The Football Association of the Czech Republic (; FAČR), or colloquially the Czech Football Association, is the governing body of association football in the Czech Republic based in Prague. It organizes the lower-level league competitions in the country and Czech Cup. On the other hand, the professional Czech First League and Czech Second League are organized independently.
History The first predecessor was established as Bohemian Football Union on 19 October 1901 in Austro-Hungarian constituency Kingdom of Bohemia. From 1922 to 1993, during the existence of Czechoslovakia, the association was known as the Czechoslovak Football Association (; ČSAF) and controlled the Czechoslovakia national football team. After the partition of Czechoslovakia the association took the name Bohemian-Moravian Football Federation (; ČMFS) until June 2011.
On 3 May 2017, Police of the Czech Republic raided the headquarters of the association and other institutions in connection with the redistribution of state subsidies by the Ministry of Education for 2017. Chairman of the association, Miroslav Pelta, was arrested during the event. Another raid on the association's headquarters took place on 16 October 2020, with 20 people detained, including vice-chairman .
Petr Fousek has served as chairman of the association since 2021, been elected at the 23rd general meeting held on 3 June after defeating Karel Poborský by 15 votes.
David Trunda has served as chairman of the association since 2025, been elected at the general meeting held on 29 May.
Structure No. President Tenure Bohemian Football Union1 Karel Freja 1901–19032 Vilém Heinz-Henry 19033 V. J. Kapr 1903–19054 Otakar Petřík 19055 Miroslav Horáček 1905–19096 Josef Šikl 1909–19107 Otakar Petřík 19108 Josef Fikl 1910–19119 Stanislav Práchenský 191110 Karel Bukovský 1911–191411 Ludvík Dyk 1914–191912 Jindřich Kamenický 1919
No. President Tenure Bohemian–Moravian Football Federation1 František Chvalovský 1993–20012 Jan Obst 2001–20053 Pavel Mokrý 2005–20094 Ivan Hašek 2009–2011 Football Association of the Czech Republic5 2011–20176 2017–20217 Petr Fousek 2021–20258 David Trunda 2025–present
Competitions Czech First League Czech Second League Czech Women's First League Czech Cup Czech Supercup Czech Women's Cup
Divisions Czech Republic national football team Czech Republic women's national football team Czech Republic women's national under-19 football team Czech Republic women's national under-17 football team National under-21 football team National under-19 football team National under-18 football team National under-17 football team
Sponsors Current
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See also Slovak Football Association
References
External links
Czech Republic at FIFA.com (archived)