# 2011–12 Slovak First Football League

The 2011–12 Slovak First Football League (known as Corgoň Liga due to sponsorship purposes) was the nineteenth season of the Corgoň Liga, the first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 15 July 2011 and was completed on 19 May 2012. Slovan Bratislava were the defending champions, having won their sixth Slovak league championship at the end of the 2010–11 season.

## Teams

Dubnica were relegated after finishing the 2010–11 season in 12th and last place, ending a 10-season stay in this competition. They were replaced by 2010–11 1. Liga champions AS Trenčín, who returned to the competition after a three-season absence.
| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| AS Trenčín | Trenčín | Štadión na Sihoti | 4,500 |
| DAC 1904 | Dunajská Streda | Mestský štadión – DAC Dunajská Streda | 3,170 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | Banská Bystrica | SNP Stadium | 10,000 |
| MFK Košice | Košice | Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli | 9,000 |
| FC Nitra | Nitra | Štadión pod Zoborom | 11,384 |
| MFK Ružomberok | Ružomberok | Štadión MFK Ružomberok | 4,817 |
| FK Senica | Senica | Štadión FK Senica | 4,600 |
| Slovan Bratislava | Bratislava | Pasienky | 12,000 |
| Spartak Trnava | Trnava | Štadión Antona Malatinského | 18,448 |
| Tatran Prešov | Prešov | Tatran Štadión | 5,410 |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | Zlaté Moravce | Štadión FC ViOn | 4,000 |
| MŠK Žilina | Žilina | Stadium pod Dubňom | 11,181 |

### Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| Team | Manager$^1$ | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
| Dunajská Streda | Werner Lorant | Ján Marcin | Adidas | NEGIN |
| Trenčín | Adrián Guľa | Martin Ševela | Nike | Aegon |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | Štefan Zaťko | Martin Poljovka | Adidas | Express Slovakia |
| Košice | Ján Kozák | Peter Šinglár | Givova | Steel Trans |
| Nitra | Ladislav Jurkemik | Miloš Šimončič | Jako | Bonul Security, El Comp, Špeciál Izotex |
| Ružomberok | Aleš Křeček | Pavol Masaryk | Umbro | Mondi SCP |
| Senica | Stanislav Griga | Ján Gajdošík | Hummel | NAD RESS |
| Slovan Bratislava | Vladimír Weiss | Igor Žofčák | Adidas | Niké |
| Spartak Trnava | Pavel Hoftych | Miroslav Karhan | Givova | TSS Grade |
| Tatran Prešov | Serhiy Kovalets | Ján Papaj | Adidas | IMPA |
| Zlaté Moravce | Juraj Jarábek | Pavol Majerník | Legea | ViOn |
| Žilina | Frans Adelaar | Miroslav Barčík | Nike | Preto |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Spartak Trnava | Peter Zelenský | End of caretaker spell | 5 May 2011 | Pre-season | Pavel Hoftych | 19 May 2011 |
| Dunajská Streda | Mikuláš Radványi | End of contract | 28 May 2011 | Pre-season | Štefan Horný | 20 June 2011 |
| Košice | Štefan Tarkovič | Mutual agreement | 1 June 2011 | Pre-season | Ladislav Šimčo | 10 June 2011 |
| Tatran Prešov | Ladislav Pecko | End of contract | 2 June 2011 | Pre-season | Štefan Tarkovič | 4 June 2011 |
| Žilina | Pavel Hapal | Sacked | 16 July 2011 | Pre-season | Ľubomír Nosický | 16 July 2011 |
| Slovan Bratislava | Karel Jarolím | Mutual agreement | 5 August 2011 | 4th | Vladimír Weiss | 5 August 2011 |
| Dunajská Streda | Štefan Horný | Resigned | 6 August 2011 | 12th | Krisztián Németh | 7 August 2011 |
| Ružomberok | Ladislav Jurkemik | Sacked | 22 September 2011 | 8th | Aleš Křeček | 22 September 2011 |
| Nitra | Cyril Stachura | Sacked | 19 November 2011 | 7th | Róbert Barborík | 20 November 2011 |
| Nitra | Róbert Barborík | End of caretaker spell | 20 December 2011 | 7th | Ladislav Jurkemik | 20 December 2011 |
| Tatran Prešov | Štefan Tarkovič | Sacked | 23 January 2012 | 11th | Serhiy Kovalets | 23 January 2012 |
| Dunajská Streda | Krisztián Németh | Mutual agreement | 25 March 2012 | 12th | Werner Lorant | 25 March 2012 |
| Žilina | Ľubomír Nosický | Sacked | 16 April 2012 | 1st | Frans Adelaar | 16 April 2012 |
| Košice | Ladislav Šimčo | Sacked | 30 April 2012 | 12th | Ján Kozák | 30 April 2012 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Žilina (C) | 33 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 52 | 27 | +25 | 67 | Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Spartak Trnava | 33 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 44 | 22 | +22 | 65 | Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Slovan Bratislava | 33 | 16 | 11 | 6 | 48 | 35 | +13 | 59 | Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Senica | 33 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 47 | 23 | +24 | 57 | Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round |
| 5 | Trenčín | 33 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 51 | 49 | +2 | 48 | |
| 6 | Ružomberok | 33 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 39 | 34 | +5 | 44 | |
| 7 | ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 33 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 34 | 43 | −9 | 41 | |
| 8 | Nitra | 33 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 33 | 39 | −6 | 39 | |
| 9 | Dukla Banská Bystrica | 33 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 44 | −7 | 37 | |
| 10 | Tatran Prešov | 33 | 7 | 12 | 14 | 23 | 35 | −12 | 33 | |
| 11 | Košice | 33 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 25 | 40 | −15 | 29 | |
| 12 | DAC Dunajská Streda (R) | 33 | 5 | 1 | 27 | 21 | 63 | −42 | 16 | Relegation to 2. liga |
* ↑ Since 2011–12 Slovak Cup winners Žilina qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Champions League, so cup runners-up Senica qualified for the 2012–13 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round. Moreover, Slovan Bratislava were moved up a round as the cup winner spot was not used.

## 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 2010–11 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team.

### First and second round

| Home \ Away | DAC | BB | KOŠ | NIT | RUŽ | SEN | SLO | TRN | PRE | TRE | ZLM | ŽIL |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | 1–0 | | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 |
| Košice | 3–0 | 3–1 | | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 |
| Nitra | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–2 |
| Ružomberok | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–2 |
| Senica | 3–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 |
| Slovan Bratislava | 3–1 | 3–2 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–2 | | 2–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Spartak Trnava | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–0 | | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 |
| Prešov | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 |
| Trenčín | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 4–2 | 4–0 | | 3–1 | 3–3 |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | | 1–1 |
| Žilina | 2–0 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | |

### Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in 2010–11 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 | DAC | BB | KOŠ | NIT | RUŽ | SEN | SLO | TRN | PRE | TRE | ZLM | ŽIL |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | | 1–2 | 2–0 | | 0–1 | | 2–3 | | | | | 0–2 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | | | 0–0 | 1–1 | | | 1–1 | | | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 |
| Košice | | | | 1–2 | | 0–0 | | 0–1 | 0–0 | | 0–1 | |
| Nitra | 3–0 | | | | | 1–0 | | 0–2 | 0–1 | | 1–0 | |
| Ružomberok | | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | | | 0–0 | | | | | 0–1 |
| Senica | 5–1 | 0–0 | | | 2–0 | | | | 0–0 | 4–0 | | 1–1 |
| Slovan Bratislava | | | 1–1 | 2–1 | | 2–2 | | 0–0 | | 2–2 | 3–0 | |
| Spartak Trnava | 3–0 | 2–0 | | | 3–0 | 1–0 | | | 1–0 | 2–2 | | |
| Prešov | 4–0 | 2–2 | | | 1–1 | | 2–1 | | | | | 1–1 |
| Trenčín | 2–1 | | 1–1 | 5–2 | 2–1 | | | | 2–0 | | | |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 3–2 | | | | 3–5 | 1–3 | | 0–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | | |
| Žilina | | | 1–0 | 2–0 | | | 3–0 | 1–0 | | 2–2 | 1–0 | |

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Pavol Masaryk | Ružomberok | 18 |
| 2 | Juraj Halenár | Slovan Bratislava | 15 |
| 3 | Lester Peltier | Trenčín | 11 |
| 4 | Martin Jakubko | Dukla Banská Bystrica | 10 |
| 4 | Róbert Pich | Žilina | 10 |
| 6 | Tomáš Majtán | Žilina | 9 |
| 6 | Martin Vyskočil | Spartak Trnava | 9 |
| 8 | John Delarge | Dunajská Streda | 8 |
| 8 | David Depetris | Trenčín | 8 |
| 10 | Miroslav Barčík | Žilina | 6 |
| 10 | Filip Hlohovský | Trenčín | 6 |
| 10 | Martin Hruška | Zlaté Moravce | 6 |
| 10 | Erik Pačinda | Košice | 6 |
| 10 | Ladislav Tomaček | Spartak Trnava | 6 |

## Awards
### Top Eleven

* Goalkeeper: Petr Bolek (FK Senica)
* Defence: Mamadou Bagayoko (ŠK Slovan), Jozef Piaček (MŠK Žilina), Nicolas Ezequiel Gorosito (FK Senica), Ricardo Nunes (MŠK Žilina)
* Midfield: Miroslav Karhan (Spartak Trnava), Lester Peltier (AS Trenčín), Tomáš Kóňa (FK Senica), Marko Milinković (ŠK Slovan)
* Attack: Pavol Masaryk (MFK Ružomberok), Tomáš Majtán (MŠK Žilina)

### Individual awards

Manager of the season Stanislav Griga (FK Senica)
Player of the Year Miroslav Karhan (Spartak Trnava)
Young player of the Year Norbert Gyömbér (Dukla Banská Bystrica)