Since the World Cup the national team has a new head coach, and three players of the pool have retired from it. The dated facts below come from the sources listed at the end; every number is the atlas’s own, from its snapshot, which this section does not refresh.

A new head coach

Miroslav Koubek left the post of head coach by mutual agreement on 29 June 2026.¹ Santi Denia was appointed head coach on 31 July 2026, on a two-year contract,² and presented publicly on 6 August 2026.³

Three retirements from the national team

Each of the three announced his own retirement from international football before Santi Denia was appointed; none of them was left out by a selection decision.⁴

• Patrik Schick

  Announced 25 June 2026^4,5

  top-9 league

  Leverkusen

  1 988 minutes in 2025/26

  In the 2026 FIFA World Cup squad

• Tomáš Holeš

  Announced after the World Cup⁴

  Czech First League

  Slavia Prague

  2 003 minutes in 2025/26

  In the 2026 FIFA World Cup squad

• Václav Černý

  Announced 10 July 2026⁴

  top-9 league

  Beşiktaş

  1 991 minutes in 2025/26

  Not in the 2026 FIFA World Cup squad

  He called it “a difficult and painful process”⁴.

Club, tier and minutes: the atlas pool, season 2025/26 (the league he played most minutes in), matched by name; the World Cup line is the squad list of the national-team page.

Not shown yet: the September squad set against the World Cup squad by league rung. The September list could be read only in a secondary transcription, not in the federation’s own nomination, so it is left out until it can be checked.

Sources

1. Seznam Zprávy (29 June 2026). https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/sport-fotbal-velky-zvrat-fotbaliste-jsou-bez-trenera-koubek-konci-309636, accessed 29 September 2026.
2. Wikipedia, “Santi Denia” (n.d.). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santi_Denia, accessed 29 September 2026. Secondary source; the federation’s own release was not located.
3. Radio Prague International (6 August 2026). https://espanol.radio.cz/santi-denia-es-presentado-en-sociedad-nos-encanta-la-posesion-nos-encanta-el-8894069, accessed 29 September 2026.
4. iSport.cz / ČTK (10 July 2026). https://isport.blesk.cz/clanek/fotbal-reprezentace/477554/dalsi-konec-v-reprezentaci-cerny-28-to-oznamil-v-turecku-tezke-a-bolestive-rozhodnuti.html, accessed 29 September 2026. Original (Václav Černý): “těžký a bolestivý proces”.
5. Livesport.cz (25 June 2026). https://www.livesport.cz/zpravy/fotbal-mistrovstvi-sveta-schick-se-louci-s-narodnim-tymem-cesky-fotbal-ma-podle-nej-na-vic-spousta-veci-nefunguje/GWYA312l/, accessed 29 September 2026.