Pavel Horváth (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpavɛl ˈɦorvaːt]; Hungarian: Horváth Pál; born 22 April 1975) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, and a football manager. He was in charge of Příbram.
.JPG) Horváth in 2012 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 22 April 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Prague, Czechoslovakia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FK Baník Most-Souš (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1980–1981 | TJ Břevnov | ||
| 1981–1994 | Sparta Prague | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993 | Sparta Prague | 1 | (0) |
| 1994–1996 | Jablonec 97 | 51 | (8) |
| 1996–2000 | Slavia Prague | 105 | (27) |
| 2000–2001 | Sporting CP | 19 | (1) |
| 2001 | Galatasaray | 3 | (0) |
| 2002–2004 | Teplice | 64 | (6) |
| 2004–2006 | Vissel Kobe | 60 | (12) |
| 2006–2008 | Sparta Prague | 48 | (2) |
| 2008–2015 | Viktoria Plzeň | 170 | (35) |
| Total | 521 | (91) | |
| International career | |||
| 1995–1997 | Czech Republic U21 | 10 | (1) |
| 1999–2002 | Czech Republic | 19 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015 | Jiskra Domažlice | ||
| 2015–2017 | Viktoria Plzeň (assistant) | ||
| 2016–2017 | Viktoria Plzeň (youth) | ||
| 2017–2018 | Baník Sokolov | ||
| 2019–2020 | Viktoria Plzeň B | ||
| 2020–2021 | Příbram | ||
| 2021–2023 | Viktoria Plzeň (assistant) | ||
| 2023–2024 | Jiskra Domažlice | ||
| 2024– | FK Baník Most-Souš | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
He spent the better part of his 22-year professional career with Slavia Prague (four years), Teplice (three) and Viktoria Plzeň (seven), amassing Czech First League totals of 435 games and 78 goals during 19 seasons. He also competed professionally in Portugal, Turkey and Japan.
Horvath was a Czech international for three years.
Club career
editAfter making his professional debut with AC Sparta Prague, Prague-born Horváth moved to lowly FK Jablonec in search of more opportunities, which led to a return to the capital with SK Slavia, scoring 27 goals in the league alone in four seasons, although the club only managed to win two national cups during that timeframe.
Horváth's exploits with Slavia earned him a transfer to Sporting Clube de Portugal, but he failed to win a place in the starting XI. Sold in January 2002 to Galatasaray S.K. alongside teammate Mbo Mpenza, he also appeared very rarely, which prompted a return home before 2001–02 was over, with FK Teplice, where he conquered the domestic cup in his first full campaign.[1]
After three years in Japan Horváth moved back to Sparta for two more seasons, where he won the national championship for the first time in 2007, adding the 2007 and 2008 Czech Cups. Subsequently, aged 33, he signed for FC Viktoria Plzeň,[2] netting eight times during the 2008–09 season as the club finished in eighth place.
Horváth won the domestic cup for the sixth time with his fourth different team, as he captained Viktoria to its first title in the competition in 2010.[1] He was also named the Personality of the League at the Czech Footballer of the Year awards in that year.
Thirty-five-year-old Horváth continued to produce in the 2010–11 season, scoring eight goals in 26 games as Plzeň was crowned league champion the first time in its history.
Controversy
editIn September 2007, Horváth was fined 200,000 Czech koruna for apparently performing the Nazi salute during Sparta's league match against FK Viktoria Žižkov. He apologized for the incident, and said that his gesture was misinterpreted, claiming he was only trying to calm down his team's rowdies.[3]
International career
editHorváth made his debut for the Czech Republic on 9 February 1999 in a 1–0 friendly win in Belgium, going on to amass 19 caps in three years and being selected for UEFA Euro 2000, where he did not play.
His international career was vastly barred by the talent of fellow midfielders Patrik Berger, Pavel Nedvěd and Vladimír Šmicer.[4]
Coaching career
editHorváth became the manager of FC Viktoria Plzeň's U21 squad in October 2016[5] simultaneously with his assistant manager role for the first team of the club.
After one year as the manager of FK Baník Sokolov, Horváth returned to Viktoria Plzeň and was hired as the U21 manager again. This was announced on 4 January 2019.[6]
On 11 March 2020 Horváth became manager of Czech First League club Příbram.[7] On 15 March 2021, Horváth was sacked as the head coach of Příbram after series of poor results (39 matches, 8 wins, 5 draws, 19 losses) with team on last place of league table.[8]
On 27 June 2023, Horváth became manager of Bohemian Football League club Jiskra Domažlice.[9]
On 1 October 2024, Horváth became manager of Bohemian Football League club Baník Most-Souš.[10]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- Sources:[11]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other[a] | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sparta Prague | 1993–94 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Jablonec | 1993–94 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||
| 1994–95 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 26 | 5 | |||
| 1995–96 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 20 | 3 | |||
| 1996–97 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 51 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 8 | |
| Slavia Prague | 1996–97 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 29 | 6 | |
| 1997–98 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | – | 29 | 5 | ||
| 1998–99 | 29 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | – | 33 | 8 | ||
| 1999–00 | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | – | 35 | 11 | ||
| Total | 105 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 126 | 30 | |
| Sporting | 2000–01 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 |
| 2001–02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 3 | 0 | ||
| Total | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 1 | |
| Galatasaray | 2001–02 | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Teplice | 2001–02 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 17 | 1 | ||
| 2002–03 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | – | 27 | 4 | ||
| 2003–04 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | – | 26 | 4 | ||
| Total | 64 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 9 | |
| Vissel Kobe | 2004 | 14 | 6 | – | – | – | 14 | 6 | |||
| 2005 | 24 | 3 | – | – | – | 24 | 3 | ||||
| 2006 | 22 | 3 | – | – | – | 22 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 60 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 12 | |
| Sparta Prague | 2006–07 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 21 | 3 | ||
| 2007–08 | 28 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | 39 | 0 | ||
| Total | 48 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 3 | |
| Viktoria Plzeň | 2008–09 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 8 | ||
| 2009–10 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 5 | |||
| 2010–11 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 10 | |
| 2011–12 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 6 | |
| 2012–13 | 28 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | – | 45 | 9 | ||
| 2013–14 | 25 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 7 | |
| 2014–15 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | |
| Total | 170 | 35 | 17 | 2 | 47 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 236 | 46 | |
| Career Total | 521 | 91 | 24 | 4 | 84 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 634 | 109 | |
- Notes
- ^ Other tournaments include the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and the Czech Supercup.
International
edit- Source:[12]
| Czech Republic | ||
| Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 | 0 |
| 2000 | 8 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 3 | 0 |
| Total | 19 | 0 |
Honours
editClub
editSlavia Prague
Sporting
Teplice
Sparta Prague
Viktoria Plzeň
References
edit- ^ a b "Minule konflikt, teď zase slavil naplno. Horváth vyhrál pohár už pošesté" (in Czech). Idnes. 19 May 2010.
- ^ "Bude to dobrý, říkali. A nabídli mě Plzni, vzpomíná už s úsměvem Horváth" (in Czech). Idnes. 24 December 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ Sparta Prague's Horvath fined for Nazi gesture Archived 22 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine; Reuters, 6 September 2007
- ^ Euro 2000 profile; at BBC
- ^ "Hlavním trenérem výběru U21 je Pavel Horváth, u A týmu zůstává v roli asistenta". FC Viktoria Plzeň. 5 January 2017.
- ^ "Pavel Horváth se vrací do Viktorie Plzeň, bude trénovat juniorku". FC Viktoria Plzeň. 4 January 2019.
- ^ "Příbram povede Pavel Horváth! Vytahuju mladého kluka, řekl Starka". Blesk (in Czech). Czech News Center. 11 March 2020.
- ^ "32 zápasů, 19 proher, poslední místo. A Horváth končí, Příbram hledá náhradu". Blesk (in Czech). Czech News Center. 15 March 2021.
- ^ Machálek, René (27 June 2023). "Trenér Horváth má nové angažmá, povede i legendárního plzeňského rebela". Sport.cz (in Czech). Borgis.
- ^ Veverka, Václav (1 October 2024). "Most má nového kouče. Třetiligové fotbalisty povede bývalý reprezentant Horváth". Deník (in Czech). Vltava Labe Media. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
- ^ Pavel Horváth at Soccerway. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ "Pavel Horváth". European Football. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
- ^ "Histórico da Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira" [Supercup Cândido de Oliveira all-time record] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Portuguese Football Federation. 11 August 2012. p. 12. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
External links
edit- Viktoria Plzeň official profile (in Czech)
- Pavel Horváth at Fortunaliga.cz
- Pavel Horváth – Czech First League statistics at Fotbal DNES (in Czech)
- Pavel Horváth at FAČR (in Czech)
- Pavel Horváth at ForaDeJogo (archived)
- Pavel Horváth at National-Football-Teams.com
- Pavel Horváth at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
