MFK 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-Don.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 Concordia Ružomberok
• 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 UEFA Cup
• 2003 – Renamed MFK Ružomberok
• 2006 – Slovak champion, Slovak FA Cup winner
• 2006 – Champions League qualification, 3rd round
• 2017 – European League qualification, 3rd round
• 2024 - Europa Conference League play-off
• 2024 – Slovak FA Cup winner

Honours

Domestic

• Slovak First Football League (1993–)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (1): 2005–06
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]]Runners-up (1): 2021–22
• Slovenský Pohár (Slovak Cup)
  • [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (2): 2005–06, 2023–24
  • [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (4): 2000–01, 2017–18, 2019–20, 2024–25

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), Belgian Pro League (Martin Regáli to K.V. Kortrijk in 2023). 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

*-unofficial fee

Sponsorship

Club partners

source

• Mondi SCP
• ECO-INVEST
• Harmony
• TAURIS
• Harmanec-Kuvert
• City of Ružomberok
• Stavpoč
• Tatrapeko
• Včela Lippek

Current squad

Updated 2 October, 2025 (on loan from Mladá Boleslav) (on loan from Baník Ostrava) (on loan from Mladá Boleslav) (on loan from Karviná)

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

Out on loan 2025–26

Retired number(s)

Main article: Retired numbers in football (soccer)

• 12 – Concordia 1906 (the 12th Man)

Staff

Results

League and Cup history

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European competition history

Player records

Most goals

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Slovak League top goalscorer

Slovak League top goalscorer since 1993–94

:1Shared award

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.

• SVK Ladislav Almási
• SVK Peter Babnič
• SVK Marek Bakoš
• SVK Tomáš Bobček
• MDA Anatol Cheptine
• SVK Martin Chrien
• ARM Gagik Daghbashyan
• SVK Ondrej Debnár
• SVK Tomáš Ďubek
• SVK Marián Had
• SVK Ľuboš Hajdúch
• BIH Nermin Haskić
• TCH SVK Viliam Hýravý
• SVK Ivan Hodúr
• SVK Martin Jakubko
• SVK Erik Jendrišek
• SVK Maroš Klimpl
• BLR Uladzimir Karytska
• SVK Matúš Kmeť
• MKD Tihomir Kostadinov
• SVK Juraj Kotula
• SVK Pavel Kováč
• SVK Ivan Kozák
• SVK Dominik Kružliak
• SVK Juraj Kucka
• SVK Richard Lásik
• CZE Jiří Novotný
• KEN Patrick Oboya
• SVK Tomáš Oravec
• MKD Dejan Peševski
• EST Artur Pikk
• ALB Kristi Qose
• SVK Marek Sapara
• SVK Martin Regáli
• SVK Tomáš Rigo
• SVK Štefan Senecký
• CZE Jiří Skalák
• BLR Valery Strypeykis
• SVK Dušan Švento
• SVK Rudolf Urban
• MKD Yani Urdinov
• SVK Ľubomír Talda
• CMR Léandre Tawamba
• TCH Viktor Tegelhoff
• MKD Darko Tofiloski
• SVK Ivan Trabalík
• SVK Tibor Zátek
• SVK Adam Zreľák
• SVK Vladislav Zvara
• SVK Igor Žofčák

Managers

• Slovakia Ladislav Jurkemik (1998–99)
• Slovakia Mikuláš Komanický (2001–02)
• Slovakia Jozef Vukušič (2003–04)
• Slovakia Ľubomír Moravčík (2004–05)
• Czech Republic František Komňacký (2005–07)
• Czech Republic Petr Uličný (2007)
• Czech Republic Přemysl Bičovský (2007–08)
• Slovakia Ladislav Jurkemik (2008)
• Czech Republic Michal Bílek (1 July 2008 – 30 Jun 2009)
• Czech Republic František Straka (1 Jun 2009 – 30 Jun 2010)
• Slovakia Ladislav Jurkemik (1 July 2010 – 15 Oct 2010)
• Serbia Goran Milojević (16 Oct 2010 – 31 Mar 2011)
• Slovakia Ladislav Jurkemik (1 Apr 2011 – Sep 22, 2011)
• Czech Republic Aleš Křeček (Sept 22, 2011 – 30 June 2012)
• Slovakia Ladislav Šimčo (1 July 2012 – 30 June 2013)
• Slovakia Jozef Vukušič (1 July 2013 – 17 March 2014)
• Czech Republic Jozef Chovanec (17 Mar 2014 – 30 Jun 2014)
• Slovakia Ladislav Šimčo (5 June 2014 – 17 Nov 2014)
• Slovakia Ivan Galád (17 Nov 2014 – Sept 2, 2015)
• Slovakia Ladislav Pecko (Sept 11, 2015 – 30 May 2016)
• Slovakia Norbert Hrnčár (30 May 2016 – 30 May 2018)
• CZE David Holoubek (4 June 2018 – May 2019)
• SVK Ján Haspra (May 2019 - 27 May 2021)
• SVK Peter Struhár (31 May 2021 – 29 May 2023)
• SVK Peter Tomko (5 June 2023 – 24 Oct 2023)
• CZE Ondřej Smetana (24 Oct 2023 – 13 Nov 2024)
• CZE Radim Kučera (13 Nov 2024 – 20 Dec 2024)
• Slovakia Norbert Hrnčár (20 Dec 2024 – 8 Apr 2025)
• CZE Ondřej Smetana (9 Apr 2025 – 12 Jan 2026)
• CZE Jaroslav Köstl (13 Jan 2026 – present)

Reserve team

MFK Ružomberok B is the reserve team of MFK Ružomberok.

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, Libor Hrdlička, Juraj Dovičovič, Lukáš Greššák, Juraj Dovičovič and Roland Števko.

Season to season

• 4 seasons in Slovak 2. liga

Former managers

• SVK Ivan Hucko (2004–05)
• SVK Ladislav Molnár (2008)
• SVK Roman Berta
• SVK Ján Haspra
• SVK Vladimír Rusnák (2011–12)
• SVK Viliam Hýravý

References

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