1998–99 Slovak Superliga

The 1998–99 Slovak First Football League (known as the Mars superliga for sponsorship reasons) was the sixth season of first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 1 August 1998 and ended on 29 May 1999. 1. FC Košice were the defending champions.

Mars superliga

Season	1998–99
Dates	1 August 1998 – 29 May 1999
Champions	Slovan Bratislava
Relegated	BSC JAS Bardejov Rimavská Sobota
Champions League	Slovan Bratislava
UEFA Cup	Inter Bratislava Spartak Trnava Dukla Banská Bystrica
Intertoto Cup	Ozeta Dukla Trenčín MŠK Žilina
Matches played	240
Goals scored	616 (2.57 per match)
Top goalscorer	Martin Fabuš (19 goals)
Biggest home win	Inter 10:0 Bardejov
Biggest away win	Dubnica 0:6 Inter
Highest scoring	Inter 10:0 Bardejov
Average attendance	3,659
← 1997–98 1999–2000 →

Teams

A total of 16 teams was contested in the league, including 14 sides from the 1997–98 season and two promoted from the 2. Liga.

Lokomotíva Košice and FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda was relegated to the 1998–99 2. Liga. The two relegated teams were replaced by FC Nitra and ZTS Kerametal Dubnica.

Stadiums and locations

Trenčín

Banská Bystrica

Bardejov

Dubnica

Humenné

Košice

Nitra

Prešov

Prievidza

Rimavská Sobota

Ružomberok

Bratislava

Trnava

Žilina

Bratislava clubs:

Slovan
Inter
Artmedia

Location of teams in 1998–99 Mars superliga

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity
1. HFC Humenné	Humenné	Chemlon Stadion	10,000
1. FC Košice	Košice	Lokomotíva Stadium	9,000
Artmedia Petržalka	Petržalka	Štadión Petržalka	7,500
BSC JAS Bardejov	Bardejov	Mestský štadión Bardejov	3,040
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica	SNP Stadium	10,000
Inter Slovnaft Bratislava	Bratislava	Štadión Pasienky	12,000
FC Nitra	Nitra	Štadión pod Zoborom	11,384
MFK Baník Prievidza	Prievidza	Futbalový štadión Prievidza	6,000
MFK SCP Ružomberok	Ružomberok	Štadión MFK Ružomberok	4,817
MŠK Žilina	Žilina	Štadión pod Dubňom	11,181
Ozeta Dukla Trenčín	Trenčín	Štadión na Sihoti	4,500
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Tehelné pole	30,085
Spartak Trnava	Trnava	Štadión Antona Malatinského	18,448
Tatran Prešov	Prešov	Tatran Štadión	14,000
Tauris Rimavská Sobota	Rimavská Sobota	Na Zahradkach Stadium	5,000
ZTS Kerametal Dubnica	Dubnica	Štadión Zimný	5,450

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slovan Bratislava (C)	30	21	7	2	56	11	+45	70	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Inter Bratislava	30	21	5	4	64	15	+49	68	Qualification for UEFA Cup qualifying round
3	Spartak Trnava	30	19	7	4	59	20	+39	64
4	1. FC Košice	30	19	4	7	51	26	+25	61
5	Ozeta Dukla Trenčín	30	15	8	7	53	25	+28	53	Qualification for Intertoto Cup first round
6	Žilina	30	15	3	12	36	42	−6	48
7	Ružomberok	30	12	10	8	31	31	0	46
8	Tatran Prešov	30	11	10	9	38	35	+3	43
9	Artmedia Petržalka	30	11	6	13	37	42	−5	39
10	Humenné	30	10	5	15	24	37	−13	35
11	Dukla Banská Bystrica	30	8	10	12	34	46	−12	34	Qualification for UEFA Cup first round[a]
12	Nitra	30	7	7	16	28	48	−20	28
13	ZTS Dubnica	30	8	4	18	28	60	−32	28
14	Baník Prievidza	30	6	6	18	34	56	−22	24
15	Rimavská Sobota (R)	30	5	7	18	29	56	−27	22	Relegation to 2. Liga
16	Bardejov (R)	30	2	1	27	14	66	−52	7

Source: RSSSF.org
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Dukla Banská Bystrica qualify for 1999–2000 UEFA Cup as runner-up of 1998–99 Slovak Cup.

Results

Home \ Away	ART	BB	BAR	DUB	HUM	INT	KOŠ	NIT	PRE	PRI	RIM	RUŽ	SLO	TRE	TRN	ŽIL
Artmedia Petržalka		1–1	2–0	2–1	2–0	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–0	0–0	5–2	1–1	0–2	1–3	2–3	2–0
Dukla Banská Bystrica	1–0		3–2	7–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–0	2–2	3–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	0–4	0–2	0–1
Bardejov	3–0	1–0		0–2	0–1	0–3	1–2	1–4	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–3	0–2	0–2	0–0	0–1
ZTS Dubnica	2–2	0–2	2–1		2–1	0–6	2–3	0–2	0–0	3–2	3–0	3–0	0–1	0–2	0–0	0–3
Humenné	1–2	0–0	1–0	1–0		0–1	0–2	1–3	0–0	6–2	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–4	1–0	3–1
Inter Bratislava	4–1	1–1	10–0	1–0	1–2		2–1	3–1	2–1	1–0	5–3	2–0	0–1	2–1	3–1	5–0
1. FC Košice	3–1	6–0	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–0		2–0	1–2	1–3	2–0	1–0	0–2	5–1	0–1	3–0
Nitra	0–3	4–1	3–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–0		2–2	2–1	0–0	3–0	0–4	1–1	0–3	0–1
Prešov	2–0	2–1	1–0	5–1	3–0	0–2	0–3	2–0		2–1	3–0	1–1	0–0	2–2	0–0	0–2
Baník Prievidza	2–1	0–0	5–0	1–2	0–1	0–3	1–1	1–1	1–1		2–0	0–2	0–2	0–4	0–2	2–1
Rimavská Sobota	1–0	0–2	2–0	2–2	0–0	0–2	1–2	1–1	4–1	1–1		2–3	1–1	1–1	2–4	1–2
Ružomberok	0–2	2–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	0–0	1–3	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1		0–0	1–0	2–0	1–1
Slovan Bratislava	3–0	3–0	3–0	2–0	3–1	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–0	4–2	3–0	2–1		1–1	0–1	3–0
Ozeta Dukla Trenčín	2–0	2–2	2–0	3–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	3–0	0–1	3–0	3–0	1–1	1–0		0–0	6–1
Spartak Trnava	2–0	5–2	1–0	4–1	4–1	0–0	0–0	6–0	4–1	3–0	3–1	5–0	1–1	1–0		3–1
Žilina	1–1	2–2	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–2	0–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	2–1	0–1	0–2	4–0	2–0

Source: RSSSF.org
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Martin Fabuš	Trenčín	19
2	Vladimír Sýkora	Rimavská Sobota	14
3	Peter Babnič	Inter Bratislava	13
	Ľuboš Perniš	Baník Prievidza
5	Ruslan Lyubarskyi	Košice	12
6	Ľubomír Faktor	Banská Bystrica	11
	Marek Mintál	Žilina
	Attila Pinte	Inter Bratislava
	Štefan Rusnák	Banská Bystrica
10	Luís Fábio Gomes	Spartak Trnava	10
	Vladislav Zvara	Košice

See also

• 1998–99 Slovak Cup
• 1998–99 2. Liga (Slovakia)