FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda

History

The first organized sports club in Dunajská Streda (then Dunaszerdahely, Hungary), the Dunaszerdahelyi Atlétikai Club (Dunajská Streda Athletic Club (DAC)), was founded in 1904. At the time, football was a popular sport. The club survived both world wars and continued to 1953 when the team won the Bratislava district one A grade premiership. In 1968 and 1969, the team advanced in the Western Division of the third league before returning to the regional competition. In the 1977 to 1978 season, the team again entered the third league coming sixth. In the 1978 to 1979 competition, the team came seventh. In the 1979 to 1980 season, the team won their division and was promoted to the Slovak National League (SNL 1 – second level). DAC finally promoted to Czechoslovak First League in 1984–85 season. DAC was 3rd at this league in 1987–88 season and 4th in 1990–91 and 1992–93 seasons. They finished Slovak Superliga as 3rd in 1993–94 season. But, their form was lowered after this season and relegated to second level in 1997–98 season. They immediately returned to top level but relegated again in 1999–00 season. They relegated to 3rd level in 2006–07 season. They immediately returned to 2nd level but relegated again in 2008–09 season. They made successively two promotions and returned to top level in 2013. Since 2013, DAC has been affiliated with ŠK Senec. In 1987, DAC were the Slovak Cup (Slovenský Pohár) and Czechoslovak Cup (Československý Pohár) winners.

In 2025, UEFA did not let the club to compete in the 2025–26 UEFA Conference League since one owner can have only one club in the competition. Világi, the club owner in 2025, had two clubs in the competition due to Győr's qualification in the 2024–25 Nemzeti Bajnokság I. On 1 July 2025, Világi said that the UEFA's decision is not righteous, therefore, the club will turn to Court of Arbitration for Sport CAS.

Previous names

• 1908: DSE (Dunaszerdahelyi Sport Egylet)
• 1920: DAC (Dunaszerdahelyi Atlétikai Club)
• 1933: DTC (Dunaszerdahelyi Torna Club)
• 1942: DLE (Dunaszerdahelyi Labdarúgó Egyesület)
• 1948: Sokol
• 1953: Slavoj
• 1965: Jednota
• 1974: DAC
• 1993: FC DAC
• 1994: Marat – DAC
• 1994: 1.FC DAC – Gemer
• 1996: 1.FC DAC
• 2000: FK DAC 1904
• 2014: FC DAC 1904 Source:

1980s

In the 1980–81 season, the team came eleventh. In the 1981–82 season, 26,089 attended games. The team won 15 games, lost 11 games and drew in 4 games. In the 1982–83 season, the team's star player Juraj Szikora could not participate in the competition. The team came second, four points behind the premier team, Banská Bystrica. In the 1983–84 season, the team came second, four points behind Petržalka. 8,136 patrons attended a home game where the team beat Petržalka three points to zero. scored twenty-two points becoming the highest goal scorer of the League for that season. In the 1984–85 season, Karol Pecze coached the team. 10,000 patrons attended the last home gain against Nitra. Ladislav Tóth again scored twenty-two points and won the golden shoe. In the 1985–86 season, the team made its debut in the Czechoslovak First League. The team reaches the quarter-finals and comes eleventh. In the 1986–87 season, the team came fourth in the Slovak League. They won both the Slovak and the Czechoslovak cups. In the 1987 to 1988 season, the team entered the European Cup. In the preliminary round, DAC had two wins against AEL Limassol (Cyprus),1–0 and 5–1. The team's campaign ended in the first round with a defeat to Young Boys Bern (2–1 and 1–3). In the Slovak national league, the team came third. In the 1988–89 season, the team had a 6–0 victory over Öster of Sweden in the first round of the UEFA Cup. In the second round, the team played Bayern Munich. 15,572 patrons attended that game. The team came sixth in the Slovak league. In the 1989–90 season, Anton Dragúň led the team to fourteenth place.

1990s

In the 1990–91 season, Juraj Szikora coached the team and they came fourth. In the 1991–92 season, the team won the Intertoto Cup in group eight. After twelve days, Szikora was replaced by Vladimír Hrivnák. The team came ninth. In the 1992–93 season, the last year of the Slovak national league, the team was coached by Dušan Radolský. In the 1993–94 season, the first year of the Slovak League, the team, coached by Ladislav Škorpil scores 62 times and comes third. Pavol Diňa is the top scorer with 19 goals. In the UEFA Cup, DAC played Casino Salzburg who defeat them twice with a score zero to two in the first round. In the 1994–95 season, with coach Jozef Valovič, the team comes fourth. In the 1995–96 season, four coaches: Jozef Valovič, Anton Grajcár, Juraj Szikora, and Jozef Adamec, led the team to tenth place from a field of twelve. In the 1996–97 season, the team, coached by Jozef Adamec came fourteenth out of sixteen. In the 1997–98 season, after thirteen years, DAC fell from the Slovak League. Ladislav Škorpil and Dušan Liba coached the team which won five games of thirty and came last out of sixteen teams. In the 1998–99 season, Vladimír Rusnák coached the team and they won the second league. In the 1990–00 season, the first league was reorganized. DAC cam fourteenth in the first league and was relegated to the second league again. The coaches in this season were Viliam Ilko, Anton Grajcár, and Ladislav Kuna.

2000s

In the 2000–01 season, DAC was coached by Ladislav Kuna and came fifth in the second league. In 2001–02, the coach, Ladislav Hudec, was replaced after nine rounds by Juraj Szikora. The team came ninth in the second league. In the 2002–03 season, Tibor Szaban coached the team. After half the rounds, the team was three points from dropping to a lower league. Szaban was then replaced by Milan Albrecht. DAC won the next ten games and came eighth. In 2003–04, Juraj Szikora and Dušan Liba were the coaches. The team won nine of fifteen games. At this point, the team was engaged by Iranian sponsors. Robert Pflug became the coach and the team won thirty points. The 2004–05 season begins with Štefan Horný. After fifteen rounds he is replaced by Peter Fieber who was once a player in the team. DAC came eighth. The best game was against Slovan in front of 2,890 fans where DAC won two points to zero. In 2005–06, the Slovak League was again reorganized and DAC dropped from the second league. A series of five coaches (Ladislav Kuna, Peter Fieber, Anton Grajcár, Štefan Zaťko, and Tibor Mičinec) allowed the team twelfth place in their competition. In the 2006–07 season, the first Slovak League was renamed the Corgoň Liga and the second league became the first league in which DAC played the season. Milan Albrecht coaches for rounds one to six and then is replaced by Robert Pflug. In 2007–08, DAC won the second league competition (2. liga) but this was not a nationwide competition. The coaches were Tibor Meszlényi, Peter Fieber and assistant Július Šimon.

Supporters and rivalries

FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda is a football club based in southern Slovakia near the Hungarian border, in a town with a historically large ethnic Hungarian population. The club’s supporters, known as YBS (Yellow Blue Supporters), are closely associated with this Hungarian identity. They typically display banners stating "Dunaszerdahely," the Hungarian name of the town, and sing in Hungarian, including the Hungarian national anthem, Himnusz, or the song Nélküled, often performed before kick-off. The Hungarian tricolour is regularly displayed in the stands of the MOL Aréna. YBS exclude Slovak members and have maintained friendly relations with fans of Ferencváros TC, while their main domestic rivals are Slovan Bratislava and Spartak Trnava.

These cultural expressions have occasionally led to clashes with other Slovak clubs and attracted the attention of nationalist politicians. In 2019, Slovak National Party MP Dušan Tittel promoted legislation making it an offence to sing foreign national anthems, explicitly referencing DAC fans' singing of the Hungarian anthem. Club president Oszkár Világi and spokesman Krisztián Nagy affirmed that the club would continue to support these customs, even if fines were imposed. During a 12 April 2025 match against DAC, Slovan Bratislava fans displayed overtly nationalist and anti-Hungarian behaviour. They unfurled a banner depicting a balaclava-clad Slovan ultra "teaching a lesson" to children wearing DAC and Ferencvárosi TC kits, accompanied by a blackboard and inscriptions mocking Hungary and asserting Slovak dominance. Anti-Hungarian chants were a constant feature, and the timing of the match coincided with a historic date commemorating the deportation of ethnic Hungarians from Slovakia in 1947. After the match, DAC released a trilingual statement condemning the Slovan fans' tifo as inappropriate, offensive, and divisive, noting that it targeted ethnic, cultural, and national identities. The club affirmed that while rivalry is part of football, mocking identity or ethnicity is unacceptable. DAC announced it would file an official complaint with the Slovak Football Association and urged all stakeholders to consider the values promoted in Slovak football, emphasising that exclusion has no place in the modern game. The statement included the hashtag #HungarianNotForeign, a hashtag supporting the position of ethnic Hungarians as a part of Slovak society.

The club has benefited from financial backing linked to Hungary, including infrastructural support and strategic partnerships with Hungarian companies, most prominently MOL. Owner Oszkár Világi, a local businessman with close ties to the Hungarian government and Viktor Orbán, has overseen the development of the club’s facilities, including the MOL Arena and a modern youth academy, while maintaining a trilingual and internationally diverse playing and technical staff.

Affiliated club

The following club is affiliated with DAC:

• SVK ŠTK 1914 Šamorín (2019–)

Honours

Domestic

SVK Slovakia

• Slovak Super Liga (1993–)
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (4): 2018–19, 2020–21, 2022–23, 2023–24
• Slovak Cup (1961–)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1987
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (2): 1992–93, 1994–95
• Slovak Second Division (1993–)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (2): 1998–99, 2012–13

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak Cup (1961–93)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1987
• 1.SNL (1st Slovak National League) (1969–93)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1984–85

Transfers

DAC have produced numerous players who have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last periods there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Dunajská Streda after a few years of first team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, with the German Bundesliga (András Schäfer to Union Berlin in 2022), Czech First League (Tibor Jančula to Žižkov in 1993, Léonard Kweuke to Sparta in 2010, Dzon Delarge to Liberec in 2012, Erik Pačinda to Plzeň in 2019), Danish Superliga (Pavol Šafranko to Aalborg in 2017, Marko Divković to Brøndby IF in 2022), Austrian Bundesliga (Ján Novota to Rapid Wien in 2011), Polish Ekstraklasa (Tomáš Huk (2019) and Kristopher Vida (2020) to Piast Gliwice, Ľubomír Šatka to Lech Poznań in 2019), American Major League Soccer (Matej Oravec to Philadelphia Union in 2020), Scottish Premiership (Vakoun Issouf Bayo to Celtic F.C. in 2019). The top transfer was agreed in 2023 when forward Nikola Krstović joined Italian US Lecce for a fee of €4.5 million. + additional €3.6million from his next transfer to Atalanta BC in 2025.

Record departures

Record arrivals

*-unofficial fee

Sponsorship

Club partners

source

• Kukkonia
• MOL
• ENARGO
• St. Nicolaus
• Tatra Billing
• OTP Bank
• FCC Environment
• SAM
• Strabag

Results

League and Cup history

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European competition history

Main article: Slovak football clubs in European competitions

UEFA-administered

Not UEFA-administered

Current squad

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2025

Retired numbers

Main article: Retired numbers in association football

12 – The 12th man (reserved for the club supporters)

Out on loan

Staff

Technical staff

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Management

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Player records

Most goals

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Slovak League Top Goalscorer

Slovak League Top scorer since 1993–94

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Notable players

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

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

• SVK Ladislav Almási
• Congo Yhoan Andzouana
• IRN Farzad Ashoubi
• MKD Aleksandar Bajevski
• Gambia Mahmudu Bajo
• HUN Norbert Balogh
• CIV Vakoun Issouf Bayo
• SVK László Bénes
• LTU Ričardas Beniušis
• PAN César Blackman
• SVK Balázs Borbély
• LVA Andrejs Ciganiks
• GAB Arsène Copa
• TCH Jaroslav Červeňan
• PAN Erick Davis
• CGO Dzon Delarge
• SEN Pape Cheikh Diop
• SVK Pavol Diňa
• MNE Viktor Đukanović
• SVK Ján Ďurica
• CMR Jacques Elong Elong
• TCH Slovakia Peter Fieber
• SVK Michal Filo
• SVK Branislav Fodrek
• Macedonia Enis Fazlagić
• SER Željko Gavrić
• SVK Roman Gergel
• TCH Koloman Gögh
• SVK Marián Had
• HUN János Hahn
• MKD Ilami Halimi
• DJI Ismail Hassan
• SVK Christián Herc
• SVK Tomáš Huk
• SVK Tibor Jančula
• TCH Ladislav Józsa
• EST Oliver Jürgens
• SVK Miroslav Káčer
• HUN Zsolt Kalmár
• TCH Ján Kapko
• UKR Ihor Kharatin
• SVK
• SVK Pavel Kováč
• MNE Nikola Krstović
• SVK Dominik Kružliak
• CMR Léonard Kweuke
• CMR Didier Lamkel Zé
• AUT Rolf Landerl
• SVK Peter Lérant
• SVK Štefan Maixner
• LTU Egidijus Majus
• SVK Tomáš Malec
• SVK Ľubomír Michalík
• TCH Tibor Mičinec
• BIH Nikola Mikelini
• SVK Krisztián Németh
• HUN Krisztián Németh
• MDA Ion Nicolaescu
• GAM Sainey Njie
• BIH Staniša Nikolić
• SVK Ján Novota
• SVK Branislav Obžera
• SVK Erik Pačinda
• PHI Stephan Palla
• CGO Yves Pambou
• IRN Mohammad Parvin
• SVK Attila Pinte
• HUN Attila Pintér
• SVK Jozef Pisár
• SVK Martin Polaček
• SRB Aleksandar Popović
• BIH Ilija Prodanović
• VEN Eric Ramírez
• SYR Ammar Ramadan
• HUN Csaba Regedei
• GRE Spyros Risvanis
• VEN Andrés Romero
• LAT Valērijs Šabala
• SVK Pavol Šafranko
• SVK Kornel Saláta
• NIG Siradji Sani
• AUT Yüksel Sariyar
• HUN András Schäfer
• SVK Pavol Sedlák
• BIH Ivan Sesar
• SVK Ľubomír Šatka
• SVK Július Šimon
• PAN Alfredo Stephens
• SVK Otto Szabó
• POL Grzegorz Szamotulski
• TCH Juraj Szikora
• UKR Taras Kacharaba
• MKD Darko Tofiloski
• HUN Máté Vida
• SVKTCH Vladimír Weiss

Former head coaches

• TCH Vojtech Gödölle (1977–78)
• TCH Vladimír Hrivnák (1978–81)
• TCH Štefan Jačiansky (1981)
• TCH Anton Richtárik (1982)
• TCH Juraj Szikora (1982–84)
• TCH Karol Pecze (1984–89)
• TCH Anton Dragúň (1989–90)
• TCH Juraj Szikora (1990–91)
• TCH Vladimír Hrivnák (1991–92)
• SVK Dusan Radolsky (1 Jul 1992 – 30 Jun 1993)
• CZE Ladislav Škorpil (1993–94)
• SVK Jozef Valovič (1994–95)
• SVK Anton Grajcár (caretaker) (1995)
• SVK Juraj Szikora (1995–96)
• SVK Jozef Adamec (1996–97)
• CZE Ladislav Škorpil (1997–98)
• SVK Dušan Liba (1998)
• SVK Vladimír Rusnák (1998–99)
• SVK Viliam Ilko (1999)
• SVK Anton Grajcár (caretaker) (1999)
• SVK Ladislav Kuna (1999 – 30 Nov 2000)
• SVK Ladislav Hudec (2001)
• SVK Juraj Szikora (2001–02)
• SVK Tibor Szaban (2002)
• SVK Milan Albrecht (2003)
• SVK Juraj Szikora (2003)
• SVK Dušan Liba (2003)
• AUT Robert Pflug (1 Jan 2004 – 31 May 2004)
• SVK Stefan Horny (2004–05)
• SVK Ladislav Kuna (2005)
• SVK Peter Fieber (2005)
• SVK Štefan Zaťko (2005–06)
• SVK Tibor Mičinec (2006)
• SVK Milan Albrecht (2006)
• AUT Robert Pflug (2006–07)
• IRN Asghar Sharafi (1 Jul 2007 – 12 May 2008)
• SVK Peter Fieber (2008)
• CRO Milan Đuričić (1 Jul 2008 – 17 Aug 2008)
• SVK Michal Kuruc (14 Aug 2008 – 24 Aug 2008) (car)
• GER Werner Lorant (29 Aug 2008 – 22 Apr 2009)
• CRO Zlatko Kranjčar (22 Apr 2009 – 30 Jun 2009)
• AUT Kurt Garger (4 Jul 2009 – 10 May 2010)
• SVK Mikuláš Radványi (10 May 2010 – 30 Jun 2011)
• SVK Štefan Horný (1 Jul 2011 – 6 Aug 2011)
• SVK Krisztián Németh (8 Aug 2011 – 25 Mar 2012)
• GER Werner Lorant (26 Mar 2012 – 7 Apr 2012)
• SVK Mikuláš Radványi (1 Jun 2012 – 17 Jan 2015)
• CRO Tomislav Marić (17 Jan 2015 – 30 Jun 2016)
• SVKKrisztián Németh (23 May 2016 – 20 Oct 2016)
• ROM Csaba László (20 Oct 2016 – 6 Jun 2017)
• ITA Marco Rossi (11 Jun 2017 – 20 Jun 2018)
• GER Peter Hyballa (16 Jul 2018 – 3 Jan 2020)
• POR Hélder (5 Jan 2020 – 31 May 2020)
• GER Bernd Storck (1 Jun 2020 – 21 Apr 2021)
• HUN Antal Németh (22 Apr 2021 – 10 Nov 2021)
• POR João Janeiro (11 Nov 2021 – 31 May 2022)
• SVK Adrián Guľa (15 June 2022-18 Nov 2023)
• ESP Xisco Muñoz (18 Nov 2023-27 Nov 2024)
• SVK Branislav Fodrek (interim) (27 Nov 2024 - )

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