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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Claude Gonçalves out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason MFK Zvolen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Nov 2026
MFK Zvolen are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Artúr Musák, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.15
A mark of 8.15 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Artúr Musák 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 MFK Zvolen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at MFK Zvolen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrik Brandner 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Antonio Rodriguez, and the manager let it.
Match31 Oct 2026
MFK Zvolen caught on 87 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Šamorín scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
82 days out for Claude Gonçalves after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. MFK Zvolen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Viktor Tóth: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MFK Zvolen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Claude Gonçalves 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at MFK Zvolen
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vladimír Bajtoš was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Half-satisfied: Jan Pekarik on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match24 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for MFK Zvolen?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Slávia TU Košice? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Claude Gonçalves out for 90 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason MFK Zvolen will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Artúr Musák, 21, steals the show — 8.40
Marked 8.40 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.17, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Artúr Musák 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Three points for MFK Zvolen, 2‑0 the final word against Malženice in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match17 Oct 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for MFK Zvolen. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Matej Starší 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 ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad19 Oct 2026
MFK Zvolen are still strangers to each other
16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
99 days out for Claude Gonçalves after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. MFK Zvolen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Artúr Musák and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 37 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for MFK Zvolen is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Ivan Betik 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. MFK Zvolen told Nentaka Bangs something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Market12 Oct 2026
No place for Adam Krejčí in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Adam Krejčí has his answer from MFK Zvolen; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Erik Gaško is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Adrián Urban knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at MFK Zvolen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match5 Oct 2026
MFK Zvolen refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Adam Krejčí: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” MFK Zvolen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Claude Gonçalves and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matej Starší is not the player he was
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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Artúr Musák
“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.
Match3 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Inter Bratislava, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
7 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 12‑0 against Slovan Bratislava U21, and it could have been more.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 114 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Matej Starší yet — 9.71
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.71 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nentaka Bangs, 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Patrik Brandner 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.92, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 121 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Eric Hunal 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 MFK Zvolen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Patrik Brandner 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filip Dlubáč, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 25 days on the sidelines for Patrik Pekarik, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Jan Pekarik after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
No place in the plan for Filip Dlubáč
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Petržalka defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Claude Gonçalves out for 128 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason MFK Zvolen 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: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Artúr Musák 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
Patrik Brandner 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
MFK Zvolen asked and AS Trencin said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.91 on the card, and the MFK Zvolen support went home talking about one name.
Squad14 Sep 2026
MFK Zvolen are still strangers to each other
16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Jan Pekarik on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
135 days out for Claude Gonçalves after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. MFK Zvolen will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Oliver Patrnčiak had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market7 Sep 2026
Adam Krejčí hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what MFK Zvolen can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 30 signed and 11 gone
That is the business done at MFK Zvolen until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Landry Malonda arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Landry Malonda has, at MFK Zvolen, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Artúr Musák 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 MFK Zvolen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pardubice have kept their man, and MFK Zvolen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Landry Malonda and MFK Zvolen agree another 3 years.
Market7 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Matej Moško’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
Matej Moško and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at MFK Zvolen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrik Brandner 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 targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slovan Bratislava have kept their man, and MFK Zvolen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
MFK Zvolen have made the call to NK Maribor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Pardubice: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Erik Gaško's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jan Pekarik chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
The small margins put MFK Zvolen out
Out, 0‑2 to Podbrezova, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Patrik Brandner 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 targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Trencin have kept their man, and MFK Zvolen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Viktor Úradník 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Matej Starší’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to MFK Zvolen.
Market24 Aug 2026
A stepping stone, not a home, for Norbert Urblík
He is doing his job and he is not settling. MFK Zvolen were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.
Squad24 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
A loan move for Eric Hunal is in the works
MFK Zvolen have made the call to Zbrojovka Brno. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
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Squad
Martin Danihel signs a new deal
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Adam Krejčí
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad17 Aug 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 MFK Zvolen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Norbert Urblík and MFK Zvolen agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. MSK Zilina have kept their man, and MFK Zvolen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Aug 2026
Považská Bystrica left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Patrik Brandner
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Matej Moško has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. MFK Zvolen know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
MFK Zvolen are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrik Brandner and MFK Zvolen agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matej Moško and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at MFK Zvolen training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrik Brandner 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karol Rusnak 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miroslav Nemec 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. Jakub 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Suslov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 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 MFK Zvolen know which stage they are at.
In brief
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The dugout
Adam Krejčí dropped after a run of poor form
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Ján Nosko
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.06, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ján Nosko commits to MFK Zvolen for another 2 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. DAC Dunajska Streda have kept their man, and MFK Zvolen go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match1 Aug 2026
MSK Zilina B made MFK Zvolen work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Erik Gaško 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 MFK Zvolen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alden Šuvalija 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at MFK Zvolen, another week without a signature from Ján Nosko.