FC Nitra

FC Nitra

Club crest
Full name	Football Club Nitra
Nickname(s)	Trogári
Founded	1909
Ground	Štadión pod Zoborom, Nitra
Ground Capacity	5,050
Owner	Norbert Bödör
Chairman	Jozef Petráni
Coach	Róbert Barborík
League	DOXXbet liga
2014–15	2. liga Championship round , 5th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours Third colours

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. Nitra were promoted and relegated 4 times from the Czechoslovakian 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. FC Nitra was the first football professional club in the former Czechoslovakia.

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 headcoach 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.

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). 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. FC Nitra have recently signed Slovak international Ivan Hodúr from Ružomberok. from new season from new manager Ivan Galád.

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
• 1.SNL (1st Slovak National football league) (1969–1993)
  • Winners (3): 1978-79, 1985-86, 1991-92

Slovakia

• Slovakian League (1993–Present)
  • Best finish: 3rd – 2007–08
• Slovenský Pohár (Slovakian 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 (1): 2000–01

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	18
2005–06	Róbert Rák	211
2009–10	Róbert Rák	18

¹Shared award

European

• Mitropa Cup 2
  • Runners-up: 1961

European competition history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1961-62	Mitropa Cup	Group
				TJ Slovnaft		4–3
				FC Torino	5–1
				SV Stickstoff		4-4
		Semi-Final		Udinese	4-3	1-1	5-4
		Final		FC Bologna	2-2	0-3	2-5
1989–90	UEFA Cup	1. Round		1. FC Köln	0–1	1–4	1–5
2006	Intertoto Cup	1. Round		CS Grevenmacher	6–2	6–0	12–2
		2. Round		Dnipro	2–1	0–2	2–3
2008	Intertoto Cup	1. Round		Neftchi PFK	3–1	0–2	3–3 (a)
2010–11	UEFA Cup	1. Round		ETO Győr	2–2	1–3	1–5

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-present		Mesto Nitra

Current squad

Updated 5 September 2015. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 DF Marián Kolmokov 3 MF Tomáš Galko 4 DF Samuel Ďurek 9 MF Jozef Urblík 12 MF Miloš Fábry 13 MF René Kotrík 15 MF Andrej Ivančík

No. Position Player 20 FW Róbert Valenta 23 MF Tomáš Drgoňa 25 DF Adam Dunda 27 MF Márius Charizopulos 31 GK Matej Dovičovič 33 GK Richard Stránsky 35 GK Patrik Hipp

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2015.

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player GK Matej Kopecký (at Gabčíkovo)

No. Position Player FW Tomáš Vestenický (at Roma)

Reserve team

FC Nitra juniori are the reserve team of FC Nitra. They currently play in the Slovak 3. Liga (Western division).

Squad

Head coach: Peter Hnilica
Assistant coach: Štefan Strečka
Updated 26 February 2013

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

No. Position Player GK Patrik Hipp GK Richard Stránsky DF Pavol Grman DF Vasiľ Pitra DF Adam Halaji DF David Petráš DF Norbert Lukács DF Filip Kinček DF Michal Poluch DF Michal Grman

No. Position Player DF Filip Kinček MF Miroslav Mládenek MF Adam Bratský MF Erik Penzeš MF Patrik Brath MF Andrej Hnilica MF Adrián Ács MF Matúš Turňa FW Marek Gajdošík FW Patrik Adámek FW Michal Németh

Current technical staff

Updated 24 June 2014

Staff	Job title
Róbert Barborík	Manager
Martin Babinec	Assistant manager
TBA	Goalkeeping coach
Igor Demo	Team Leader
MUDr. Ivan Štefanov	Team Doctor
Dagmar Zahustelová	Physiotherapist
Štefan Balla	Masseur

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
• Henrich Benčík
• Mário Breška
• Igor Demo
• Marián Dirnbach
• Juraj Dovičovič
• Pavol Farkaš
• Peter Grajciar
• Ján Greguš
• Vladimír Hagara
• Michal Hanek
• Kevin Harmse
• Andrej Hesek
• Michal Hipp
• Ivan Hodúr
• Eduard Hrnčár
• Norbert Hrnčár
• Róbert Jež
• Jaroslav Kolbas
• Tomáš Kóňa
• Miroslav König
• Jozef Kukučka
• Branislav Labant
• John Mensah
• Ladislav Molnár
• Ľubomír Moravčík
• Zoltán Opata
• Dušan Perniš
• Peter Petráš
• Martin Prohászka
• Luis Ramos
• Róbert Semeník
• Štefan Senecký
• Samuel Slovák
• Seydouba Soumah
• Miroslav Sovič
• Miroslav Stoch
• Lukáš Štetina
• Róbert Tomaschek
• Alexander Vencel sr.

Former coaches

• Zoltán Opata (1935–36)
• Karol Bučko (1959–63)
• Ladislav Putera (1963–64)
• E. Farman (1964–65)
• František Skyva (1965–68)
• Jozef Čurgaly (1968–70)
• Michal Pucher (1970–74)
• Ján Dinga (1974–75)
• Theodor Reimann (1975–76)
• Michal Pucher (1976–77)
• František Skyva (1978–83)
• František Urvay (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 (1993–95)
• Ivan Galád (2004–07)
• Pavel Hapal (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008)
• Pavel Malura (June 9, 2008 – Sept 28, 2008)
• Marián Süttö (Sept 28, 2008 – Dec 31, 2008)
• Petar Kurčubić (Jan 1, 2009 – June 30, 2009)
• Ivan Galád (July 1, 2010 – Jan 13, 2011)
• Ivan Vrabec (Jan 15, 2011 – March 14, 2011)

• Cyril Stachura (March 15, 2011 – Nov 19, 2011)
• Róbert Barborík (interim) (Nov 20, 2011 – Dec 19, 2011)
• Ladislav Jurkemik (Dec 20, 2011 – Nov 5, 2012)
• Jozef Vukušič (Nov 6, 2012 – June 30, 2013)
• Ladislav Šimčo (July 1, 2013 – Aug 27, 2013)
• Vladimír Koník (Aug 27, 2013 – Feb 19, 2014)
• Ladislav Hudec (Feb 19, 2014 – June 2014)
• Michal Hipp (June 2014 – Sep 23, 2015)
• Róbert Barborík (Sep 23, 2015–present)

External links

• Official website (Slovak)
• FC Nitra on Facebook
• FC Nitra Ultras (Slovak)