The Zlin Chronicle
Match8 Aug 2026
Zlin taken apart
1‑4 to Sparta Prague, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Stanislav Dostál keeps Zlin in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Zlin make their move for Matyáš Vojta
$2.8M on the table at Sparta Prague. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cletus Nombil attracts admirers
The name of Cletus Nombil has come up in conversations Zlin were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Michal Fukala signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michal Fukala and Zlin agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Antonín Křapka in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Zlin rebuffed over Jan Fortelný
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Teplice have kept their man, and Zlin go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Zlin training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michal Fukala is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Michal Fukala
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jan Vydra joins the Zlin first team
- Market One of our own: Daniel Stanek joins the Zlin first team
- Market One of our own: Jan Stanek joins the Zlin first team