2008–09 Slovak Superliga

Slovak Superliga
Season	2008–09
Champions	Slovan Bratislava 5th title
Relegated	FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce
Champions League	Slovan Bratislava (Second qualifying round)
Europa League	MŠK Žilina (Second qualifying round) Spartak Trnava (First qualifying round) MFK Košice (third qualifying round)
Goals scored	516
Average goals/game	2,61
Top goalscorer	Pavol Masaryk (14)
← 2007–08 2009–10 →

The Slovak Superliga 2008–09 was the ninth season of the league since its establishment. It began on 19 July 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. FC Artmedia Petržalka were the defending champions.

1 Promotion and relegation
2 Overview
3 League table
4 Results
- 4.1 First round
- 4.2 Second and third round
5 Top scorers
6 External links

Promotion and relegation

FK AS Trenčín were relegated after concluding the last season in 12th and last place. They were replaced by the champions of the Slovak First League 2007-08, 1. FC Tatran Prešov. Also DAC Dunajská Streda, who were Western Group champions of Slovak Second League 2007-08, merged with FC Senec and took their place in Superliga.

Overview

Location of teams in Slovak Superliga 2008-09

Team	Stadium	Capacity
ŠK Slovan Bratislava	Tehelné pole	30,085
FC Spartak Trnava	Štadión Antona Malatinského	18,448
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda	Mestský štadión - DAC Dunajská Streda	16,410
FC Tatran Prešov	Tatran Štadión	14,000
MŠK Žilina	Stadium Pod Dubňom	13,000
FC Nitra	Štadión pod Zoborom	11,384
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica	SNP Stadium	10,000
MFK Košice	Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli	9,600
FC Artmedia Petržalka	Štadión Petržalka	9,500
MFK Dubnica	Štadión Zimný	5,450
MFK Ružomberok	Štadión MFK Ružomberok	4,817
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Štadión FC ViOn	4,000

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slovan Bratislava (C)	33	21	7	5	69	25	+44	70	2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	MŠK Žilina	33	18	8	7	56	26	+30	62	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	Spartak Trnava	33	15	10	8	45	38	+7	55	2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	MFK Košice	33	14	10	9	48	42	+6	52	2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round ¹
5	MFK Ružomberok	33	12	11	10	48	34	+14	47
6	Artmedia Petržalka	33	12	11	10	50	38	+12	47
7	Tatran Prešov	33	10	11	12	40	50	−10	41
8	ZTS Dubnica	33	10	7	16	43	49	−6	37
9	DAC Dunajská Streda	33	9	9	15	32	59	−27	36
10	Dukla Banská Bystrica	33	9	8	16	30	39	−9	35
11	FC Nitra	33	9	8	16	34	53	−19	35
12	ViOn Zlaté Moravce (R)	33	5	8	20	21	63	−42	23	Relegation to the 2009-10 Slovak First League

Source: kicker.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
¹Košice won the Slovak Cup 2008–09 and qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

The schedule consists of three rounds. The pairings of the first round were set according to the 2007-08 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team. The remaining two rounds consist of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule.

First round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in final standings 2007-08):

 1st round  2nd round  3rd round  4th round  5th round  6th round
   1 - 12     1 -  2     2 - 12     1 -  4     3 - 12     1 - 6  
   2 - 11     8 -  6     3 -  1     2 -  3     4 -  2     2 - 5  
   3 - 10     9 -  5     4 - 11     9 -  7     5 -  1     3 - 4  
   4 - 9     10 -  4     5 - 10    10 -  6     6 - 11    10 - 8  
   5 - 8     11 -  3     6 -  9    11 -  5     7 - 10    11 - 7  
   6 - 7     12 -  7     7 -  8    12 -  8     8 -  9    12 - 9

 7th round  8th round  9th round 10th round 11th round
   4 - 12     1 -  8     5 - 12     1 - 10     6 - 12
   5 -  3     2 -  7     6 -  4     2 -  9     7 -  5
   6 -  2     3 -  6     7 -  3     3 -  8     8 -  4
   7 -  1     4 -  5     8 -  2     4 -  7     9 -  3
   8 - 11    11 -  9     9 -  1     5 -  6    10 -  2
   9 - 10    12 - 10    10 - 11    12 - 11    11 -  1

Home \ Away¹	ART	BB	DUB	DS	KOŠ	NIT	PRE	RUŽ	SLO	TRN	ZLM	ŽIL
Artmedia Petržalka		1–1		0–0	2–3		1–0			1–1		0–2
Dukla Banská Bystrica			1–0		0–1					0–1	0–0	1–0
ZTS Dubnica	2–1			2–2		1–2		2–0	1–3
DAC Dunajská Streda		2–1			1–3					3–0	1–0	2–0
MFK Košice			3–1				5–5	1–0		2–1	2–1	0–0
FC Nitra	1–2	1–2		2–1	2–1		1–0			1–5
Tatran Prešov		2–0	1–4	1–0				3–2			1–0
MFK Ružomberok	2–0	1–0		2–2		3–0			1–1
Slovan Bratislava	4–1	0–0		2–1	2–0	2–0	4–1
Spartak Trnava			2–1				0–0	2–0	1–1		2–0	0–0
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	0–5		0–0			1–1		1–1	1–0
MŠK Žilina			3–1			5–0	5–1	1–1	1–0		3–0

Source: kicker.de (German)
¹The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second and third round

Home \ Away¹	ART	BB	DUB	DS	KOŠ	NIT	PRE	RUŽ	SLO	TRN	ZLM	ŽIL
Artmedia Petržalka		1–1	3–0	3–0	3–2	1–1	3–0	2–2	1–1	0–0	5–0	0–0
Dukla Banská Bystrica	0–1		3–0	0–0	0–0	2–1	2–1	0–2	2–3	1–2	2–1	1–1
ZTS Dubnica	0–0	2–0		3–0	3–1	4–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–1	1–1	2–0
DAC Dunajská Streda	0–4	1–3	1–0		2–1	1–0	2–1	3–2	0–4	1–4	1–2	0–0
MFK Košice	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1		0–0	1–1	2–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	3–0
FC Nitra	1–1	2–1	2–1	3–0	4–1		0–0	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	0–2
Tatran Prešov	1–0	2–1	2–3	2–1	1–2	1–1		2–2	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–0
MFK Ružomberok	3–0	1–0	2–2	0–0	0–0	1–1	3–0		5–1	1–0	1–0	0–1
Slovan Bratislava	2–0	5–0	3–1	6–0	1–2	3–1	1–1	2–0		1–2	6–0	2–0
Spartak Trnava	4–2	2–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	3–1	0–3	0–4	1–1		3–1	1–1
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	0–3	1–5	2–0	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	0–3	0–1		0–2
MŠK Žilina	3–1	1–0	5–2	5–1	2–1	2–0	2–2	2–0	0–1	5–1	2–1