UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2018/19 SEASON
MATCH PRESS KITS
Štadión Antona Malatinského -
Trnava
Thursday 25 October 2018
18.55CET (18.55 local time)
- FC Spartak Trnava
- GNK Dinamo Zagreb
Group D - Matchday 3
Last updated 15/03/2019 12:16CET
Previous meetings Match background
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Team facts Squad list
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- Fixtures and results
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Match-by-match lineups
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Match officials Legend
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
Previous meetings
Head to Head
No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams
FC Spartak Trnava - Record versus clubs from opponents' country
UEFA Intertoto Cup
- Date
- Stage Match
- Result
- Venue
- Goalscorers
FC Spartak Trnava - NK Slaven Koprivnica
2-2 agg: 2-2 ag
Kozuch 49, Ujlaky 58; Ferencina 16, Guc 30
- 24/07/2004
- R3
R3
Trnava
NK Slaven Koprivnica - FC Spartak Trnava
- 17/07/2004
- 0-0
- Koprivnica
GNK Dinamo Zagreb - Record versus clubs from opponents' country
UEFA Cup
- Date
- Stage Match
- Result
- Venue
- Goalscorers
Slovan Bratislava
1-1 agg: 4-1
- 28/09/2000
- R1
- Zagreb
- Mujčin 70; Sedlák 5
Mujčin 38, Cvitanović 61, Pilipovic 90
- 14/09/2000
- 0-3
- Bratislava
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
- Date
- Stage Match
- Result
- Venue
- Goalscorers
ŠK Slovan Bratislava - GNK
Dinamo Zagreb
0-0 agg: 0-3
- 01/10/1969
- R1
R1
Bratislava
GNK Dinamo Zagreb - ŠK
Slovan Bratislava
Miljkovic 2, Novak 51, Gucmirtl 58
- 17/09/1969
- 3-0
- Zagreb
- Home
- Away
- Final
- Total
Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA
- FC Spartak Trnava
- 1
2
01
11
00
12
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11
00
00
00
00
00
24
02
22
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27
2
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- GNK Dinamo Zagreb
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
Match background
The reigning champions of Slovakia and Croatia go head to head in Trnava on matchday three of UEFA Europa League Group D, with visitors Dinamo Zagreb flying high at the top of the section thanks to statement wins in their opening two games.
• Seeking a first ever qualification from a UEFA group stage, Dinamo added a 2-0 success at Anderlecht to a 4-1 victory on matchday one at home to Fenerbahçe. Spartak Trnava, meanwhile, lost 2-0 in Istanbul last time out after kicking off their group campaign with a memorable 1-0 home win against Belgium's record champions.
Previous meetings
• The clubs are meeting in UEFA competition for the first time. • Trnava have never lost to Croatian opposition – played two, drawn two – while Dinamo's four games against Slovan Bratislava – their only previous Slovakian opponents – have yielded two wins and two draws.
Form guide Trnava
• Trnava's long wait for a national league title ended after 45 years when they lifted the Superliga crown last season. It earned them a first crack at the UEFA Champions League, but after beating Zrinjski and Legia Warszawa in the opening two qualifying rounds, they fell to Crvena zvezda after extra time in the third. A UEFA Europa League play-off win over Olimpija Ljubljana (2-0 away, 1-1 home) carried them into the group stage.
• The victory against Olimpija made it third time lucky for Trnava after their two previous UEFA Europa League play-off ties – against Lokomotiv Moskva in 2011/12 and FC Zürich in 2014/15 – had both ended in defeat.
• Trnava's victory against Anderlecht ended a run of three home European fixtures without a win. Indeed it was the club's first home success in a match beyond the second qualifying round for nine matches (D4 L4) – a run stretching back seven years.
Dinamo
• Dinamo made amends for a rare trophy-less 2016/17 campaign by winning the Croatian league and cup double in 2017/18 – their third in four seasons. They also appeared to be heading for a third UEFA Champions League group stage in four seasons when they eliminated Hapoel Beer Sheva and Astana, then drew 1-1 in the first leg of their playoff away to Young Boys, but a 1-2 defeat in Zagreb sent them into the UEFA Europa League instead.
• Dinamo will be looking to progress beyond the group stage of this competition for the first time in five attempts. Indeed, they have yet to qualify from a group stage in any competition and have never stretched their European involvement into the spring while representing Croatia.
• Dinamo are unbeaten in their last six European fixtures outside Croatia (W2 D4), the win at Anderlecht finally bringing to an end a sorry run of 19 successive away defeats in group stage games across both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League that had lasted almost eight years.
Links and trivia
• Trnava's Erik Grendel and Dinamo's Damian Kądzior played together in the 2017/18 Polish Ekstraklasa with Górnik Zabrze.
• Dinamo's Izet Hajrović, who scored twice against Fenerbahçe and once against Anderlecht, is the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League's joint top marksman with three goals – level with Leverkusen's Kai Havertz and Salzburg's Munas Dabbur.
• Dinamo are one of two domestic double-winning teams in this season's UEFA Europa League group stage, Celtic being the other.
The coaches
• A member of the Czech Republic side that reached the final of EURO '96, Radoslav Látal won the UEFA Cup with Schalke a year later and went on to compete in a second UEFA European Championship in 2000. The right-sided midfielder ended his playing career with league and cup successes for Baník Ostrava, but was less successful there in a short stint as a coach, prompting spells in Slovakia, Poland and Belarus before he took over at newly-crowned Slovak champions Spartak Trnava in June 2018.
• A former Croatian international midfielder, capped nine times between 2001 and 2004, Nenad Bjelica played for Osijek in his homeland, winning the Croatian Cup in 1999, but spent most of his career abroad – in Spain, Germany and Austria. He began coaching while still playing for FC Kärnten and had spells in Italy with Spezia and Poland with Lech Poznań before being appointed Dinamo Zagreb boss in May 2018 – just days before the club completed a league and cup double.
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
Team facts
FC Spartak Trnava Formed: 1923
Nickname: Bíli andeli (The White Angels)
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• None
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 6 (2018) Czechoslovakian/Slovakian Cup: 5 (1998)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise)
2017/18: did not take part in UEFA club competition
2016/17: third qualifying round 2015/16: third qualifying round 2014/15: play-offs
2013/14: did not take part in UEFA club competition
2012/13: third qualifying round 2011/12: play-offs
2010/11: did not take part in UEFA club competition
2009/10: second qualifying round 2008/09: first qualifying round
Records UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win 7-1: Spartak Trnava v Reipas 27/11/68, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round second leg
• Biggest away win 1-9: Reipas v Spartak Trnava 20/11/68, European Champion Clubs' Cup second round first leg
• Heaviest home defeat 1-5: Spartak Trnava v Pobeda 22/06/03, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round first leg
• Heaviest away defeat 4-1: Debrecen v Spartak Trnava 27/06/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup first round second leg 3-0 five times, most recently v Grazer AK 16/09/99, UEFA Cup first round first leg
UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup
• Biggest home win 5-0: Spartak Trnava v Hibernians 10/07/14, UEFA Europa League first qualifying round second leg
• Biggest away win 0-3: Hibernians v Spartak Trnava 07/07/16, first qualifying round second leg
• Heaviest home defeat 0-3: Spartak Trnava v Steaua București 09/08/12, third qualifying round second leg
• Heaviest away defeat 3-0: Grazer AK v Spartak Trnava (see above)
GNK Dinamo Zagreb Formed: 1911 Nickname: Modri (Blues)
UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• None
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 29 (2018) Yugoslavian/Croatian Cup: 22 (2018)
Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2017/18: play-offs
2016/17: UEFA Champions League group stage 2015/16: UEFA Champions League group stage 2014/15: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2013/14: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs) 2012/13: UEFA Champions League group stage 2011/12: UEFA Champions League group stage 2010/11: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2009/10: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2008/09: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
Records UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win 6-0 twice, most recently v Zalaegerszeg 19/09/02, UEFA Cup first round first leg
• Biggest away win 0-5 three times, most recently v Fola Esch 16/07/13, UEFA Champions League second qualifying round first leg
• Heaviest home defeat
1-7: Dinamo v Lyon
08/12/11, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-0: Bayern München v Dinamo 29/09/15, UEFA Champions League group stage
UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup
• Biggest home win 6-0: Dinamo v Zalaegerszeg (see above)
• Biggest away win
0-5: Grasshoppers v Dinamo
30/09/97, first round second leg • Heaviest home defeat
1-5: Dinamo v Salzburg
06/11/14, group stage • Heaviest away defeat
4-0: Tottenham v Dinamo
06/11/08, group stage
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
Squad list
FC Spartak Trnava
Current season QUAL UEL League UEL
Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls
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- UCL
- UEFA
- No. Player
- Nat.
- DoB
Goalkeepers
1 Martin Chudý
31 Dobrivoj Rusov 40 Peter Urminský Defenders
SVK 23/04/1989 29 SVK 13/01/1993 25 SVK 24/05/1999 19
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15 Ivan Hladík 20 Matúš Čonka 21 Boris Godál 22 Martin Tóth 24 Matej Oravec 34 Lukáš Greššák Midfielders
SVK 02/02/1996 22 SVK 08/10/1993 25 SVK 30/01/1993 25 SVK 15/10/1990 28 SVK 27/05/1987 31 SVK 13/10/1986 32 SVK 30/03/1998 20 SVK 23/01/1989 29
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6 Jiří Kulhánek 7 Vakhtang Chanturishvili 8 Erik Grendel
17 Fabian Miesenboeck 18 Anton Sloboda 25 Jakub Rada 26 Patryk Małecki 28 Lukáš Lupták 33 Erik Jirka
CZE 08/03/1996 22 GEO 05/08/1993 25 SVK 13/10/1988 30 AUT 07/07/1993 25 SVK 10/07/1987 31 CZE 05/05/1987 31 POL 01/08/1988 30 SVK 28/07/1990 28 SVK 19/09/1997 21
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10 Ali Ghorbani 11 Kubilay Yilmaz 12 Filip Dangubić 16 Davit Skhirtladze 23 Marek Bakoš Coach
IRN 18/09/1990 28 AUT 09/07/1996 22 CRO 05/05/1995 23 GEO 16/03/1993 25 SVK 15/04/1983 35
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FC Spartak Trnava - GNK Dinamo Zagreb Match press kit
Thursday 25 October 2018 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time)
Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava
GNK Dinamo Zagreb
Current season
UCL UEL League UEL
Age D Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls Pld Gls
All-time
UEFA
- No. Player
- Nat.
- DoB
Goalkeepers
1 Danijel Zagorac
12 Dinko Horkaš 33 Roko Klemenčić 40 Dominik Livaković Defenders