FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda


FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda is a Slovak football team, based in Dunajská Streda. In the 2007 to 2008 season, the team were the west group champions of the Slovak Third League. In the 2008 to 2009 season, after merging with FC Senec, the team entered the Corgoň Liga. The club is strongly supported by the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.

History

The first organized sports club in Dunajská Streda, the Dunaszerdahelyi Atlétikai Club, was founded in 1904. At the time, football was a popular sport. The club survived both world wars and continued to 1953 when the team won the Bratislava district one A grade premiership. In 1968 and 1969, the team advanced in the Western Division of the third league before returning to the regional competition. In the 1977 to 1978 season, the team again entered the third league coming sixth. In the 1978 to 1979 competition, the team came seventh. In the 1979 to 1980 season, the team won their division and was promoted to the Slovak National League. DAC finally promoted to Czechoslovak First League in 1984–85 season. DAC was 3rd at this league in 1987–88 season and 4th in 1990–91 and 1992–93 seasons. They finished Slovak Superliga as 3rd in 1993–94 season. But, their form was lowered after this season and relegated to second level in 1997–98 season. They immediately returned to top level but relegated again in 1999–00 season. They relegated to 3rd level in 2006–07 season. They immediately returned to 2nd level but relegated again in 2008–09 season. They made successively two promotions and returned to top level in 2013. Since 2013, DAC has been affiliated with ŠK Senec. In 1987, DAC were the Slovak Cup and Czechoslovak Cup winners.

Previous names

In the 1980–81 season, the team came eleventh. In the 1981–82 season, 26,089 attended games. The team won 15 games, lost 11 games and drew in 4 games. In the 1982–83 season, the team's star player Juraj Szikora could not participate in the competition. The team came second, four points behind the premier team, Banská Bystrica. In the 1983–84 season, the team came second, four points behind Petržalka. 8,136 patrons attended a home game where the team beat Petržalka three points to zero. :cs:Ladislav Tóth |Ladislav Tóth scored twenty-two points becoming the highest goal scorer of the League for that season. In the 1984–85 season, Karol Pecze coached the team. 10,000 patrons attended the last home gain against Nitra. Ladislav Tóth again scored twenty-two points and won the golden shoe. In the 1985–86 season, the team made its debut in the Czechoslovak First League. The team reaches the quarter-finals and comes eleventh. In the 1986–87 season, the team came fourth in the Slovak League. They won both the Slovak and the Czechoslovak cups. In the 1987 to 1988 season, the team entered the European Cup. In the preliminary round, DAC had two wins against AEL Limassol,1–0 and 5–1. The team's campaign ended in the first round with a defeat to Young Boys Bern. In the Slovak national league, the team came third. In the 1988–89 season, the team had a 6–0 victory over Östers of Sweden in the first round of the UEFA Cup. In the second round, the team played Bayern Munich. 15,572 patrons attended that game. The team came sixth in the Slovak league. In the 1989–90 season, Anton Dragúň led the team to fourteenth place.

1990s

In the 1990–91 season, Juraj Szikora coached the team and they came fourth. In the 1991–92 season, the team won the Intertoto Cup in group eight. After twelve days, Szikora was replaced by Vladimír Hrivnák. The team came ninth. In the 1992–93 season, the last year of the Slovak national league, the team was coached by Dušan Radolský. In the 1993–94 season, the first year of the Slovak League, the team, coached by Ladislav Škorpil scores 62 times and comes third. Pavol Diňa is the top scorer with 19 goals. In the UEFA Cup, DAC played Casino Salzburg who defeat them twice with a score zero to two in the first round. In the 1994–95 season, with coach Jozef Valovič, the team comes fourth. In the 1995–96 season, four coaches: Jozef Valovič, Anton Grajcár, Juraj Szikora, and Jozef Adamec, led the team to tenth place from a field of twelve. In the 1996–97 season, the team, coached by Jozef Adamec came fourteenth out of sixteen. In the 1997–98 season, after thirteen years, DAC fell from the Slovak League. Ladislav Škorpil and Dušan Liba coached the team which won five games of thirty and came last out of sixteen teams. In the 1998–99 season, Vladimír Rusnák coached the team and they won the second league. In the 1990–00 season, the first league was reorganized. DAC cam fourteenth in the first league and was relegated to the second league again. The coaches in this season were Viliam Ilko, Anton Grajcár, and Ladislav Kuna.

2000s

In the 2000–01 season, DAC was coached by Ladislav Kuna and came fifth in the second league. In 2001–02, the coach, Ladislav Hudec, was replaced after nine rounds by Juraj Szikora. The team came ninth in the second league. In the 2002–03 season, Tibor Szaban coached the team. After half the rounds, the team was three points from dropping to a lower league. Szaban was then replaced by Milan Albrecht. DAC won the next ten games and came eighth. In 2003–04, Juraj Szikora and Dušan Liba were the coaches. The team won nine of fifteen games. At this point, the team was engaged by Iranian sponsors. Robert Pflug became the coach and the team won thirty points. The 2004–05 season begins with Štefan Horný. After fifteen rounds he is replaced by Peter Fieber who was once a player in the team. DAC came eighth. The best game was against Slovan in front of 2,890 fans where DAC won two points to zero. In 2005–06, the Slovak League was again reorganized and DAC dropped from the second league. A series of five coaches allowed the team twelfth place in their competition. In the 2006–07 season, the first Slovak League was renamed the Corgoň Liga and the second league became the first league in which DAC played the season. Milan Albrecht coaches for rounds one to six and then is replaced by Robert Pflug. In 2007–08, DAC won the second league competition but this was not a nationwide competition. The coaches were Tibor Meszlényi, Peter Fieber and assistant Július Šimon.

Supporters and Rivalries

DAC supporters are called YBS, biggest rivals are Slovan Bratislava and Spartak Trnava. DAC supporters maintain friendly relations with fans of the Hungarian Ferencváros Budapest. The YBS usually display a banner stating “Dunaszerdahely”, the Hungarian name of Dunajská Streda, in the home end and chant in Hungarian, including the Hungarian anthem Himnusz or the popular song Nélküled, which is usually sung by performers before kick off. The Hungarian Tricolour is also usually displayed on the stands of MOL Aréna by the fans.
The preferred use of the Hungarian language from fans and club officials, however, has caused debate in the Slovak society.
Slovak National Party MP and former football international Dušan Tittel had stated in a Parliament session: "Going to Dunajská Streda to watch a football game when 9,000 sing the Hungarian anthem, I don't think you'd like it", promoting a bill to make an offense the singing of foreign national anthems. DAC President Oszkár Világi and the club's spokesmen Krisztián Nagy had declared that the club will continue to support the fans and such customs, even in defiance of fines.

Affiliated club

The following club is affiliated with DAC:

Domestic

Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Top scorer since 1993–94

Transfers

DAC have produced numerous players who have gone on to represent the Slovak national football team. Over the last periods there has been a steady increase of young players leaving Dunajská Streda after a few years of first team football and moving on to play football in leagues of a higher standard, with the Czech First League, Danish Superliga, Austrian Bundesliga, Polish Ekstraklasa and Kristopher Vida, American Major League Soccer. The top transfer was agreed in 2019 when Ivorian forward Vakoun Issouf Bayo joined Scottish giant Celtic F.C. for a fee of €2.2 million.

Record departures

*-unofficial fee

Sponsorship

PeriodKit manufacturerShirt sponsor
????–83nonenone
1983–85noneDAC
1985–91Adidasnone
1991–92AdidasSPECTRUM
1992–93Adidasnone
1993–94AdidasSaturn
1994–95PumaSulák
1995–96Adidas:sk:Pivovar Gemer|gemer
1996–97AdidasDAC
1997–98Adidasnone
1998–99AdidasKabát
1999–06NIKEnone
2006–07ErreàTHERMAL PARK
2007–08hummelMy City DUBAI
2008–10AdidasAbu Dhabi
2010–11AdidasRegin
2011–12AdidasNEGIN
2012–14Adidasnone
2014–2017AdidasKukkonia
2017–macronKukkonia

Club partners

source
  • Kukkonia
  • MOL
  • ENARGO
  • :sk:St. Nicolaus|St. Nicolaus
  • Tatra Billing
  • OTP Bank
  • FCC Environment
  • SAM
  • Strabag

    Average attendance of patrons per game by season

Results

League and Cup history

Slovak League only
1 Deducted six points at the end of the season due to match-fixing.

European competition history

UEFA-administered

Not UEFA-administered

Current squad

As of 1 July 2020.
For recent transfers, see List of Slovak football transfers winter 2019–20 and List of Slovak football transfers summer 2019.

Retired numbers

12 – The 12th man

Out on loan

Other players under contract

Staff

Technical staff

Source:

Management

Player records

Most goals

Players whose name is listed in bold are still active.

Notable players

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

Former head coaches

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