MTK Budapest FC

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MTK Budapest FC
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Basic data
Surname MTK Budapest FC
Seat Budapest , Hungary
founding November 16, 1888, football department: 1901
president Péter German
Website mtkbudapest.hu
First soccer team
Head coach Michael Boris
Venue Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium ,
Budapest
Places 5,014
league Nemzeti Bajnokság II
2018/19   11th place ( Nemzeti Bajnokság )
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The MTK Budapest FC is the football department of the sports club MTK Budapest from the Hungarian capital Budapest . The traditional club, founded in 1888 as Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre ( German group of  Hungarian physically capable people ), is the second most successful club in Hungarian football after Ferencváros Budapest with 23 national championships and 12 cup victories . As Budapesti Vörös Lobogó , the MTK was the first European Cup competitor from Hungary in 1956. The club colors are blue and white.

history

The association was founded on November 16, 1888 under the name MTK Budapest by members of the bourgeoisie and Judaism. Gymnastics and fencing were in the foreground at the beginning. The football department was launched in 1901. In 1904 the club became Hungarian champions for the first time. In 1905, Alfréd Brüll , a wealthy businessman, became president who remained in office until the Jewish purges in connection with fascism and the dissolution of the association in 1940. Under his leadership, the club should dominate the sport in Hungary and win 14 other championships and seven cup wins.

Goalkeepers László Domonkos and Gyula Bíró as well as Izidor Kürschner and Ferenc Nagy were among the main players in the first successes. In 1914 and 1915, the Hungarian record goalscorer Imre Schlosser and the rising young star Alfréd Schaffer joined the MTK. In 1916, the great English football pioneer Jimmy Hogan became the club's coach. His discoveries included two young players who were to become the strongest of their time, namely György Orth and József Braun . Hogan built a team according to his ideas and laid the foundations for MTK's sustained dominance in Hungarian football. On the way to the championship titles in 1917 and 1918, his team suffered a single defeat.

Just a few years after the re-establishment of the MTK Budapest in 1945, the club returned to its old strength. In the 1950s, MTK was three times champion and one cup winner. In 1955, MTK took part under the name Vörös Lobogó ("Red Banner") as the first Hungarian club in the European Cup. With Nándor Hidegkuti , Mihály Lantos and József Zakariás , three MTK players belonged to the Aranycsapat , Hungary's Golden Team , which caused a sensation worldwide from 1952 to the 1956 Hungarian uprising .

Further successes after the war were the victories in the Mitropapokal in 1955 and 1963 and the entry into the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1964. After a 3: 3 draw, the Budapest had to admit defeat in a play-off game Sporting Lisbon with 0-1. In addition, the MTK won the trophy in 1968.

Especially the Budapest Honvéd FC but also Vasas and Újpest and the arch-rival Ferencvárosi TC dominated the event in general.

It wasn't until 1987 that MTK won another championship title. Since then, four more championships and three successes in the cup have been added.

In the 2010/11 season , the club rose as the table penultimate in the second division , but managed the direct promotion.

Venue

The home of MTK Budapest was the old Nándor Hidegkuti Stadium until 2014 . It was in the 8th district and at the end had 12,700 spectators. However, UEFA only allowed 5,515 spectators to play. The stadium was built in 1912 and was previously called the Hungaria-körúti-Stadion . After being destroyed in World War II, it was rebuilt in 1947. Since 2002 the stadium has been named after the former Hungarian international Nándor Hidegkuti .

On October 13, 2016, the new Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium with 5,014 seats was inaugurated. During the renovation period, the MTK played its home games in the Bozsik-József Stadium in Honvéd Budapest .

Name changes

  • 1888–1926: Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre (hereinafter abbreviated to MTK)
  • 1926-1940: Hungária MTK FC
  • 1945–1950: MTK
  • 1950–1951: Budapesti Textiles Sport Egyesület
  • 1951–1953: Budapesti Bástya Sport Egyesület
  • 1953–1956: Budapesti Vörös Lobogó Sport Egyesület
  • 1956-1975: MTK
  • 1975–1990: MTK-Vörös Meteor Sport Kör
  • 1990-1995: MTK
  • 1995-1998: MTK FC
  • 1998-2003: MTK Hungária FC
  • Since 2003: MTK Budapest FC; women's football has kept the previous name MTK Hungária FC.

titles and achievements

player

Trainer

Other sports

The chess department of the club took part in the European Club Cup five times between 1979 and 1990 .

The club's ice hockey division participated in the Hungarian Ice Hockey League in the second half of the 1940s, winning the Hungarian Championship three times in a row between 1947 and 1949. In 1951 the game was stopped.

The tennis department won the title in the Hungarian Szuperliga in 2014.

Web links

Commons : MTK Budapest FC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of the MTK Budapest , according to the association's website.
  2. ↑ Location of the Nandor Hidegkuti Stadium
  3. ↑ MTK Hungária FC website.
  4. ↑ Szuperliga 2014 Hungarian (accessed February 15, 2015)