2022–23 Czech First League

The 2022–23 Czech First League, known as the FORTUNA:LIGA for sponsorship reason, is the 30th season of the Czech Republic's top-tier football for professional clubs since its 1993 establishment. FC Viktoria Plzeň are the reigning champions. The season started on 30 July 2022. The first half of the season will have 16 rounds, finishing on 13 November 2022 because of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, and the other half will commence on 28 January 2023. The season is expected to end on 28 May 2023 with two extra play-out fixtures on 1 and 4 June 2023.^[1]

Czech First League

Season	2022–23
Dates	30 July 2022 – 28 May 2023
Champions	Sparta Prague
Relegated	Zbrojovka Brno
Champions League	Sparta Prague
Europa League	Slavia Prague
Europa Conference League	Viktoria Plzeň Bohemians 1905
Matches played	276
Goals scored	819 (2.97 per match)
Top goalscorer	Václav Jurečka (20 goals)
Biggest home win	Slavia 7–0 Pardubice 21 August 2022
Biggest away win	Teplice 0–5 Ostrava 5 February 2023
Highest scoring	Bohemians 1905 2–6 Sparta 12 February 2023
Longest winning run	Sparta (9 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Sparta (21 matches)
Longest winless run	Teplice (8 matches)
Longest losing run	Pardubice (7 matches)
Highest attendance	19,370 Slavia 4–0 Sparta 23 October 2022
Lowest attendance	550 Hradec Králové 0–0 Jablonec 18 September 2022
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

The season format is unchanged from last season, 16 clubs play each other home and away, until the league is split up in championship, play-off and relegation groups. The lowest-ranked team was relegated directly to the second league, the two teams positioned 14th and 15th played a play-out with two teams from the second league positioned 2nd and 3rd in a home and away format. This was the fifth season to use VAR, featuring it in all matches played. The year-to-year changes in the format of the competition are only cosmetic, the most significant change being the increase of the number of substitutes permitted on the substitute bench to 11.^[2]

Teams

Prague

Zbrojovka Brno

České Budějovice

Jablonec

Liberec

Mladá Boleslav

Olomouc

Hradec Králové

Baník Ostrava

Viktoria Plzeň

Slovácko

Teplice

Zlín

Pardubice

Prague teams:
Bohemians 1905
Slavia Prague
Sparta Prague

Locations of the 2022–23 Czech First League teams

Promotion and relegation (pre-season)

A total of sixteen teams contested the league, including fifteen sides from the 2021–22 season and the winner of last season's second league.

Team promoted to Czech First League

After being relegated in the 2020–21 season, Zbrojovka Brno returned to Czech First League as the champion of the 2021–22 Czech National Football League.^[3]

Teams relegated from Czech First League

The lowest positioned team from the last season, MFK Karviná, was relegated to the Czech National Football League. The 14th-placed Bohemians 1905 and 15th-placed FK Teplice successfully defended their spots in the first league by winning the relegation play-offs.

Locations and stadiums

Team Location Stadium Capacity Ref. Bohemians 1905 Prague Ďolíček 6,300 [4] FC Zbrojovka Brno Brno Srbská 12,550 [5] SK Dynamo České Budějovice České Budějovice Stadion Střelecký ostrov 6,681 [6] FC Hradec Králové Hradec Králové Lokotrans Aréna[a] 5,000 [7] FK Jablonec Jablonec nad Nisou Stadion Střelnice 6,108 [8] FC Slovan Liberec Liberec Stadion u Nisy 9,900 [9] FK Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav Lokotrans Aréna 5,000 [10] SK Sigma Olomouc Olomouc Andrův stadion 12,483 [11] FC Baník Ostrava Ostrava Městský stadion (Ostrava) 15,123 [12] FC Viktoria Plzeň Plzeň Doosan Arena 11,700 [13] SK Slavia Prague Prague Fortuna Arena 19,370 [14] 1. FC Slovácko Uherské Hradiště Městský fotbalový stadion Miroslava Valenty 8,000 [15] AC Sparta Prague Prague epet ARENA 18,944 [16] FK Teplice Teplice Na Stínadlech 18,221 [17] FC Trinity Zlín Zlín Letná Stadion 5,783 [18] FK Pardubice Pardubice CFIG Arena[b] 4,600 [19] Hradec Králové played their home matches in Mladá Boleslav due to the rebuilding of their own Všesportovní stadion.[20] Pardubice played the first half of the season in Ďolíček due to the rebuilding of their stadium.[21]

Rank Region Number of teams Club(s) 1 Prague 3 Bohemians 1905, Sparta Prague, Slavia Prague 2 Liberec 2 Jablonec, Slovan Liberec Zlín Trinity Zlín, Slovácko 4 Central Bohemian 1 Mladá Boleslav Hradec Králové Hradec Králové Moravian-Silesian Baník Ostrava Olomouc Sigma Olomouc Pardubice Pardubice Plzeň Viktoria Plzeň South Bohemian Dynamo České Budějovice South Moravian Zbrojovka Brno Ústí nad Labem Teplice

Managerial changes

Ahead of the season:

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Contract valid until
Sparta Prague	Michal Horňák[22]	End of contract	18 May 2022	Brian Priske[23]	31 May 2022	Undisclosed

During the season:

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Match-week	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment	Contract valid until
Pardubice	Jiří Krejčí & Jaroslav Novotný[24]	Sacked	29 August 2022	5	16th	Radoslav Kováč[25]	13 September 2022	June 2024
Baník Ostrava	Pavel Vrba[26]	Mutual consent	10 October 2022	11	14th	Pavel Hapal[27]	12 October 2022	Undisclosed
Dynamo České Budějovice	Jozef Weber[28]	Sacked	31 October 2022	14	14th	Marek Nikl & Tomáš Zápotočný[29]	13 November 2022	Undisclosed
Trinity Zlín	Jan Jelínek[30]		14 November 2022	16	15th	Pavel Vrba[31]	28 November 2022	Undisclosed
Teplice	Jiří Jarošík[32]		4 March 2023	22	14th	Zdenko Frťala[33]	6 March 2023	Undisclosed
Zbrojovka Brno	Richard Dostálek[34]		11 April 2023	26	13th	Martin Hašek[34]	11 April 2023	Undisclosed

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sparta Prague	30	20	8	2	70	29	+41	68	Qualification for the championship group
2	Slavia Prague	30	20	6	4	81	25	+56	66
3	Viktoria Plzeň	30	17	6	7	55	29	+26	57
4	Bohemians 1905	30	14	6	10	53	49	+4	48
5	Slovácko	30	13	7	10	36	38	−2	46
6	Sigma Olomouc	30	10	11	9	45	40	+5	41
7	Slovan Liberec	30	10	8	12	39	43	−4	38	Qualification for the play-off
8	Hradec Králové	30	11	5	14	34	40	−6	38
9	Mladá Boleslav	30	9	10	11	39	42	−3	37
10	České Budějovice	30	10	5	15	35	54	−19	35
11	Jablonec	30	9	8	13	46	57	−11	35	Qualification for the relegation group
12	Baník Ostrava	30	9	8	13	43	42	+1	35
13	Teplice	30	8	8	14	38	63	−25	32
14	Zbrojovka Brno	30	8	7	15	40	56	−16	31
15	Pardubice	30	8	4	18	29	58	−29	28
16	Trinity Zlín	30	5	11	14	37	55	−18	26

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.^[35]

Results

Home \ Away	BOH	BRN	CBU	HKR	JAB	LIB	MLA	OLO	OST	PCE	PLZ	SLA	SLO	SPA	TEP	ZLN
Bohemians 1905	—	1–1	1–2	1–2	4–1	0–2	4–0	1–1	3–3	2–0	1–1	1–4	1–0	2–6	2–0	3–2
Zbrojovka Brno	1–2	—	1–1	1–2	1–2	3–0	3–1	2–3	2–1	2–1	1–3	0–4	2–2	0–4	2–2	1–1
České Budějovice	1–0	3–2	—	0–3	5–1	0–2	0–2	0–3	2–1	3–1	0–1	1–0	2–2	0–2	0–3	2–2
Hradec Králové	0–2	2–1	2–1	—	1–4	1–2	0–1	1–0	0–0	1–3	1–2	1–0	1–2	0–2	4–1	0–0
Jablonec	0–3	3–1	3–0	3–0	—	1–1	1–2	2–2	1–1	1–0	0–3	2–3	1–1	1–1	4–1	2–2
Slovan Liberec	1–3	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–0	—	1–3	2–2	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	1–3	5–1	1–0
Mladá Boleslav	4–3	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–2	4–0	—	1–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–3	3–0	1–1
Sigma Olomouc	2–2	0–2	3–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–0	—	1–4	2–2	2–3	2–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	2–1
Baník Ostrava	4–1	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	0–0	3–1	0–3	—	3–0	2–1	0–2	3–1	0–3	1–2	3–1
Pardubice	0–1	1–3	0–2	1–0	1–0	2–1	0–3	0–2	1–1	—	1–1	0–2	3–1	0–2	3–1	2–1
Viktoria Plzeň	1–2	4–0	2–1	1–2	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1	3–1	2–1	—	3–0	3–0	0–1	1–1	3–0
Slavia Prague	3–0	2–0	6–1	1–1	5–1	3–0	2–1	4–0	3–1	7–0	2–1	—	2–0	4–0	6–0	4–1
Slovácko	2–4	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	—	1–1	2–1	3–0
Sparta Prague	1–1	3–1	1–0	2–1	3–0	1–2	4–1	2–0	1–1	5–2	2–1	3–3	4–0	—	4–1	0–0
Teplice	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	0–5	5–1	2–2	1–1	1–3	2–2	—	0–0
Trinity Zlín	4–1	2–3	5–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	2–1	0–3	0–4	0–2	2–3	2–1	—

Source: Fortuna Liga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

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 or relegation		SPA	SLA	PLZ	BOH	SLO	OLO
1	Sparta Prague (C)	35	23	9	3	76	33	+43	78	Qualification for the Champions League third qualifying round		—	3–2	0–1	2–1	—	—
2	Slavia Prague	35	24	6	5	98	31	+67	78	Qualification for the Europa League third qualifying round[a]		—	—	2–1	6–0	4–0	—
3	Viktoria Plzeň	35	18	7	10	60	38	+22	61	Qualification for the Europa Conference League second qualifying round		—	—	—	0–2	2–2	1–3
4	Bohemians 1905	35	15	7	13	56	58	−2	52			—	—	—	—	0–0	0–1
5	Slovácko	35	13	11	11	40	46	−6	50			0–0	—	—	—	—	2–2
6	Sigma Olomouc	35	12	12	11	53	47	+6	48			0–1	2–3	—	—	—	—

Source: Fortuna Liga
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.
(C) Champions
Notes:

1. Slavia Prague qualified for the Europa League as Czech Cup winners.

Play-off

Because only four teams advance to the European Cups from the Czech First League due to a low national coefficient, the winner of the play-off will only receive a cash bonus and a bye in the third round of the 2023–24 Czech Cup.

	First round						Second round
	Mladá Boleslav	0	0	0
	Hradec Králové	0	2	2
							Hradec Králové	0	3	3
							Slovan Liberec	4	2	6
	České Budějovice	3	0	3
	Slovan Liberec	2	4	6

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		OST	TEP	JAB	PCE	ZLN	BRN
11	Baník Ostrava	35	11	9	15	53	50	+3	42			—	2–1	—	2–4	—	4–0
12	Teplice	35	11	9	15	45	67	−22	42			—	—	—	1–0	2–1	1–1
13	Jablonec	35	10	10	15	49	63	−14	40			1–1	0–2	—	—	—	1–0
14	Pardubice (O)	35	11	4	20	38	63	−25	37	Qualification for the relegation play-offs		—	—	2–0	—	1–2	—
15	Trinity Zlín (O)	35	7	13	15	43	60	−17	34			2–1	—	1–1	—	—	—
16	Zbrojovka Brno (R)	35	8	9	18	41	64	−23	33	Relegation to FNL		—	—	—	0–2	0–0	—

Source: Fortuna Liga
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.
(O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated

Relegation play-offs

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

Team 1	Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Viagem Příbram	0–2	Pardubice	0–2	0–0
Trinity Zlín	1–0	Vyškov	1–0	0–0

Matches

All times Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

1 June 2023

17:30

Viagem Příbram	0–2	Pardubice
		Sychra 49' Janošek 62' (pen.)

Na Litavce, Příbram

Attendance: 3,500

Referee: Ondřej Berka

4 June 2023

17:00

Pardubice	0–0	Viagem Příbram

CFIG Arena, Pardubice

Attendance: 4,350

Referee: Miroslav Zelinka

Pardubice won 2–0 on aggregate.

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1 June 2023

17:30

Trinity Zlín	1–0	Vyškov
Dramé 64'

Letná Stadion, Zlín

Attendance: 5,442

Referee: Dalibor Černý

4 June 2023

17:00

Vyškov	0–0	Trinity Zlín

Sportovní areál Drnovice, Vyškov

Attendance: 4,500

Referee: Ondřej Berka

Trinity Zlín won 1–0 on aggregate.

Season statistics

Top scorers Final standing[36] Rank Player Club Goals 1 Václav Jurečka Slavia 20 2 Jakub Řezníček Brno 19 3 Jan Chramosta Jablonec 15 4 Mick van Buren Liberec / Slavia 14 Jan Kuchta Sparta 6 Tomáš Chorý Plzeň 13 Ladislav Krejčí Sparta 8 Tomáš Čvančara Sparta 12 Mojmír Chytil Olomouc 10 Roman Květ Bohemians 1905 / Plzeň 11 Peter Olayinka Slavia Stanislav Tecl Slavia Ondřej Lingr Slavia Muhamed Tijani Ostrava

Top assists Final standing[37] Rank Player Club Assists 1 Marek Matějovský Mladá Boleslav 9 2 Casper Højer Nielsen Sparta 8 3 Stanislav Tecl Slavia 7 Jakub Hora České Budějovice Robert Hrubý Zlín Nemanja Kuzmanović Ostrava David Jurásek Slavia

Hat-tricks

Matchweek	Date	Player	For	Against	Result
2	6 August 2022	Mick van Buren	Liberec	Teplice	5–1 (H)[38]
4	21 August 2022	Stanislav Tecl	Slavia	Pardubice	7–0 (H)[39]
10	2 October 2022	Filip Žák	Teplice	Pardubice	5–1 (H)[40]
11	9 October 2022	Roman Květ	Bohemians 1905	Slovácko	4–2 (A)[41]
13	22 October 2022	Jakub Řezníček	Brno	Pardubice	3–1 (A)[42]
30	30 April 2023	Muhamed Tijani	Ostrava	Olomouc	4–1 (A)[43]
31	7 May 2023	Václav Jurečka4	Slavia	Bohemians 1905	6–0 (H)[44]
35	27 May 2023	Václav Jurečka4	Slavia	Slovácko	4–0 (H)[44]

Notes

⁴ Player scored 4 goals
(H) – Home team
(A) – Away team

Clean sheets

Final standing^[45]

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Filip Nguyen	Slovácko	11
2	Ondřej Kolář	Slavia	10
	Matěj Kovář	Sparta
	Jindřich Staněk	Plzeň
5	Jan Šeda	Mladá Boleslav	6
	Michal Reichl	Hradec Králové
	Jakub Trefil	Olomouc
8	Olivier Vliegen	Liberec	5
	Martin Jedlička	Bohemians 1905
	Jan Hanuš	Jablonec

See also

• 2022–23 Czech Cup
• 2022–23 Czech National Football League