fotbalové

Fotbalové is a Czech adjective form derived from fotbal, meaning football or soccer. It is used to describe nouns related to the sport and appears in everyday language, journalism, and organizational names. Common phrases include fotbalové hřiště (a football field), fotbalové kluby (football clubs), fotbalové ligy (football leagues), fotbalové zápasy (football matches), and fotbalové přenosy (football broadcasts). The form signals that the noun it modifies is associated with football.

In Czech, adjectives inflect to agree with the gender, number, and case of the noun they describe. Fotbalové is one of the attributive forms used in neutral singular contexts and in many plural contexts, and it can appear in various grammatical cases depending on the sentence. Its usage is parallel to other sport-related adjectives like tenisové (tennis) or hokejové (hockey), which attach to corresponding nouns to form compound expressions.

Outside ordinary language, fotbalové appears in the names of organizations and events, or as a descriptor within media coverage to specify football-related content. In Slovak, the equivalent form is futbalové, reflecting a close cross-linguistic relationship within the West Slavic language group. The term is primarily functional, serving to categorize and identify football-related objects, activities, and institutions within Czech-language discourse.