Football in Budapest

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Statue for Ferenc Puskás in memory of the Kispest- born team captain of the “ Golden Elf ”, who played for Honvéd from 1943 to 1956 .

Football in Budapest has been practiced since the end of the 19th century. The first game took place on May 9, 1887 between two teams of the Budapesti TC . The football department of the club, which was founded on May 9, 1885, was launched on February 8, 1897, making BTC the oldest football club in Hungary . He also won the first two Hungarian football championships in the 1901 and 1902 seasons. Since the club came to a standstill in the 1920s, the football team of Újpesti TE, founded in 1899 on June 16, 1885, is nowthe oldest still existing football team in Hungary.

The most successful clubs

With 20 championship titles and nine cup victories , Újpest Budapest is the third most successful football team in Hungary and has been the "eternal rival" of the most successful Hungarian club Ferencváros Budapest , which is both record champions (29 titles) and record cup winners (21 successes) for decades . In addition, Fradi, as the club is usually referred to in short form, is the only Hungarian club that was able to win a pan-European competition when the Messestädte Cup was brought to Budapest in 1964/65 with a 1-0 final win against Juventus Turin . The second most successful Hungarian football club MTK Budapest FC (23 times champion and 12 times cup winners) was only seen as Fradi's great rival in the first few decades. Because the club of the bourgeoisie and Judaism could not gain a larger following despite all the sporting successes and so with the first successes of Újpest in the 1930s, the purple-whites emerged as the great antithesis to the green-whites (Fradi). They are the only two clubs in Hungary with a nationwide following.

geography

All of the major football clubs in the Hungarian capital are based in Pest , the urban area east of the Danube . The home of Újpest is located in Budapest 's IV district of the same name Újpest (Eng. New Pest) in the north of the city. To the south of this is the working-class district of Angyalföld (Engelland). The XIII. The municipality is home to Vasas Budapest , the original iron and steel workers' association. The former Hungarian Prime Minister and long-time General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party , János Kádár , described him as “the beating heart of the Hungarian labor movement.” With six championship titles and four cup victories, Vasas (Iron) ranks fifth among all Budapest clubs, up to At the end of the 20th century it was still synonymous with the fifth position of Hungary. Due to the recent successes of the Debreceni VSC , however, this club has meanwhile "pushed past" Vasas.

The center of Pest is the home of the most successful sports clubs: MTK is located in the 8th district of Józsefváros (German: Josefstadt) and to the south of this is the IX. Budapest district called Ferencváros (dt. Franzenvorstadt), in which the record champions of the same name are based.

In the southeast of the city is the XIX. Kispest district , which was the home of Kispesti AC , founded in 1909 and unsuccessful until the Second World War .

The XXI is located in the very south of the Hungarian capital. Csepel district ; an island that was home to Csepel SC from 1912 until its dissolution in 2002 . The club was at times closely connected to the Manfréd Weiss factory and at times also had the name in the club's name. The Csepel SC won the Hungarian football championship four times between 1942 and 1959, making it one of a total of seven capital city clubs to win the Hungarian football championship.

The communist era

The successful years of the original Kispest workers' club only began when it was transformed into an army sports club under its new name Honvéd Budapest . The club, which systematically brought in the best players in the country, dominated the first half of the 1950s. The Hungarian uprising of 1956 marked the end of Honvéd's supremacy. Because immediately after the start of the popular uprising, the team made a trip to South America from which its stars never returned. Only in 1980 a championship title could be won again. Today there are a total of 13 championship titles and seven cup wins.

However, Kispest was not the only club that was given a new purpose during communist rule. MTK was incorporated into the ÁVO state police , which in turn was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior, to which the Újpest association was affiliated. Ferencváros was subordinated to the state food industry and, before communist rule, was considered the favorite club of the fascist Arrow Cross members who led Hungary in the final months of the Second World War. The country's most popular club later became the unofficial darling of the opposition to the communist rulers.

Derby atmosphere in Budapest

Derby balance sheet Ferencváros vs Újpest

So far (as of March 31, 2016) a total of 216 point game derbies have been played between the two most important opponents of Hungarian football . Fradi won 98 of them, while Újpest won 61 matches. The remaining 57 duels ended in a draw. The goal difference of 406: 305 also speaks for Fradi.

The Budapest masters at a glance

  1. Ferencváros (29 titles)
  2. MTK (23 tracks)
  3. Újpest (20 titles)
  4. Honvéd (13 titles)
  5. Vasas (6 titles)
  6. Csepel (4 tracks)
  7. BTC (2 tracks)

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The top division teams in Europe since 1885 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, p. 457
  3. ↑ Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans: The Rough Guide to European Football: A Fan's Handbook . Rough Guides, London 2000, p. 318, ISBN 978-1-85828-568-9
  4. ↑ Jonathan Wilson: Behind the Curtain . Orion Publishing, London 2006, p. 90, ISBN 978-0-7528-7945-1
  5. ↑ Peterjon Cresswell, Simon Evans: The Rough Guide to European Football: A Fan's Handbook . Rough Guides, London 2000, p. 321
  6. ↑ Jonathan Wilson: Behind the curtain . Orion Publishing, London 2006, p. 87
  7. ↑ Omar Gisler: Football Derbies - The 75 Most Football Crazy Cities in the World . Copress Verlag, Munich 2007, p. 50ff, ISBN 978-3-7679-0883-3
  8. ↑ Stefan Tarras: The great football clubs in the world . Copress Verlag, Munich 1989, p. 209, ISBN 3-7679-0281-8
  9. ↑ Hardy Greens: Encyclopedia of European Football Clubs. The top division teams in Europe since 1885 . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2000, pp. 457f
  10. ↑ Derby balance sheet Ferencvárosi TC - Újpest FC at magyarfutbol.hu