# 2010–11 Slovak Superliga

The 2010–11 season of the Slovak Superliga (also known as Corgoň Liga due to sponsorship reasons) was the eighteenth season of the first-tier football league in Slovakia, since its establishment in 1993. It began on 17 July 2010 and was completed on 25 May 2011. MŠK Žilina were the defending champions, having won their fifth Slovak league championship the previous season.

## Teams

Petržalka were relegated after finishing the 2009–10 season in 12th and last place. They were replaced by 2009–10 1. Liga champions ViOn Zlaté Moravce.
| Team | Location | Stadium | Capacity |
| DAC 1904 | Dunajská Streda | Mestský štadión – DAC Dunajská Streda | 16,410 |
| MFK Dubnica | Dubnica | Mestský štadión | 5,450 |
| Dukla | Banská Bystrica | SNP Stadium | 10,000 |
| MFK Košice | Košice | Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli | 9,600 |
| 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 | Pasienky | 12,000 |
| Spartak | Trnava | Štadión Antona Malatinského | 18,448 |
| Tatran | Prešov | Tatran Štadión | 14,000 |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | Zlaté Moravce | Štadión FC ViOn | 4,000 |
| MŠK Žilina | Žilina | Stadium pod Dubňom | 13,000 |

### 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 |
| DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda | Mikuláš Radványi | Jaroslav Hílek | Adidas | Regin |
| MFK Dubnica | Peter Gergely | Pavel Kováč | Joma | - |
| FK Dukla Banská Bystrica | Karol Marko | Viktor Pečovský | Adidas | Dôvera |
| MFK Košice | Žarko Djurović | Peter Šinglár | Umbro | Steel Trans |
| FC Nitra | Ivan Galád | Róbert Rák | Jako | Bonul Security, El Comp, Špeciál Izotex |
| MFK Ružomberok | Ladislav Jurkemik | Tomáš Ďubek | Umbro | Maestro |
| FK Senica | Stanislav Griga | Ján Gajdošík | Hummel | 101 Drogerie |
| ŠK Slovan Bratislava | Jozef Jankech | Radek Dosoudil | Adidas | Grafobal |
| FC Spartak Trnava | Dušan Radolský | Martin Raška | Givova | Danube Wings |
| 1. FC Tatran Prešov | Roman Pivarník | David Čep | Adidas | - |
| FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce | Juraj Jarábek | Peter Kuračka | Legea | ViOn |
| MŠK Žilina | Pavel Hapal | Róbert Jež | Nike | Lambi |

### Managerial changes

| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
| Tatran Prešov | Roman Pivarník | Sacked | 22 August 2010 | Pre-season | Ladislav Pecko | 23 August 2010 |
| MFK Košice | Žarko Djurović | Mutual agreement | 28 September 2010 | Pre-season | Štefan Tarkovič | 28 September 2010 |
| MFK Ružomberok | Ladislav Jurkemik | Mutual agreement | 10 October 2010 | Pre-season | Goran Milojević | 11 October 2010 |
| Slovan Bratislava | Jozef Jankech | Mutual agreement | 13 October 2010 | Pre-season | Karel Jarolím | 13 October 2010 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | Karol Marko | Mutual agreement | 30 October 2010 | Pre-season | Štefan Zaťko | 8 November 2010 |
| FC Nitra | Ivan Galád | Sacked | 24 November 2010 | Pre-season | Ivan Vrabec | 21 December 2010 |
| FC Nitra | Ivan Vrabec | Sacked | 13 March 2011 | Pre-season | Cyril Stachura | 14 March 2011 |
| Spartak Trnava | Dušan Radolský | Sacked | 19 March 2011 | Pre-season | Peter Zelenský | 22 March 2011 |
| MFK Ružomberok | Goran Milojević | Mutual agreement | 25 March 2011 | Pre-season | Ladislav Jurkemik | 25 March 2011 |

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava (C) | 33 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 63 | 22 | +41 | 68 | Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round |
| 2 | Senica | 33 | 18 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 30 | +24 | 61 | Qualification for Europa League third qualifying round |
| 3 | Žilina | 33 | 14 | 12 | 7 | 47 | 28 | +19 | 54 | Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round |
| 4 | Spartak Trnava | 33 | 13 | 10 | 10 | 40 | 30 | +10 | 49 | Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round |
| 5 | Dukla Banská Bystrica | 33 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 39 | 32 | +7 | 48 | |
| 6 | ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 33 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 35 | 31 | +4 | 46 | |
| 7 | Ružomberok | 33 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 23 | 33 | −10 | 41 | |
| 8 | Nitra | 33 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 30 | 51 | −21 | 40 | |
| 9 | DAC Dunajská Streda | 33 | 9 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 39 | −15 | 36 | |
| 10 | Košice | 33 | 8 | 9 | 16 | 28 | 44 | −16 | 33 | |
| 11 | Tatran Prešov | 33 | 9 | 6 | 18 | 30 | 49 | −19 | 33 | |
| 12 | Dubnica (R) | 33 | 7 | 10 | 16 | 23 | 47 | −24 | 31 | Relegation to 2. liga |
* 1 2 3 Slovan Bratislava, winners of the 2010–11 Slovak Cup, qualified for the Champions League. Since cup runners-up MŠK Žilina are also already assured of a top-four finish, the distribution of all three Europa League spots (both regular spots plus the cup winners' spot) effectively reverted to league placement.

## 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 2009–10 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team.

### First and second round

| Home \ Away | DAC | DUB | BB | KOŠ | NIT | RUŽ | SEN | SLO | TRN | PRE | ZLM | ŽIL |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Dubnica | 2–1 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–5 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 |
| Košice | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | | 3–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 |
| Nitra | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | | 1–2 | 0–5 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 |
| Ružomberok | 2–0 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 |
| Senica | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 4–0 | | 3–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 |
| Slovan Bratislava | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | | 1–1 | 4–0 | 3–0 | 0–1 |
| Spartak Trnava | 1–1 | 4–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 1–3 | | 1–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Prešov | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 2–0 |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 1–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | | 0–4 |
| Žilina | 0–0 | 0–0 | 3–3 | 2–0 | 5–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | |

### Third round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in 2009–10 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 | DUB | BB | KOŠ | NIT | RUŽ | SEN | SLO | TRN | PRE | ZLM | ŽIL |
| DAC Dunajská Streda | | | | 0–0 | 1–2 | | 0–3 | 0–3 | | 2–1 | | |
| Dubnica | 0–1 | | 2–0 | | | 0–0 | | | 1–0 | | | 1–0 |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | 2–0 | | | | 0–1 | | 3–2 | | | 3–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| Košice | | 1–1 | 2–1 | | | 0–2 | | | 1–3 | | | 1–0 |
| Nitra | | 1–1 | | 1–0 | | 0–2 | | 0–1 | 3–2 | | 0–0 | |
| Ružomberok | 1–0 | | 0–0 | | | | 3–2 | | | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 |
| Senica | | 0–0 | | 1–1 | 3–2 | | | 1–2 | 4–0 | | 2–0 | |
| Slovan Bratislava | | 3–1 | 3–1 | 4–0 | | 1–0 | | | 3–0 | | 1–0 | |
| Spartak Trnava | 3–0 | | 0–2 | | | 0–0 | | | | 2–1 | | 1–0 |
| Prešov | | 2–1 | | 0–3 | 3–3 | | 0–1 | 0–2 | | | | |
| ViOn Zlaté Moravce | 3–0 | 2–1 | | 1–0 | | | | | 1–0 | 2–3 | | |
| Žilina | 0–0 | | | | 2–0 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | | 2–1 | 1–0 | |
* ↑ The match was awarded to Slovan by a score of 3–0 after the assistant referee was attacked by Žilina supporter.

## Top goalscorers

Updated through matches played on 25 May 2011
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Filip Šebo | Slovan Bratislava | 22 |
| 2 | Ondřej Smetana | FK Senica | 18 |
| 3 | Tomáš Majtán | MŠK Žilina | 11 |
| 3 | Tomáš Oravec | MŠK Žilina | 11 |
| 5 | Koro Issa Koné | Spartak Trnava | 10 |
| 5 | Jaroslav Diviš | FK Senica | 10 |
| 7 | Róbert Rák | FC Nitra | 9 |
| 8 | Marko Milinković | MFK Košice/Slovan Bratislava | 8 |
| 8 | Róbert Pich | Dukla Banská Bystrica/MŠK Žilina | 8 |
| 10 | Ľubomír Bernáth | Spartak Trnava | 7 |
| 10 | Juraj Piroska | FK Senica | 7 |

## Awards
### Top Eleven

* Goalkeeper: Petr Bolek (FK Senica)
* Defence: Lukáš Pauschek (ŠK Slovan), Martin Dobrotka (ŠK Slovan), Mário Pečalka (MŠK Žilina), Filip Lukšík (FK Senica)
* Midfield: Karim Guédé (ŠK Slovan), Marko Milinković (MFK Košice, ŠK Slovan) Róbert Jež (MŠK Žilina), Igor Žofčák (ŠK Slovan),
* Attack: Filip Šebo (ŠK Slovan), Ondřej Smetana (FK Senica)

### Individual awards

Manager of the season Stanislav Griga (FK Senica)
Player of the Year Filip Šebo (ŠK Slovan)
Young player of the Year Lukáš Pauschek (ŠK Slovan)