Lokomotíva Košice

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Lokomotíva Košice
Club logo of FC Lokomotíva Košice
Basic data
Surname FC Lokomotíva Košice as
Seat Košice
founding 1946
Colours blue White
president Gerhard Zvolánek
Website fclokomotiva.sk
First soccer team
Head coach Peter Fecko
Venue Krásna nad Hornádom
Places nb
league 5th league
2018/19 11th place, 2nd league  
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Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club from Košice . It was founded in 1946 as ŠK Železničiari Košice and played in the top Czechoslovakian league for 29 years until 1993 .

The greatest success was a third place in 1951 and 1978. In 1977 and 1979 Lokomotíva Košice won the Czechoslovak Cup . In the all-time table of the Czechoslovak League, Lokomotíva Košice occupies eleventh place as the sixth-best Slovak club.

In 1998 Lokomotíva Košice rose from the 1st Slovak League, the club was dissolved. A new company was founded, which also ended in 2003. Another attempt under the name FC Lokomotíva Košice was started, in the 2006/07 season the team plays in the fourth-class 3rd division.

Club history

In 1946 was in Eastern Slovakia Kosice of sports-loving railwaymen of ŠK Železničiari founded. In the same year, the club merged with ŠK Sparta, so it got players and the opportunity to join the regional league directly. In 1947 construction began on the V Čermeli stadium , which was completed in 1959.

In 1949 there was another merger, this time with Sokol Jednota Dynamo Košice. This club was founded in 1943 as ŠK Jednota Košice and has played in the 1st Czechoslovak League since 1945, where it did not get beyond a placement in midfield. One result of the merger was the new name ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice. In 1951, the team escaped winning the championship title only because of the poorer goal difference compared to the equal points Sokol NV Bratislava and Sparta ČKD Sokolovo .

In 1952, the club took on the name Lokomotíva, which it has kept since then. In the 1953 season of only 13 games, Lokomotíva Košice was last with only two wins and had to be relegated. The return to the first division was not possible until 1965. It came to a merger with TJ VSŽ Košice, the new name was now TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice. The connection between these two clubs was dissolved after only two years.

In the following seasons Lokomotíva always occupied a place in the lower third of the table, in 1969/70 it was enough for sixth place. In the 1973/74 season, the team finished penultimate and had to leave the top division for the second time after 1953. This time, however, the return was immediate and the next decade would be the club's most successful period.

1977 Lokomotíva Košice first won the Slovak Cup and won the final of the Czechoslovak Cup with 2-1 against Sklo Union Teplice . The top performers of this team were the future national player and Olympic champion Stanislav Seman in goal, the midfielders Jozef Móder and Ján Kozák and striker Ladislav Józsa .

In the 1977-78 European Cup Winners' Cup they came due to the away goals rule against the Swedish representatives Östers IF on (0: 0 and 2: 2), but the same rule about costs advancing to the second round, in which one against FK Austria Wien with 0: 0 and 1: 1 eliminated.

The fact that the cup win was not a flash in the pan, but an exceptionally strong generation was on the field, the players proved by a third place in the 1977/78 series, which Lokomotíva Košice qualified for the 1978/79 UEFA Cup . First round opponents AC Milan won the first leg at the San Siro stadium 1-0, while Ján Kozák scored the only goal in the second leg in front of 30,000 spectators. Lokomotíva lost 6-7 on penalties.

1979 Lokomotíva was able to repeat the cup victory when the team defeated Baník Ostrava 2-1 in the final . For the third year in a row Lokomotíva took part in the European Cup. In the first round they beat SSW Innsbruck 2-1 and 0-1 , in the second round they won the first leg against NK Rijeka 2-0, but lost 3-0 in Yugoslavia.

The next few years were marked by a slow slide. Eighth place in 1980, fourth place in 1981, fifth place in 1982, tenth place in 1983, eighth place in 1984, tenth place in 1985 and finally 15th place in 1986 connected with relegation. In 1985 Lokomotíva was able to win the Slovak Cup again, but the dream of more European Cup evenings in Čermel ended with the 3-2 defeat against Dukla Prague in the final of the Czechoslovak Cup.

In 1988 Lokomotíva even fell into the third division, but managed to get promoted again immediately. In September 1990, the football department broke away from the overall club and founded a club called FK Lokomotíva Košice. A sixth place in the 2nd league in 1992/93 was enough to qualify for the independent Slovak league after the separation of Czechoslovakia. However, Lokomotíva could no longer build on the successes of the 1970s and rose in 1998 to the 2nd division.

This meant the end for the two-time cup winner. The men's team was transferred to Krompachy , some youth players went to the overall club TJ Lokomotíva, the remaining youth teams were merged and a club called FK Lokomotíva PČSP Košice was founded, which was also able to set up a men's team in the fifth division. After the 2003 season, the club disbanded. It came to a re-establishment under the name FC Lokomotíva Košice, the club stabilized and played in 2006/07 in the fourth class 3rd division.

One problem, however, remains that due to financial weakness, the actual home stadium V Čermeli cannot be used, where the newly founded first division club MFK Košice is currently playing its home games. Lokomotíva Košice instead plays in the Krásna nad Hornádom district .

successes

competition year
Czechoslovak League 3rd place in 1951 and 1978
Czechoslovak Football Cup Winner 1977 and 1979, finalist 1985
Slovak Football Cup Winner in 1977, 1979 and 1985, finalist in 1992

player

  • SlovakiaSlovakia Stanislav Seman (1963–1970) youth, (1970–1972, 1974–1984) player,
  • SlovakiaSlovakia Jozef Móder (1967–1971, 1973–1980, 1982–1983)
  • SlovakiaSlovakia Ján Kozák (1975–1980, 1982–1986, 1988–1990)

Club names

  • 1946 ŠK Železničiari Košice
  • 1946 ŠK Železničiari Sparta Košice (merger with ŠK Sparta Košice)
  • 1949 ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice (merger with Sokol Jednota Dynamo Košice)
  • 1952 TJ Lokomotíva Košice
  • 1965 TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice (merger with TJ VSŽ Košice)
  • 1967 TJ Lokomotíva Košice (solution of the merger with TJ VSŽ Košice)
  • 1990 FK Lokomotíva Košice (separation of the football department from the entire club)
  • 1994 FK Lokomotíva Energogas Košice
  • 1999 FK Lokomotíva PČSP Košice (newly founded, later FK Lokomotíva 1946)
  • 2003 FC Lokomotíva Košice (newly founded)

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