FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda

FC DAC 1904 is a Slovak professional football club based in Dunajská Streda.

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 1979 to 1980 season, the team won their division and was promoted to the Slovak National League (SNL 1 – second level).

8,136 patrons attended a home game where the team beat Petržalka three points to zero.

Ladislav Tóth [cs] scored twenty-two points becoming the highest goal scorer of the League for that season.

Ladislav Tóth again scored twenty-two points and won the golden shoe.

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.

In the UEFA Cup, DAC played Casino Salzburg who defeat them twice with a score zero to two in the first round.

A series of five coaches (Ladislav Kuna, Peter Fieber, Anton Grajcár, Štefan Zaťko, and Tibor Mičinec) allowed the team twelfth place in their competition.

The coaches were Tibor Meszlényi, Peter Fieber and assistant Július Šimon.

DAC supporters maintain friendly relations with fans of the Hungarian Ferencváros Budapest.

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.

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 German Bundesliga (András Schäfer to Union Berlin in 2022), Czech First League (Tibor Jančula to Žižkov in 1993, Léonard Kweuke to Sparta in 2010, Dzon Delarge to Liberec in 2012, Erik Pačinda to Plzeň in 2019), Danish Superliga (Pavol Šafranko to Aalborg in 2017, Marko Divković to Brøndby IF in 2022), Austrian Bundesliga (Ján Novota to Rapid Wien in 2011), Polish Ekstraklasa (Tomáš Huk (2019) and Kristopher Vida (2020) to Piast Gliwice, Ľubomír Šatka to Lech Poznań in 2019), American Major League Soccer (Matej Oravec to Philadelphia Union in 2020), Scottish Premiership (Vakoun Issouf Bayo to Celtic F.C.

The top transfer was agreed in 2023 when forward Nikola Krstović joined Italian US Lecce for a fee of €4.5 million.

Slovak League only (1993–present) 1 Deducted six points at the end of the season due to match-fixing.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Slovak League Top scorer since 1993–94 Had international caps for their respective countries.

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DAC fans in match against AS Trenčín , on 19 November 2016