FC Lokomotíva Košice

Lokomotíva Košice

Full name	FC Lokomotíva Košice
Nickname(s)	Loky
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Štadión Lokomotívy, Košice
Capacity	9000
Owner	Vladislav Zvara
Head coach	Milan Lalkovič
League	3 . liga
2023–24	4. liga, 2nd (promoted)
Website	http://www.fclokomotiva.sk
Home colours Away colours

FC Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club, playing in the town of Košice and will be compete in the 3rd tier of Slovak football, 3. Liga (Slovakia). The club was founded in 1946 and played for 29 years in the Czechoslovak First League.

The club also had several appearances in Europe playing the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1977-78 and the UEFA Cup 1978-79.

Club history

In 1951–1952 and 1977–1978 seasons, the club ranked 3rd in the Czechoslovak First League. In the 1977–1978 season the team also won the Czechoslovak Cup.

The last major success of the club until the present time was winning the Slovak Cup in the 1984–1985 season. Season 1985–1986 was the last for the club in the Czechoslovak First League. That season the team finished next to last, 15th place in the league and relegated to the 2nd division.

After the disintegration of Czechoslovakia, the club took part in the Corgoň Liga. In the 1993–1994 season took 8th place out of 12 participants. In the 1997–1998 season, finishing next to last, 15th place, relegated to the second league. In the 1999–2000 season in the second division championship club finished 17th place and relegated to the third division. In the 2003–2004 season was dropped to the 4th division.

They withdrew from the 2018-19 2. liga season due to financial problems

Club's name

• 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Košice
• 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Sparta Košice
• 1949 - ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice
• 1952 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
• 1965 - TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice
• 1967 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
• 1990 - FK Lokomotíva Košice
• 1994 - FK Lokomotíva Energogas Košice
• 1997 - FC Lokomotíva Košice
• 1999 - FC Spoje Lokomotíva Košice
• 2005 - FC Lokomotíva Košice

Stadium

Initially Lokomotíva played at Lokomotíva Stadium in the Čermeľ district for most of its history (until 1997). Now Lokomotíva plays in small village Družstevná pri Hornáde 16 km far from city center of Košice. As of 2021, Lokomotíva plays in Barca, municipal district of Košice.

Honours

Domestic

Czechoslovakia

• Czechoslovak First League (1925–93)
  • Third place (2): 1951, 1977–78
• Czechoslovak Cup (1961–1993)
  • Winners (2): 1977, 1979

Slovakia

• Slovak Cup (1961–)
  • Winners (3): 1977, 1979, 1985
  • Runners-up (2): 1961, 1992

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer

The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944–45 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.

Year	Winner	G
1972–73	Ladislav Józsa	21
1973–74	Ladislav Józsa	171
1976–77	Ladislav Józsa	18

¹Shared award

Results

League and domestic cup history

Slovak League only (1993-present)

Year	Division	Position	Domestic cup	Topscorer/goals
1993–1994	Mars superliga (I)	8th	Round 3
1994–1995	Mars superliga	9th	Round 2	Štefan Kysela (17)
1995–1996	Mars superliga	8th	Round 1	Igor Popovec (8)
1996–1997	Mars superliga	10th	Quarter-finals
1997–1998	Mars superliga	15th (relegated)	Semi-finals	Marcel Korínek (4) Milan Pecelj (4)
1998–1999	2. liga (II)	–	Round 1	Miloš Gallo (8)
1999–2000	2. liga	– (relegated)
2000–2001	3. liga (III)	–	Round 1
2001–2002	3. liga	–
2002–2003	3. liga	–
2003–2004	3. liga	– (relegated)
2004–2005	4. liga (IV)	–
2005–2006	4. liga (IV)	1st (promoted)
2006–2007	3. liga (III)	–
2007–2008	3. liga (III)	–
2008–2009	3. liga (III)	3rd
2009–2010	3. liga (III)	2nd
2010–2011	3. liga (III)	1st (promoted)
2011–2012	3. liga (III)	3rd	Round 1
2012–2013	Keno 10 3.liga (III)	3rd	Round 3
2013–2014	TIPOS liga (III)	8th (promoted)	Round 1
2014–2015	DOXXbet liga (II)	1st (relegation round east)	Round 3	Tomáš Labun (16)
2015–2016	DOXXbet liga (II)	4th (champions round)	Round 3	Adrián Leško (8)
2016–2017	DOXXbet liga (II)	7th (champions round)	Round 4	Róbert Jano (20)
2017–2018	DOXXbet liga (II)	4th	Round 4	Kamil Karaš (13)
2018–2019	II. Liga (II)	11th	Round 5	Róbert Jano (7)
2019–2020	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	2nd	Did not enter	Vladimír Beliš (9)
2020–2021	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	2nd	Round 3	?
2021–2022	V.liga Košicko-gemerská (V)	1st	Round 3	Adrián Pačinda (26)
2022–2023	V.liga juh (V)	1st (promoted)	Did not enter	Martin Leško (26)
2023–2024	4. Liga Východ (IV)	2nd (promoted)	Round 3	Michal Vilkovský (19)
2024–2025	3. Liga Východ (III)	TBD	TBD	TBD

European competition history

Main article: Slovak football clubs in European competitions

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1969–70	Mitropa Cup	1.R		Radnicki Kragujevac	1–0	0–2	1–2
1977–78	Cup Winners' Cup	1.R		Östers IF	0–0	2–2	2–2 (a)
		2.R		FK Austria Wien	1–1	0–0	1–1 (a)
1978–79	UEFA Cup	1.R		A.C. Milan	1–0	0–1	1–1 (p)
1979–80	Cup Winners' Cup	1.R		FC Wacker Innsbruck	2–1	1–0	3–1
		2.R		NK Rijeka	2–0	0–3	2–3

Current squad

As of September 19, 2019. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	SVK	Samuel Knap
22	GK	SVK	Jozef Talian
2	DF	SVK	Nikolas Kriška
3	DF	SVK	Ľuboslav Pankovčin
4	DF	SVK	Richard Griglak
5	DF	SVK	Milan Miklušićák
6	DF	SVK	Samuel Jokeľ
12	DF	SVK	Michal Godina
12	DF	SVK	Kristián Šarkan
13	DF	SVK	Patrik Grega
21	DF	SVK	Adrián Tomašiak
8	MF	SVK	Jakub Tóth

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
9	MF	SVK	Dávid Gabriel Matis
10	MF	SVK	Vladimír Beliš
14	MF	SVK	Matej Béreš
17	MF	SVK	Michal Beli
19	MF	SVK	Matej Ondrejkovič
20	MF	SVK	Martin Hloušek
21	MF	SVK	Gabriel Labuda
8	FW	SVK	Filip Korček
11	FW	SVK	Martin Šemrák
14	FW	SVK	Maroš Čeremeta
18	FW	SVK	Pavol Kozák

Technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Milan Lalkovič
Assistant coach	Jozef Talian
Assistant coach	Martin Hloušek
Goalkeeping coach	Jozef Talian
Masseur	Karol Orbán
Team Chef	Anton Zabavník
Youth Sports Director

Player records

Most appearances

#	Nat.	Name	App.
1		Gejza Farkaš	344
2		František Feczko	300
3		Jozef Móder	289
4		Jozef Suchánek	269
5		Stanislav Seman	225

Most goals

#	Nat.	Name	Goals
1		Ladislav Józsa	104
2		František Feczko	78
3		Gejza Farkaš	70
4		Jozef Móder	66
5		Ján Kozák sr.	44
6		Pavol Ondo	40
7		Dušan Ujhely	30

Notable players

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

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

• Ján Polgár
• Bohumil Andrejko
• Pavol Biroš
• Ivan Čabala
• Matúš Čonka
• Pavol Diňa
• Gejza Farkaš
• František Feczko
• Anton Flešár
• Milan Gigler
• Miroslav Greskovics
• Andrej Iľko
• Július Holeš
• Ladislav Józsa
• Karol Kisel
• Ján Kozák sr.
• František Kunzo
• Ján Luža
• František Matys
• Jozef Móder
• Martin Obšitník
• Erik Pačinda
• Ladislav Putyera
• Stanislav Seman
• Adolf Scherer
• Viliam Schrojf
• Miroslav Sovič
• Stanislav Strapek
• Anton Šoltis
• Peter Štyvar
• Rudolf Urban
• Blažej Vaščák
• Rudolf Zibrínyi
• Ľudovít Žitňár

Notable managers

• Michal Baránek (1972)
• Ladislav Kačáni (1972–1974)
• Jozef Jankech (1975–1976)
• Michal Baránek (1976–1978)
• Jozef Jankech (1978–1980)
• Jozef Jankech (1983–1985)
• Michal Baránek (1985–1986)
• Jaroslav Galko (2013–2014)
• Dušan Ujhely (2014–2015)
• Branislav Sokoli (2015–2016)
• Albert Rusnák (2016–2018)
• Ľuboš Benkovský (2018–2019)
• Dušan Ujhely (2019–2020)
• Milan Lalkovič (2020-)

Bibliography

• Jindřich Horák; Lubomír Král (1997), Encyklopedie našeho fotbalu (in Czech), Libri
• Luboš Jeřábek (2007), Český a československý fotbal: lexikon osobností a klubů 1906–2006 (in Czech), Prague: Grada

External links

• Media related to Lokomotíva Košice at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website (in Slovak)