MŠK Považská Bystrica

Full name	MŠK Považská Bystrica
Founded	1920; 104 years ago (1920) as ŠK
Ground	Štadión MŠK Považská Bystrica, Považská Bystrica
Capacity	1,400 (1,200 seats)
Head coach	Jaroslav Vágner
League	2. liga
2023–24	2. liga, 6th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

MŠK Považská Bystrica is a Slovak football team, based in the town of Považská Bystrica. The club was founded in 1920 as SK Považská Bystrica and played in the Czechoslovak First League four times, the last time being the 1989–90 season, but never in the Corgoň liga, the first Slovak championship.

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• 1920–1924: ŠK
• 1924–1926: Orol
• 1924–1926: ŠK
• 1933–1936: ŠK Munička
• 1936–1948 : AC Sparta
• 1948–1953 : Sokol Manet
• 1953–1966 : Spartak
• 1966–1968 : Sparta
• 1968–1990 : ZVL
• 1990–1997 : FK Sparta
• 1997–2013 : FK Raven
• 2013– : MŠK

The main club sponsor Raven company ended support of the football team in Považská Bystrica, even though the club was in first place in Majstrovstvá regiónu 2012/2013 (4th level) competition after the autumn season. So the club was dissolved due to financial crisis after losing its main sponsor.

Czechoslovakia

• 1.SNL (1st Slovak National football league) (1969–1993)
  • Winners (2): 1969–70, 1988–89
• Slovak Cup (1961–)
  • Runners-up (1): 1989

Slovak Republic (1939–45)

• Slovak League (1939–44)
  • Winners (1): 1938–39
  • Runners-up (1): 1939–40
  • Third place (2): 1941–41, 1942–43

As of 1 March 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  SVK Dušan Kucharčík 4 DF  SVK Marek Václav 5 DF  SVK Richard Pečarka 7 MF  SVK Šimon Kováč 8 FW  SVK Luboš Praženka (on loan from Trenčín) 9 FW  SVK Roland Gerebenits 10 FW  SVK Lukáš Slávik 11 MF  SVK Anton Sloboda 12 DF  SVK Matej Vaculík 13 DF  SVK Martin Slaninka

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  SVK Kristián Mihálek 15 MF  SVK Tomáš Krasňan 17 MF  SVK Roman Zemko 19 DF  SVK Slavomír Pagáč 20 MF  SVK Martin Matejčík 21 GK  SVK Marek Teplan (on loan from Žilina) 27 MF  SVK Mário Boris 37 FW  SVK Marek Zuziak 73 GK  SVK Radovan Hodál 77 FW  SVK Jakub Tancík

For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers summer 2024.

• Official website (in Slovak)
• MŠK Považská Bystrica on Facebook (in Slovak)
• Unofficial website (in Slovak)