2023 Slovak Cup final

The 2023 Slovak Cup final (known as the Slovnaft Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the final match of the 2022–23 Slovak Cup, the 54th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. It was played at the Anton Malatinský Stadium in Trnava, Slovakia, on 1 May 2023.^[1][2]

2023 Slovak Cup final

Both sets of fans during the final
Event	2022–23 Slovak Cup
Spartak Trnava Slovan Bratislava 3 1
Date	1 May 2023
Venue	Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava
Referee	Michal Očenáš
Attendance	15,427
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It was contested by the defending champions Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava. Interestingly, these teams also met in the 2022 final, and then Slovan Bratislava played at their home stadium. In total, it was the sixth final since the competition was established, in which the fierce rivals met. Trnava won the match 3–1 after extra time, after the game finished 1–1 in 90 minutes.

Teams

In the following table, finals until 1993 were in the Czechoslovak era, since 1994 were in the Slovak era.

Team	Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Spartak Trnava	14 (1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2019, 2022)
Slovan Bratislava	23 (1970, 1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2003, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022)

Road to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral venue).

Spartak Trnava (1)		Round	Slovan Bratislava (1)
Opponent	Result	2022–23 Slovak Cup	Opponent	Result
Bye		Preliminary round	Bye
Bye		First round	Bye
Slavoj Boleráz (4)	1–1 (4–2 p) (A)	Second round	Branč (5)	2–0 (A)
Trenčianske Stankovce (5)	6–0 (A)	Third round	Družstevník Malá Mača (6)	7–0 (A)
Sereď (3)	3–0 (A)	Fourth round	Stropkov (3)	3–2 (A)
Zemplín Michalovce (1)	2–2 (4–3 p) (H)	Round of 16	Dukla Banská Bystrica (1)	2–1 (A)
Komárno (2)	2–0 (A)	Quarter-finals	ŠTK Šamorín (2)	1–1 (4–3 p) (N)
Trenčín (1)	2–1 (A), 3–0 (H) (5–1 agg.)	Semi-finals	Skalica (1)	2–1 (H), 3–3 (a.e.t.) (A) (5–4 agg.)

Match

Details

Spartak Trnava	3–1 (a.e.t.)	Slovan Bratislava
Taiwo 85' Paur 110' Twardzik 120+5' (pen.)	Report	Green 57'

1 May 2023

15:00 (UTC+2)

Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava

Attendance: 15,427

Referee: Michal Očenáš

GK 72 Martin Vantruba RB 24 Kristián Koštrna CB 2 Lukáš Štetina CB 26 Sebastian Kóša  72' LB 33 Filip Twardzik CM 28 Martin Bukata  80' CM 88 Kyriakos Savvidis CM 15 Roman Procházka (c)  80' RW 91 Kelvin Ofori  94'  116' CF 12 Abdulrahman Taiwo  80'  120+2' LW 23 Erik Daniel  106' Substitutes: GK 71 Dominik Takáč FW 7 Milan Ristovski  89'  72' MF 8 Samuel Štefánik  120+2' MF 17 Jakub Paur  116'  80' MF 20 Azeez Oseni MF 21 Patrick Karhan MF 22 Alex Iván  116' DF 77 Kazeem Bolaji  106' MF 91 Dyjan de Azevedo  80' Manager: Michal Gašparík

GK 31 Martin Trnovský RB 17 Jurij Medveděv  67'  115' CB 4 Guram Kashia CB 81 Vernon De Marco (c) LB 25 Lukáš Pauschek  115' DM 20 Jaba Kankava DM 33 Juraj Kucka RM 19 Andre Green  80'  84' AM 10 Giorgi Chakvetadze  84' LM 23 Zuberu Sharani  66' CF 77 Aleksandar Čavrić  99' Substitutes: GK 1 Adrián Chovan DF 2 Siemen Voet MF 3 Uche Henry Agbo  120'  84' DF 5 Richard Križan MF 11 Tigran Barseghyan  99' FW 15 Malik Abubakari  84' MF 21 Jaromír Zmrhal  66' MF 26 Filip Lichý  115' DF 36 Lucas Lovat  115' Manager: Vladimír Weiss

Assistant referees: Branislav Hancko Adam Jekkel Fourth official: Erik Gemzický Video assistant referee: Boris Marhefka Assistant video assistant referee: František Ferenc

Match rules 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level.

See also

• 2022–23 Slovak Cup
• 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League
• Traditional derby