Petr Vlachovsky given a suspended prison sentence
He has not been banned from coaching abroad
The Czech player union has called for a lifetime football ban for a coach who avoided jail despite being convicted of secretly filming his female players in the changing rooms and showers with a hidden camera.
Petr Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, without a public hearing, and handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, after being found to have filmed 14 players at FC Slovacko over a four-year period. He was also caught in possession of child sexual abuse material.
Vlachovsky, whose youngest victim at Slovacko was 17 years old, previously coached the Czech under-19 women’s national side and could return to a coaching career in the Czech Republic as early as 2030. He is not currently barred from coaching around the rest of the world, something which the world players union wants to see changed.
