Zdenko Frťala

Zdenko Frťala (born 3 August 1970) is a Slovak football manager and former player.

As a player, Frťala played in the Czechoslovak First League for Trnava and in the Czech First League for Teplice. He made a total of 192 top-flight appearances and scored 6 goals.

Management career

After working mainly in assistant roles at clubs such as Blšany, Sparta Prague, Ružomberok and Teplice, Frťala was appointed manager of Czech 2. Liga side FK Varnsdorf in October 2011, replacing Aleš Křeček. Despite failing to win in his first six games, Varnsdorf celebrated their first win under Frťala against Třinec in the last match before the winter break of the 2011–12 Czech 2. Liga.

Honours

Player

Spartak Trnava

Czechoslovak Cup runner-up: 1990–91

FK Teplice

Czech First League runner-up: 1998–99

Manager

FK Varnsdorf

Czech National Football League runner-up: 2014–15

FK Jablonec

Czech Cup runner-up: 2015–16

FC Hradec Králové

Czech National Football League: 2020–21

References

External links

Manager profile at iDNES.cz

Profile at Sparta Prague website

1970 births

Living people

Footballers from Nitra

Czechoslovak men's footballers

Slovak men's footballers

FC Spartak Trnava players

Czech First League players

FK Teplice players

Slovak football managers

FK Čáslav managers

FK Varnsdorf managers

FK Železiarne Podbrezová managers

Slovak First Football League managers

FK Jablonec managers

FC Hradec Králové managers

Slovak expatriate football managers

Expatriate football managers in the Czech Republic

Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic

Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic

Slovak expatriate men's footballers

Men's association football defenders

ŠK Slovan Bratislava players

Czech National Football League managers

FK Teplice managers