Bohemians Praha 1905 in English

The Klokani will travel to Ireland for a friendly match during the September international break. In Dublin, they will face Bohemians of Dublin, for the first time in history. This will be the last international match at the famous Dalymount Park stadium, which will be closed and is awaiting modernization.

The historically first meeting between these two clubs will take place on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM local time during the international break. Tickets for Kangaroos fans are already on sale HERE. For Bohemians fans, the club has also prepared a trip offer for the match in cooperation with the travel agency Czech Sport Travel, which will transport them to the match. The price of the trip also includes a ticket to the match itself. You can take advantage of this offer HERE.

The president of the Irish club Matt Devaney said: “We are thrilled to welcome our namesakes from the Czech Republic to Dalymount Park. As long-time Bohs fans, we have always hoped that these two Bohemians clubs could meet in European cups. Unfortunately, this has not yet come true, but we feel that hosting the last international club friendly at Dalymount Park before its redevelopment is a truly fitting farewell to the stadium that we all love so much. It promises to be an extraordinary experience for both groups of fans and we are very much looking forward to welcoming the visiting supporters from Prague to Dublin.”

The idea for the match between the two teams took shape at the end of March, when podcaster and Bohemian FC collaborator Kevin Brannigan was in Prague. As part of his professional role for the podcast Second Captains, he and Ken Early filmed an interview with the iconic Antonín Panenka there before the Czech Republic-Ireland World Cup play-off match.

Brannigan describes it: “While thousands of Irish fans gathered around the then Fortuna Arena in Prague before the match, we traveled a few tram stops away to interview Antonín Panenka at the Ďolíček stadium, home to Bohemians Prague. Apart from the obvious thing – sharing the same name – there were a number of other parallels between the two clubs. Ďolíček is similar to Dalymount Park in that it is an iconic old stand surrounded by houses, with giant light poles, and both stadiums are due to be rebuilt to a more modern form. This brings with it exactly the nostalgia that Bohs fans are currently experiencing in connection with the reconstruction of Dalymount Park.”

As this particular interview was coming to an end, Panenka himself started asking if his interviewers knew about Bohemians from Dublin. Brannigan adds: “I said: ‘Yes, we should play a friendly!’ We exchanged emails and numbers and here we are today.”

“We are very happy that this match will take place. Dalymount Park is a famous Irish stadium and its resemblance to Ďolíček is more than obvious. It will certainly be an unforgettable experience for both Bohemians. I believe that at this time, when league football is interrupted by the international break, our fans will be happy to make a trip to the beautiful metropolis of Ireland. Two famous Bohemians clubs will face each other in a friendly international match, and for the first time in history. We will all welcome such a change of pace to the season – players, coaches and fans,” says Prague Bohemians director Darek Jakubowicz.

While this will be Bohemians Prague 1905's first visit to Dalymount Park, the "old lady of Dublin 7" has had visitors from the Czech Republic in the past, including three Irish international matches against the Czechoslovak national team.

Club historian from Dublin, Gerry Farrell, explains: “The connection with this part of the world runs through Bohemians’ history. The first Czech visitors to Dalymount were DSV Saaz from the town of Žatec, near the German border. They arrived in Dublin in January 1934 and were beaten 1-0 by a strong Bohs team, for whom Irish international Plev Ellis scored the decisive goal – Bohs went on to win the league title that season. Around 30 years later, another Czech visitor arrived at Dalymount, this time the famous Dukla Prague in December 1965. Dukla won the Czechoslovak First League that season and their team included the 1962 Golden Ball winner Josef Masopust. Dukla won 5-0 in front of 15,000 spectators at Dalymount. And there is more to our visitors than just a name. In Bohemians’ first ever campaign in the Cup Winners’ Cup in 1970, the club The team TJ Gottwaldov from the Czech city of Zlín was drawn. Our traveling club president Liam Rapple had a direct connection to Bohemians Prague at the time. The newspaper report at the time included a report from an unnamed Bohemians Prague official who had watched Gottwaldov's defeat to Slavia Prague a week before the first match was to be played in Dalymount. Rapple's man in Prague then singled out experienced defender Štefan Hojsík, winger Vlastimil Kučera and the formidable young striker Zdeněk Nehoda as the best players from the 1:0 league defeat. Unfortunately, this internal information was not enough and Bohs and Gottwaldov were eliminated with an aggregate score of 4-3."