FC Nitra is a Slovak association football club, playing in the town of Nitra. Established in 1909, FC Nitra is one of the oldest football clubs in Slovakia.

History

Czechoslovak era

Nitra were promoted and relegated 4 times from the Czechoslovak First League with their longest stay being 5 years (1979–1984, 1986–1991). Nitra came close to clinching the title in 1962 only to lose out by 3 points to Dukla Prague. This year was most successful in club history because they reached also Mitropa Cup final. Another successful period was end of 80s when Nitra stayed on top positions in Czechoslovak First League (in 1989 they reached 3rd place) with players like Michal Hipp, Ľubomír Moravčík, Ladislav Molnár, Peter Palúch, Jozef Majoroš, Róbert Tomaschek, Miroslav Sovič. FC Nitra was the first football professional club in the former Czechoslovakia.

Slovak era

Nitra was involved in the inaugural Slovakian championship in 1994 but was relegated to the second division after their 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 an FC Nitra speciality during the early 90s, 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. This was mainly due to the work of head coach 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 was transferred to MFK Ružomberok. Galád coached the team very defensively (as according to his words no good striker was in the team). Galád lost his job after not much good results of the team at the end of 2006/2007 season (many losses and draws). The former Czech player Pavel Hapal was named as the head coach of the team for the 2007/2008 season. His way of coaching brought almost immediately very good results and the team finished 3rd (the best in the history of the club). After the season Hapal decided to leave the club to accept an offer from the top Czech club FK Mladá Boleslav. Pavel Malura, another coach from the Czech Republic, has taken the job. In spring 2009 the new manager Petar Kurčubić was appointed. In 2021 after the club was relegated from the top flight, they did not obtain a licence for the league below and so were further demoted another level.

Events timeline

Honours

Domestic

Czechoslovakia 🇸🇰 Slovakia

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer

The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944–45 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.

European

Sponsorship

Current squad

Updated 5 August 2021

Out on loan

Current technical staff

Results

League and Cup history

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European competition history

UEFA-administered

Not UEFA-administered

Player records

Most goals

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for FC Nitra. • 🇸🇰 Marek Bakoš • 🇸🇰 Miroslav Barčík • 🇸🇰 Miloš Belák • 🇸🇰 Henrich Benčík • Ivan Bilský • 🇸🇰 Marián Bochnovič • Dušan Borko • 🇸🇰 Mário Breška • Miroslav Čmarada • 🇸🇰 Igor Demo • 🇸🇰 Marián Dirnbach • 🇸🇰 Juraj Dovičovič • 🇸🇰 Pavol Farkaš • 🇸🇰 Peter Grajciar • 🇸🇰 Ján Greguš • Vladimír Hagara • 🇸🇰 Michal Hanek • 🇨🇦 Kevin Harmse • 🇮🇱 Ariel Harush • 🇸🇰 Christián Herc • 🇸🇰 Andrej Hesek • 🇸🇰 Michal Hipp • Ján Hlavatý • 🇸🇰 Ivan Hodúr • 🇸🇰 Eduard Hrnčár • 🇸🇰 Norbert Hrnčár • 🇸🇰 Erik Jendrišek • 🇸🇰 Róbert Jež • 🇸🇰 Jaroslav Kolbas • 🇸🇰 Tomáš Kóňa • 🇸🇰 Miroslav König • Jozef Kukučka • 🇸🇰 Branislav Labant • 🇬🇭 John Mensah • Vahagn Militosyan • 🇸🇰 Ladislav Molnár • 🇸🇰 Ľubomír Moravčík • 🇺🇬 Isaac Muleme • Alexander Nagy (footballer) • 🇭🇺 Zoltán Opata • 🇸🇰 Dušan Perniš • 🇸🇰 Peter Petráš • 🇸🇰 Martin Prohászka • 🇲🇰 Milan Ristovski • 🇸🇰 Róbert Semeník • 🇸🇰 Štefan Senecký • 🇸🇰 Samuel Slovák • Seydouba Soumah • 🇸🇰 Miroslav Sovič • 🇸🇰 Miroslav Stoch • 🇸🇰 Lukáš Štetina • 🇨🇲 Léandre Tawamba • Vladimír Ternény • 🇸🇰 Róbert Tomaschek • 🇨🇿 Petr Trapp • Alexander Vencel sr.

Former managers