A historic Czech football club enters the ‘Macron’s family’. Starting next season, Macron the Hero It will be present on the jerseys of the’FC Baník Ostrava, The team, which plays in the Chance Liga, the top football league in the Czech Republic. The club represents Ostrava, a city in the Silesia region and the third largest city after Prague and Brno, and will be the second team to wear Macron jerseys in the top division of the Czech league, alongside Viktoria Plzen.

Baník Ostrava was founded on September 8, 1922 by a group of young enthusiasts who gathered in a tavern in the city; the list of names and signatures is still preserved. In the 1970s came the first national and international successes. The club’s record includes 3 Czechoslovak Championships, 1 Czechoslovak Championship, 3 Czechoslovak Cups, 1 Czech Republic Cup, 1 Mitropa Cup and 1 Mitropa Supercup (trophy won only once, in 1989, when the Czechs defeated Pisa). Numerous and with excellent performances were also the participations in European competitions: the Champions Cup and then the Champions League, the Cup Winners’ Cup (where she reached the semi-finals), UEFA Cup and then Europa League. The excellent fourth place achieved in the last championship allows Baník Ostrava to participate, in the next season, in the preliminaries of the UEFA Conference League.

There are many players who have worn the Czech club's jersey. Among them, the most famous is undoubtedly Milan Baroš, an attacker considered one of the best in the history of his country. With the Baník Ostrava jersey, he shone before moving to Liverpool in 2001 and winning a Champions League, then returning on three more occasions to wear the club's jersey between 2013 and 2020. Another name well known in Italian football is that of Marek Jankulovski, who grew up at Baník Ostrava, first in the youth team and then in the first team, before moving to Serie A where he played for Napoli, Udinese and Milan.

“For us, it is a great emotion to start a journey together with one of the most important clubs in the history of Czech football. – he commented Gianluca Pavanello, CEO of Macron – An important past full of successes and a future in which to build together new exciting chapters. We are happy to be able to provide Baník Ostrava with the best technical personnel. We will work together with great enthusiasm to create exclusive game kits and a clothing line that we know will represent the symbols, history and identity of the club and can be proudly worn by the players on the field and the fans in the stands.”.

“The partnership with a renowned sports brand like Macron is proof of our commitment to continuous improvement and opens up new opportunities and solutions in both the field of technical-sports apparel and in merchandising. We look forward to starting this new collaboration and believe in a future of mutual success. Italian design and fashion have a great reputation worldwide, and we are pleased that Baník can be one of its representatives from now on.””, he declared Michal Bělák, CEO of FC Baník Ostrava.