Season 2008–09 Dates 19 Jul 2008 – 30 May 2009 Relegated FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce Matches played 198 | Top goalscorer Pavol Masaryk (14) Location Slovakia Goals scored 516 | |
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Champions Slovan Bratislava
5th title Champions League Slovan Bratislava (Second qualifying round) Europa League MŠK Žilina (Second qualifying round)
Spartak Trnava (First qualifying round)
MFK Košice (third qualifying round) Biggest home win Slovan 6:0 Zlaté Moravce
Slovan 6:0 D.Streda People also search for 2007–08 Slovak Superliga | ||
The Slovak Superliga 2008–09 was the ninth season of the league since its establishment. It began on 19 July 2008 and ended on 30 May 2009. FC Artmedia Petržalka were the defending champions.
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Promotion and relegation
FK AS Trenčín were relegated after concluding the last season in 12th and last place. They were replaced by the champions of the Slovak First League 2007-08, 1. FC Tatran Prešov. Also DAC Dunajská Streda, who were Western Group champions of Slovak Second League 2007-08, merged with FC Senec and took their place in Superliga.
League table
Source: kicker.de (German)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1Košice won the Slovak Cup 2008–09 and qualified for the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Results
The schedule consists of three rounds. The pairings of the first round were set according to the 2007-08 final standings. Every team played each opponent once for a total of 11 games per team. The remaining two rounds consist of a conventional home and away round-robin schedule.
First round
Key numbers for pairing determination (number marks position in final standings 2007-08):
1st round 2nd round 3rd round 4th round 5th round 6th round 1 - 12 1 - 2 2 - 12 1 - 4 3 - 12 1 - 6 2 - 11 8 - 6 3 - 1 2 - 3 4 - 2 2 - 5 3 - 10 9 - 5 4 - 11 9 - 7 5 - 1 3 - 4 4 - 9 10 - 4 5 - 10 10 - 6 6 - 11 10 - 8 5 - 8 11 - 3 6 - 9 11 - 5 7 - 10 11 - 7 6 - 7 12 - 7 7 - 8 12 - 8 8 - 9 12 - 9 7th round 8th round 9th round 10th round 11th round 4 - 12 1 - 8 5 - 12 1 - 10 6 - 12 5 - 3 2 - 7 6 - 4 2 - 9 7 - 5 6 - 2 3 - 6 7 - 3 3 - 8 8 - 4 7 - 1 4 - 5 8 - 2 4 - 7 9 - 3 8 - 11 11 - 9 9 - 1 5 - 6 10 - 2 9 - 10 12 - 10 10 - 11 12 - 11 11 - 1Source: kicker.de (German)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Second and third round
Source: kicker.de (German)
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers
Source: Slovak FA (Slovak)