The MFK Skalica Gazette
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Vintage Roman Potočný — 7.84
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.84, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for MFK Skalica — 6.15
1 for Martin Nagy, marked 6.15, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market10 Aug 2026
MFK Ruzomberok come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and MFK Skalica did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Branislav Sokol turns down MFK Skalica
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on John Dembe
MFK Skalica asked and Sigma Olomouc said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at MFK Skalica
Petr Pudhorocký and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match8 Aug 2026
Martin Nagy the difference as MFK Skalica beat MFK Ruzomberok
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Martin Nagy. 2‑1 against MFK Ruzomberok, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Martin Nagy 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ivan Sestak joins the MFK Skalica first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Sestak is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Stefan Lobotka joins the MFK Skalica first team
- Market Stefan Rusnak steps up from the MFK Skalica academy
- Squad MFK Skalica lose Levan Nonikashvili