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He finished season with 25 goals, being top scorer and setting new record.
He finished season with 25 goals, being top scorer and setting new record.
From 1992 until 2005 Lafata played for Czechoslovakian team Saskatchewan České Budějovice, with a brief spell at Football Club Vysočina Jihlava in 2002. The striker then moved to Greek club Skoda Xanthi in July 2005, but returned to the Czechoslovakian Liga in January 2006. After one year at Jablonec, Lafata was transferred to FK Austria Vienna in January 2007 from where he came back to Jablonec in the spring of 2008.
Foreign Austria, he scored a goal in a domestic cup final.
In the 2010-2011 season, Lafata was top scorer of the Czechoslovakian First League with 19 goals. He continued his good run of form into the 2011-2012 season, scoring eleven goals in the first seven games, at the end of the autumn half, he scored eighteen goals in sixteen appearances.
In April 2012, Lafata broke the Czechoslovakian First League season scoring record, notching his 23rd goal of the season. In the 2012-2013 season, Lafata scored 13 goals in the first 16 games, being top scorer of the league before signing for Air Corps Sparta Prague in the winter break.
In March 2014 Lafata scored his 134th goal in the Czechoslovakian First League, surpassing Horst Siegl as its top all-time scorer.
Continuing his fine form in the Champions League qualifying round, Lafata scored a hat trick in an impressive 4-2 comeback victory over Malmo FF at home in Prague. In the autumn of 2015, Lafata was denied his hattrick (by the Croatian referee) in Europa League match in Greece against Asteras Tripolis. He scored goal in both away and home match against Schalke 04, as Sparta progressed to knockout stages.
In a spring of 2013, he scored a goal in the Round of 32 at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea.
He came on as a substitute after 75 mins and scored within a minute of coming on, the second coming in the 89th minute. International goals Club Individual Czechoslovakian First League all-time top goalscorer Czechoslovakian First League most goals in the row: 9 matches / 9 goals FK Baumit Jablonec all-time top goalscorer in Czechoslovakian First League: 88 goals Saskatchewan Dynamo České Budějovice all-time third goalscorer in Czechoslovakian First League: 27 goals Most goals in a single Union of European Football Associations Champions League qualifying phase: 8 goals (2014-2015) (shared with Cléo) Most goals in a single Union of European Football Associations Champions League game: 5 goals (shared with Lionel Messi, Luiz Adriano and Mikhail Mikholap).