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Pavel Horváth
	Horváth in 2012
Personal information
Date of birth	22 April 1975 (age 49)
Place of birth	Prague, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	FK Baník Most-Souš (manager)
Youth career
1980–1981	TJ Břevnov
1981–1994	Sparta Prague
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993	Sparta Prague
1994–1996	Jablonec 97
1996–2000	Slavia Prague
2000–2001	Sporting CP
2001	Galatasaray
2002–2004	Teplice
2004–2006	Vissel Kobe
2006–2008	Sparta Prague
2008–2015	Viktoria Plzeň
Total
International career
1995–1997	Czech Republic U21
1999–2002	Czech Republic
Managerial career
2015	Jiskra Domažlice
2015–2017	Viktoria Plzeň (assistant)
2016–2017	Viktoria Plzeň (youth)
2017–2018	Baník Sokolov
2019–2020	Viktoria Plzeň B
2020–2021	Příbram
2021–2023	Viktoria Plzeň (assistant)
2023–2024	Jiskra Domažlice
2024–	FK Baník Most-Souš
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pavel Horváth (Czech pronunciation: [ˈpavɛl ˈɦorvaːt]; Hungarian: Horváth Pál; born 22 April 1975) is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, and a football manager. He was in charge of Příbram.

He spent the better part of his 22-year professional career with Slavia Prague (four years), Teplice (three) and Viktoria Plzeň (seven), amassing Czech First League totals of 435 games and 78 goals during 19 seasons. He also competed professionally in Portugal, Turkey and Japan.

Horvath was a Czech international for three years.

Club career

After making his professional debut with AC Sparta Prague, Prague-born Horváth moved to lowly FK Jablonec in search of more opportunities, which led to a return to the capital with SK Slavia, scoring 27 goals in the league alone in four seasons, although the club only managed to win two national cups during that timeframe.

Horváth's exploits with Slavia earned him a transfer to Sporting Clube de Portugal, but he failed to win a place in the starting XI. Sold in January 2002 to Galatasaray S.K. alongside teammate Mbo Mpenza, he also appeared very rarely, which prompted a return home before 2001–02 was over, with FK Teplice, where he conquered the domestic cup in his first full campaign.^[1]

After three years in Japan Horváth moved back to Sparta for two more seasons, where he won the national championship for the first time in 2007, adding the 2007 and 2008 Czech Cups. Subsequently, aged 33, he signed for FC Viktoria Plzeň,^[2] netting eight times during the 2008–09 season as the club finished in eighth place.

Horváth won the domestic cup for the sixth time with his fourth different team, as he captained Viktoria to its first title in the competition in 2010.^[1] He was also named the Personality of the League at the Czech Footballer of the Year awards in that year.

Thirty-five-year-old Horváth continued to produce in the 2010–11 season, scoring eight goals in 26 games as Plzeň was crowned league champion the first time in its history.

Controversy

In September 2007, Horváth was fined 200,000 Czech koruna for apparently performing the Nazi salute during Sparta's league match against FK Viktoria Žižkov. He apologized for the incident, and said that his gesture was misinterpreted, claiming he was only trying to calm down his team's rowdies.^[3]

International career

Horváth made his debut for the Czech Republic on 9 February 1999 in a 1–0 friendly win in Belgium, going on to amass 19 caps in three years and being selected for UEFA Euro 2000, where he did not play.

His international career was vastly barred by the talent of fellow midfielders Patrik Berger, Pavel Nedvěd and Vladimír Šmicer.^[4]

Coaching career

Horváth became the manager of FC Viktoria Plzeň's U21 squad in October 2016^[5] simultaneously with his assistant manager role for the first team of the club.

After one year as the manager of FK Baník Sokolov, Horváth returned to Viktoria Plzeň and was hired as the U21 manager again. This was announced on 4 January 2019.^[6]

On 11 March 2020 Horváth became manager of Czech First League club Příbram.^[7] On 15 March 2021, Horváth was sacked as the head coach of Příbram after series of poor results (39 matches, 8 wins, 5 draws, 19 losses) with team on last place of league table.^[8]

On 27 June 2023, Horváth became manager of Bohemian Football League club Jiskra Domažlice.^[9]

On 1 October 2024, Horváth became manager of Bohemian Football League club Baník Most-Souš.^[10]

Career statistics

Club

Sources:^[11]

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other^[a]		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sparta Prague	1993–94	1	0	0	0	–		–		1	0
Sparta Prague	Total	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Jablonec	1993–94	4	0	0	0	–		–		4	0
	1994–95	26	5	0	0	–		–		26	5
	1995–96	20	3	0	0	–		–		20	3
	1996–97	1	0	0	0	–		–		1	0
	Total	51	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	51	8
Slavia Prague	1996–97	25	5	0	0	4	1	–		29	6
	1997–98	25	5	0	0	4	0	–		29	5
	1998–99	29	7	1	1	3	0	–		33	8
	1999–00	26	10	0	0	9	1	–		35	11
	Total	105	27	1	1	20	2	0	0	126	30
Sporting	2000–01	16	1	2	0	4	0	3	0	25	1
	2001–02	3	0	0	0	0	0	–		3	0
	Total	19	1	2	0	4	0	3	0	28	1
Galatasaray	2001–02	3	0	–		–		–		3	0
Galatasaray	Total	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Teplice	2001–02	17	1	0	0	–		–		17	1
	2002–03	25	2	0	0	2	2	–		27	4
	2003–04	22	3	0	0	4	1	–		26	4
	Total	64	6	0	0	6	3	0	0	70	9
Vissel Kobe	2004	14	6	–		–		–		14	6
	2005	24	3	–		–		–		24	3
	2006	22	3	–		–		–		22	3
	Total	60	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	60	12
Sparta Prague	2006–07	20	2	1	1	–		–		21	3
	2007–08	28	0	4	0	7	0	–		39	0
	Total	48	2	5	1	7	0	0	0	60	3
Viktoria Plzeň	2008–09	27	8	0	0	–		–		27	8
	2009–10	28	5	1	0	–		–		29	5
	2010–11	26	8	4	2	2	0	1	0	33	10
	2011–12	29	5	1	0	13	1	0	0	43	6
	2012–13	28	4	2	0	15	5	–		45	9
	2013–14	25	4	6	0	15	3	0	0	46	7
	2014–15	7	1	3	0	2	0	1	0	13	1
	Total	170	35	17	2	47	9	2	0	236	46
Career Total		521	91	24	4	84	14	5	0	634	109