2019–20 Slovak First Football League

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Fortuna liga 2019–20
Season information
Dates	20 July 2019 – 11 July 2020
Winners	Slovan Bratislava
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League	Slovan Bratislava
Europa League	Žilina DAC Dunajská Streda
Season statistics
Matches played	150
Goals scored	387
Top goalscorer	Andraž Šporar (12)
Biggest home win	Trenčín 8–1 Michalovce (15 February 2020)
Biggest away win	Sereď 0–4 Slovan (18 August 2019) Pohronie 0–4 Trenčín (24 August 2019)
Highest scoring	Trenčín 8–1 Michalovce (15 February 2020)
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The 2019–20 Slovak First Football League (known as the Slovak Fortuna liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 27th season of first-tier football league in Slovakia since its establishment in 1993. ŠK Slovan Bratislava are the defending champions, after winning their 9th Slovak championship in the previous season.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Since March, the season has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. On 7 March, the last, 22nd round of the regular stage took place. Both the championship group and the relegation group were subsequently supposed to have 10 rounds starting on 14 March. However, the season was interrupted until the end of May. On 22 May, the league committee approved the restart of the competition with a new 5-round model starting on 13 June. The committee also decided that no team will be directly relegated at the end of the season. The last team will face the winner of the 2. Liga in the relegation play-offs.

Due to hygienic measures, the number of spectators at individual matches was limited. Until 30 June, a maximum of 500 spectators could be present at the stadiums, which, however, also included the teams' staff, the media or stewards. From 1 July, the number of spectators allowed to attend a match was increased to 50% of a stadium's capacity.

Revised schedule

Round	Original dates	Revised dates
23	14–15 March	13–14 June
24	21–22 March	20–21 June
25	4–5 April	27 June – 1 July
26	11–12 April	4 July
27	18–19 April	11 July
28	25–26 April	Cancelled
29	2–4 May
30	9 May
31	16 May
32	23 May

Teams

Twelve teams compete in the league, including eleven sides from the previous season and one team promoted from the 2. liga. The promoted team is Pohronie. They replaced Železiarne Podbrezová.

Stadiums and locations

AS Trenčín	Dunajská Streda	FK Pohronie	Michalovce
Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA	MOL Aréna UEFA	Mestský štadión UEFA	Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA
Capacity: 11,258	Capacity: 12,700	Capacity: 2,309	Capacity: 4,440
FK Senica	MFK Ružomberok	MŠK Žilina	Slovan Bratislava
OMS Arena UEFA	Štadión pod Čebraťom	Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA	Tehelné pole UEFA
Capacity: 5,070	Capacity: 4,817	Capacity: 11,258	Capacity: 22,500
Spartak Trnava	ŠKF Sereď	Zlaté Moravce	FC Nitra
ŠAM - City Arena UEFA	Stadium Myjava	Štadión FC ViOn UEFA	Štadión pod Zoborom UEFA
Capacity: 19,200	Capacity: 2,709	Capacity: 4,000	Capacity: 7,480

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kitmaker	Shirt sponsor
AS Trenčín	Jozef Liptovský	Juraj Ančic (interim)	Martin Šulek	Adidas	ORION Tip
DAC Dunajská Streda	Oszkár Világi	Bernd Storck	Zsolt Kalmár	macron	Kukkonia
FK Pohronie	Jozef Urblík	Mikuláš Radványi	Petr Pavlík	Erreà	REMESLO
FK Senica	Ton Caanen	Patrik Durkáč	Joss Didiba	hummel	KOMPLEXX GROUP SK
MFK Ružomberok	Milan Fiľo	Ján Haspra	Ján Maslo	Adidas	MAESTRO
MŠK Žilina	Jozef Antošík	Pavol Staňo	Jakub Paur	Nike	Preto
Slovan Bratislava	Ivan Kmotrík	Ján Kozák jr.	Vasil Bozhikov	Adidas	grafobal
FC Nitra	Andriy Kolesnyk	Ivan Galád	Oliver Podhorín	Adidas	-
Spartak Trnava	Milan Cuninka	Marián Šarmír	Dobrivoj Rusov	Adidas	#DOBRÝ ANJEL
ViOn Zlaté Moravce	Karol Škula	Karol Praženica	Tomáš Ďubek	Erreà	ViOn
MFK Michalovce	Ján Sabol	Jozef Majoroš (carateker)	Igor Žofčák	Adidas	ISDB, St. Nicolaus
ŠKF Sereď	Róbert Stareček	Peter Lérant	Ľubomír Michalík	Nike	iClinic

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
MFK Ružomberok	David Holoubek	End of contract	02019-05-28-28 May 2019	Pre-season	Ján Haspra	02019-05-28-28 May 2019
FK Senica	Ricardo Chéu	Signed by Trnava	02019-06-07-7 June 2019		Michal Ščasný	02019-07-08-8 July 2019
FC Spartak Trnava	Michal Ščasný	End of contract	02019-06-07-7 June 2019		Ricardo Chéu	02019-06-07-7 June 2019
FC Nitra	Michal Kuruc	End of contract	02019-06-20-20 June 2019		Marián Süttö	02019-06-20-20 June 2019
AS Trenčín	Ivan Galád	End of contract	02019-06-30-30 June 2019		Matthias Kohler	02019-06-20-20 June 2019
ŠKF Sereď	Karel Stromšík	End of contract	02019-06-28-28 June 2019		Slavche Vojneski	02019-06-28-28 June 2019
ŠK Slovan Bratislava	Martin Ševela	Released	02019-07-18-18 July 2019		Vladimir Radenković (interim)	02019-07-19-19 July 2019
ŠK Slovan Bratislava	Vladimir Radenković	Released	02019-07-26-26 July 2019	1	Ján Kozák jr.	02019-07-26-26 July 2019 <
FK Pohronie	Milan Nemec	Resigned	02019-07-31-31 July 2019	11	Rastislav Urgela (interim)	02019-07-31-31 July 2019
FK Pohronie	Rastislav Urgela	End of interim spell	02019-08-20-20 August 2019	9	Ján Rosinský	02019-08-20-20 August 2019
FK Pohronie	Ján Rosinský	Released	02019-10-12-12 October 2019	11	Mikuláš Radványi	02019-10-14-14 October 2019
AS Trenčín	Matthias Kohler	Released	02019-10-22-22 October 2019	9	Norbert Hrnčár	02019-10-22-22 October 2019
FC Nitra	Marián Süttö	Released	02019-10-27-27 October 2019	11	Gergely Geri	02019-10-27-27 October 2019
MFK Zemplín Michalovce	Anton Šoltis	Released	02019-11-11-11 November 2019	10	Jozef Majoroš (caretaker)	02019-11-11-11 November 2019
ŠKF Sereď	Slavche Vojneski	End by own request	02019-12-07-7 December 2019	10	Roland Praj	02019-12-20-20 December 2019
MŠK Žilina	Jaroslav Kentoš	Moved to Slovakia U21	02019-12-21-21 December 2019	2	Pavol Staňo	02020-01-02-2 January 2020
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda	Peter Hyballa	Released	02020-01-03-3 January 2020	3	Hélder	02020-01-05-5 January 2020
FC Nitra	Gergely Geri	Released	02020-01-06-6 January 2020	11	Anatoliy Demyanenko	02020-01-06-6 January 2020
ŠKF Sereď	Roland Praj	Become GK coach	02020-02-09-9 February 2020	10	Peter Lérant	02019-02-09-9 February 2019
FK Senica	Michal Ščasný	Released	02020-02-12-12 February 2020	9	Ján Bíreš	02019-02-16-16 February 2019
FC Nitra	Anatoliy Demyanenko	Unknown	02020-01-05-5 January 2020	11	Miroslav Nemec	02020-01-05-5 January 2020
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda	Hélder	End of contract	02020-05-31-31 May 2020	3	Bernd Storck	02020-06-01-1 June 2020
FC Spartak Trnava	Ricardo Chéu	Released	02019-06-05-5 June 2019	5	Marián Šarmír	02019-06-05-5 June 2019
FC Nitra	Miroslav Nemec	End of Contract	02020-06-30-30 June 2020	11	Ivan Galád	02020-06-30-30 June 2020
FK Senica	Ján Bíreš	End of contract	02020-06-30-30 June 2020	10	Patrik Durkáč	02019-06-30-30 June 2019

Regular season

League table

Template:2019–20 Slovak First Football League table

Championship group

League table

Template:2019–20 Slovak First Football League Championship group table

Relegation group

League table

Template:2019–20 Slovak First Football League Relegation group table

Europa League play-offs

Should one of the top 3 teams win the 2019–20 Slovak Cup, Europa League qualification playoffs will be held among the 4th, 5th, 6th team in the championship group and the top team of the relegation round. On 8 July 2020, Slovan Bratislava, who have won the league title, also won the cup, thus confirming the need of playoffs.

The 4th team play the top team of the relegation group and the 5th play the 6th in the semifinals. Winners of the semifinals play the final to determine the Europa League qualification spot. Europa League qualification playoff games are one-leg and played at the home pitch of the higher-ranked team. The winners qualify for the first qualifying round of the 2020–21 UEFA Europa League.

Position by round

The table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological progress, any postponed matches are not included in the round at which they were originally scheduled but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

	Leader – Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
	Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round
	Qualification for First Football League Relegation play-offs

Team \ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
Slovan	2	3	1	1	1	1	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Žilina	1	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Dun. Streda	5	2	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Trnava	4	6	4	3	4	5	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	8	5	7	5	6	6	7	6	5	5	5	6	4
Ružomberok	6	4	7	7	8	8	9	10	9	7	7	5	6	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	6	6	6	4	5
Michalovce	12	12	12	11	10	9	10	8	7	8	8	10	10	9	10	10	8	5	8	5	7	4	4	4	5	6
Trenčín	9	9	10	8	5	4	6	6	6	6	6	9	8	7	8	6	7	8	5	6	5	7	7	7	7	7	7
Zl. Moravce	7	7	6	6	6	6	5	4	4	5	5	6	4	5	6	5	6	7	7	9	9	8	8	8	8	8
Sereď	11	8	5	5	7	7	7	7	8	9	9	7	7	6	7	8	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9
Senica	3	5	8	12	11	11	12	12	12	10	10	8	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	10	10
Pohronie	10	11	9	9	9	10	8	11	11	12	11	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	11
Nitra	8	10	11	10	12	12	11	9	10	11	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	12

Source: Fortunaliga.sk

Season statistics

As of 4 July 2020

Top goalscorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 Andraž Šporar Slovan 12 2 Milan Ristovski Nitra 10 Osman Bukari Trenčín 4 Rafael Ratão Slovan 9 Zsolt Kalmár DAC D.Streda 6 Frank Castañeda Senica 8 Issa Modibo Sidibé Michalovce Tomáš Ďubek Z.Moravce Ján Bernát Žilina Ante Roguljić Trenčín 11 Kristopher Vida DAC D.Streda 7 Alex Sobczyk Trnava Hamza Čataković Trenčín

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Gino van Kessel Trenčín 12 2 Erik Daniel Slovan 8 3 Moha Rharsalla Slovan 7 Igor Žofčák Michalovce Osman Bukari Trenčín Alex Iván Sereď Marko Divković D.Streda 8 Miroslav Káčer Žilina 5 9 Nono Slovan 4 Dejan Dražić Slovan Rafael Tavares Trnava Connor Ronan DAC D.Streda Dalibor Takáč Ružomberok Cesar Blackman DAC D.Streda Lukáš Jánošík Žilina Nikola Gatarić Nitra Samuel Šefčík Nitra

Hat-tricks

Round	Player	For	Against	Result	Date
10	Dávid Holman	Slovan	FC Nitra	5–0 (H)	28 September 2019
19	Osman Bukari	Trenčín	Michalovce	8–1 (H)	15 February 2020
1.CH	Marko Divković	Dunajská Streda	Michalovce	5–0 (H)	13 June 2020

Clean sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Dominik Greif	Slovan	12
2	Dominik Holec	Žilina	11
3	Branislav Pindroch	Zl. Moravce	9
4	Vojtěch Vorel	Senica	8
	Martin Jedlička	D.Streda
6	Dobrivoj Rusov	Trnava	7
	Matúš Kira	Michalovce
	Dávid Šípoš	Nitra
9	Michal Šulla	Slovan	5
	Tomáš Jenčo	Pohronie
11	Ivan Krajčírik	Ružomberok	3
	Dejan Iliev	Sereď
	Igor Šemrinec	Trenčín

Discipline

Player

• Most yellow cards: 9
  • Martin Šulek (Trenčín)

• Most red cards: 2
  • Alexander Mojžiš (Ružomberok)

Club

• Most yellow cards: 64
  • FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce

• Most red cards: 4
  • FC Spartak Trnava
  • ŠKF Sereď

Awards

Monthly awards

Month	Player of the Month		Goal of the Month
	Player	Club	Player	Club
August	Ján Bernát	Žilina	Alex Sobczyk	Spartak Trnava
September	Dávid Strelec	Slovan Bratislava	Eric Davis	DAC Dunajská Streda
October	Dominik Holec	Žilina	Andraž Šporar	Slovan Bratislava
November	Andraž Šporar	Slovan Bratislava	Zsolt Kalmár	DAC Dunajská Streda
December
February	Dominik Greif	Slovan Bratislava	Lukáš Jánošík	Žilina
March

See also

• 2019–20 Slovak Cup
• 2019–20 2. Liga (Slovakia)

External links

• Official website

Template:2019–20 in Slovak football