2022–23 2. Liga (Slovakia)

The 2022–23 2. Liga was the 30th season of the 2. Liga in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993.

2. Liga

Season	2022–23
Dates	16 July 2022[1] – May 2023
Champions	FC Košice
Promoted	FC Košice
Relegated	FK Rača FK Dubnica
Matches played	136
Goals scored	369 (2.71 per match)
Top goalscorer	Jozef Dolný (19)
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

Teams

Team changes

Promoted from 2021–22 3. Liga	Relegated from 2021–22 Fortuna liga	Promoted to 2022–23 Fortuna liga	Relegated to 2022–23 3. Liga
Rača Považská Bystrica Dolný Kubín Tatran Prešov Myjava	Pohronie	Podbrezová Dukla Banská Bystrica Skalica	Rohožník Bardejov Námestovo

Notes

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Stadiums and locations

Dubnica

Košice

Komárno

Humenné

Petržalka

Púchov

Trebišov

Šamorín

Žilina B

Prešov

Považská Bystrica

Pohronie

Dolný Kubín

Rača

Myjava

Slovan Bratislava U21

Bratislava

Location of teams in Slovak 2. liga 2022–23

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity
FC Košice	Košice	Košická futbalová aréna	5,836
FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín	Šamorín	Pomlé Stadium	1,950
MŠK Púchov	Púchov	Mestský štadión Púchov	6,614
KFC Komárno	Komárno	Mestský štadión Komárno	1,250
FC Petržalka	Bratislava	Štadión FC Petržalka	1,600
FK Slavoj Trebišov	Trebišov	Štadión Slavoj Trebišov	2,000
FK Dubnica	Dubnica nad Váhom	Mestský futbalový štadión	5,450
MŠK Žilina B	Žilina	Štadión pod Dubňom	11,258
Humenné	Humenné	Štadión Humenné	1,806
Považská Bystrica	Považská Bystrica	Štadión MŠK Považská Bystrica	2,500
1. FC Tatran Prešov	Prešov	Štadión ŠK FC Ličartovce	1,400
FK Pohronie	Žiar nad Hronom	Mestský štadión Žiar nad Hronom	2,309
Spartak Myjava	Myjava	Stadium Myjava	2,709
MFK Dolný Kubín	Dolný Kubín	Stadium MUDr. Ivan Chodák	1,950
Slovan Bratislava U21	Bratislava	Štadión Pasienky	11,401
FK Rača	Bratislava	Štadión FK Rača	4,200

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	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
FK Slavoj Trebišov	Branislav Sokoli	Roman Begala	Adidas	Armstav
MŠK Žilina B	Vladimír Veselý	Dominik Šnajder	Nike	Preto
KFC Komárno	Mikuláš Radványi	Martin Šimko	Adidas	MOL
FC Petržalka	Alexander Zachariáš	Lukáš Gašparovič	Erreà	PORTUM Towers
FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín	Juraj Ančic	Juraj Pančík	Kappa	Slovnaft
FK Dubnica	Bohumil Páník	Martin Adamec	Adidas
MŠK Púchov	Vladimír Cifranič	Peter Pilný	Jako	reinoo
FC Košice	Anton Šoltis	Ján Krivák	Adidas	niké
FK Humenné	Ondrej Desiatnik	Ján Dzúrik	Sportika	Triada
MŠK Považská Bystrica	Peter Jakuš	Patrik Begáň	Hummel
1. FC Tatran Prešov	Marek Petruš	Jozef Dolný	3b	Niké
FK Pohronie	Rastislav Urgela	Peter Mazan	Erreà	REMESLO
MFK Dolný Kubín	Ján Haspra	Peter Sopúch	3b	ORAVing
FK Rača	Richard Stražan	Marek Sokol	Adidas
Slovan Bratislava U21	Vladimír Gála	Samuel Habodasz	Adidas	niké
Spartak Myjava	Daniel Kvasnica	Štefan Pekár	Erima	NAD - RESS

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Košice (C, P)	30	20	6	4	61	21	+40	66	Promotion to Niké liga
2	Tatran Prešov	30	20	2	8	49	24	+25	62	Qualification for Promotion play-offs
3	Komárno	30	14	11	5	41	26	+15	53
4	Žilina B	30	14	5	11	63	53	+10	47
5	Pohronie	30	11	11	8	45	41	+4	44
6	Slovan Bratislava U21	30	12	7	11	43	45	−2	43
7	Spartak Myjava	30	12	7	11	46	41	+5	43
8	Šamorín	30	12	4	14	44	50	−6	40
9	Považská Bystrica	30	10	10	10	52	48	+4	40
10	Púchov	30	11	5	14	47	44	+3	38
11	Slavoj Trebišov	30	10	6	14	32	44	−12	36
12	Petržalka	30	8	10	12	40	43	−3	34
13	Dolný Kubín	30	10	4	16	36	60	−24	34
14	Humenné	30	7	11	12	24	35	−11	32
15	Rača (R)	30	6	8	16	25	52	−27	26	Relegation to 3. Liga
16	Dubnica (R)	30	6	7	17	38	59	−21	25

Source: druhaliga.sk (in Slovak)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Results

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 30 matches each.

Home \ Away	POH	KOM	KOŠ	HUM	ŠAM	PET	ZAB	TRE	DUB	PÚC	SJN	PB	PRE	RAČ	DK	MYJ
Pohronie		2–1	0–1	1–1	2–2	4–0	2–2	3–0	1–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	0–1	2–1	5–1	0–4
Komárno	1–1		0–0	0–0	3–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	3–3	1–1	1–1	2–2	3–0	1–0	2–0	2–0
Košice	2–0	0–0		1–1	5–1	5–0	4–1	2–0	1–0	2–0	1–2	3–0	2–1	2–1	5–1	2–0
Humenné	2–1	1–2	0–0		3–2	1–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–3	0–0	2–1	0–3	2–2	0–0	1–2
Šamorín	4–0	1–0	0–1	3–1		0–2	0–0	1–2	0–2	3–2	2–4	0–0	3–0	3–1	3–1	2–4
Petržalka	3–2	1–1	2–2	0–0	1–2		2–3	3–0	1–2	1–0	2–0	2–1	2–2	0–1	7–1	1–1
Žilina B	0–3[a]	4–2	2–2	0–1	3–3	3–0		4–3	3–1	2–2	1–2	3–1	0–4	8–3	1–0	3–2
Slavoj Trebišov	1–1	0–1	3–1	2–1	3–1	0–0	0–1		2–1	0–0	1–4	2–1	0–2	0–0	2–3	1–1
Dubnica	0–0	0–2	1–2	0–0	1–2	1–0	4–8	0–1		3–4	3–0	0–6	0–3	1–1	3–0	2–2
Púchov	0–1	2–3	0–2	0–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	0–1	1–2		1–0	1–2	2–1	6–0	3–1	3–1
Slovan U21	1–1	1–1	0–3	0–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–1	2–1	1–4		2–2	0–3	0–1	1–2	2–2
Považská Bystrica	2–2	1–0	3–1	2–0	2–3	1–1	3–2	3–3	2–1	3–1	1–2		1–0	3–3	1–0	2–4
Prešov	3–0	1–2	2–1	2–0	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–0	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0		0–0	2–0	0–1
Rača	0–0	1–0	0–3	2–0	0–1	2–1	0–3	0–1	1–1	1–2	1–2	0–0	0–2		0–2	0–1
Dolný Kubín	1–2	1–2	0–4	0–0	2–0	0–2	0–3	2–1	2–1	2–2	3–2	2–2	2–1	3–0		3–1
Myjava	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0	1–1	2–0	3–0	3–1	0–1	1–2	2–2	0–2	2–3	2–1

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

1. The match between Žilina B and Pohronie was awarded 0–3 in favor of Pohronie, because no Slovak player which was under 21 appeared in the starting line-up of Žilina B.^[3]

Season statistics

As of 20 May 2023

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals[4] 1 Jozef Dolný Prešov 19 2 Landing Sagna Košice 15 3 Boris Krstić Žilina B 12 4 Haris Harba Petržalka 11 Štefan Holiš Púchov 6 Erik Pačinda Košice 10 Lukáš Szabó Šamorín Marek Zuziak Pov.Bystrica 9 Stanislav Olejník Myjava 9 Štefan Pekár Myjava Patrik Mráz Púchov Marek Jakúbek Košice Marek Švec Dubnica Filip Kolorédy D.Kubín

Clean sheets Rank Player Club Clean sheets[5] 1 Matúš Kira Košice 14 2 Maksym Kuchynskyi Prešov 13 3 Miloslav Bréda Komárno 11 4 Samuel Belaník Žilina B 7 René Žákech Rača 6 Denis Kubica Myjava 6 7 Dávid Slávik Humenné 5 Samuel Vavrúš Dubnica Adrián Knurovský Humenné 10 Ayotunde Ikuepamitan Trebišov 4 Vadym Shevchuk Petržalka Adam Danko Pohronie Marek Teplan P.Bystrica

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 12^[6]
  • 3 Players

• Most red cards: 2^[6]
  • 5 players

Club

• Most yellow cards: 90^[7]
  • Púchov

• Most red cards: '7^[8]
  • Púchov