Budapest Honvéd FC

Honvéd

Full name	Budapest Honvéd Football Club
Founded	3 August 1909 (1909-08-03)
Ground	Bozsik József Stadion, Budapest
Capacity	10,000
Chairman	George Hemingway
Manager	Attila Supka
League	NB I
2017–18	NB I, 4th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Budapest Honvéd FC (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt ˈhonveːd ˈɛft͡seː] is a Hungarian sports club based in Kispest, Budapest. The club is best known for its football team. Honved means the Homeland Defence. Originally formed as Kispest AC, they became Kispest FC in 1926 before reverting to their original name in 1944. The team enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s when it was renamed Budapest Honvéd SE and became the Hungarian Army team. The club's top players from this era, Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik, Zoltán Czibor, and Gyula Grosics formed the nucleus of the legendary Hungarian team known as the Mighty Magyars and helped the club win the Hungarian League four times during the 1950s. During the 1980s and early 1990s the club enjoyed another successful period, winning a further eight Hungarian League titles. They also won league and cup doubles in 1985 and 1989. In 1991 the club was renamed Kispest Honvéd FC and adopted its current name in 2003.

When the club was originally formed in 1909 it also organised teams that competed in fencing, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling, athletics, boxing and tennis. Later the Honvéd family was extended to include a water polo team, now known as Groupama Honvéd, a 33-times basketball-champion team and a handball team that were European Champions in 1982.

History

Budapest Honvéd FC were founded in 1909 as Kispesti AC. At domestic level they first entered the Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the 1916-17 season. Their first success came in the 1924-25 Magyar Kupa season when they beat Budapesti EAC in the final.

Crest and colours

Honours

• Nemzeti Bajnokság I
  • Winners (14): 1949–50, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1992–93, 2016–17
• Magyar Kupa
  • Winners (7): 1925–26, 1964, 1984–85, 1988–89, 1995–96, 2006–07, 2008–09
• Mitropa Cup
  • Winners (1): 1959

Players

Current squad

As of 21 August 2018

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 3 DF Eke Uzoma 4 DF Dávid Kálnoki-Kis 5 MF Patrik Hidi 6 MF Dániel Gazdag 7 DF Bence Batik 8 MF Gergő Holdampf 11 MF Filip Holender 13 DF Tibor Heffler 14 DF Nikolasz Kovács 15 DF Stefan Deák 16 MF Zsolt Pölöskei 17 MF Tomas Pilik 18 GK András Horváth 19 FW Danilo 20 FW Dominik Cipf

No. Position Player 21 MF Fousseni Bamba 22 MF Milán Májer 23 MF Bence Banó-Szabó 24 MF Đorđe Kamber (captain) 25 DF Ivan Lovrić 26 DF Dino Škvorc 29 FW Patrik Tischler (on loan from Újpest) 33 DF Tonći Kukoč 36 DF Botond Baráth 55 MF Norbert Szendrei 60 DF Attila Temesvári 66 GK Attila Berla 77 MF Gergő Nagy 89 FW David N'Gog 99 GK Dávid Gróf

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 92 FW Kristóf Herjeczki (at Gyirmót) 93 MF Dávid Stoiacovici (at Tiszakécske)

No. Position Player 96 FW Dániel Lukács (at Újpest) 98 FW Bálint Tömösvári (at Kaposvár)

Non-playing staff

Management

Position	Name
Proprietor	George F. Hemingway
Managing director	Pál Gács
Marketing director	Tamás Dudás
Chief editor	Dénes Éless
Facility manager	Judit Kuskó
Chief of security	Csaba Tóth
Director of hospitality	Sándor Hólé
Press officer	Zoltán Simon

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First team staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Attila Supka
Assistant coach	TBA
Assistant coach	TBA
Goalkeeping Coach	Iván Tóth
Club Doctor	József Toman
Club Doctor	Ádám Szilas
Physio	Buda Lajtaváry
Physio	Norbert Hollósi
Physiotherapeut	Ágnes Szilágyi
Kit manager	Róbert Pandur

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Seasons

In European football

Trivia

• The British pop group Half Man Half Biscuit have a song entitled 'I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan'.
• Although Ferenc Puskás was a player of Budapest Honvéd, the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy was founded in Felcsút by Videoton FC.
• The youth football competition Puskás Cup was named after Ferenc Puskás, however, the cup is organised by the Ferenc Puskás Football Academy.

Sources

• Behind The Curtain – Travels in Eastern European Football: Jonathan Wilson (2006)^[3]
• 50 Years of the European Cup and Champions League: Keir Radnedge (2005)^[4]

See also

• Budapest derby
• Ferenc Puskás
• Puskás Cup

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Budapest Honvéd FC.

• Official website
• Puskás on Puskás Rogan Taylor and Klara Jamrich (1998)
• Mitropa Cup 1959