András Horváth (ice hockey player)

András Horváth
Date of birth	April 8, 1976
place of birth	Budapest , Hungary
size	188 cm
Weight	103 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1994-2005	Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros
2005-2007	Újpesti TE
2007-2013	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2013-2014	Újpesti TE
since 2014	Ferencvárosi TC

András Horváth ( Hungarian Horváth András ; born April 8, 1976 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian ice hockey player who played for Alba Volán Székesfehérvár over 300 games in the Austrian ice hockey league.

Career

András Horváth began his career as a hockey player in the youth of Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros , for whose professional team he was active in the Hungarian ice hockey league from 1994 to 2005 . During this time, the defender won the national championship title four times (1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002) and seven times the national cup competition (1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004) with his team. The right-handed shooter was also runner-up six times (1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005) with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros. The national player then moved in the summer of 2005 to their league rivals Újpesti TE , for whom he was active the following two seasons, before he received a contract with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár for the 2007/08 season , for whom he was in the Austrian ice hockey league and the Hungarian ice hockey league stood on the ice. In 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 he won the Hungarian championship title with Alba Volán. In 2007 and 2013 he won the cup with the team. After spending the 2013/14 season at Újpesti TE in the MOL League , he switched to league and local competitor Ferencvárosi TC in summer 2014 , where he ended his career in 2015.

International

For Hungary Horváth took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior B European Championship in 1994 and the U20 Junior C World Championship in 1995 .

In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the B World Championship in 1999 , the C World Championship in 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 and 2000 as well as after the changeover to the current category system at the World Championships in Division I in 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 when he was voted the best defender of the tournament, 2011 when he was the second best goal setter behind his compatriot Balázs Ladányi and third best scorer behind his compatriots Ladányi and István Sofron , in 2012 and 2013 as well as at the World Cup of the top division 2009 . He also represented his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi .

Achievements and Awards

1996 Hungarian cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1996 Hungarian champion with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1997 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1997 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1998 Hungarian champion with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1999 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 1999 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2000 Hungarian champion with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2001 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2001 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2002 Hungarian champion with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2002 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros

2003 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2003 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2004 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2004 Hungarian Cup winner with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2005 Hungarian runner-up with Dunaferr SE Dunaújváros 2007 Hungarian Cup winner with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2008 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2009 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2010 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2011 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2012 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár 2013 Hungarian Cup winner with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár

International

2000 Promotion to the B group at the C World Championship 2008 Promotion to the top division at the World Cup of Division I.

2009 top 3 players in Hungary at the World Cup 2010 Best Defender of the World Championship Division I, Group B

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
ÖEHL main round	6th	298	21st	71	92	397
ÖEHL playoffs	2	11	1	2	3	10
MOL main round	2	72	7th	16	23	88
MOL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

(Status: end of the 2014/15 season)

Web links

• András Horváth at hockeydb.com (English)
• András Horváth at eliteprospects.com (English)