2025 Slovak Cup final

2025 Slovak Cup Final
DAC Aréna in Dunajská Streda held the final
Event2024–25 Slovak Cup
Date1 May 2025
VenueDAC Aréna, Dunajská Streda
RefereeMichal Smolák
Attendance9,437

The 2025 Slovak Cup final (known as the Slovnaft Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the final match of the 2024–25 Slovak Cup, the 56th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played on 1 May 2025. [1]

It was contested by MFK Ružomberok and FC Spartak Trnava. Both teams also previously met in the previous final. The match ended in a 0–1 victory for Spartak Trnava, which also means that Spartak Trnava won their 9th title. As winners, Spartak Trnava qualified for the first qualifying round of the 2025–26 UEFA Europa League.

Teams

In the following table, finals until 1993 were in the Czechoslovak era, since 1994 were in the Slovak era.

Team Previous final appearances (bold indicates winners)
Ružomberok 5 (2001, 2006, 2018, 2020, 2024)
Spartak Trnava 16 (1971, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Road to the final

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away; N: neutral venue).

Ružomberok (1) Round Spartak Trnava (1)
Opponent Result 2024–25 Slovak Cup Opponent Result
Bye Preliminary round Bye
Bye First round Bye
Dynamo Diviaky (5) 9–0 (A) Second round ŠK Blava Jaslovské (4) 2–0 (A)
FK Podkonice (3) 3–2 (A) Third round OK Častkovce (3) 7–1 (A)
TJ Kostolné Kračany (5) 0–3 (A) Fourth round MFK Bytča (4) 4–1 (A)
KFC Komárno (1) 2–0 (H) Round of 16 FK Železiarne Podbrezová (1) 1–1 (3–2 p) (A)
FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce (1) 2–1 (A) Quarter-finals MŠK Žilina (1) 2–0 (A)
MFK Dukla Banská Bystrica (1) 1–2 (A), 2–0 (H) (4–1 agg.) Semi-finals ŠK Slovan Bratislava (1) 2–1 (H), 1–2 (A) (3–3 agg.) (4–2 p)

Match

Details

Ružomberok0–1Spartak Trnava
Report[2] Daniel 31'
Attendance: 9,437
Referee: Michal Smolák


GK 33 Hugo Jan Bačkovský
RB 19 Martin Gomola  14'  46'
CB 16 Daniel Köstl
LB 32 Matúš Malý
RM 8 Kristóf Domonkos
CM 11 Samuel Lavrinčík
CM 6 Timotej Múdry  60'
LM 23 Matej Madleňák  82'
RW 14 Jan Hladík (c)  90+8'
CF 15 Štefan Gerec  46'
LW 20 Marián Chobot  72'
Substitutes:
GK 1 Dominik Ťapaj
DF 2 Alexander Mojžiš  46'
DF 3 Ján Maslo
MF 4 Oliver Luterán
MF 5 Rudolf Božík
MF 7 Filip Souček  60'
FW 9 David Huf  46'
MF 17 Adam Tučný  72'
FW 18 Martin Boďa  82'
Manager:
Ondřej Smetana
GK 1 Žiga Frelih  90+9'
RB 4 Libor Holík
CB 2 Lukáš Štetina
CB 21 Patrick Karhan
LB 3 Roko Jureškin
RM 6 Roman Procházka (c)
CM 80 Adrian Zeljković  90+1'
LM 14 Miloš Kratochvíl
RW 23 Erik Daniel  90+6'
CF 57 Michal Ďuriš  78'
LW 97 Kelvin Ofori  74'  78'
Substitutes:
GK 72 Martin Vantruba
FW 7 Róbert Pich
MF 8 Milan Corryn
FW 17 Jakub Paur  78'
MF 20 Filip Trello
MF 28 Martin Bukata  90+6'
MF 52 Erik Sabo  78'
DF 77 Kazeem Bolaji  90+1'
MF 88 Cedric Badolo
Manager:
Michal Gašparík


Assistant referees:
Dušan Štofik
Mário Roszbeck
Fourth official:
Marián Ruc
Video assistant referee:
Michal Očenáš
Assistant video assistant referee:
Ján Pozor

Match rules

See also

References

  1. ^ "SLOVNAFT CUP - Spoznali sme semifinálové dvojice. Obhajcu z Trnavy čaká Podbrezová, Lipany privítajú Ružomberok". www.futbalsfz.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2024-04-20.
  2. ^ "MFK Ružomberok - FC Spartak Trnava | Slovnaft Cup finals | SPORTNET". sportnet.sme.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 2025-05-02.