2023–24 Slovak First Football League

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Niké liga
Season information
Dates	28 July 2023–18 May 2024
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Europa League
Europa Conference League
Season statistics
Matches played	72
Goals scored	223
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The 2023–24 Slovak First Football League (known as Niké liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 31st season of first-tier football league in Slovakia since its establishment in 1993.

Slovan Bratislava are the defending champions for the fifth successive year.

Teams

Twelve teams are competing in the league – the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the 2. Liga – Košice (promoted to the top flight for the first time in their history). Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš were relegated to 2. Liga after spending two seasons in the top flight.

Team changes

Promoted from 2022–23 2. Liga	Relegated from 2022–23 Fortuna liga
Košice	Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš

Stadiums and locations

After more than six years, all teams in the league are once again playing their home matches in their respective stadiums. The last time this occurred was during the autumn part of the 2016–17 season.

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: 5,836 (12,658 planned)	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	FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce	MŠK Žilina
Štadión Sihoť UEFA	Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA	ViOn Aréna UEFA	Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA
Capacity: 4,200 (10,000 planned)	Capacity: 4,400	Capacity: 4,008	Capacity: 10,897

Personnel and kits

Team	President	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
DAC Dunajská Streda	Oszkár Világi	Adrián Guľa	TBA	Macron	Kukkonia
Dukla Banská Bystrica	Ivan Šabo	TBA	Róbert Polievka	Adidas	Veolia
Košice	Dušan Trnka	Ján Kozák jr	Erik Pačinda	Adidas	Niké
Podbrezová	Július Kriváň	Roman Skuhravý	Richard Ludha	Adidas	Niké
Ružomberok	Milan Fiľo	Ondřej Smetana	Marek Zsigmund	Adidas	Niké
Skalica	Peter Bartoš	Pavol Majerník	Martin Nagy	Puma	Tipsport
Slovan Bratislava	Ivan Kmotrík	Vladimír Weiss	Vladimír Weiss	Adidas	Niké
Spartak Trnava	Peter Macho	Michal Gašparík	Roman Procházka	Puma	Tipsport
Trenčín	Róbert Rybníček	Ilija Stolica	Damián Bariš	Macron	Tipsport
Zemplín Michalovce	Ján Sabol	Peter Struhár	Igor Žofčák	Adidas	Tipsport, St. Nicolaus
Zlaté Moravce	Karol Škula	Vladimír Cifranič	Karol Mondek	Erreà	Tipsport
Žilina	Jozef Antošík	Jaroslav Hynek	Tomáš Nemčík	Nike	Preto

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Trenčín	František Straka	End of contract	02023-05-26-26 May 2023	rowspan="4" | Pre-season	Ilija Stolica	02023-05-27-27 May 2023
Ružomberok	Peter Struhár	End of contract	02023-05-29-29 May 2023	Peter Tomko	02023-06-05-5 June 2023
Zlaté Moravce	Ivan Galád	End of contract	02023-06-05-5 June 2023	Vladimír Cifranič	02023-06-12-12 June 2023
Zemplín Michalovce	Vladimír Rusnák	End of interim spell	02023-06-20-20 June 2023	Marek Petruš	02023-06-21-21 June 2023
Zemplín Michalovce	Marek Petruš	Released	02023-09-26-26 September 2023	12	Peter Struhár	02023-09-28-28 September 2023
Košice	Anton Šoltis	Released	02023-10-23-23 October 2023	10	Ján Kozák jr	02023-10-31-31 October 2023
Ružomberok	Peter Tomko	Released	02023-10-24-24 October 2023	8	Ondřej Smetana	02023-10-24-24 October 2023
Banská Bystrica	Michal Ščasný	Signed with Athienou	02023-10-25-25 October 2023	5	TBA

Regular stage

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Slovan Bratislava	13	10	2	1	32	12	+20	32	Qualification for the championship group
2	Žilina	13	9	1	3	32	19	+13	28
3	Spartak Trnava	13	7	3	3	21	15	+6	24
4	Trenčín	13	7	3	3	21	15	+6	24
5	Podbrezová	13	7	2	4	32	19	+13	23
6	DAC Dunajská Streda	13	7	2	4	22	16	+6	23
7	Dukla Banská Bystrica	13	5	4	4	24	22	+2	19	Qualification for the relegation group
8	Skalica	13	5	2	6	13	14	−1	17
9	Ružomberok	13	3	4	6	12	22	−10	13
10	Košice	13	2	1	10	10	32	−22	7
11	Zemplín Michalovce	13	0	5	8	10	28	−18	5
12	Zlaté Moravce	13	0	3	10	7	22	−15	3

Updated to match(es) played on 5 November 2023. Source: Niké liga
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.

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	KOŠ	POD	RUŽ	SKA	SLO	TRN	TRE	ZMI	ZLM	ŽIL
DAC Dunajská Streda		1–2	5–2	3–2			3–1	0–1		2–1
Dukla Banská Bystrica				1–4	1–1	2–1	1–4	1–2			1–1
Košice	0–3	2–4					0–0		0–3		1–0	0–3
Podbrezová		2–2	5–3		5–0	1–0			2–2		1–0	2–0
Ružomberok	1–1		1–0			2–1	1–2			0–0	2–0	0–2
Skalica	0–1		1–0		1–0		1–2	0–0		2–1	2–0
Slovan Bratislava		2–2	4–0	3–2				a	2–0	5–1		2–0
Spartak Trnava			3–0	2–0	2–2		1–2		1–2		1–0	0–2
Trenčín	1–0	1–0			4–1	0–0		2–3		2–0
Zemplín Michalovce	0–0	0–3	0–2	1–5				3–4	0–0			1–1
Zlaté Moravce	0–2					0–1	0–3	1–1	1–2	2–2
Žilina	5–1	1–4		2–1	3–1	5–3			5–2		3–2

Updated to match(es) played on 5 November 2023. Source: Niké liga
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

As of 1 November 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Róbert Polievka	Banská Bystrica	8
	Dávid Ďuriš	MŠK Žilina
3	Aleksandar Čavrić	Slovan	6
	Mark Assinor	Podbrezová
5	Njegoš Kupusović	AS Trenčín	5
	Peter Kováčik	Podbrezová
	Tigran Barseghyan	ŠK Slovan
	Henry Addo	MŠK Žilina
9	8 Players	Various	4

Hat-tricks

Round	Player	For	Against	Result	Date
1	Peter Kováčik	Podbrezová	Banská Bystrica	4–1 (A)	28 July 2023

Note

⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Top assists

As of 1 November 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Mario Sauer	MŠK Žilina	5
	Peter Kováčik	Podbrezová
3	Timotej Záhumenský	Banská Bystrica	4
	Matúš Kmeť	Trenčín
	David Strelec	Slovan
	Tigran Barseghyan	Slovan
7	10 Players	Various	3

Clean sheets

As of 1 November 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Vozinha	Trenčín	5
2	Richard Ludha	Podbrezová	4
	Milan Borjan	Slovan Bratislava
4	Dominik Takáč	Spartak Trnava	3
	Ľubomír Belko	Žilina
	Matúš Kira	FC Košice
	Ivan Krajčírik	Ružomberok
	Martin Junas	Skalica
9	Matěj Luksch	Skalica	2
	Benjamín Száraz	Zemplín Michalovce
	Aleksandar Popović	Dunajská Streda

Discipline

As of 1 November 2023

Player

• Most yellow cards: 5
  • 5 players

• Most red cards: 1
  • 8 players

Club

• Most yellow cards: 27
  • Trnava
  • Dunajská Streda

• Most red cards: 2
  • Dunajská Streda

See also

• 2023–24 Slovak Cup
• 2023–24 2. Liga (Slovakia)
• 2024–25 UEFA Champions League
• 2024–25 UEFA Europa Conference League

External links

• Official website

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