Petr Rada (born 21 August 1958) is a Czech football coach and former player. He represented Czechoslovakia internationally in the 1980s and managed the Czech Republic national football team between 2008 and 2009. He is well known for his arguments with fans or trainer colleagues and also for impulsive style of coaching.
Before being named national team manager in July 2008, Rada worked as an assistant for then national team coach Karel Brückner from 2006 to 2008, and also as an assistant to Jozef Chovanec from 1998 to 2001 when Chovanec was manager of the Czech national team. Rada has also been head manager of eight various Czech clubs: FK Teplice (on four separate occasions), FC Viktoria Plzeň, FK Jablonec (twice), FC Slovan Liberec, SK Slavia Prague, FC Vysočina Jihlava, Příbram Sparta Prague and Dukla Prague.
Playing career In his playing days, Rada was a defender, who starred for Dukla Prague for nine years, from 1979 to 1988. He won the Czechoslovak First League with them in 1979 and 1982. Rada also made eleven appearances for his national team, Czechoslovakia.
Management career Rada joined Jablonec as manager in October 2003 and led the team to the final of the 2006–07 Czech Cup, where they lost against Sparta Prague. After nearly four years at the club, Rada decided to leave the club in 2007.
On 8 April 2009, he was sacked as coach of the Czech Republic national team after the team won just two of their six qualification matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
He returned to coaching on 26 October 2010 as the new coach of FC Slovan Liberec. In June 2011, it was announced he was returning to coach FK Teplice for his third spell.
Rada became manager of Slavia Prague in 2012. He left Slavia in April 2013 with the club in eighth place in the league, with five matches of the season remaining. Rada led Dukla Prague from 2022 to 2025. In that time he celebrated promotion to the Czech First League by winning the 2023–24 Czech National Football League, and survival in the relegation playoffs at the end of the 2024–25 Czech First League. He received a red card in his final match.
Controversy On 21 March 2024, Rada was banned by Disciplinary commission FAČR for eight months and fined 80,000 Czech crowns for shouting racist insult to Zbrojovka Brno manager Tomáš Polách in a second league 3–3 home draw. Rada stated that he shouted only "ty zoufalej cikáne" ("you desperate gypsy"), will appeal along with Dukla Prague and rejected the racist undertones of his words. On 22 April 2024, Appeals Committee upheld the previous verdict, but reduced ban to three months.
Personal life Rada is the father of goalkeeper Filip Rada.
Career statistics International + Appearances and goals by national team and yearNational teamYearAppsGoalsCzechoslovakia198210198332198430198510198630Total112
Scores and results list Czechoslovakia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Rada goal.
+ List of international goals scored by Petr RadaNo.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition1Stadion Evžena Rošického, Prague, Czechoslovakia1–02–0UEFA Euro 1984 qualification22–0
Managerial
TeamFromToRecord Jablonec 21 October 2003 1 June 2007 Teplice 1 June 2007 17 July 2008 Czech Republic 17 July 2008 8 April 2009 Liberec 26 October 2010 1 July 2011 Teplice 1 July 2011 1 June 2012 Slavia Prague 1 June 2012 30 April 2013 Jihlava 26 November 2013 30 September 2014 Teplice 17 February 2015 30 May 2015 Příbram 22 August 2016 7 January 2017 Sparta 13 March 2017 28 May 2017 Jablonec 13 December 2017 Career totals
Honours
Player FK Dukla Prague Czechoslovak First League winner: 1981-1982 Czechoslovak First League 2nd Place: 1980-1981, 1983-1984, 1987-1988 Czechoslovak First League 3rd Place: 1985-1986 Czechoslovak Cup winner: 1980-1981, 1982-1983, 1984-1985
Fortuna Düsseldorf 2. Bundesliga winner: 1988-1989 2. Bundesliga 3rd place: 1994-1995 Oberliga Nordrhein winner: 1993-1994
FK Chmel Blšany Bohemian Football League winner: 1992-1993
Assistant Coach Slavia Prague Czech First League 2nd place: 1999-2000 Czech First League 3rd place: 1998-1999 Czech Cup winner: 1998-1999
Managerial Slavia Prague Czech First League 2nd place: 1997-1998
FK Jablonec Czech First League 3rd place: 2017-2018, 2020-2021 Czech Cup runner-up: 2006-2007, 2017–18
Sparta Prague Czech First League 3rd place: 2016-2017
FK Dukla Prague Czech Second League winner: 2023-2024
Individual Czech Coach of the Year: 3d place 2018, 2019, 2020.
Czech First league Manager of the month: March 2014, March 2018, May 2018, December 2020, April 2021.
Czech Second league Manager of the month: April 2023, August 2023.
Records Most matches as a manager in the Czech First League: 476 matches.
Most clubs coached as a manager in the Czech First league: 8 Teams (shared with Jiří Kotrba, Jaroslav Šilhavý, Petr Uličný and Milan Bokša.
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