Hungarian national football team

This article is about the Hungarian men's national football team . For the women's team, see Hungarian Women's National Football Team .

Hungary
Magyarország

Association	Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség
confederacy	UEFA
Technical sponsor	Adidas
Head coach	Marco Rossi (since 2018)
captain	Balázs Dzsudzsák
Record scorer	Ferenc Puskás (84)
Record player	Balázs Dzsudzsák and Gábor Király (108 each)
Home stadium	Puskás Aréna
FIFA code	HUN
FIFA rank	37th (1468.75 points) (as of May 27, 2021)
home Away
Balance sheet
977 games 458 wins 210 draws 309 defeats
statistics
First international match Austria 5-0 Hungary ( Vienna , Austria ; October 12, 1902)
Biggest victories Russia 0:12 Hungary ( Moscow , Russia ; July 14, 1912) Hungary 13: 1 France ( Budapest , Hungary ; June 12, 1926) Albania 0:12 Hungary ( Tirana , Albania ; September 24, 1950)
Biggest defeat Netherlands 8-1 Hungary ( Amsterdam , Netherlands ; October 11, 2013)
Successes in tournaments
World Championship
Participation in the finals	9 ( first : 1934 )
Best results	Second place in 1938 , 1954
European Championship
Participation in the finals	3 ( first : 1964 )
Best results	Third place in 1964
Olympic games gold 1952 bronze 1960 gold 1964 gold 1968 silver 1972
(As of June 4, 2021)

The Hungarian national football team is organized by the Hungarian Football Association ( Hungarian: Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség ). She stood in 1938 and 1954 in the World Cup - Finals .

history

Cumulative victory rate of the Hungarian national team

Beginnings

The game against Austria in Vienna on October 12, 1902 was the first international match played between two non-British European opponents. This duel has taken place over 100 new editions so far, only the duel Argentina-Uruguay took place more often.

Due to the very early professionalization of the Hungarian football league in the 1920s as one of the first countries in continental Europe, Hungarian football achieved a leading position in Europe between the 30s and 60s. This was already evident at the 1938 World Cup in France, when under coach Károly Dietz they easily played their way into the final with 5: 1 goals, but were defeated there by 2: 4 to the reigning world champions Italy.

Golden Elf

→ Main article : Golden Elf

After the Second World War, the Hungarian team, the so-called golden team ( Aranycsapat ), dominated world football. In 1949 Gusztáv Sebes was appointed national coach for Hungary. With captain Ferenc Puskás he formed the national team into the best Hungarian team that ever existed. The line-up of the team was known in specialist and fan circles all over Europe: Grosics , Buzánszky , Lóránt , Lantos , Bozsik , Zakariás , Budai , Kocsis , Hidegkuti , Puskás , Czibor . Hungary was one of those things. also the first non-British national team to beat England on English soil. This happened on November 25, 1953 at Wembley with an unexpected 6: 3. In Hungary this game is still regarded as the “game of the century”. The following year England was defeated again, this time 7-1 in Budapest . This is England's biggest defeat to date. From May 14, 1950 to July 4, 1954, the Hungarian national team remained unbeaten in 31 official international matches in a row until they lost to Germany in the World Cup final . This record was only set almost forty years later by Argentina , which from 1991 to 1993 also managed a series of 31 unbeaten internationals. Even after the defeat in 1954, Hungary remained unbeaten for two years.

Triggered by the popular uprising of 1956 against Soviet dominance in Hungary and the subsequent flight of many stars of Hungarian football abroad, a noticeable decline was triggered. Hungarian football never recovered from this event.

After 1956

In the 1960s, a young generation of Hungarian footballers emulating the stars of the Golden Team of the 1950s, with some outstanding performances in 1962 in Chile and 1966 in England, made it to the quarter-finals of the World Cup twice and came third at the 1964 European Championship. For example, at the World Cup in England in 1966, Brazil, who otherwise dominated with three World Cup titles between 1958 and 1970, was eliminated with a 3-1 victory despite such outstanding opposing players as Garrincha , Tostão , Gilmar , Djalma Santos or Jairzinho . During this time, Hungary won Olympic gold in the very important Olympic football tournaments in the communist countries in 1952 , 1964 and 1968 . A last major success could be celebrated with a fourth place at the European Championships in 1972. Since then, however, the Hungarian national football team has tried in vain to build on their past successes.

Today Hungary is a less feared opponent who has not been able to reach the World Cup finals since 1986 , and from 1972 to 2012 no European Championship finals. In 2006, for example, they lost 2-1 to Malta during qualifying for the Euro 2008 . On August 22, 2007, however, the team surprisingly defeated world champions Italy 3-1 in a friendly match at the Ferenc Puskas Stadium in Budapest .

Hungary's goal for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers was to qualify for a World Cup for the first time since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . In order to achieve this goal, Hungary had signed Erwin Koeman as national coach. However, Hungary were drawn with Portugal , Sweden and Denmark, three strong opponents, against whom they could not prevail in the end.

After missing qualification for the 2014 World Cup under Sándor Egervári , Attila Pintér became the new national coach in December 2013. He should lead the team in the qualification for the European Championship 2016 . After the 1: 2 opening defeat against Northern Ireland , Pintér has already been dismissed. Interim successor was Pál Dárdai . In December 2014 it was announced that Dárdai - in addition to his work as head coach of Hertha BSC's U-15s - is expanding his involvement as Hungarian national coach until November 2015 and will thus be in charge of the Hungarian national football team for the rest of the rest of the European Championship qualification . Meanwhile, he was also appointed coach of the professional team at Berlin Hertha and thus worked in a double function. In the summer of 2015, he gave up his position as national coach. His successor was the German sports director of the Hungarian Football Association, Bernd Storck , who also had a double function (sports director and national coach). Under Storck, Hungary took third place in the table behind Northern Ireland and arch-rival Romania. The Hungarian national team initially remained the best third in the group, before Turkey challenged their direct starting position with a 1-0 win against Iceland and the simultaneous defeat of Latvia against bottom- of-the-table Kazakhstan . The Magyars had not succeeded in doing this for 44 years.

In April 2016, Hungary achieved its best position in the FIFA world rankings with 18th place ; a little later, goalkeeper Gábor Király became the country's sole record player with 102 appearances. In March 2019, midfielder Balázs Dzsudzsák also moved up to the "Hundred Club". The team ended the European Championship group stage in France as the undefeated winner, ahead of Iceland and the third-placed Portuguese, but then failed in the round of 16 against Belgium. While Hungary also missed qualifying for a World Cup in 2018 at the eighth attempt since 1986, the ticket for a European Championship was drawn for the second time in a row in autumn 2020 ; Dominik Szoboszlai scored the decisive goal in the play-offs against Iceland . After being promoted to League B in the 2018/19 UEFA Nations League, Hungary went straight to the next promotion to League A in the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League .

Current squad

The following players are in the squad for the friendlies against Cyprus and Ireland on June 4 and 8, 2021, which is also the provisional squad for the 2021 European Championship . It was the first nomination for János Hahn, Szabolcs Schön and Csaba Spandler.

No.	Surname	society	Date of birth	Calls	Gates	debut	Last use
goalkeeper
	Ádám Bogdán	Ferencváros Budapest	27 Sep 1987	20th	00	gg. Luxembourg , June 3, 2011	vs. Croatia , March 26, 2016
	Dénes Dibusz	Ferencváros Budapest	Nov 16, 1990	14th	00	vs. Russia , November 18, 2014	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Péter Gulácsi	RB Leipzig	May 6, 1990	37	00	vs. Denmark , May 22, 2014	vs. Poland , March 25, 2021
	Balázs Tóth	Puskás Akadémia FC	4th Sep 1997	00	00
Defense
	Bendegúz Bolla	Fehérvár FC	Nov 22, 1999	00	00
	Endre Botka	Ferencváros Budapest	Aug 25, 1994	09	00	vs. Sweden , November 15, 2016	vs. San Marino , March 28, 2021
	Attila Fiola	Fehérvár FC	Aug 25, 1994	34	01	vs. Russia , November 18, 2014	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Szilveszter Hangya	Fehérvár FC	Jan. 2, 1994	10	00	vs. Sweden , November 15, 2016	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Ákos Kecskés	FC Lugano	Jan. 4, 1996	01	00	vs. Serbia , November 15, 2020	vs. Serbia , November 15, 2020
	Ádám Lang	Omonia Nicosia	Jan. 17, 1993	37	01	vs. Denmark , May 22, 2014	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Gergő Lovrencsics	Ferencváros Budapest	Sep 1 1988	40	01	vs. Kuwait , June 6, 2013	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Loïc Nego	Fehérvár FC	Jan 15, 1991	09	02	vs. Bulgaria , October 8, 2020	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Willi Orban	RB Leipzig	Nov 3, 1992	20th	05	gg. Greece , October 12, 2018	vs. San Marino , March 28, 2021
	Csaba Spandler	Puskás Akadémia FC	March 7, 1996	00	00
	Attila Szalai	Fenerbahçe Istanbul	Jan. 20, 1998	11	00	vs. Uruguay , November 15, 2019	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
midfield
	Tamás Cseri	Mezőkövesd-Zsóry SE	Jan 15, 1988	03	00	vs. Russia , September 6, 2020	vs. San Marino , March 28, 2021
	Daniel Gazdag	Honvéd Budapest	March 2, 1996	06th	01	vs. Montenegro , September 5, 2019	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	László Kleinheisler	NK Osijek	Apr 8, 1994	32	03	vs. Croatia , March 26, 2016	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Ádám Nagy	Bristol City	June 17, 1995	46	01	vs. Croatia , March 26, 2016	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	András Schäfer	DAC Dunajská Streda	Apr 13, 1999	04th	00	vs. Turkey , September 3, 2020	vs. Serbia , November 15, 2020
	Dávid Sigér	Ferencváros Budapest	Nov 30, 1990	12th	01	vs. Montenegro , September 5, 2019	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
attack
	János Hahn	Paksi FC	March 15, 1995	00	00
	Filip Holender	FK Partizan Belgrade	July 27, 1994	14th	01	vs. Finland , November 18, 2018	vs. Turkey , November 18, 2020
	Nemanja Nikolics	Fehérvár FC	Dec 31, 1987	37	08th	vs. Andorra , October 15, 2013	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Roland Sallai	Sc freiburg	May 22, 1997	22nd	04th	vs. Ivory Coast , May 20, 2016	vs. San Marino , March 28, 2021
	Szabolcs Nice	FC Dallas	27 Sep 2000	00	00
	Ádám Szalai	1. FSV Mainz 05	Dec 9, 1987	70	23	vs. Russia , March 3, 2010	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Kevin Varga	Kasımpaşa Istanbul	June 30, 1996	06th	01	gg. Australia , June 9, 2018	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021
	Roland Varga	MTK Budapest	Jan. 23, 1990	21	03	vs. Denmark , May 22, 2014	vs. Andorra , March 31, 2021

→ Main article : European Football Championship 2021 / Hungary

successes

• Olympic gold medal (3): 1952 , 1964 , 1968
• Olympic silver medal (1): 1972
• Olympic bronze medal (1): 1960
• Vice World Champion (2): 1938 , 1954
• European Cup (1): 1948-1953
• Second in the European Cup (2): 1955 to 1960
• Kirin Cup (1): 1993

Participation of Hungary in the soccer world championship

→ Main article : Hungarian National Football Team / World Championships

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Trainer	Comments and special features
1930	Uruguay	not participated
1934	Italy	Quarter finals	Austria	6th	Ödön Nádas
1938	France	final	Italy	Vice world champion	Alfréd Schaffer
1950	Brazil	not participated
1954	Switzerland	final	Germany	Vice world champion	Gusztáv Sebes	Miracle by Bern Sándor Kocsis top scorer
1958	Sweden	Preliminary round	Sweden , Wales , Mexico	10	Lajos Baroti	Failed in the playoff against Wales
1962	Chile	Quarter finals	Czechoslovakia	5	Lajos Baroti	Like 5 other players, Flórián Albert scores the most goals (4 each)
1966	England	Quarter finals	USSR	6th	Lajos Baroti
1970	Mexico	not qualified				Failed in the qualification against Czechoslovakia
1974	BR Germany	not qualified				Failed in the qualification to Sweden
1978	Argentina	Preliminary round	Argentina , Italy , France	15th	Lajos Baroti
1982	Spain	Preliminary round	El Salvador , Argentina , Belgium	14th	Kálmán Mészöly	The 10: 1 against El Salvador is the highest victory in a men's World Cup
1986	Mexico	Preliminary round	USSR , Canada , France	18th	György Mezey
1990	Italy	not qualified				In the qualification of Spain and Ireland failed
1994	United States	not qualified				In the qualification of Greece and Russia failed
1998	France	not qualified				In the qualification of Norway and in the relegation of Yugoslavia failed
2002	South Korea / Japan	not qualified				In the qualification of Italy and Romania failed
2006	Germany	not qualified				In the qualification of Sweden and Croatia failed
2010	South Africa	not qualified				In the qualification of Denmark and Portugal failed
2014	Brazil	not qualified				In the qualification to the Netherlands and Romania failed.
2018	Russia	not qualified				In the qualification of Portugal and Switzerland failed.
2022	Qatar	Qualification is in progress

Participation of Hungary in the European Cup of National Football Teams

• Fourth place 1927–1930
• Third place 1931–1932
• Third place 1933–1935
• Tournament 1936–1938 had to be canceled
• European Cup winner 1948–1953
• Second place 1955–1960

Participation of Hungary in the European Football Championship

→ Main article : Hungarian national football team / European championships

Hungary reached the finals twice with four participants and never qualified for a final with eight or 16 participants. In 2015 the qualification for the 2016 final with 24 participants succeeded.

year	Host country	Participation until ...	Last opponent	Result	Comments and special features
1960	France	not qualified			In the second round at the eventual winners USSR failed.
1964	Spain	3rd place match	Denmark	Third	In the semifinals, Hungary only lost in extra time against the hosts and eventual European champions Spain
1968	Italy	not qualified			In the quarter-finals later in the Fourth USSR failed.
1972	Belgium	3rd place match	Belgium	Fourth	In the semifinals, Hungary failed again at the USSR
1976	Yugoslavia	not qualified			In the qualification of Wales failed, could not qualify for the final round.
1980	Italy	not qualified			In the qualification of Greece failed
1984	France	not qualified			In the qualification of Denmark failed
1988	BR Germany	not qualified			In qualifying at the eventual winners the Netherlands failed
1992	Sweden	not qualified			In the qualification of the USSR failed.
1996	England	not qualified			In qualifying at the Switzerland and Turkey failed.
2000	Netherlands and Belgium	not qualified			In the qualification of Romania and Portugal failed.
2004	Portugal	not qualified			In the qualification of Sweden and Latvia failed.
2008	Austria and Switzerland	not qualified			In the qualification of Greece and Turkey failed.
2012	Poland and Ukraine	not qualified			In the qualification to the Netherlands and Sweden failed.
2016	France	Round of 16	Belgium	0: 4	In qualification victory in the playoffs of the third group against Norway . Group stage of the finals completed as group winners.
2021	Europe	qualified	Portugal , France , Germany		Qualified for the play-offs through the Nations League and secured participation in the European Championship after beating Bulgaria in the semi-finals and against Iceland in the final .

Participation in the Summer Olympics

See also : Football at the Olympics

1908 in London	withdrawn
1912 in Stockholm	Quarterfinals, Consolation Round Winner
1920 in Antwerp	not participated
1924 in Paris	Round of 16
1928 in Amsterdam	not participated
1936 in Berlin	Round of 16
1948 in London	not participated
1952 in Helsinki	Olympic champion
1956 in Melbourne	canceled after qualification
1960 in Rome	Third
1964 in Tokyo	Olympic champion
1968 in Mexico City	Olympic champion
1972 in Munich	Second
1976 in Montreal	not qualified
1980 in Moscow	not qualified

Records and famous games

• 4 years unbeaten (1950–1954). In the “ Miracle of Bern ” (World Cup final in 1954), Germany was the first team to beat Hungary since 1950.
• Biggest World Cup victory of all time in a 10-1 win against El Salvador at the 1982 World Cup (biggest defeat for El Salvador)
  • The following countries also suffered their biggest World Cup defeat against Hungary:
    • Egypt (2: 4 on May 27, 1934, also a 1: 3 against Russia in 2018)
    • Bulgaria (1: 6 on June 3, 1962, also a 1: 6 against Spain in 1998)
    • Germany (3: 8 on June 20, 1954)
    • Canada (0-2 on June 6, 1986, and a 2-0 draw against the USSR three days later)
    • Netherlands Indies (0-6 June 5, 1938)
    • South Korea (0: 9 on June 17, 1954)
• November 25, 1953: Hungary became the first non-British team in England to win against England (6: 3).
• May 23, 1954: England lost 7-1 to Hungary in Budapest , England's biggest defeat to date.
• The following countries also suffered their biggest defeats against Hungary:
  • Albania (12:12 am on September 24, 1950)
  • Greece (1:11 on March 25, 1938)
  • Italy (1: 7 on April 6, 1924)
  • Romania (0: 9 on June 6, 1948)
  • Switzerland (0: 9 on October 29, 1911)
  • Czechoslovakia (3: 8 on September 19, 1937, 0: 5 on April 30, 1950 and October 19, 1952)

Record player

Ferenc Puskás and his predecessor Imre Schlosser were not only record Hungarian players with 81 to 85 and 42 to 68 internationals, but also world record holders .

• As of November 18, 2020

rank	Surname	Calls	Gates	position	Period	World Cup games	Orienteering games	EM games	Record national player
01.	Balázs Dzsudzsák	108	21	midfield	2007–0000			4th	since November 19, 2019
	Gábor Király	108	0	goal	1998-2016			4th	since May 20, 2016
03.	József Bozsik †	101	11	midfield	1947-1962	8th	5		December 22, 1957 to May 20, 2016
04th	Zoltán Gera	97	26th	midfield	2002-2017			4th
05.	Roland Juhász	95	6th	Defense	2004-2016			3
06th	László Fazekas	92	24	attack	1968-1983	4th
07th	Gyula Grosics †	86	0	goal	1947-1962	11	5
08th.	Ferenc Puskás †	85	84	attack	1945-1956	3	5		May 29, 1955 to December 22, 1957
09.	Imre Garaba	82	3	Defense	1980-1991	6th
10.	Sándor Mátrai †	81	0	Defense	1956-1967	12th		1

Record goal scorers

Hungary, along with Brazil, have the largest number of players who have scored at least 50 international goals. Only Ali Daei (109) and Cristiano Ronaldo (85) scored more international goals than Ferenc Puskás , who replaced Imre Schlosser as the Hungarian record goal scorer and top scorer in the world on November 25, 1953 in the 6-3 victory of the Golden Elf against England . It was not until November 28, 2003 that Ali beat Daei Puskás' record. The best active goal scorers are Zoltán Gera with 26 and Balázs Dzsudzsák with 20 goals.

rank	Surname	Gates	Calls	Quota	Period	World Cup goals	Orienteering gates
01.	Ferenc Puskás †	84	85	0.98	1945-1956	4th	4th
02.	Sándor Kocsis †	75	68	1.10	1948-1956	11	6th
03.	Imre Schlosser †	59	68	0.87	1906-1927		4th
04th	Lajos Tichy †	51	72	0.71	1955-1971	7th
05.	György Sárosi †	42	62	0.68	1931-1943	6th
06th	Nándor Hidegkuti †	39	69	0.57	1945-1958	4th	1
07th	Ferenc Bene †	36	76	0.47	1962-1979	4th
08th.	Gyula Zsengellér †	32	39	0.82	1936-1947	5
	Tibor Nyilasi	32	70	0.46	1975-1985	2
10.	Flórián Albert †	31	75	0.41	1966-1972	4th

Known players

• Zoltán Czibor
• Lajos Détari
• Miklós Fehér
• Zsolt Petry
• László Kubala
• Pál Dárdai
• Krisztián Lisztes
• Imre Szabics
• Attila Tököli
• Attila Dragoons
• Szabolcs Huszti
• Ákos Buzsáky
• Vilmos Vanczák
• Zsolt Lőw
• Zoltán Szélesi

Trainer (selection)

• Károly Dietz (1934-1939)
• Gusztáv Sebes (1949–1957)
• Lajos Baróti (1957–1966, 1975–1978)
• Kálmán Mészöly (1980–1983, 1990–1991, 1994–1995)
• Emerich Jenei (1992-1993)
• Lothar Matthäus (2004-2005)
• Pál Dárdai (2014-2015)
• Bernd Storck (2015-2017)
• Georges Leekens (2017-2018)
• Marco Rossi (2018-)

See also

• List of Hungarian national football players
• List of international matches for the Hungarian national football team
• Hungarian national football team (U-17 juniors)
• Hungarian national football team (U-20 men)

Web links

Commons : Hungarian National Football Team  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Hungarian national football team (Hungarian / English )
• Hungarian national football team in the database of Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség (English / Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking. In: fifa.com. May 27, 2021, accessed June 2, 2021 . 
2. ^ Dietz, Károly. In: Tom Dunmore, Andrew Donaldson: Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, p. 199 ( digitized version ).
3. ↑ EM 2016: Pinter takes over the helm in Hungary, Pankratjevas in Lithuania. em2016-frankreich.net, January 3, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2014 . 
4. ↑ kicker.de: Pinter fired - Dardai becomes Hungary's interim coach (September 18, 2014)
5. ↑ Pal Dardai remains coach of the Hungarian national team , official website of Hertha BSC, accessed and published on December 9, 2014
6. ↑ The development of Hungary in the FIFA world rankings
7. ↑ Eb 2020: Bogdán visszatér, Schön és Hahn is a névsorban - megvan Rossi bő kerete , nemzetisporthu, accessed on May 19, 2021 (Hungarian)
8. ↑ ^{a b} Status: March 31, 2021
9. ↑ The placements from 5th place onwards were determined by FIFA without any placement games. See: All-time FIFA World Cup Ranking 1930–2010 (PDF; 200 kB)
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e} FIFA does not count the five games at the 1952 Olympic Games as A-internationals, whereas the Hungarian Federation counts them as A-internationals. Three of them were against senior national teams (Yugoslavia, Romania and Sweden), the other two against amateur teams (Italy and Turkey)
11. ↑ FIFA does not count the four games at the 1952 Olympic Games as A-internationals, whereas the Hungarian Federation counts them as A-internationals. Three of them were against senior national teams (Yugoslavia, Romania and Sweden), the other against an amateur team (Italy)
12. ^ Dietz, Károly. In: Tom Dunmore, Andrew Donaldson: Encyclopedia of the FIFA World Cup. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, p. 199.