2013–14 FC Viktoria Plzeň season

The 2013–14 season was Viktoria Plzeň's ninth consecutive season in the Gambrinus liga. Having won the Gambrinus liga the previous season, they entered the competition as defending champions and finished second. As league champions they also took part in the UEFA Champions League, from which they qualified for the UEFA Europa League.

Viktoria Plzeň

2013–14 season
Chairman	Adolf Šádek
Manager	Pavel Vrba
Stadium	Stadion města Plzně
Gambrinus liga	2nd
Pohár České pošty	Runners-up
Czech Supercup	Runners-up
UEFA Champions League	Group stage (3rd)
UEFA Europa League	Round of 16
Home colours Away colours

Season overview

The club's budget for the 2013–14 season was 100 million crowns, the third-highest budget in the league. This was lower than Slavia Prague (110 million) and Sparta Prague (300 million).[1]

Pre-season

Viktoria started pre-season training schedule on 17 June at home grounds in Plzeň and until end of June team played three matches with local teams from West Bohemia. From the beginning of July the team moved to Austrian Westendorf for a training preparation camp including three games with ex-Bundesliga side Fürth, Russian Premier League team Krasnodar and last year's Champions League participant CFR Cluj.

During the summer transfer window Viktoria introduced two new players – Tomáš Hořava from Olomouc and Milan Petržela, who returned to the club after an unsuccessful season in Augsburg.

Players

Squad

Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Position(s)	Since	Date of Birth (Age)	Signed from	Games Played	Goals Scored
Goalkeepers
1	Matúš Kozáčik		GK	2012	27 December 1983	Anorthosis	27	0
13	Petr Bolek		GK	2012	30 June 1984	Senica	3	0
33	Roman Pavlík		GK	2010	17 January 1976	Kladno	35	0
Defenders
2	Lukáš Hejda		CB	2012	9 March 1990	Sparta	15	1
3	Ondřej Chocholoušek		DF	2012	13 November 1994	Youth squad	0	0
6	Matěj Končal		DF	2012	8 December 1993	Youth squad	2	0
8	David Limberský		LWB	2008	6 October 1983	Sparta	195	14
14	Radim Řezník		RWB	2011	20 January 1989	Ostrava	37	1
21	Václav Procházka		CB	2012	8 May 1984	Mladá Boleslav	116	8
27	František Rajtoral		RWB / RM	2009	12 March 1986	Ostrava	112	11
28	Marián Čišovský		CB	2011	2 November 1979	Timișoara	50	10
Midfielders
5	Marek Hanousek		MF	2012	6 August 1991	Dukla	10	3
5	Tomáš Hořava		CM	2013	29 May 1988	Olomouc	0	0
10	Pavel Horváth		CM	2008	22 April 1975	Sparta	138	30
11	Milan Petržela		RM	2013	19 June 1983	Augsburg	118	22
12	Michal Ďuriš		RM / LM	2010	1 June 1988	Banská Bystrica	76	10
16	Vladimír Darida		CM	2011	8 August 1990	Youth squad	55	9
19	Jan Kovařík		LM	2013	19 June 1988	Jablonec	14	1
26	Daniel Kolář		AM	2008	27 October 1985	Sparta	127	36
17	Jakub Hora		RM / LM	2011	23 February 1991	Most	23	1
Forwards
9	Stanislav Tecl		FW	2013	1 September 1990	Jihlava	14	0
23	Marek Bakoš		FW	2009	15 April 1983	Ružomberok	105	42
15	Tomáš Wágner		FW	2012	6 March 1990	Příbram	12	0

Source: iDnes.cz

Transfers In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
7	MF		Tomáš Hořava	25	EU	Sigma Olomouc	Transfer	Summer	2017	Undisclosed^1	fcviktoria.cz
11	RM		Milan Petržela	30	EU	FC Augsburg	Contract termination	Summer	2016	Free	fcviktoria.cz

¹ Estimated transfer fee is 14M Kč.[2]

Loans Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
	LB		Radek Šírl	32	EU	Bohemians 1905	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
	MF		Petr Trapp	27	EU	Veria	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
	DF		Adam Beránek	22	EU	Hradec Králové	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
	FW		David Vaněček	21	EU	Hradec Králové	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
29	RM		David Štípek	21	EU	Mladá Boleslav	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
11	MF		Martin Fillo	27	EU	Brentford	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
24	GK		Aleš Mandous	21	EU	Bohemians Prague (Střížkov)	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
31	MF		Matěj Kyndl	20	EU	Bohemians Prague (Střížkov)	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz
	MF		Patrik Hrošovský	21	EU	Znojmo	Loan	Summer	N/A	fcviktoria.cz

EU = if holds or not a European Union passport; Country: when 2 flags, 1st flag = country that plays for internationally, 2nd flag = country of birth; N = number on jersey; P = Position (for position name, pause mouse pointer on abbreviation); Name = Name on jersey (for more extensive name, pause mouse pointer on name); Age = age on the day of the signing; Moving from = only indicate the club the player was playing before start playing for this club in this season, for the type of the moving see Status column; Moving to = only indicates the club the player is going to play next, for the type of the moving see Status column; Ends = when the player's current contract ends; n/a = Not applicable.

Matches

Pre-season

19 June 2013 Friendly	Doubravka	0 – 8	Plzeň	Plzeň
17:00		Report	16' Trapp  29'  32'  45' Hora  40' Tecl  68' Štípek  70' Krmenčík  80' Wágner

22 June 2013 Friendly	Rokycany	2 – 8	Plzeň	Rokycany
10:30	L. Aubrecht  56' Schneiherr  87'	Report	6' Hořava  31' Rajtoral  51' Krmenčík  72'  75'  80' Wágner  84' Štípek  86' (pen.) Hora

28 June 2013 Friendly	Plzeň	2 – 1	Sokolov	Plzeň
18:00	Darida  25' Krmenčík  75'	Report	53' Hrubý

3 July 2013 Friendly	Fürth	1 – 0	Plzeň	Westendorf
16:00	Stieber  13'	Report

6 July 2013 Friendly	Krasnodar	2 – 2	Plzeň	Uttendorf
17:30	Koman  42' Isael  87'	Report	41' Hora  56' Horváth

9 July 2013 Friendly	Cluj	1 – 4	Plzeň
16:00	Costea  56'	Report	3' Petržela  28' Darida  45' Kolář  82' Bakoš

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	19	9	2	64	21	+43	66	9	6	0	37	8	+29	10	3	2	27	13	+14

Source: Gambrinus liga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Sparta Prague (C)	30	25	4	1	78	19	+59	79	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Viktoria Plzeň	30	19	9	2	64	21	+43	66	Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round
3	Mladá Boleslav	30	14	8	8	54	38	+16	50	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
4	Slovan Liberec	30	14	6	10	37	46	−9	48
5	Teplice	30	13	7	10	51	35	+16	46

Source: Fortuna liga
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) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion.

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	W	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	D	W	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	W	D	D
Position	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2

Updated to match(es) played on 31 May 2014. Source: Matches
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

July

19 July 2013 Round 1	Plzeň	5 – 0	Bohemians 1905	Plzeň
18:00	Petržela  19' Čišovský  39' Kolář  54' Wágner  66' Tecl  74' (pen.)	Report	16' Kalina  38' Rada  73' Šmíd	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 10,145 Referee: J. Jílek

26 July 2013 Round 2	Příbram	2 – 4	Plzeň	Příbram
20:15	Danoski  12'  15'  35' Pilík  84'	Report	7' Wágner  45' (pen.) Darida  76' Procházka  79' Limberský  31' Ďuriš	Stadium: Na Litavce Attendance: 6,316 Referee: T. Kocourek

August

3 August 2013 Round 3	Plzeň	4 – 0	Ostrava	Plzeň
18:00	Kovařík  26' Wágner 28' Hořava 45' Ďuriš 56' Hejda  73'	Report	25' Vomáčka  34' Kukec	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 11,108 Referee: P. Franěk

11 August 2013 Round 4	Znojmo	0 – 1	Plzeň	Brno
19:00	Heinz  28' Yonov  58' Nepožitek  82'	Report	56' Darida  59' Rajtoral	Stadium: Městský stadion Attendance: 4,680 Referee: J. Jech

17 August 2013 Round 5	Plzeň	0 – 0	Sparta	Plzeň
20:15	Ďuriš  85'	Report	65' Nhamoinesu  86' Hušbauer	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 11,360 Referee: R. Příhoda

24 August 2013 Round 6	Slovácko	1 – 3	Plzeň	Uherské Hradiště
20:15	Valenta  68' Daníček  44' Trousil  74'	Report	41' Kovařík  61' Ďuriš  70' Tecl  39' Limberský  86' Hořava	Stadium: Městský fotbalový stadion Attendance: 7,096 Referee: M. Zelinka

September

1 September 2013 Round 7	Plzeň	3 – 2	Olomouc	Plzeň
19:00	Kolář  1' Rajtoral 9' Hejda 64' Petržela  73'	Report	61' Šindelář  71' Doležal  33' Vidlička  84' Lietava	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 11,722 Referee: K. Hrubeš

13 September 2013 Round 8	Liberec	1 – 1	Plzeň	Liberec
20:15	Kováč  78'	Report	8' Kolář	Stadium: Stadion u Nisy Attendance: 6,412 Referee: P. Královec

21 September 2013 Round 9	Plzeň	0 – 0	Dukla Prague	Plzeň
20:15		Report		Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 9,050 Referee: P. Franěk

27 September 2013 Round 10	Vysočina Jihlava	1 – 2	Plzeň	Jihlava
20:15	Harba  16'	Report	10' Rajtoral  79' Bakoš	Stadium: Stadion v Jiráskově ulici Attendance: 4,132 Referee: Z. Proske

October

19 October 2013 Round 11	Plzeň	1 – 1	Slavia Prague	Plzeň
20:15	Rajtoral  60'	Report	30' Juhar	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 10,834 Referee: J. Jílek

27 October 2013 Round 12	Teplice	1 – 0	Plzeň	Teplice
19:00	Nivaldo  72'	Report		Stadium: Na Stínadlech Attendance: 16,180 Referee: J. Jech

November

1 November 2013 Round 13	Plzeň	6 – 1	Jablonec	Plzeň
20:15	Horváth  16', 68' Tecl  23', 45' Kolář  55' Wágner  86'	Report	12' Piták	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 9,180 Referee: M. Zelinka

9 November 2013 Round 14	Mladá Boleslav	1 – 2	Plzeň	Mladá Boleslav
20:15	Nešpor  4'	Report	14' Petržela  69' Čišovský	Stadium: Městský stadion Attendance: 4,877 Referee: K. Hrubeš

22 November 2013 Round 15	Brno	1 – 3	Plzeň	Brno
20:15	Skalák  4'	Report	45' (pen) Horváth  60'  84' Tecl	Stadium: Městský stadion Attendance: 5,839 Referee: P. Franěk

December

1 December 2013 Round 16	Plzeň	2 – 0	Příbram	Plzeň
19:00	Horváth  21' Petržela  30'	Report		Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 9,510 Referee: O. Lerch

February

23 February 2014 Round 17	Ostrava	1 – 2	Plzeň	Ostrava
15:00	Svěrkoš  81'	Report	24'  56' Tecl	Stadium: Bazaly Attendance: 10,127 Referee: T. Kocourek

March

2 March 2014 Round 18	Plzeň	3 – 2	Znojmo	Plzeň
19:00	Kolář  19' Wágner  52'  56'	Report	74' Vašíček  90' Reljić	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 10,187 Referee: J. Jílek

9 March 2013 Round 19	Sparta	1 – 0	Plzeň	Prague
20:00	Přikryl  8'	Report		Stadium: Generali Arena Attendance: 18,712 Referee: J. Jech

16 March 2013 Round 20	Plzeň	0 – 0	Slovácko	Plzeň
19:00		Report		Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 8,525 Referee: K. Hrubeš

23 March 2013 Round 21	Olomouc	1 – 2	Plzeň	Olomouc
17:00	Rolinc  9'	Report	65' Kolář  78' Wágner	Stadium: Andrův stadion Referee: R. Příhoda

April

5 April 2014 Round 23	Dukla Prague	0 – 3	Plzeň	Prague
20:15		Report	18' Tecl  50' Kolář  59' Petržela	Stadium: Stadion Juliska Attendance: 3,250 Referee: P. Franěk

13 April 2014 Round 24	Plzeň	1 – 1	Vysočina Jihlava	Plzeň
15:00	Ďuriš  46'	Report	82' Mešanović	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 10,846 Referee: P. Královec

21 April 2014 Round 25	Slavia Prague	0 – 2	Plzeň	Prague
16:30		Report	45' Kovařík  90' Wágner	Stadium: Eden Arena Attendance: 7,742 Referee: Z. Proske

25 April 2014 Round 26	Plzeň	3 – 0	Teplice	Plzeň
20:15	Petržela  35' Ďuriš  66' Končal  90'	Report		Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 9,873 Referee: T. Kocourek

May

4 May 2014 Round 27	Jablonec	2 – 2	Plzeň	Jablonec nad Nisou
19:00	Kopic  27'  87'	Report	45' Tecl  88' Hrošovský	Stadium: Chance Arena Attendance: 2,913 Referee: M. Nenadál

11 May 2014 Round 28	Plzeň	2 – 0	Mladá Boleslav	Plzeň
17:00	Končal  53' Tecl  84'	Report		Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 9,744 Referee: R. Příhoda

25 April 2014 Round 29	Plzeň	1 – 1	Brno	Plzeň
18:00	Tecl  26'	Report	40' Schuster	Stadium: Stadion města Plzně Attendance: 10,267 Referee: P. Franěk

31 May 2014 Round 30	Bohemians 1905	0 – 0	Plzeň	Prague
18:00		Report		Stadium: Ďolíček Attendance: 5,000 Referee: K. Hrubeš

Czech Supercup

As winners of the previous season's Gambrinus liga, Plzeň played defending cup winners FK Jablonec in the Czech Supercup on 12 July. Plzeň's manager Pavel Vrba left many key players on the bench before the first leg of the second qualifying round of Champions League, which was four days later.

Plzeň took an early lead and despite other chances, the first half ended 1–0. During the second half, Jablonec were the better team and scored two goals in a six-minute spell to take the lead. In the 89th minute Tomáš Wágner from Plzeň had a disallowed goal because of offside. In stoppage time Jablonec scored their third goal and although three minutes later Plzeň scored, the match finished 2–3.

12 July 2013 Final	Plzeň	2 – 3	Jablonec	Plzeň
17:45	Wágner  5'  90+5' Kovařík  65' Procházka  70' Darida  80' Řezník  83'	Report	57' Beneš  63' Hubník  90+3' Kopic  53' Piták  76' Loučka	Stadium: Doosan Arena Attendance: 4,516 Referee: M. Zelinka

UEFA Champions League

Plzeň came through three qualifying rounds including the playoff round before reaching the group stage. The club lost all of their first five group stage matches. In the final group stage match, losing 1–0 to CSKA Moscow at home with 76 minutes played, CSKA had two players sent off and Plzeň scored two goals as the match finished 2–1. This result qualified them for the Europa League.[3]

Second qualifying round

16 July 2013 1st Leg	Viktoria Plzeň	4 – 3	Željezničar Sarajevo	Plzeň
17:30	Čišovský  63' Kolář  66'  76' Rajtoral  81' Horváth  77'	Report	52'  90' Tomić  78'  61' Selimović  85'  83' Bučan  25' Jamak  72' Urdinov	Stadium: Doosan Arena Attendance: 10,381 Referee: César Muñiz Fernández

23 July 2013 2nd Leg	Željezničar Sarajevo	1 – 2 (4–6 agg.)	Viktoria Plzeň	Sarajevo
21:00	Jamak  45'  31' Urdinov  51' Selimović  57'	Report	5' Wágner  30' Petržela  21' Procházka  31' Kolář  43' Horváth  86' Řezník	Stadium: Asim Ferhatović Hase Stadium Attendance: 25,000 Referee: João Capela

Third qualifying round

30 July 2013 1st Leg	Nõmme Kalju	0 – 4	Viktoria Plzeň	Tallinn
18:00	Ceesay  31'	Report	2'  52'  45' Čišovský  77' Ďuriš  90' Hejda  12' Darida  28' Limberský	Stadium: Kadriorg Stadium Attendance: 4,420 Referee: Andre Marriner

7 August 2013 2nd Leg	Viktoria Plzeň	6 – 2 (10–2 agg.)	Nõmme Kalju	Plzeň
20:15	Horváth  20' (pen)  44'  62' Tecl  58' Hořava  71' Wágner  82' Řezník  49'	Report	10'  69'  35' Quintieri  20' Šišov	Stadium: Doosan Arena Attendance: 9,482 Referee: Stefan Johannesson

Play off round

20 August 2013 1st Leg	Viktoria Plzeň	3 – 1	Maribor	Plzeň
20:45	Čišovský  8' Darida  58' Ďuriš  89'	Report	Mejač  66'	Stadium: Doosan Arena Attendance: 11,158 Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

28 August 2013 2nd Leg	Maribor	0 – 1 (1–4 agg.)	Viktoria Plzeň	Maribor
20:45		Report	Tecl  3'	Stadium: Ljudski vrt Attendance: 12,306 Referee: Felix Brych (Germany)

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bayern Munich	6	5	0	1	17	5	+12	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Manchester City	6	5	0	1	18	10	+8	15
3	Viktoria Plzeň	6	1	0	5	6	17	−11	3	Transfer to Europa League
4	CSKA Moscow	6	1	0	5	8	17	−9	3

Source:

References

1. Fojtiík, Vadim; Hergesell, Ondřej (9 September 2013), "Rychlý prachy", Euro (in Czech), Prague (37), pp. 20–24
2. "Velký přestup v Česku stvrzen, Hořava se v Plzni upsal na čtyři roky" (in Czech). iDnes.cz. 19 June 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
3. "Viktoria Plzeň reach Europa League after dramatic win over CSKA Moscow". The Guardian. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2014.

External links

• Official Website