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FC Nitra
Full name	Football Club Nitra
Nickname(s)	Trogári
Founded	1909
Ground	Štadión pod Zoborom,; Nitra; (Capacity: 11,384)
Chairman	Eugen Árvay
Manager	Ivan Galád
League	Corgoň Liga
2008-09	First Division, 11th

FC Nitra is a Slovak football club, playing in the town of Nitra. Established in 1909, FC Nitra is one of the oldest football clubs in Slovakia. Nitra were promoted and relegated 4 times from the Czechoslovakian 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. FC Nitra was the first football professional club in the former Czechoslovakia.^{[citation needed]}

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 90's, 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 headcoach 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.^{[citation needed]}

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).^{[citation needed]} 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 Kurčubič was appointed. FC Nitra have recently signed Slovak international Ivan Hodúr from Ružomberok. from new season from new manager Ivan Galád.

[edit] Events timeline

1909 - Founded as Nyitrai ÖTTSO
1911 - Renamed Nyitrai TVE
1919 - Renamed Nyitrai SC
1921 - Renamed SK Nitra
1923 - Renamed AC Nitra
1948 - Renamed Sokol Nitra
1949 - Renamed ZSJ Sokol spojene zavody Nitra
1949 - Renamed ZK KP Nitra
1953 - Renamed DSO Slavoj Nitra
1956 - Renamed TJ Slovan Nitra
1966 - Again Renamed AC Nitra
1976 - Renamed TJ Plastika Nitra
1989 - First European qualification, 1990
1990 - Renamed FC Nitra

[edit] Honours

[edit] Domestic

Slovakian League (1993 - Present)
- Best finish: 3rd - 2007-08

Czechoslovakian League (1945 - 1992)
- Best finish: 2nd - 1962

[edit] European

Intertoto Cup
- Best finish: Second round - 2006

UEFA Cup
- Best finish: First round - 1990

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Martin Chudy
2	DF	Marián Ďatko
3	DF	Martin Tóth
4	MF	Martin Boszorád
5	DF	Branislav Labant
6	MF	Tomáš Kóňa
7	MF	Ľuboš Kolár
8	DF	Lukáš Štetina
9	FW	Matúš Mikuš
10	MF	Ivan Hodúr
11	DF	Michal Áč

No.	Position	Player
13	MF	Irakli Liluashvili
14	MF	Miloš Šimončič
16	DF	Petr Kaspřák
18	MF	Róbert Glenda
19	FW	Arnold Šimonek
20	FW	Róbert Valenta
21	FW	Roman Sloboda
23	DF	Ján Leško
26	DF	Igor Kotora
31	GK	Lukáš Hroššo
77	FW	Robert Rák

[edit] Famous players

[edit] Famous coaches

[edit] External links

Official website (Slovak)
FC Nitra Ultras (Slovak)

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