Slovak national football team

This article is about the Slovak men's national football team . For the women's team, see Slovak National Women's Football Team .

Slovakia
Slovakia

Nickname (s)	Repre
Association	Slovak Football Association ( Slovenský futbalový zväz )
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	puma
Head coach	Pavel Hapal (since 2018)
captain	Marek Hamšík
Record scorer	Marek Hamšík (25)
Record player	Marek Hamšík (120)
Home stadium	Narodný futbalový štadión (Bratislava)
FIFA code	SVK
FIFA rank	32nd (1490 points) (as of July 16, 2020)
First jersey Second jersey
Balance sheet
298 games 120 wins 68 draws 110 losses
statistics
First international match Slovakia 2-0 German Reich ( Bratislava , Slovakia ; August 27, 1939 )
Biggest wins Slovakia 7: 0 Liechtenstein ( Bratislava , Slovakia ; September 8, 2004 ) Slovakia 7: 0 San Marino ( Bratislava , Slovakia ; June 6, 2009 )
Biggest defeats Argentina 6-0 Slovakia ( Mendoza , Argentina ; June 22, 1995 ) Sweden 6-0 Slovakia ( Abu Dhabi ( ARE ); January 12, 2017 )
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2010 )
Best results	Round of 16 2010
European Championship
Participation in the finals	1 ( first : 2016 )
Best results	Round of 16 2016
(As of November 19, 2019)

The men's Slovak national football team represents Slovakia in general and the Slovak Football Association in particular in national team football. The team is currently being trained by Pavel Hapal , who has a contract until 2020.

history

The first Slovak national soccer team existed between 1939 and 1944 . It was the national team of the First Slovak Republic , created after the Munich Agreement , and played 16 games as an independent national team against Germany and the states of Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania, allied with Germany.

Slovak players had previously played in the Czechoslovak national football team since 1920 . When, after the Second World War, the Czechoslovakia was restoring, they formed with the Czechs a joint team again.

After the two states separated on January 1, 1993 and Slovakia emerged as an independent state, it returned to competitions with its own team at FIFA and UEFA tournaments . The qualifying round for the World Cup '94 , which had already started, ended unsuccessfully in 1993 as a joint selection of the already separated states.

Since then, Slovakia has been able to qualify for a final round for the first time in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. There Slovakia defeated the reigning world champions Italy 3-2 in the preliminary round and reached the round of 16, in which they were defeated by the later vice world champions Netherlands .

By qualifying for the European Football Championship in 2016, Slovakia succeeded in participating in this tournament for the first time since independence. As the best third party in the group, you qualified for the knockout phase. There, however, they lost 3-0 against Germany in the second round .

Participation of Slovakia in soccer world championships

→ Main article : Slovak national football team / World Cups

Slovakia was part of Czechoslovakia during the World Cup tournaments held until 1990 and provided a large number of players for the national team at these tournaments, which took second place twice ( 1934 and 1962 ). After separating from the Czech Republic, the team was only able to qualify for a World Cup after four attempts. Slovakia met the Czech Republic in qualifying for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups .

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification of Spain and Yugoslavia failed.
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualification of Sweden and Turkey failed.
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification in the relegation games of the group runners-up, Spain failed after finishing second behind Portugal in the group stage .
2010	South Africa	Round of 16	Netherlands	16.	Vladimir Weiss	3-2 win over former world champions Italy
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification , Slovakia met Bosnia-Herzegovina , Greece , Latvia , Liechtenstein and Lithuania . With a 2-1 home defeat against Bosnia-Herzegovina on September 10, 2013, Slovakia missed another World Cup qualification.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In the qualification , Slovakia met England , Lithuania , Malta , Scotland and Slovenia . Although the second place in the group was achieved behind England, in the ranking of the runners-up in the group they ended up in last place and thus again missed participation in the World Cup.

Participation of Slovakia in European football championships

Slovakia took part in the European Championships from 1960 to 1992 as part of Czechoslovakia. In 1976 the Czechoslovak team won the title when defending champions Germany were defeated in the first penalty shoot-out in European Championship history . In the European championship team were the Slovak players Ján Pivarník , Anton Ondruš , Jozef Čapkovič , Koloman Gögh , Karol Dobiaš , Jozef Móder , Marián Masný , Ján Švehlík and Ladislav Jurkemik . After the division of Czechoslovakia into two independent states, Slovakia took part in the qualification for the European Championship 1996 for the first time, but was able to qualify for the European Championship 2016 for the first time when the field of participants was increased to 24 teams. In the group stage, the team reached third place behind Wales and England and qualified third in the group for the round of 16, where the team failed to world champions Germany.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1996	England	not qualified			In the qualification of Romania and France failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			In the qualification of Romania and Portugal failed.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			In the qualification of England and Turkey failed, which also could not qualify.
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification of Czech Republic and Germany failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification of Russia and Ireland failed.
2016	France	Round of 16	Germany	0: 3	Qualification finished behind Spain in second place in the group, followed by Ukraine , Belarus , Macedonia and Luxembourg .
2021	Europe				The opponent in the play-offs is Ireland .

Extended squad

As of November 19, 2019

Surname	birthday	Games	Gates	society	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
Martin Dúbravka	January 15, 1989	23	0	Newcastle United	2014	November 19, 2019
Dominik Greif	04/06/1997	2	0	Slovan Bratislava	2019	October 13, 2019
Matúš Kozáčik	December 27, 1983	27	0	Viktoria Plzen	2006	07.06.2019
Defense
Norbert Gyömbér	07/03/1992	23	0	AC Perugia Calcio	2014	November 19, 2019
Dávid Hancko	12/13/1997	12	1	Sparta Prague	2018	November 19, 2019
Tomáš Hubočan	09/17/1985	65	0	Omonia Nicosia	2006	October 13, 2019
Robert Mazáň	02/09/1994	8th	0	CD Tenerife	2017	October 13, 2019
Peter Pekarík	10/30/1986	91	2	Hertha BSC	2006	November 19, 2019
Ľubomír Šatkan	12/02/1995	13	0	Lech poses	2018	October 13, 2019
Milan Škriniar	02/11/1995	31	0	Inter Milan	2016	November 19, 2019
Martin Škrtel	December 15, 1984	104	6th	Istanbul Başakşehir FK	2004	October 13, 2019
Lukáš Štetina	07/28/1991	3	1	Sparta Prague	2013	07.06.2019
Martin Valjent	12/11/1995	3	0	RCD Mallorca	2018	October 13, 2019
Denis Vavro	04/10/1996	7th	0	Lazio Rome	2019	11/16/2019
midfield
László Bénes	09/09/1997	3	0	Borussia Monchengladbach	2017	October 13, 2019
Matúš Bero	09/06/1995	11	0	Vitesse Arnhem	2016	November 19, 2019
Ondrej Duda	05.12.1994	36	5	Hertha BSC	2014	November 19, 2019
Ján Greguš	01/29/1991	26th	3	Minnesota United	2015	October 13, 2019
Marek Hamšík	07/27/1987	120	25th	Dalian Yifang	2007	November 19, 2019
Lukáš Haraslín	05/26/1996	8th	1	Lechia Gdańsk	2019	November 19, 2019
Patrik Hrošovský	04/22/1992	25th	0	KRC Genk	2014	11/16/2019
Juraj Kucka	02/26/1987	72	9	Parma FC	2008	November 19, 2019
Stanislav Lobotka	11/25/1994	22nd	3	Celta Vigo	2016	November 19, 2019
Albert Rusnák	07/07/1994	24	5	Real Salt Lake	2016	11/16/2019
Storm
Róbert Boženík	11/18/1999	8th	3	MŠK Žilina	2019	November 19, 2019
Michal Ďuriš	06/01/1988	47	5	Anorthosis Famagusta	2012	November 19, 2019
Róbert Mak	03/08/1991	57	12	Zenit St. Petersburg	2013	10/10/2019
Samuel Mráz	05/13/1997	3	1	Brøndby IF	2018	November 19, 2019
Adam Nemec	09/02/1985	43	13	Paphos FC	2006	October 13, 2019
Pavol Šafranko	11/16/1994	4th	0	Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe	2019	10/10/2019

Record player

Marek Hamšík has been a record international player since October 13, 2018, when he replaced Miroslav Karhan with his 108th international match , who replaced Róbert Tomaschek with his 53rd international on October 12, 2002 . This had replaced Dušan Tittel on March 24, 2001 with his 45th international match , who in turn had replaced Vladimír children on March 11, 1997 . On August 16, 1995, Kinder had beaten the pre-war record set by Tomáš Porubský and Teodor Reimann , who played fourteen games for Slovakia between 1939 and 1943.

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	World Cup games	EM games
01.	Marek Hamšík	120	25th	midfield	2007–	4th	4th
02.	Miroslav Karhan	107	14th	midfield	1995-2011	0	0
03.	Martin Škrtel	104	6th	Defense	2004-2019	4th	4th
04th	Ján Ďurica	91	4th	Defense	2004-2017	4th	4th
	Peter Pekarík	91	2	Defense	2006–	3	4th
06th	Róbert Vittek	82	23	attack	2001-2016	4th	0
07th	Juraj Kucka	72	9	midfield	2008–	3	4th
08th.	Vladimír Weiss	67	7th	midfield	2009–	3	4th
09.	Stanislav Šesták	66	13	attack	2004-2016	3	1
10.	Filip Hološko	65	8th	attack	2005-2015	2	0
	Tomáš Hubočan	65	0	Defense	2006–	0	2
12.	Miroslav Stoch	60	6th	Midfield / attack	2009–	4th	1
13.	Róbert Mak	58	12	attack	2013–	0	3
	Szilárd Németh	58	22nd	attack	1997-2006	0	0
	Radoslav Zabavník	58	1	Defense / midfield	2003-2012	3	0

Source: eu-football.info Status: November 19, 2019

Record goal scorers

Marek Hamšík has been the record scorer since June 11, 2019, when he set Róbert Vittek's record with his 23rd goal in the 5-1 in the European Championship qualifier against Azerbaijan and beat him with the 24th goal.

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period	World Cup goals	EM goals
01.	Marek Hamšík	25th	120	0.21	2007–	0	1
02.	Róbert Vittek	23	82	0.28	2001-2016	4th
03.	Szilárd Németh	22nd	58	0.38	1997-2006
04th	Miroslav Karhan	14th	107	0.13	1995-2011
05.	Marek Mintál	14th	45	0.31	2002-2009
06th	Adam Nemec	13	43	0.30	2006–		0
07th	Stanislav Šesták	13	66	0.20	2004-2016	0
08th.	Peter Dubovský	12	33	0.36	1994-2000
09.	Róbert Mak	12	58	0.21	2013–		0

Trainer

• Ferdinand Daučík (1942–1944)
• Jozef Vengloš (1993–1995)
• Jozef Jankech (1995–1998)
• Dušan Radolský (1998)
• Dušan Galis (1999, 2004-2006)
• Jozef Adamec (1999-2001)
• Ladislav Jurkemik (2002-2003)
• Ján Kocian (2006-2008)
• Vladimír Weiss (2008–2012)
• Stanislav Griga (2012-2013)
• Ján Kozák (2013-2018)
• Pavel Hapal (since 2018)

International matches against German-speaking national teams

→ Main article : List of the international matches of the Slovak national football team

International matches against German national soccer teams

1. Slovakia 2-0 Germany (August 27, 1939 in Bratislava )
2. Germany 3-1 Slovakia (December 3, 1939 in Chemnitz )
3. Slovakia 0-1 Germany (September 15, 1940 in Bratislava)
4. Germany 4-0 Slovakia (December 7, 1941 in Breslau )
5. Slovakia 2-5 Germany (November 22, 1942 in Bratislava)
6. Germany 2-0 Slovakia (June 29, 2001 in Bremen )
7. Slovakia 2-0 Germany (September 3, 2005 in Bratislava)
8. Slovakia 1: 4 Germany (11 October 2006 in Bratislava)
9. Germany 2-1 Slovakia (June 6, 2007 in Hamburg )
10. Germany 1-3 Slovakia (May 29, 2016 in Augsburg )
11. Germany 3-0 Slovakia (June 26, 2016 in Villeneuve-d'Ascq )

International matches against Switzerland

1. August 6, 1997 in Bratislava 1-0
2. May 24, 2008 in Lugano 0-2

International matches against Austria

1. March 27, 2002 in Graz 0-2
2. March 31, 2004 in Bratislava 1: 1
3. August 10, 2011 in Klagenfurt 2: 1
4. November 15, 2016 in Vienna 0-0

International matches against Liechtenstein

1. October 10, 1998 in Vaduz 4-0 (European Championship qualification)
2. September 8, 1999 in Dubnica nad Váhom 2-0 (European Championship qualification)
3. April 2, 2003 in Trnava 4-0 (European Championship qualification)
4. October 11, 2003 in Vaduz 2-0 (European Championship qualification)
5. September 8, 2004 in Bratislava 7-0 (World Cup qualification)
6. August 17, 2005 in Vaduz 0-0 (World Cup qualification)

successes

FIFA also takes into account previous Czechoslovakian successes, two runners-up world championships ( 1934 and 1962 ), the 1976 European title and the 1980 Olympic victory for Slovakia.

At the 1934 World Cup were Štefan Čambal and Ferdinand Daučík , Daučík played at the 1938 World Cup at all games in Czechoslovakia. In the 1970s, the Slovaks set the tone in the Czechoslovak team. At the 1970 World Cup, there were 17 Slovaks in the 22-man selection. When Germany beat Germany at the 1976 European Championship in Belgrade, there were four Czechs and nine Slovaks on the playground: Jozef Čapkovič , Karol Dobiaš , Koloman Gögh , Ladislav Jurkemik , Anton Ondruš , Ján Pivarník , Jozef Móder , Ján Švehlík and Marián Masný .

More Achievements:

• Kirin Cup : 2000 (together with Japan)
• Soccer World Cup : Round of 16 2010
• European Football Championship : Round of 16 2016

See also

• Slovak national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Slovak national football team (U-20 men)
• Slovak national football team (U-21 men)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to the Guardian, June 5, 2010.
2. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. July 16, 2020, accessed July 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Czech Hapal becomes Slovak national coach. In: rp-online.de. Rheinische Post , October 22, 2018, accessed on October 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
5. ↑ https://eu-football.info/_team.php?id=180
6. ↑ ^{a b c} farewell game ( SR A - Hubočan, Nemec a Škrtel po zápase: Sme radi, že sme tu mohli byť! )
7. ↑ Slovakia football team stats and records ( English ) eu-football.info. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
8. ↑ Also 6 goals for the Czechoslovak team
9. ^ In addition, 14 games for the Czechoslovak team

Web links

Commons : Slovak National Football Team  - collection of images

• futbalsfz.sk - information on the website of the Slovak Federation on the national team (Slovak)