Debreceni VSC

Debreceni VSC

Full name	Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club
Nickname(s)	Loki
Short name	DVSC
Founded	12 March 1902 (1902-03-12)
Ground	Nagyerdei Stadion
Capacity	20,340
Chairman	Gábor Szima
Manager	András Herczeg
League	NB I
2018–19	NB I, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Active departments of DVSC
Football Handball

Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a Hungarian League professional football club, based in Debrecen.^[1] They are best known internationally for reaching the group stages of the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 season.^[2] Debrecen have become the most successful club in Hungary since 2000, winning the Hungarian League seven times.^[3]

History

Debrecen was 12 March 1902 as Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club. The club first reached the Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the 1943–44 season. Debrecen rose to domestic prominence in the early 2000s when they won their first Hungarian league title in 2004–05 season. Since then the club managed to win seven titles in the 2010s total. However, in the late 2010s the club lost its governmental support and started to decline. In the 2016-17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, they were escaping from relegation.

At international level, Debrecen reached their biggest success when they managed to reach the 2009–10 UEFA Champions League group stage. The following year the reached the group stages of the 2010–11 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Crest and colours

Stadiums and Facilities

Debrecen played their home matches at Oláh Gábor utcai Stadion between 1989 and 2014

Debrecen played their home matches between 1989 and 2014 at the Oláh Gábor utcai Stadion, which has a capacity of 12,500. After winning the first Nemzeti Bajnokság I trophy, it was found that the stadium did not meet UEFA stadium criteria. Therefore, the most important UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches had to be played either at the Puskás Ferenc Stadion as in 2009-10 UEFA Champions League group stage and the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League group stage.

Nagyerdei Stadion was opened in 2014

On 1 May 2014, the Nagyerdei stadium was opened with an inauguration ceremony. Viktor Orbán, Hungarian prime minister, said that "the Hungarian spirit, the architects, the engineers, the workers make Hungary a big country again with this constructions like the Nagyerdei stadium" (in Hungarian: "A magyar szellem, a tervezők, a mérnökök, a munkások ilyen alkotásokkal teszik ismét naggyá Magyarországot"). The stadium was also santificied by Nándor Bosák, bishop of the Roman Catholic Church, Gusztáv Bölcskei, minister, and Fülöp Kocsis, bishops of the Greek Catholic Church. After the sanctification, singers such as Lou Bega, Viktor Király, Ildikó Kersztes, Gigi Radić, and Erika Miklósa entertained the audience. The first match was played between the Debrecen All Stars and Hungary All Stars, including players such as Attila Pintér, current Hungary national football team coach, Kálmán Kovács, former Budapest Honvéd legend, Péter Lipcsei, former Ferencváros icon, György Véber, former Újpest icon and current Mezőkövesd manager, Imre Garaba, former Hungary international, Flórián Urbán, former Újpest legend, and Lajos Détári, former Hungary national team legend.^[4]

On 10 May 2014, the first official match was played at the new stadium between Debrecen and Újpest in the 2013–14 Hungarian League season. The match ended with a 3–1 victory over the Budapest-based rival, Újpest. The first goal of the match was scored by Kulcsár in the 27th minute. Although Vasiljević equalised the score in the 37th minute, Debrecen were able to clinch the victory in the second half due to an own goal by Antón in the 46 minute and a goal by Vadnai in the 85th minute.^[5][6]

On 22 May 2014, the first match of the Hungary national football team was played at the stadium in front of 20,000 spectators, which ended with a 2–2 draw against Denmark national football team. The first goal was scored by the former Debrecen player Dzsudzsák. Eriksen equalised the score in the 56th minute. The debutant Varga took the lead in the 69th minute again, but the score was equalised by Schöne in the 72nd minute.^[7][8][9]

Supporters

Supporters of DVSC are mainly based in Debrecen, Hungary. However, the club is popular in all over Hungary. Club's main ultras group is Szívtiprók Ultras Debrecen (SZ.U.D.), which is the largest and oldest faction, founded in 1994.^[10] As of 2000, SZ.U.D started to divide itself, in factions of ultras outside Debrecen, such as SZ.U.D. Budapest, SZ.U.D. Nagyvárad and SZ.U.D. Hódmezővásárhely. Among smaller groups are considered Force Field, Red Territory and Vadmacskák, which are the oldest. However, since 2009, new ultras factions, such as Sziporkák, Debrecen Hooligans, Barrabrava Debrecen and others appeared. This while several, like North Side Hooligans were dissolved in early 2000s. Debrecen has fierce rivalries with Nyíregyháza, Békéscsaba and competitive rivalries with Ferencváros, Újpest and Videoton.

On 5 August 2014, UEFA issued sanctions against Debrecen, Romania's Steaua București and Slovenia's Maribor following racist behaviour by their fans during 2014–15 UEFA Champions League qualifying against Cliftonville, Strømsgodset and Zrinjski Mostar respectively. Debrecen shut sector B of their ground after fans showed an "illicit banner" during the match against Northern Ireland’s Cliftonville.^[11]

• Szívtiprók Ultras Debrecen (founded in 1994)

Famous supporters

• László Lukács ^[12]
• Viktor Orbán (politician) ^[13]

Ownership

On 27 May 2017, it was announced that Andy Vajna could repleace Gábor Szima as the owner of Debrecen. Nevertheless, Andy Vajna added that he likes football but he doesn not want to invest into football.^[14]

On 15 August 2017, it was revealed that Gábor Szima, the owner of Debrecen, might leave the club and a Greek tycoon might arrive.^[15]

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 8 August, 2018.^[16]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Oleksandr Nad 2 DF Ákos Kinyik 3 DF Csaba Szatmári 4 MF Ioan Filip 6 DF Balázs Bényei 8 MF Dániel Tőzsér (captain) 10 FW Norbert Könyves 11 DF János Ferenczi 13 DF Szabolcs Barna 14 DF Krisztián Kuti 17 DF Norbert Mészáros 18 MF Attila Haris 19 MF Ezequiel Calvente 20 FW Tamás Takács 21 MF Kevin Varga 22 GK Péter Kovács

No. Position Player 23 FW Dániel Bereczki 25 FW Haris Tabaković 26 FW Alex Damásdi 27 MF Ádám Bódi 28 DF Ádám Újvárosi 29 MF Erik Kusnyír 33 MF Richárd Csősz 44 DF Erik Čikoš 70 MF Kevin Nagy 71 FW Albion Avdijaj 77 MF Aleksandar Jovanović 86 GK Tomáš Košický 88 FW Márk Szécsi (on loan from Puskás Akadémia) 97 GK István Szabados MF Bence Pávkovics (on loan from Újpest)

Out on loan

No. Position Player MF Danilo Sekulic (at FC Alashkert)

B squad

No. Position Player GK István Szabados GK Péter Kovács DF Richárd Gafouroglou DF Viktor Koval DF Erik Mocsán DF Zsolt Pap DF Márk Tóth MF Kálmán Kozák DF István Albert

No. Position Player MF Alex Engel MF Szabolcs Len MF Bendegúz Györky MF Mátyás Gál FW Norbert Angyal FW Lajos András Tóth

Non-playing staff

Board of directors

Position	Name
Chairman	Gábor Szima
Chief Executive	Sándor Szilágyi
Financial Director	Géza Róka
Senior Independent Director	Ferenc Frida
Independent Non-Executive Director	János Képíró
Press Director	Zoltán Csubák

^[17]

Management

Position	Name
Manager	András Herczeg
Assistant Manager	Vacant
Assistant Manager	Vacant
Reserve Team Coach	Tamás Szalánczi
Head of Debrecen Academy	András Gyarmati
Goalkeeping Coach	Miklós Erdélyi
Fitness Coach	Mihály Dankó
Club Doctor	Zoltán Dézsi
Club Doctor	Károly Pikó

^[18]

Seasons

In European football

Records and statistics

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Debreceni VSC.

• Official website (in Hungarian)
• Debreceni VSC on Facebook
• Detailed international match archive (in English)
• Debreceni VSC Forum (in English)
• Debrecen City – Dombi Tibi elemzés (in Hungarian)