Women players at a top-division Czech club have spoken out about being victims of non-contact sexual abuse after their former coach was convicted of secretly filming them in the changing room and showers over a four-year period.

Petr Vlachovsky, who in the past led the U-19 women’s national team and was once voted best women’s coach in Czechia, was arrested in September 2023 after police discovered the covert footage online. Players of 1. FC Slovacko only learned they had been secretly filmed after the arrest. Fourteen players were filmed on Vlachovsky’s miniature camera hidden in a backpack; the youngest was 17 years old. Vlachovsky was also caught in possession of child sexual abuse material.