Csepel SC
Csepel SC is a Hungarian sports club from the XXI. District of Budapest , the Danube island Csepel in the south of the city. The club was founded in 1912 as the Csepeli Torna Klub ("gymnastics club"). Csepel SC won the national football championship four times in 1942, 1943, 1949 and 1959 and played 51 seasons in the first Hungarian league, the Nemzeti Bajnokság I , until relegation in the 1996/97 season .
The football division was dissolved after the 2001/02 season ended. The team was then in the second division. It played in the Béke téri stadium , which can accommodate 14,000 spectators.
The club was previously known by names like Csepeli Weisz Manfred FC , Csepel Vasas , Csepeli Munkas TE , and in the first half of the 1990s as Csepel SC-Kordax .
The volleyball , wrestling and cycling departments of the club are important these days . The handball and boxing sections are also historically noteworthy. The volleyball men reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1973 .
Name changes
In the course of its history, the association operated under the following names
- 1912: Csepel Csepeli Torna Club
- 1932: Csepel Csepel Football Club
- 1937: Csepeli WMFC Weisz Manfréd Football Club Csepel
- 1944: Csepel Csepel Sport Club
- 1947: Csepel Csepeli Munkás Torna Egyesület
- 1950: Csepeli Vasas Csepeli Vasas Sport Egyesület
- 1958: Csepel Csepeli Sport Club
- 1993: Csepel Csepel Sport Club - Kordax
- 1996: Csepel Csepel Sport Club
Important athletes
- László Klauz ( wrestling , 1973–1994)
- The 1989 vice world champion (Greco-Roman, super heavyweight) also won eight Hungarian championships.
- Other important wrestlers: Árpád Ritter , István Kovács , Gergő Wöller , Károly Bajkó
- Ferenc Németh ( Modern Pentathlon , from 1954)
- Németh won individual and team gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
The club also has produced eminent Olympians such as András Balczó , Tibor Berczelly , Aladár Gerevich , Károly Fatér and Bertalan Papp .
Soccer
In the only participation in the European Cup , the club was eliminated in 1959 in qualifying against Fenerbahçe Istanbul .
In 1981 Csepel came second in the Mitropacup behind 1. FC Tatran Prešov . The last major success was fourth place in the national league in the 1982/83 season.
In 2000, the football department with the combat team of the second division III. Kerületi TVE from Óbuda in the III. District in the north of Budapest. The joint team played for the next two years under the Csepel name in Csepel. The youth teams remained separate.
The football department of the Csepel SC was dissolved after the 2001/02 season. With the beginning of the 2003/04 season, the now III. Kerületi TUE called the merger partner at the time, the senior game operation with many players from the previous teams and their own youth and was allowed to start in the fourth league.
This team survived the season undefeated and immediately rose to the third division, NB III, where the club can be found to this day (2007/08).
Csepel SC nowadays no longer plays football, but currently (2007) still occupies eighth place in the all-time table of the first Hungarian league.
title
- Hungarian champion : 1942 , 1943 , 1948 , 1959
Trainer
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Jenő Kalmár (1947-1948)
player
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József Tóth (195? –195?), The 12-time Hungarian national player also took part in the 1954 World Cup.
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Zoltán Czibor (1951-1952), After he left Csepel, he became part of the Golden Elf , which won the gold medal at the 1952 Olympic Games and the 1954 Vice World Cup.
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Pál Csernai (1948–1955), two-time Hungarian national player, who later became a successful coach and won several titles with FC Bayern Munich and SL Benfica, among others .
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Robert Kilin (1993-1994), on loan from FC Inter Sibiu .
basketball
The basketball department of Csepel SC was one of the most successful Hungarian teams in the 1970s and 1980s, and during this time it regularly took part in European Cup competitions.
successes
- Hungarian champion (3): 1972, 1973, 1989
- Hungarian Cup Winner (5): 1971, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985
volleyball
successes
- Hungarian champion: 1968–1970 1973, 1974, 1976–1979, 1982
- Hungarian Cup Winner : 1969–1972, 1974, 1976, 1978–1982