FC Nitra

FC Nitra
Full name Football Club Nitra
Nickname(s) Trogári
Founded 1909
Ground Štadión pod Zoborom,
Nitra
(Capacity: 11,384)
Chairman Eugen Árvay
Manager Ladislav Jurkemik
League Corgoň Liga
2010–11 8th
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.

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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 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. 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

Honours

Domestic

European Cups History

UEFA Cup/Europa League:

Season Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1989-90 1 1. FC Köln 0-1 1-4 1-5
2010-11 1 ETO Győr 2-2 1-3 3-5

Current squad

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

No. Position Player
1 GK Martin Chudý
2 DF Marián Kolmokov
3 DF Martin Tóth (captain)
4 MF Martin Boszorád
6 DF Ján Harbuľák
7 MF Ľuboš Kolár
8 MF Igor Držík (on loan from Bohemians 1905)
9 FW Matúš Mikuš
10 MF Ivan Hodúr
11 MF Lukáš Zelenický
13 MF Vratislav Gajdoš (on loan from Liberec)
No. Position Player
14 MF Miloš Šimončič
15 MF Andrej Ivančík
16 DF Petr Kaspřák
17 FW Marek Gajdošík
19 FW Arnold Šimonek
21 FW Roman Sloboda
22 GK Matej Kopecký
23 DF Sibusiso Ntuli (on loan from FC Cape Town)
24 FW Matúš Paukner
28 DF Ján Čirik (on loan from Šaľa)
77 FW Róbert Rák

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player

Reserve team

Famous players

Famous coaches

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