FC Košice

Full name	Football Club Košice [1]
Nickname(s)	VSS žltomodrí
Founded	27 April 2018; 6 years ago (2018-04-27) (as FC Košice)
Ground	Košická futbalová aréna
Capacity	12,658 [2]
Owner	Arago group - 50% Local investors - 50%
Chairman	Dušan Trnka [3]
Head coach	Gergely Geri
League	Niké Liga
2023–24	Niké Liga, 10th of 12
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

FC Košice is a Slovak association football club based in Košice, that currently plays in the Niké Liga, the highest tier of Slovak football. FC Košice was founded in 2018. They merged into a new club with FK Košice-Barca. From a historical and traditional point of view, the club follows the first football club from Košice, Kassai Athletikai Club from 1903, later known as FC VSS Košice, but from a legal point of view it is a new club with a clean slate. ^[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

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  2014–2017

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs were affiliated with FC Košice:

• West Ham (2018–2019)
• Slávia TU Košice (2020-) ^[5]

Honours

Domestic

Slovakia

• Slovak Second Division (1993–)
  • Winners (1): 2022-23 (Promoted)
• Slovak Third Division (1993-)
  • Winners (1): 2018-19 League East (Promoted)

Sponsorship

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)	1/(16)	26	25	0	1	90:9	75	QF, 0–0 (3–4 p) ( Spartak Trnava)	Filip Serečin	26
2019–20	2nd (2. Liga)	10/(16)	17	5	6	6	22:18	21	R4, 2–2 (1–4 p) ( AS Trenčín)	Erik Liener	5
2020–21	2nd (2. Liga)	5/(15)	28	15	4	9	40:27	49	SF, 3-8 agg. ( MŠK Žilina)	František Pavúk / Boris Gáll	6
2021–22	2nd (2. Liga)	5/(16)	30	17	5	8	73:38	56	Ro16, 1–2 ( Spartak Trnava)	Erik Pačinda	17
2022–23	2nd (2. Liga)	1/(16)	30	20	6	4	61:21	66	R4, 2–3 ( Komárno)	Landing Sagna	15
2023–24	1st (Fortuna liga)	10/(12)	32	7	6	19	27:56	27	Ro16, 2–3 ( Trnava)	Žan Medved	9

Current squad

As of 26 March 2024.

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 DF   SVK Dominik Veselý 3 DF   SVK Bernard Petrák 6 MF   ALB Kristi Qose 7 DF   SVK Ján Mizerák 8 MF   SVK Dávid Gallovič 9 FW   SVK Erik Pačinda ( Vice-Captain) 10 MF   USA Zyen Jones 13 GK   POR Cristiano 15 MF   SVK Miroslav Sovič 17 DF   UKR Oleksandr Holikov 18 DF   CZE Martin Šindelář 19 DF   SVK Lukáš Fabiš 20 DF   SVK Ján Krivák ( Captain)

No. Pos. Nation Player 22 GK   SVK Matúš Kira 23 MF   SVK Michal Faško 24 DF   SVK Dominik Kružliak 28 MF   MNE Deni Hočko 31 DF   PAN Eric Davis 33 DF   SVK Michal Jonec 55 FW   SVN Žan Medved 66 MF   SVK Peter Varga 77 FW   GAB Moussango Obounet (on loan from Diósgyőr) 88 DF   ARG Nicolás Gorosito 90 DF   FRA Nassim Innocenti — FW   MAR Moha Rharsalla TBA MF   SVK Marek Zsigmund TBA DF   SVK Daniel Magda

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers winter 2023–24

Out on loan 2023–24

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 5 DF   SVK Jakub Jakubko (at Petržalka until 30 June 2024) 27 MF   SVK Erik Liener (at Petržalka until 30 June 2024) 80 FW   SEN Landing Sagna (at Vysočina Jihlava until 30 June 2024) — FW   SVK Boris Gáll (at Tatran Prešov until 30 June 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW   SVK Matúš Smieško (at Trebišov until 30 June 2024) — FW   SVK Samuel Gladiš (at Tatran Prešov until 30 June 2024) — DF   SVK Samuel Magda (at Komárno until 30 June 2024) — DF   SVK František Pavúk (at Trebišov until 30 June 2024)

Technical staff

Source: ^[7]

Position	Staff
Manager	Gergely Geri
Assistant coach	vacant
Assistant coach	vacant
Goalkeeping Coach	Marián Kello
Fitness Coach	Rastislav Švický
Sport Director	Balázs Farkas
Team chef	Roman Šimko
Team doctor	MUDr. Ronald Polomský
Team doctor	MUDr. Peter Polan
Physiotherapist	Bohuslav Antolík
Physiotherapist	Miroslav Iľko
Masseur	Dominik Lukáč

• Last updated: 10 June 2022

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.

Managers

Year	Name
2017 – 2019	Miroslav Sovič
2019	Gejza Farkaš
2019 - 2020	Marek Fabuľa
2020 - 2021	Peter Šinglár (interim)
2021 - 2022	Jozef Vukušič
2022 - 2023	Anton Šoltis
2023 - 2024	Ján Kozák jr.
2024 – cur.	Gergely Geri

External links

• Official club website (in Slovak)
• Club profile at Futbalnet.sk portal (in Slovak)
• Club profile at Ligy.sk portal (in Slovak) Archived 2020-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
• FC Košice on Facebook (in Slovak)
• FC Košice on Instagram (in Slovak)

References