FK Senica

FK Senica^[1] (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈseɲitsa]) is a Slovak football team, based in the town of Senica. The club was founded in 1921.

FK Senica

Full name	Futbalový klub Senica a.s.
Nickname(s)	Záhoráci
Founded	1921
Dissolved	2022
Ground	OMS Arena, Senica
Capacity	5,070
Owner	Komplexx Group Sports
Manager	Libor Fašiang
2021–22	Fortuna Liga, 7th
Website	www.fksenica.eu
Home colours Away colours

History

FK Senica was founded in 1921. Newly created partition was rapidly progressed, but the boom dampened dark period World War II. World war almost destroyed football in Senica. Pšurný Rudolf, who was the chairman has already pre-war club, but do not allow the city faded football. The club was organized matches and tournaments. After the war he began the sport Zahorie to bloom again.

The 1962 in club annals written in bold letters. Football team got to use a new stadium. He serves footballer today. Opening of the sports complex was associated with a charity match between footballers from Senica district and the then vice-champion of the world from Chile in a convoy with Jozef Adamec.

Senica as the years gather on the sports field more and more respect. We were successful in the lower leagues even glasses. Between the absolute leader is introduced premiere in 2009–10 season, when the club began a new era.

Dušan Vrťo, the former Sporting Director of FK Senica in 2010 has offered Dundee FC to be the club's scout in Slovakia.^[2]

In 2018–19 season the club had set a record, that was regarded as a rather negative one. On 16 February 2019 (Matchday 19), in an away game against AS Trenčín, played in Myjava, Senica fielded an entire starting line-up made up entirely of foreign players. All the substitutes were non-Slovaks as well.^[3]

Then in 2021–22 season, FK Senica was declared bankrupt. According to sport.sk, Senica is in debt with a value of up to 1 million euros. This serious financial problem even made Senica reportedly unable to pay the operational arrears on the club's official website before the COVID-19 pandemic. Even FK Senica official website, fksenica.eu had been disabled because the club had not paid operational bills since February 2020.^[4]

In 2025, the official domain name fksenica.eu was being auctioned on Dropcatch.ai

FK Senica's financial crisis has also caused players and club employees to reportedly not receive a salary since September 2021. As a result of the salary stagnated for seven months, it rolled out a wave of massive resignations from several players.^[5] This caused Senica to be thrown into the 3. Liga because its license was revoked.^[6]

Clubname history

• 1921 – 1923 – Železná únia Senica
• 1923 – 1928 – Športový klub Senica
• 1928 – 1934 – AC Senica
• 1934 – 1939 – FC Senica
• 1940 – 1946 – ŠK Senica
• 1946 – 1969 – Sokol Chemické závody (ChZ)
• 1969 – 2006 – TJ/FK SH Senica (merged with FK 96 Ress Častkov)
• 2006 –2023 – FK Senica
• 2023 –present  - Futbalový klub Senica

Honours

Domestic

• Slovak Super Liga (1993–)
  • Runners-up (2): 2010–11, 2012–13
• Slovak Cup (1961–)
  • Runners-up (2): 2012, 2015

Slovak League Top Goalscorer

Slovak League Top scorer since 1993–94

Year Winner G 2014–15 Jan Kalabiška 191

¹Shared award

Supporters

FK Senica ultras are known as Železná únia 1921 (on the Stadium of FK Senica a sector B3 belong them). Fanclub was founded in winter 2013. FK Senica supporters friendly 1. FC Slovácko.

Rivalries

Today, FK Senica's biggest rival is Spartak Myjava. The matches between the two teams are referred to as "záhorácko-kopaničiarske derby". The first derby in the Slovak highest tier, was played on 24 August 2012, and ended 0–1 in favour of Spartak Myjava.

Sponsorship

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
1999–?	hummel	SLOVENSKÝ HODVÁB
2010–11	hummel	101 Drogerie
2011–12		NAD RESS
2012–2015		none
2016–2017		Business Funding Solutions
2017–2020		none
2020–2021	KOMPLEXX GROUP SK
2021–2022	Adidas	KOMPLEXX GROUP SK Zoznam.sk

Club partners

source^[7]

• OMS Lighting
• 101 Drogerie
• NAD-RESS
• Philips
• City of Senica

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs were or are currently affiliated with FK Senica:

• Cruzeiro (2012–?)^[8]
• Arapongas (2013–?)^[9]
• ADO Den Haag (2013–?)^[10][11]
• GBS Academy (2019–present)^[12]
• Beşiktaş J.K. (2021–present)^[13]

Current squad

As of 10 July 2022.^[14]

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 10 MF  CZE Dominik Duda 11 MF  SVK Daniel Filip Mašulovič

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  SVK Lukáš Kučera 25 DF  CMR Raphaël Anaba 28 DF  CTA Cyriaque Mayounga

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2021 and
List of Slovak football transfers winter 2021–22

Current staff

As of 16 April 2022^[update]

Name	Staff
Libor Fašiang	Manager
Petr Maléř	Assistant manager
David Balda	Director
Ivan Tobiáš	Club manager
Vladimír Včelka	Director of academy
Branislav Valjent	Goalkeeping coach
Ján Šimek	Masseur
MUDr. Radovan Hyža	Team doctor
Martin Šnegoň	Team leader

Results

League and Cup history

Slovak League only (1993–present)

Season	Division (Name)	Pos./Teams	Slovak Cup	Europe		Top Scorer (Goals)
1998–99	3nd (2. Liga)	1				Vladimír Prokop (27)
1999–00	2nd (1. Liga)	8/(18)	Preliminary round			Igor Klejch (15)
2000–01	2nd (1. Liga)	17/(18)	Round 1			?
2001–02	3rd (2. Liga)	1/(16)	Quarter-finals			Jozef Dojčan (7)
2002–03	2nd (1. Liga)	10/(16)	Round 1			Stanislav Velický (6)
2003–04	2nd (1. Liga)	15/(16)	Round 1			?
2004–05	3rd (2. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2005–06	4th (3. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2006–07	4th (3. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2007–08	4th (3. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2008–09	4th (3. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2009-10	4th (3. Liga)		Did not enter			?
2009–10	1st (Corgoň Liga)	6/(12)	Round 2			Juraj Piroska (6)
2010–11	1st (Corgoň Liga)	2/(12)	Round 2			Ondřej Smetana (18)
2011–12	1st (Corgoň Liga)	4/(12)	Runners-Up	EL	Q3 ( RB Salzburg)	Rolando Blackburn (5) Tomáš Kóňa (5) Jaroslav Diviš (5)
2012–13	1st (Corgoň Liga)	2/(12)	Quarterfinals	EL	Q2 ( APOEL)	Rolando Blackburn (10)
2013–14	1st (Corgoň Liga)	6/(12)	Semi-finals	EL	Q2 ( Podgorica)	Juraj Piroska (13)
2014–15	1st (Fortuna Liga)	5/(12)	Runners-Up			Jan Kalabiška (19)
2015–16	1st (Fortuna Liga)	10/(12)	Round 4			Jozef Dolný (5) Jakub Hromada (5)
2016–17	1st (Fortuna Liga)	9/(12)	Round 3			Pirulo (4) Samuel Mráz (4)
2017–18	1st (Fortuna Liga)	11/(12)	Round 3			Frank Castañeda (5) Oliver Podhorín (5)
2018–19	1st (Fortuna Liga)	8/(12)	Semi–finals			Roberto Dias (6)
2019–20	1st (Fortuna Liga)	10/(12)	Round of 16			Frank Castañeda (8)
2020–21	1st (Fortuna Liga)	11/(12)	Round 3			Tomáš Malec (8)
2021–22	1st (Fortuna Liga)	10/(12)1	Semi-finals			Elvis Mashike Sukisa (7)
2022–23
2023–24	8th (VIII.liga- dosp. II.tr.-ObFZ SE)	1/(12)	did not enter			Pavol Škodáček (19)
2024–25	7th (VII.liga- dosp.-MO ObFZ SE)	1/(12)	did not enter			Teofil Palka (20)

¹ FK Senica did not obtain a licence for the 2022–23 season

European competition history

Main article: Slovak football clubs in European competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2011–12	UEFA Europa League	Q3		Red Bull Salzburg	0–3	0–1	0–4
2012–13	UEFA Europa League	Q1		MTK Budapest	2–1	1–1	3–2
		Q2		APOEL	0–1	0–2	0–3
2013–14	UEFA Europa League	Q2		Mladost Podgorica	0–1	2–2	2–3

First international match versus FC Red Bull Salzburg

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Player records

Most goals

#	Nat.	Name	Goals
1		Juraj Piroska	48
2		Jan Kalabiška	32
3		Jaroslav Diviš	23
4		Frank Castañeda	18
		Ondřej Smetana
6		Rolando Blackburn	15
7		Tomáš Kóňa	13

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Notable players

List of players which had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for FK Senica.

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

AFC

• Egy Maulana Vikri
• Witan Sulaeman

CAF

• Edmund Addo
• Kay
• Cyriaque Mayounga
• Patrick Asmah
• Eneji Moses
• Wisdom Mutasa
• Désiré Segbé Azankpo
• Zezinho
• Juvhel Tsoumou

CONCACAF

• Kris Twardek
• Pedro Leal
• Rolando Blackburn

CONMEBOL

• Eric Ramírez

UEFA

• Ladislav Almási
• Marián Bochnovič
• Erich Brabec
• Juraj Chvátal
• Jaroslav Černý
• Erik Čikoš
• Martin Ďurica
• Martin Frýdek
• Andrej Hesek
• Filip Hlohovský
• Dominik Holec
• Jakub Hromada
• Luboš Hušek
• Michal Jonáš
• Juraj Kotula
• Tomáš Kóňa
• Matej Krajčík
• Filip Lukšík
• Róbert Mazáň
• Samir Merzić
• Samuel Mráz
• Juraj Piroska
• František Plach
• Tomas Radzinevičius
• Michal Šulla
• Lukáš Tesák
• Michal Tomič
• Blažej Vaščák
• Dušan Vrťo

Managers

• Ladislav Hudec (1 Jul 2009 – 11 Feb 2010)
• Radim Necas (12 Feb 2010 – 31 May 2010)
• Stanislav Griga (1 Jul 2010 – 26 Apr 2012)
• Zdeněk Psotka (1 Jul 2012 – 31 Dec 2012)
• Vladimír Koník (1 Jan 2013 – 30 Jun 2013)
• Eduard Pagáč (3 Jun 2013 – 12 Mar 2014)
• Pavel Hapal (12 Mar 2014 – 23 Dec 2014)
• Jozef Kostelník (4 Jan 2015 – 8 May 2015)
• Eduard Pagáč (8 May 2015 – 8 Sep 2015)
• Juraj Sabol (8 Sep 2015 –26 May 2016 )&
• Dušan Vrťo (8 Sep 2015 –30 May 2016 )
• Aleš Čvančara (30 May 2016 – 19 Jul 2016 )
• Miroslav Mentel (19 Jul 2016 – 16 Jun 2017 )
• Ivan Vrabec (16 Jun 2017 – 11 Sep 2017)
• Ladislav Hudec (11 Sep 2017 – 8 Feb 2018)
• Ton Caanen (8 Feb 2018 – 3 Aug 2018)
• Frederico Ricardo (3 Aug 2018 – 9 Jan 2019)
• Ricardo Chéu (9 Jan 2019 – 7 Jun 2019)
• Michal Ščasný (8 Jul 2019 – 12 Feb 2020)
• Eduard Pagáč (16 Feb 2020 – 18 Feb2020)
• Patrik Durkáč (18 Feb 2020 – 7 Mar 2020)
• Ján Bíreš (7 Mar 2020 – 30 Jun 2020)
• Patrik Durkáč (30 Jun 2020 – 14 Jul 2020)
• Anton Šoltis (14 Jul 2020 – 20 Feb 2021)
• Karol Praženica (23 Feb 2021 – 2 Jun 2021)
• Pavel Šustr (2 Jun 2021 – 16 April 2022)
• Libor Fašiang (16 April 2022 – present)