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Crisis
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut 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
1‑2 to Sparta Prague B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Táborsko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Petr Kaulfus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Roman Holiš 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.
Match30 Nov 2026
Halfway: Táborsko sit in position 8
21 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
87% of the income goes out in wages at Táborsko
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑2 to Pribram, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lukáš Havel, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Táborsko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petr Kaulfus 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 dugout23 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
No place in the plan for Roman Holiš
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Jakub Hora changes it off the bench
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Táborsko had a different afternoon.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Jakub Hora knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jakub Hora trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Samuel Šigut 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Táborsko are still strangers to each other
6 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.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Pribram next, and one man in the Táborsko dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Roman Holiš asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes Pavel Novák a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Táborsko. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Jan Šťovíček talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Táborsko know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Nov 2026
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Táborsko the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
Next up at home: Pribram, who go into it in position 2. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Upbeat
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Samuel Šigut beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match7 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Petr Kaulfus 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.
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 Táborsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Táborsko, another week without a signature from Lukáš Havel.
The dugout9 Nov 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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Matej Stanek to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Matěj Radosta's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
An afternoon Matěj Radosta will want back
Marked 5.27. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Samuel Šigut keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Táborsko say nothing, which says plenty.
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Triumph
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Emmanuel Godwin, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match31 Oct 2026
Chrudim made Táborsko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Lukáš Matějka
12 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Táborsko training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Petr Kaulfus 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Holiš, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Both of them Jan Zíka's — 8.30
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Jan Zíka
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jan Zíka. 2‑0 against Ústí nad Labem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Samuel Šigut beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Matej Stanek kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mikuláš Kubný
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jan Zíka, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Táborsko would like this to lead.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Michal Skwarczek’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Táborsko needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Steady
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Banik Ostrava B, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
20 new faces, and Táborsko are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout19 Oct 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Matej Stanek to a room that had heard them before.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Michal Zapletal 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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Ústí nad Labem next, and one man in the Táborsko dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The plan did not have a place for Roman Holiš
Nobody at Táborsko is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Samuel Šigut 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 Táborsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jakub Hora is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Mikuláš Kubný’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Táborsko needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Táborsko, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Roman Holiš a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Táborsko. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Jan Šťovíček keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Táborsko say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Táborsko make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Táborsko have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
Vlašim made Táborsko work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Lukáš Matějka was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.36. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Holiš, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Jakub Rezek named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Jakub Rezek is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Matej Stanek kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match26 Sep 2026
6‑0, and Lukáš Matějka took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Táborsko tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Samuel Šigut at his very best
Marked 8.46. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Táborsko.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Jakub Rezek at his very best
Marked 8.31. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Táborsko.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Filip Žák at his very best
Marked 8.12. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Táborsko.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Michal Zapletal 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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Jakub Rezek beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match19 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Samuel Šigut’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Táborsko.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Samuel Šigut has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Lukáš Matějka 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.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Táborsko are still strangers to each other
20 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.
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Crisis
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.53 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Táborsko
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Táborsko are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
Opava left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Viktoria Žižkov would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Marek Matocha
“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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Táborsko, another week without a signature from Samuel Šigut.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Táborsko lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
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Uneasy
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 29 signed and 15 gone
That is the business done at Táborsko until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Táborsko asked and Chrudim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Roman Holiš, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jakub Rezek slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Jakub Rezek is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Táborsko, another week without a signature from Lukáš Havel.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Táborsko
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Zapletal was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Opava next, and one man in the Táborsko dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Jakub Rezek beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 44. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Táborsko have gone to Viktoria Žižkov with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Táborsko
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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Táborsko asked and Viktoria Plzen said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jakub Hora and Táborsko agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Michal Zapletal 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 18, and nobody at Táborsko signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Half-satisfied: Matej Stanek on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 9 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.
Match19 Aug 2026
Táborsko bow out of the cup
Jablonec go through and Táborsko go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tomáš Polyák hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Táborsko can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $20.0K — a club that wants Petr Kaulfus enough to be asked twice.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Samuel Šigut 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Táborsko have gone to Mlada Boleslav with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Match22 Aug 2026
Zbrojovka Brno left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Michal Zapletal and Táborsko agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout24 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.
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Steady
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
James Bello, 21, steals the show — 7.65
Marked 7.65 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuel Šigut 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 Táborsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Samuel Šimek arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Samuel Šimek has, at Táborsko, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Táborsko asked and Polissia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Lukáš Matějka’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Táborsko.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Lukáš Matějka was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.47. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Michal Zapletal and Táborsko agree another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Aug 2026
Lukáš Havel gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lukáš Havel has just signed for Táborsko, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emmanuel Godwin and Táborsko agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Táborsko
Samuel Šigut 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lukas Brabec 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karel Stanek has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karel Masopust has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Sima has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
James Bello, 21, steals the show — 8.04
Marked 8.04 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad3 Aug 2026
James Bello 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 Táborsko this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lukáš Matějka and Táborsko agree another 3 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 2‑2 draw with České Budějovice leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Jablonec: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Polissia: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jakub Zeronik 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.