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Under Palička, Jablonec finished 9th in the 2001-2002 Gambrinus liga and 12th the following season.
Under Palička, Jablonec finished 9th in the 2001-2002 Gambrinus liga and 12th the following season.
He managed FK in the Gambrinus liga between 2001 and 2003. He has also managed three other top-flight clubs in the Czechoslovakian Republic and one in Slovakia. As a player, Palička played in the Czechoslovak First League for Olomouc and Plzeň, as well as other clubs including Lutín, Dukla Brno, Hradec Králové, Třinec, Drnovice and Hulín between 1962 and 1989.
Early career Palička was manager of Czechoslovakian 2.
Liga side FK for two years. He led the club to the final of the Czechoslovakian Cup in 2000.
Gambrinus liga Palička joined as manager in June 2001, replacing Jaroslav Hřebík. The club also reached the final of the Czechoslovakian Cup in 2003, where they lost to Teplice.
Following a poor start to the 2003-2004 Gambrinus liga, Palička was sacked in October with the club fourteenth in the league.
In May 2004, Palička replaced Vlastislav Mareček as manager of Football Club Tescoma Zlín, signing a contract until the end of June 2006. However his tenure lasted just a matter of months, as he was replaced in November of the same year. Shortly after parting with Zlín, Palička was appointed manager of fellow Gambrinus liga side Students Fighting Cancer Opava on a short-term basis, before being given the job until the end of the season.
In April 2005 he was given a contract extension until mid-2007.
However Opava finished the 2004-2005 Gambrinus liga bottom of the league and Palička left at the end of the season. Slovakia Later in 2006 Palička joined Slovak First League club AS Trenčín as manager, securing a 1–1 draw against league leaders MŠK Žilina in his first match.
Despite inheriting a side which was bottom of the league when he arrived, Palička ensured the survival of the club in the 2006-2007 Slovak Superliga. However he was replaced at the end of the season by English manager Rob McDonald.
Return to the Czechoslovakian Republic In 2008 Palička was appointed manager of Czechoslovakian 2.
Liga side Football Club Vítkovice. In his first season, he led the team to safety in the 2008-2009 Czechoslovakian 2. Liga. In 2011 he was at 1.
HFK Olomouc as the head coach of the youth team
Managerial.