Josef Bican
Josef Bican was an Austrian-Czech footballer (25 September 1913 – 12 December 2001). Bican played as a striker for Slavia Prague and Vítkovice. Bican scored 812 goals in 527 games for club and country and won 19 trophies, including 11 league titles.
Bican's career stats
| Games | Goals | |
|---|---|---|
| Clubs, all competitions | 492 | 780 |
| Austria | 35 | 32 |
| Total | 527 | 812 |
Goals per game: 1.54.
Bican's trophies and awards
- Trophies with club and country: 19
- League titles: 11
- Domestic cups: 6
- Other international club trophies: 1
- Trophies with Austria: 1
- Individual awards: 22
Rapid Wien
- Austrian Championship: 1 (1934–35)
Admira Wien
- Austrian Championship: 2 (1935–36, 1936–37)
Slavia Prague
- Czechoslovak First League: 6 (1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1946–47, 1948)
- Czechoslovak Cup: 2 (1940–41, 1941–42)
- Central Bohemian Cup: 3 (1940–41, 1943, 1944)
- Liberty Cup: 1 (1945)
- Mitropa Cup: 1 (1938)
Sokol Vítkovice Železárny
- Czechoslovak Second League: 1 (1949)
Hradec Králové
- Czechoslovak Second League: 1 (1952)
Czechoslovakia
- Eduard Benes Cup: 1 (1938)
Individual
- Austrian championship top scorer: 1 (1933–34)
- Czechoslovak First League top scorer: 11 (1937–38, 1938–39, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1948, 1950)
- Czechoslovak Second League top scorer: 2 (1949, 1952)
- Top scorer in European leagues: 5 (1939–40, 1940–41, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44)
- IFFHS World's Best Goalscorer of the 20th Century: 1 (1997)
- IFFHS Medal of Honour: 1 (1998)
- Czech Football Association Hall of Fame: 1 (2013)
Clubs
League games and goals at each club.
- 1931: Farbenlutz, 2 games, 2 goals
- 1931: Rapid Amateur, 0 games, 0 goals
- 1931–1935: Rapid Vienna, 49 games, 54 goals
- 1935–1937: Admira Vienna, 26 games, 18 goals
- 1937–1948: Slavia Prague, 219 games, 416 goals
- 1948–1951: Vítkovice, 58 games, 74 goals
- 1951–1952: Hradec Králové, 26 games, 53 goals
- 1952–1955: Dynamo Prague, 32 games, 22 goals
- 1957: Slovan Liberec, 1 game, 0 goals
- 1957: Spartak Brno ZJŠ, 4 games, 2 goals