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MFK Košice
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MFK Košice
Full name Mestský Futbalový Klub Košice
Nickname(s) Vraňare
Founded 1952 (Spartak VSS Košice)
Ground Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli,
Košice
(Capacity: 9,600)
Chairman Blažej Podolák
Head Coach Ján Kozák
League Corgoň Liga
2008-09 Corgoň Liga, 4th
Home colours
Away colours
MFK Košice is a professional Slovak football club playing Slovak Football League in the city of Košice.
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Early history
1.2 VSS
1.3 90's
1.4 1997-98 Champions League campaign
1.5 Latest history
2 Historical names
3 Honours
4 Current squad
4.1 Out on loan
5 Notable players
6 Famous coaches
7 Košice in Europe
7.1 UEFA-administered
7.2 Not UEFA-administered
8 Former logos
9 Home Stadium
10 References
11 External links
[edit] History
[edit] Early history
The first club in the city was founded in 1903 as KAC: Košice Athletic Club; Slovak: Košický Atletický Klub; Hungarian: Kassai Atlétikai Club. The club's colours were blue and yellow. In 10's years past century the club competed in Championship of Hungarian country. In 1909 KAC won this Championship. Later they played in eastern group in Slovak-Subcarpathian division during four years 1935-1938. In 1939-40 the club played Hungarian League I. Most successful KAC players were Szaniszló, Šiňovský, Drotár brothers, Klein, Lebenský, Dráb, Pásztor and others. Many years the club was settled at stadium on Sokoljevova Street with capacity 16,000 spectators. The stadium was often full. After ended World War II three city's clubs KAC, ČsŠk and Torekvés were fused to one club named Jednota Košice. Jednota began played Czechoslovak League since 1945. In first season they ended league as fourth in Group B. It was nice success at the time.
[edit] VSS
KAC and Jednota became VSS in 1952. The team was called Strojári; in English: Engineers, due to their main sponsors VSS (East-Slovakian Engineering). VSS was a stable member of the Czechoslovak First League and their best placing was second in 1970-71. In 1971 and 1973 VSS qualified for the UEFA Cup. In 1971 they won 2-1 against Spartak Moscow in the home leg, but they lost 0-2 in Moscow and were eliminated from the competition. Two years later VSS qualified for the UEFA Cup. Against Honvéd FC they won 1-0 home and lost 2-5 away. Most successful VSS players were Andrej Kvašňák, Titus Buberník, Jaroslav Pollák, Ján Pivarník (Euro 1976 Champions both), Anton Švajlen, Dušan Galis, Jozef Bomba, Ondrej Desiatnik and others. VSS was renamed to ZŤS in 1978.
[edit] 90's
The twice Slovak football champions (1997, 1998) were relegated from the premier division in 2003 after the proposed sale of the club to Italian owners[1] in 2001 by the former owner and late VSŽ steelmaking tycoon Alexander Rezeš fell through. Although Rezeš's[2] dream to turn 1. FC Košice into a top European club never came true, he managed to lift an average second division team to the first group stage of the UEFA Champions' League in 1997/98. However, the next year's failure to make the same stage of the major European competition, and failure to defend the league title, combined with the change of government which undermined the position of the Rezeš clan (Alexander Rezeš was economy minister of Vladimír Mečiar's government in 1994-97) represented the beginning of the end of the "millionaires". Their home stadium was the Všešportový areál.[3][4]
[edit] 1997-98 Champions League campaign
1.FC famously became the first Slovak club to reach the lucrative UEFA Champions League Group Stages when they did so in the 1997-1998 season.[5] Also during this Champions League campaign, 1. FC Košice, became the first club in the Champions League history to record a no points total in the group stage, losing 3 of their home matches and 3 of their away games.
1. FC Košice are best known outside their homeland for their two clashes with Manchester United in the 1997-1998 European Champions League group stages. United beat them on both occasions. During this brief campaign in Europe's biggest club competition, Kosice suffered a tragedy when midfielder Milan Čvirik was killed in a car crash at the age of 21.
1. FC Košice kit. Orange and black symbolized of former sponsor VSŽ.
[edit] Latest history
2003-04 season, on the brink of financial collapse and relegation from the second division, the owners of 1. FC, were offered help by the president of Steel Trans Ličartovce Blažej Podolák,[6] one of the favourites to advance to the premier league that season. Steel Trans also paid for the Čermeľ stadium in Košice, where all former 1. FC teams - now under the protective wings of Ličartovce - will play their matches. Košice, the second largest city in Slovakia, now had no club in the top two divisions (although many can remember two in the Czechoslovak federal league). Another great team from the past, FC Lokomotíva Košice, is in the third division. It was quite difficult to predict the future of football in the city, whose major stadium is in a catastrophic condition and whose football officials turn a deaf ear to cries for help.
Reformed on 17 June 2005, the club was renamed MFK Košice from FC Steel Trans Ličartovce. They ended the season gaining promotion back to the premier league.
[edit] Historical names
VSS Košice (1952-1992) kit.
Club name Years
TJ Spartak VSS 1952-1956
TJ Spartak 1956-1957
TJ Jednota 1957-1962
TJ VSS 1962-1979
ZŤS 1979-1990
ŠK Unimex Jednota VSS 1990-1992
1. FC 1992-2005
MFK 2005-
[edit] Honours
MFK Košice positions in Slovak League.Slovak League (1939 - 1944, 1993 - Present)
Winners (2): 1997, 1998
Runners-up (3): 1995, 1996, 2000
Slovak Cup (1961 - Present)
Winners (4): 1973, 1980, 1993, 2009
Runners-up (2): 1998, 2000
Slovak Super Cup (1993 - Present)
Winners (1): 1997
Czechoslovak League (1945 - 1993)
Runners-up (1): 1971
Czechoslovak Cup (1961 - 1993)
Winners (1): 1993
Runners-up (3): 1964, 1973, 1980
[edit] Current squad
As of 6 July 2009[7]
No. Position Player
1 GK Nikola Schreng
2 DF Stanislav Kišš
3 DF Patrik Kaminský
4 DF Radoslav Školník
5 MF Nemanja Matić
6 DF Stanislav Smrek
7 MF Kamil Kuzma
8 MF Timon Dobias
9 MF Uroš Matić
10 MF Marko Milinković
11 MF Martin Juhar
13 DF Róbert Cicman
14 MF Miroslav Viazanko
No. Position Player
15 DF Mikuláš Tóth
17 MF Lukáš Janič
18 FW Ján Novák
19 DF Matúš Čonka
20 DF Lukáš Džogan
21 GK Roland Repiský
22 FW Filip Serečin
23 DF Peter Bašista (captain)
24 MF Kamil Karaš
25 GK Jozef Brudňak
26 FW Dávid Škutka
40 MF Juraj Hovančík
[edit] Out on loan
No. Position Player
MF Jaroslav Kolbas (at Skoda Xanthi F.C.)
[edit] Notable players
See also: MFK Košice players
Slovakia/Czechoslovakia
Bohumil Andrejko
Jozef Bomba
Titus Buberník
Kamil Čontofalský
Andrej Daňko
Jozef Desiatnik
Peter Dzúrik
Pavol Diňa
Dušan Galis
František Hoholko
Vladimír Janočko
Ivan Kozák
Ján Kozák
Jozef Kožlej
Andrej Kvašňák
Ladislav Molnár
Szilárd Németh
Ján Pivarník
Jaroslav Pollák
Marek Sapara
Róbert Semeník
Adolf Scherer
Miroslav Sovič
Ján Strausz
Július Šimon
Marek Špilár
Jozef Štafura
Anton Švajlen
Dušan Tóth
Vladimír Weiss
Radoslav Zabavník
Vladislav Zvara
Serbia
Nemanja Matić
Marko Milinković
Ukraine
Ruslan Liubarskyi
[edit] Famous coaches
Štefan Jačiansky
Jozef Jankech
Jozef Karel
Ján Kozák
Karol Pecze
Jozef Vengloš
Michal Vičan
Ján Zachar
[edit] Košice in Europe
[edit] UEFA-administered
Season Competition Round Opponent Agg. Home leg Away leg
1971-72 UEFA Cup 1st. Round Spartak Moscow 2-3 2-1 0-2
1973-74 UEFA Cup 1st. Round Budapest Honvéd 3-5 1-0 2-5
1993-94 Cup Winners' Cup Qualifying FK Žalgiris 3-1 2-1 1-0
1st. Round Beşiktaş 2-3 2-1 0-2
1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group Stage Wimbledon 1-1
Beitar Jerusalem 5-3
Charleroi 3-2
Bursaspor 1-1
1995-96 UEFA Cup Preliminary Újpest 1-3 0-1 1-2
1996-97 UEFA Cup Preliminary KS Teuta 6-2 2-1 4-1
Qualifying Celtic 0-1 0-0 0-1
1997-98 Champions League 1st. Qualifying ÍA 4-0 3-0 1-0
2nd. Qualifying Spartak Moscow 2-1 2-1 0-0
Group Stage Manchester United 0-3 0-3
Juventus 0-1 2-3
Feyenoord 0-1 0-2
1998-99 Champions League 1st. Qualifying Cliftonville 13-1 8-0 5-1
2nd. Qualifying Brøndby 1-2 0-2 1-0
UEFA Cup 1st. Round Liverpool 0-8 0-3 0-5
2000-01 UEFA Cup Qualifying Ararat Yerevan 4-3 1-1 3-2
1st. Round Grazer AK 2-3 2-3 0-0
2009-10 Europa League 3rd. Qualifying FK Slavija 5-1 3-1 2-0
Play-off Roma
Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
Champions League 14 6 1 7 22 17 +5
Europa League 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4
UEFA Cup 16 5 3 8 18 28 -10
Cup Winners' Cup 4 3 0 1 5 4 +1
UEFA Intertoto Cup 4 2 2 0 10 7 +3
Total 40 18 6 16 60 57 +3
Key: Pld: Matches played, W: Wins, D: Draws, L: Losses, GF: Goals for, GA: Goals against, GD: Goal difference.
[edit] Not UEFA-administered
Season Competition Round Opponent Home leg Away leg
1964-65 Intertoto Cup Group B3 Szombierki Bytom 4-2 0-3
Vorwärts Berlin 0-0 3-0
Wiener Sportclub 3-2 1-1
1965-66 Intertoto Cup Group B2 Empor Rostock 0-3 0-1
Zagłębie Sosnowiec 4-3 0-3
Radnički Niš 2-7 2-0
1966-67 Intertoto Cup Group B5 Vorwärts Berlin 1-3 4-0
Elfsborg 3-0 0-6
Borussia Neunkirchen 2-0 2-2
1967 Intertoto Cup Group B6 Dynamo Dresden 0-0 2-1
AIK 4-0 1-1
AGF Aarhus 3-1 1-1
1968 Intertoto Cup Group B4 Szombierki Bytom 2-3 2-0
Djurgårdens 1-0 3-2
Werder Bremen 1-0 3-1
1969 Intertoto Cup Group 8 Wisła Kraków 0-4 4-0
Lierse 2-1 1-1
Esbjerg 3-1 4-0
1970 Intertoto Cup Group A5 Åtvidaberg 0-1 2-0
MSV Duisburg 1-1 3-0
Holland Sport Haag 4-1 2-0
1974 Intertoto Cup Group 9 ŁKS Łódź 1-1 1-3
Randers Freja 6-1 3-1
Sturm Graz 6-0 2-2
1976 Intertoto Cup Group 11 Widzew Łódź 0-1 0-2
KB 1-2 2-3
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