FK Inter Bratislava

History

Inter Bratislava was founded in 1940 by the Apollo refinery (later renamed Slovnaft). Following the end of World War II and the re-establishment of Czechoslovakia, the club developed into an important force in Czechoslovak football. While it remains unclear, whether it is Inter Bratislava or FK ŠKP Inter Dúbravka Bratislava, who can claim the successful run of Červená Hviezda Bratislava in the 1950s and early 1960s as its own, club's achievements in the subsequent decades (as TJ Internacionál Slovnaft Bratislava) can be hardly disputed. Between 1962 and 1993 the club spent 29 out of 31 seasons in the Czechoslovak First League, finishing twice as runner-up in the 1970s and winning the Slovak Cup in the seasons 1983–84, 1987–88, and 1989–90. Over these years, a number of Inter players represented Czechoslovakia at senior level. In 1976, Jozef Barmoš, Ladislav Jurkemik, and Ladislav Petráš were in the squad that won the UEFA Euro 1976. Four years later, Barmoš and Jurkemik were also a part of the side that finished third at the 1980 European Championship. In a decade that followed the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Inter went on to flourish in the newly established top tier of Slovak football as well as in the Slovak Cup, winning the Slovak double in the 1999–2000 and 2000–2001 seasons.

Inter's fall and re-establishment

Inter Bratislava won the 1. liga in the 2008–2009 season and was supposed to be promoted to the Slovak top flight. However, financial problems of the club led its owner Ľubomír Chrenko to sell Inter's licence to FK Senica in June 2009. As a result, players of the senior squad of Inter Bratislava joined Senica, whilst youth teams of Inter were preserved by the Inter Bratislava Civic Association, which had been formed from the Inter Fan Club.

The senior side was re-established in the 2010–2011 season, playing in the V. liga, i.e. the sixth tier of Slovak football. Major changes in the structure of the club were accompanied by Inter's move from the Štadión Pasienky, which had been used by the team since 1967, to the considerably smaller Štadión Drieňová ulica. After playing at the Štadión Drieňová ulica for four seasons, the senior team moved to the Štadión ŠKP Inter Dúbravka in the summer of 2014. The grounds have a capacity of 10,200. Since the season 2015/2016 due to unknown issues the Men team returned to stadium Drieňová ulica and the youth teams remained on Stadium ŠKP Inter Dúbravka. In the autumn part of the season 2016/2017 Inter was playing home matches on the stadium in Petržalka on Marie Curie-Skłodowska street (stadium of FC Petržalka akadémia), but in spring 2017 the team moved to the city of Stupava, where the team owners created the training center for Inter. The future plans are to return to Bratislava, Stupava serving as the training center. Following a fall of from the 2nd Division, Inter collapsed all the way to the IV. Liga, from which it has bounced back to the National 3rd Division, with the hopes of getting promoted in the upcoming seasons.

In 2023, the club has once again returned to their Bratislava stadium - Štadión Pasienky. This is only a temporary arrangement for the upcoming 2 seasons, as the area will be used by the developer JTRE to build apartment houses.

Event timeline

• 1940 – Founded as ŠK Apollo Bratislava
• 1945 – Renamed TKNB Bratislava
• 1948 – Renamed Sokol SNB Bratislava
• 1952 – Renamed TJ Červená Hviezda Bratislava (Red Star)
• 1959 – First European qualification, 1959–60
• 1962 – Merged with TJ Iskra Slovnaft Bratislava and TJ Slovnaft Bratislava
• 1965 – Renamed* TJ Internacionál Slovnaft Bratislava*
• 1986 – Merged with TJ ZŤS Petržalka into TJ Internacionál Slovnaft ZŤS Bratislava
• 1991 – Renamed AŠK Inter Slovnaft Bratislava
• 2004 – Renamed FK Inter Bratislava
• 2009 – Sold club license of FK Inter Bratislava to FK Senica
• 2009 – Transforming of Inter Fan Club on Inter Bratislava o.z. (Civic association)
• 2014 – Transforming of Inter Bratislava o.z. on FK Inter Bratislava a.s.

Affiliated clubs

The following clubs have been affiliated with FK Inter Bratislava:

• SVK AS Trenčín (2016–2021)
• SVK FKM Stupava (2016–2022)

Stadium

Former stadium

Stadium Pasienky is a multi-use stadium in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was used mostly for football matches and was the home ground of FK Inter Bratislava. The stadium holds 13,295 people.

Current stadium

Since the 2014/2015 season, the home ground of FK Inter Bratislava has been the Štadión ŠKP Inter Dúbravka. Since the season 2015/2016 due to unknown issues the Men team returned to stadium Drieňová ulica and the youth teams remained on Stadium ŠKP Inter Dúbravka. In the autumn part of the season 2016/2017 Inter was playing home matches on the stadium in Petržalka on Marie Curie-Skłodowska street (stadium of FC Petržalka akadémia), but in spring 2017 the team moved to the city of Stupava, where the team owners created the training center for Inter. The future plans are to return to Bratislava, Stupava serving as the training center. In the 2024/25 season, Inter has once again returned to Pasienky, although only temporarily.

Sponsorship

Honours

Domestic

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak First League (1944–93)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1958–59
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (3): 1960–61, 1974–75, 1976–77
  • [[Image:Bronze medal icon.svg|15px]] 3rd place (6): 1953, 1953, 1954, 1957-58, 1961-62, 1989-90,
• 1.SNL (1st Slovak National football league) (1969–1993)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1986–87

Slovakia Slovakia

• Slovak First Football League (1993–)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (2): 1999–2000, 2000–01
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (2): 1993–94, 1998–99
• Slovenský Pohár (Slovak Cup) (1961–)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (6): 1983–84, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1994–95, 1999–2000, 2000–01
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] *Runners-up (2):*1975–76, 1978–79

European

Mitropa Cup

• [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 1968–69
• [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (1): 1969–70 UEFA International Football Cup
• [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (2): 1962-63, 1963-64 UEFA Intertoto Cup
• [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners in group (2): 1976, 1977

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer

The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944 to 1945 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.

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Players

Current squad

As of 18 January, 2026

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

Current technical staff

:Updated 17 July 2025

Transfers

Inter have produced numerous players who have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last period there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Inter after a few years of first team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, with the German Bundesliga (Vratislav Greško to Leverkusen in 1999), Turkish Süper Lig (Juraj Czinege to Elazığspor in 2003, Roman Kratochvíl to Denizlispor in 2002), Super League Greece (Miroslav Drobňák to Xanthi F.C. in 2003, Marián Šuchančok to Akratitos F.C. in 2002, Marián Ľalík to Panionios F.C. in 2003, Czech First League (Marek Čech and Peter Babnič to Sparta Prague in 2004 and 2001, Peter Németh to FC Baník Ostrava in 2001), Russian Premier League (Zsolt Hornyák to FC Dynamo Moscow in 2001). The top transfer was agreed in 2001 when 23years old forward and topscorer Szilárd Németh joined Premier League team Middlesbrough F.C. for a fee €6.75 million which was the highest ever paid to a Slovak club.

Record transfers

*-unofficial fee

Results

League and domestic cup history

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European competition history

Main article: Slovak football clubs in European competitions

Player records

Most goals

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer

The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944 to 1945 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.

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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 Inter.

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

• SVK Peter Babnič
• TCH Jozef Barmoš
• TCH Titus Buberník
• TCH Ján Čapkovič
• SVK Marek Čech
• TCH Jaroslav Červeňan
• SVK Erik Čikoš
• SVK Marián Čišovský
• SVK Juraj Czinege
• SVK Marián Dirnbach
• TCH Milan Dolinský
• SVK Miroslav Drobňák
• SVK Peter Dzúrik
• TCHSVK Peter Fieber
• TCH Kazimír Gajdoš
• SVK Vratislav Greško
• SVK Juraj Halenár
• TCH Ján Hlavatý
• SVK Zsolt Hornyák
• SVK David Hrnčár
• SVK Miroslav Hýll
• CUW Quintón Christina
• TCH Justín Javorek
• SVK Bartolomej Juraško
• TCH Ladislav Jurkemik
• TCH Ladislav Kačáni
• SVK Filip Kiss
• SVK Tomáš Košický
• TCH Jaroslav Košnar
• SVK Roman Kratochvíl
• SVK Marek Krejčí
• TCH Mikuláš Krnáč
• AUT Rolf Landerl
• BUL TCH Bozhin Laskov
• TCH Jozef Levický
• CAR Alias Lembakoali
• TCH SVK Ľubomír Luhový
• TCH Štefan Matlák
• SVK Milan Malatinský
• TCH Jozef Móder
• TCH SVK Ladislav Molnár
• TCH Pavol Molnár
• SVK Stanislav Moravec
• TCH Gustáv Mráz
• TCH Peter Mráz
• SVK Ján Mucha
• SVK Peter Németh
• SVK Szilárd Németh
• TCH Anton Obložinský
• SVK Martin Obšitník
• SVK Michal Pančík
• TCH Ladislav Pavlovič
• SVK Mário Pečalka
• TCH Ladislav Petráš
• SVK Peter Petráš
• SVK Attila Pinte
• TCH Lubomír Pokluda
• SVK Andrej Porázik
• SVK Erik Prekop
• NIG Siradji Sani
• TCH Adolf Scherer
• SVK Ivan Schranz
• SVK Ján Solár
• SVK Filip Šebo
• SVK Pavol Sedlák
• SVK Ondrej Šmelko
• SVK Marián Šuchančok
• SVK Michal Šulla
• SVK Kamil Susko
• TCH Juraj Szikora
• TCH Jiří Tichý
• SVK Ivan Trabalík
• SVK Rudolf Urban
• SVK Jozef Valachovič
• TCH Vladimír Weiss
• TCH SVK Vladimír Weiss sr.
• SVK Vladimír Weiss jr.
• SVK Ľudovít Zlocha

Managers

• HUN József Ember (1953)
• TCH František Kolman (1954–55)
• TCH Theodor Reimann (1955–57)
• TCH Karol Borhy (1958–1960)
• TCH Arnošt Hložek (1962–1966)
• TCH Ladislav Kačáni (1967–1970)
• TCH Jozef Marko (1970–1972)
• TCH František Skyva (1972)
• TCH Valér Švec (1972–1978)
• TCH Michal Vičan (1978–1980)
• TCH Justín Javorek (1980–1982)
• TCH Arnošt Hložek (1982–1984)
• TCH Štefan Šimončič (1984)
• TCH Michal Vičan (1984–1986)
• TCH Karol Kögl (1986–1988)
• TCH Vladimír Hrivnák (1988)
• TCH Jozef Adamec (1989–1991)
• TCH Jozef Jankech (1991–1992)
• SVK Jozef Adamec (1992–1993)
• SVK Ladislav Petráš (1994)
• CZE Karel Brückner (1995)
• SVK Jozef Adamec (1995)
• SVK Jozef Valovič (1996)
• SVK Jozef Bubenko (1996–2002)
• SVK Jozef Valovič (1996)
• SVK Jozef Bubenko (1996–2002)
• SVK Jozef Barmoš (2004–2005)
• SVK Ladislav Jurkemik (2006–2008)
• SVK Vladimír Koník (2007–2009)
• SVK Peter Fieber (2009)
• SVK Jozef Barmoš (2009–2016)
• SVK Richard Slezák (2016–2017)
• SVK Jozef Barmoš (2017)
• SVK Jozef Brezovský (2018)
• SVK Miroslav Jantek (2018–2019)
• SVK Michal Pančík (2019–2021)
• SVK Ladislav Hudec (2022)
• SVK Andrej Štellár (2023-2025)
• SVK Marián Šarmír (2025-)

References

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