2018–19 Czech First League

Czech First League 2018–19
Season information
Dates	20 July 2018–1 June 2019
Winners	Slavia Prague
Relegated	Dukla Prague
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Slavia Prague Viktoria Plzeň
Europa League	Sparta Prague Jablonec Mladá Boleslav
Season statistics
Matches played	277
Goals scored	743
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
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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. 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. Dukla Prague lost seven consecutive games at the start of the season, becoming the first team in the Czech First League to do so.

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

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

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.
(O) Play-off winner

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.
(C) Champion

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	Městský stadion, Ostrava Attendance: 10,368 Referee: Pavel Franěk
		Report	Komlichenko  12'

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 the 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.
(O) Play-off winner; (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.	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	Městský stadion, Karviná Attendance: 3,456 Referee: Milan Matějček
	Guba  8' Lingr  42'	Report	Klíma  53'

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2 June 2019 (2019-06-02) 18:30 UTC+2	Vysočina Jihlava	1–1	Karviná	Stadion v Jiráskově ulici, Jihlava Attendance: 3,150 Referee: Martin Nenadál
	Zoubele  14'	Report	Faško  70'

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	Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská, Brno Attendance: 8,523 Referee: Ondřej Berka
	Magera  19' Šumbera  40' Magera  66'	Report	Matoušek  6' Kodr  11' Keita  89'

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2 June 2019 (2019-06-02) 18:30 UTC+2	Příbram	0–0	Zbrojovka Brno	Na Litavce, Příbram Attendance: 4,852 Referee: Petr Ardeleánu
		Report

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

External links

• Official website (Czech)

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