A member of the Hungarian minority in Slovakia,[1] Novota made his national team debut against Montenegro on 23 May 2014 (2–0 win), playing the second half of the friendly fixture.

[2] Later he was fielded in 3 additional friendly games against Iceland, Georgia and Austria, which was his last international cap on 15 November 2016.

Novota was forced to retire from professional football on 5 February 2018 after suffering from aortic aneurysm, which caused his aorta to reach some 1.3 times the normal.

In 2021, Slovak journalist of Hungarian ethnicity Titanilla Bőd published a biography of Novota titled by his surname.

[5] In March 2023, ahead of the first two UEFA Euro 2024 qualifiers, it was announced that Novota will replace Kozáčik as the goalkeeping coach of the national team permanently.