2013–14 Slovak First Football League

Corgoň Liga

Season	2013–14
Champions	Slovan Bratislava 8th title
Relegated	FC Nitra
Champions League	Slovan Bratislava
Europa League	MFK Košice
Matches played	198
Goals scored	566 (2.86 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tomáš Malec (14 goals)
Biggest home win	Trenčín 6–0 D.Streda
Biggest away win	Myjava 0–4 B.Bystrica
Highest scoring	Myjava 6–2 Trnava Žilina 4–4 Nitra
Highest attendance	7,009 (D.Streda - Sp.Trnava)
Lowest attendance	0 (Slovan - Senica, Slovan - Z.Moravce
Average attendance	2,164
← 2012–13 2014–15 →

The 2013–14 Slovak First Football League (known as the Slovak Corgoň Liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 21st season of first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. This season started on 12 July 2013.^[1] ŠK Slovan Bratislava are the defending champions.

Teams

A total of 12 teams are contesting the league, including 11 sides from the 2012–13 season and one promoted from the 2. liga.

Relegation for 1. FC Tatran Prešov to the 2013–14 Slovak Second Football League was confirmed on 26 May 2013. The one relegated team was replaced by FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda.

2013–14 Teams

ŠK Slovan Bratislava FK Senica AS Trenčín Spartak Myjava MFK Košice MFK Ružomberok

MŠK Žilina FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce FK Dukla Banská Bystrica FC Nitra FC Spartak Trnava FK DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda (2012–13 2. liga champion)

Stadiums and locations

Banská Bystrica

Trenčín

Myjava

Senica

Košice

Nitra

Dunajská Streda

Ružomberok

Slovan

Trnava

Žilina

Zlaté Moravce

Location of teams in Corgoň Liga 2013–14

Team	Home city	Stadium	Capacity	2012–13 season
AS Trenčín	Trenčín	Stadium na Sihoti	4,500	3rd in Corgoň Liga
DAC Dunajská Streda	Dunajská Streda	DAC Stadium	16,410	2. liga champions
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Banská Bystrica	SNP Stadium	10,000	9th in Corgoň Liga
FC Nitra	Nitra	Stadium pod Zoborom	11,384	10th in Corgoň Liga
FK Senica	Senica	Stadium FK Senica	4,500	Corgoň Liga runners-up
MFK Košice	Košice	Stadium Lokomotívy v Čermeli	9,000	5th in Corgoň Liga
MFK Ružomberok	Ružomberok	Stadium MFK Ružomberok	4,817	6th in Corgoň Liga
MŠK Žilina	Žilina	Stadium pod Dubňom	11,181	7th in Corgoň Liga
Slovan Bratislava	Bratislava	Pasienky	12,000	Corgoň Liga champions
Spartak Myjava	Myjava	Stadium Myjava	2,709	4th in Corgoň Liga
Spartak Trnava	Trnava	Stadium Antona Malatinského	3,350	11th in Corgoň Liga
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Zlaté Moravce	FC ViOn Stadium	4,000	8th in Corgoň Liga

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
AS Trenčín	Tscheu La Ling	Martin Ševela	Miloš Volešák	Nike	Aegon
DAC Dunajská Streda	Oszkár Világi	Mikuláš Radványi	Peter Majerník	Adidas	TBA
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Tomáš Geist	Norbert Hrnčár	Peter Boroš	Adidas
FC Nitra	Eugen Árvay	Ladislav Hudec	Cléber	Jako	Mesto Nitra
FK Senica	Viktor Blažek	Pavel Hapal	Juraj Piroska	hummel
MFK Košice	Blažej Podolák	Radoslav Látal	Peter Šinglár	Nike	Steel Trans
MFK Ružomberok	Milan Fiľo	Jozef Chovanec	Tomáš Ďubek	Adidas	MAESTRO
MŠK Žilina	Jozef Antošík	Adrián Guľa	Viktor Pečovský	Nike	Preto
Slovan Bratislava	Ivan Kmotrík	Jozef Valovič	Igor Žofčák	Adidas	Niké
Spartak Myjava	Pavel Halabrín	Radúz Dorňák	Martin Černáček	Uhlsport	NAD RESS
Spartak Trnava	Michal Pethö	Juraj Jarábek	Roman Procházka	Adidas	Danube Wings.eu, ŽOS Trnava
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Karol Škula	Branislav Mráz	Martin Babic	Luanvi	ViOn

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
FK Senica	Koník, VladimírVladimír Koník	End of contract	27 May 2013[2]	Pre-season	Pagáč, EduardEduard Pagáč	3 June 2013[3]
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Jarábek, JurajJuraj Jarábek	Signed by Spartak Trnava	28 May 2013[4]		Mráz, BranislavBranislav Mráz	28 May 2013[5]
FC Spartak Trnava	Ekhardt, VladimírVladimír Ekhardt	End of interim contract	28 May 2013		Jarábek, JurajJuraj Jarábek	28 May 2013[6]
AS Trenčín	Guľa, AdriánAdrián Guľa	Signed by MŠK Žilina	30 June 2013[7]		Nosický, ĽubomírĽubomír Nosický	4 June 2013[8]
MŠK Žilina	Tarkovič, ŠtefanŠtefan Tarkovič	End of interim contract	30 June 2013		Guľa, AdriánAdrián Guľa	1 July 2013[9]
FC Nitra	Vukušič, JozefJozef Vukušič	End of contract	30 June 2013		Šimčo, LadislavLadislav Šimčo	10 June 2013[10]
MFK Ružomberok	Šimčo, LadislavLadislav Šimčo	End of contract	30 June 2013[11]		Vukušič, JozefJozef Vukušič	12 June 2013[12]
MFK Košice	Kozák, JánJán Kozák	Signed by Slovakia	2 July 2013[13]		Galko, JaroslavJaroslav Galko	2 July 2013[14]
ŠK Slovan Bratislava	Slovák, SamuelSamuel Slovák	Sacked	28 July 2013	9th	Valovič, JozefJozef Valovič	28 July 2013[15]
FC Nitra	Šimčo, LadislavLadislav Šimčo	Sacked	27 August 2013	11th	Demo, IgorIgor Demo	27 August 2013[16]
AS Trenčín	Nosický, ĽubomírĽubomír Nosický	Sacked	30 August 2013	4th	Ševela, MartinMartin Ševela	30 August 2013[17]
FC Nitra	Demo, IgorIgor Demo	End of caretaker spell	10 September 2013	12th	Koník, VladimírVladimír Koník	10 September 2013[18]
MFK Košice	Galko, JaroslavJaroslav Galko	Sacked	18 September 2013	9th	Látal, RadoslavRadoslav Látal	18 September 2013[19]
Spartak Myjava	Hudec, LadislavLadislav Hudec	Mutual agreement	19 December 2013[20]	5th	Dorňák, RadúzRadúz Dorňák	23 December 2013[21]
FC Nitra	Koník, VladimírVladimír Koník	Mutual agreement	7 January 2014[22]	11th	Hudec, LadislavLadislav Hudec	19 February 2014[23]
FK Senica	Pagáč, EduardEduard Pagáč	Sacked	12 March 2014[24]	4th	Hapal, PavelPavel Hapal	12 March 2014[25]

Notes

1. Adrián Guľa was announced new MŠK Žilina manager for the 2013–14 season on 3 January 2013.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Slovan Bratislava (C)	33	24	3	6	63	32	+31	75	2014–15 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2	Trenčín	33	19	6	8	74	35	+39	63	2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3	Spartak Trnava	33	16	5	12	47	42	+5	53	2014–15 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4	Ružomberok	33	15	5	13	56	51	+5	50
5	Košice	33	13	7	13	41	40	+1	46	2014–15 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round ^2
6	Senica	33	13	7	13	45	47	−2	46
7	Myjava	33	13	6	14	45	54	−9	45
8	Dukla Banská Bystrica	33	11	9	13	48	48	0	42
9	Žilina	33	11	7	15	49	50	−1	40
10	ViOn Zlaté Moravce	33	11	5	17	36	47	−11	38
11	DAC Dunajská Streda	33	8	8	17	29	57	−28	26^1
12	Nitra (R)	33	6	8	19	33	63	−30	26	Relegation to 2014–15 2. liga West

Source: Slovak First Football League (Slovak)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Dunajská Streda were deducted six points at the end of the season due to match-fixing.^[26]
2 2013–14 Slovak Cup winners Košice qualified for the second qualifying round of the 2014–15 UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Results

First and second round

Home ╲ Away

DAC

BB

KOŠ

NIT

RUŽ

SEN

SLO

MYJ

TRN

TRE

ZLM

ŽIL

DAC Dunajská Streda

1–1

0–0

1–0

2–0

0–2

1–2

0–3

1–4

1–0

0–1

0–1

Dukla Banská Bystrica

5–1

1–0

4–0

0–1

3–1

2–4

1–0

0–0

2–2

2–1

3–3

Košice

4–1

3–1

4–2

2–2

3–1

0–1

2–1

1–3

0–1

2–0

1–0

Nitra

0–0

2–0

2–3

3–3

1–0

1–2

0–1

0–1

1–1

2–3

0–2

Ružomberok

2–0

2–1

0–3

4–0

1–1

2–3

0–3

3–2

1–2

1–3

2–2

Senica

4–0

1–1

1–0

2–1

2–1

0–2

3–1

2–1

3–1

2–1

2–1

Slovan Bratislava

1–1

2–0

1–1

5–0

3–2

1–0

5–0

2–0

0–3

2–0

2–1

Myjava

4–1

0–4

1–0

4–0

0–3

2–2

2–2

6–2

1–3

2–2

1–1

Spartak Trnava

1–2

2–1

0–0

0–0

1–4

1–0

1–3

0–1

2–1

3–2

1–0

Trenčín

6–0

3–1

5–0

4–0

0–1

2–0

4–2

2–3

2–2

5–0

2–1

ViOn Zlaté Moravce

1–0

0–0

1–1

3–0

1–3

2–2

0–2

1–0

2–0

1–3

2–0

Žilina

0–0

1–2

2–0

4–4

2–3

1–3

2–0

1–0

0–0

1–3

3–1

Updated to games played on 17 March 2014.
Source: (Slovak)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Third round

Home ╲ Away

DAC

BB

KOŠ

NIT

RUŽ

SEN

SLO

MYJ

TRN

TRE

ZLM

ŽIL

DAC Dunajská Streda

4–0

1–1

1–0

1–0

2–1

Dukla Banská Bystrica

0–1

0–0

1–2

2–2

4–1

Košice

2–1

1–0

1–2

0–2

1–1

0–0

Nitra

3–1

2–0

3–0

3–0

0–3

Ružomberok

2–1

0–1

0–0

5–0

0–2

3–2

Senica

3–3

1–1

3–2

0–1

2–1

1–4

Slovan Bratislava

2–1

2–1

1–2

2–0

0–1

2–0

Myjava

1–1

2–1

0–1

2–0

0–3

Spartak Trnava

4–0

1–0

1–2

3–1

3–1

Trenčín

3–0

1–1

3–0

0–1

4–1

ViOn Zlaté Moravce

1–3

1–0

2–1

1–2

1–2

1–3

Žilina

3–2

3–0

2–0

1–0

0–1

1–0

Updated to games played on 31 May 2014.
Source: (Slovak)
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top scorers

Updated through matches played on 31 May 2014

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[27]
1	Tomáš Malec	AS Trenčín	14
2	Léandre Tawamba	MFK Ružomberok	13
	Juraj Piroska	FK Senica
4	Pavel Fořt	Slovan Bratislava	12
	Róbert Vittek	Slovan Bratislava
6	Miloš Lačný	MFK Ružomberok	11
	Štefan Pekár	Spartak Myjava
	Pavol Jurčo	Banská Bystrica(8)/Žilina(3)
9	Gino van Kessel	AS Trenčín	10
	Tomáš Ďubek	MFK Ružomberok
	Erik Sabo	Spartak Trnava
12	Fabián Slančík	Dukla Banská Bystrica	8
	Erik Pačinda	MFK Košice
	William	Trenčín(5)/Žilina(3)
Adam Zreľák	MFK Ružomberok
Martin Pribula	Zlate Moravce

Hat-tricks

Round	Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
1	Fanendo Adi	AS Trenčín	FC Nitra	4–0	13 July 2013	[28]
3	Tomáš Malec	AS Trenčín	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	4–2	28 July 2013	[29]
5	Fanendo Adi	AS Trenčín	DAC Dunajská Streda	6–0	11 August 2013	[30]
9	Erik Pačinda	MFK Košice	DAC Dunajská Streda	4–1	14 September 2013	[31]
15	Miloš Lačný	MFK Ružomberok	FC Nitra	4–0	26 October 2013	[32]
18	Štefan Pekár	Spartak Myjava	DAC Dunajská Streda	3–0	23 November 2013	[33]
31	Adam Zreľák	MFK Ružomberok	Spartak Myjava	5–0	17 May 2014	[34]

Awards

Top Eleven

• Goalkeeper: Darko Tofiloski (MFK Košice)
• Defence: Mamadou Bagayoko (ŠK Slovan), Peter Kleščík (AS Trenčín), Nicolas Ezequiel Gorosito (Šk Slovan), Boris Sekulić (MFK Košice)
• Midfield: Gino van Kessel (AS Trenčín), Viktor Pečovský (MŠK Žilina), Igor Žofčák (ŠK Slovan), Marko Milinković (ŠK Slovan)
• Attack: Róbert Vittek (ŠK Slovan), Juraj Piroska (FK Senica)

Individual Awards

Manager of the season Jozef Valovič (ŠK Slovan) and Radoslav Látal (MFK Košice)

Player of the Year Róbert Vittek (ŠK Slovan)

Young player of the Year Martin Chrien (Dukla Banská Bystrica)

See also

• 2013–14 Slovak Cup
• 2013–14 2. Liga (Slovakia)

Stats

• List of foreign players
• List of transfers summer 2013
• List of transfers winter 2013-14

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