Vasas Budapest

Vasas Budapest
Basic data
Surname	Budapesti Vasas SC
Seat	Budapest
founding	March 16, 1911
Colours	Red Blue
Board	Miklós Nagy
Website	vasassc.hu
First soccer team
Head coach	Ferenc Bene
Venue	Illovszky Rudolf Stadium
Places	5,054
league	Nemzeti Bajnokság II
2018/19	4th Place
home Away Alternatively

Vasas Budapest is a working class district of Angyalföld in the north of Pest in the 13th century . District of the Hungarian capital Budapest . It was founded on March 16, 1911 by the Hungarian Association of Iron Workers as Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja ( German  Sports Club of Iron and Steel Workers ). The club's colors are red and blue.

The club operates, among others, the following sports: soccer , water polo , ice hockey , handball , volleyball , basketball , tennis , rowing , athletics , boxing , wrestling , fencing , skiing , ice skating , chess and hiking .

Outstanding are the sections of the footballers, who drew a lot of attention in Hungary after the Second World War , as well as the water polo players, who were among the best in the world for many years.

Changes to the club name

• 1911 Vasas Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja
• 1943 Nemzeti Kinizsi Nemzeti Nehézipari Munkások Kinizsi Sport Clubja
• 1944 Vasas Vasas Sports Club
• 1944 Nemzeti Kinizsi Nemzeti Kinizsi Sport Club
• 1945 Vasas Vasas Sport Club
• 1948 Bp. Vasas Budapesti Vasas Sport Egyesület
• 1957 Vasas Vasas Sport Club
• 1992 Vasas Vasas - Smirnoff Sport Club
• 1993 Vasas Vasas - IlzerSport Club
• 1995 Vasas Vasas Casinó Vigadó Sport Club
• 1997 Vasas Vasas Danubius Hotels Sport Club
• 2001 Vasas Vasas Sport Club
• 2003 Bp. Vasas Budapesti Vasas Sport Club

Soccer

Flyer for the game against 1. FSV Mainz 05 , 1920

The soccer team currently belongs to the second division, the Nemzeti Bajnokság II.

The team plays their home games in the Illovszky Rudolf Stadium , which after the new building has a capacity of around 5,000 spectators.

• Most spectators: 30,000 against Diósgyőr, May 28, 1972.
• Most of the spectators in the neutral place: 104,000, July 28, 1956, Budapest, Népstadion , Vasas - SK Rapid Vienna 1: 1, Mitropacup .

successes

• Hungarian Championship (6): 1957, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1977
• Hungarian Cup Winner (4): 1955, 1973, 1981, 1986
• Mitropapokal (7): 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1970, 1983

player

• Ferenc Plattkó (1914-1919, 1920)
• Gyula Lóránt (1947–1950)
• Dezső Bundzsák (1950–1964)
• Lajos Baróti (1953–1957, 1972–1974)
• Kálmán Mészöly (1959–1972)

Trainer

• Béla Guttmann (1945)
• Lajos Baróti (1953–1957, 1972–1974)
• Rudolf Illovszky (1957–1963, 1965, 1967–1969, 1974–1977, 1984–1986, 1995)
• Kálmán Mészöly (1978–1980, 1983–1984, 1988–1989, 1993–1994)
• Michael Oenning (2016-2018)
• Károly Kis (2018)

Water polo

Hungary has traditionally been a leading nation in water polo and is a record winner at world championships and Olympic Games. Vasas SC made a special contribution to this.

successes

• European Champions Cup (2): 1980, 1985
• European Cup Winners' Cup (3): 1986, 1995, 2002
• Hungarian Championship (18): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
• Hungarian Cup (14): 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005

Major players

• Bulcsú Székely , Olympic champion 2000

ice Hockey

Logo of the hockey club Vasas

Due to financial problems of the Budapest Stars , Vasas SC took control of the club in the 2010/11 season and joined the hockey club Vasas Budapest with a focus on training young players.

Web links

• Official website
• Team, lineups, results, etc. on weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.austriasoccer.at/dataold/ec/mc1956.html
2. ↑ Information on the 2010/11 season at Hockeyarchives.info