Ferenc Ilyés

Ferenc Ilyés

Ferenc Ilyés, on August 31, 2008
Player information
Nickname	"Feci"
birthday	December 20, 1981
place of birth	Odorheiu Secuiesc , Romania
citizenship	Romanian / Hungarian
height	1.98 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	Tatabánya KC
Jersey number	18th
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
1995-2000	Odorheiu Secuiesc
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2000-2002	Pick Szeged
2002-2002	Makó KC
2002-2007	Pick Szeged
2007-2009	MKB Veszprém
2009-2011	TBV Lemgo
2011–2012	MKB Veszprém
2012-2013	Wisla Plock
2013-2016	Pick Szeged
2016–	Tatabánya KC
National team
Debut on	December 27, 2003
against	Czech Republic
	Games (goals)
Hungary	219 (509)
As of December 27, 2018

Ferenc Ilyés [ ˈfɛrɛnʦ ˈijeːʃ ] (born December 20, 1981 in Odorheiu Secuiesc , Romania ) is a Hungarian- Romanian handball player of scekler descent. He is 1.98 meters tall.

Ilyés, who plays for the Hungarian club Tatabánya KC and plays for the Hungarian men's national handball team (shirt number 3), is mostly used in the left backcourt .

Ferenc Ilyés started playing handball in his Transylvanian hometown. There he was discovered by talent scouts from the top Hungarian club Pick Szeged and brought to Hungary. In 2000 he made his debut for the first time in the first team of Szeged, but could not initially prevail. He was then loaned to Makó KC for half a year during the winter break of the 2001/02 season. After his return, Ilyés made the breakthrough and developed into the top performer of his team in the following years. At the end of 2003 he accepted Hungarian citizenship and made his debut in the Hungarian national team. During his time in Szeged he won the Hungarian Cup in 2006 and the Hungarian Championship in 2007. In 2007 he decided - like many players from Szeged before - to switch to rival and record champions MKB Veszprém. In 2008 he won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Hungarian Championship with Veszprém . Since the 2009/2010 season Ilyés has been playing in the handball Bundesliga for TBV Lemgo . There he won the EHF Cup in 2010 . In summer 2011 he returned to Veszprém. A year later, Ilyés moved to the Polish first division club Wisła Płock . From the 2013/14 season, he ran again for Pick Szeged with which he 2014 the EHF European Cup won. In the summer of 2016, he joined Tatabánya KC .

Ferenc Ilyés has so far played 219 international matches for the Hungarian men's handball team . With Hungary he was ninth at the 2004 European Handball Championship and fourth at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. With Hungary he also took part in the men's handball world championship in Germany in 2007 , but only finished 9th. In the summer of 2012 he again took part in the Olympic Games in London and finished fourth.

Web links

Commons : Ferenc Ilyés  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ferenc Ilyés on the Pick Szeged website
• Ferenc Ilyés in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Ferenc Ilyés in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ihf.info: Hungary , accessed December 27, 2018
2. ↑ tbv-lemgo.de: TBV signs Hungarian international Ferenc Ilyés. accessed on December 14, 2008
3. ^ Ilyés goes from Hungary to Poland, viewed on August 30, 2012
4. ↑ handball-world.com: Ilyes returns to Hungary on May 28, 2013, accessed on May 28, 2013
5. ↑ handball-planet.com: Ferenc Ilyes to Tatabanya from February 15, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2016
6. ↑ www.london2012.com: Hungary - Team Rosters , accessed August 4, 2012

Ferenc Ilyés is rudely prevented from throwing by the Pole Bartosz Jurecki

Ferenc Ilyés blocked by Artur Siódmiak from Poland (January 8, 2010)