Viktor Budinský

Viktor Budinský's career has been shaped by two spells at the same club. He returned to Baník Ostrava on a free transfer in June 2025, signing a two-year contract, after leaving on a permanent move to FK Pardubice back in June 2023. Between those two Ostrava stays came a loan to MFK Zemplín Michalovce in January 2025, where he made nine league appearances before the move back to Ostrava was arranged.

Budinský is Slovak, born in Banská Štiavnica, and came up through the youth ranks at Dukla Banská Bystrica, making his senior debut for the club in May 2012. He was part of the Dukla squad that won the Slovak Cup in the 2011/12 season, though he saw little playing time that year. In 2015 he moved to the Czech Republic to join Sellier & Bellot Vlašim in the second tier, and a year later signed for Sparta Prague. He never made a league appearance for Sparta's first team, instead spending two seasons out on loan at Bohemians 1905, where he played 13 league matches in the first year and none in the second.

His first spell at Baník Ostrava, from 2018 to 2023, brought 26 league appearances, interrupted by a loan to Pardubice in 2022/23. He then joined Pardubice permanently, making 23 league appearances for the club over two seasons before his return to Ostrava, where he now wears the number one shirt.

At international level, Budinský's involvement has been limited to a single appearance for Slovakia's under-21 side, playing the full 90 minutes in a defeat to Slovenia U21 in March 2013. In March 2018 he was suspended for one match after a red card in a Czech Cup quarter-final against Mladá Boleslav.