František Rajtoral

**František Rajtoral** (12 March 1986 – 23 April 2017) was a Czech football player. He last played for Turkish club Gaziantepspor. He was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň. He was a member of the Czech Republic national football team. He won the Czech Cup with FC Viktoria Plzeň in 2010. Further trophies he won with the club include the Gambrinus Liga twice and the Czech Supercup.

On 29 February 2012, Rajtoral earned his first cap for the senior team of his country in the 1–1 draw with Ireland in a friendly match.

Rajtoral was described as "one of the best attacking right-wingers in the Czech Republic" by a journalist for the BBC.

Rajtoral committed suicide by hanging himself his apartment in Gaziantep, Turkey on 23 April 2017. He was 31.

## Career statistics

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Marila Příbram|2004–05|Czech First League|15|1|0|0|0|0|15|1|||
|rowspan="5"|Baník Ostrava|2005–06|rowspan="4"|Czech First League|26|0|0|0|0|0|26|0|
|2006–07|26|8|0|0|0|0|26|8|||||
|2007–08|25|3|0|0|0|0|25|3|||||
|2008–09|23|1|0|0|0|0|23|1|||||
|rowspan="6"|Viktoria Plzeň|2009–10|rowspan="5"|Czech First League|27|3|5|0|0|0|32|3|
|2010–11|27|3|5|0|2|0|34|3|||||
|2011–12|29|2|2|0|14|1|45|3|||||
|2012–13|28|3|2|0|16|3|46|6|||||
|2013–14|16|3|1|0|12|2|29|5|||||
|Hannover 96|2013–14|Bundesliga|7|0|0|0|0|0|7|0|||
|rowspan="4"|Viktoria Plzeň|2014–15|rowspan="3"|Czech First League|16|4|4|1|0|0|20|4|
|2015–16|22|1|7|0|9|0|38|1|||||
|2016–17|3|0|0|0|0|0|3|0|||||
|Gaziantepspor|2016–17|Süper Lig|12|0|7|0|0|0|19|0|||

## Honours

**Viktoria Plzeň**
- Czech Cup: 2010
- Gambrinus liga: 2010–11, 2012–13, 2014–15,  2015–16
- Czech Supercup: 2011, 2015

## Other websites

- Guardian Football
- František Rajtoral at Mackolik

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: František Rajtoral
- **image**: František Rajtoral 01.jpg
- **image size**: 230
- **birth place**: Příbram, Czechoslovakia
- **death place**: Gaziantep, Turkey
- **position**: Midfielder, Right winger  / Defender (association football), Right-back
- **youthyears1**: 1992–1994
- **youthclubs1**: Kovohutě Příbram
- **youthyears2**: 1994–2004
- **youthclubs2**: FK Marila Příbram, Marila Příbram
- **years1**: 2004–2005
- **clubs1**: FK Marila Příbram, Marila Příbram
- **caps1**: 15
- **goals1**: 1
- **years2**: 2005–2009
- **clubs2**: FC Baník Ostrava, Baník Ostrava
- **caps2**: 100
- **goals2**: 12
- **years3**: 2009–2016
- **clubs3**: FC Viktoria Plzeň, Viktoria Plzeň
- **caps3**: 168
- **goals3**: 19
- **years4**: 2014
- **clubs4**: → Hannover 96 (loan)
- **caps4**: 7
- **goals4**: 0
- **years5**: 2016–2017
- **clubs5**: Gaziantepspor
- **caps5**: 12
- **goals5**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2004
- **nationalteam1**: Czech Republic national under-18 football team, Czech Republic U-18
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2004–2005
- **nationalteam2**: Czech Republic national under-19 football team, Czech Republic U-19
- **nationalcaps2**: 10
- **nationalgoals2**: 1
- **nationalyears3**: 2006–2008
- **nationalteam3**: Czech Republic national under-21 football team, Czech Republic U-21
- **nationalcaps3**: 15
- **nationalgoals3**: 1
- **nationalyears4**: 2012–2014
- **nationalteam4**: Czech Republic national football team, Czech Republic
- **nationalcaps4**: 14
- **nationalgoals4**: 0
- **pcupdate**: 23 April 2017
- **ntupdate**: 23 April 2017