2024–25 Slovak First Football League

Niké liga
Season	2024–25
Dates	Regular season:; 27th of July 2024 – TBA May 2025
Matches played	109
Goals scored	287 (2.63 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tigran Barseghyan (14)
Biggest home win	Podbrezová 7–1 MFK Skalica; (17 Aug 2024) ; Slovan Bratislava 6–0 KFC Komárno; (4 Dec 2024)
Biggest away win	Slovan Bratislava 0–5 MŠK Žilina; (1 Sep 2024)
Highest scoring	Podbrezová 7–1 MFK Skalica; (17 Aug 2024)
Highest attendance	13,583; Spartak Trnava 0-1 Slovan Bratislava; (19 Oct 2024)
	← 2023–24 2025–26 → All statistics correct as of 20 December 2024.

The 2024–25 Slovak First Football League (known as Niké liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 32nd season of first-tier football league in Slovakia since its establishment in 1993.

The defending champion is Slovan Bratislava.

Teams

The league will consist of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the 2. Liga. Komárno has been promoted to the top flight (for the first time in their history) as champions of the 2023–24 2. Liga, replacing the 2023–24 Slovak First Football League bottom-placed team Zlaté Moravce. Slovan Bratislava will enter upcoming season as defending champions (for the sixth successive year).

Stadiums and locations

Location of teams in Niké liga 2024–25

FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda	FK Dukla Banská Bystrica	FC Košice	FK Železiarne Podbrezová
MOL Aréna UEFA	Štadión SNP UEFA	Košická futbalová aréna UEFA	ZELPO Aréna UEFA
Capacity: 12,700	Capacity: 7,030	Capacity: 12,555	Capacity: 4,000

MFK Ružomberok	MFK Skalica	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	FC Spartak Trnava
Štadión pod Čebraťom	Štadión MFK Skalica	Tehelné pole UEFA	Štadión Antona Malatinského UEFA
Capacity: 4,876	Capacity: 2,600	Capacity: 22,500	Capacity: 18,200

AS Trenčín	MFK Zemplín Michalovce	KFC Komárno	MŠK Žilina
Štadión Sihoť UEFA	Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA	ViOn Aréna UEFA	Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA
Capacity: 10,000	Capacity: 4,400	Capacity: 4,008	Capacity: 10,897

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
DAC Dunajská Streda	Tibor Végh	Branislav Fodrek	Yhoan Andzouana	Macron	Kukkonia
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Ivan Šabo	Martin Poljovka	Ľubomír Willwéber	Adidas	Veolia
Košice	Dušan Trnka	Roman Skuhravý	Ján Krivák	Adidas	Niké
Podbrezová	Július Kriváň	Štefan Markulík	Matej Oravec	Adidas	Niké
Ružomberok	Ľubomír Golis	Norbert Hrnčár	Martin Chrien	Adidas	Niké
Skalica	Peter Bartoš	David Oulehla	Martin Nagy	Adidas	Tipsport
Slovan Bratislava	Ivan Kmotrík	Vladimír Weiss	Vladimír Weiss	Adidas	Niké
Spartak Trnava	Peter Macho	Michal Gašparík	Martin Mikovič	Puma	Tipsport
Trenčín	Róbert Rybníček	Ivan Galád	Damián Bariš	Macron	Tipsport
Zemplín Michalovce	Ján Sabol	Anton Šoltis	Igor Žofčák	Adidas	Tipsport
Komárno	Juraj Baráth	Mikuláš Radványi	Martin Šimko	Adidas	MOL
Žilina	Jozef Antošík	Michal Ščasný	Tomáš Hubočan	Nike	Preto

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Banská Bystrica	Mario Auxt	End of interim spell	16 June 2024	Pre-season	Marek Bažík	16 June 2026^[1]
Michalovce	František Straka	End of contract	28 June 2024		Anton Šoltis	28 June 2026^[2]
Podbrezová	Roman Skuhravý	End by own request	6 July 2024^[3]		Vladimír Cifranič	12 July 2024^[4]
Skalica	Pavol Majerník	Released	3 September 2024	12	David Oulehla	3 September 2024^[5]
Podbrezová	Vladimír Cifranič	Becomes assistant	2 September 2024	8	Štefan Markulík	2 September 2024^[6]
FC Košice	Gergely Geri	Released	24 September 2024	10	Roman Skuhravý	24 September 2024^[7]
AS Trenčín	Ilija Stolica	Released	1 October 2024	11	Ivan Galád	1 October 2024^[8]
MFK Ružomberok	Ondřej Smetana	Signed with 1. FC Slovácko	13 November 2024	6	Radim Kučera	13 November 2024^[9]
Dunajská Streda	Xisco Muñoz	Released	27 November 2024	4	Branislav Fodrek	27 November 2024^[10]
MFK Ružomberok	Radim Kučera	Released	20 December 2024	10	Norbert Hrnčár	20 December 2024^[11]
Banská Bystrica	Marek Bažík	Becomes assistant	27 December 2024	9	Martin Poljovka	27 December 2024^[12]

Regular stage

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovan Bratislava (Q)	18	14	2	2	41	21	+20	44	Qualification for the championship group
2	Žilina (Q)	18	12	5	1	39	15	+24	41
3	Spartak Trnava (Q)	18	10	6	2	27	14	+13	36
4	DAC Dunajská Streda	18	6	6	6	24	19	+5	24^[a]
5	Podbrezová	18	6	6	6	24	23	+1	24^[a]
6	Zemplín Michalovce	18	5	7	6	22	28	−6	22
7	Košice	18	4	8	6	21	21	0	20	Qualification for the relegation group
8	Komárno	18	5	2	11	21	35	−14	17^[b]
9	Dukla Banská Bystrica	18	4	5	9	20	27	−7	17^[b]
10	Ružomberok	18	4	5	9	19	29	−10	17^[b]
11	Trenčín	18	2	9	7	19	32	−13	15
12	Skalica	18	3	5	10	19	32	−13	14

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2024. Source: Niké liga (in Slovak)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head away goals scored; 5) Play-off.
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Head-to-head points: DAC Dunajská Streda 4; Podbrezová 1.
^ ^a ^b ^c Head-to-head points: Komárno 9; Dukla Banská Bystrica 4; Ružomberok 4. → Head-to-head points: Dukla Banská Bystrica 4; Ružomberok 1.

Results

Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 22 matches each.

Home \ Away	DAC	DUK	KOM	KOŠ	POD	RUŽ	SKA	SLO	TRN	TRE	ZMI	ŽIL
DAC Dunajská Streda		0–0	2–0	1–3	3–0	1 MAR	8 FEB	1–2	0–0	3–3	0–1	0–3
Dukla Banská Bystrica	1–0		2–3	2–3	0–2	2–1	1–1	0–2	8 FEB	6–1	1–0	1 MAR
Komárno	0–1	3–0		1–1	1–2	1–2	22 FEB	1–4	1–2	2–1	1–3	15 FEB
Košice	2–2	15 FEB	0–1		3–0	2–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1 MAR	1–2
Podbrezová	0–0	1–1	1 MAR	0–0		2–0	7–1	1–3	0–4	15 FEB	4–1	0–0
Ružomberok	1–1	1–1	1–3	22 FEB	1–0		1–2	8 FEB	0–2	1–0	2–2	1–0
Skalica	1–3	1–0	3–0	0–0	1–2	15 FEB		2–3	1–2	1 MAR	0–0	0–0
Slovan Bratislava	2–1	3–1	6–0	2–1	1–0	2–1	3–1		1 MAR	1–1	15 FEB	0–5
Spartak Trnava	15 FEB	1–0	3–2	1–0	22 FEB	2–2	2–0	0–1		0–0	3–1	0–0
Trenčín	0–3	2–2	8 FEB	2–0	1–1	0–0	2–1	22 FEB	2–3		0–0	2–4
Zemplín Michalovce	0–3	22 FEB	0–0	3–2	8 FEB	4–2	2–1	2–4	0–0	1–1		1–1
Žilina	22 FEB	2–0	2–1	8 FEB	2–2	3–1	3–2	2–1	3–1	4–1	3–1

Updated to match(es) played on 15 December 2024. Source: Niké liga (in Slovak)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 20 Dec 2024^[13]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Tigran Barseghyan	Slovan	14
2	David Strelec	Slovan	10
3	Martin Rymarenko	Banská Bystrica	9
3	Žan Medved	Košice	9
5	Matej Trusa	Dunajska Streda	7
	Kelvin Ofori	Trnava
	Eric Bile	Žilina
8	Adrián Kaprálik	Žilina	6
	Alexandros Kyziridis	Michalovce
	Alasana Yirajang	Podbrezová
11	Mario Sauer	Žilina	4
	Dávid Ďuriš	Žilina
	Matúš Marcin	Michalovce

Top assists

As of 20 Dec 2024^[14]

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Marko Tolić	Slovan	9
2	Mario Sauer	Žilina	6
3	Timotej Záhumenský	Banská Bystrica	5
	Marián Pišoja	Banská Bystrica
	Eric Bile	Žilina
6	Miroslav Káčer	Žilina	4
	Adrián Kaprálik	Žilina
	Michal Ďuriš	Trnava
	Dávid Gallovič	Košice
	Daniel Smékal	Podbrezová
11	13 players	various	3

Hat-tricks

Round	Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref
15	Martin Rymarenko	Banská Bystrica	Trenčín	6–1 (H)	23 Nov 20234	^[15]

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Clean sheets

As of 20 Dec 2024^[16]

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Žiga Frelih	Trnava	9
2	Aleksandar Popović	Dunajská Streda	8
3	Ľubomír Belko	Žilina	6
4	Martin Junas	Skalica	5
4	Adam Danko	Podbrezová	5
6	Matúš Slavíček	Trenčín	4
6	Dávid Šípoš	Košice	4
8	Martin Trnovský	Slovan	3
8	Muhamed Sahinović	Michalovce	3
10	Patrik Lukáč	Michalovce	2
	Michal Trnovský	Banská Bystrica
	Dominik Ťapaj	Ružomberok
	Filip Dlubáč	Komárno
14	Ivan Rehák	Banská Bystrica	1
	Tomáš Frühwald	Ružomberok
	Matěj Luksch	Ružomberok
	Jakub Trefil	Komárno
	Dominik Takáč	Slovan
	Andrija Katić	Trenčín

Discipline

As of 20 Dec 2024

Player

Most yellow cards: 8^[17]

- Denys Taraduda (Michalovce)

Most red cards: 2^[17]
- Chinonso Emeka (Trenčín)

Club

Most yellow cards: 49^[18]
- Trenčín

Most red cards: 4^[19]
- Trenčín

Notes

References

External links

Official website

[table_hth_DAC0.085469746070667-13] Head-to-head points: DAC Dunajská Streda 4; Podbrezová 1.

[table_hth_KOM0.085469746070667-14] Head-to-head points: Komárno 9; Dukla Banská Bystrica 4; Ružomberok 4. → Head-to-head points: Dukla Banská Bystrica 4; Ružomberok 1.

[1] "Banská Bystrica predstavila nového trénera, klub povedie bývalý hráč".

[2] "MFK Zemplín povedie Anton Šoltis".

[3] ttp://www.zpfutbal.sk/roman-skuhravy-opusta-podbrezovu/

[4] ttps://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/futbal-zeleziarne-podbrezova-novy-trener-vladimir-cifranic-nike-liga-2024-2025/

[5] ttps://sportky.zoznam.sk/c/384385/do-nike-ligy-vstupuje-dalsie-ceske-meno-skalica-ohlasila-prichod-noveho-trenera

[6] ttps://sportky.zoznam.sk/c/384241/netradicny-krok-podbrezovej-na-trenerskej-lavicke-sa-udiala-zaujimava-vymena

[7] ttps://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/futbal-trenerska-vymena-gergely-geri-roman-skuhravy-fc-kosice-nike-liga-2024-2025/

[8] ttps://sita.sk/galad-sa-vratil-do-znameho-posobiska-as-trencin-prebral-po-srbovi-stolicovi-foto/

[9] ttps://sportky.zoznam.sk/c/392527/ruzomberok-oficialne-rozviazal-zmluvu-s-hlavnym-trenerom-nahradi-ho-krajan

[10] ttps://tvnoviny.sk/sport/clanok/938065-dunajska-streda-ohlasila-nahradu-za-munoza-spaniela-nahradi-byvaly-trener-mladeznickej-reprezentacie

[11] ttps://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/futbal-mfk-ruzomberok-novy-trener-norbert-hrncar-nike-liga-2024-2025/

[12] ttps://sportnet.sme.sk/spravy/futbal-martin-poljovka-novy-trener-dukla-banska-bystrica-nike-liga-2024-2025/

[15] "Štatistiky – Hráči" (in Slovak). Niké liga.

[16] "Štatistiky – Hráči" (in Slovak). Niké liga.

[17] "Dukla Banská Bystrica - Trenčín | Detail zápasu".

[18] "Štatistiky – Brankári" (in Slovak). Niké liga.

[futbalnet-19] "Hráči | Štatistiky". Nike liga.

[Yellow_cards-20] "Tímy | Štatistiky". Nike liga. Retrieved 30 August 2023.

[Red_cards-21] "Tímy - Štatistiky". Fortuna liga. Retrieved 30 August 2021.

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