FC Lokomotíva Košice

FC Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club, based in Košice and competing in the 3rd tier of Slovak football, 3. liga. The club was founded in 1946 and spent 25 seasons playing in the Czechoslovak First League.

Lokomotíva Košice

Full name	FC Lokomotíva Košice
Nickname	Loky
Founded	1946; 79 years ago (1946)
Ground	Štadión Lokomotívy, Košice
Capacity	9,200
President	Roman Nižník
Head coach	Martin Juhar
League	3. liga Group East
2024–25	9th
Website	https://fclokomotiva.com
Home colours Away colours

The club also had several appearances in Europe, playing the 1977–78 European Cup Winners' Cup and the 1978–79 UEFA Cup.

Club history

In 1951 and the 1977–1978 season, the club finished 3rd in the Czechoslovak First League.^[1] The club won the Czechoslovak Cup in the 1976–77 and 1978–79 seasons, beating Teplice and Baník Ostrava, respectively, with both finals held in Prague.^[2] In the 1970s, striker Ladislav Józsa was the First League's top scorer three times: in 1972–73 outright with 21 goals, in 1973–74 shared with Přemysl Bičovský (17 goals each), and again outright in 1976–77 with 18 goals.^[3]

The last major success of the club was winning the Slovak Cup in the 1984–1985 season.^[1] The 1985–86 season was the last for the club in the Czechoslovak First League.^[4] That season the team finished next to last, 15th place in the league and were relegated to the 2nd division.

After the disintegration of Czechoslovakia, the club took part in the Corgoň Liga. In the 1993–1994 season they took 8th place out of 12 participants. In the 1997–1998 season, finishing next to last, 15th place, they were relegated to the second league. In the 1999–2000 season in the second division championship, the club finished in 17th place and were relegated to the third division. In the 2003–2004 season they dropped to the 4th division.

They withdrew from the second league after the 2018-19 season due to financial problems.^[5]

Club's name

• 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Košice
• 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Sparta Košice
• 1949 - ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice
• 1952 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
• 1965 - TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice
• 1967 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
• 1990 - FK Lokomotíva Košice
• 1994 - FK Lokomotíva Energogas Košice
• 1997 - FC Lokomotíva Košice
• 1999 - FC Spoje Lokomotíva Košice
• 2005 - FC Lokomotíva Košice

Stadium

Initially Lokomotíva played at Lokomotíva Stadium in the Čermeľ district for most of its history (until 1997). Lokomotíva played in a small village named Družstevná pri Hornáde 16 km far from city center of Košice. As of 2022, Lokomotíva returned to its home ground Lokomotíva Stadium.

Honours

Domestic

Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak First League (1925–93)
  • Third place (2): 1951, 1977–78
• Czechoslovak Cup (1961–1993)
  • Winners (2): 1977, 1979

Slovakia

• Slovak Cup (1961–)
  • Winners (3): 1977, 1979, 1985
  • Runners-up (2): 1961, 1992

European

• European Railways Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 1976, 1979, 1983

Results

League and domestic cup history

Slovak League only (1993-present)

Year	Division	Position	Domestic cup	Topscorer/goals
1993–94	Mars superliga (I)	8th	Round 3
1994–95	Mars superliga	9th	Round 2	Štefan Kysela (17)
1995–96	Mars superliga	8th	Round 1	Igor Popovec (8)
1996–97	Mars superliga	10th	Quarter-finals
1997–98	Mars superliga	15th (relegated)	Semi-finals	Marcel Korínek (4) Milan Pecelj (4)
1998–99	2. liga (II)	–	Round 1	Miloš Gallo (8)
1999–2000	2. liga	– (relegated)
2000–01	3. liga (III)	–	Round 1
2001–02	3. liga	–
2002–03	3. liga	–
2003–04	3. liga	– (relegated)
2004–05	4. liga (IV)	–
2005–06	4. liga (IV)	1st (promoted)
2006–07	3. liga (III)	–
2007–08	3. liga (III)	–
2008–09	3. liga (III)	3rd
2009–10	3. liga (III)	2nd
2010–11	3. liga (III)	1st (promoted)
2011–12	3. liga (III)	3rd	Round 1
2012–13	Keno 10 3.liga (III)	3rd	Round 3
2013–14	TIPOS liga (III)	8th (promoted)	Round 1
2014–15	DOXXbet liga (II)	1st (relegation round east)	Round 3	Tomáš Labun (16)
2015–16	DOXXbet liga (II)	4th (champions round)	Round 3	Adrián Leško (8)
2016–17	DOXXbet liga (II)	7th (champions round)	Round 4	Róbert Jano (20)
2017–18	DOXXbet liga (II)	4th	Round 4	Kamil Karaš (13)
2018–19	II. Liga (II)	11th	Round 5	Róbert Jano (7)
2019–20	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	2nd	Did not enter	Vladimír Beliš (9)
2020–21	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	2nd	Round 3	?
2021–22	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	1st	Round 3	Adrián Pačinda (26)
2022–23	V.liga juh (V)	1st (promoted)	Did not enter	Martin Leško (26)
2023–24	4. Liga Východ (IV)	2nd (promoted)	Round 3	Michal Vilkovský (19)
2024–25	3. Liga Východ (III)	9th	Round 3	Jakub Škovran (21)

European competition history

Main article: Slovak football clubs in European competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1969–70	Mitropa Cup	1.R		Radnicki Kragujevac	1–0	0–2	1–2
1977–78	Cup Winners' Cup	1.R		Östers IF	0–0	2–2	2–2 (a)
		2.R		FK Austria Wien	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
1978–79	UEFA Cup	1.R		A.C. Milan	1–0	0–1	1–1 (p)
1979–80	Cup Winners' Cup	1.R		FC Wacker Innsbruck	2–1	1–0	3–1
2.R		NK Rijeka	2–0	0–3	2–3

Current squad

As of September 19, 2019. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SVK Samuel Knap 22 GK  SVK Jozef Talian 2 DF  SVK Nikolas Kriška 3 DF  SVK Ľuboslav Pankovčin 4 DF  SVK Richard Griglak 5 DF  SVK Milan Miklušićák 6 DF  SVK Samuel Jokeľ 12 DF  SVK Michal Godina 12 DF  SVK Kristián Šarkan 13 DF  SVK Patrik Grega 21 DF  SVK Adrián Tomašiak 8 MF  SVK Jakub Tóth

No. Pos. Nation Player 9 MF  SVK Dávid Gabriel Matis 10 MF  SVK Vladimír Beliš 14 MF  SVK Matej Béreš 17 MF  SVK Michal Beli 19 MF  SVK Matej Ondrejkovič 20 MF  SVK Martin Hloušek 21 MF  SVK Gabriel Labuda 8 FW  SVK Filip Korček 11 FW  SVK Martin Šemrák 14 FW  SVK Maroš Čeremeta 18 FW  SVK Pavol Kozák

Technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Milan Lalkovič
Assistant coach	Jozef Talian
Assistant coach	Martin Hloušek
Goalkeeping coach	Jozef Talian
Masseur	Karol Orbán
Team Chef	Anton Zabavník

Player records

Most appearances # Nat. Name App. 1 Gejza Farkaš 344 2 František Feczko 300 3 Jozef Móder 289 4 Jozef Suchánek 269 5 Stanislav Seman 225

Most goals # Nat. Name Goals 1 Ladislav Józsa 104 2 František Feczko 78 3 Gejza Farkaš 70 4 Jozef Móder 66 5 Ján Kozák sr. 44 6 Pavol Ondo 40 7 Dušan Ujhely 30

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Lokomotiva.

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.

• Ján Polgár
• Bohumil Andrejko
• Pavol Biroš
• Ivan Čabala
• Matúš Čonka
• Pavol Diňa
• Gejza Farkaš
• František Feczko
• Anton Flešár
• Milan Gigler
• Miroslav Greskovics
• Andrej Iľko
• Július Holeš
• Ladislav Józsa
• Karol Kisel
• Ján Kozák sr.
• František Kunzo
• Ján Luža
• František Matys
• Jozef Móder
• Martin Obšitník
• Erik Pačinda
• Ladislav Putyera
• Stanislav Seman
• Adolf Scherer
• Viliam Schrojf
• Miroslav Sovič
• Stanislav Strapek
• Anton Šoltis
• Peter Štyvar
• Rudolf Urban
• Blažej Vaščák
• Rudolf Zibrínyi
• Ľudovít Žitňár

Notable managers

• Michal Baránek (1972)
• Ladislav Kačáni (1972–1974)
• Jozef Jankech (1975–1976)
• Michal Baránek (1976–1978)
• Jozef Jankech (1978–1980)
• Jozef Jankech (1983–1985)
• Michal Baránek (1985–1986)
• Jaroslav Galko (2013–2014)
• Dušan Ujhely (2014–2015)
• Branislav Sokoli (2015–2016)
• Albert Rusnák (2016–2018)
• Ľuboš Benkovský (2018–2019)
• Dušan Ujhely (2019–2020)
• Milan Lalkovič (2020-)