Slavoj Liberec
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| Full name | Football Club Slovan Liberec, A.S. |
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| Nickname(s) | Modrobílí (Blue-whites) |
| Founded | 1958 |
| Ground | Stadion u Nisy, Liberec |
| Capacity | 10,000 |
| Chairman | Zbyněk Štiller |
| Manager | Jindřich Trpišovský |
| League | Czech First League |
| 2016–17 | 9th |
| Website | Club website |
FC Slovan Liberec /ˈsloʊvən ˈlɪbərɛts/ (Czech pronunciation: [ˈslovan ˈlɪbɛrɛts]) is a Czech football club founded in the city of Liberec. The club is one of the most successful in the Czech Republic, having won three league titles and the domestic cup since 1993. The main sponsor of the club is the glass making company Preciosa a.s..
Because Liberec was a city where the majority of inhabitants were of German nationality, until 1945, it was Germans who first established clubs and played their own league. The first Czech football club, SK Liberec, was established after World War I on 11 May 1919. In 1922, the originally German club FK Rapid Ober Rosenthal became the Czech club SK Rapid Horní Růžodol. In the same year, another Liberec-based club – SK Doubí – was established, followed by AFK Stráž bezpečnosti in 1931. On 27 February 1934, SK Liberec took on the new name of Slavia Liberec so that the Czech footballers could affirm their club's Slavic character at a time when the Nazi regime in neighbouring Germany already represented a serious threat to the former Czechoslovakia as well as all of Europe.
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