1. FK Drnovice

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Petra Drnovice
FK Drnovice logo
Full namePetra Drnovice
Founded1932
Dissolved2006
GroundSportovní areál
Capacity6,616

1. FK Drnovice was a Czech football club based in the village of Drnovice in the South Moravian Region. It was founded in 1932. The club played in the top flight of Czech football, the Czech First League, between 1993 and 2002, and again in the 2004/05 season.[1] Because of financial trouble, the club ceased to exist in 2006. Drnovice now hosts a small club FKD currently playing regional division.

History

Football stadium of the club

Until the mid-1980s, the club of this small village with a population just under 2,200 was almost unknown outside the region. In 1977 it played in the 1.B třída, being the 8th tier in Czechoslovak football pyramid.

Everything changed when Jan Gottvald, a Drnovice-born former player took charge of the club in 1982. In those days Gottvald worked as a washing machine repairer and car seller only to become boss of Mototechna, a spare part company some time later.

The club reached Divize, the fourth tier, in 1986 and the 2. ČNL, the third division in 1987. 1990 saw the team promoted to Second division . After the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993, both Slovakia and the Czech Republic established their own leagues and Drnovice gained promotion to the First Division. Finally Gottvald has made his dream of First Division football in his native village come true.

In their first season, a doping scandal shocked not only Drnovice but the entire Czech football. In the so-called "caramel affair" Drnovice players Rostislav Prokop and Milan Poštulka were suspended for two years, the club itself was fined with a ridiculous small amount of 50.000 Czech crowns. As was revealed some time later, manager Jindřich Dejmal had given the players caramels that contained a forbidden substance. Dejmal was sacked by Gottvald immediately, appointing Karel Brückner as new manager.

In 1994 Gottvald sold the club to chemical company Chemapol for not having enough funds to keep the club running by himself alone. Nevertheless, he managed to keep his influence in the club. Moreover, he became the second most important official in Czech football when he was elected vice-chairman of the Czech FA. He held this position until the year 2000.

To promote their gas stations called Petra, the Chemapol Holding changed the club's name to FC Petra Drnovice. Chemapol not only financed the club, but also the construction of Drnovice's home ground. It met the international standards and even hosted a match between the Czech Republic and Switzerland on 18 August 1999 won by the Czech side 3:0.

In the 1990s, Petra Drnovice finished mid-table in all seasons. In 1996 and 1998 they reached the

Olympic Stadium in Munich
.

Financial problems highlighted those years. Gottvald had great difficulties to keep the club running. From August 2000 on, the FK Drnovice filed for bankruptcy. In a dubious transaction in March 2001 Gottvald sold the club to a widely unknown company called Corimex. In October he left the club once again. He was accused of financial fraud and other

MSFL, the third level. In February 2003 Drnovice-based company Garimondi purchased by auction what was left of the club and ceded it to Jan Gottvald, who once again took charge of the club after being set free on a 20 Million Czech crowns bail. Gottvald strengthened the squad, Drnovice won the MSFL without any problems. They finished as runner-up in the 2003/2004 season in Second Division and were promoted to the Czech First League.[3] In the summer of 2004, Swiss-based company Sunstone acquired the club, that finished in 8th place. After failing to find other partners who would help funding football in Drnovice, Sunstone sold all shares to Jan Gottvald and his son Robert for approximately 10 Million Czech crowns, a sum which never was confirmed. Gottvald was unable to find sponsors and did not apply for a Gambrinus-Liga licence for the 2005/2006 season. In 2006, the club was playing in Second Czech Division and was still facing great financial troubles. In January the crisis reached its peak, as players had not received their salaries since July 2005. The team eventually left the league at the end of that season.[4]

In 2007, some supporters of the club decided to revive the team and registered themselves as players and inviting veterans and also youngsters from the folded club and re-entered official competitions as FKD, but from the lowest level on the Czech league system. They got promoted right on the first season to the next level, averaging five goals per game and attendances as big as 600 (when the average is 50 in this league), being only defeated one time. In the 2008–2009 season, the team got its second promotion in a row to the first division of the county Vyškov (8th level in the Czech League system) and its B team also guaranteed promotion to the level below. The team achieved its third promotion in a row by winning the Vyškov county championship (Okresní přebor) in the 2009–10 season. In the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, FKD played in the I.B division (I.B třída) of the South Moravian Region (Jihomoravský kraj), the seventh tier in the Czech league system, before being relegated back to the eighth tier in 2012.

Historical names

  • 1932 – Česká sportovní společnost Drnovice
  • 1948 – Sokol Drnovice
  • 1961 – TJ Drnovice
  • 1989 – TJ JZD Drnovice
  • 1990 – TJ Agro Drnovice
  • 1990 – FC Gera Drnovice
  • 1993 – FC Olpran Drnovice
  • 1993 – FC Petra Drnovice
  • 2000 – FK Drnovice
  • 2003 – 1. FK Drnovice
  • 2006 – 1. FKD

Honours

Former managers

Statistics

Level/Season 82/83 83/84 84/85 85/86 86/87 87/88 88/89 89/90 90/91 91/92 92/93 93/94 94/95 95/96 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06
Level 1                       10. 6. 5. 7. 9. 11. 3. 7. 15.     8.  
Level 2                 14. 6. 2.                     2.    
Level 3           4. 9. 1.                         1.      
Level 4         1.                                      
Level 5       1.                                        
Level 6   5. 1.                                          
Level 7 1.                                              

References

  1. ISBN 978-80-247-1656-5
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  2. ^ a b "Trenér Drnovic Jarůšek rezignoval" (in Czech). idnes.cz. 6 April 2002. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Fotbalisté Drnovic jsou opět prvoligoví". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 29 May 2004. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
  4. ^ "Drnovice opouštějí velký fotbal". idnes.cz (in Czech). Mladá fronta DNES. 5 June 2006. Retrieved 29 January 2013.
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