Budapesti Torna Club

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The Budapesti TC , often short BTC , was a gymnastics and football club in the Hungarian capital Budapest . In 1901 and 1902 he won the first two football championships in Hungarian football history. It is believed that BTC also won the 1910 Challenge Cup , one of the first major international tournaments. Despite its great early importance, the association founded in 1885 was dissolved in 1945.

history

The gymnastics club was founded on May 29, 1885 . On February 7, 1897, the football section was launched, making the BTC , as the club was also called, the oldest football club in Hungary. The Budapesti Torna Club made Hungarian football history just a few weeks after the football division was founded. On May 9, 1897, the first official football match on Hungarian soil took place with the game of two BTC teams on Millenáris Square in Budapest.

The Budapesti TC took part in the first four seasons of the first Hungarian league from 1901 to 1904 and finished two first, one second and one third place. The club then surprisingly stayed away from local football for two years from 1905 to 1907 in order to devote itself to its international obligations. For the 1907/08 season the Budapesti TC reported back and was taken back into the first division. The club remained top notch until 1914, when World War I broke out that year and the championships were suspended. Instead tournaments were organized, with two parallel tournaments taking place in 1914 due to disputes between the clubs, the Hungária Cup and the Auguszta Cup. The BTC joined the second tournament and finished second. From the 1916/17 season the championship operation was resumed under the shelter of the MLS and the Budapest TC participated first class until 1925, when the club could not avoid relegation. In the same summer, the Hungarian Football Association (MLS) introduced professional football. After his relegation at the end of the 1924/25 season, the BTC was not interested in it despite being eligible to participate and took part with another 12 teams in the newly formed provisional Hungarian amateur league ( Amatőr League ), which was formed. The four first teams and, for historical reasons, the ninth BTC were eligible to participate in the two-pronged first Budapest Amateur League (second highest division after the professional league) of the following year. The BTC shuttled between the first and second amateur league for the next few years, temporarily merged with Budapest SE (Budapest Sport Egyesület) in 1935 and finally withdrew from football at the beginning of the 1945/46 season.

titles and achievements

The club celebrated its greatest successes in 1901 and 1902 by winning the Hungarian championship, which was then officially called 1. Osztályú Bajnokság . The game years 1901 and 1902 closed the club without defeat, from a total of eight games, all eight and seven of eight were won. The first Hungarian football star Miltiades Manno played a major role in this, scoring a total of 17 goals in six games of the first championship and a further 10 goals in seven appearances in 1902, making himself the top scorer of the league twice.

With the final participation in the Challenge Cup in the 1901/02 season, the club also inscribed itself in the annals of Austrian football history. The final game itself, which was played in Vienna on May 19, 1902 , was just lost by the Budapesters (1-2) against the Vienna Cricket and Football Club . Winning the Challenge Cup in the 1909/10 season is controversial, as there are no more official records or findable newspaper reports from this season. According to tradition, the Budapesti Torna Club is said to have defeated the Wiener Sport-Club 2-1 in the final of the competition and, after the league competitor Ferencvárosi TC, brought the Challenge Cup to the Hungarian metropolis on the Danube for the second time.

When a cup competition was held in Hungary for the first time in the 1909/10 season, the BTC made it into the final straight away. However, the final was lost in two games against MTK Budapest 1: 1 and 1: 3.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First Hungarian football season 1901 , at www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  2. ^ Hungarian football season 1902 , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  3. ↑ List with links to all seasons of the club , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  4. ↑ Table of the 1905 season with information about the non-participation of the BTC , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  5. ↑ As of the 1906/07 season, the seasons were no longer played in the calendar year, but in the autumn-spring mode.
  6. ↑ Table of the 1907/08 season with information about the return of the BTC , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  7. ↑ Table of the 1924/25 relegation season , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  8. ↑ Hungarian Amateur League 1925/26 , with reference to the foundations of its foundation, on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  9. ↑ The season 1934/35 , at the end of which the merger of BTC and BSE took place, on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)
  10. ↑ The season 1945/46, which BTC no longer started despite registration , on www.magyarfutball.hu (Hungarian)