FC ZlÃÂn is a professional football club from ZlÃÂn, Czech Republic. The club has spent a number of seasons in the top league of the country, both the Czechoslovak First League and later the Czech First League. The club plays in the Czech National Football League in the 2024âÂÂ25 season, and three rounds before the end of the league, the team secured first place and promotion back to the Czech First League.
The club was founded in 1919 and played at the top level of football between 1938 and 1947, before being disqualified from the league due to manipulation of results. The club then played in the top flight sporadically, just four more seasons before the establishment of a separate Czech league in 1993. The club went on to spend a three-year spell in the Czech First League before returning to the second division in 1996. After regaining promotion to the First Division in 2002, the team recorded a number of steady performances in the league, recording a 7th-place finish twice, in 2003 and 2004, and later finishing 8th in the 2007âÂÂ08 season.
At the start of the 2008âÂÂ09 season the team struggled, scoring just 9 points from their opening 16 matches. The club were battling relegation as the season came to a close despite a late run of good form in which they enjoyed an unbeaten run of six matches, including five wins. They needed a win in their last match of the season against Baumit Jablonec to avoid relegation, but conceded after just two minutes, trailing 5âÂÂ1 at half-time and finally losing by a 6âÂÂ1 scoreline, their biggest league defeat in 62 years, and dropped out of the Czech First League after seven years in the top flight. The club started the 2010âÂÂ11 Czech 2. Liga with a sequence of four straight wins, and began the following season with a sequence of six matches undefeated before losing to MFK Karviná in 2011âÂÂ12 Czech 2. Liga, although they did not manage to sustain their form on either occasion, finishing 11th and 10th respectively. The club marked the start of the 2012âÂÂ13 Czech 2. Liga by changing their name, manager and captain, bringing in Aleà ¡ Kà ÂeÃÂek to manage the team, installing TomÃ¡à ¡ Polách as club captain and signing a five-year deal with firm Fastav, replacing the former sponsorship deal with Tescoma to take the new name FC Fastav ZlÃÂn. In May 2017, ZlÃÂn won the Czech Cup and subsequently qualified for the group stage of the 2017âÂÂ18 UEFA Europa League. The club marked the start of the 2022âÂÂ23 Czech First League by changing their name, signing a three-year deal with firm TRINITY BANK, replacing the former sponsorship deal with Fastav to take the new name FC Trinity ZlÃÂn. After only one season, main sponsor left and since 1 July 2023 club take the new name FC ZlÃÂn.
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As of 2024âÂÂ25, the club's reserve team FC ZlÃÂn B plays in the Moravian-Silesian Football League (3rd tier of Czech football system).
. Highlighted players are in the current squad.