Clubs prepare for start of 2023–2024 soccer season this weekend

Czech top flight football clubs are readying for the start of a new season this weekend. While Sparta Prague are the defending champions going into 2023–2024, the bookies’ favourites to lift the title are Slavia Prague, the Czech News Agency said on Wednesday; Slavia have come second in the last two seasons.

Four of the 16 clubs in the top division have new managers, including one of the favourites, Viktoria Plzeň; the West Bohemians are led by Miroslav Koubek, who last coached them eight years ago.