MFK Ružomberok

MFK Ružomberok () is a Slovak football club, playing in the city of Ružomberok.

History

Established in 1906, the club's colours have been traditionally white, yellow and red, which are also featured on the town's flag. However, the sponsor Mondi Business Paper SCP introduced new colours in 2005: orange, black and white.

In 1993 the club gained promotion to the Slovak Second Division for the first time and a second promotion to the Corgoň Liga in 1997. The club's trophy cabinet stayed empty until their centenary year, when in 2006 they lifted both the Corgoň Liga title and the Slovak Cup with the help of 21 goals from the league's joint top scorer Erik Jendrišek. Other stars of the team in this successful season were Jan Nezmar and Marek Sapara. The team was coached at that time by František Komňacký who in February 2007 went on to SKVO Rostov-on-Donbr>Corgoň liga: Komňacký v Ružomberku skončil

The league win gained them entry into the Champions league second qualifying stage, there they met Swedish side Djurgårdens IF, Ružomberok lost the first leg 1–0 but managed to pull back the deficit to win 3–2 on aggregate. The next round saw them meet Russian champions CSKA Moscow, the team lost conceding 5 goals without reply.

Events timeline

* 1906 – Founded as ''Rózsahegyi Sport Club''
* 1948 – Merged with ''SBZ Ruzomberok'' and ''Sokola SBZ Ružomberok''
* 1953 – Renamed ''DSO Iskra Ružomberok''
* 1955 – Revocation of the merger and renamed ''Iskra Ružomberok''
* 1957 – Renamed ''TJ BZVIL Ružomberok''
* 1989 – Renamed ''TJ BZ Ružomberok''
* 1992 – Renamed ''ŠK Texicom Ružomberok''
* 1995 – Renamed ''MŠK Ružomberok''
* 1996 – Renamed ''MŠK SCP Ružomberok'', Slovak 2nd League champion
* 2001 – First European qualification, 2001–02 Manchester Spring ClassicCup
* 2003 – Renamed ''MFK Ružomberok''
* 2006 – Slovak champion, Slovak FA Cup winner
* 2006 – Champions League qualification, 3rd round
*2017 - European League qualification, 3rd round

Honours

Domestic

* Slovak Super Liga ''(1993–)''
** ''Winners (1):'' 2005–06
** ''Runners-up (1):'' 2021–22
* Slovenský Pohár ''(Slovak Cup)''
** ''Winners (1):'' 2005–06
** ''Runners-up (3):'' 2000–01, 2017–18, 2019–20

Slovak League Top Goalscorer

Slovak League Top scorer since 1993–94

:¹Shared award

Transfers

MFK have produced numerous players that have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last period there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Ružomberok after a few years of first-team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, mostly Czech First League (Igor Žofčák and Juraj Kucka to Sparta Prague in 2007 and 2009, Maroš Klimpl and Tomáš Oravec to Viktoria Žižkov in 2001 and 2002, Dušan Švento to SK Slavia Prague in 2005, Marián Had to Brno in 2004, Marek Bakoš to Viktoria Plzeň in 2009, and Tomáš Ďubek to Slovan Liberec in 2014). In 2005–06 best goalscorer Erik Jendrišek moved to German Hannover 96. In 2017 Michal Faško moved to Swiss Grasshopper. The top transfer was agreed in 2006 when 24 years old attacking midfielder Marek Sapara moved to Norwegian champion Rosenborg BK for a fee €1.3 million.

Record transfers

Sponsorship

Club partners

source

*Mondi SCP
*ECO-INVEST
*Harmony

*TAURIS
*Harmanec-Kuvert
*City of Ružomberok

*Stavpoč
*Tatrapeko
*Včela Lippek

Current squad

''Updated 22 June 2022''

''For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2022
and List of Slovak football transfers winter 2022-23''.

Out on loan

Other players under contract

Retired number(s)

* 12 – ''Concordia 1906'' (the 12th Man)

Staff

Results

League and Cup history

''Slovak League only (1993–present)''
:

European competition history

Player records

Most goals

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Notable players

Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for MFK.

:''Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.''

Managers

* Ladislav Jurkemik (1998–99)
* Mikuláš Komanický (2001–02)
* Jozef Vukušič (2003–04)
* Ľubomír Moravčík (2004–05)
* František Komňacký (2005–07)
* Petr Uličný (2007)
* Přemysl Bičovský (2007–08)
* Michal Bílek (1 July 2008 – 30 June 2009)
* František Straka (1 June 2009 – 30 June 2010)
* Ladislav Jurkemik (1 July 2010 – 15 Oct 2010)
* Goran Milojević (16 Oct 2010 – 31 March 2011)
* Ladislav Jurkemik (1 April 2011 – Sept 22, 2011)
* Aleš Křeček (Sept 22, 2011 – 30 June 2012)
* Ladislav Šimčo (1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013)
* Jozef Vukušič (1 July 2013 – 17 March 2014)
* Jozef Chovanec (17 March 2014 – 30 June 2014)
* Ladislav Šimčo (5 June 2014 – 17 Nov 2014)
* Ivan Galád (17 Nov 2014 – Sept 2, 2015)
* Ladislav Pecko (Sept 11, 2015 – 30 May 2016)
* Norbert Hrnčár (30 May 2016 – 30 May 2018)
* David Holoubek (4 June 2018 – May 2019)
* Ján Haspra (May 2019 - 27 May 2021)
* Peter Struhár (31 May 2021 – present)

Reserve team

MFK Ružomberok B is the reserve team of MFK Ružomberok. The team was

History

Ružomberok B's best result in Slovak 2. liga was a 7th position in 2009–10 season and 2011–12 season. In May 2012 the club withdrew from the Slovak 2. liga. Their place in the league was taken by FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín. Notable former players which later played First league were: Štefan Pekár

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