From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Teplice 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Bílek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Robert Jukl
“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.
Market15 Feb 2027
The Matyáš Kozák talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Teplice know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad15 Feb 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Teplice has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Matouš Trmal has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Matouš Trmal keeps the shirt for now, at Teplice's convenience rather than his own.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Lukáš Mareček 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.
Back issues
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Steady
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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 targets8 Feb 2027
Teplice asked and Zbrojovka Brno said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Teplice
Lawrence Nicholas 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.
Match6 Feb 2027
1‑2 to Jablonec, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcel Čermák, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Matěj Náprstek and Teplice agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
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 1‑2 Jan Schick left the room before anybody could ask which.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Tomáš Zlatohlávek
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Tomáš Zlatohlávek has come out of that comparison in the side, and Teplice have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match30 Jan 2027
Beaten 1‑4 by Slavia Prague, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market1 Feb 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Michal Bílek: 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.” Teplice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Teplice close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 4 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Teplice
Marcel 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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 targets1 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovacko have kept their man, and Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Matouš Trmal
“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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Upbeat
Market25 Jan 2027
Michal Bílek 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 Teplice can pretend not to have heard.
Match23 Jan 2027
Teplice cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Matouš Trmal 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 terraces25 Jan 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Matěj Náprstek 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.
Match23 Jan 2027
Sparta Prague made Teplice work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Jakub Jakubko has come up in conversations Teplice were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michal Bílek 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
100 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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lawrence Nicholas, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Match16 Jan 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.34 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Daniel Mareček 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Viktoria Plzen have kept their man, and Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Teplice have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
The match ball belongs to Tomáš Zlatohlávek, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match9 Jan 2027
5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Matouš Trmal
There were 7 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 ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market11 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Teplice, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces11 Jan 2027
Teplice sell a favourite for $450.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Jan Fortelný was one of the reasons people came, and $450.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market11 Jan 2027
Zlin come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Teplice did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Teplice
Matouš Trmal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Tomáš Zlatohlávek was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Teplice did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jan Fortelný has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Teplice
Matouš Trmal 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Abdourahman Badamosi again, and this time the name on the line is Lucko. Teplice are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Spartak Moscow have kept their man, and Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Bílek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Teplice know it.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Michal Bílek, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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.
Match26 Dec 2026
Dukla Prague left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Dec 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 Jan Schick to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Lukáš Mareček
“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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Looking ahead28 Dec 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Tomáš Zlatohlávek’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Teplice needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Tomáš Zlatohlávek signs something — a contract at Teplice or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Match19 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑2 against Zlin, and it could have been more.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.17 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
A brace, and Petr Kodeš takes the afternoon — 8.25
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Petr Kodeš provided it, and the 8.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Dec 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Teplice and Zlin in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mareček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lawrence Nicholas 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 terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Matej Riznič 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matouš Trmal, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Marcel Čermák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ales Schick 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Matej Stanek 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
Sigma Olomouc made Teplice work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.73 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Teplice had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Jan Schick: “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.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
9 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Lawrence Nicholas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match5 Dec 2026
Late, late show earns Teplice a point
Minute 92, against Slovan Liberec, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Serigne Fallou Mbacké Coly has come out of that comparison in the side, and Teplice have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Jan Schick: “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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Squad30 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 16 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match28 Nov 2026
Nowhere to hide for Teplice
0‑5 against Viktoria Plzen, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mareček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Doors closed at Teplice
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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Robert Jukl is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Tomáš Zlatohlávek’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Teplice.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Tomáš Zlatohlávek at his very best
Marked 8.74. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Teplice.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.11, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Jan Schick: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Gideon Iliya 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager has not finished forgetting Petr Kodeš's mistake
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The dugout
No place in the plan for Matěj Pulkrab
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Player ratings
An afternoon Petr Kodeš will want back
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Teplice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Matouš Trmal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Daniel Mareček 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.
Match14 Nov 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matouš Trmal, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Nov 2026
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout16 Nov 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
A promise honoured at Teplice
Something was said to Robert Jukl and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.06 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Matouš Trmal 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 ratings9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Three points for Teplice, 3‑1 the final word against Bohemians 1905 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stanislav 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Marked 8.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Match9 Nov 2026
Teplice at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 7, 18 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
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Uneasy
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Lukáš Mareček: 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.” Teplice have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Petr Kodeš goes up and wins it — 7.79
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 7.79 for the rest of it.
Match31 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad2 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tomáš Zlatohlávek, and the manager let it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Bílek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
The game went through Matěj Pulkrab — 6.84
Marked 6.84 on 10 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Match31 Oct 2026
Teplice caught on 86 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Zbrojovka Brno scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match31 Oct 2026
It needed Petr Kodeš to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Zbrojovka Brno, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mareček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Michal Bílek and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the Teplice support went home talking about one name.
The dugout26 Oct 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.
Match24 Oct 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Jan Schick was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Teplice dressing room was either.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑4 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Marcel Čermák 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
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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 dugout19 Oct 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Teplice 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Marcel Čermák'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.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Petr Kodeš
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Teplice told Petr Kodeš something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Matouš Trmal 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karel Barak 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Michal Bílek 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
15 new faces, and Teplice 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 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Teplice lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
4‑0, and Matěj Pulkrab took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Teplice tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.89, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for Teplice
9 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Pribram were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Teplice may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mareček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad5 Oct 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Daniel Mareček 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.
The dugout28 Sep 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Chances created: 11. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.
Match26 Sep 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jan Schick chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
The chances came and went for Matyáš Kozák
14 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Matouš Trmal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Michal Bílek was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ladislav Krejčí did the work nobody counts — 7.29
10 combined actions and 7.29. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“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.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Player ratings
Matěj Pulkrab could have had three
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The dugout
Denis Halinský is still being punished for one mistake
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match12 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Teplice
5 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Teplice and Dukla Prague in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Teplice
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Daniel Mareček was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Lawrence Nicholas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lukas Schick 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.43, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jaroslav Harušťák
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Teplice lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match5 Sep 2026
6 matches without a win for Teplice
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Teplice are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
Teplice say no — this time
The offer from Banik Ostrava for Jan Fortelný was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Teplice close the window on a squad of their own making
21 in and 1 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Daniel Mareček 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Michal Bílek 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 Sep 2026
Teplice 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
47 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Teplice lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Teplice, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Teplice
5 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
Zbrojovka Brno wanted more than $1.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Olympiacos have kept their man, and Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Bekescsaba have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Abdourahman Badamosi. The answer from Teplice has not changed — yet.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 12 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jaroslav Harušťák
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Teplice lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 Aug 2026
Teplice out of the cup
Jablonec 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
The match ball belongs to Matěj Pulkrab, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Teplice are taken apart by Jablonec — and the town wants answers
It finished 0-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The offer went to Zbrojovka Brno this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Teplice's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Teplice has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Teplice
Matouš Trmal and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jaroslav Harušťák damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market17 Aug 2026
The fee is $930.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Slovacko drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Teplice
Matouš Trmal 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Teplice offered $400.0K; Slovacko said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
The town asked, and Teplice paid $930.0K
Pavel Juroška was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $930.0K. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and Teplice go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Teplice rescue it on 92 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 92. Viktoria Plzen had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad17 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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jaroslav Harušťák damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Teplice and Slovacko have settled on $930.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$400.0K on the table at Slovacko. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matouš Trmal commits to Teplice for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matouš Trmal 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 Teplice this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Martin Stanek 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Michal Krejci 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Adam Sima 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.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 2026
Jablonec come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Teplice did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matěj Pulkrab commits to Teplice for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matouš Trmal 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.
Player ratings3 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Teplice training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Mareček 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Mlada Boleslav made Teplice work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Daniel Mareček’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.87, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad3 Aug 2026
9 new faces, and Teplice 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.