Nikola Rybanská

Nikola Rybanská
Personal information
Date of birth (1995-02-03) 3 February 1995 (age 29)[1]
Place of birth Nadlice, Slovakia[2]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
OFI Crete W.F.C.
Number 20
Youth career
MFK Topvar Topoľčany
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2012 MFK Topvar Topoľčany
2012FK Union Nové Zámky (loan)
2012–2015 FK Union Nové Zámky 35 (25)
2015–2016 Slovan Teplice 14 (17)
2018–2020 GFC Topoľčany 29 (77)
2020–2021 AEL 7 (10)
2022– OFI 50 (49)
International career
2011–2013 Slovakia U19 6 (0)
2014– Slovakia 7 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 December 2024[4][5]
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 December 2024[3]

Nikola Rybanská (born 3 February 1995) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a forward for Greek A Division club OFI Crete and the Slovak national team. She also plays futsal for FSC Prievidza in the Slovak futsal Extraliga and is the captain for the Slovak national futsal team.[6][7]

Club career

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Football

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Rybanská began her career at MFK Topvar Topoľčany. On 22 March 2012, she was loaned to FK Union Nové Zámky with an option to buy. She was able to impress there in the next six months and moved permanently to Union Nové Zámky on 14 August 2012. In the 2012/2013 season, Rybanská won the championship for the first time with her club. She helped them win 3 league titles in a row as well as a Slovak Cup title. She made her Champions League debut on 8 August 2013 against Apollon.[8] She scored her first and only UWCL goal in 2014 against Glentoran.[9] In the second half of the 2014/15 season, she moved to Slovan Teplice and helped them reach 4th place in the league by scoring 7 goals in 5 matches. She started the first half of the following season by making 9 appearances and scoring 10 times, before taking a break from her football career to play futsal.

She returned in August 2018 to join Slovak second division club GFC Topoľčany. In 2018/19, they finished 2nd in their group and Rybanská was the top scorer of the league with 49 goals.[10] In the following season, they were sitting at the top of their group undefeated after 10 games, but the second half of the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[11]

On 18 August 2020, she moved to Greece to join Greek A Division club AEL.[12] She helped the club finish 3rd in the league as she scored 10 goals in 7 appearances. On 7 February 2022, she joined OFI.[13] She only playes 6 times in the 2021/22 season scoring 4 goals. In 2022/23, OFI finished 4th and Rybanská was the league's top scorer with 17 goals in 18 matches. She was also given the Best Foreign Player award.[14] In 2023/24, she improved on her performance by scoring 24 goals in 22 matches, finishing as the season's top scorer again, and by helping OFI reach 2nd place in the league. She was once again awarded Best Foreign Player in the PSAPP awards and made the season's Best 11.[15]

Futsal

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She was playing for the Union Nové Zámky futsal team until 29 February 2016 when she joined Győri ETO futsal club in Hungary.[4] In 2018, she returned to Slovakia to join CopyLeaders Prievidza where she plays until today. She was named Slovakia's Best Futsal Player for the 2021 season.[2]

Honours

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Club

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Topvar Topoľčany
Union Nové Zámky
OFI

Individual

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References

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  1. ^ "N. RYBANSKÁ". soccerway.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Najlepšia futsalistka Slovenska Rybanská: Najcennejšia trofej v mojej kariére". sport.aktuality.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. ^ "Nikola Rybanská". soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Nikola Rybanská". sportnet.sme.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  5. ^ "Nikola Rybanská". playmakerstats.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  6. ^ "FUTSAL – Ženy SR A odštartujú kvalifikačný turnaj o postup na MS 2025 duelom s domácim Švédskom". futsalsfz.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  7. ^ "FUTSAL – Ženská reprezentácia v príprave s dvomi prehrami proti Taliansku". futbalsfz.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Nikola Rybanská". soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Glentoran 5:2 Nové Zámky". soccerdonna.de. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  10. ^ "II. liga Ženy (2018/2019)". sportnet.sme.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  11. ^ "II. liga Ženy (2019/2020)". sportnet.sme.sk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Φορ "πολυβόλο" από την Σλοβακία στην Λάρισα". ginekio.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  13. ^ "Ποδόσφαιρο Γυναικών: Στον ΟΦΗ η Nikola Rybanská". kingsport.gr. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Οι βραβεύσεις της "42ης Γιορτής του ΠΣΑΠΠ" (vid)". psapp.gr. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  15. ^ "Σάρωσε στα βραβεία του ΠΣΑΠΠ η Νικόλ Ριμπάνσκα! (video)". neakriti.gr. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
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