VSS Košice
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| Full name | Football Club VSS Košice |
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| Nickname(s) |
žlto-modrí (yellow-blue) VSS |
| Founded | 1952 as Spartak VSS Košice |
| Ground |
Lokomotíva Stadium, Košice |
| Capacity | 9,000 |
| Chairman | Blažej Podolák |
| Manager |
 Jozef Majoroš
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| League | Fortuna Liga |
| 2016–17 | DOXXbet liga, 1st (promoted) |
| Website | Club home page |
FC VSS Košice is a Slovak football club based in Košice, currently playing in second division.
The club, founded in 1952, has won the Slovak League twice, the Slovak Cup five times and the Czechoslovak Cup once. The most successful eras of the club were in the 1970s and 1990s, which they spent mostly in the top tier of Czechoslovak and Slovak Football. Two of the UEFA Euro 1976 champions, namely Dušan Galis and Jaroslav Pollák, played for Košice.
The first club in the city was founded in 1903 as Kassai AC; Slovak: Košický Atletický Klub; Hungarian: Kassai Atlétikai Club. The club's colours were blue and yellow. In the 1910s, the club competed in the Hungarian championship. In 1909 Kassai AC won this Championship. Later they played in eastern group in Slovak-Subcarpathian division between 1935–38. In 1939–40 the club played Hungarian League I. Among the most successful Kassai AC players were Szaniszló, Šiňovský, the Drotár brothers, Klein, Lebenský, Dráb, and Pásztor. For many years, the club was based at the stadium on Sokoljevova Street with a capacity of 16,000 spectators. The stadium was often full. After the end of World War II the city's three clubs Kassai AC, Kassai Törekvés and ČsŠK were merged into one club named Jednota Košice. Jednota began playing in the Czechoslovak League in 1945. In the first season, they ended the league as fourth in Group B. It was a nice success at the time.
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