The 2024–25 Slovak First Football League (known as Niké liga for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd season of first-tier football league in Slovakia since its establishment in 1993.
Slovan Bratislava won the league for the seventh time in succession.
Teams The league will consist of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the 2. Liga. Komárno has been promoted to the top flight (for the first time in their history) as champions of the 2023–24 2. Liga, replacing the 2023–24 Slovak First Football League bottom-placed team Zlaté Moravce after 14 years in top flight. Slovan Bratislava entered the season as defending champions and won their seventh consecutive title.
Stadiums and locations
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda FK Dukla Banská Bystrica FC Košice FK Železiarne Podbrezová MOL Aréna UEFA Štadión SNPUEFA Košická futbalová arénaUEFA ZELPO Aréna UEFA Capacity: 12,700 Capacity: 7,030 Capacity: 12,555 Capacity: 4,000 MFK Ružomberok MFK Skalica ŠK Slovan Bratislava FC Spartak Trnava Štadión pod Čebraťom Štadión MFK Skalica Tehelné pole UEFA Štadión Antona MalatinskéhoUEFA Capacity: 4,876 Capacity: 2,600 Capacity: 22,500 Capacity: 18,200 AS Trenčín MFK Zemplín Michalovce KFC Komárno MŠK Žilina Štadión SihoťUEFA Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA ViOn Aréna UEFA Štadión pod DubňomUEFA Capacity: 10,000 Capacity: 4,400 Capacity: 4,008 Capacity: 10,897
Personnel and kits Team President Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor DAC Dunajská Streda Tibor Végh Branislav Fodrek Yhoan Andzouana Macron Kukkonia Dukla Banská Bystrica Ivan Šabo František Straka Ľubomír Willwéber Adidas Veolia Košice Dušan Trnka Roman Skuhravý Ján Krivák Adidas Niké Podbrezová Július Kriváň Štefan Markulík Matej Oravec Adidas Niké Ružomberok Ľubomír Golis Ondřej Smetana Martin Chrien Adidas Niké Skalica Peter Bartoš David Oulehla Martin Nagy Adidas Tipsport Slovan Bratislava Ivan Kmotrík Vladimír Weiss Vladimír Weiss Adidas Niké Spartak Trnava Peter Macho Michal Gašparík Martin Mikovič Puma Tipsport Trenčín Róbert Rybníček Ivan Galád Damián Bariš Macron Tipsport Zemplín Michalovce Ján Sabol Anton Šoltis Igor Žofčák Adidas Tipsport Komárno Juraj Baráth Norbert Czibor Martin Šimko Adidas MOL Žilina Jozef Antošík Michal Ščasný Tomáš Hubočan Nike Preto
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointmentBanská Bystrica Mario Auxt End of interim spell Pre-season Marek Bažík Michalovce František Straka End of contract Anton Šoltis Podbrezová Roman Skuhravý End by own request Vladimír Cifranič Skalica Pavol Majerník Released 12 David Oulehla Podbrezová Vladimír Cifranič Becomes assistant 8 Štefan Markulík FC Košice Gergely Geri Released 10 Roman Skuhravý AS Trenčín Ilija Stolica Released 11 Ivan Galád MFK Ružomberok Ondřej Smetana Signed with 1. FC Slovácko 6 Radim Kučera Dunajská Streda Xisco Muñoz Released 4 Branislav Fodrek MFK Ružomberok Radim Kučera Released 10 Norbert Hrnčár Banská Bystrica Marek Bažík Becomes assistant 9 Martin Poljovka Banská Bystrica Martin Poljovka Released 12 František Straka MFK Ružomberok Norbert Hrnčár Released 11 Ondřej Smetana
Regular stage League table
Results Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 22 matches each.
Championship group
Relegation group
Conference League play-offs The winner of the 2024–25 Slovak Cup, Spartak Trnava, finished in the top 3 in the league, which already secured them a spot in the Europa League. As a result, a playoff was held for the final spot in the Conference League, which involved the teams ranked in 4th–7th place at the conclusion of the regular season. The play-offs were one-off matches with extra time and penalties used to determine the winner if necessary, with the higher-ranked teams given home advantage against the lower-ranked teams (i.e. 3rd v. 7th and 5th v. 6th) in the semi-finals. The higher-ranked of the two semi-final winners also gained home advantage in the final. DAC Dunajská Streda won the play-offs but were subsequently excluded from the Conference League due to the club having the same ownership as Hungarian side Győri ETO FC, who had also qualified for the competition. Košice took their place in Conference League qualifying.
Semi-finals
Final
Relegation play-offs The team which finished 11th faced the 2nd team from 2. Liga for one spot in the top flight in the next season.
1st leg
2nd leg
Season statistics Top goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 Tigran BarseghyanSlovan20 David StrelecSlovan3 Alexandros Kyziridis1Michalovce144 Martin RymarenkoBanská Bystrica135 Matej TrusaDunajská Streda10 Dávid ĎurišŽilina Róbert MakSlovan Jan HladíkRužomberok9 Žan MedvedKošice9 Kelvin OforiTrnava Ammar Ramadan2Dunajská Streda 1 plus 1 playoff goal 2 plus 2 playoff goals
Hat-tricks Round Player For Against Result Date Ref15 Martin Rymarenko Banská Bystrica Trenčín 6–1 (H) 23 November 2024 19 Róbert Mak Slovan Bratislava Ružomberok 5–1 (A) 9 February 2025 8 (CG) David Strelec Slovan Bratislava Žilina 4–3 (H) 3 May 2025
Clean sheets
RankPlayerClubCleansheets1 Martin JunasSkalica132 Žiga FrelihTrnava103 Aleksandar PopovićDunajská Streda9 Dávid ŠípošKošice5 Ľubomír BelkoŽilina8 Filip DlubáčKomárno7 Adam DankoPodbrezová78 Matúš SlavíčekTrenčín69 Andrija KatićTrenčín4 Dominik ŤapajRužomberok
Discipline
Player Most yellow cards: 11
Denys Taraduda (Michalovce)
Most red cards: 2 Chinonso Emeka (Trenčín) Ján Krivák (Košice) Matúš Malý (Ružomberok) Guram Kashia (Slovan)
Club Most yellow cards: 78 Trenčín
Most red cards: 6 Michalovce
Awards Annual awards Team of the Season
Team of the Season was: Goalkeeper: Dominik Takáč (Slovan Bratislava) Defenders: César Blackman (Slovan Bratislava), Tomáš Hubočan (MŠK Žilina), Kenan Bajrić (Slovan Bratislava), Yhoan Andzouana (DAC D.Streda) Midfielders: Tigran Barseghyan (Slovan Bratislava), Mario Sauer (MŠK Žilina), Adrian Zeljković (Spartak Trnava), Ammar Ramadan (Dunajská Streda) Attacking Midfielder: Michal Faško (Košice) Forwards: David Strelec Slovan Bratislava)
Individual awards Manager of the Season
Vladimír Weiss (Slovan Bratislava)
Player of the Season
Tigran Barseghyan (Slovan Bratislava)
Young Player of the Season
Mario Sauer (MŠK Žilina)
Attendances
The football clubs are listed by average home league attendance.https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/archive/svk/avesvk25.htm
No. Club Average attendance Change Highest 1 ŠK Slovan Bratislava 7,359 27.2% 14,125 2 FC Spartak Trnava 4,602 1.4% 13,583 3 FC DAC Dunajská Streda 4,334 -24.1% 7,493 4 FC Košice 4,089 19.0% 7,298 5 MŠK Žilina FK 1908 2,222 19.5% 5,732 6 MFK Zemplín Michalovce 1,334 13.5% 3,089 7 MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica 1,298 -18.2% 4,125 8 FK AS Trenčín 1,236 -30.8% 3,053 9 FK Železiarne Podbrezová 1,209 -18.8% 3,687 10 MFK Ružomberok 1,078 -22.2% 2,721 11 MFK Skalica 784 -32.2% 2,515 12 KFC Komárno 600 81.0% 1,915
See also 2024–25 Slovak Cup 2024–25 2. Liga (Slovakia) List of Slovak football transfers summer 2024 List of Slovak football transfers winter 2024–25 List of foreign Slovak First League players
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