Pavel Horváth
Horváth in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-04-22) 22 April 1975
Place of birth Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Jiskra Domažlice (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– Jiskra Domažlice
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.

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

After 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

In 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

Horváth 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

Horváth 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]

Career statistics

Club

Sources:[10][11]
Club Season League Cup Europe Other[lower-alpha 1] Total
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Sparta Prague 1993–94 1000––10
Total 1000000010
Jablonec 1993–94 4000––40
1994–95 26500––265
1995–96 20300––203
1996–97 1000––10
Total 518000000518
Slavia Prague 1996–97 2550041–296
1997–98 2550040–295
1998–99 2971130–338
1999–00 26100091–3511
Total 10527112020012630
Sporting 2000–01 161204030251
2001–02 300000–30
Total 191204030281
Galatasaray 2001–02 30–––30
Total 3000000030
Teplice 2001–02 17100––171
2002–03 2520022–274
2003–04 2230041–264
Total 646006300709
Vissel Kobe 2004 146–––146
2005 243–––243
2006 223–––223
Total 60120000006012
Sparta Prague 2006–07 20211––213
2007–08 2804070–390
Total 482517000603
Viktoria Plzeň 2008–09 27800––278
2009–10 28510––295
2010–11 2684220103310
2011–12 2951013100436
2012–13 28420155–459
2013–14 2546015300467
2014–15 71302010131
Total 170351724792023646
Career Total 52191244841450634109
Notes
  1. ↑ Other tournaments include the Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira and the Czech Supercup.

International

Source:[12]
Czech Republic
YearAppsGoals
199960
200080
200120
200230
Total190

Honours

Club

Slavia Prague

Sporting

Teplice

Sparta Prague

Viktoria Plzeň

References

  1. 1 2 "Minule konflikt, teď zase slavil naplno. Horváth vyhrál pohár už pošesté" (in Czech). Idnes. 19 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Bude to dobrý, říkali. A nabídli mě Plzni, vzpomíná už s úsměvem Horváth" (in Czech). Idnes. 24 December 2008. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Sparta Prague's Horvath fined for Nazi gesture Archived 22 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine; Reuters, 6 September 2007
  4. ↑ Euro 2000 profile; at BBC
  5. ↑ "Hlavním trenérem výběru U21 je Pavel Horváth, u A týmu zůstává v roli asistenta". fcviktoria.cz. 5 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "Pavel Horváth se vrací do Viktorie Plzeň, bude trénovat juniorku". fcviktoria.cz. 4 January 2019.
  7. ↑ "Příbram povede Pavel Horváth! Vytahuju mladého kluka, řekl Starka" (in Czech). Czech News Center. 11 March 2020.
  8. ↑ "32 zápasů, 19 proher, poslední místo. A Horváth končí, Příbram hledá náhradu" (in Czech). Czech News Center. 15 March 2021.
  9. ↑ Machálek, René (27 June 2023). "Trenér Horváth má nové angažmá, povede i legendárního plzeňského rebela". Sport.cz (in Czech).
  10. ↑ Pavel Horváth at Soccerway. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  11. ↑ Pavel Horváth at FootballDatabase.eu
  12. ↑ "Pavel Horváth". European Football. Retrieved 2 October 2015.
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