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Czech football manager

Bohumil Páník
Personal information
Date of birth	(1956-12-31) 31 December 1956 (age 67)
Place of birth	Přílepy, Czechoslovakia
Team information
Current team	TJ Slovan Bzenec (manager)
Managerial career
Years	Team
2000–2001	Tescoma Zlín
2002	Sigma Olomouc
2003	Lech Poznań
2003–2004	Miedź Legnica
2004–2006	Pogoń Szczecin
2014	Hanácká Slavia Kroměříž
2014–2018	Fastav Zlín
2018–2019	Baník Ostrava
2020–2021	Fastav Zlín
2021–2022	MFK Karviná
2022	MFK Dubnica
2024–	TJ Slovan Bzenec

Bohumil Páník (born 31 December 1956) is a Czech professional football manager who is currently in charge of TJ Slovan Bzenec.

Páník graduated from pedagogy at Palacký University in Olomouc. As a football player, he played for several lower tier clubs. He began coaching in 2000 taking over FC Tescoma Zlín, at that time in Czech Second League. Three years later, he moved to Poland, where he coached Lech Poznań and Pogoń Szczecin in Ekstraklasa and Miedź Legnica in the third-tier.

In winter of 2014 he was appointed again as a manager of FC Fastav Zlín, replacing Martin Pulpit. In his first season in Zlín, he achieved promotion to Czech First League. In the 2016/2017 season, Páník advanced with Zlín to the final of the Czech Football Cup, where Zlín beat SFC Opava, thus qualifying for the group stage of UEFA Europa League. For the first time in 47 years, FC Zlín qualified for European competitions. In February of the 2017/2018 season he was sacked from Zlín after unsatisfactory league results. In March 2018 he was hired by Baník Ostrava, replacing unsuccessful coach Radim Kučera. Managing Baník in the last ten matches of the 2017–18 season, he was able to avoid relegation.