Vladimir Coufal
Defence, Czech Republic
Club football at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
33
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Czech Republic
club
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
football-data.org
club tier
1700
ClubElo strength
our board
#702
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
2761′
31 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
2.50
81th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Czech Republic · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- TSG 1899 Hoffenheimfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1735 ±45
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1683 full roster Elo (−53 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
at or near his peak, no projected upside from age
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Czech Republic's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1729
- age curve at 33 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -10
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +16
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1735
- form: national-team results, 31 appearances2761 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- -53
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1683
Where the +16 skill term comes from
Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.
- measured
- 2.50 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 81th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(80.5th) = 46 × 0.86 × 0.4 (position weight) = +16
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-12. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#702 of 1424 rated players on our board.
vs his seed
The folded nights have cost him 53 points off his seed, kept on the record, like everything.
workload
He barely leaves the pitch: 89′ a night across 31 folded appearances.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€1.5m–€6m ≈ €3m
Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.
The workingopenclose
- reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
- €8m
- club tier 1700the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×1.95
- ageage 33, past the fee-peak, value falls ~18% a year
- ×0.30
- defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.58
- individual skillmeasured 60th percentile of peers
- ×1.08
- our estimate
- ≈ €3m
fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.
The fee record · sourced
The market’s last public word: €5m (2020-10). Our estimate today: ≈ €3m. The gap is evidence, many of them, together, recalibrate our model; no single one rewrites him.
our read: richly priced , we rate him 39% below his last market price (a gem signal, context only)
- 2025-08-05West Ham → 1899 Hoffenheimfree
- 2020-10-02Slavia Praha → West Ham€5m
- 2018-07-01Slovan Liberec → Slavia Praha€0.7m
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Czech Republic’s record
- v Mexico0–3Called it
- v South Africa1–1Missed it
- at South Korea2–1Called it
The newsroom’s calls on Czech Republic. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Adam Hložek
- Alexandr Sojka
- David Douděra
- David Jurásek
- David Zima
- Denis Višinský
- Hugo Sochůrek
- Jan Kuchta
- Jaroslav Zelený
- Jindřich Staněk
- Ladislav Krejčí
- Lukáš Červ
- Lukáš Horníček
- Lukáš Provod
- Matej Kovar
- Michal Sadílek
- Mojmír Chytil
- Patrik Schick
- Pavel Šulc
- Robin Hranac
- Štěpán Chaloupek
- Tomáš Chorý
- Tomáš Holeš
- Tomáš Souček
- Vladimír Darida