Marked for Viktor Hamsik
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Steady
Squad22 Mar 2027
Samuel Gyomber damages knee ligaments — 99 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 99 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Miroslav Pekarik falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market22 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. FK Senica know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Ognjen Abramušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad22 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Kristian Hamsik
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FK Senica have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jan Hrosovsky 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Shean Garlito falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Stefan Hubocan 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Miroslav Pekarik falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad28 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Matej Hamsik and FK Senica agree another 5 years.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Erik Skriniar breaks a bone — 29 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Pekarik 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to MFK Skalica to sit and watch. I want to come back to FK Senica and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
The terraces7 Dec 2026
At 20 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.
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Crisis
Match28 Nov 2026
Nowhere to hide for FK Senica
1‑4 against MFK Michalovce, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market30 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what FK Senica can pretend not to have heard.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Erik Skriniar breaks a bone — 36 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 36 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Jan Hrosovsky 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Miroslav Pekarik falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Steady
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Erik Skriniar out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Miroslav Pekarik 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shean Garlito 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The team sheet said everything about Matej Oravec
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Matej Oravec.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
7.95, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. FK Senica had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match21 Nov 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market23 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matej Hamsik’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market23 Nov 2026
FK Senica have made David Hrosovsky available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Crisis
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Erik Skriniar out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Nov 2026
FK Senica are in real trouble now
Position 10, 14 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market2 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FK Senica, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Crisis
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Erik Skriniar out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Tiago Pucciarelli, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.67
A mark of 7.67 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between FK Senica and DAC Dunajska Streda, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match24 Oct 2026
DAC Dunajska Streda left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Pekarik 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
A performance of 8.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ognjen Abramušić, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Erik Skriniar breaks a bone — 94 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Stefan Hubocan 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Miroslav Pekarik falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adam Rusnak commits to FK Senica for another 1 years.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Erik Skriniar out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.82, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jan Hrosovsky 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 3‑1 win over Zlate Moravce, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
At 20 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Viktor Hamsik at his very best
Marked 8.60. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FK Senica.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Ognjen Abramušić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Samuel Gyomber
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Erik Skriniar out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FK Senica will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Miroslav Pekarik 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Miroslav Pekarik. 2‑1 against MFK Michalovce, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Miroslav Pekarik at his very best
Marked 8.28. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at FK Senica.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every FK Senica game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at MFK Skalica runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
5 new faces, and FK Senica are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. FK Senica have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The pass was always on for Viktor Hamsik
Chances created: 7. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Uneasy
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for FK Senica
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around FK Senica are no longer polite ones.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Adam Rusnak reports back to FK Senica with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jan Hrosovsky 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Miroslav Pekarik falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakub Duris and FK Senica agree another 3 years.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.73, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
2‑5 to DAC Dunajska Streda, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.51, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market10 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and FK Senica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Miroslav Pekarik commits to FK Senica for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Miroslav Pekarik 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about FK Senica and DAC Dunajska Streda in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at FK Senica training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. David Hrosovsky 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.