FK Union Cheb is a Czech

Czech Republic

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 football

Football (soccer)

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 club, playing in the town of Cheb

Cheb

Cheb is a city in the Karlovy Vary Region of the Czech Republic, with about 33,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the river Ohře , at the foot of one of the spurs of the Smrčiny and near the border with Germany...

. The club was founded in 1951 and refounded in 2001 after a bankruptcy in 1996. The club played for 13 years in the Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League

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...

. It currently plays in the Karlovarský kraj (Carlsbad Region) championship, which is in the fifth tier of Czech football.

The club also had one appearance in Europe playing the Mitropa Cup

Mitropa Cup

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 in 1980.

Club's name

• 1951 : VSJ Sokolovo Cheb
• 1952 : DSO Rudá Hvězda Cheb
• 1966 : VTJ Dukla Hraničář Cheb
• 1972 : TJ Rudá Hvězda Cheb (RH Cheb)
• 1990 : SKP Union Cheb
• 1994 : FC Union Cheb

Famous players

Czechoslovak and Czech international players

• Jozef Chovanec
  Jozef Chovanec
  Jozef Chovanec is a former Czechoslovak football player and later a football manager.- Playing career :...
  
  , 1979 - 1981, 52 caps, 4 goals
• Vladimír Hruška
  Vladimír Hruška
  Vladimír Hruška is a retired Czech football player.Hruška played for Bohemians Prague for most of his career. He also had spells with RH Cheb, AS Angoulême and Chmel Blšany....
  
  , 1979 - 1981, 3 caps, 1 goal
• Zdeněk Koubek, 1979 - 1983, 5 caps
• Pavel Kuka
  Pavel Kuka
  Pavel Kuka is a former Czech football forward.Kuka started and finished his career at Slavia Praha, playing with the club from 1989–93 and then from 2000–05. He has also played for 1. FC Kaiserslautern , 1. FC Nuremberg , and VfB Stuttgart...
  
  , 1987 - 1989, 89 caps
• Lubomír Pokluda
  Lubomír Pokluda
  Lubomír Pokluda is a Czech former footballer.-References:* * * *...
  
   1979 - 1984, 4 caps, 1980
  Football at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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   olympic gold medalist
• Petr Samec
  Petr Samec
  Petr Samec is a former Czech football player who played for several Czech clubs.Samec was a prolific striker and with nine goals was the best goalscorer of the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.-References:...
  
  , 1992 - 1995, 9 Caps, 2 goals
• Horst Siegl
  Horst Siegl
  Horst Siegl is a Czech former football striker. He played for Czechoslovakia and later Czech Republic, for both he played total 23 matches and scored 7 goals...
  
  , 1989 - 1990, 23 caps, 7 goals