FC Nitra

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FC Nitra

Full name

Football Club Nitra

Founded

1909

Ground

Štadión pod Zoborom,
Nitra
(Capacity 11,384)

Chairman

Eugen Árvay

Manager

Pavel Malura

League

Corgoň Liga

2005-06

First Division, 5th





Home colours





Away colours

FC Nitra is a Slovak 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.

1 Events timeline
2 Current squad
- 2.1 Famous players
3 Honours
- 3.1 Domestic
- 3.2 European
4 External links

Nitra was involved in the inaugural Slovakian championship in 1994 but was relegated to the second division after the 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 90's, 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 the best in the history of the club (as regards the Slovak first division). 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 transferred to MFK Ružomberok. Galád coached very defensively the team (as according his words no good striker was on the team). Galád lost his job after the 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.

[edit] Events timeline

1909 - Founded as NYÖTTSO Nitra
1911 - Renamed NYTVE Nitra
1919 - Renamed Nyitrai SC Nitra
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

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Marián Ďatko
3	DF	Martin Toth
4	DF	Pavol Farkaš
5	DF	Adrián Čeman
6	MF	Jan Gruber
7	MF	Lubos Kolar
9	FW	Roman Sloboda
10	MF	Robert Valenta
11	MF	Peter Grajciar
12	MF	Jaroslav Machovec
13	MF	Tomas Janicek
14	MF	Marek Kosut
15	DF	Karol Karlik
16	MF	Slavomír Bališ

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Martin Babic
18	MF	Marek Kostolani
19	MF	Ján Štajer
20	DF	Michal Ac
21	DF	Ján Leško
22	GK	Tomáš Tujvel
23	FW	Martin Baca
24	MF	Michal Farkaš
25	DF	Michal Jakubjak
26	MF	Miloš Šimončič
28	FW	Ondrej Curgali
29	MF	Erik Hrnčár
30	MF	Pavel Vrana
31	GK	Lukáš Hroššo