| Season | 2025–26 |
|---|---|
| Dates | Regular season: 26 July 2025 – 23 May 2026 |
| Matches | 120 |
| Goals | 350 (2.92 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Michal Faško (13) |
| Highest attendance | 17,011 Spartak Trnava 0-2 Slovan (18 Oct 2025)[1] |
2026–27 → All statistics correct as of 15 February 2026. | |
The2025–26 Slovak First Football League (known asNiké liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 33rd season of first-tier football league inSlovakia since its establishment in 1993.
Slovan Bratislava is the seven-time defending champion.
The league will consist of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from theprevious season, and one team promoted from the2. Liga.Tatran Prešov has been promoted to the top flight as champions of the2024–25 2. Liga after seven years absence, replacing the 2024–25 Slovak First Football League bottom-placed teamBanská Bystrica after three years in top flight.Slovan Bratislava will enter upcoming season as defending champions (for the seventh successive year).
| FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda | Tatran Prešov | FC Košice | FK Železiarne Podbrezová |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOL Aréna UEFA | Futbal Tatran Arena UEFA | Košická futbalová aréna UEFA | ZELPO Aréna UEFA |
| Capacity: 12,700 | Capacity: 6,500 | Capacity: 12,555 | Capacity: 4,000 |
| MFK Ružomberok | MFK Skalica | ŠK Slovan Bratislava | FC Spartak Trnava |
| Štadión pod Čebraťom | Štadión MFK Skalica | Tehelné pole UEFA | Štadión Antona Malatinského UEFA |
| Capacity: 4,876 | Capacity: 2,600 | Capacity: 22,500 | Capacity: 18,200 |
| AS Trenčín | MFK Zemplín Michalovce | KFC Komárno | MŠK Žilina |
| Štadión Sihoť UEFA | Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA | ViOn Aréna UEFA | Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA |
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 4,400 | Capacity: 4,008 | Capacity: 10,897 |
| Team | President | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAC Dunajská Streda | Macron | Kukkonia | |||
| Tatran Prešov | Adidas | Niké | |||
| Košice | Adidas | Niké | |||
| Podbrezová | Adidas | Niké | |||
| Ružomberok | Adidas | Niké | |||
| Skalica | Adidas | Tipsport | |||
| Slovan Bratislava | Adidas | Niké | |||
| Spartak Trnava | Puma | Tipsport | |||
| Trenčín | Macron | Tipsport | |||
| Zemplín Michalovce | Adidas | Tipsport | |||
| Komárno | Adidas | MOL | |||
| Žilina | Nike | Preto |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trenčín | End of contract | 10 June 2025[2] | Pre-season | 10 June 2026[3] | ||
| MŠK Žilina | Signed bySpartak Trnava | 6 June 2024[4] | 6 June 2026 | |||
| Spartak Trnava | Signed byGórnik Zabrze | 6 June 2025[5] | 6 June 2025 | |||
| Tatran Prešov | Sacked | 31 August 2025[6] | 10th | 3 September 2025[7] | ||
| FC Košice | 2 October 2025[8] | 12th | 8 October 2025[9] | |||
| FC Košice | 11 November 2025[10] | 12th | 11 November 2025[11] | |||
| Spartak Trnava | 18 November 2025[12] | 4th | 18 November 2025 | |||
| MFK Skalica | 30 November 2025[13] | 11th | 1 December 2025[14] | |||
| Spartak Trnava | End of interim spell | 5 January 2026 | 3rd | 5 January 2025[15] | ||
| Ružomberok | Sacked | 12 January 2026[16] | 7th | 13 January 2026[17] |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava(Q) | 20 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 41 | 28 | +13 | 42 | Qualification for thechampionship group |
| 2 | DAC Dunajská Streda(Q) | 20 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 36 | 18 | +18 | 39 | |
| 3 | Žilina(Q) | 20 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 43 | 25 | +18 | 38 | |
| 4 | Spartak Trnava(Q) | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 19 | +16 | 37 | |
| 5 | Podbrezová(Q) | 20 | 9 | 3 | 8 | 37 | 28 | +9 | 30 | |
| 6 | Zemplín Michalovce | 20 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 30 | 33 | −3 | 26 | |
| 7 | Ružomberok | 20 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 31 | −10 | 23 | Qualification for therelegation group |
| 8 | Trenčín | 20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 35 | −19 | 21 | |
| 9 | Košice | 20 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 31 | 40 | −9 | 20 | |
| 10 | Komárno(Q) | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 22 | 32 | −10 | 20 | |
| 11 | Tatran Prešov | 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 20 | |
| 12 | Skalica(Q) | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 31 | −13 | 16 |
Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 22 matches each.
| Home \ Away | DAC | KOM | KOŠ | POD | RUŽ | SKA | SLO | TRN | TAT | TRE | ZMI | ŽIL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAC Dunajská Streda | 1–1 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 21 FEB | 7 FEB | 3–1 | 0–0 | 4–1 | 1–1 | 1–2 | |
| Komárno | 14 FEB | 1–2 | 1–0 | 28 FEB | 1–0 | 2–3 | 1–4 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–3 | |
| Košice | 0–2 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 3–1 | 7 FEB | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 22 FEB | |
| Podbrezová | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 14 FEB | 2–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 28 FEB | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| Ružomberok | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 22 FEB | 1–1 | 7 FEB | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–3 | |
| Skalica | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 28 FEB | 14 FEB | 0–0 | |
| Slovan Bratislava | 3–2 | 3–2 | 3–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 28 FEB | 0–1 | 14 FEB | 3–2 | 3–2 | |
| Spartak Trnava | 0–3 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 21 FEB | 3–0 | 2–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 4–0 | 0–1 | 14 FEB | |
| Tatran Prešov | 0–0 | 21 FEB | 14 FEB | 2–2 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 0–1 | 0–4 | |
| Trenčín | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 7 FEB | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 21 FEB | 2–1 | |
| Zemplín Michalovce | 2–4 | 3–1 | 28 FEB | 0–4 | 4–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 8 FEB | 1–2 | 2–0 | 2–4 | |
| Žilina | 28 FEB | 8 FEB | 4–1 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 3–3 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slovan Bratislava | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 38 | 26 | +12 | 39 | Qualification for theChampions League first qualifying round |
| 2 | DAC Dunajská Streda | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 34 | 13 | +21 | 38 | Qualification for theConference League second qualifying round |
| 3 | Spartak Trnava | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 34 | 18 | +16 | 35 | Qualification for theConference League play-offs |
| 4 | Žilina | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 42 | 25 | +17 | 34 | |
| 5 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for theConference League play-offs |
| 2 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for therelegation play-offs |
| 6 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the2. Liga |
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Žilina | 13 | |
| 2 | Podbrezová | 11 | |
| 3 | Dunajská Streda | 9 | |
| 4 | Dunajská Streda | 8 | |
| Košice | |||
| 6 | Komárno | 7 | |
| Dunajská Streda | |||
| Michalovce | |||
| 9 | Prešov | 6 | |
| Trnava | |||
| Podbrezová | |||
| Michalovce | |||
| Slovan | |||
| Košice |
| Round | Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Slovan Bratislava | Košice | 3–2 (H) | 31 August 2025 | [19] | |
| 13 | Spartak Trnava | Trenčín | 4–0 (H) | 2 November 2025 | [20] | |
| 15 | MŠK Žilina | Trenčín | 4–1 (H) | 22 November 2025 | [21] | |
| 19 | Podbrezová | Trenčín | 4–0 (A) | 7 February 2026 | [22] |
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trnava | 8 | |
| 2 | Dunajská Streda | 7 | |
| 3 | Podbrezová | 6 | |
| 4 | Komárno | 5 | |
| Žilina | |||
| Prešov | |||
| Michalovce | |||
| Trenčín | |||
| 9 | Ružomberok | 4 | |
| 10 | Skalica | 3 |