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Czech football coach who secretly filmed female players handed lifetime ban

  • Petr Vlachovsky was first convicted in May 2025

  • Five-year domestic coaching ban was seen as too lenient

Uefa has handed a lifetime ban from all football-related activity to Petr Vlachovsky, the Czech coach who used a hidden camera to secretly film his female players in their changing rooms.

Vlachovsky was convicted in May 2025, having been found to have filmed 14 players at FC Slovacko over a four-year period. He was convicted without a public hearing and handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and a five-year domestic coaching ban, which prompted calls from the Czech players’ union for his punishment to be broadened.

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May 19, 2026 Football Sport

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