Vlastimil Petržela

{{short description|Czech football coach and former player (born 1953)}}

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{{Infobox football biography

| name = Vlastimil Petržela

| image = Petržela.jpg

| image_size = 220

| fullname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1953|7|20}}

| birth_place = Prostějov, Czechoslovakia

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height =

| position = Forward

| youthyears1 = 1960–1970

| youthclubs1 = Sokol Kraslice na Hané

| years1 = 1970–1974

| years2 = 1974–1976

| years3 = 1976–1978

| years4 = 1978–1980

| years5 = 1980–1981

| years6 = 1981–1985

| clubs1 = SK Prostějov

| clubs2 = Zbrojovka Brno

| clubs3 = SK Prostějov

| clubs4 = SK Sigma Olomouc

| clubs5 = RH Cheb

| clubs6 = Slavia Prague

| caps1 =

| goals1 =

| caps2 = 13

| goals2 = 0

| caps3 =

| goals3 =

| caps4 =

| goals4 =

| caps5 = 28

| goals5 = 14

| caps6 = 75

| goals6 = 22

| nationalyears1 = 1982–1983

| nationalteam1 = Czechoslovakia

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| manageryears1 = 1986–1987

| manageryears2 = 1990–1992

| manageryears3 = 1992–1995

| manageryears4 = 1996

| manageryears5 = 1996–2002

| manageryears6 = 2002

| manageryears7 = 2002–2006

| manageryears8 = 2006–2007

| manageryears9 = 2007–2008

| manageryears10 = 2009–2010

| manageryears11 = 2010–2012

| manageryears12 = 2014–2016

| manageryears13 = 2016–2017

| manageryears14 = 2018

| managerclubs1 = Slavia Prague

| managerclubs2 = Slavia Prague

| managerclubs3 = FC Slovan Liberec

| managerclubs4 = Sparta Prague

| managerclubs5 = Bohemians Prague

| managerclubs6 = FK Mladá Boleslav

| managerclubs7 = FC Zenit

| managerclubs8 = SK Sigma Olomouc

| managerclubs9 = Neftchi Baku

| managerclubs10 = FK Viktoria Žižkov

| managerclubs11 = MFK Zemplín Michalovce

| managerclubs12 = Vlašim

| managerclubs13 = FC Baník Ostrava

| managerclubs14 = FC Fastav Zlín

}}

Vlastimil Petržela (born 20 July 1953 in Prostějov) is a Czech football coach and former player. He worked with Zenit Saint Petersburg from 2003 to 2006, winning the silver medals of Russian Premier League in 2003 and reaching the quarterfinal stage of the 2005–06 UEFA Cup. Before Zenit he managed Sparta Prague and Bohemians Prague.

As a player, he appeared for Czechoslovakia at the 1982 FIFA World Cup as a substitute against Kuwait.

Petržela signed a three-year contract as manager of FK Mladá Boleslav in 2002,{{cite web|title=Petržela má dovést Mladou Boleslav do ligy|url=http://fotbal.idnes.cz/petrzela-ma-dovest-mladou-boleslav-do-ligy-fjt-/fot_dsouteze.aspx?c=A020611_141534_fot_dsouteze_hdv|publisher=idnes.cz|access-date=20 January 2013|language=cs|date=11 June 2002}} however before the end of the calendar year it was announced that he was heading to Russia to be the new manager of Zenit St. Petersburg.{{cite web|title=Nejde mi o peníze, tvrdí Petržela|url=http://fotbal.idnes.cz/fot_zahranici.aspx?r=fot_zahranici&c=A021129_105907_fot_zahranici_hdv|publisher=idnes.cz|access-date=20 January 2013|language=cs|date=29 November 2002}}

In the 2006/2007 season he coached Sigma Olomouc. Petržela was appointed manager of Neftchi Baku in the summer of 2007, and was sacked six-months later on 5 January 2008.{{cite web|title=Demyanenko returns with Neftchi |url=http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=643444.html |publisher=UEFA |access-date=7 January 2014 |date=5 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109083630/http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/news/kind=2/newsid=643444.html |archive-date=9 January 2008 }}

In the season 2009/10 he coached FK Viktoria Žižkov in the Czech 2. Liga and in the season 2010/11 he became the new coach of MFK Zemplín Michalovce in the Slovak 2. liga.http://www.denniksport.sk/article/137167/petrzela-trenerom-mfk-zemplin-michalovce {{in lang|sk}}http://korzar.sme.sk/c/5426920/kontroverzny-petrzela-prichadza-trenovat-michalovce.html {{in lang|sk}} He joined Vlašim in January 2014.{{cite web|url=http://fotbal.idnes.cz/vlastimil-petrzela-0oy-/fot_dsouteze.aspx?c=A131225_204438_uver_ot|title=Fotbalisty Vlašimi bude v druhé lize zachraňovat trenér Petržela|language=cs|date=25 December 2013|work=idnes.cz|access-date=10 May 2014}}