2	3–2	4–1	7–1	3–1	4–0	3–0	—	4–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	1–1	3–0
Příbram	3–2	2–0	4–0	0–2	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–2	—	0–1	1–4	0–1	1–1	0–0
Slavia Prague	4–0	4–1	5–0	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	2–0	4–0	0–0	3–1	—	3–0	1–1	3–0	1–0
Slovácko	1–2	0–2	1–1	2–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	4–0	0–1	2–1	2–0	2–0	—	0–2	1–1	1–0
Sparta Prague	4–0	3–3	2–0	4–0	0–2	5–2	3–3	2–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	0–3	0–2	—	3–0	2–2
Teplice	1–0	1–3	1–2	0–0	2–0	2–0	1–3	2–2	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–5	0–0	1–1	—	2–1
Fastav Zlín	2–3	2–3	0–1	1–4	2–1	0–2	1–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	2–1	0–2	1–0	—

Source: Fortuna Liga
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	PLZ	SPA	JAB	LIB	OST
1	Slavia Prague (C)	35	26	7	2	69	12	+57	85	Qualification for the Champions League play-off round		—	1–0	0–0	4–0	—	—
2	Viktoria Plzeň	35	23	7	5	68	24	+44	76	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round		—	—	2–1	2–0	4–0	—
3	Sparta Prague	35	17	9	9	66	40	+26	60	Qualification for the Europa League group stage		—	—	—	3–0	4–1	3–2
4	Jablonec	35	14	9	12	48	52	−4	51	Qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round		—	—	—	—	1–1	1–1
5	Slovan Liberec (O)	35	15	6	14	55	51	+4	51	Qualification for the Europa League play-offs final		1–3	—	—	—	—	2–1
6	Baník Ostrava	35	12	11	12	47	43	+4	47			1–3	0–0	—	—	—	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: 1) Total points; 2) Points earned in regular season; 3) Head-to-head points (regular season); 4) Head-to-head goal difference (regular season); 5) Head-to-head goals scored (regular season); 5) Goal difference (all matches); 6) Goals scored (all matches); 7) Fair-play ranking; 8) Draw.^[23]
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners

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 fourth-placed or 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 2020–21 UEFA Europa League.

	First round						Second round
	Mladá Boleslav	2	2	4
	České Budějovice	1	0	1
							Mladá Boleslav	3	1	4
							Bohemians 1905	0	2	2
	Slovácko	1	1	2
	Bohemians 1905	2	2	4

Final

12 July 2020 (2020-07-12)

17:00

Slovan Liberec	2–0	Mladá Boleslav
Pešek 62' Mara 90' (pen.)	Report

Stadion u Nisy, Liberec

Attendance: 2,488

Referee: Petr Ardeleánu

Relegation group

Points and goals were carried over in full from the regular season. The relegation group was scheduled to conclude on 7 July but due to three players from MFK Karviná testing positive for COVID-19, the last two rounds of matches were postponed to 23 and 26 July.^[24] Then, due to one player from SFC Opava testing positive for COVID-19, the last two rounds of matches were not played. As a consequence, no team was relegated and number of teams for 2020–2021 season was increased from 16 to 18.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts		OLO	TEP	ZLN	KAR	OPA	PRI
11	Sigma Olomouc	33	9	13	11	39	40	−1	40		—	0–0	—	3–1	—	—
12	Teplice	33	9	11	13	37	51	−14	38		—	—	4–1	4–1	—	—
13	Fastav Zlín	33	9	6	18	30	52	−22	33		—	—	—	—	3–1	1–0
14	Karviná	33	5	12	16	25	46	−21	27		—	—	—	—	0–0	—
15	Opava	33	5	10	18	17	50	−33	25[a]		—	—	—	—	—	0–0
16	Příbram	33	6	7	20	21	55	−34	25[a]		2–0	—	—	—	—	—

Updated to match(es) played on 28 June 2020. Source: ^{[citation needed]}
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.
Notes:

1. Head-to-head points: Opava 4, Příbram 1.

Top scorers

As of matches played 6 July 2020

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Petar Musa	Slovan Liberec / Slavia Prague	14
	Libor Kozák	Sparta Prague
3	Lukáš Budínský	Mladá Boleslav	13
4	Guélor Kanga	Sparta Prague	12
	Jakub Řezníček	Teplice
6	Nikolay Komlichenko	Mladá Boleslav	10
	Martin Doležal	Jablonec
	Michael Krmenčík	Viktoria Plzeň
	Pavel Bucha	Mladá Boleslav / Viktoria Plzeň
	Roman Potočný	Slovan Liberec / Baník Ostrava

Awards

Monthly Awards

Month	Player of the Month		Manager of the Month
	Player	Club	Manager	Club
July	Jan Kopic	Viktoria Plzeň	Pavel Vrba	Viktoria Plzeň
August	Jakub Plšek	Sigma Olomouc	Jindřich Trpišovský	Slavia Prague
September	Jakub Mareš	Teplice	Jindřich Trpišovský	Slavia Prague
October	Tomáš Souček	Slavia Prague	Martin Svědík	Slovácko
November	Jaroslav Drobný	České Budějovice	David Horejš	České Budějovice
December	Milan Škoda	Slavia Prague	Martin Svědík	Slovácko
February	Pavel Bucha	Viktoria Plzeň	Adrián Guľa	Viktoria Plzeň
May	Aleš Čermák	Viktoria Plzeň	Adrián Guľa	Viktoria Plzeň
June	Jakub Řezníček	FK Teplice	Jindřich Trpišovský	Slavia Prague

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Player of the season	Ondřej Kolář	Slavia Prague
Manager of the season	Jindřich Trpišovský	Slavia Prague
International of the season	Nicolae Stanciu	Slavia Prague
Fans' Player of the season	Adam Hložek	Sparta Prague
Newcomer of the season	Pavel Bucha	Viktoria Plzeň
Figure of the season	Josef Jindřišek	Bohemians 1905
Goalkeeper of the season	Ondřej Kolář	Slavia Prague
Defender of the season	Jakub Brabec	Viktoria Plzeň
Midfield of the season	Nicolae Stanciu	Slavia Prague
Forward of the season	Petar Musa	Slovan Liberec / Slavia Prague

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Slavia Prague	184,466	19,370	90	10,851	−19.7%†
2	Sparta Prague	146,777	17,292	120	8,634	−22.0%†
3	Viktoria Plzeň	123,440	11,625	160	7,261	−18.3%†
4	Baník Ostrava	120,278	13,535	1,722	8,019	−23.2%†
5	Slovan Liberec	58,895	8,765	150	3,272	−34.6%†
6	České Budějovice	58,530	6,681	120	3,658	n/a†
7	Slovácko	55,011	7,288	100	3,667	−12.4%†
8	Teplice	54,972	13,112	140	3,436	−3.0%†
9	Bohemians 1905	54,179	6,277	125	3,386	−19.9%†
10	Sigma Olomouc	51,402	8,119	114	3,024	−34.9%†
11	Fastav Zlín	49,243	5,898	125	3,078	−19.6%†
12	Opava	42,235	6,087	55	2,640	−17.3%†
13	Mladá Boleslav	40,788	5,000	287	2,719	−6.1%†
14	Karviná	40,213	4,833	25	2,681	−12.1%†
15	Jablonec	37,124	4,863	100	2,320	−19.9%†
16	Příbram	35,804	5,862	120	2,238	−34.6%†
	League total	1,153,357	19,370	25	4,470	−19.3%†

Source:

See also

• 2019–20 Czech Cup
• 2019–20 Czech National Football League