Slovakia

Nickname(s)	Repre
Association	Slovak Football Association (Slovenský futbalový zväz)
Confederation	UEFA (Europe)
Head coach	Vladimír Weiss
Asst coach	Michal Hipp
Captain	Marek Hamšík
Most caps	Miroslav Karhan (95)
Top scorer	Szilárd Németh (22)
Home stadium	Tehelné pole (Bratislava)
FIFA code	SVK
FIFA ranking	33
Highest FIFA ranking	17 (May 1997)
Lowest FIFA ranking	150 (December 1993)
Elo ranking	48
Highest Elo ranking	28 (May 2001)
Lowest Elo ranking	58 (September 2001)
Home colours Away colours
First international
Slovakia 2 - 0 Germany (Bratislava, Slovakia; 27 August 1939) Second Slovak Republic: UAE 0–1 Slovakia (Dubai, UAE; 2 February 1994)
Biggest win
Slovakia 7 - 0 Liechtenstein (Bratislava, Slovakia; 8 September 2004) Slovakia 7 - 0 San Marino (Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia; 13 October 2007) Slovakia 7 - 0 San Marino (Bratislava, Slovakia; 6 June 2009)
Biggest defeat
Argentina 6 - 0 Slovakia (Mendoza, Argentina; 22 June 1995)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (First in 2010)

The Slovakia national football team represents Slovakia in international football and is controlled by the Slovak Football Association. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Slovak Football Association was founded in 1993, and has been affiliated to both FIFA and UEFA since the same year.

[edit] History

The first official match of the first Slovak Republic (1939–1945) was played in Prague against Germany on 27 August 1939, and ended in a 2-0 victory for Slovakia. After the Second World War, the national football team was subsumed into the team of Czechoslovakia, and for over fifty years Slovakia played no matches as an independent country. During this period they contributed several key players to the Czechoslovak team, including the majority of the team that won the 1976 European Championships.

Slovakia's first official international after regaining independence was a 1-0 victory in Dubai over the United Arab Emirates on 2 February 1994. Their match back on Slovakian soil was the 4-1 defeat against Croatia in Bratislava on 20 April 1994. Slovakia suffered their biggest defeat since independence (6-0) on 22 June 1995, in Mendoza, against Argentina. Their biggest wins (7-0) have come against Liechtenstein in 2004 and San Marino in 2007.

Slovakia played in a major championship as an independent team for the first time in Euro '96 qualifying, but finished in third place in their qualifying group, behind Romania and France, having recorded wins against Poland, Israel and Azerbaijan, twice. In the 1998 World Cup qualifiers, Slovakia finished fourth in their six-team group with five wins, one draw and four defeats.

Slovakia will participate in the FIFA World Cup for the first time in their history as an independent nation after finishing in first place in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification - UEFA Group 3 ahead of Slovenia, Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, and Poland. On 14 October 2009, they clinched qualification with a 1-0 away win against Poland.^[1]

[edit] Stadium

Tehelné pole is most popular name for a football stadium in Bratislava. Named after the surrounding neighbourhood in Bratislava. The stadium is the home field for Slovan and Slovakia national football team. Capacity of the stadium is 30,085 spectators. The construction of the stadium was begun in 1939 and was finished in 1944 however the stadium was opened already in September 1940. The first official match was played on 27 October 1940 when Slovan hosted Hertha. The match ended 2-2. The stadium was also the home field for Czechoslovakia national football team in common era and it was second biggest stadium in Czechoslovakia after the Strahov. In 2005-06 season Artmedia used this stadium for a contests in UEFA Champions League and UEFA Cup.

National team of Slovakia also use Stadium Pod Dubňom in Žilina and Stadium of Anton Malatinský in Trnava.

[edit] Latest results

[edit] 2008

Year 2008
Date	Venue	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Goals
6 February 2008	Limassol	Hungary	1-1	Slovakia	54. Gera - 64. Šesták
26 March 2008	Štadión FC ViOn	Slovakia	1-2	Iceland	87. Mintál - 71. Thorvaldsson, 82. Gudjohnsen
20 May 2008	SchücoArena	Turkey	1-0	Slovakia	63. Hakan Balta
24 May 2008	Stadio Cornaredo	Switzerland	2-0	Slovakia	56. Behrami, 63. Frei
20 August 2008	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	0-2	Greece	62. and 82. Gekas
6 September 2008	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	2-1	Northern Ireland	46. Škrtel, 70. Hamšík - 81. Ďurica (o.g.)
10 September 2008	Ljudski vrt	Slovenia	2-1	Slovakia	22. and 81. Novakovič - 83. Jakubko
11 October 2008	Stadio Olimpico	San Marino	1-3	Slovakia	45. Selva - 33. Šesták, 39. Kozák, 51. Karhan
15 October 2008	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	2-1	Poland	84. and 86. Šesták - 70. Smolarek
19 November 2008	Pod Dubňom	Slovakia	4-0	Liechtenstein	43. and 72. Hamšík, 75. Vittek, 90. Jež

[edit] 2009

Date	Venue	Home Team	Score	Away Team	Goals
10 February 2009	Tsirion Stadium	Slovakia	2-3	Ukraine	42. Vittek, 69. Hamšík - 10. Valyayev, 47. Seleznyov, 83. Milevsky (pen.)
11 February 2009	Makario Stadium	Cyprus	3-2	Slovakia	32. Marangos (pen.), 74. Nicolaou, 82. Okkas - 88. Jež, 90.+3 Jendrišek
28 March 2009	Wembley	England	4-0	Slovakia	7. Heskey, 70. and 90. Rooney, 82. Lampard
1 April 2009	AXA Arena	Czech Republic	1-2	Slovakia	30. Škrtel (o.g.) - 23. Šesták, 83. Jendrišek
6 June 2009	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	7-0	San Marino	3. and 32. Čech, 12. Pekarík, 35. Stoch, 42. Kozák, 63. Jakubko, 68. Hanzel
12 August 2009	Laugardalsvöllur	Iceland	1-1	Slovakia	60. K. Sigurdsson - 35. Vittek
5 September 2009	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	2-2	Czech Republic	60. Šesták, 73. Hamšík (pen.) - 68. Pudil, 84. Baroš
9 September 2009	Windsor Park	Northern Ireland	0-2	Slovakia	15. Šesták, 67. Hološko
10 October 2009	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	0-2	Slovenia	56. Birsa, 90.+3 Pečnik
14 October 2009	Stadion Śląski	Poland	0-1	Slovakia	3. Gancarczyk (o.g.)
14 November 2009	Tehelné Pole	Slovakia	1-0	United States	26. Hamšík (pen.)
17 November 2009	Pod Dubňom	Slovakia	1-2	Chile	17. Šesták - 9. Jara, 55. Paredes

Score bar: Green - Friendly match, Blue - WC 2010 Qualification

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1994 - See Czechoslovakia

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
1998	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2002	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2006	Did not Qualify	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2010	Qualified	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	1/4		-	-	-	-	-	-

[edit] European Championship record

• 1960 to 1992 - see Czechoslovakia
• 1996 to 2008 - Did not qualify

[edit] FIFA World Cup qualification

Team v • d • e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts  Slovakia 10 7 1 2 22 10 +12 22  Slovenia 10 6 2 2 18 4 +14 20  Czech Republic 10 4 4 2 17 6 +11 16  Northern Ireland 10 4 3 3 13 9 +4 15  Poland 10 3 2 5 19 14 +5 11  San Marino 10 0 0 10 1 47 −46 0

Czech Republic  – 0 – 0 2 – 0 7 – 0 1 – 2 1 – 0 Northern Ireland  0 – 0 – 3 – 2 4 – 0 0 – 2 1 – 0 Poland  2 – 1 1 – 1 – 10 – 0 0 – 1 1 – 1 San Marino  0 – 3 0 – 3 0 – 2 – 1 – 3 0 – 3 Slovakia  2 – 2 2 – 1 2 – 1 7 – 0 – 0 – 2 Slovenia  0 – 0 2 – 0 3 – 0 5 – 0 2 – 1 –

[edit] Current squad

Date: November 14 and November 17, 2009
Venue: Tehelné Pole, Bratislava and Pod Dubňom, Žilina
Opponent:  United States and  Chile

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club GK Ján Mucha December 5, 1982 (1982-12-05) (age 27) 13 0 Legia Warszawa GK Ľuboš Kamenár June 17, 1987 (1987-06-17) (age 22) 2 0 Nantes GK Dušan Kuciak May 21, 1985 (1985-05-21) (age 24) 2 0 Vaslui DF Radoslav Zabavník September 16, 1980 (1980-09-16) (age 29) 41 1 free agent DF Marek Čech January 26, 1983 (1983-01-26) (age 26) 38 5 West Bromwich Albion DF Martin Petráš November 2, 1979 (1979-11-02) (age 30) 37 1 Cesena DF Martin Škrtel December 15, 1984 (1984-12-15) (age 25) 37 5 Liverpool DF Ján Ďurica December 10, 1981 (1981-12-10) (age 28) 34 1 Lokomotiv Moscow DF Peter Pekarík October 30, 1986 (1986-10-30) (age 23) 18 1 Wolfsburg DF Kornel Saláta January 4, 1985 (1985-01-04) (age 24) 3 0 Slovan Bratislava MF Miroslav Karhan June 21, 1976 (1976-06-21) (age 33) 95 13 Mainz 05 MF Marek Hamšík (captain) July 27, 1987 (1987-07-27) (age 22) 29 8 Napoli MF Marek Sapara July 31, 1982 (1982-07-31) (age 27) 23 2 Rosenborg MF Ján Kozák April 22, 1980 (1980-04-22) (age 29) 21 2 Slovan Bratislava MF Zdeno Štrba June 9, 1976 (1976-06-09) (age 33) 19 0 Skoda Xanthi MF Dušan Švento August 1, 1985 (1985-08-01) (age 24) 18 1 Red Bull Salzburg MF Miroslav Stoch October 19, 1989 (1989-10-19) (age 20) 9 1 Twente MF Kamil Kopúnek May 18, 1984 (1984-05-18) (age 25) 6 0 Spartak Trnava MF Vladimír Weiss November 30, 1989 (1989-11-30) (age 20) 6 0 Manchester City MF Juraj Kucka February 26, 1987 (1987-02-26) (age 22) 5 0 Sparta Praha FW Róbert Vittek April 1, 1982 (1982-04-01) (age 27) 68 18 Lille FW Stanislav Šesták December 16, 1982 (1982-12-16) (age 27) 29 10 Bochum FW Martin Jakubko February 26, 1980 (1980-02-26) (age 29) 21 4 FC Moscow FW Erik Jendrišek October 26, 1986 (1986-10-26) (age 23) 12 2 Kaiserslautern

^{Caps and goals as of 17 November 2009}

[edit] Recent call-up

The following players have also been called up to the Slovakia squad since 2009.

Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club Latest call-up GK Štefan Senecký January 6, 1980 (1980-01-06) (age 29) 12 0 Ankaragücü vs  England, March 28, 2009 (Friendly) GK Dušan Perniš November 28, 1984 (1984-11-28) (age 25) 1 0 Dundee United[2] vs  Iceland, August 12, 2009 (Friendly) DF Roman Kratochvíl June 24, 1974 (1974-06-24) (age 35) 35 0 retired vs  England, March 28, 2009 (Friendly) DF Jozef Valachovič July 12, 1975 (1975-07-12) (age 34) 33 1 Slovan Bratislava vs  England, March 28, 2009 (Friendly) DF Matej Krajčík March 19, 1978 (1978-03-19) (age 31) 18 0 Slavia Praha vs  Ukraine, February 10, 2009 (Friendly) DF Peter Petráš May 7, 1979 (1979-05-07) (age 30) 9 0 Slovan Bratislava vs  Ukraine, February 10, 2009 (Friendly) DF Marián Čišovský November 2, 1979 (1979-11-02) (age 30) 8 0 Timişoara vs  Northern Ireland, September 9, 2009 (WCQ) DF Ľubomír Michalík August 13, 1983 (1983-08-13) (age 26) 4 1 Leeds United vs  Poland, October 14, 2009 (WCQ) DF Martin Dobrotka January 22, 1985 (1985-01-22) (age 24) 1 0 Slovan Bratislava vs  Poland, October 14, 2009 (WCQ) DF Ľuboš Hanzel May 7, 1987 (1987-05-07) (age 22) 1 1 Schalke 04 vs  Northern Ireland, September 9, 2009 (WCQ) DF Csaba Horváth May 2, 1982 (1982-05-02) (age 27) 1 0 ADO Den Haag vs  Northern Ireland, September 9, 2009 (WCQ) MF Balázs Borbély October 2, 1979 (1979-10-02) (age 30) 13 0 Timişoara vs  San Marino, June 6, 2009 (WCQ) MF Branislav Obžera August 29, 1981 (1981-08-29) (age 28) 6 0 Slovan Bratislava vs  England, March 28, 2009 (Friendly) MF Róbert Jež July 10, 1981 (1981-07-10) (age 28) 4 2 MŠK Žilina vs  Ukraine, February 10, 2009 (Friendly) MF Mário Pečalka December 29, 1980 (1980-12-29) (age 29) 1 0 MŠK Žilina vs  Northern Ireland, September 9, 2009 (WCQ) FW Marek Mintál September 2, 1977 (1977-09-02) (age 32) 45 14 Nuremberg vs  England, March 28, 2009 (Friendly) FW Filip Hološko January 17, 1984 (1984-01-17) (age 25) 36 5 Beşiktaş vs  Northern Ireland, September 9, 2009 (WCQ) FW Ján Novák March 6, 1985 (1985-03-06) (age 24) 4 0 MFK Košice vs  Poland, October 14, 2009 (WCQ) FW Peter Štyvar August 13, 1980 (1980-08-13) (age 29) 2 0 Skoda Xanthi vs  Ukraine, February 10, 2009 (Friendly) [edit] Coaching staff 1.Mucha 3.Pekarík 5.Saláta 6.Štrba 2.Petráš 17.Hamšík(C) 10.Kopúnek 14.Kozák 7.Weiss 18.Jendrišek 9.Šesták Slovakia line-up for match against Poland at Ocotber 14, 2009 Coach Vladimir Weiss Assistant Coach Michal Hipp Goalkeeping Coach Miroslav Mentel Technical Manager Róbert Tomaschek Fitness Coach Martin Rusňák Team Doctors MUDr. Vladimír Pener MUDr. Ladislav Pavlovič MUDr. Peter Malinovský Backroom Staff Jiří Jurza Viliam Kalman Marián Drinka Ján Beniak [edit] Most goals and appearances [edit] Top goalscorers See also: Category:Slovakia international footballers As of 17 November 2009. Bold are still available for selection. Most goals in the Slovakia national football team: # Player Career Goals Caps 1. Szilárd Németh 1996– 22 58 2. Róbert Vittek 2001– 18 68 3. Marek Mintál 2002–2009 14 45 4. Miroslav Karhan 1995– 13 95 5. Peter Dubovský 1994–2000 12 33 6. Stanislav Šesták 2004– 10 29 7. Tibor Jančula 1995–2001 9 29 Ľubomír Reiter 2001–2005 9 28 9. Marek Hamšík 2007– 8 28 10. Jaroslav Timko 1994–1997 7 18 Dušan Tittel 1994–1998 7 44 Most goals in the Czechoslovakia national football team:[3] # Player Career Goals Caps 1. Adolf Scherer 1958–1964 22 36 2. Marián Masný 1974–1982 18 75 3. Jozef Adamec 1960–1971 14 44 4. Andrej Kvašňák 1960–1970 13 47 5. Karol Jokl 1963–1972 11 27 6. Anton Moravčík 1952–1960 10 25 7. Ján Kozák 1976–1984 9 55 Ladislav Kuna 1966–1974 9 47 Anton Ondruš 1974–1980 9 58 10. Stanislav Griga 1983–1990 8 34 [edit] Most capped Most appearances in the Slovakia national football team: # Player Career Caps Goals 1. Miroslav Karhan 1995– 95 13 2. Róbert Vittek 2001– 69 18 3. Szilárd Németh 1996– 58 22 4. Stanislav Varga 1997–2006 54 2 5. Róbert Tomaschek 1994–2001 50 4 6. Peter Dzúrik 1997–2003 45 2 Marek Mintál 2002–2009 45 14 8. Dušan Tittel 1994–1998 44 7 9. Miroslav König 1997–2004 43 0 10. Vladimír Janočko 1999–2006 42 3 Most appearances in the Czechoslovakia national football team:[4] # Player Career Caps Goals 1. Marián Masný 1974–1982 75 18 2. Karol Dobiaš 1967–1980 67 6 3. Ján Popluhár 1958–1967 62 1 4. Anton Ondruš 1974–1980 58 9 5. Ladislav Jurkemik 1974–1983 57 3 6. Koloman Gögh 1974–1980 55 1 Ján Kozák 1976–1984 55 9 8. Jozef Barmoš 1977–1982 52 0 Jozef Chovanec 1984–1992 52 4 10. Jaroslav Pollák 1968–1980 49 1 [edit] Managers See also: Category:Slovak football managers As of 17 November 2009. Name Years MC W D L GF GA GD PG Jozef Vengloš 1993–1995 16 5 4 7 21 30 -9 1.19 Jozef Jankech 1995–1998 34 18 6 10 51 33 +18 1.76 Dušan Radolský[5] 1998 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0.00 Jozef Adamec 1999–2001 34 13 11 10 38 31 +7 1.47 Ladislav Jurkemik 2002–2003 19 6 5 8 27 26 +1 1.21 Dušan Galis 2004–2006 31 12 12 7 53 36 +17 1.55 Ján Kocian 2006–2008 17 3 5 9 30 28 +2 0.82 Vladimír Weiss 2008– 18 9 2 7 33 25 +8 1.61 Totals 170 66 45 59 254 212 +42 1.43 [edit] See also Slovakia national under-21 football team Czechoslovakia national football team [edit] References ^ "Thrilling win in the snow". ESPN. 2009-10-14. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=236564&cc=5739. Retrieved 2009-10-15.  ^ since 1st January 2010 ^ List of players shows Slovak top scorers in the Czechoslovakia national football team. ^ List of players shows most capped Slovaks in the Czechoslovakia national football team. ^ Only for friendly against Poland at November 10, 1998. 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