FC Nitra

FC Nitra is a Slovak association football club, playing in the town of Nitra. Established in 1909, FC Nitra is one of the oldest football clubs in Slovakia.

FC Nitra

Full name	Football Club Nitra
Nickname(s)	Trogári
Founded	1909; 115 years ago (1909) as Nyitrai ÖTTSO
Ground	Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra
Capacity	7,480
Owner	Salangana s.r.o – 58%[1]
Manager	Augustín Antalík [cs]
League	4. liga
2022–23	14th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

Czechoslovak era

Nitra were promoted and relegated 4 times from the Czechoslovak First League with their longest stay being 5 years (1979–1984, 1986–1991). Nitra came close to clinching the title in 1962 only to lose out by 3 points to Dukla Prague. This year was most successful in club history because they reached also Mitropa Cup final. Another successful period was end of 80s when Nitra stayed on top positions in Czechoslovak First League (in 1989 they reached 3rd place) with players like Michal Hipp, Ľubomír Moravčík, Ladislav Molnár, Peter Palúch, Jozef Majoroš, Róbert Tomaschek, Miroslav Sovič. FC Nitra was the first football professional club in the former Czechoslovakia.^{[citation needed]}

Main article: 1961 Mitropa Cup

Slovan Nitra	2–2	FC Bologna
Bachratý [cs] 8' Hrnčár [cs] 76' (pen.)	[2]	Nielsen 43' Perani 55' (pen.)

14 March 1962

Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra

Attendance: 10,000

FC Bologna	3–0	Slovan Nitra
Demarco 21' Pascutti 47' Nielsen 59'	[3]

4 April 1962

Stadio Comunale, Bologna

Attendance: 10,000

Slovak era

Nitra was involved in the inaugural Slovakian championship in 1994 but was relegated to the second division after their first season. The following season they were promoted back to the first division, only for the same fate to occur and were again relegated. Roller coaster seasons became somewhat of an FC Nitra speciality during the early 90s, until the promotions stopped in 2001 where fans had to wait five long seasons before seeing their club again return to the top flight where they finished with a respectable fifth place. This was mainly due to the work of head coach Ivan Galád, who took control of the team in the winter of 2004, guiding the team to a fourth-place finish in the second division.^{[citation needed]}

Róbert Rák became the top goal scorer both in the second division in the 2004/2005 season and (together with Erik Jendrišek) in the first division in the 2005/2006 season. In the beginning of the next season he was transferred to MFK Ružomberok. Galád coached the team very defensively (as according to his words no good striker was in the team). Galád lost his job after not much good results of the team at the end of 2006/2007 season (many losses and draws).^{[citation needed]} The former Czech player Pavel Hapal was named as the head coach of the team for the 2007/2008 season. His way of coaching brought almost immediately very good results and the team finished 3rd (the best in the history of the club). After the season Hapal decided to leave the club to accept an offer from the top Czech club FK Mladá Boleslav. Pavel Malura, another coach from the Czech Republic, has taken the job. In spring 2009 the new manager Petar Kurčubić was appointed.

In 2021 after the club was relegated from the top flight, they did not obtain a licence for the league below and so were further demoted another level.

Events timeline

• 1909 – Founded as Nyitrai ÖTTSO
• 1911 – Renamed Nyitrai TVE
• 1919 – Renamed Nyitrai SC
• 1921 – Renamed SK Nitra
• 1923 – Renamed AC Nitra
• 1948 – Renamed Sokol Nitra
• 1949 – Renamed ZSJ Sokol spojene zavody Nitra
• 1949 – Renamed ZK KP Nitra
• 1953 – Renamed DSO Slavoj Nitra
• 1956 – Renamed TJ Slovan Nitra
• 1966 – Again Renamed AC Nitra
• 1976 – Renamed TJ Plastika Nitra
• 1989 – First European qualification, 1990
• 1990 – Renamed FC Nitra

Honours

Domestic

Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak First League (1925–1993)
  • Runners-Up (1): 1961–62
  • Third place (1): 1988–89
• 1.SNL (1st Slovak National football league) (1969–1993)
  • Winners (3): 1978–79, 1985–86, 1991–92

Slovakia

• Slovak League (1993–Present)
  • Third place (1): 2007–08
• Slovenský Pohár (Slovak Cup) (1961–Present) 1
  • Runners-up (4): 1974–75, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1990–91
• Slovak Second Division (1993–Present)
  • Winners (3): 1994–95, 1997–98, 2004–05
  • Runners-Up (2): 2000–01, 2016–17

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer

The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944–45 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.

Year	Winner	G
1959–60	Michal Pucher [cs]	18
2005–06	Róbert Rák	211
2009–10	Róbert Rák	18

¹Shared award

European

• Mitropa Cup 2
  • Runners-up: 1961
• Intertoto Cup
  • Winners (3): 1972, 1973, 1980

Sponsorship

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
1998–2001	Erreà	Volkswagen
2001–2002	Gems	Pozemné Staviteľstvo Nitra
2002–2004	DIADORA
2004–2005	hummel	Bonul security
2005–2006	Jako	Dynamik
2006–2008		Bonul security
2008–2010		Bonul security El Comp
2010–13		Bonul security El Comp Špeciál Izotex
2013–2016		Mesto Nitra
2017–2020		none
2020–	Adidas

Current squad

Updated 5 August 2021 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  SVK Jakub Sedláček 21 DF  SEN Tidiane Djiby Ba

No. Pos. Nation Player 33 GK  SVK Róbert Baláži 44 MF  SVK Ádam Mészáros — MF  BRA Fabiano Alves

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  SVK Matej Franko (at Dukla Banská Bystrica until 30 June 2022) 77 FW  SVK Jakub Tancík (at MFK Ružomberok until 15 June 2022)

No. Pos. Nation Player

Current technical staff

Updated 2 March 2023

Staff	Job title
Dušan Borko [cs]	Manager
Igor Obert	Assistant manager
Henrich Benčík	Sport Director
Miroslav König	Goalkeeping coach
Augustín Antalík	Team Leader
MUDr. Ivan Štefanov	Team Doctor
Jozef Urminský	Physiotherapist
Róbert Gyepes	Masseur

Results

League and Cup history

Slovak League only (1993–present)

Season	Division (Name)	Pos./Teams	Pl.	W	D	L	GS	GA	P	Slovak Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (Goals)
1993–94	1st (Mars Superliga)	12/(12)	32	12	3	17	39	46	27	Round 3
1994–95	2nd (1. liga)	1/(16)	30	19	5	6	58	29	62	Round 2			Prochászka (13)
1995–96	1st (Mars Superliga)	11/(12)	32	7	5	20	30	59	26	Round 1			Norbert Hrnčár (7)
1996–97	1st (Mars Superliga)	16/(16)	30	5	5	20	22	48	20	Round 1
1997–98	2nd (1. liga)	1/(16)	34	20	8	6	73	36	68	Round 2			Peter Hodúr (18)
1998–99	1st (Mars Superliga)	12/(16)	30	7	7	16	28	48	28	Round 2			Marián Klago (8)
1999–00	1st (Mars Superliga)	13/(16)	30	8	4	18	24	44	28	Round 2			Róbert Jež (4) Jozef Jelšic (4)
2000–01	2nd (1. Liga)	2/(18)	34	21	3	10	77	27	66	Round 1			Mário Breška (23)
2001–02	2nd (1. Liga)	7/(16)	30	12	7	11	41	34	43	Round 1			Jozef Jelšic (17)
2002–03	2nd (1. Liga)	12/(16)	30	11	5	14	36	29	38	Quarter-finals			Jozef Jelšic (15)
2003–04	2nd (1. Liga)	4/(16)	30	15	3	12	45	32	48	Round 2			Róbert Rák (13)
2004–05	2nd (1. Liga)	1/(16)	36	21	6	3	49	16	69	Round 2			Róbert Rák (27)
2005–06	1st (Corgoň Liga)	5/(10)	36	12	9	15	42	48	45	Semi-finals	UI	2.R ( Dnipro)	Róbert Rák (21)
2006–07	1st (Corgoň Liga)	6/(12)	28	9	4	15	21	33	31	Quarter-finals			Andrej Hesek (6)
2007–08	1st (Corgoň Liga)	3/(12)	33	17	6	10	40	26	57	Quarter-finals	UI	1.R ( Neftçi Baku)	Andrej Hesek (5) Jan Gruber [cs] (5)
2008–09	1st (Corgoň Liga)	11/(12)	33	9	8	16	34	53	35	Round 2			Róbert Rák (9)
2009–10	1st (Corgoň Liga)	4/(12)	33	14	6	13	42	40	48	Round 3			Róbert Rák (18)
2010–11	1st (Corgoň Liga)	8/(12)	33	11	7	15	30	51	40	Quarter-finals	EL	Q1 ( ETO Győr)	Róbert Rák (9)
2011–12	1st (Corgoň Liga)	8/(12)	33	9	12	12	33	39	39	Round 3			Vratislav Gajdoš (5)
2012–13	1st (Corgoň Liga)	10/(12)	33	11	6	16	39	54	36	Round 3			Cléber (11)
2013–14	1st (Corgoň Liga)	12/(12)	33	6	8	19	33	63	26	Round 2			Cléber (7)
2014–15	2nd (DOXXbet Liga)	5/(24)	22	8	7	7	26	25	31	Round 5			Matúš Paukner (21)
2015–16	2nd (DOXXbet Liga)	7/(24)	30	13	7	10	54	36	46	Round 4			Matúš Paukner (17)
2016–17	2nd (DOXXbet liga)	2/(24)	30	18	5	7	57	32	59	Round 5			Filip Balaj (20)
2017–18	1st (Fortuna Liga)	7/(12)	31	10	12	9	28	27	42	Round 5			Filip Balaj (6) Tomáš Vestenický (6)
2018–19	1st (Fortuna Liga)	9/(12)	32	8	10	14	42	48	34	Quarter-finals			Tomáš Vestenický (10)
2019–20	1st (Fortuna Liga)	12/(12)	27	7	4	16	23	36	25	Quarter-finals			Milan Ristovski (12)
2020–21	1st (Fortuna Liga)	12/(12)1	32	7	6	19	26	55	27	Round 3			Michal Faško (8)
2021–22	3rd (III. liga)	16/(18)	34	8	2	24	42	75	26	Round 2			Adrián Mokoš (10)
2022–23	4rd (IV. liga)	14/(16)	30	8	6	16	37	51	30	Did not enter			Radovan Lipovský (7)
2023–24

¹ FC Nitra did not obtain a licence for the 2021–22 season

European competition history

UEFA-administered

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1961–62	Mitropa Cup	Group
				Slovnaft Bratislava		4–3
				Torino	5–1
				SV Stickstoff		4–4
		Semi-Finals		Udinese	4–3	1–1	5–4
		Finals		Bologna	2–2	0–3	2–5
1989–90	UEFA Cup	R1		1. FC Köln	0–1	1–4	1–5
2006	Intertoto Cup	R1		Grevenmacher	6–2	6–0	12–2
		R2		Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	2–1	0–2	2–3
2008	Intertoto Cup	R1		Neftchi Baku	3–1	0–2	3–3 (a)
2010–11	UEFA Europa League	QR1		ETO Győr	2–2	1–3	3–5

Not UEFA-administered

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away
1962–63	Intertoto Cup	Group A4		Sarajevo	5–1	2–3
				Servette	0–0	1–2
				Olympique Nîmes	4–1	0–2
1972	Intertoto Cup	Group 1		SSV Innsbruck	4–1	1–0
				Örgryte	3–0	6–2
				AB Copenhagen	2–0	3–2
1973	Intertoto Cup	Group 9		Amsterdam	4–1	3–2
				Eintracht Braunschweig	1–1	2–1
				Vejle BK	4–1	4–1
1980	Intertoto Cup	Group 5		LASK Linz	0–1	2–1
				Esbjerg	2–0	1–0
				Polonia Bytom	4–0	0–1
1982	Intertoto Cup	Group 3		Werder Bremen	3–5	3–3
				Aarhus	3–4	0–1
				Sturm Graz	5–3	2–0
1987	Intertoto Cup	Group 6		AIK Stockholm	1–0	0–0
				Lyngby	4–1	1–2
				Lech Poznań	2–1	0–3
1989	Intertoto Cup	Group 2		Hansa Rostock	3–0	1–1
				Boldklubben 1903	1–3	1–3
				Malmö FF	1–1	0–0
1990	Intertoto Cup	Group 7		Tatabánya	4–0	0–0
				Luzern	0–2	1–1
				Örebro	1–0	0–0

Player records

Most goals

#	Nat.	Name	Goals
1		Róbert Rák	100
2		Michal Pucher [cs]	57
3		Dušan Borko [cs]	42
4		Matúš Paukner	38
5		Filip Balaj	32
6		Ľubomír Moravčík	30
		Vladimír Ternény [cs]
7		Igor Klejch	29
		Milan Lednický

Notable players

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

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

• Marek Bakoš
• Miroslav Barčík
• Miloš Belák [cs]
• Henrich Benčík
• Ivan Bilský [sk]
• Marián Bochnovič
• Dušan Borko [cs]
• Mário Breška
• Miroslav Čmarada [cs]
• Igor Demo
• Marián Dirnbach
• Juraj Dovičovič
• Pavol Farkaš
• Peter Grajciar
• Ján Greguš
• Vladimír Hagara
• Michal Hanek
• Kevin Harmse
• Ariel Harush
• Christián Herc
• Andrej Hesek
• Michal Hipp
• Ján Hlavatý [cs]
• Ivan Hodúr
• Eduard Hrnčár
• Norbert Hrnčár
• Erik Jendrišek
• Róbert Jež
• Jaroslav Kolbas
• Tomáš Kóňa
• Miroslav König
• Jozef Kukučka
• Branislav Labant
• John Mensah
• Vahagn Militosyan
• Ladislav Molnár
• Ľubomír Moravčík
• Isaac Muleme
• Alexander Nagy [cs]
• Zoltán Opata
• Dušan Perniš
• Peter Petráš
• Martin Prohászka
• Milan Ristovski
• Róbert Semeník
• Štefan Senecký
• Samuel Slovák
• Seydouba Soumah
• Miroslav Sovič
• Miroslav Stoch
• Lukáš Štetina
• Léandre Tawamba
• Vladimír Ternény [cs]
• Róbert Tomaschek
• Petr Trapp
• Alexander Vencel sr.

Former managers

• Zoltán Opata (1935–36)
• Karol Bučko (1959–63)
• Ladislav Putera (1963–64)
• Eduard Farman (1964–65)
• František Skyva [cs] (1965–68)
• Jozef Čurgaly (1968–70)
• Michal Pucher [cs] (1970–74)
• Ján Dinga [cs] (1974–75)
• Theodor Reimann (1975–76)
• Michal Pucher [cs] (1976–77)
• František Skyva [cs] (1978–83)
• František Urvay [cs] (1983)
• Jiří Lopata (1984)
• Stanislav Jarábek (1984–85)
• Jozef Jarabinský (1985–86)
• Kamil Majerník (1986–88)
• Milan Lešický (1988–91)
• Karol Pecze (1991–92)
• Stanislav Jarábek (1992–93)
• S. Dominka (1993)
• Ivan Horn [cs] (1993–95)
• Milan Albrecht (2001)
• Ivan Galád (2004–07)
• Pavel Hapal (1 Jul 2007 – 30 Jun 2008)
• Pavel Malura (9 Jun 2008 – 28 Sep 2008)
• Marián Süttö (28 Sep 2008 – 31 Dec 2008)
• Petar Kurčubić (1 Jan 2009 – 30 Jun 2009)
• Ivan Galád (1 Jul 2010 – 13 Jan 2011)
• Ivan Vrabec (15 Jan 2011 – 14 Mar 2011)
• Cyril Stachura (15 Mar 2011 – 19 Nov 2011)
• Róbert Barborík [cs] (interim) (20 Nov 2011 – 19 Dec 2011)
• Ladislav Jurkemik (20 Dec 2011 – 5 Nov 2012)
• Jozef Vukušič (6 Nov 2012 – 30 Jun 2013)
• Ladislav Šimčo (1 Jul 2013 – 27 Aug 2013)
• Vladimír Koník (27 Aug 2013 – 19 Feb 2014)
• Ladislav Hudec (19 Feb 2014 – June 2014)
• Michal Hipp (Jun 2014 – 23 Sep 2015)
• Róbert Barborík [cs] (23 Sep 2015 – 5 Jan 2017)
• Ivan Galád (5 Jan 2017 – 13 Mar 2019)
• Michal Kuruc (13 Mar 2019 – 20 Jun 2019)
• Marián Süttö (20 Jun 2019 – 6 Jan 2020)
• Anatoliy Demyanenko (6 Jan 2020 – May 2020)
• Miroslav Nemec (May 2020 – 29 Jun 2020)
• Ivan Galád (29 Jun 2020 – Aug 2020)
• Gergely Geri (Aug 2020 – 1 Dec 2020)
• Ivan Galád (interim) (1 Dec 2020 – 4 Jan 2021)
• Michal Ščasný (4 Jan 2021 – 22 Jan 2021)
• Peter Lérant (22 Jan 2021 – 25 Mar 2021)
• Michal Ščasný (26 Mar 2021 – 24 Jan 2022)
• Miloš Foltán (25 Jan 2022 - 12 apr 2022)
• Augustín Antalík [cs] (13 apr 2022 – July 2022)
• Jozef Kozák (July 2022 – 28 Feb 2023)
• Dušan Borko [cs] (1 mar 2023-)

References

1. "FC Nitra – rozdielne pohľady ešte aj na výšku dlhu". Archived from the original on 14 June 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
2. "Nitra-Bologna 2:2". Rudé právo (in Czech). Prague. 15 March 1962. p. 4. Retrieved 18 September 2024.
3. "Sn Nitra prohrál v odvetě 0:3". Rudé právo (in Czech). Prague. 5 April 1962. p. 6. Retrieved 18 September 2024.

External links

• Official website (in Slovak)
• FC Nitra – Ultras (in Slovak) (archived 23 August 2006)