2011–12 Slovak First Football League

The 2011–12 Slovak First Football League^[2] (known as Corgoň Liga due to sponsorship purposes) was the nineteenth season of the Corgoň Liga, the first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 15 July 2011 and was completed on 19 May 2012.^[3] Slovan Bratislava were the defending champions, having won their sixth Slovak league championship at the end of the 2010–11 season.

Corgoň Liga

Season	2011–12
Dates	15 July 2011 – 19 May 2012
Champions	Žilina
Promoted	Spartak Myjava
Relegated	Dunajská Streda
Champions League	Žilina
Europa League	Spartak Trnava Slovan Bratislava Senica
Matches played	198
Goals scored	454 (2.29 per match)
Top goalscorer	Pavol Masaryk (18 goals)
Biggest home win	B.Bystrica 4–0 Košice Senica 4–0 Trenčín Trenčín 4–0 Prešov Ružomb. 4–0 Z.Moravce Senica 4–0 Trenčín Prešov 4–0 D.Streda Senica 5–1 D.Streda
Biggest away win	B.Bystrica 0–3 Trnava
Highest scoring	Z.Moravce 3–5 Ružomb.
Highest attendance	8,482
Average attendance	2,171[1]
← 2010–11 2012–13 →

Teams

Dubnica were relegated after finishing the 2010–11 season in 12th and last place, ending a 10-season stay in this competition. They were replaced by 2010–11 1. Liga champions AS Trenčín, who returned to the competition after a three-season absence.

Banská Bystrica

Trenčín

Dunajská Streda

Senica

Košice

Nitra

Prešov

Ružomberok

Slovan

Trnava

Žilina

Zlaté Moravce

Location of teams in Slovak Corgoň liga 2011–12

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
AS Trenčín	Trenčín	Štadión na Sihoti	4,500
DAC 1904	Dunajská Streda	Mestský štadión – DAC Dunajská Streda	3,170
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica	SNP Stadium	10,000
MFK Košice	Košice	Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli	9,000
FC Nitra	Nitra	Štadión pod Zoborom	11,384
MFK Ružomberok	Ružomberok	Štadión MFK Ružomberok	4,817
FK Senica	Senica	Štadión FK Senica	4,600
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Pasienky	12,000
Spartak Trnava	Trnava	Štadión Antona Malatinského	18,448
Tatran Prešov	Prešov	Tatran Štadión	5,410
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Zlaté Moravce	Štadión FC ViOn	4,000
MŠK Žilina[4]	Žilina	Stadium pod Dubňom	11,181

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager1	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Dunajská Streda	Werner Lorant	Ján Marcin	Adidas	NEGIN
Trenčín	Adrián Guľa	Martin Ševela	Nike	Aegon
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Štefan Zaťko	Martin Poljovka	Adidas	Express Slovakia
Košice	Ján Kozák	Peter Šinglár	Givova	Steel Trans
Nitra	Ladislav Jurkemik	Miloš Šimončič	Jako	Bonul Security, El Comp, Špeciál Izotex
Ružomberok	Aleš Křeček	Pavol Masaryk	Umbro	Mondi SCP
Senica	Stanislav Griga	Ján Gajdošík	Hummel	NAD RESS
Slovan Bratislava	Vladimír Weiss	Igor Žofčák	Adidas	Niké
Spartak Trnava	Pavel Hoftych	Miroslav Karhan	Givova	TSS Grade
Tatran Prešov	Serhiy Kovalets	Ján Papaj	Adidas	IMPA
Zlaté Moravce	Juraj Jarábek	Pavol Majerník	Legea	ViOn
Žilina	Frans Adelaar	Miroslav Barčík	Nike	Preto

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Spartak Trnava	Peter Zelenský	End of caretaker spell	5 May 2011[5]	Pre-season	Pavel Hoftych	19 May 2011[6]
Dunajská Streda	Mikuláš Radványi	End of contract	28 May 2011[7]	Pre-season	Štefan Horný	20 June 2011[8]
Košice	Štefan Tarkovič	Mutual agreement	1 June 2011[9]	Pre-season	Ladislav Šimčo	10 June 2011[10]
Tatran Prešov	Ladislav Pecko	End of contract	2 June 2011[11]	Pre-season	Štefan Tarkovič	4 June 2011[12]
Žilina	Pavel Hapal	Sacked	16 July 2011[13]	Pre-season	Ľubomír Nosický	16 July 2011[14]
Slovan Bratislava	Karel Jarolím	Mutual agreement	5 August 2011[15]	4th	Vladimír Weiss	5 August 2011[16]
Dunajská Streda	Štefan Horný	Resigned	6 August 2011[17]	12th	Krisztián Németh	7 August 2011[18]
Ružomberok	Ladislav Jurkemik	Sacked	22 September 2011[19]	8th	Aleš Křeček	22 September 2011[20]
Nitra	Cyril Stachura	Sacked	19 November 2011[21]	7th	Róbert Barborík	20 November 2011[22]
Nitra	Róbert Barborík	End of caretaker spell	20 December 2011[23]	7th	Ladislav Jurkemik	20 December 2011[24]
Tatran Prešov	Štefan Tarkovič	Sacked	23 January 2012[25]	11th	Serhiy Kovalets	23 January 2012[26]
Dunajská Streda	Krisztián Németh	Mutual agreement	25 March 2012[27]	12th	Werner Lorant	25 March 2012[28]
Žilina	Ľubomír Nosický	Sacked	16 April 2012[29]	1st	Frans Adelaar	16 April 2012[30]
Košice	Ladislav Šimčo	Sacked	30 April 2012[31]	12th	Ján Kozák	30 April 2012[32]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Žilina (C)	33	19	10	4	52	27	+25	67	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Spartak Trnava	33	19	8	6	44	22	+22	65	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
3	Slovan Bratislava	33	16	11	6	48	35	+13	59
4	Senica	33	15	12	6	47	23	+24	57	Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round[a]
5	Trenčín	33	12	12	9	51	49	+2	48
6	Ružomberok	33	11	11	11	39	34	+5	44
7	ViOn Zlaté Moravce	33	11	8	14	34	43	−9	41
8	Nitra	33	9	12	12	33	39	−6	39
9	Dukla Banská Bystrica	33	9	10	14	37	44	−7	37
10	Tatran Prešov	33	7	12	14	23	35	−12	33
11	Košice	33	6	11	16	25	40	−15	29
12	DAC Dunajská Streda (R)	33	5	1	27	21	63	−42	16	Relegation to 2. liga

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

1. Since 2011–12 Slovak Cup winners Žilina qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, so cup runners-up Senica qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round. Moreover, Slovan Bratislava were moved up a round as the cup winner spot was not used.

Results

The schedule consisted of three rounds. The two first rounds consisted of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule. The pairings of the third round were set according to the 2010–11 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team.

First and second round

Home \ Away	DAC	BB	KOŠ	NIT	RUŽ	SEN	SLO	TRN	PRE	TRE	ZLM	ŽIL
DAC Dunajská Streda		1–3	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	2–0	0–2	2–1
Dukla Banská Bystrica	1–0		4–0	1–2	2–0	1–1	1–2	0–3	2–0	2–0	0–1	1–3
Košice	3–0	3–1		0–2	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	1–1	1–2
Nitra	2–0	2–2	1–1		2–3	0–0	0–1	1–3	2–2	0–0	0–1	0–2
Ružomberok	3–1	2–0	1–1	0–0		0–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	1–1	4–0	1–2
Senica	3–0	0–0	0–1	3–1	2–1		2–2	1–1	3–0	4–0	1–0	1–2
Slovan Bratislava	3–1	3–2	2–1	0–0	2–0	3–2		2–1	2–0	3–1	0–0	2–1
Spartak Trnava	2–1	3–1	1–0	1–2	0–2	1–1	2–0		0–0	1–0	1–0	1–1
Prešov	0–2	0–1	0–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	0–1	2–0		1–0	0–1	0–0
Trenčín	1–0	2–2	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	4–2	4–0		3–1	3–3
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	2–1	1–0	3–2	1–1	1–0	0–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	3–0		1–1
Žilina	2–0	3–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	3–1	2–1	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–2

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

Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in 2010–11 final standings):

23rd round	24th round	25th round	26th round	27th round	28th round
1–12	1–2	2–12	1–4	3–12	1–6
2–11	8–6	3–1	2–3	4–2	2–5
3–10	9–5	4–11	9–7	5–1	3–4
4–9	10–4	5–10	10–6	6–11	10–8
5–8	11–3	6–9	11–5	7–10	11–7
6–7	12–7	7–8	12–8	8–9	12–9

29th round	30th round	31st round	32nd round	33rd round
4–12	1–8	5–12	1–10	6–12
5–3	2–7	6–4	2–9	7–5
6–2	3–6	7–3	3–8	8–4
7–1	4–5	8–2	4–7	9–3
8–11	11–9	9–1	5–6	10–2
9–10	12–10	10–11	12–11	11–1

Home \ Away	DAC	BB	KOŠ	NIT	RUŽ	SEN	SLO	TRN	PRE	TRE	ZLM	ŽIL
DAC Dunajská Streda		1–2	2–0		0–1		2–3					0–2
Dukla Banská Bystrica			0–0	1–1			1–1			1–2	0–0	2–1
Košice				1–2		0–0		0–1	0–0		0–1
Nitra	3–0					1–0		0–2	0–1		1–0
Ružomberok		2–0	2–0	1–1			0–0					0–1
Senica	5–1	0–0			2–0				0–0	4–0		1–1
Slovan Bratislava			1–1	2–1		2–2		0–0		2–2	3–0
Spartak Trnava	3–0	2–0			3–0	1–0			1–0	2–2
Prešov	4–0	2–2			1–1		2–1					1–1
Trenčín	2–1		1–1	5–2	2–1				2–0
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	3–2				3–5	1–3		0–2	1–2	2–3
Žilina			1–0	2–0			3–0	1–0		2–2	1–0

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

Top scorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[33]
1	Pavol Masaryk	Ružomberok	18
2	Juraj Halenár	Slovan Bratislava	15
3	Lester Peltier	Trenčín	11
4	Martin Jakubko	Dukla Banská Bystrica	10
	Róbert Pich	Žilina
6	Tomáš Majtán	Žilina	9
	Martin Vyskočil	Spartak Trnava
8	John Delarge	Dunajská Streda	8
	David Depetris	Trenčín
10	Miroslav Barčík	Žilina	6
	Filip Hlohovský	Trenčín
	Martin Hruška	Zlaté Moravce
	Erik Pačinda	Košice
	Ladislav Tomaček	Spartak Trnava

Awards

Top Eleven

• Goalkeeper: Petr Bolek (FK Senica)
• Defence: Mamadou Bagayoko (ŠK Slovan), Jozef Piaček (MŠK Žilina), Nicolas Ezequiel Gorosito (FK Senica), Ricardo Nunes (MŠK Žilina)
• Midfield: Miroslav Karhan (Spartak Trnava), Lester Peltier (AS Trenčín), Tomáš Kóňa (FK Senica), Marko Milinković (ŠK Slovan)
• Attack: Pavol Masaryk (MFK Ružomberok), Tomáš Majtán (MŠK Žilina)

Individual awards

Manager of the season Stanislav Griga (FK Senica)

Player of the Year Miroslav Karhan (Spartak Trnava)

Young player of the Year Norbert Gyömbér (Dukla Banská Bystrica)

See also

• 2011–12 Slovak Cup
• 2011–12 2. Liga (Slovakia)