For the current Czech top-tier association football competition, see Czech First League. For the current Slovak top-tier association football competition, see Slovak First Football League.
The Czechoslovak First League (Czech: 1. fotbalová liga, Slovak: 1. futbalová liga) was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories. Until the 1934-35 season, no teams from Slovakia participated in the league.[2]
The attendance record for the league was set on 4 September 1965, when 50,105 spectators attended a match between rivals Sparta and Slavia in Prague.[3]
The Czechoslovak First League was succeeded in 1993 by the Czech First League in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Superliga in Slovakia.
Names
1925 First Association League (Czech: Asociační liga) (teams from Prague only)
1925–29 Central Bohemian First League (Czech: Středočeská liga) (teams from Prague and Central Bohemia)
1929–34 First Association League (Czech: Asociační liga) (expanded to include Moravian teams)
1934–38 State League (Czech: Státní liga) (expanded to include Slovak teams)
1938–44 Bohemian-Moravian League (Czech: Národní liga) (World War II, Czechoslovakia split)
1945–48 State League (Czech: Státní liga) (Czechoslovak Republic reinstated)
1949–50 First All-National Championship (Czech: Celostátní mistrovství)
1951–55 Republic Championship (Czech: Mistrovství republiky (1951–52), Přebor republiky (1953–55))
Josef Bican was the all-time top goalscorer of the league with 447 goals in 279 matches, of which 417 goals were scored for Slavia Praha and 30 goals for FC Vítkovice. The list below is not the leagues top goalscorers all in all, only players who at some point played for Slavia Praha. [1]
Top goalscorers (players who played for Slavia Praha only)
^"Na Letné padl divácký rekord 21. století" [At Letna the spectator record for the 21st century was broken]. Mladá fronta DNES (in Czech). Czech Republic. 9 November 2003. Retrieved 1 December 2012.
^Jeřábek, Luboš (2007). Český a československý fotbal - lexikon osobností a klubů. Prague: Grada Publishing. p. 112. ISBN978-80-247-1656-5.