# 2012–13 2. Liga (Slovakia)

The 2012–13 2. Liga (Slovakia) season was the 20th season of the second tier 2. Liga annual football tournament in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993.
Twelve teams compete in the league, with bottom two sides being relegated to the Slovak third level.

## Changes from last season
### Team changes

* Spartak Myjava were promoted to the Slovak First Football League after the 2011–12 season.
* DAC Dunajská Streda were relegated from the Slovak First Football League after the 2011–12 season.
* Slovan Duslo Šaľa, Partizán Bardejov Šamorín, and Baník Ružiná were promoted from the Slovak Third Football League after the 2011–12 season.
* LAFC Lučenec and Petržalka were relegated to the Slovak Third Football League after the 2011–12 season.
* Bodva Moldava and Ružomberok B were excluded from the league after the 2011–12 season.

## Teams
### Stadia and locations

| Team | Home city | Stadium | Capacity | 2011–12 season |
| Dunajská Streda | Dunajská Streda | DAC stadium | 3,170 | 12th in Corgoň Liga |
| Dolný Kubín | Dolný Kubín | Stadium MUDr. Ivan Chodák | 1,950 | 3rd in 2. liga |
| Dubnica | Dubnica | Mestský štadión | 5,450 | 8th in 2. liga |
| Liptovský Mikuláš | Liptovský Mikuláš | Stadium Liptovský Mikuláš | 1,950 | 10th in 2. liga |
| Zemplín Michalovce | Michalovce | Zemplin Stadium | 4,620 | 6th in 2. liga |
| Podbrezová | Podbrezová | Stadium Kolkáreň | 4,500 | 2nd in 2. liga |
| Rimavská Sobota | Rimavská Sobota | Na Záhradkách Stadium | 1,970 | 5th in 2. liga |
| SFM Senec | Senec | NTC Stadium | 3,264 | 4th in 2. liga |
| Slovan Duslo Šaľa | Šaľa | Šaľa Stadium | 1,126 | 3. liga Champions (West) |
| Partizán Bardejov | Bardejov | Stadium mestský Bardejov | 3,040 | 3. liga Champions (East) |
| Šamorín | Šamorín | Pomlé Stadium | 1,950 | 3. liga Play-off winner |
| Baník Ružiná | Ružiná | TJ Baník Stadium | 1,200 | 3. liga Play-off runners-up |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | DAC Dunajská Streda (C, P) | 33 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 41 | 26 | +15 | 65 | Promotion to Corgoň Liga |
| 2 | Podbrezová | 33 | 16 | 13 | 4 | 45 | 20 | +25 | 61 | |
| 3 | SFM Senec | 33 | 16 | 9 | 8 | 48 | 32 | +16 | 57 | |
| 4 | Bardejov | 33 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 41 | 36 | +5 | 53 | |
| 5 | Zemplín Michalovce | 33 | 12 | 7 | 14 | 41 | 43 | −2 | 43 | |
| 6 | Šamorín | 33 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 29 | 32 | −3 | 41 | |
| 7 | Šaľa | 33 | 12 | 5 | 16 | 41 | 45 | −4 | 41 | |
| 8 | Dubnica | 33 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 31 | 38 | −7 | 41 | |
| 9 | Rimavská Sobota | 33 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 39 | 47 | −8 | 40 | |
| 10 | Liptovský Mikuláš | 33 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 36 | |
| 11 | Dolný Kubín (R) | 33 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 34 | 42 | −8 | 34 | Relegation to 3. liga |
| 12 | Ružiná (R) | 33 | 7 | 9 | 17 | 38 | 54 | −16 | 30 | Relegation to 3. liga |

## Results

The schedule consisted of three rounds. The two first rounds consisted of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule. The pairings of the third round were set according to the 2011–12 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team.

### First and second round

| Home \ Away | BRU | DOL | DUB | DAC | LMI | PAR | POD | RIM | SAM | SEN | ŠAĽ | ZMI |
| Baník Ružiná | | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–2 |
| Dolný Kubín | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–4 | 2–4 | 3–1 |
| Dubnica | 4–1 | 0–2 | | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | | 3–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| Liptovský Mikuláš | 1–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–0 |
| Partizán Bardejov | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Podbrezová | 4–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| Rimavská Sobota | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | 4–2 | 0–2 | | 0–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 |
| Šamorín | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 |
| SFM Senec | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 1–1 | | 0–1 | 2–2 |
| Šaľa | 5–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 0–1 | | 3–1 |
| Zemplín Michalovce | 2–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–3 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |

### Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in 2011–12 final standings):
| 23rd round | 24th round | 25th round | 26th round | 27th round | 28th round |
| 1 – 12 | 1 – 2 | 2 – 12 | 1 – 4 | 3 – 12 | 1 – 6 |
| 2 – 11 | 8 – 6 | 3 – 1 | 2 – 3 | 4 – 2 | 2 – 5 |
| 3 – 10 | 9 – 5 | 4 – 11 | 9 – 7 | 5 – 1 | 3 – 4 |
| 4 – 9 | 10 – 4 | 5 – 10 | 10 – 6 | 6 – 11 | 10 – 8 |
| 5 – 8 | 11 – 3 | 6 – 9 | 11 – 5 | 7 – 10 | 11 – 7 |
| 6 – 7 | 12 – 7 | 7 – 8 | 12 – 8 | 8 – 9 | 12 – 9 |
| 29th round | 30th round | 31st round | 32nd round | 33rd round |
| 4 – 12 | 1 – 8 | 5 – 12 | 1 – 10 | 6 – 12 |
| 5 – 3 | 2 – 7 | 6 – 4 | 2 – 9 | 7 – 5 |
| 6 – 2 | 3 – 6 | 7 – 3 | 3 – 8 | 8 – 4 |
| 7 – 1 | 4 – 5 | 8 – 2 | 4 – 7 | 9 – 3 |
| 8 – 11 | 11 – 9 | 9 – 1 | 5 – 6 | 10 – 2 |
| 9 – 10 | 12 – 10 | 10 – 11 | 12 – 11 | 11 – 1 |
| Home \ Away | BRU | DOL | DUB | DAC | LMI | PAR | POD | RIM | SAM | SEN | ŠAĽ | ZMI |
| Baník Ružiná | | | | | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–4 | | | 2–3 | | 1–3 |
| Dolný Kubín | 0–2 | | | 1–2 | | | | | 1–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 |
| Dubnica | 0–4 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | | | | 3–2 | | | 0–0 | |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | 1–1 | | | | | | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 2–1 |
| Liptovský Mikuláš | | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–1 | | | | 1–2 | | | 3–1 | |
| Partizán Bardejov | | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | | | 0–1 | | | | |
| Podbrezová | | 1–1 | 0–1 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | | | |
| Rimavská Sobota | 3–1 | 0–1 | | 0–1 | | | | | 2–0 | | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Šamorín | 0–0 | | 2–0 | | 3–0 | 2–0 | | | | | 2–0 | |
| SFM Senec | | | 1–1 | | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 4–3 | 4–1 | | | |
| Šaľa | 3–1 | | | | | 0–3 | 0–1 | | | 4–1 | | 1–0 |
| Zemplín Michalovce | | | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2–3 | | 2–0 | 1–2 | | |

## Top goalscorers

    Updated through matches played 1 June 2013.
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Hector Tubonemi | ŽP Šport Podbrezová | 19 |
| 2 | Igor Ležaić | FC ŠTK 1914 Šamorín | 14 |
| 3 | Ondrej Čurgali | Slovan Duslo Šaľa | 12 |
| 4 | Róbert Ujčík | ŠK Senec(3)/Dolný Kubín(8) | 11 |
| 5 | Martin Mikulič | ŠK Senec | 10 |
| 5 | Andrej Brčák | Dolný Kubín | 10 |
| 5 | Lukáš Szabó | Slovan Duslo Šaľa | 10 |
| 8 | Stanislav Velický | DAC Dunajská Streda | 9 |
| 9 | Roland Šmahajčík | MFK Dubnica | 8 |
| 9 | Marek Seman | Bardejov | 8 |
| 9 | Mário Kurák | Ružiná | 8 |
| 9 | Pavol Jurčo | Michalovce | 8 |
| 9 | Marián Adam | Rimavská Sobota | 8 |