Marked for Robert Štefánek
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Artur Pląskowski
122 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Spartak Myjava lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gabriel Halabrín out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Spartak Myjava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jozef Dolný 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Kevin Persson 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 ratings28 Sep 2026
16 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Spartak Trnava came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
$270.0K. No player has ever cost Spartak Myjava more, and expectation arrives with him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Gabriel Halabrín out for 121 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Spartak Myjava will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Jozef Dolný, 34, rolls back the years — 8.42
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.42 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Patrik Danek 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 Spartak Myjava this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Samuel Gyomber from FK Senica for $270.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Spartak Myjava training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Persson 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Jozef Dolný’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Spartak Myjava.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Niko Datković
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 9 of the 19 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Robert Štefánek and Spartak Myjava agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Jozef Dolný 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
0‑2 to FK Senica, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Robert Štefánek
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Spartak Myjava
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Patrik Opalek has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Spartak Myjava.