FK Fotbal Třinec is a football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club based in Třinec

Trinec

Třinec is a town in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Olza River, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The town has 37,405 inhabitants as of 2009, in 2001 17.7% of the population were Poles...

, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....

. It plays in the Czech 2. Liga

Czech 2. Liga

The 2. liga or Druhá liga is the lower tier of the two professional football leagues in the Czech Republic. The top two teams are promoted to the Gambrinus liga.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the Czech 2. Liga...

. It is sponsored by the Třinec Iron and Steel Works

Trinec Iron and Steel Works

Třinec Iron and Steel Works is a producer of long rolled steel products in Třinec, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. TŽ produces over a third of all steel produced in the Czech Republic . Since its establishment, Třinecké železárny's plants have produced more than 150 million tons of...

, in the past the club bore the name of the company. Their current home ground is Stadion Rudolfa Labaje which has a capacity of just over 2000, after moving from Lesní Stadion

Lesní Stadion

Lesní stadion is a sports stadium located in the town of Třinec, Czech Republic. It now serves as a training ground for the local Athletics team after a long time of being the home ground of the FK Fotbal Třinec football club....

 which is now mainly used for Athletics.

The club's highest achievement was the presence in the Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League

The Czechoslovak First League was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories...

, where the club was present for six seasons in the 1960s and 1970s.

They had a mid-table finish in the 2nd division

Czech 2. Liga

The 2. liga or Druhá liga is the lower tier of the two professional football leagues in the Czech Republic. The top two teams are promoted to the Gambrinus liga.-Structure:There are 16 clubs in the Czech 2. Liga...

 in the 2008/09 season, coming 9th in the table. The team finished in the same position at the end of the 2009/2010 season.

History

In 1921 Polish population of the town of Třinec (Trzyniec) founded KS Siła Trzyniec, ethnically Polish sport club. In the same year local German population founded DSV Trzynietz. Two years later Czechs founded their own club SK Třinec. After the communist coup d'état of 1948

Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948

The Czechoslovak coup d'état of 1948 – in Communist historiography known as "Victorious February" – was an event late that February in which the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia, ushering in over four decades...

, communists began to curb the number of organizations in Czechoslovakia and the Polish club was fused to the Czech one in 1952. The football stadium in the town is named after former famous local Polish footballer, Rudolf Łabaj.

Historic names

• KS Siła Trzyniec (1921-1923)

• SK Třinec (1923-1937)
• SK TŽ Třinec (1937-1950)
• Sokol Železárny Třinec (1950-1952)
• TŽ Třinec (1952-1953) (merged with KS Siła Trzyniec)
• DSO Baník Třinec (1953-1958)
• TJ TŽ Třinec (1958-1993)
• SK Železárny Třinec (1993-2000)
• FK Fotbal Třinec (2000-)

Current squad

As of 17 August, 2011.

Notable former players

Jan Berger

Jan Berger (footballer born 1976)

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 Marek Čech

Marek Cech (goalkeeper)

Marek Čech is a Czech football goalkeeper who plays for FC Viktoria Plzeň.-Career:Čech started playing football at age 8 for Slavia Orlová, whose first team was then in 4th division. In 1990 he moved to Baník Ostrava, where he did not manage to get a place in the senior team, even though he did...

 Karel Kula

Karel Kula

Karel Kula is a retired Czech football midfielder, and current coach of Karviná.-Club career:After making his professional debuts at the age of 18, with FC Baník Ostrava , Kula amassed more than 200 official appearances with the team...

 Edvard Lasota

Edvard Lasota

Edvard Lasota is a former Czech football player who played mostly as a midfielder. Spending most of his career in the Czech leagues he had short spells in Italy with AC Reggiana and Salernitana. He also played for the Czech Republic, having 15 caps and 2 goals.-International goals:-External...

 Zdeněk Pospěch

Zdenek Pospech

Zdeněk Pospěch is a Czech footballer who plays for Mainz 05 in the German Bundesliga. He normally plays as a defender in a right back position, but can also play on the right side of midfield....

 Libor Sionko

Libor Sionko

Libor Sionko is a Czech footballer currently playing for Sparta Prague.- Early career :He previously played for Austria Vienna, Grazer AK, Sparta Prague, Banik Ostrava and Rangers. Playing successfully for Sparta in the Czech League and UEFA Champions League, where Sparta in two occasions , got...

 Rastislav Michalík

Rastislav Michalík

Rastislav Michalík is a Slovak football player.Michalík moved in 1995 to the Czech Republic to play for FK Fotbal Třinec. He gradually progressed and played for FC Slovan Liberec and Sparta Prague in Gambrinus liga. In 2003 he won the Czech championship with Sparta...