FC LokomotÃva KoÅ¡ice
Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club based in Košice. It was founded in 1946 as ŠK Železničiari Košice and played until 1993, a total of 29 years in the highest Czechoslovak league.
Greatest success was in each case a third place in 1951 and 1978. 1977 and 1979 won Lokomotíva Košice the Czechoslovak Cup. In the Eternal table of Czechoslovak league Lokomotíva Košice occupies the eleventh place as the sixth best Slovakian club.
1998 rose from Lokomotíva Košice from the first Slovak League, the club was disbanded. It came to a new company, which also was at the end of 2003. One -time start-up but under the name FC Lokomotíva Košice was started in the 2006/07 season, the team plays in the fourth division 3 league.
Club history
In 1946 was founded in eastern Slovakia Košice of sports-loving railwaymen of ŠK Železničiari. That same year, the club merged with the ŠK Sparta, came so to players and the ability to jump right in and the county league. In 1947 the construction of a stadium Čermeli V, which was completed in 1959.
In 1949 there was a further merger, this time with Sokol Jednota Dynamo Košice. This club was founded in 1943 as ŠK Jednota Košice and played since 1945 in the 1st Czechoslovak league where he did not make it past a placement in midfield. One result of the merger was the new name ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice. 1951 escaped the team winning the league title only on goal difference compared to the same number of points Sokol NV Bratislava and Sparta CKD Sokolovo.
1952 took the club to the name Lokomotíva which he has retained ever since. In the comprehensive only 13 games in 1953 season Lokomotíva Košice was last with only two wins and had to descend. The return to the first league was not until 1965. It came to a merger with TJ VSZ Kosice, the new name was now TJ Lokomotíva VSZ Kosice. The combination of these two clubs, however, was dissolved after only two years.
In the following seasons Lokomotíva occupied always have a place in the bottom third of the table, 1969/70 handed it to sixth place. In the 1973/74 season the team finished second last rank and had to leave for the second time the top flight after 1953. This time, however, succeeded to return immediately, and the next decade should be to the most successful period of the club.
1977 won Lokomotíva Košice first in the Slovak Cup and won the final of the Czechoslovak Cup 2-1 against Sklo Union Teplice. Performers of this team were the later national team and Olympic champion Stanislav Seman in goal, the midfielder Jozef Moder and Ján Kozák and striker Ladislav Josza.
In Europe Cup Winners' Cup 1977/78 they came through on away goals against the Swedish representative Östers IF further (0:0 and 2:2 ), but the same rule will cost the next round in the second round, in which one against Austria Vienna 0: 0 and 1:1 retired.
That the Cup victory was no fluke, but an exceptionally strong generation stood on the court, the players proved by a third in the series 1977/78, which Lokomotíva Košice qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1978/79. The first round opponent AC Milan won the first leg at the San Siro 1-0 in the return match in front of 30,000 spectators shot Ján Kozák the only goal. In the penalty shoot Lokomotíva defeated with 6:7.
1979 could Lokomotíva the cup win repeat as the team in the final Banik Ostrava defeated 2-1. For the third year in a row Lokomotíva took part in the European Cup. In the first round we sat down with 2:1 and 0:1 against the SSW Innsbruck by, in the second round you won the first leg against NK Rijeka 2-0, but was defeated 0-3 in Yugoslavia.
The next few years were marked by a slow slipping. Eighth place in 1980, fourth place in 1981, fifth place in 1982, tenth place in 1983, eighth place in 1984, tenth place in 1985 and finally 15th place in 1986 connected with the descent. 1985 had Lokomotíva can once again win the Slovak Cup, but the dream of another European Cup nights at Čermeľ finished the 2:3 defeat against Dukla Prague in the final of the Czechoslovak Cup.
1988 Lokomotíva even fell in the third division, but managed its chances of promotion. In September 1990, the football department sparked by the rest of the club and founded a club called FK Lokomotíva Košice. Handed a sixth place in the 2nd league in 1992/93 to qualify after the split of Czechoslovakia for the independent Slovak league. However, the success of the 1970 Lokomotíva was not able and increased in 1998 in the 2nd League from.
This meant the intermediate end for the two-time Cup winner. The men's team was transferred to Krompachy, some youth players went to the overall club TJ Lokomotíva, the remaining youth teams were summarized and a club called FK Lokomotíva PCSP Košice founded, which could also provide a men's team in the fifth division to his feet. After the 2003 season, the club disbanded. It came to a new company under the name FC Lokomotíva Košice, the club stabilized and plays 2006/ 07 in the fourth division 3 league.
A problem remains, however, that the real home of V Čermeli you can not use because of financial weakness, where the time of the first division side MFK Kosice newly established plays its home games. Lokomotíva Košice instead plays in the district Krasna nad Hornádom.
Achievements
Famous former players
- Ladislav Józsa
- Ján Kozák
- Jozef Moder
- Stanislav Seman
- Ludovit Pomaj