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Homegrown Talent

Tomáš Rosický

Sparta's most famous graduate, who passed through all of the club's youth selections. At the age of 18, he made his first appearance for the A-team, from where he transferred after 2 seasons to Borussia Dortmund, where he spent 5 years. In 2006, he made another move, when he chose the path leading to the English Premier League, spending 10 years wearing the shirt of Arsenal F.C. He returned to Sparta in the summer of 2016, where he ended his professional career in December 2017. He played 105 games for the Czech national team.

Tomáš Hübschman

FA footballer who started playing football in Sparta at the age of 5. Having passed through all the youth selections, he signed his first professional contract at 17. After a year on loan in Jablonec, he returned to Sparta with the experience of men’s football. He spent two seasons here, in which he won the Czech title, the league cup and also played Champions League matches. This was followed by a transfer to the Ukrainian club Shakhtar Donetsk, where he spent 10 years and won 8 league titles, 4 Ukrainian Cups and the UEFA Cup in 2009.

Petra Vyštejnová

She has worn the Sparta kit since 2003, i.e. for more than two decades. She takes the position of a fullback and is one of the key pillars of the Spartan lineup, despite her small stature she is able to hold off opponents who are a head taller than her. When it comes to national team starts, she is among the TOP 5 Czech women's footballers. She successfully returned to football after the birth of her son.

Ladislav Krejčí

A football player from the famous class of 1992 from our Academy. He made his first appearance in Sparta's A-team at the age of 17 and played in more than 130 matches, scoring over 25 goals. He also spent several seasons with Sparta in the Europa League, including the quarter-final of the competition against CF Villarreal in 2016. After that, he transferred to Italy's FC Bologna in the summer. Among the biggest successes so far is the silver medal from the under-19 World Cup. In 2020, he returned to Sparta.

Pavel Kadeřábek

A pupil of Sparta’s Academy and the grandson of a club legend, Václav Vrána. He is also from the 1992 generation of players and, like Jakub Brabec, his first experience with men’s football came at Viktoria Žižkov. After six months at Žižkov, he returned to Sparta, where he gradually got on the field more and more. In the 2013/2014 season, he moved from the position of a right midfielder into defence, where he was one of the key building blocks of the lineup. He played a significant part in winning the Double. In the summer of 2015, he transferred to Bundesliga's TSG Hoffenheim.

Eliška Sonntagová

She has been a Sparta player since 2014, since she was twelve years old. She came up through the youth categories and into the A-team, where she made her debut in a competitive match as a seventeen-year-old. She was also a member of the Czech youth national team (a participant in the European Championship WU17 in 2017). In 2019 she received the Talent of the Year award. She is currently one of the leading female football players in the league, and is regularly called up to the senior national team. She can start in defence or in midfield.

Patrik Schick

T A technical striker with an instinct to score goals. A Sparta native. He played his first minutes in the A-team in the 2013/2014 season and is also the owner of a Czech Cup medal from the same season. In the following season, he only started in the junior teams and was then sent on a year long loan to Bohemians 1905. There he became a player of the starting lineup and scored 8 league goals. Along with his performances in the Czech under-21 national team, he earned himself a transfer to the Italian side Sampdoria Genoa, where as a substitute player he managed to score 11 goals, which earned him a transfer to AS Rome in the summer of 2017. AS was followed by a loan spell at Red Bull Leipzig and a transfer to Bayer Leverkusen in 2020.

David Bičík

First started looking into the A-team at the age of 18. He made his debut in a derby, where he had to come on as a substitute in goal for the suspended Petr Kouba, picking up a clean sheet. In the same season, in the final of the ČMFS cup, he replaced the carded-out Jaromír Blažek and helped to win the trophy. After several loan spells, he left for Slovan Bratislava. After two seasons, he returned to the Czech Republic, this time to Slovan Liberec, where he celebrated the championship title. He also tried two engagements in Turkey. In 2014, he returned to Sparta.

Klára Cvrčková

She started her football career at Zličín, but she has been playing for Sparta since she was twelve. Already at the age of fifteen, she became the best scorer in the 2016/2017 season in the WU18 junior league, with an average of more than one goal per match. She played with the under-17 national team at the European Championship in 2017. In February 2018, she made her first start in the women's A-team as a sixteen-year-old. She has good technical skills and can play both in attack and in midfield.

Adam Hložek

The Spartan protégé Adam Hložek debuted in the league on November 10, 2018 as the youngest player in Spartan history. He was 16 years, 3 months and 16 days old. He even scored his first competitive goal a month earlier in the cup against Polná. And Hložek continued to break records in the ACS kit. On March 9, 2019, he became the youngest goalscorer in the league, as of April 25, 2021, he is also the youngest scorer of a league hat-trick. After four successful seasons in Sparta's A-team, Adam transferred to Germany's Bayer Leverkusen.

Aneta Pochmanová

Born in Prague, she has been a Sparta player since she was thirteen years old. Through all the youth categories she successfully reached the A-team, where she made her debut in February 2018 as a 16-year-old. She was active in the Czech youth selections, and she competed in the U17 European Championship, since 2020 she has been a part of the Czech women's national team.

Lucie Martínková

A record holder in the number of starts for the Czech national team (125) and a three-time winner of the Czech Footballer of the Year (2012, 2013, 2014). Her Spartan history began in 2001, when she joined the club at the age of fourteen, together with her sister Irena. In the domestic competition, this assertive striker has never worn anything other than a Spartan kit and is considered to be a club legend.