Czech Footballer of the Year

The Czech Footballer of the Year (Czech: Fotbalista roku) is awarded in the Czech Republic by the Football Association of the Czech Republic (FA ČR). Eligibility extends to Czech players in the Czech Republic and abroad. Awards for young player, coach and Czech First League personality of the year are also awarded. The award was first presented in 1965, as an award for the whole of Czechoslovakia. It was won by Ján Popluhár.[1]

Petr Čech won the award for an unprecedented sixth time in the 2012 ceremony, passing the previous record of five wins held by fellow goalkeeper Ivo Viktor.[2] Viktor had previously won the award more times than any other player, having won the award five times in the Czechoslovak era between 1968 and 1976.[3]

The other football award in the Czech Republic is the Golden Ball, awarded by sport journalists.

Winners
Petr Čech, 9-time winner.
Tomáš Rosický won the award three times in his career.
Pavel Nedvěd won the award four times in his career.

The award has been made every year since the first award in 1965. In 1996 two players shared the award.[3]

Key
Indicates multiple award winners in the same year
Year Player Club Notes
1993 Petr Kouba Sparta Prague
1994 Pavel Kuka 1. FC Kaiserslautern
1995 Radek Drulák Petra Drnovice
1996 Patrik Berger Liverpool
1996 Karel Poborský Manchester United
1997 Jiří Němec Schalke
1998 Pavel Nedvěd Lazio
1999 Jan Koller Anderlecht
2000 Pavel Nedvěd Lazio
2001 Tomáš Rosický Borussia Dortmund
2002 Tomáš Rosický Borussia Dortmund
2003 Pavel Nedvěd Juventus
2004 Pavel Nedvěd Juventus
2005 Petr Čech Chelsea
2006 Tomáš Rosický Arsenal
2007 Marek Jankulovski Milan
2008 Petr Čech Chelsea
2009 Petr Čech Chelsea
2010 Petr Čech Chelsea
2011 Petr Čech Chelsea
2012 Petr Čech Chelsea
2013 Petr Čech Chelsea
[4]
2014 David Lafata Sparta Prague
[5]
2015 Petr Čech Arsenal
[6]
2016 Petr Čech Arsenal
[7]
2017 Vladimír Darida Hertha
[8]
2018 Tomáš Vaclík Sevilla
[9]
2019 Tomáš Souček West Ham
[10]


Other awards
Year Coach of the Year Talent of the Year Personality of the League
1993 Dušan Uhrin (Sparta Prague) -
1994 Vlastimil Petržela (FC Slovan Liberec) Richard Dostálek (1. FC Brno) Jozef Chovanec (Sparta Prague)
1995 Dušan Uhrin (national team) Ivo Ulich (SK Hradec Králové) Jan Stejskal (Slavia Prague)
1996 Dušan Uhrin (national team) Marek Zúbek (1. FC Brno) Radek Drulák (FK Drnovice)
1997 František Cipro (Slavia Prague) Martin Lukeš (Baník Ostrava) Sladjan Ašanin (Slavia Prague)
1998 Jozef Chovanec (national team) Tomáš Došek (Viktoria Plzeň) Jaroslav Šilhavý (Viktoria Žižkov)
1999 Jozef Chovanec (national team) Tomáš Rosický (Sparta Prague) Zdeněk Jánoš (Jablonec 97)
2000 Jozef Chovanec (national team) Milan Baroš (Baník Ostrava) Oldřich Machala (Sigma Olomouc)
2001 Karel Brückner (U-21 national team) Petr Čech (Chmel Blšany/Sparta Prague) Miroslav Kadlec (Drnovice/Brno)
2002 Karel Brückner (national team) Tomáš Hübschman (Sparta Prague) Jiří Němec (Chmel Blšany)
2003 Karel Brückner (national team) Jan Laštůvka (Baník Ostrava) Karel Poborský (Sparta Prague)
2004 Karel Brückner (national team) Tomáš Jun (Sparta Prague) Karel Poborský (Sparta Prague)
2005 Karel Brückner (national team) Martin Latka (Slavia Prague) Karel Poborský (Sparta Prague)
2006 Vítězslav Lavička (Slovan Liberec) Daniel Kolář (Sparta Prague) Jaromír Blažek (Sparta Prague)
2007 Karel Brückner (national team) Martin Fenin (Teplice/Eintracht Frankfurt) Pavel Verbíř (Teplice)
2008 Karel Jarolím (Slavia Prague) Tomáš Necid (Jablonec/Slavia Prague) Vladimír Šmicer (Slavia Prague)
2009 František Komňacký (Jablonec) Adam Hloušek (Jablonec/Slavia Prague) Tomáš Řepka (Sparta Prague)
2010 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) Václav Kadlec (Sparta Prague) Pavel Horváth (Viktoria Plzeň)
2011 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) Ladislav Krejčí (Sparta Prague) Pavel Horváth (Viktoria Plzeň)
2012 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) Tomáš Kalas (Vitesse Arnhem) Pavel Horváth (Viktoria Plzeň)
2013 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) Matěj Vydra (West Bromwich Albion) Pavel Horváth (Viktoria Plzeň)
2014 Pavel Vrba (national team) Jan Baránek, Jr. (Baník Ostrava) David Lafata (Sparta Prague)
2015 Pavel Vrba (national team) Václav Černý (Ajax)
2016 Vítězslav Lavička (U-21 national team) Patrik Schick (Sampdoria)
2017 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) Jakub Jankto (Udinese)
2018 Pavel Vrba (Viktoria Plzeň) David Lischka (Jablonec)
2019 Jindřich Trpišovský (Slavia Prague) Adam Hložek (Sparta Prague)

References
  1. Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Ceský a ceskoslovenský fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubu (in Czech). Prague: Grada Publishing. p. 52. ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5.
  2. "Fotbalovým králem je opět brankář. Čech vyhrál pošesté a má rekord" [Football king is again a goalkeeper. Čech won for the sixth time and has the record]. idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 4 February 2013. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
  3. Rohr, Bernd; Günter, Simon (2006). Fotbal - velký lexikon: osobnosti, kluby, názvosloví (in Czech). Prague: Grada Publishing. p. 142. ISBN 80-247-1158-3.
  4. "Čech named Czech player of the year again". uefa.com. 3 March 2014. Retrieved 4 March 2014.
  5. "Čechova vláda po letech skončila, fotbalistou roku je střelec Lafata". idnes.cz. 29 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  6. "Fotbalistou roku je Čech, do Síně slávy vstoupili mistři Evropy a Nedvěd" (in Czech). iDNES.cz. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  7. "Fotbalistou roku je znovu Čech, mezi trenéry skončila Vrbova série" (in Czech). iDNES.cz. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  8. "Překvapení ve Fotbalistovi roku. Čechova vláda končí, zvítězil Darida". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 19 March 2018. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  9. "Fotbalistou roku je Vaclík! Sesadil Daridu, vyhrál jako čtvrtý brankář". isport.blesk.cz (in Czech). CNC. 19 March 2019. Archived from the original on 19 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  10. "Souček jasným KRÁLEM! Záložník se po skvělé sezoně stal Fotbalistou roku". isport.blesk.cz (in Czech). CNC. 22 March 2020. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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