Vojtech Brabec

Attacking Midfielder (C) - FK Senica
7 Jan 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Vojtech Brabec

17 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Vojtech Brabec leads the rout of MFK Skalica

4‑0, and Vojtech Brabec took the headlines on an afternoon when everything FK Senica tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Match

The small margins put FK Senica out

Out, 1‑3 to DAC Dunajska Streda, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Vojtech Brabec takes the afternoon — 9.25

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Vojtech Brabec provided it, and the 9.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Michal Skriniar scores twice — 8.11

Two goals and a mark of 8.11 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Lukas Valjent, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93

A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at FK Senica

Filip Kucka was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ryley Reynolds

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

No hiding place for Matej Oravec

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matej Oravec, and the manager let it.

Squad

FK Senica pick somebody else ahead of Bruno Fernández

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Both of them Vojtech Brabec's — 9.72

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Lukas Valjent

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Remember the name: Marek Sestak

He is 21, he is averaging 7.25, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Match

FK Senica find a way past Spartak Myjava

Spartak Myjava made FK Senica work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matej Kochan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

No hiding place for Alyair Mora

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alyair Mora, and the manager let it.

Match

Spartak Myjava blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Spartak Myjava tried to reorganise, FK Senica did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Loan watch

Dominik Hubocan has seen enough of MFK Skalica

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FK Senica, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

A promise honoured for Peter Sestak

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FK Senica told Peter Sestak something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

11 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Albert Rusnak’s goal not enough for FK Senica

Albert Rusnak scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to MSK Zilina, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Lukas Valjent signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lukas Valjent commits to FK Senica for another 5 years.

Squad

Kristian Duda in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

10 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Spartak Trnava punish FK Senica for switching off

3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Marek Sestak will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at FK Senica escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Marek Sestak at 20 — 9.40

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Marek Sestak did not need any: 9.40, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

A day Marek Sestak will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matej Kochan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Filip Kucka in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Matej Oravec gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

6 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for David Sestak

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. FK Senica lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Albert Rusnak scores twice — 9.12

Two goals and a mark of 9.12 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Vojtech Brabec takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market

Vojtech Soucek asks to leave FK Senica

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

FK Senica find a way past MFK Skalica

MFK Skalica made FK Senica work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑4 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

Vojtech Brabec among the goals in a wild afternoon

9 goals in one match, Vojtech Brabec on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FK Senica and MFK Skalica.

Player ratings

Vojtech Brabec was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.76. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matej Kochan is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

FK Senica are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

In brief

1 Edition

The FK Senica Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

7 goals for Marek Sestak

The match ball belongs to Marek Sestak, whose 7 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

No mercy from FK Senica

Spartak Myjava will want this one forgotten quickly: 8‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. FK Senica were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Marek Sestak, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 9.79

A mark of 9.79 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings

A debut Lukas Valjent will not forget — 7.72

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.72 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

A move Lukáš Fabiš would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lukáš Fabiš is living that version at FK Senica, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad

Miroslav Kucka signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miroslav Kucka commits to FK Senica for another 2 years.

Squad

Miroslav Kucka in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FK Senica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Marek Sestak among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Marek Sestak on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of FK Senica and Spartak Myjava.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Lukas Valjent

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief