diff --git a/internal/controllers/facr_controller.go b/internal/controllers/facr_controller.go
index 742ca61..3c0d092 100644
--- a/internal/controllers/facr_controller.go
+++ b/internal/controllers/facr_controller.go
@@ -224,102 +224,53 @@ func (fc *FACRController) SearchClubs(c *gin.Context) {
 		})
 		return
 	}
+
+	// Use external FACR API proxy instead of scraping www.fotbal.cz directly
 	vals := neturl.Values{}
 	vals.Set("q", q)
-	searchURL := "https://www.fotbal.cz/club/hledej?" + vals.Encode()
+	searchURL := "https://facr.tdvorak.dev/club/search?" + vals.Encode()
 
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", searchURL, nil)
+	httpClient := &http.Client{Timeout: 15 * time.Second}
+	resp, err := httpClient.Get(searchURL)
 	if err != nil {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error creating request: %v", err)})
-		return
-	}
-	req.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0 Safari/537.36")
-	req.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8")
-	req.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "cs-CZ,cs;q=0.9,en;q=0.8")
-	req.Header.Set("Referer", "https://www.fotbal.cz/club/hledej")
-	client := &http.Client{}
-	resp, err := client.Do(req)
-	if err != nil {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching search page: %v", err)})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadGateway, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching from FACR API: %v", err)})
 		return
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-		// Try once more with quoted query if short tokens present
-		resp.Body.Close()
-		searchURL2 := searchURL
-		tokens := strings.Fields(q)
-		for _, t := range tokens {
-			if len([]rune(t)) <= 2 {
-				vals2 := neturl.Values{}
-				vals2.Set("q", "\""+q+"\"")
-				searchURL2 = "https://www.fotbal.cz/club/hledej?" + vals2.Encode()
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		req2, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", searchURL2, nil)
-		req2.Header.Set("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0 Safari/537.36")
-		req2.Header.Set("Accept", "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8")
-		req2.Header.Set("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.9")
-		resp2, err2 := client.Do(req2)
-		if err2 != nil {
-			c.JSON(http.StatusBadGateway, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error fetching (retry): %v", err2)})
-			return
-		}
-		defer resp2.Body.Close()
-		if resp2.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
-			c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"query": q, "count": 0, "results": []SearchResult{}})
-			return
-		}
-		resp = resp2
-	}
-
-	doc, err := goquery.NewDocumentFromReader(resp.Body)
-	if err != nil {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error parsing HTML: %v", err)})
+		body, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 2048))
+		c.Data(resp.StatusCode, "application/json", body)
 		return
 	}
-	var results []SearchResult
-	doc.Find("li.ListItemSplit").Each(func(_ int, li *goquery.Selection) {
-		a := li.Find("a.Link--inverted").First()
-		href, _ := a.Attr("href")
-		if href == "" {
-			return
+
+	// Read and parse the external API response
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadGateway, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error reading response: %v", err)})
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Parse the JSON to apply local processing (logo handling, filtering, deduplication)
+	var apiResp struct {
+		Query   string         `json:"query"`
+		Count   int            `json:"count"`
+		Results []SearchResult `json:"results"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &apiResp); err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": fmt.Sprintf("Error parsing response: %v", err)})
+		return
+	}
+
+	results := apiResp.Results
+
+	// Process logos through local rembg service
+	for i := range results {
+		if logoURL := strings.TrimSpace(results[i].LogoURL); logoURL != "" {
+			if p, err := services.ProcessFACRLogo(logoURL); err == nil && strings.TrimSpace(p) != "" {
+				results[i].LogoURL = p
+			}
 		}
-		name := strings.TrimSpace(a.Find("span.H7").First().Text())
-		if name == "" {
-			name = strings.TrimSpace(a.Text())
-		}
-		img := a.Find("img").First()
-		logoURL, _ := img.Attr("src")
-		// Best-effort: Process FACR logos to transparent PNG. Non-facr URLs are returned unchanged.
-		if p, err := services.ProcessFACRLogo(logoURL); err == nil && strings.TrimSpace(p) != "" {
-			logoURL = p
-		}
-		category := strings.TrimSpace(li.Find(".ClubCategories .BadgeCategory").First().Text())
-		address := strings.TrimSpace(li.Find(".ClubAddress p").First().Text())
-		clubType := "football"
-		if strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(href), "/futsal/") {
-			clubType = "futsal"
-		}
-		parts := strings.Split(strings.TrimRight(href, "/"), "/")
-		clubID := ""
-		if len(parts) > 0 {
-			clubID = parts[len(parts)-1]
-		}
-		if !strings.HasPrefix(href, "http://") && !strings.HasPrefix(href, "https://") {
-			href = "https://www.fotbal.cz" + href
-		}
-		results = append(results, SearchResult{
-			Name:     name,
-			ClubID:   clubID,
-			ClubType: clubType,
-			URL:      href,
-			LogoURL:  logoURL,
-			Category: category,
-			Address:  address,
-		})
-	})
+	}
 
 	// If setup is completed and a sport is configured, filter results to that sport only
 	if fc.DB != nil {
@@ -338,6 +289,7 @@ func (fc *FACRController) SearchClubs(c *gin.Context) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Deduplicate results
 	if len(results) > 1 {
 		unique := make([]SearchResult, 0, len(results))
 		seenByID := map[string]int{}
@@ -379,7 +331,6 @@ func (fc *FACRController) SearchClubs(c *gin.Context) {
 		results = unique
 	}
 
-	// respond and close the function
 	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{
 		"query":   q,
 		"count":   len(results),