SK Sigma Olomouc explained

Clubname:	SK Sigma Olomouc
Fullname:	Sportovní Klub Sigma Olomouc a.s.
Nickname:	Hanáci
Founded:	(as FK Hejčín Olomouc)
Ground:	Andrův stadion, Olomouc
Capacity:	12,566
Chairman:	Josef Lébr
Manager:	Tomáš Janotka
League:	Czech First League
Season:	2023–24
Position:	10th of 16
Current:	2024–25 SK Sigma Olomouc season
Website:	https://www.sigmafotbal.cz
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SK Sigma Olomouc is a Czech professional football club based in the city of Olomouc. The club currently competes in Czech First League, the first tier of Czech football. The club played in the first tier league for 30 years between 1984 and 2014, winning the Czech Cup and Czech Supercup in 2012. Being relegated to Czech National Football League in 2014, the club won the league the subsequent season and got a promotion back to First League in 2015, but failed to stay in the top division and were relegated after only one season.

History

The club was founded as FK Hejčín Olomouc in 1919, playing in the national top league for the first time in the 1982–83 season as Sigma ZTS Olomouc.^[1] The club next played in the Czechoslovak First League in the 1984–85 season, remaining in the top level of football for the rest of the Czechoslovak era.^[1] Olomouc reached the quarterfinals of the 1991–92 UEFA Cup, their best result in the competition.^[1] In the following season's competition, the club beat Turkish side Fenerbahçe 7–1 in the second leg of their second round tie and 7–2 on aggregate,^[2] before going out of the competition at the hands of Italian team Juventus.

The club qualified to play European football in 1996 after finishing as runners-up in the 1995–96 Czech First League.^[3]

Olomouc finished fourth in the 1998–99 Czech First League, again qualifying for European competition.^[4] The club was fined 5,000 Swiss francs in October 1999 for racist chanting in a UEFA Cup match against Real Mallorca's black players.^[5]

In August 2011, the club was fined 4 million Czech koruna and deducted nine points as a result of a corruption enquiry by the Football Association of the Czech Republic.^[6] Olomouc won the Czech Cup that season, but were banned by UEFA from competing in the subsequent UEFA Europa League due to the corruption sanctions.^[6] In 2014 the club finished 15th in the league, resulting in their relegation after 30 years in the top level of competition.^[7]

Historical names

• 1919 – FK Hejčín Olomouc (Fotbalový klub Hejčín Olomouc)
• 1949 – Sokol MŽ Olomouc (Sokol Moravské železárny Olomouc)
• 1953 – DSO Baník MŹ Olomouc (Dobrovolná sportovní organizace Baník Moravské železárny Olomouc)
• 1960 – TJ MŽ Olomouc (Tělovýchovná jednota Moravské železárny Olomouc)
• 1966 – TJ Sigma MŽ Olomouc (Tělovýchovná jednota Sigma Moravské železárny Olomouc)
• 1979 – TJ Sigma ZTS Olomouc (Tělovýchovná jednota Sigma ZTS Olomouc)
• 1990 – SK Sigma MŽ Olomouc (Sportovní klub Sigma Moravské železárny Olomouc, a.s.)
• 1996 – SK Sigma Olomouc (Sportovní klub Sigma Olomouc, a.s.)

Players

Current squad

^[8]

Notable former players

Player records in the Czech First League

.^[9] Highlighted players are in the current squad.

Most appearances

	Name	Matches
1		255
2		247
3		239
4		217
5	Jan Navrátil	212
6		203
7		202
8		201
9		181
10		169

Most goals

	Name	Goals
1		48
2		42
3		35
4	Jan Navrátil	34
5		31
6		28
7		26
8		24
9		23
10		21
	Radim Kučera
	Marek Heinz
	David Houska

Most clean sheets

	Name	Clean sheets
1		71
2		30
3		28

Managers

• Karel Brückner (1973–79)
• Milan Máčala (1980–81)
• Jaroslav Dočkal (1982–83)
• Karel Brückner (1983–87)
• Jiří Dunaj (1987–89)
• Erich Cviertna (1989–90)
• Karel Brückner (1990–93)
• Vlastimil Palička (1993–94)
• Dušan Radolský (1994–95)
• Vítězslav Kolda (1995)
• Karel Brückner (1995–97)
• Milan Bokša (1997–99)
• Leoš Kalvoda (caretaker) (1999)
• Dan Matuška (1999)
• Petr Žemlík (1999–00)
• Leoš Kalvoda (2000–01)
• Jiří Vaďura (2001–02)
• Bohumil Páník (2002)
• Jiří Kotrba (Nov 2002)
• Petr Uličný (2003 – 2006)
• Vlastimil Palička (June 2006 – Aug 2006)
• Vlastimil Petržela (Aug 2006 – June 2007)
• Martin Pulpit (2007–08)
• Jiří Fryš (2008)
• Zdeněk Psotka (July 2008 – Dec 2011)
• Petr Uličný (2011–12)
• Roman Pivarník (July 2012 – May 2013)
• Martin Kotůlek (May 2013)
• Zdeněk Psotka (2013–14)
• Ladislav Minář (2014)
• Leoš Kalvoda (2014–15)
• Václav Jílek (2015–19)
• Radoslav Látal (2019–21)
• Václav Jílek (2021–24)
• Jiří Saňák (caretaker) (Feb 2024 – May 2024)
• Tomáš Janotka (May 2024 –present)

History in domestic competitions

1984–93 Czechoslovak First League 1993–14 Czech First League 2014–15 Czech National Football League 2015–16 Czech First League

• Seasons spent at Level 1 of the football league system: 29
• Seasons spent at Level 2 of the football league system: 2

Czech Republic

Season	League	Placed	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Cup
1993–94	1. liga	7th	30	11	13	6	33	31	+2	35^[10]	Quarter-finals
1994–95	1. liga	8th	30	12	7	11	31	31	0	43	Round of 16
1995–96	1. liga	2nd	30	19	4	7	54	33	+21	61	Round of 16
1996–97	1. liga	8th	30	10	10	10	36	30	+6	40	Semi-finals
1997–98	1. liga	3rd	30	16	7	7	38	21	+17	55	Round of 64
1998–99	1. liga	4th	30	12	11	7	42	34	+8	47	Quarter-finals
1999–00	1. liga	12th	30	7	13	10	31	38	–7	34	Semi-finals
2000–01	1. liga	3rd	30	14	10	6	47	33	+14	52	Round of 64
2001–02	1. liga	10th	30	9	10	11	29	31	–2	37	Round of 16
2002–03	1. liga	11th	30	8	10	12	29	33	–4	34	Round of 16
2003–04	1. liga	3rd	30	16	7	7	43	24	+19	55	Round of 32
2004–05	1. liga	4th	30	15	6	9	39	34	+5	51	Round of 64
2005–06	1. liga	9th	30	10	7	13	34	44	–10	37	Round of 64
2006–07	1. liga	14th	30	6	8	16	29	43	–14	26	Round of 32
2007–08	1. liga	11th	30	8	12	10	20	26	–6	36	Round of 64
2008–09	1. liga	4th	30	13	9	8	39	36	+3	48	Round of 16
2009–10	1. liga	6th	30	14	5	11	49	36	+13	47	Semi-finals
2010–11	1. liga	4th	30	14	5	11	47	29	+18	47	Runners-up
2011–12	1. liga	11th	30	11	10	9	42	38	+4	34^[11]	Winners
2012–13	1. liga	5th	30	13	8	9	38	29	+9	47	Quarter-finals
2013–14	1. liga	15th	30	7	8	15	42	60	−18	29	Round of 16
2014–15	2. liga	1st	30	19	6	5	64	25	+39	63	Round of 32
2015–16	1. liga	15th	30	6	9	15	35	49	−14	27	Quarter-finals
2016–17	2. liga	1st	30	21	6	3	59	22	+37	69	Round of 32
2017–18	1. liga	4th	30	15	10	5	41	22	+19	55	Round of 16
2018–19	1. liga	9th	32	13	4	15	40	46	–6	43	Quarter-finals
2019–20	1. liga	11th	33	9	13	11	39	40	–1	40	Semi-finals
2020–21	1. liga	9th	34	11	12	11	40	40	0	45	Quarter-finals
2021–22	1. liga	8th	34	11	11	12	45	41	+4	44	Quarter-finals
2022–23	1. liga	6th	35	12	12	11	53	47	+6	48	Round of 16
2023–24	1. liga	10th	32	10	7	15	42	51	–9	37	Round of 16

Notes

European record

Overall record

Accurate as of 23 August 2018

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

Season	Tournament	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1986–87	UEFA Cup	1R		IFK Göteborg	1–1	0–4	1–5
1991–92	UEFA Cup	1R		Bangor	3–0	3–0	6–0
		2R		Torpedo Moscow	2–0	0–0	2–0
		3R		Hamburger SV	4–1	2–1	6–2
		Quarter-final		Real Madrid	1–1	0–1	1–2
1992–93	UEFA Cup	1R		Universitatea Craiova	1–0	2–1	3–1
		2R		Fenerbahçe	7–1	0–1	7–2
		3R		Juventus	1–2	0–5	1–7
1996–97	UEFA Cup	1R		Hutnik Kraków	1–0	1–3	2–3
1998–99	UEFA Cup	Q2		Kilmarnock	2–0	2–0	4–0
		1R		Marseille	2–2	0–4	2–6
1999–00	UEFA Cup	1R		Sheriff Tiraspol	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		2R		Real Mallorca	1–3	0–0	1–3
2000–01	Intertoto Cup	1R		Araks Ararat	1–0	2–1	3–1
		2R		Velbazhd Kyustendil	8–0	0–2	8–2
		3R		Slaven Belupo	2–0	1–1	3–1
		Semi-final		Chmel Blšany	3–1	0–0	3–1
		Final		Udinese	2–2	2–4 (a.e.t.)	4–6
2001–02	UEFA Cup	1R		Celta de Vigo	4–3	0–4	4–7
2002–03	UEFA Cup	QR		FK Sarajevo	2–1	1–2	3–3
2004–05	UEFA Cup	QR		Nistru Otaci	4–0	2–1	6–1
		1R		Real Zaragoza	2–3	0–1	2–4
2005–06	Intertoto Cup	2R		Pogoń Szczecin	1–0	0–0	1–0
		3R		Borussia Dortmund	0–0	1–1	1–1 (a)
		Semi-final		Hamburger SV	0–1	0–3	0–4
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Fram	1–1	2–0	3–1
		Q3		Aberdeen	3–0	5–1	8–1
		PO		Everton	1–1	0–4	1–5
2018–19	UEFA Europa League	Q3		Kairat	2–0	2–1	4–1
		PO		Sevilla	0–1	0–3	0–4

Honours

• Czech Cup
  • Winners: 2011–12
  • Runners-up: 2010–11
• Czech Supercup
  • Winners: 2012
• 2. Liga
  • Winners: 2014–15, 2016–17

Club records

Czech First League records

• Best position: 2nd (1995–96)
• Worst position: 15th (2013–14, 2015–16)
• Biggest home win: Olomouc 6–0 Teplice (2014–15)
• Biggest away win: Liberec 0–4 Olomouc (2009–10), Plzeň 0–4 Olomouc (2011–12), Mladá Boleslav 0–4 Olomouc (2018–19), Dukla Prague 0–4 Olomouc (2018–19)
• Biggest home defeat: Olomouc 1–5 Slavia Prague (2000–01), Olomouc 0–4 Mladá Boleslav (2018–19)
• Biggest away defeat: Sparta Prague 6–0 Olomouc (1999–2000)

External links

• • SK Sigma Olomouc on Soccerway
• Club profile on official Czech First League website

Notes and References

1. Book: Jeřábek, Luboš. Český a československý fotbal – lexikon osobností a klubů. Grada Publishing. cs. 2007. Prague, Czech Republic. 978-80-247-1656-5. 141–142.
2. News: Steve. Biddle. Sparta a Real Threat. Prague Post. 10 November 1992. 12 April 2013. 3 April 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170403054533/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/11330-sparta-a-real-threat.html. live.
3. News: Frantisek. Bouc. Soccer season is marked by great play, but suspicious pay. Prague Post. 29 May 1996. 12 April 2013. 30 June 2013. https://archive.today/20130630043454/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/23571-soccer-season-is-marked-by-great-play-but-suspicious-pay.html. live.
4. News: Sam. Beckwith. Slavia, Olomouc and Teplice await UEFA Cup foes. Prague Post. 15 September 1999. 12 April 2013. 30 June 2013. https://archive.today/20130630044447/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/30754-slavia-olomouc-and-teplice-await-uefa-cup-foes.html. live.
5. News: Frantisek. Bouc. Paying the price: Clubs face fines for fans' taunts. Prague Post. 27 October 1999. 12 April 2013. 30 June 2013. https://archive.today/20130630041649/http://www.praguepost.com/archivescontent/30959-paying-the-price-clubs-face-fines-for-fans-taunts.html. live.
6. News: Jonathan. Crane. Joey. Kamide. Trouble brewing. Prague Post. 26 September 2012. 12 April 2013. 27 September 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120927230254/http://www.praguepost.com/sports/14364-trouble-brewing.html. live.
7. News: Liberec – Olomouc 1:1, remíza nestačila, Sigma po 30 letech sestoupila. cs. Liberec – Olomouc 1–1, draw wasn't enough, Sigma were relegated after 30 years. Mladá fronta DNES. 31 May 2014. 2 June 2014. 5 June 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140605062059/http://fotbal.idnes.cz/1-liga-30-kolo-liberec-olomouc-dpu-/fotbal.aspx?c=A140530_172527_fotbal_min. live.
8. Web site: Muži. SK Sigma Olomouc.
9. Web site: Detailed stats. Fortuna liga. 28 May 2023. 28 May 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230528051556/http://en.fortunaliga.cz/statistiky?unit=1&status=0&parameter=1&season=1&game_limit=0&nationality=&age=0&order=5&order_dir=2&list_number=0&club=13#stats. live.
10. Two points for a win in 1993–94.
11. 9 points deducted.