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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.82 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad2 Nov 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 KFC Komárno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rifat Zhemaletdinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over MFK Michalovce, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 8.13. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at KFC Komárno.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
2-0, and a corner of somebody else’s ground that outsang the rest of it. Those coaches leave before dawn and nobody outside them mentions it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Norbert Mak, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Reziuan Mirzov 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rifat Zhemaletdinov 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
1‑2 to DAC Dunajska Streda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joao Grimaldo, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
MFK Michalovce next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Zyen Jones runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Oct 2026
Halfway: KFC Komárno sit in position 12
6 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Something was said to Joao Grimaldo and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
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Uneasy
Match19 Oct 2026
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to KFC Komárno's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at KFC Komárno has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for KFC Komárno
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alen Mustafić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Norbert Mak was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the KFC Komárno dressing room was either.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A defender's afternoon for Filip Kiss
Defensive actions: 13. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. MSK Zilina came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Benjamín Száraz’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and KFC Komárno needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Alen Mustafić 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Martin Gamboš and KFC Komárno agree another 4 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rifat Zhemaletdinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrik Duda has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Juraj Benes has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
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Crisis
Match3 Oct 2026
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Filip Kiss commits to KFC Komárno for another 1 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Rifat Zhemaletdinov 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for KFC Komárno
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Filip Kiss 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 KFC Komárno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match3 Oct 2026
Spartak Trnava left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Oct 2026
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Zyen Jones
“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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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Reziuan Mirzov 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑1 to AS Trencin, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorik Emini 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and KFC Komárno 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Norbert Mak to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Matej Franko asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
Spartak Trnava next, and one man in the KFC Komárno dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Crisis
Match21 Sep 2026
KFC Komárno are in real trouble now
Position 11, 5 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rifat Zhemaletdinov 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
0‑1 to Podbrezova, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Filip Kiss 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Norbert Mak to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Matej Franko knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Matej Franko trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AS Trencin in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A move Lukáš Skovajsa 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 Skovajsa is living that version at KFC Komárno, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Reziuan Mirzov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rifat Zhemaletdinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. KFC Komárno will try again when the window opens; Tatran Prešov may not be selling by then.
Match12 Sep 2026
Late, late show earns KFC Komárno a point
Minute 94, against MFK Skalica, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one KFC Komárno will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Match12 Sep 2026
It needed Martin Boďa to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against MFK Skalica, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
Norbert Mak: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and KFC Komárno did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 14 out at KFC Komárno
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 14 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 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 KFC Komárno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alen Mustafić 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. KFC Komárno will try again when the window opens; MFK Skalica may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
51 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Sep 2026
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and KFC Komárno know which stage they are at.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Róbert Pillár, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against MFK Skalica in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs have shaken hands with Tatran Prešov; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Reziuan Mirzov, 33, rolls back the years — 7.91
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.91 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with MFK Skalica, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Rifat Zhemaletdinov 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Lorik Emini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Reziuan Mirzov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to KFC Komárno.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and KFC Komárno 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Rifat Zhemaletdinov takes the afternoon — 8.74
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rifat Zhemaletdinov provided it, and the 8.74 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Martin Boďa takes the afternoon — 8.36
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Martin Boďa provided it, and the 8.36 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Jablonec, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Viktoria Plzen is saying, and nobody at KFC Komárno is enjoying the guessing.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rifat Zhemaletdinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Alen Mustafić 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lorik Emini commits to KFC Komárno for another 3 years.
Match15 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Martin Gamboš ran the middle of the pitch — 6.92
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.92, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Lorik Emini 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Reziuan Mirzov
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. KFC Komárno will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Adam Krčík beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Norbert Mak left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Crisis
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑3 against MFK Ruzomberok, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Radek Lehovec gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Radek Lehovec has just signed for KFC Komárno, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Reziuan Mirzov 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rifat Zhemaletdinov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. David Suslov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Pekarik is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Denis Duris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Crisis
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The offer went to MTK Budapest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at KFC Komárno training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alen Mustafić 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. NK Domzale have kept their man, and KFC Komárno go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
MFK Michalovce left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristóf Domonkos and KFC Komárno agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Filip Kiss 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 KFC Komárno this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Matyáš Šilhavý is in the works
KFC Komárno have made the call to Viktoria Plzen. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.