About SK Olomouc ASO

SK Olomouc ASO was a Czech football club based in Olomouc, founded in 1912 as SK Olomouc. In 1937, the club gained the sponsorship of local businessman Josef Ander, and the name was changed to SK Olomouc ASO, with “ASO” coming from his company “Ander a Syn Olomouc.” The club became one of the stronger teams in Moravia and developed into an important representative of Olomouc football in the interwar period.

The club’s greatest success came in 1939–40, when it won the first official Czech Cup (Pohár Českomoravského fotbalového svazu) during the Protectorate era. In the following years, SK Olomouc ASO also established itself in national competitions, playing in the top tiers of Czechoslovak football and achieving its best league result with a 7th place finish in the 1942–43 season. It regularly competed against strong teams such as Slavia Prague, Sparta Prague, and other leading clubs of the time.

After World War II, the club continued to compete for a few seasons but gradually declined. Following the communist takeover in 1948, its patron Josef Ander was expropriated, and the club was renamed several times before being finally dissolved in 1951. Many of its players later moved to other Olomouc clubs, contributing to the development of football in the region, including the future SK Sigma Olomouc.