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Slovan Bratislava
Head coach: Yaya Touré · 4-3-3
Rank
36th
Pts
0
P
2
Form
🔴 Very poor

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
2/10
Attack
1/10
Defence
1/10
Form
1/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:—

36th with 0 pts from 2 matches: 0 wins, 0 draws, 2 defeats.

1 goals scored, 9 conceded.

The declarations of the Slovak club coach two days from the Champions League match against the Giallorossi

Corriere dello Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

VfB Stuttgart has claimed its second victory in the Champions League at Slovan Bratislava and is heading for the knockout round.

Sportschau · 14 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The Stuttgart won with solvency for 0-3 at the house of the Slovan Bratislava, trained by the seafood Touré Yayá, thanks to the many of Denis Undav, Ermedin Demirovic and Sandro Cru z at their own door, further condemning the Slovak team to the last position on the table.

Mundo Deportivo · 14 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs VfB Stuttgart (H) · 0-3
Lvs Paris Saint-Germain FC (A) · 1-6
LL
1 scored / 9 conceded over 2 matches played
Rest: 4 days since the last match · 1 match played in the last 15 days
Home form
0W - 0D - 1L
Away form
0W - 0D - 1L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
0.5
Goals conceded per match
4.5
At home
0 scored · 3 conceded in 1 match
Away
1 scored · 6 conceded in 1 match
Over 2.5 goals
2 of 2
Both teams score
1 of 2
Clean sheets
0 of 2
Failed to score
1 of 2
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Slovan Bratislava play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
4-3-3
Philosophy
Attacking strengths
Defensive solidity
Pressing
Transitions
Strength
Weakness

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Slovan were unbeaten in ten matches, with five away wins including three in Europe, before the start of the league phase.
Coach / players / board relationship
Mood with the supporters
European ticket sales opened in three phases, the first reserved from 1 to 4 September for season-ticket holders registered before 29 August, the second open to all online with a maximum of four packages per account. Prices range from €48 in the standing section to €550 in hospitality, with every ticket having to be in the holder's name and checked at the stadium entrance. The trip to Dunajská Streda, classified as high-risk, illustrates the scrutiny surrounding Slovan supporters: online sales only, at €12, with full identity details and closing the previous evening. The mood is still carried by an unbeaten run and by the voting campaign launched for Tigran Barseghyan's goal of the month.
Pressure on the head coach
Yaya Touré's immediate success, managing his first team, is already feeding the idea that a big European club could come for him if the Champions League campaign goes well.
Club objectives
The first objective is to keep pace in the Niké liga before Europe, with a trip to Dunajská Streda on 5 September. In the cup, Slovan came through the second round by thrashing Nitra-Chrenová 8-0 and will travel to FC Nitra in the next round. In the Champions League, the club will host Stuttgart, Real Betis, Shakhtar and Inter at Tehelné pole. Yaya Touré is also using these fixtures to integrate youngsters from the reserves, three of whom made their debuts in the cup.
Recent internal tensions
Absences
No absence recorded in the editorial content.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Roma — Slovan Bratislava

AwayTuesday 20 October at 21:00Matchday 3
In 2 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says
Prediction
EstimateRoma — Slovan Bratislava
58 %
1 · Roma
18 %
X · draw
24 %
2 · Slovan Bratislava
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 2 matches played by Roma, 2 matches by Slovan Bratislava. Confidence: low
The calculation rests on only 2 matches per team. Shrinkage deliberately pulls the estimate close to a neutral split: it barely tells the two teams apart.
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 141 goals scored over 68 team-matches played (34 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 2.07 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Roma — attack4 in 2 matches0.960.99
    Roma — defence5 in 2 matches1.211.05
    Slovan Bratislava — attack1 in 2 matches0.240.81
    Slovan Bratislava — defence9 in 2 matches2.171.29
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.25 for Roma and 0.25 for Slovan Bratislava. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 2.47 goal scored on average by the host against 1.68 by the visitor, over the 34 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.47; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.36, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.15. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Roma at home: 0.00 pts/match versus 0.50 overall over 1 match → ×0.889
    Slovan Bratislava away: 0.00 pts/match versus 0.00 overall over 1 match → ×1.000
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λRoma = 2.07 × 0.99 × 1.29 × 1.15 × 0.889 = 2.72
    λSlovan Bratislava = 2.07 × 0.81 × 1.05 × 1.000 = 1.77
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 58.0%, draw 17.8%, away win 24.2% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 2-1 (only 7.4%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Squad not documented for this team yet.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Yaya Touré trains Slovan Bratislava and thinks of Rome: "Very positive opinion"
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss14 Oct 2026
K.O. round: VfB Stuttgart wins at Slovan Bratislava
Source: Sportschau
rss14 Oct 2026
0-3: The Stuttgart is still sweet and further sinking into the Slovan Bratislava
Source: Mundo Deportivo
rss14 Oct 2026
Listen Live: Slovan Bratislava v VfB Stuttgart - Champions League
Source: Sportschau
rss10 Sep 2026
PSG 6-1 Slovan Bratislava: "A 200 % Dembel" concedes Yaya Touré
Source: RMC Sport
rss9 Sep 2026
PSG: Luis Enrique's words after the carton facing Slovan Bratislava
Source: Foot Mercato
Result2 Sep 2026
Slovan thrashed TJ Slovan Nitra-Chrenová 8-0 in the second round of the Slovak Cup on 2 September, with a hat-trick from Marián Maroš (17, 24, 42), a brace from Lukáš Hofstädter (7, 35), a brace from Kianga (49, 50) and a goal from Ibrahim (11). The club will face FC Nitra away in the next round.
Source: ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Supporters2 Sep 2026
For the trip to Dunajská Streda, on Saturday 5 September at 20:30 on matchday 7 of the Niké liga, away tickets are on sale at €12 exclusively online: as the match is classified high-risk, every buyer must provide name, address and date of birth, and sales close on 4 September at 20:30, with no tickets available at the ground.
Source: ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Slovan have secured a one-year loan, with no purchase option, for defender Sahmkou Camara from Slavia Prague, the Czech club keeping a right of recall in the winter.
Source: iSport.cz
Club2 Sep 2026
A few hours before the UEFA registration deadline, set for midnight on 3 September, Slovan were still looking for one last addition: the Hugo Pávek and Ammar Ramadan pursuits collapsed over fees, while Ivan Schranz and Tomáš Suslov were still being mentioned and David Douděra chose MLS.
Source: Sportnet
Institutional1 Sep 2026
Slovan have put their Champions League packages on sale for their four home fixtures at Tehelné pole: Stuttgart on 14 October, Real Betis on 24 November, Shakhtar Donetsk on 9 December and Inter Milan on 27 January. Prices run from €48 for a standing place to €550 in hospitality, and packages from €171 to €1,980, a 10% saving on buying individually plus a further 20% discount for season-ticket holders.
Source: ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Club1 Sep 2026
The club has urged its supporters to vote for Tigran Barseghyan in the Niké liga goal of the month standings.
Source: ŠK Slovan Bratislava
Head coach27 Aug 2026
Yaya Touré has become the first African coach to qualify a team for the Champions League league phase, and did so in his first job in the dugout: Slovan were on a run of ten matches unbeaten, including five away wins.
Source: Sportnet
Club26 Aug 2026
Slovan Bratislava qualified for the Champions League league phase by beating NK Celje after extra time (2-1 win, 3-2 on aggregate).
Source: Flashscore.com
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.