FC Nitra

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FC Nitra

Full name

Football Club Nitra

Founded

1909

Ground

Štadión pod Zoborom,
Nitra

Capacity

11,384

Chairman

Eugen Árvay

Manager

Ivan Galád

League

Corgoň Liga

2005-06

First Division, 5th





Home colours





Away colours

1 History
- 1.1 Events timeline
2 Current squad
- 2.1 Famous players
3 Honours
- 3.1 Domestic
- 3.2 European
4 External links

[edit] History

FC Nitra is a Slovak 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 4 years. 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.

Nitra was involved in the inaugural Slovakian championship in 1994 but was relegated to the second division after the 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 a 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 the best in the history of the club (as regards the Slovak first division). 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 transferred to MFK Ružomberok.

[edit] Events timeline

1909 - Founded as NYÖTTSO Nitra
1911 - Renamed NYTVE Nitra
1919 - Renamed Nyitrai SC Nitra
1921 - Renamed SK Nitra
1923 - Renamed AC Nitra
1948 - Renamed Sokol Nitra
1949 - Renamed ZSJ Sokol spojene zavody Nitra
1949 - Renamed ZK KP Nitra
1953 - Renamed DSO Slavoj Nitra
1956 - Renamed TJ Slovan Nitra
1966 - Again Renamed AC Nitra
1976 - Renamed TJ Plastika Nitra
1989 - First European qualification, 1990
1990 - Renamed FC Nitra

[edit] Current squad

As of September 15th, 2006 (Note: squad is according to the team's official website)

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Štefan Senecký
2	DF	Marián Ďatko
3	MF	Erik Hrnčár
4	DF	Pavol Farkaš
5	DF	Adrián Čeman
6	MF	Róbert Glenda
8	MF	Pavol Húšťava
9	FW	Roman Sloboda
10	FW	Martin Čižmár
11	MF	Peter Grajciar
14	MF	Miloš Šimončič

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Slavomír Bališ
17	MF	Martin Babic
19	MF	Ján Štajer
21	DF	Ján Leško
22	GK	Tomáš Tujvel
23	DF	Csaba Szórád
24	MF	Michal Farkaš
26	DF	Ivan Kováč
27	FW	Andrej Hesek
31	GK	Lukáš Hroššo
33	DF	Peter Gunda

[edit] Famous players

Michal Hipp
Lubomir Moravčík
Igor Demo
Róbert Tomaschek
Miroslav König
Róbert Rák

[edit] Honours

[edit] Domestic

Slovakian League (1993 - Present)
- Best finish: 5th - 2006

Czechoslovakian League (1945 - 1992)
- Best finish: 2nd - 1962

[edit] European

Intertoto Cup
- Best finish: Second round - 2006

UEFA Cup
- Best finish: First round - 1990

[edit] External links

Official website (Slovak)
FC Nitra Ultras (Slovak)

Corgoň Liga, 2006-07
Artmedia Bratislava \| Dukla Banská Bystrica \| Inter Bratislava \| MFK Košice \| FC Nitra \| MFK Ružomberok FC Senec \| Slovan Bratislava \| Spartak Trnava \| AS Trenčín \| MŠK Žilina \| ZTS Dubnica edit
Corgoň Liga seasons
2001-02 \| 2002-03 \| 2003-04 \| 2004-05 \| 2005-06 \| 2006-07 edit
Slovak Third Division (Západ), 2006-07
FKS Nemšová \| Spartak Trnava B \| SFM Senec \| AFC Nové Mesto \| Matador Púchov \| FK Rača \| Spartak Vráble FC Nitra B \| Artmedia Bratislava B \| Slovan Bratislava B \| MFK Vrbové \| Dolné Vestenice \| Dúbravka Bratislava \| HFK Prievidza edit