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Introduction of teams
FC Hradec Králové
Czech football club with the nickname "votroci", which is based in the East Bohemian regional city of Hradec Králové. Since its foundation in 1905, the club has won the Czechoslovak league title once and the Czech Football Cup once. The club currently operates in the highest Czech competition, the 1st Football League. Home matches are played at the Malšovická aréna stadium (capacity 9,300 spectators), which has undergone complete reconstruction and is one of the most modern stadiums in the Czech Republic from 2023. The club colors are black and white. Football in Hradec Králové is also known for its great work with youth. Famous alumni include, for example, Václav Němeček, Vratislav Lokvenc, Luboš Kubík or Jaroslav Plašil.
FC Spartak Trnava
Slovak football club, based in Trnava. It was founded in 1923 after the merger of the clubs ŠK Čechie Trnava and ČsŠK Trnava. He plays in the Slovak 1st league. In total, Spartak has six championship titles - in the time of Czechoslovakia it became five times (1967/68, 1968/69, 1970/71, 1971/72 and 1972/73) and in a separate era it succeeded in the 2017/18 season. .
He plays his home matches at the Anton Malatinský Stadium with a capacity of 19,200 spectators. The most famous players include Anton Malatinský, Karol Dobiaš and Jozef Adamec. Currently, the famous defender Martin Škrtel (Liverpool) plays for Spartak.
SK Sigma Olomouc
The Czech football club from the regional city of Olomouc has a great football tradition and gave Czech football a number of well-known names such as Pavel Hapal and Radek Látal or legendary kouch Karel Brückner. The team plays in the highest Czech competition, the 1st Football League. It plays its home matches at Androva Stadium, which has a capacity of 12,541 spectators. The club colors are blue and white. The club was founded in 1919 and in 1982 made its way to the first league for the first time, where it operated continuously from the 1984/85 season to the 2013/14 season. After relegation from the elite competition, the team quickly returned to the elite from the 2017/18 season. The club's biggest achievements include winning the Czech Cup and the Czech Super Cup in 2012. The club's biggest international success was its participation in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup in 1992.
FK Austria Vídeň
Since its foundation in 1911, Austria Wien has combined passion, tolerance and open-mindedness. For more than 50 years, the ‘Veilchen’ have been at home in the 10th district of Vienna, in Favoriten. With the most titles (24x league champions, 27x cup winners), Austria Wien is the most successful club in Austrian football history. Austria Wien celebrated its last league title in 2013, after which the club qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League for the only time to date. In the 2021/22 pre-season, the Violets played in the group stage of the Conference League; in the current season, they were narrowly eliminated in Q3 against Legia Warsaw.
However, Austria is much more than a professional football club. In addition to the Bundesliga team & the Young Violets in the regional league, Austria is also responsible for its women's teams (Bundesliga team & academy), around 160 youth players (U7 to U18) and the Special Violets (team of handicapped footballers).
