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Martin Fillo

Czech Supercup winner, soccer player and soccer representant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ1903783
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Martin Fillo (born 7 February 1986) is a Czech professional footballer who plays as a right winger.

Fillo is a former Czech Republic international and has played domestic football in the Czech Republic, Norway, England and Germany. He played Czech top-flight football for Viktoria Plzeň, Mladá Boleslav, Příbram, Teplice, Baník Ostrava and Zlín.

Playing career

Viktoria Plzeň

After beginning his youth career with TJ Košutka Plzeň and SK Plzeň 1894, Fillo joined the youth system at Viktoria Plzeň in 1996. He began his senior career with 2. Liga club and helped it to promotion to the First League during the 2004–05 season. In his first full season in the top flight, he made 29 appearances and scored five goals, as Plzeň narrowly avoided relegation. He played 15 matches and scored five goals during the 2007–08 season, before making his last appearance for the club in December 2007.

Viking

In 2008, Fillo signed a five-year contract with Norwegian Tippeligaen club Viking, for a club record fee which amounted to more than 15.7 million kr. He made his debut for Viking on match day one of the 2008 season, assisting the winning goal and being voted man of the match in a 1–0 victory over Strømsgodset IF. He scored his first goal for Viking in a 1–0 victory over Tromsø IL on match day four.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Martin Fillo” as czech Supercup winner, soccer player and soccer representant. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1894, 1996, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-02-07. The account is most persuasive where Martin, Fillo and Czech can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1903783. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1894, 1996 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Martin Fillo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.