BRATISLAVA. “What relegation? Who invented it? I believe it will be canceled. It’s not fair,” he woken two years ago for TV Hronka Vladimír Soták.
The head of FK Železiarne Podbrezová did not like the system that fought for a seat to Cup Europe.
He preferred all -season results over the only relegation match to decide on the fate of the club.
It was the important duel that did not work out at that time. Irones lost in the relegation with Ružomberok (0: 3).
Needed to play
This year he brought another pearl, not the only one. If Podbrezová wanted to play in the round of the conference league, she needed to lose in the last superstructure round with Trnava.
Spartak dominated the Slovak Cup, which won the seat in the preliminary rounds of the European League.
Trnava was in third place before the last round. If she lost to Podbrezová while Dunajská Streda conquered Žilina, no relegation would be played.
We would get to know three advancing teams to fight for the Cup Europe through the league competition (Slovan, Žilina, DAC) and one of the Cup competition (Trnava).
Podbrezová, however, lost in Trnava, which gave her the opportunity to fight from the sixth league place for the European seat.
In the playoffs about the conference league, the ironmakers first conquered Košice in the semifinals, but were not enough in the finals to Dunajská Streda.
Clubs have chosen a refund
However, the DAC later was excluded from the conference league’s preliminary. The reason was a violation of the rules on multiple ownership of clubs known under the abbreviation MCO (Multi-Club Ownership).
DAC has been in conflict of interest, as its owner Oszkár Világi also owns the Hungarian club ETO FC Győr. Both teams qualified for the same European competition.
In the picture the third from the left René Paraj (Podbrezová) scored a 1: 1 goal during the Niké League playoff final for the European Conference League (EKL) FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda – FK Železiarne Podbrezová. (Author: TASR)
The club from Žitný island appealed against this judgment. “I assume that UEFA will decide that the second team from Slovakia will be able to start the competition instead of the DAC,” Világi admitted to the quarter.
Recently, Slovak clubs chose a possible successor to Dunajská Streda in Cup Europe.
FC Košice.
“There were two options in the vote,” quotes the league side of the President of the Union of League Clubs Ivan Kozák.
We don’t belong to Europe, he said
“Voting for a club that ended in the last season the top, the fifth Košice, or vote for Podbrezová, the finalist of the playoffs for the conference league.
The team that Podbrezová overcame in the round of the conference league.
Head coach FC Košice Roman Skuhravý. (Author: TASR)
“In the finals I am glad we did not advance. I know what I say. We don’t belong there yet,” Roman Skuhravý said after dropping out with Podbrezová coach Košice.
He was and still believes that his team does not yet have enough quality for the cup Europe. “We just don’t belong there. Podbrezová is further than we do. Just that is the case,” said Skuhravý.
Dream of a small club from Podbrezová
On the contrary, the advance to the conference league preliminary is one of the goals or dreams of Podbrezová. “We were a short distance from our dream. Get a small club from Podbrezová to Europe,” said Štefan Markulík, a few days ago.
In Podbrezová these days waited for a verdict from ÚLK. They were taken aback by the fact that the management body of Slovak league football left the decision to the clubs.
“We are ready for all alternatives. We are waiting for how it will develop,” said club general manager Miroslav Poliaček.
The exclusion of the DAC outraged: “In the interest of anyone who works in Slovak football, it is to have as many participants in the European Cups as possible. So that we can benefit from it in the future as the Czech Republic is doing today.”
