2008–09 Slovak Superliga

Slovak Superliga
Season 2008–09
Champions Slovan Bratislava
5th title
Relegated FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce
Champions League Slovan Bratislava (Second qualifying round)
Europa League MŠK Žilina (Second qualifying round)
Spartak Trnava (First qualifying round)
MFK Košice (third qualifying round)
Matches played 198
Goals scored 516 (2.61 per match)
Top goalscorer Slovakia Pavol Masaryk (14)
Biggest home win Slovan 6:0 Zlaté Moravce
Slovan 6:0 D.Streda
Biggest away win Z.Moravce 0:5 Petržalka
Highest scoring Košice 5:5 Prešov
Average attendance Decrease 3,009

The Slovak Superliga 2008–09 was the ninth season of the league since its establishment. It began on 19 July 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. FC Artmedia Petržalka were the defending champions.

Promotion and relegation

FK AS Trenčín were relegated after concluding the last season in 12th and last place. They were replaced by the champions of the Slovak First League 2007-08, 1. FC Tatran Prešov. Also DAC Dunajská Streda, who were Western Group champions of Slovak Second League 2007-08, merged with FC Senec and took their place in Superliga.

Overview

Team Stadium Capacity
ŠK Slovan Bratislava Tehelné pole 30,085
FC Spartak Trnava Štadión Antona Malatinského 18,448
FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda Mestský štadión - DAC Dunajská Streda 16,410
FC Tatran Prešov Tatran Štadión 14,000
MŠK Žilina Stadium Pod Dubňom 13,000
FC Nitra Štadión pod Zoborom 11,384
FK Dukla Banská Bystrica SNP Stadium 10,000
MFK Košice Štadión Lokomotívy v Čermeli 9,600
FC Artmedia Petržalka Štadión Petržalka 9,500
MFK Dubnica Mestský štadión 5,450
MFK Ružomberok Štadión MFK Ružomberok 4,817
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce Štadión FC ViOn 4,000

League table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Qualification or relegation
1 Slovan Bratislava (C) 33 21 7 5 69 25+44 70 2009–10 UEFA Champions League Second qualifying round
2 Žilina 33 18 8 7 56 26+30 62 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round
3 Spartak Trnava 33 15 10 8 45 38+7 55 2009–10 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
4 Košice 33 14 10 9 48 42+6 52 2009–10 UEFA Europa League Third qualifying round 1
5 Ružomberok 33 12 11 10 48 34+14 47
6 Artmedia Petržalka 33 12 11 10 50 38+12 47
7 Prešov 33 10 11 12 40 5010 41
8 ZTS Dubnica 33 10 7 16 43 496 37
9 DAC Dunajská Streda 33 9 9 15 32 5927 36
10 Dukla Banská Bystrica 33 9 8 16 30 399 35
11 Nitra 33 9 8 16 34 5319 35
12 Zlaté Moravce (R) 33 5 8 20 21 6342 23 Relegation to 2009-10 Slovak First League

Source: kicker.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Košice won the Slovak Cup 2008–09 and qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.

Results

The schedule consists of three rounds. The pairings of the first round were set according to the 2007-08 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team. The remaining two rounds consist of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule.

First round

Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in final standings 2007-08):

 1st round  2nd round  3rd round  4th round  5th round  6th 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  
 7th round  8th round  9th round 10th round 11th 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 ART BB DUBDACKOŠNITPRERUŽSLOTRNZLMŽIL
Artmedia Petržalka 11 00 23 10 11 02
Dukla Banská Bystrica 10 01 01 00 10
ZTS Dubnica 21 22 12 20 13
DAC Dunajská Streda 21 13 30 10 20
Košice 31 55 10 21 21 00
Nitra 12 12 21 21 10 15
Prešov 20 14 10 32 10
Ružomberok 20 10 22 30 11
Slovan Bratislava 41 00 21 20 20 41
Spartak Trnava 21 00 20 11 20 00
Zlaté Moravce 05 00 11 11 10
Žilina 31 50 51 11 10 30

Source: kicker.de (German)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second and third round

Home ╲ Away ART BB DUBDACKOŠNITPRERUŽSLOTRNZLMŽIL
Artmedia Petržalka 11 30 30 32 11 30 22 11 00 50 00
Dukla Banská Bystrica 01 30 00 00 21 21 02 23 12 21 11
ZTS Dubnica 00 20 30 31 41 00 11 01 01 11 20
DAC Dunajská Streda 04 13 10 21 10 21 32 04 14 12 00
Košice 12 00 21 11 00 11 21 00 21 20 30
Nitra 11 21 21 30 41 00 21 01 11 12 02
Prešov 10 21 23 21 12 11 22 12 00 21 10
Ružomberok 30 10 22 00 00 11 30 51 10 10 01
Slovan Bratislava 20 50 31 60 12 31 11 20 12 60 20
Spartak Trnava 42 20 02 11 21 31 03 04 11 31 11
Zlaté Moravce 03 15 20 11 22 10 11 03 03 01 02
Žilina 31 10 52 51 21 20 22 20 01 51 21

Source: kicker.de (German)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Source: Slovak FA (Slovak)

15 goals
12 goals
11 goals
10 goals
9 goals

See also

External links

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