League tier of Czech-eligible players in 2024/25 and 2025/26
6 moved up a tier and 11 moved down between 2024/25 and 2025/26; the top-9 leagues held 16 players, from 17.
How to read it: the left column is last season’s rung for every player in the pool, the right column this season’s; each ribbon is the players who went from one to the other, its width their number. Green ribbons climb, orange come down, teal are new to the pool, grey are no longer in a covered league. Hover a ribbon for the names.
Czech First League
163→163
266 223 → 236 747 minutes
stepping-stone league
4→0
7 553 → 0 minutes
top-9 league
17→16
25 734 → 26 921 minutes
other covered league
14→10
20 690 → 14 972 minutes
Players of the pool in each tier, 2024/25 → 2025/26, with the minutes they played there: 198 players last season, 189 this season, outfield players with at least 450 minutes, one row per player (the destinations page counts one row per position group, so a player with two positions counts twice there).
Moved up a tier 6
Pavel ŠulcCZE-First League → FRA-Ligue 1
Martin VitíkCZE-First League → ITA-Serie A
Lukáš SadílekCZE-First League → POL-Ekstraklasa
Adam KarabecGER-2. Bundesliga → FRA-Ligue 1
Ondřej ZmrzlýCZE-First League → POL-Ekstraklasa
Matej SinCZE-First League → NED-Eredivisie
Moved down a tier 11
Roman MacekSUI-Super League → CZE-First League
Michal SadílekNED-Eredivisie → CZE-First League
Pavel KadeřábekGER-Bundesliga → CZE-First League
Václav JurečkaTUR-Süper Lig → CZE-First League
David JurásekGER-Bundesliga → CZE-First League
Ondřej KarafiátGER-2. Bundesliga → CZE-First League
and 5 more
New to the pool 40
Vladimír DaridaCZE-First League
Martin ChlumeckýHUN-NB I
František ČechCZE-First League
Filip NovákCZE-First League
Robin HranáčGER-Bundesliga
Jakub BrabecPOR-Primeira Liga
and 34 more
No longer in a covered league 49
Lukáš KalvachCZE-First League
Petr SchwarzPOL-Ekstraklasa
Marek SuchýCZE-First League
Jakub PokornýCZE-First League
Michal HubínekCZE-First League
Jakub KlímaCZE-First League
and 43 more
“No longer in a covered league” means exactly that: retired, injured for the season, or playing in a league this report does not fetch. The data cannot tell those apart and this page does not guess. “New to the pool” likewise mixes debutants with players returning from leagues outside the set.
How we know
As an analytics question In numbers: every Czech-eligible player with at least 450 minutes in 2024/25 or 2025/26, placed on the pathway’s tier ladder in each season, and the move between the two.
What we did We took each player’s main league last season and this season, sorted the leagues into the four tiers the atlas uses everywhere — home league, other covered league, stepping stone (the German second tier), top nine — and counted who moved up, who moved down, who appeared and who is no longer in any league we can see.
Sources Season feature tables for both seasons; a player’s league is the one he played most minutes in; 450-minute floor in a season to count as present in it; rungs as defined in the pathways chapter.
What this means
Between the two seasons 6 players moved up a tier, 11 moved down, 40 are new to the pool and 49 are no longer in a covered league. These are counts of one season-to-season change; without earlier seasons there is no baseline for how many moves a typical year shows, so the balance of ups and downs is not a trend.
What this does not show
Why a player moved, whether a move down was a loan or an injury, and players outside the covered leagues.
Data snapshot: FBref tables fetched 14 September 2026, snapshot commit ef7dbd4 · code: src/season_changes.py · status: exploratory, not pre-registered · all limitations
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Trajectories
Trajectories 2024/25 → 2025/26 (Czech-eligible, ≥ 900 minutes in both seasons)
Season-over-season change in goals + assists per 90, league-adjusted. A move counts as up or down beyond ± 0.05; for scale, the standard deviation of this one-season change across the 92 Czech-eligible players with both seasons is 0.05. Everything inside the band is listed as stable.
Lukáš Sadílek