Máté Lékai

Máté Lékai (2014)

Máté Lékai at the Sparkassen-Cup 2014

Máté Lékai [ ˈmaːteː ˈleːkɒ.i ] (born June 19, 1988 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian handball player .

The 1.90 meter tall and 82 kilogram heavy middle back player was under contract with RK Celje from 2012 to 2014 . In 2013 and 2014 he won the Slovenian Cup with Celje and the championship in 2014. In the EHF Champions League he reached the round of 16 in 2012/13 and 2013/14. With Pler KC Budapest he played in the EHF Cup (2006/07, 2009/10 seasons) and in the European Cup Winners' Cup (2005/06, 2007/08, 2008/09). In 2010 he moved to Pick Szeged and took part in the Champions League in two seasons. For the 2014/15 season he moved to the Hungarian top club KC Veszprém . With Veszprém he won the championship in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 as well as the Hungarian Cup in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Máté Lékai scored 322 goals in 122 international matches for the Hungarian national team (as of December 2018); he was in Hungary's squad for the 2010 and 2014 European handball championships . In summer 2012 he took part in the Olympic Games in London .

Web links

Commons : Máté Lékai  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Profile on www.eurohandball.com
• Máté Lékai in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.mkb-mvmveszprem.hu Hírek - Lékai és Marguc Veszprémben! ( Memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Hungarian) from March 16, 2014, accessed on March 16, 2014
2. ↑ ihf.info: Hungary , accessed December 27, 2018
3. ↑ cms.eurohandball.com, accessed on January 18, 2010 (PDF; 347 kB)
4. ↑ Preliminary squad EM 2014 (as of December 10, 2013)
5. ↑ www.london2012.com: Hungary - Team Rosters , accessed August 4, 2012