Budapest Honvéd FC

The Honved FC is a Hungarian sports club from the district Kispest the XIX. District in the south-east of Budapest, which was founded in 1909 as Kispesti AC. Most famous football department, the numerous players of the Golden Team, the famous Hungarian national team of the 1950 's belonged. With 13 championships and six cup victories Honvéd one of the great traditional clubs in the country. Home of the football team is named after one of the great heroes of the association Bozsik József Stadium, which holds about 10 000 spectators. The club colors are red and black.

Numerous divisions of the association have also drawn attention to themselves. Of particular importance are the hand and water polo and basketball players and wrestlers. The chess section in 1988 and 1993 Vice European Champion and held at this time grandmaster tournaments.

  • 2.1 Football
  • 2.2 Handball
  • 2.3 Water Ball
  • 3.1 kayak and canoe
  • 3.2 rings

The Club history

Kispest AC - The Early Years

On August 10, 1908, the club was founded by the teacher Dr. Bálint Varga as Kispesti Athlétikai Club. However, the members were able to agree only on August 3, 1909, the statutes of the association. This date is now considered the official founding date. The home of the association is Kispest. Today XIX. District in the south-east of Budapest was at that time still an independent village on the outskirts of the city.

Other sports at that time were fencing, cycling, gymnastics, wrestling, athletics, boxing and tennis. In later years should handball, basketball and water polo and follow the club bring numerous successes.

As part of the professionalization of football in 1926 divided the kicker from as Kispest Football Club from the original club and were able to celebrate in the same year with the Cup win their first major success.

In the 1930s Rezső Rozgonyi and Rezső Somlai belonged - the Hungarians, participated in the Football World Cup 1934 - just as the sizes of the association such as Ferenc Puskás I, the father of the legendary Ferenc Puskás and coach of the club in the 1940s.

In 1944, the reunification of the football player with the parent club AC Kispesti under its club name.

Honved - Golden Age in the 1950s

1943 debuted both Ferenc Puskás and József Bozsik in the Black - Red. Between 1947 and 1948 the legendary Béla Guttmann coached the team.

But the dawn of the golden age of the club marked the year 1949, when the Ministry of Defence of the communist state now been converted into the club for army club. Behind the state of the national coach Gusztáv Sebes, who held the office of Deputy Defense Minister. The inspiration of Sebes came from the Austrian miracle team of the 1930s and the Italian national football team became world champions twice in the same decade. Both team based on players who were primarily recruited from only one or two big clubs.

Kispest was incorporated now in Budapest and was renamed Honved SE. The name component Honvéd refers to the name of the Hungarian army, Honvédség, and means something like defensists, which is also a common name for a corporal. SE is again the usual abbreviation for sports club

Hungary's Golden Team

The right of the army conscription allowed Sándor Kocsis, Zoltán László Budai Czibor and Ferencvárosi TC, Gyula Lóránt from Vasas SC and to delegate the goalkeeper Gyula Grosics about the club, which is thus the backbone of the national team, the Golden Team which the football world of the first half of the 1950s as dominated, was formed.

Honvéd won in the first half of 1950 equal to five championships and was in Europe in the era before the introduction of European Cup competitions a coveted private game partner. In 1956 the club at the European Cup of Champion Clubs' part, and after the Erstrundenhinspiel at Atletico Bilbao, which was lost with 2:3, took the 1956 uprising its beginning. The players decided not to return to Hungary and return match was played at Heysel Stadium in Brussels. Early on there was injured goalkeeper Grosics and Czibor took over his position between the posts. The game ended 3-3 and Hungary eliminated from the competition.

Afterwards, the players refused to return to Hungary and many called their families in the West. The former coach Honvéd Guttmann took the time being the training and also organized a tour through Italy, Portugal and Spain to keep the players financially afloat.

Instead, the team took part in a tournament in Rio de Janeiro in part with the teams of CR Flamengo and Botafogo FR. Guttmann remained in Brazil and was for the time being a successful coach of São Paulo FC.

Meanwhile completed the FIFA from the team of any game mode and prohibited the use of the name Honvéd. Finally, József Bozsik, László Budai, Gyula Gyula Grosics Lóránt and returned to Hungary while other players such as Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and Ferenc Puskás tried their luck in the West and often also found.

After these events, the club was considerably weakened and escaped relegation in 1957 only because of the association increased this league. New successes came only sparse. With emerging players such as Lajos Tichy and Lajos Kocsis you just won the Mitropa Cup in 1959 and the Hungarian Cup in 1964 once.

New achievements in the 1980s

After a quarter century of interruption Honvéd won in 1980 under coach Lajos Tichy again, now heading a national championship. Up to and including 1996, the club won with players such as Imre Garaba, Kálmán Kovács, Lajos Détári, János Mátyus, Béla Illés, Gábor István Vincze Halmai and a total of seven championships and three times the Cup, including the doubles in 1985 and 1989.

After the end of the communist era in Hungary in 1991, the Association renamed based on the period prior to the acquisition by the Department of Defense in Kispest Honvéd FC. Only slowly and end up very dramatically but began a decline which culminated in 2003 in the first relegation from the Premier League, although the managed a Instant comeback the following season. The company Kispest Honvéd Sports Circle which in those years the club took over was the victim of their controversial financial management and went into bankruptcy in 2004.

After the eventual resolution of Kispest Honvéd was founded in the aftermath of the Honved FC which the starting place Kispests in the Nemzeti National Championship I of the first Hungarian Football League awarded got from the Hungarian Association - under the condition that the old tax debt of Kispest Honvéd be adopted. In 2007, after more than a decade with the Cup win and once again a sporty hit one, but Honvéd difference in the following UEFA Cup competition already in the qualifiers against Hamburger SV from.

Known player

  • Hungarian József Bozsik
  • Hungarian László Budai
  • Hungarian Zoltán Czibor
  • Hungarian Lajos Détári
  • Hungarian Gábor Egressy
  • Hungarian Imre Garaba
  • Hungarian Gyula Grosics
  • Hungarian Gábor Halmai
  • Hungarian Miklós Herczeg
  • Hungarian Béla Illés
  • Hungarian Lajos Kocsis
  • Hungarian Sándor Kocsis
  • Hungarian Antal Kotász
  • Hungarian Kálmán Kovács
  • Hungarian Gyula Lóránt
  • Frenchman Hungarian István Nyers
  • Hungarian Ferenc Machos
  • Hungarian János Mátyus
  • Ungar Emil Östreicher
  • Ungar Romania Vasile Miriuţă
  • Hungarian Ferenc Puskás I
  • Hungarian Ferenc Puskás Spanish II
  • Ungar Rezső Rozgonyi
  • Ungar Rezső Somlai
  • Hungarian Lajos Tichy
  • Hungarian Sándor Torghelle
  • Hungarian István Vincze
  • Hungarian Krisztián Vadócz
  • Hungarian Gábor Sikesdi

Known coach

  • 1949 Hungary Ferenc Puskás I: 194x - 1947, 1948-1951
  • Hungary Béla Guttmann 1946: 1947-1948, 1957
  • Hungary 1949 Jenő Kalmár: 1952-1956
  • 1957 Hungary Gyula Lóránt: 1962-1963
  • 1957 Hungary József Bozsik: 1966-1967
  • Hungary Lajos Tichy 1957: 1976-1982
  • Hungary Imre Komora: 1982-1986, 1987, 1997-1998, 1999
  • Finland Martti Kuusela: 1992-1994
  • Hungary Lajos Détári: 2002
  • Italy Aldo Dolcetti: 2005-2007

Achievements

Football

  • Hungarian Championship ( 13): 1949/50, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993
  • Hungarian Cup Winner ( 7): 1926, 1964, 1985, 1989, 1996, 2007, 2009
  • Mitropa Cup: 1959

Handball

  • Europe Champions Cup Winner: 1982
  • Finalist: 1966

Water polo

  • Euro League Winner: 2004
  • Runners-up: 2002, 2003, 2005

Other well-known athletes

Kayak and Canoe

  • István Bee, a multiple world champion
  • Gábor Horváth, multiple world champion
  • Roland Kökény, world champion
  • Ferenc Novák, 2000 Olympic champion, multiple world champion
  • Botond Storcz, three -time Olympic champion (2000, 2004)
  • Ákos Vereckei, two -time Olympic champion (2000, 2004), a multiple world champion

Wrestling

  • János Varga, wrestler, Olympic Champion 1968
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