Honvéd Budapest

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Honvéd Budapest
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Basic data
Surname Budapest Honvéd FC
Seat Budapest , Hungary
founding August 3, 1909
president HungaryHungary Dániel Mendelényi
First soccer team
Head coach Tamás Bódog
Venue Bozsik József Stadium
Places 10,000
league Nemzeti Bajnokság I
2019/20 5th place
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The Budapest Honvéd FC is a Hungarian sports club from the Kispest district , the XIX. District in the southeast of the capital Budapest , which was founded in 1909 as Kispesti AC . The best known is the football department, which included numerous players from the Golden Team , the famous Hungarian national team of the 1950s. With 14 championships and 6 cup wins, Honvéd is one of the largest traditional clubs in the country. The home of the soccer team is the Bozsik-József Stadium , named after one of the club's great heroes , which has a capacity of around 10,000 spectators. The club colors are red and black.

Numerous sub-departments of the association have also drawn attention to themselves. The handball , volleyball and water polo players as well as the basketball players and the wrestlers are of particular importance . The chess department was Hungarian team champion a total of 17 times between 1969 and 1998, second in the European Cup in 1988, 1993 and 1995 and organized grandmaster tournaments during this time .

The club history

Kispest AC - the early years

On August 10, 1908, the club was founded by the teacher Bálint Varga as the Kispesti Athlétikai Club . The members were only able to agree on the association's statutes on August 3, 1909. This date is now the official founding date. The home of the association is Kispest . Today's XIX. District in the southeast of Budapest was still an independent place at the gates of the city at that time.

Other sports at that time were fencing , cycling , gymnastics , wrestling , athletics , boxing and tennis . In later years handball , basketball and water polo should follow and bring the club numerous successes.

As part of the professionalization of football, the kickers split off from the parent club as Kispest Football Club in 1926 and were able to celebrate their first major success in the same year by winning the cup .

In the 1930s Rezső Rozgonyi and Rezső Somlai - who represented Hungarians at the 1934 World Cup - were among the greats of the club, as was Ferenc Puskás I , the father of the legendary Ferenc Puskás and coach of the club in the 1940s.

In 1944 the footballers were reunited with the parent club Kispesti AC under its club name.

Budapest Honvéd - Golden Era in the 1950s

In 1943, both Ferenc Puskás and József Bozsik made their debut with the Black-Reds. The legendary Béla Guttmann trained the team between 1947 and 1948 .

The dawn of the club's heyday, however, marked the year 1949, when the Ministry of Defense of the now communist state converted the club into an army club. Behind them stood the national coach Gusztáv Sebes , who also held the office of deputy defense minister. The inspiration for Sebes came from the Austrian wonder team of the 1930s and the Italian national soccer team, which became world champions twice in the same decade. Both teams were based on players who were primarily recruited from only one or two major clubs.

Kispest was now incorporated into Budapest and was given the new name Budapest Honvéd SE . The part of the name Honvéd refers to the name of the Hungarian Army , Honvédség , and means something like national defender , which is also a common name for a private . SE is in turn the usual abbreviation for sports club.

Hungary's golden team

The army's right of conscription allowed Sándor Kocsis , Zoltán Czibor and László Budai from Ferencvárosi TC , Gyula Lóránt from Vasas SC and goalkeeper Gyula Grosics to delegate to the club, which is the backbone of the national team, the golden team , which is the football team . World so dominated the first half of the 1950s, formed.

Honvéd won five championships in the first half of the 1950s and became a coveted private game partner across Europe in the era before the introduction of the European Cup. In 1956 the club took part in the European Champion Clubs' Cup, and after the first round first leg at Athletic Bilbao , which was lost 3-2, the 1956 uprising began. The players decided not to return to Hungary and the second leg was played at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels . Goalkeeper Lajos Faragó was injured there early on and left winger Zoltán Czibor took over his position between the posts (38th minute). The game ended 3: 3 and the Hungarians were eliminated from the competition.

The players then refused to return to Hungary and many called their families to the West. The former Honvéd coach Guttmann took over the training for the time being and also organized a tour through Italy, Portugal and Spain in order to keep the players afloat financially. At that time, the Honvéd team turned down an offer from Mexico that promised political asylum and a place in the local league. Instead, the team took part in a tournament in Rio de Janeiro with the teams from Flamengo Rio de Janeiro and Botafogo FR . Guttmann stayed in Brazil and was meanwhile a successful coach of São Paulo FC .

In the meantime, FIFA banned the team from any game operations and prohibited the use of the Honvéd name. Eventually, József Bozsik, László Budai, Gyula Lóránt and Gyula Grosics returned to Hungary, while other players like Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and Ferenc Puskás tried and often found their luck in the West.

After these events, the club was considerably weakened and in 1957 only escaped relegation because the association increased the league. There were only few new successes. With rising players like Lajos Tichy and Lajos Kocsis the Mitropa Cup of 1959 and the Hungarian Cup of 1964 were won.

New successes in the 1980s

After a quarter-century break, Honvéd only won a national championship again in 1980 under the now coach Lajos Tichy. Up to and including 1996, the club won a total of seven championships and three trophies, including the doubles from 1985 and 1989, with players like Imre Garaba , Kálmán Kovács , Lajos Détári , János Mátyus, Béla Illés, Gábor Halmai and István Vincze .

After the end of the communist era in Hungary, the club renamed itself in 1991 in reference to the time before the takeover by the Ministry of Defense in Kispest Honvéd FC . Only slowly and in the end very dramatically, however, a decline set in which led to the first relegation from the first division in 2003, although it made an immediate comeback in the following season. The company Kispest Honvéd Sports Circle, which took over the club in those years, fell victim to its controversial financial conduct and went bankrupt in 2004.

Start-up after bankruptcy (2004)

After the liquidation of Kispest Honvéd following the bankruptcy, the successor to Budapest Honvéd FC was founded, which was awarded the Kispests starting place in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the first Hungarian football league, by the Hungarian association . The new club, however, had to undertake to take over the old tax debts of Kispest Honvéd. In 2007, after more than a decade, winning the cup was another sporting success, but Honvéd was eliminated from the qualifying against Hamburger SV in the following UEFA Cup competition . In 2017 Honvéd became Hungarian football champion again, 24 years after the last title win.

Known players

Well-known trainers

successes

Soccer

Handball

Water polo

  • Euroleague
    • Winner: 2004
    • Finalist: 2002, 2003, 2005
  • Hungarian champion (5): 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
  • Hungarian Cup (6): 1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1979, 1999

Other well-known athletes

Kayak and canoe

Wrestling

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of national team champions in chess at olimpbase.org (English)
  2. ↑ Medals at European Club Cups ( Memento from April 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ Honved's goalie was injured . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 22, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  4. ↑ Honved doesn't want to return . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 12, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ Holland: The Hungarians are eligible to play in July . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna December 29, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ↑ Matthias Marschik, Doris Sottopietra: Erbfeinde und hate-loving: Concept and reality of Central Europe in sport (=  sport: culture, change . No. 28 ). Lit Verlag, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-8258-5093-5 , p. 356 .