# 2024–25 MŠK Žilina season

The 2024-25 season is the 116th season in the history of MŠK Žilina. During this season the club will be participating in the following competitions: Slovak First Football League, Slovak Cup.

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 1 January 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | SVK | Jakub Badžgoň |
| 2 | DF | SVK | Peter Pekarík |
| 4 | DF | UKR | Nikita Kelembet (on loan from Petržalka) |
| 5 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Jaššo |
| 6 | MF | CMR | Xavier Adang |
| 7 | FW | SVK | František Kóša |
| 8 | FW | CMR | Antoin Essomba |
| 10 | FW | SVK | Adrián Kaprálik |
| 11 | MF | GHA | Samuel Gidi |
| 14 | FW | CIV | Eric Bile |
| 15 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Hubočan |
| 16 | FW | SVK | Patrik Iľko |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 17 | DF | CMR | James Ndjeungoue |
| 19 | DF | SVK | Samuel Kopásek |
| 20 | DF | SVK | Kristián Bari |
| 21 | DF | SVK | Timotej Hranica |
| 22 | GK | SVK | Samuel Belaník |
| 23 | DF | SVK | Ján Minárik |
| 24 | MF | SVK | Samuel Ďatko |
| 28 | MF | SVK | Samuel Javorček |
| 29 | FW | SVK | Dávid Ďuriš |
| 30 | GK | SVK | Ľubomír Belko |
| 37 | MF | SVK | Mário Sauer |
| 66 | MF | SVK | Miroslav Káčer |
| TBA | FW | SVK | Timotej Jambor (on loan from Rapid București) |
| TBA | FW | NGA | Ridwan Sanusi |
For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2024 and List of Slovak football transfers winter 2024-25.

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | GK | SVK | Marek Teplan (at Košice until 31 May 2025) |
| 25 | DF | SVK | Tomáš Nemčík (at Rosenborg BK until 31 Dec 2024) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 27 | DF | SVK | Dominik Javorček (at Holstein Kiel until 30 June 2025) |
| 3 | DF | SVK | Patrik Leitner (at MFK Chrudim until 30 June 2025) |

### Slovak First Football League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 48 | 25 | +23 | 49 | Qualification for the championship group |
| 2 | Žilina | 22 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 42 | 20 | +22 | 45 | Qualification for the championship group |
| 3 | Spartak Trnava | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 34 | 17 | +17 | 44 | Qualification for the championship group |
| 4 | DAC Dunajská Streda | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 32 | 22 | +10 | 32 | Qualification for the championship group |
| 5 | Podbrezová | 22 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 30 | Qualification for the championship group |
| 6 | Košice | 22 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 29 | Qualification for the championship group |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SLO | ŽIL | TRN | DAC | POD | KOŠ |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 23 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 51 | 27 | +24 | 52 | Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round | — | | a | | | |
| 2 | Žilina | 23 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 42 | 20 | +22 | 46 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round | | — | | | 0–0 | |
| 3 | Spartak Trnava | 23 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 35 | 18 | +17 | 45 | Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round | a | | — | 1–1 | | |
| 4 | DAC Dunajská Streda | 23 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 33 | 23 | +10 | 33 | | | | | — | | |
| 5 | Podbrezová | 23 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 31 | 29 | +2 | 31 | | | | | | — | |
| 6 | Košice | 23 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 33 | 28 | +5 | 29 | | 2–3 | | | | | — |
| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation | ZMI | KOM | TRE | SKA | RUŽ | DUK |
| 1 | Zemplín Michalovce | 23 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 30 | 37 | −7 | 27 | | — | | | | | |
| 2 | Komárno | 23 | 7 | 4 | 12 | 25 | 38 | −13 | 25 | | | — | | | | |
| 3 | Trenčín | 23 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 25 | 37 | −12 | 23 | | 3–2 | | — | | | |
| 4 | Skalica | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 23 | 35 | −12 | 22 | | | | | — | | |
| 5 | Ružomberok | 23 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 40 | −18 | 20 | Qualification for the relegation play-offs | | 0–1 | | | — | |
| 6 | Dukla Banská Bystrica | 23 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 22 | 40 | −18 | 17 | Relegation to the 2. Liga | | | | 0–2 | | — |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 8 March 2025. Source: soccerway

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| Ground | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A |
| Result | D | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | D | L | D | W | W | W | D | L | L | D | W | D | | |
| Position | 8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | | |