FC Lokomotíva Košice

FC Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak football club, playing in the town of Košice and will be compete in the 3rd tier of Slovak football, 3. Liga (Slovakia). The club was founded in 1946 and played for 29 years in the Czechoslovak First League.

The club also had several appearances in Europe playing the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1977-78 and the UEFA Cup 1978-79.

Club history
In 1951–1952 and 1977–1978 seasons, the club ranked 3rd in the Czechoslovak First League. In the 1977–1978 season the team also won the Czechoslovak Cup.

The last major success of the club until the present time was winning the Slovak Cup in the 1984–1985 season. Season 1985–1986 was the last for the club in the Czechoslovak First League. That season the team finished next to last, 15th place in the league and relegated to the 2nd division.

After the disintegration of Czechoslovakia, the club took part in the Corgoň Liga. In the 1993–1994 season took 8th place out of 12 participants. In the 1997–1998 season, finishing next to last, 15th place, relegated to the second league. In the 1999–2000 season in the second division championship club finished 17th place and relegated to the third division. In the 2003–2004 season was dropped to the 4th division.

They withdrew from the 2018-19 2. liga season due to financial problems

Club's name

 * 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Košice
 * 1946 - ŠK Železničiari Sparta Košice
 * 1949 - ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice
 * 1952 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
 * 1965 - TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice
 * 1967 - TJ Lokomotíva Košice
 * 1990 - FK Lokomotíva Košice
 * 1994 - FK Lokomotíva Energogas Košice
 * 1997 - FC Lokomotíva Košice
 * 1999 - FC Spoje Lokomotíva Košice
 * 2005 - FC Lokomotíva Košice

Stadium
Initially Lokomotíva played at Lokomotíva Stadium in the Čermeľ district for most of its history (until 1997). Now Lokomotíva plays in small village Družstevná pri Hornáde 16 km far from city center of Košice. As of 2021, Lokomotíva plays in Barca, municipal district of Košice.

Domestic
Czechoslovakia 🇸🇰 Slovakia
 * Czechoslovak First League (1925–93)
 * [[Image:Bronze medal icon.svg|15px]] Third place (2): 1951, 1977–78
 * Czechoslovak Cup (1961–1993)
 * [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (2): 1977, 1979
 * Slovak Cup (1961–)
 * [[Image:Gold medal icon.svg|15px]] Winners (3): 1977, 1979, 1985
 * [[Image:Silver medal icon.svg|15px]] Runners-up (2): 1961, 1992

Czechoslovak and Slovak Top Goalscorer
The Czechoslovak League top scorer from 1944–45 until 1992–93. Since the 1993–94 Slovak League Top scorer.


 * 1Shared award

League and domestic cup history
Slovak League only (1993-present)

Current squad
As of September 19, 2019.

Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries while playing for Lokomotiva.

Past (and present) players who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles can be found here.
 * Ján Polgár
 * Bohumil Andrejko
 * Pavol Biroš
 * Ivan Čabala
 * 🇸🇰 Matúš Čonka
 * 🇸🇰 Pavol Diňa
 * Gejza Farkaš
 * František Feczko
 * Anton Flešár
 * Milan Gigler
 * Miroslav Greskovics
 * Andrej Iľko
 * Július Holeš
 * Ladislav Józsa
 * 🇸🇰 Karol Kisel
 * Ján Kozák sr.
 * František Kunzo
 * Ján Luža
 * František Matys
 * Jozef Móder
 * 🇸🇰 Martin Obšitník
 * 🇸🇰 Erik Pačinda
 * Ladislav Putyera
 * Stanislav Seman
 * Adolf Scherer
 * Viliam Schrojf
 * 🇸🇰 Miroslav Sovič
 * Stanislav Strapek
 * 🇸🇰 Anton Šoltis
 * 🇸🇰 Peter Štyvar
 * 🇸🇰 Rudolf Urban
 * 🇸🇰 Blažej Vaščák
 * Rudolf Zibrínyi
 * Ľudovít Žitňár

Notable managers

 * Michal Baránek (1972)
 * Ladislav Kačáni (1972–1974)
 * Jozef Jankech (1975–1976)
 * Michal Baránek (1976–1978)
 * Jozef Jankech (1978–1980)
 * Jozef Jankech (1983–1985)
 * Michal Baránek (1985–1986)
 * 🇸🇰 Jaroslav Galko (2013–2014)
 * 🇸🇰 Dušan Ujhely (2014–2015)
 * 🇸🇰 Branislav Sokoli (2015–2016)
 * 🇸🇰 Albert Rusnák (2016–2018)
 * 🇸🇰 Ľuboš Benkovský (2018–2019)
 * 🇸🇰 Dušan Ujhely (2019–2020)
 * 🇸🇰 Milan Lalkovič (2020-)