From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match2 Jan 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Zbrojovka Brno, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Jihlava
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match2 Jan 2027
The goals have deserted Jihlava
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Sven Dijkstra gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sven Dijkstra has just signed for Jihlava, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match2 Jan 2027
Jihlava leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad28 Dec 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Jihlava
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Jablonec, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miroslav Křehlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
David Štětka gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Jihlava told Roman Mokrovics something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Zbrojovka Brno in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Dec 2026
Jihlava sink to position 16
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match19 Dec 2026
0‑5 to Slavia 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Křehlík 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 dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Matúš Lacko
“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.
Boardroom21 Dec 2026
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑5 Jiri Krejci left the room before anybody could ask which.
Looking ahead21 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Jablonec in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Dec 2026
Beaten 0‑11 by Sparta Prague, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad14 Dec 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Michal Kroupa was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match12 Dec 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
11 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Jihlava and Sparta Prague in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marvis Ogiomade 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Vít Beneš gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Dec 2026
52 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom14 Dec 2026
Doors closed at Jihlava
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Jiri Krejci after 0‑11, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match5 Dec 2026
At last: Jihlava win one
19 matches without a win, and then this, against Pribram. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Pavel Soukup
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Adrián Čermák goes up and wins it — 7.68
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.68 for the rest of it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Jihlava
Marvis Ogiomade and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match5 Dec 2026
Three points for Jihlava, 1‑0 the final word against Pribram in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miroslav Křehlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakub Lopatář and Jihlava agree another 3 years.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Jiri Krejci: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Jihlava's wait for a win
19 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jihlava has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Nov 2026
Chastening afternoon for Jihlava
A 0‑4 beating by Bohemians 1905 was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match28 Nov 2026
Jihlava cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Jihlava
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michal Kroupa, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Křehlík 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.
Looking ahead30 Nov 2026
Everything rides on Pribram
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Jihlava know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Nov 2026
18 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 18, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Match23 Nov 2026
Every point is an argument now for Jihlava
Position 16 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by Banik Ostrava, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Jihlava may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match21 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Jihlava
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marvis Ogiomade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match14 Nov 2026
17 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 17, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Adrián Čermák was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Jihlava
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Match14 Nov 2026
0‑2 to Dukla Prague, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Křehlík 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Matúš Lacko gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Jiri Krejci left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
16 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 16, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match7 Nov 2026
Jihlava come up short against Zlin
Zlin left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Pavel Soukup gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Miroslav Křehlík falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match9 Nov 2026
Jihlava at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 16, 2 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead9 Nov 2026
Dukla Prague next, and one man in the Jihlava dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
-
The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Matúš Lacko
-
The dugout
Jakub Nečas wants a proper job in this side
-
Squad
Vít Beneš speaks, and the room listens
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
15 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Jakub Mašát: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Jihlava have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Michal Kroupa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marvis Ogiomade falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Sigma Olomouc, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Tomáš Franěk gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Ayomide Abatan named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ayomide Abatan is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Jihlava's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jihlava has to find a result from somewhere.
Match24 Oct 2026
2‑5 to Slovan Liberec, 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.
Match26 Oct 2026
Jihlava are in real trouble now
Position 16, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.55 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Jihlava and Slovan Liberec in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match24 Oct 2026
Jihlava leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miroslav Křehlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
-
Boardroom
Doors closed at Jihlava
-
The dugout
The manager’s verdict
-
The dugout
Michal Záhradník gets it from the manager
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 14 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nowhere to hide for Jihlava
0‑3 against Viktoria Plzen, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Marvis Ogiomade and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miroslav Křehlík falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jihlava are still strangers to each other
11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrahim Alkasim, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Miroslav Křehlík and Jihlava agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match10 Oct 2026
1‑3 to Slovacko, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marvis Ogiomade 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 dugout12 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Vít Beneš
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vít Beneš, and the manager let it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Jihlava told Michal Kroupa something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michal Kroupa is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Křehlík 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 dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Jihlava
Something was said to Tomáš Franěk and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Pavel Soukup
There were 21 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match28 Sep 2026
Jihlava sink to position 16
2 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Křehlík 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 dugout28 Sep 2026
Tomáš Franěk gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Jiri Krejci: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑5 to Zbrojovka Brno, 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Jihlava's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jihlava has to find a result from somewhere.
Match19 Sep 2026
The goals have deserted Jihlava
7 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Adrián Čermák was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Jihlava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marvis Ogiomade 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and Jihlava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match19 Sep 2026
Jihlava are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Chinemerie Ezeaka, and the manager let it.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
0‑5 to Jablonec, 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
The goals have deserted Jihlava
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Jihlava can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Jihlava
Marvis Ogiomade and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Jihlava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marvis Ogiomade, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miroslav Křehlík was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Jihlava
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stanislav Cerny
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jihlava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Pavel Soukup
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Slavia Prague, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Jihlava
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Jihlava are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Jihlava close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 2 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Jihlava
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marvis Ogiomade was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Jihlava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jihlava lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑3 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Jihlava
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Legia is saying, and nobody at Jihlava is enjoying the guessing.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Jihlava
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Adrián Čermák
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Jihlava lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Aug 2026
Jihlava out of the cup
Sparta Prague ended it 0‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
A cup hiding at Sparta Prague leaves Jihlava explaining themselves
0-4, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Jihlava's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Jihlava has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Legia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Adrián Čermák was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Jihlava
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Stanislav Cerny
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Jihlava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match15 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Jihlava
A 0‑3 beating by Bohemians 1905 was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Jan Hellebrand would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jan Hellebrand is living that version at Jihlava, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Jihlava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sparta Prague have kept their man, and Jihlava go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Pavel Soukup
“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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Jiri Krejci to a room that had heard them before.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑5 by Banik Ostrava, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Zbrojovka Brno; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Jihlava and Banik Ostrava in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Jihlava asked and Stade Malien said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Barak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Schick is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Provod has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stanislav Coufal has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
-
Squad
Jakub Nečas falls out with a teammate over standards
-
Boardroom
Nobody left the Jihlava dressing room in a hurry
-
Squad
Filip Slavata signs on for more
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vít Beneš and Jihlava agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Jihlava
Adrián Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Jihlava
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marvis Ogiomade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.