Nikola Rybanská (born 3 February 1995) is a Slovak professional

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who plays as a

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for Greek A Division club

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and the Slovak national team. She also plays

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for FSC Prievidza in the Slovak Futsal Extraliga and is the captain for the Slovakia women's national futsal team.

Club career

Football

Rybanská began her career at MFK Topvar Topoľčany. On 22 March 2012, she was loaned to

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with an option to buy. She was able to impress there in the next six months and moved permanently to Union Nové Zámky on 14 August 2012. In the 2012/2013 season, Rybanská won the

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for the first time with her club. She helped them win 3 league titles in a row as well as a

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title. She made her Champions League debut on 8 August 2013 against Apollon. She scored her first and only UWCL goal in 2014 against

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. In the second half of the 2014/15 season, she moved to Slovan Teplice and helped them reach 4th place in the league by scoring 7 goals in 5 matches. She started the first half of the following season by making 9 appearances and scoring 10 times, before taking a break from her

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career to play

. She returned in August 2018 to join Slovak second division club GFC Topoľčany. In 2018/19, they finished 2nd in their group and Rybanská was the top scorer of the league with 49 goals. In the following season, they were sitting at the top of their group undefeated after 10 games, but the second half of the season was cancelled due to the

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. On 18 August 2020, she moved to

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to join Greek A Division club AEL. She helped the club finish 3rd in the league as she scored 10 goals in 7 appearances. On 7 February 2022, she joined OFI. She only played 6 times in the 2021/22 season scoring 4 goals. In 2022/23, OFI finished 4th and Rybanská was the league's top scorer with 17 goals in 18 matches. She was also given the Best Foreign Player award. In 2023/24, she improved on her performance by scoring 24 goals in 22 matches, finishing as the season's top scorer again, and by helping OFI reach 2nd place in the league. She was once again awarded Best Foreign Player in the PSAPP awards and made the season's Best 11.

Futsal

She was playing for the Union Nové Zámky futsal team until 29 February 2016 when she joined Győri ETO futsal club in Hungary. In 2018, she returned to

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to join CopyLeaders Prievidza where she plays until today. She was named Slovakia's Best Futsal Player for the 2021 season.

International goals

Honours

Club

;Topvar Topoľčany *

; runner-up: 2010/11 ;Union Nové Zámky *

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(3): 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15; runner-up: 2011/12 *

(2): 2013/14, 2014/15; runner-up: 2012/13 ;OFI * Greek A Division; runner-up: 2023/24

Individual

* Slovakia's Best Futsal Player: 2021 *

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Best Foreign Player: 2022/23, 2023/24 *

Top Scorer: 2022/23, 2023/24 *

Best XI: 2023/24

References

External links

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Nikola Rybanská
at Sportnet.sme.sk
Nikola Rubanská
at Playmakerstats.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Rybanská, Nikola 1995 births Living people Women's association football forwards Slovak women's footballers 21st-century Slovak sportswomen Slovak Women's First League players FK Union Nové Zámky players OFI Crete W.F.C. players Slovak expatriate women's footballers Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Greece Expatriate women's footballers in Greece People from Partizánske District