FC Košice (2018)

FC Košice

Full name	Football Club Košice[1]
Founded	27 April 2018; 3 years ago (2018-04-27) (as FC Košice)
Ground	Lokomotíva Stadium, Košice
Capacity	10 000
Owner	Arago group - 37%[2] Local investors - 63%
Chairman	Dušan Trnka[3]
Head coach	Jozef Vukušič
League	2. liga
2020–21	2. liga, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Košice is a Slovak association football club based in Košice, that currently plays in the 2. Liga, the second tier of Slovak football. FC Košice was founded in 2018. They merged into one new club with FK Košice-Barca.^[4]

Previous names[]

• ŠK Vyšné Opátske (1921)
• TJ Sokol Vyšné Opátske (1948)
• TJ FK Turkon Vyšné Opátske (2006)
• TJ FK Vyšné Opátske (2014)
• FK Košice (2017, new club)
• FC Košice (merger with FK Košice-Barca) (2018–present, new club)

Logos[]

• 

  2014–2017

• 

  2017–2018

Affiliated clubs[]

The following clubs were affiliated with FC Košice:

• West Ham (2018–)
• Slávia TU Košice (2020-)

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Sponsorship[]

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
2018–2019	Adidas	MAXIMA BROKER
2019–		BMW Regnum Košice
2021-	Adidas	FASTAV

Results[]

League and domestic cup history[]

Season	League								Slovak Cup	Top goalscorer(s)[6]
	Division (Name)	Pos/T	Pld	W	D	L	Score	Pts		Name(s)	Goals
2018–19	3rd (3. Liga)	1st/16	26	25	0	1	90:9	75	QF, 0–0 (3–4 p) (Spartak Trnava)	Filip Serečin	26
2019–20	2nd (2. Liga)	10th/16	17	5	6	6	22:18	21	R4, 2–2 (1–4 p) (AS Trenčín)	Erik Liener	5
2020–21	2nd (2. Liga)	5th/15	28	15	4	9	40:27	49	SF, 3-8 agg. (MŠK Žilina)	František Pavúk / Boris Gáll	6
2021–22	2nd (2. Liga)

Current squad[]

As of 4 August 2021.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  SVK Frederik Valach 2 FW  KOR Gyu-hyun Jung 4 DF  SVK Marek Václav 6 DF  SVK Sebastián Borok 7 MF  SVK Filip Kis 8 DF  SVK Dávid Gallovič 9 FW  SVK Erik Pačinda (Vice-Captain) 11 FW  SVK Boris Gáll 12 MF  RSA Nana Ntuli 13 MF  SVK Matej Jakubek 14 DF  SVK František Pavúk (Vice-Captain) 15 DF  COL Dairyn González 16 MF  ESP Pedrito 17 MF  SVK František Vancák (Captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW  SVK Dávid Guba 18 MF  SVK Marcel Novák 19 DF  SVK Samuel Magda 20 FW  DEN Marcus Mølvadgaard 21 FW  SVK Samuel Gladiš 22 DF  KOR Min-su Kim 23 DF  SVK Michal Jonec 26 GK  SVK Igor Šemrinec 27 MF  SVK Erik Liener 37 DF  SVK Peter Kavka (Vice-Captain) 77 MF  COL José Ricardo Cortés — GK  SVK Maximilián Repko — DF  SVK Jakub Nicolas Tišťan

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2021.

Out on loan 2021–22[]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  SVK Matej Fabini (at Tatran Prešov) — DF  SVK Matúš Katunský (at ŠKF Sereď)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  SVK Jakub Bavoľár (at FK Slavoj Trebišov) - DF  SVK Ervín Matta (at FK Slavoj Trebišov)

Technical staff[]

source:^[7]

Position	Staff
Manager	Jozef Vukušič
Assistant coach	Ivan Lapšanský
Assistant coach	Rudolf Urban
Goalkeeping Coach	Branislav Benko
Fitness Coach	Patrik Vereb
Team chef	Marián Stanko
Team doctor	Ľubomír Jacko
Physiotherapist	Daniel Lippay
Masseur	Dominik Lukáč

• Last updated: 4 March 2021

Notable players[]

The following players had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for FC Košice.

• Marián Kello
• Erik Pačinda

Managers[]

External links[]

• Official club website (in Slovak)
• Club profile at Futbalnet.sk portal (in Slovak)
• Club profile at Ligy.sk portal (in Slovak)
• FC Košice on Facebook (in Slovak)
• FC Košice on Instagram (in Slovak)

References[]