Zsolt Hornyák (born 1 May 1973) is a Slovak

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manager and a former defender of Hungarian ethnicity. He is the manager of Hungarian team Puskás Akadémia. As a player, Hornyák won the Czechoslovakian championship in the 1991/1992 season, and following the separation of the two countries, four Slovakian championships, and two Slovakian cups. Hornyák was capped by

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three times between 2000 and 2001.

International career

Hornyák made his debut for the Slovakia national team in a 2–0 friendly victory over

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on 15 November 2000. He came on for Vladimír Janočko in the 66th minute. He then appeared as a late substitute in a 1-1 friendly draw with

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on 27 February 2001. He made his final appearance for the national team on 7 October 2001 in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Macedonia, which Slovakia won 5-0.

Managerial career

Hornyák worked as a head coach in Armenian football clubs

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FC Banants Football Club Urartu ( hy, Ուրարտու Ֆուտբոլային Ակումբ, translated ''Futbolayin Akumb Urartu''), commonly known as Urartu, is an Armenian professional football team based in the capital Yerevan that currently plays in the ...

from 2011 to 2015. In 2011, he was an assistant coach in FC Mika. In 2012, he became a head coach replacing Slovak

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. In 2012-2013 season FC Mika won

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silver medals and Supercup. Zsolt Hornyák was appointed as a head coach of FC Banants in 2013 leading the team to the gold medals of Armenian Premier League in 2013/2014 season. That was the first title in Armenian Premier League for FC Banants. In 2014

under Zsolt Hornyák won

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. He was included in top 10 Slovak coaches list in 2013 (8th place) and 2014 (6th place). He signed a contract with

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in June 2018.

Honours

Player

;ŠK Slovan Bratislava *

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Winners (1): 1991-92 *

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Winners (2): 1994-95, 1998-99 ;1. FC Košice *

Winners (1): 1996-97 ;Inter Bratislava *

Winners (2): 1999-00, 2000-01 *

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Winners (2): 1999–00, 2000–01

Manager

;FC Mika *

Runners-Up (1):

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Winner (1): 2012 ;FC Banats *

Winner (1): 2013–14 *

Winner (1): 2014

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* 1973 births Living people Slovak men's footballers Slovak expatriate men's footballers ŠK Slovan Bratislava players FC VSS Košice players FK Inter Bratislava players FC Dynamo Moscow players AEP Paphos FC players Slovak football managers FC Mika managers FC Urartu managers Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus Slovak First Football League players Expatriate men's footballers in Russia Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Russia Hungarians in Slovakia Russian Premier League players Cypriot First Division players Slovakia men's international footballers Slovak expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Armenia Expatriate football managers in Malta Expatriate football managers in Russia Expatriate football managers in the Czech Republic Mosta F.C. managers FC Luch Vladivostok managers FC Slovan Liberec managers Slovak expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic Men's association football defenders Puskás Akadémia FC managers Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers {{Slovakia-footy-defender-stub