MFK Ružomberok is a Slovak professional football club playing in the city of Ružomberok.

History

Established in 1906, the club's colours have been traditionally white, yellow and red, which are also featured on the town's flag. However, the sponsor Mondi Business Paper SCP introduced new colours in 2005: orange, black and white. In 1993 the club gained promotion to the Slovak Second Division for the first time and a second promotion to the Corgoň Liga in 1997. The club's trophy cabinet stayed empty until their centenary year, when in 2006 they lifted both the Corgoň Liga title and the Slovak Cup with the help of 21 goals from the league's joint top scorer Erik Jendrišek. Other stars of the team in this successful season were Jan Nezmar and Marek Sapara. The team was coached at that time by František Komňacký who in February 2007 went on to SKVO Rostov-on-Don.Corgoň liga: Komňacký v Ružomberku skončil The league win gained them entry into the Champions league second qualifying stage, there they met Swedish side Djurgårdens IF, Ružomberok lost the first leg 1–0 but managed to pull back the deficit to win 3–2 on aggregate. The next round saw them meet Russian champions CSKA Moscow, the team lost conceding 5 goals without reply.

Events timeline

Honours

Domestic

Transfers

MFK have produced numerous players that have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last period there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Ružomberok after a few years of first-team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, mostly Czech First League (Igor Žofčák and Juraj Kucka to Sparta Prague in 2007 and 2009, Maroš Klimpl and Tomáš Oravec to Viktoria Žižkov in 2001 and 2002, Dušan Švento to SK Slavia Prague in 2005, Marián Had to Brno in 2004, Marek Bakoš to Viktoria Plzeň in 2009, and Tomáš Ďubek to Slovan Liberec in 2014 ), Belgian Pro League (Martin Regáli to K.V. Kortrijk in 2023). In 2005–06 best goalscorer Erik Jendrišek moved to German Hannover 96. In 2017 Michal Faško moved to Swiss Grasshopper. The top transfer was agreed in 2006 when 24 years old attacking midfielder Marek Sapara moved to Norwegian champion Rosenborg BK for a fee €1.3 million.

Record transfers

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Sponsorship

Club partners

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Current squad

Updated 5 September 2024 For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2024.

Out on loan 2023–24

Retired number(s)

Staff

Results

League and Cup history

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European competition history

Player records

Most goals

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Slovak League top goalscorer

Slovak League top goalscorer since 1993–94

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for MFK. • 🇸🇰 Ladislav Almási • 🇸🇰 Peter Babnič • 🇸🇰 Marek Bakoš • 🇲🇩 Anatol Cheptine • 🇸🇰 Martin Chrien • 🇦🇲 Gagik Daghbashyan • 🇸🇰 Ondrej Debnár • 🇸🇰 Tomáš Ďubek • 🇸🇰 Marián Had • 🇸🇰 Ľuboš Hajdúch • 🇧🇦 Nermin Haskić • 🇸🇰 Viliam Hýravý • 🇸🇰 Ivan Hodúr • 🇸🇰 Martin Jakubko • 🇸🇰 Erik Jendrišek • 🇸🇰 Maroš Klimpl • 🇧🇾 Uladzimir Karytska • 🇲🇰 Tihomir Kostadinov • 🇸🇰 Juraj Kotula • 🇸🇰 Pavel Kováč • 🇸🇰 Ivan Kozák • 🇸🇰 Dominik Kružliak • 🇸🇰 Juraj Kucka • 🇸🇰 Richard Lásik • 🇨🇿 Jiří Novotný • 🇰🇪 Patrick Oboya • 🇸🇰 Tomáš Oravec • 🇲🇰 Dejan Peševski • 🇪🇪 Artur Pikk • 🇦🇱 Kristi Qose • 🇸🇰 Marek Sapara • 🇸🇰 Martin Regáli • 🇸🇰 Tomáš Rigo • 🇸🇰 Štefan Senecký • 🇨🇿 Jiří Skalák • 🇧🇾 Valery Strypeykis • 🇸🇰 Dušan Švento • 🇸🇰 Rudolf Urban • 🇲🇰 Yani Urdinov • 🇸🇰 Ľubomír Talda • 🇨🇲 Léandre Tawamba • Viktor Tegelhoff • 🇲🇰 Darko Tofiloski • 🇸🇰 Ivan Trabalík • 🇸🇰 Tibor Zátek • 🇸🇰 Adam Zreľák • 🇸🇰 Vladislav Zvara • 🇸🇰 Igor Žofčák

Managers

Reserve team

MFK Ružomberok B is the reserve team of MFK Ružomberok.

History

Ružomberok B's best result in Slovak 2. liga was a 7th position in 2009–10 season and 2011–12 season. In May 2012 the club withdrew from the Slovak 2. liga. Their place in the league was taken by FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín. Notable former players which later played First league were: Štefan Pekár, Libor Hrdlička, Juraj Dovičovič, Lukáš Greššák, Juraj Dovičovič and Roland Števko.

Season to season

Former managers