Dukla Prague was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi-finals of the European Cup. As late as 1985–86 they reached the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup semi-final and they also made a great impact in the American Challenge Cup competition in New York City with four wins between 1961 and 1964. The club sent seven players to the silver medal-winning Czechoslovakia national team in the 1962 World Cup, in a year which saw them win the fifth of their domestic league titles as well as their player Josef Masopust be named European Footballer of the Year. Between the start of the competition in 1955 and 1991, Dukla played more matches in the European Cup than any other team in Czechoslovakia.
Jozef Adamec was a Slovak football forward and manager.
Jan Suchý was a Czech ice hockey player. He played for the Czechoslovakia men's national team at the Ice Hockey World Championships and the Winter Olympic Games, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
Štefan Čambal was a Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played for Czechoslovakia, for which he played 22 matches. He was born in Pozsony and died in Prague.
Ladislav Jurkemik is a former Slovak football player and later a football manager. He played in the Czechoslovak First League for Inter Bratislava and Dukla Banská Bystrica. Jurkemik played internationally for Czechoslovakia; he played a total of 57 matches and scored 3 goals. He managed Slovakia in 2002 and 2003.
Václav Daněk is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played 22 matches for Czechoslovakia and scored nine goals. At club level in total, Daněk scored 197 league goals in 402 games.
Josef Kadraba was a Czech football player. He played for Czechoslovakia, playing 17 matches and scoring 9 goals.
Vlastimil Bubník was a Czech ice hockey player and footballer.
Luboš Kalouda is a Czech former footballer. He retired in 2018 at age 31 because of injury.
Anton Flešár was a Slovak footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was sometimes deployed as a forward in the Czechoslovak Cup. His breakthrough came in Lokomotíva Košice where he spent most of his career. He overall made 260 appearances at the Czechoslovak First League. Flešár earned two caps for the Czechoslovakia national team debuting against Luxembourg on 9 May 1970. He was a third choice of Czechoslovak manager Jozef Marko at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Flešár died in Košice on 11 April 2024, at the age of 79.
The Czechoslovak First League 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.
Jan Berger is a Czech former football midfielder and was most recently the manager of Slavoj Vyšehrad.
Karel Kula is a Czech local politician and former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder and was a general manager of MFK Karviná and FK Fotbal Třinec. In 2023, he became the mayor of Český Těšín.
Jan Maroši is a Czech former football player. He made two international appearances for the Czechoslovakia national football team and is also known for having scored directly from a corner for Sigma Olomouc in a 1992–93 UEFA Cup match against Juventus. He made a total of 366 top flight appearances spanning the end of the Czechoslovak First League and the beginning of the Gambrinus liga, scoring 67 goals. In 2006 Maroši was ranked 15th on the list of players with most appearances in the Czech and/or Czechoslovak top flight since the Czechoslovak First League began in 1925.
Ivan Mráz was a Czechoslovak football player and manager. A forward, he competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. Scored five goals in that Olympics Football Tournament. Besides Czechoslovakia, he played in the Netherlands. Mráz later suffered from Alzheimer's disease. He died at Saint Paul's Hospital in Heredia, Costa Rica, on 18 May 2024, at the age of 82, six days before his 83rd birthday.
Martin Barbarič was a Czech football player who made 135 top flight appearances across the end of the Czechoslovak First League and start of the Czech First League for Dukla Prague, Svit Zlín, Slovan Liberec, and Hradec Králové between 1991 and 2002. He was also a U-11 coach at FC Hradec Králové.
František Plass was a football player and manager. He made 164 appearances in the Czechoslovak First League, scoring 16 goals, as well as two appearances in the European Cup Winners' Cup. He played for Czechoslovakia, representing his country 11 times between 1968 and 1972. Plass later worked as a manager, taking charge of numerous teams between 1981 and 1998. He led Dukla Prague during the 1992–93 Czechoslovak First League, but was replaced after 16 games by Jiří Fryš, with the club going on to finish the season in 14th place.
Rudolf Kučera was a Czech footballer who played as a forward. He played his club football in Czechoslovakia, mainly for Dukla Prague, with whom he became joint top scorer of the 1960–61 Czechoslovak First League with 17 goals. He won three league titles with the club, as well as the Czechoslovak Cup in 1961.
Václav Černý is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a right-winger for Scottish Premiership club Rangers, on loan from Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg, and the Czech Republic national team.
Dr. Vladimír Kostka was a Czech ice hockey coach and president of the Czechoslovak Ice Hockey Federation. Kostka was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997, and into the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame in 2008.
