FC Lokomotíva Košice is a Slovak

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 club, playing in the town of Košice

Košice

Košice is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary...

. The club was founded in 1946 and played for 29 years in the Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League

The Czechoslovak First League was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories...

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

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1977-78

The season 1977-78 of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by RSC Anderlecht in the final comfortably against FK Austria Wien. It was Anderlecht's third consecutive final, the best record in the competition, of which they won two.-Qualifying match:...

 and the UEFA Cup 1978-79.

Club history

In 1951-1952 and 1977-1978 seasons, the club ranked 3rd in the Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League

The Czechoslovak First League was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories...

. In the 1977-1978 season, the team also won the Cup in Czechoslovakia.

The last major success of the club until the present time winning the Slovak Cup in the 1984-1985 season. Season 1985-1986 was the last for the club in the Czechoslovak First League

Czechoslovak First League

The Czechoslovak First League was the premier football league in the Czechoslovakia from 1925 to 1993, with the exception of World War II. Czechoslovakia was occupied by German forces who formed Gauliga Sudetenland and Gauliga Böhmen und Mähren leagues on occupied territories...

. That season the team finished next to last, 15 th place in the league and was 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, down in the second league. In the 1999-2000 season in the second division club finished 17th place and left in the third division. In the 2003-2004 season dropped to the 4th division.

Currently, the team performs in the 3rd division.

Domestic

• Czechoslovak Cup
  Czechoslovak Cup
  The Czechoslovak Cup was a football cup competition held in Czechoslovakia. It was officially created in 1960 and folded in 1993 with the split between Czech Republic and Slovakia.The cup was played between the winners of Czech Cup and Slovak Cup...
  
  
  • Winners (2): 1977, 1979

• Slovak Cup
  Slovak Cup
  The Slovak Cup is the main knockout cup competition in Slovak football.The competition was first disputed in 1961. Until 1993, the winner of the Slovak Cup would face the winner of the Czech Cup in the Czechoslovak Cup final, the winner of which would be Czechoslovakia's representative in the Cup...
  
  
  • Winners (2): 1977, 1979, 1985

Club's name

• 1946 ŠK Železničiari Košice
• 1946 ŠK Železničiari Sparta Košice (Merge with ŠK Sparta Košice)
• 1949 ZSJ Dynamo ČSD Košice (Merge with Sokol Jednota Dynamo Košice)
• 1952 TJ Lokomotíva Košice
• 1965 TJ Lokomotíva VSŽ Košice (Merge with TJ VSŽ Košice)
• 1967 TJ Lokomotíva Košice (End of merge with TJ VSŽ Košice)
• 1990 FK Lokomotíva Košice (The football section became independent)
• 1994 FK Lokomotíva Energogas Košice
• 1999 FK Lokomotíva PČSP Košice
• 2003 FC Lokomotíva Košice

Current squad

As of 30 July 2011

Famous players

• Frantisek Feczko
• Anton Flešár
  Anton Flešár
  Anton Flešár is a retired Slovak football goalkeeper. Sometimes he even played as a striker at the Czechoslovak Cup campaign. His breakthrough came in Lokomotíva Košice where he spent most of his career...
  
  
• Ladislav Józsa
  Ladislav Józsa
  Ladislav Józsa was a former Slovak football striker. Born in Hungary, his family moved from Hungary to Sládkovičovo. He was known as free kick specialist for his hard shots. He became the Top scorer of the Czechoslovak First League three times, scoring 21 goals at 1972–73, 17 goals at 1973–74 and...
  
  
• Ján Kozák
  Ján Kozák (footballer born 1954)
  Ján Kozák is a former slovak footballer and later football manager.He participated in UEFA Euro 1980 and the 1982 FIFA World Cup. In 1981, he became footballer of the year in Czechoslovakia.-References:*...
  
  
• Jozef Móder
  Jozef Móder
  Jozef Móder is a former Slovak football midfielder and later coach. He is a member of the Czechoslovakia winning team at the UEFA Euro 1976...
  
  
• Stanislav Seman
  Stanislav Seman
  Stanislav Seman is a former football goalkeeper from Czechoslovakia. He was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Seman obtained a total number of fifteen caps for his native country, between 1980-04-30 and 1982-06-20.-References:*...
  
  
• Milan Gigler
• Peter Štyvar
  Peter Štyvar
  Peter Štyvar is a Slovak football striker who currently plays for FK Fotbal Třinec. He's had spells in England with Championship side Bristol City and in Greece with Skoda Xanthi.-Club career:...