Filip Novák (footballer)

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Filip Novák
Personal information
Date of birth (1990-06-26) 26 June 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Přerov, Czechoslovakia
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Position(s) Left back
Team information
Current team
FC Midtjylland
Number 70
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009–2011 FC Tescoma Zlín 59 (9)
2011–2015 FK Baumit Jablonec 103 (14)
2015– FC Midtjylland 14 (1)
International career
2009 Czech Republic U19 4 (0)
2011 Czech Republic U20 1 (0)
2011-2012 Czech Republic U21 6 (1)
2015- Czech Republic 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 October 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 4 June 2015

Filip Novák (born 26 June 1990) is a Czech professional left-footed football player who currently plays in the Danish Superliga for FC Midtjylland.[1] He holds the Czech First League record for most goals scored in one season by a defender with 11 goals in the 2014–15 season.[2]

Club career

Filip Novák began playing football for his home team in Přerov. He had moved to FC Zlín in 2007 and then signed for FK Baumit Jablonec in 2011.[3]

FC Tescoma Zlín

He played in the Czech premier league for the first time against Příbram [4] when he was 18 years old. Then he played only one whole match before his team was relegated to the second league in the end of the season 2008-09. It was an advantage for him because there was a less strong competition so he climbed to the top players of the team gradually.

FK Baumit Jablonec

In July 2011 Novák moved to Jablonec. He scored his first goal in the Czech First League against Dukla Prague on 1 October 2012.[5] On 17 May 2013, Novák won the Czech Cup with Jablonec, after playing he whole final match and scoring in the penalty shootout.[6] He won the Czech Supercup against the league champion, FC Viktoria Plzeň with Jablonec on 12 July 2013.[7] By winning the Czech Cup in the previous season, Jablonec qualified for the UEFA Europa League where they eliminated Strømsgodset IF in the Third Qualifying Round[8] before being eliminated by Real Betis[9] in the Play-off Round.

International career

Youth national team

Novák was a part of the Czech Republic national under-21 football team which was playing in the European Under-21 Championship qualification in 2013. He scored his first under-21 goal against Wales.[10] They ran up from the group 3 as the winner but unfortunately were beaten by Russia in play-off round to the final tournament.[11]

National team

His debut for the Czech Republic national football team was on 31 March 2015 in a friendly match against Slovakia in Zilina, he played the last 10 minutes of the game.

References

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  3. Filip Novák Czech First League statistics at Fotbal DNES (Czech)
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