| Competition: | Niké liga |
| Season: | 2023–24 |
| Dates: | Regular season: 28 July 2023 – 18 May 2024 |
| Winners: | Slovan Bratislava (22nd title) |
| Relegated: | Zlaté Moravce |
| Continentalcup1: | Champions League |
| Continentalcup1 Qualifiers: | Slovan Bratislava |
| Continentalcup2: | Europa League |
| Continentalcup2 Qualifiers: | Ružomberok |
| Continentalcup3: | Conference League |
| Continentalcup3 Qualifiers: | DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda Spartak Trnava |
| Matches: | 126 |
| Total Goals: | 356 |
| League Topscorer: | Róbert Polievka (13) Tigran Barseghyan (13) |
| Highest Scoring: | |
| Highest Attendance: | 12,528 |
| Lowest Attendance: | 369 |
| Average Attendance: | 2,620[1] |
| Nextseason: | 2024–25 |
| Updated: | 25 Feb 2024 |
The 2023–24 Slovak First Football League (known as Niké liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 31st season of first-tier football league in Slovakia since its establishment in 1993.
The winners (Slovan Bratislava) qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. The 2023–24 Slovak Cup winners (Ružomberok) qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round. The second and third-placed teams (DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda and Spartak Trnava) qualified for the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League second qualifying round. The eleventh-placed team (Zemplín Michalovce) qualified for the relegation play-offs. The bottom-placed team (Zlaté Moravce) were relegated to the 2024–25 2. Liga.
The league consisted of twelve teams; the top eleven teams from the previous season, and one team promoted from the 2. Liga. Košice were promoted to the top flight (for the first time in their history) as champions of the 2022–23 2. Liga, replacing the 2022–23 Slovak First Football League bottom-placed team Tatran Liptovský Mikuláš (relegated after two seasons in the top flight).[2] [3] Slovan Bratislava entered the season as defending champions (for the fifth successive year).
After more than six years, all teams in the league are once again playing their home matches in their respective stadiums. The last time this occurred was during the autumn part of the 2016–17 season.[4]
| FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda | FK Dukla Banská Bystrica | FC Košice | FK Železiarne Podbrezová |
|---|---|---|---|
| MOL Aréna UEFA | Štadión SNP UEFA | Košická futbalová aréna UEFA | ZELPO Aréna UEFA |
| Capacity: 12,700 | Capacity: 7,030 | Capacity: 12,555 | Capacity: 4,000 |
| MFK Ružomberok | MFK Skalica | ŠK Slovan Bratislava | FC Spartak Trnava |
| Štadión pod Čebraťom | Štadión MFK Skalica | Tehelné pole UEFA | Štadión Antona Malatinského UEFA |
| Capacity: 4,876 | Capacity: 2,600 | Capacity: 22,500 | Capacity: 18,200 |
| AS Trenčín | MFK Zemplín Michalovce | FC ViOn Zlaté Moravce | MŠK Žilina |
| Štadión Sihoť UEFA | Mestský futbalový štadión UEFA | ViOn Aréna UEFA | Štadión pod Dubňom UEFA |
| Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 4,400 | Capacity: 4,008 | Capacity: 10,897 |
| Team | President | Manager | Captain | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAC Dunajská Streda |  Oszkár Világi |  Xisco Muñoz | TBA | Macron | Kukkonia | |
| Dukla Banská Bystrica | Ivan Šabo | Mario Auxt (interim) | Róbert Polievka | Adidas | Veolia | |
| Košice | Dušan Trnka | Gergely Geri | Erik Pačinda | Adidas | Niké | |
| Podbrezová | Július Kriváň | Richard Ludha | Adidas | Niké | ||
| Ružomberok | Ľubomír Golis |  Ondřej Smetana | Marek Zsigmund | Adidas | Niké | |
| Skalica | Peter Bartoš | Pavol Majerník | Martin Nagy | Puma | Tipsport | |
| Slovan Bratislava | Ivan Kmotrík | Vladimír Weiss | Vladimír Weiss | Adidas | Niké | |
| Spartak Trnava | Peter Macho | Michal Gašparík | Roman Procházka | Puma | Tipsport | |
| Trenčín | Róbert Rybníček | Ilija Stolica | Damián Bariš | Macron | Tipsport | |
| Zemplín Michalovce | Ján Sabol | František Straka | Igor Žofčák | Adidas | Tipsport, St. Nicolaus | |
| Zlaté Moravce | Karol Škula | Dušan Uhrin Jr. | Karol Mondek | Erreà | Tipsport | |
| Žilina | Jozef Antošík | Michal Ščasný | Tomáš Nemčík | Nike | Preto |
| Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in table | Replaced by | Date of appointment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End of contract | Pre-season | [5] | ||||
| [6] | [7] | |||||
| [8] | [9] | |||||
| Vladimír Rusnák | End of interim spell | [10] | ||||
| Sacked | 12th | [11] | ||||
| Košice | Anton Šoltis | [12] | 10th | Ján Kozák jr | [13] | |
| 8th | [14] | |||||
Signed with  Athienou | [15] | 5th | Mario Auxt (interim) | |||
| Sacked | 11th | [16] |
Adrián Guľa || ||6th|| Xisco Muñoz || [17] |-|Zemplín Michalovce || Peter Struhár || ||11th|| František Straka || [18] |-|Zlaté Moravce|| Michal Hipp || ||12th|| Dušan Uhrin Jr. || [19] |-|MŠK Žilina || Jaroslav Hynek || Released|| ||4th|| Michal Ščasný || [20] |-|Košice|| Ján Kozák jr||Released|| [21] ||11th|| Gergely Geri|| |}Each team plays home-and-away against every other team in the league, for a total of 22 matches each.
The team which finished 11th faced the 2nd team from 2. Liga for one spot in the top flight in the next season.
1st leg2nd leg
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Róbert Polievka | Banská Bystrica | 13 |
 Tigran Barseghyan | Slovan | ||
| 3 | Martin Rymarenko | Banská Bystrica | 12 |
| Matej Trusa | D.Streda | ||
| 5 | David Strelec | Slovan | 11 |
| 6 | Matúš Marcin | Michalovce | 10 |
| Nino Marcelli | Slovan | ||
| Michal Ďuriš | Trnava | ||
| Njegoš Kupusović | Trenčín | ||
| 10 |  Aleksandar Čavrić | Slovan | 9 |
 Žan Medved | Košice | ||
| Dávid Ďuriš | Žilina | ||
| Marko Tolić | Slovan |
| Rank | Player | Club | Assists |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tigran Barseghyan | Slovan | 11 |
| 2 | Peter Kováčik | Podbrezová | 10 |
| David Strelec | Slovan | ||
| 4 | Róbert Polievka | Banská Bystrica | 8 |
| 5 | Timotej Záhumenský | Banská Bystrica | 7 |
| 6 |  Yhoan Andzouana | Dunajská Streda | 6 |
| Lukáš Fabiš | Košice | ||
| Patrik Iľko | Žilina | ||
 Philip Azango | Trnava | ||
| 10 | Mario Sauer | Žilina | 5 |
| Matúš Kmeť | Trenčín | ||
| Jude Sunday | Trenčín | ||
| Erik Daniel | Trnava | ||
| Michal Ďuriš | Trnava | ||
| Giannis Niarchos | Michalovce | ||
| Michal Faško | Košice |
| Round | Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Podbrezová | Banská Bystrica | 4–1 (A) | 28 July 2023 | [24] | |
| 7 P.O | Dunajská Streda | Slovan | 5–3 (H) | 28 April 2024 | [25] | |
| 10 P.O | Dunajská Streda | Žilina | 2–3 (A) | 18 May 2024 | [26] | |
| Rank | Player | Club | Clean sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dominik Takáč | Trnava | 14 |
| 2 |  Vozinha | Trenčín | 13 |
| Aleksandar Popović | Dunajská Streda | ||
| 4 |  Milan Borjan | Slovan | 12 |
| 5 | Ľubomír Belko | Žilina | 8 |
| 6 | Žiga Frelih | Michalovce | 7 |
| 7 | Martin Junas | Skalica | 6 |
| Matúš Hruška | Banská Bystrica | ||
| Tomáš Frühwald | Ružomberok | ||
| 10 | Richard Ludha | Podbrezová | 5 |
Boris Godál (B.Bystrica) René Paraj (Podbrezová) Mário Mrva (Podbrezová)
Oleksandr Holikov (Košice)Team of the Season was:[31]
Dominik Takáč (Spartak Trnava) Matúš Kmeť (Trenčín), 
Guram Kashia (Slovan Bratislava), Kenan Bajrić (Slovan Bratislava), Yhoan Andzouana (DAC D.Streda) Peter Kováčik (Podbrezová), Juraj Kucka (Slovan Bratislava), Adrian Zeljković (Spartak Trnava), Tigran Barseghyan (Slovan Bratislava) Róbert Polievka (Dukla Banská Bystrica), Michal Ďuriš (Spartak Trnava)Manager of the Season
Vladimír Weiss (Slovan Bratislava)
Player of the Season
Juraj Kucka (Slovan Bratislava)
Young Player of the Season
Nino Marcelli (Slovan Bratislava)