Teams ID: MTK Budapest FC

"Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club or shortly MTK is a football from Budapest, Hungary. The team plays in the first division of the Hungarian League. The club's colours are blue and white. As one of the most successful Hungarian football clubs, MTK has won the Hungarian League 23 times and the Hungarian Cup 12 times. The club has also won the Hungarian Super Cup 2 times. In 1955, as Vörös Lobogó SE, they became the first Hungarian team to play in the European Cup and in 1964 they finished as runners-up in the European Cup Winners' Cup after losing to Sporting Clube de Portugal in the final.
The club founded the Sándor Károly Football Academy in 2001. The Academy also has a partnership agreement with Liverpool."
"MTK also played a major role in the success of the legendary Hungary team known as the Mighty Magyars. While Budapest Honvéd provided the team with a nucleus of players, it was Márton Bukovi at MTK who developed the vital 4–2–4 formation, later adopted by national coach Gusztáv Sebes, himself a former MTK player. It was also at MTK that Bukovi together with, Péter Palotás and Nándor Hidegkuti, also pioneered the crucial deep lying centre-forward position".( Wikipedia )


"The teams plays at the Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium in Budapest, Hungary. The stadium currently is under reconsctruction. The former Hidegkuti stadium could hold 12,700 people.
The stadium was used in the film Escape to Victory or known simply as Victory in North America. "
( Wikipedia ).

Club's official website: http://mtkhungaria.hu/

OtpBankLiga Day 2 review

During the weekend day 2 of the OtpBankLiga took place, here's the complete set of results:

Match day 2 confirmed that Ferencvaros are by far the best team in this beginning of the season, the victory against Diosgyor could have been way larger. Fradi scores at will with different players as the attacking game play involves all the team, this is a very important feature that will be very useful troughout the season if they keep playing like this. The elimination from Europa League has to be seen as an advantage, as crazy as it may sound, for a club that now has only one goal on the table.
Honved shares the top of the table as well, thanks to a heavy success against city rivals MTK, yes they struggle and yes the winner came late in the game but the persistence with which they chased it, it is good news for Marco Rossi's squad.
Ujpest won the other derby of the day against Vasas. The 1-3 final scores is probably too severe for the red and blues as they pushed to score all 90 minutes. Their problems lie in defence. Ujpest redeemed itself from the 0-0 home game against Paksi last week thanks to David, Salloi and Sankovic and versus Bekescsaba they will have a chance to make their table even better.
Paksi trashed Bekescsaba, and although the final scores of 4-0 materialized only in the last 20 minutes, the game was never an even contest.
The biggest surprise of the day was Haladas away victory in Fehervar against Videoton thanks to an unfortunate Juhasz own goal. To be fair, Vidi didn't deserve to lose, but probably Champions League 3rd round against BATE tonight, affected players minds therefore bringing lack of concentration.
Precious tie game for Puskas FC thanks to a stunning Laszlo Pekar goal from outside the box, the stop for Debrecen came as a surprise after the 9 goals scored in Europa League few days before. Perhaps the European cup drained Loki's energy but they

 better get in good shape for Thursday match against Rosenborg.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Honved-MTK
Paksi-Bekescsaba
Videoton-Haladas
Vasas-Ujpest
Debrecen-PuskasFC
Ferencvaros-Diosgyor

The new ranking portraits Fradi and Honved on top, followed by Paksi,Ujpest and Debrecen. Videoton still at the bottom with newly promoted Vasas and Bekescsaba with 0 points.

Next round biggest game will be Honved vs Debrecen and of course Budapest derby Vasas vs Fradi.
In the middle of the ranking Bekescsaba and MTK will try to get points to reach the high zones.

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Teams ID: Szombathelyi Haladás

"Szombathelyi Haladás is a Hungarian football club based in Szombathely. Haladás is the Hungarian word for progress. The club, which was founded in 1919...Haladás reached the Hungarian Cup final in the years 1975, 1993 and 2002. Since its first promotion in 1936 the club has spent 51 seasons in the first division of the Hungarian league, the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (NB I)."
"In the 2008-09 season Haladás reached the best rank ever in the history of the team. The club won the bronze medal and got the right to start the qualification rounds in the Europa League."( Wikipedia )




"Haladás plays at the Rohonci Street Stadium situated in Szombathely, Hungary. Its capacity is 9,500 and it was built in 1923. It hosted the hammer throw events for the IAAF World Athletics Final...
..
On 29 January 2015, it was revealed that the capacity of the new UEFA IV category stadium will be 8,000. The new stadium will host the museum of the club, buffets, shop, skyboxes, V.I.P. and media sectors, as well. Next to the new stadium a sports hall will be built which will be able to host 500 spectators.
On 13 July 2015, new plans of the future stadium were released by Nemzeti Sport. Csaba Hende, minister of National Defense, said that the new stadium will be the home for the 12 departments of Haladás"( Wikipedia )

Team's official website: http://haladasfc.nyugat.hu/tartalom/

European Cups

European cups in these days, Videoton in Uefa Champions League and Debrecen and Ferencvaros in UEFA Europa League were busy trying to go through the international competitions.

The team from Székesfehérvár had a great advantage as they were facing Welsh side The New Saints strong of the 0-1 victory obtained in the UK one week earlier. Unfortunately disappointed fans saw their team playing a shallow game, never trying to impose their gameplay and limiting their actions to a useless passing game that eventually led to a TNS goal, therefore prolonging the contest to Extra Time. There, it was the usual Gyurcso to solve the pickle, scoring the goal that sends Videoton through the third round.
In the end the score matters and Vidi are still in the biggest european competion, but better change their attitude next round when they will face a very difficult task playing against FC BATE Borisov from Bielorus.
HIGHLIGHTS

In UEFA Europa League, Ferencvaros had a difficult game having lost first leg home by 0-1. The match turned out to be a Waterloo for Fradi, still not ready for the kind of pressure and commitment that such competions demand. Defeated 2-0 by Zeljeznicar, the hungarians get out of Europe football wise, hoping to turn the bad outcome into a positive load of experince next time they walk the field in a european cup.
HIGHLIGHTS

Triumph for Debrecen as they trashed Latvian side Skonto Riga 9-2!! All right opposition wasn't challenging enough and it is still a preliminary round, yet DVSC's performane brought back to memory that famous 10-1 that a sparkling Hungarian national team imposed to El Salvador in the 1982 WC in Spain.
Load of self awareness for "Loki", they look like Hungary's best hope to reach the Group phase after so many years. Well done guys!
Next match will be against Norwegian team  Rosenborg BK, in these days far away relative of the strong side of the early 2000's.
HIGHLIGHTS

Teams ID: Ferencvárosi TC

"Ferencvárosi Torna Club is a Hungarian professional sports club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that plays in the Hungarian League. Ferencváros was founded in 1899 by Ferenc Springer and a group of local residents of Budapest's ninth district, Ferencváros.^[1] Ferencváros is best known internationally for winning the 1964–65 season of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup^[2] and for reaching the final of the 1974–75 season of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup." ( Wikipedia )
"The best-known part of the club is the well-supported men's football team – the most popular team in the country." ( Wikipedia )

"The club colours are green and white, and the club mascot is a green eagle; hence another of the club's nicknames, "The Green Eagles". ( Wikipedia )

The team plays in a 22.000 seats stadium: The Groupama Arena, rated UEFA category 4 stars.
"Groupama Arena is a multi-purpose stadium in Budapest, Hungary and the home of Ferencvárosi TC. With a capacity of 23,698, Groupama Arena is the second largest stadium in Hungary after Ferenc Puskás Stadium. The stadium lies on the ground of Albert Flórián Stadium, the club's former stadium, which was demolished in 2013." ( Wikipedia )

"On 7 August 2014, The Fradi Museum was opened. The visitors to the museum can get acquinted with the history of Ferencváros. Cups, trophies and flags can be seen at the museum such as Flórián Albert's 1967 Ballon d'Or, the trophy of the 1937 Mitropa Cup, Tibor Nyilasi's Silver shoe, and the trophy of the 1965 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final along with many other trophies and cups in connection with the club can be seen." ( Wikipedia )

Team official web site: http://www.fradi.hu/http://www.fradi.hu/

Teams ID: Diósgyőri VTK

"Diósgyőr-Vasgyári Testgyakorlók Köre is a Hungarian sports club from Diósgyőr district of Miskolc best known for its football team. Founded in 1910 by the local working class youth, the team plays in the first division of the Hungarian League and has spent most of its history in the top tier of Hungarian football. Diósgyőr is best known for its passionate supporters – in the past years Diósgyőr had one of the highest average attendances in the Hungarian top division." ( Wikipedia ).


The team plays in a 11.000 seats stadium: DVTK Stadion
"On 10 September 2014, the Diósgyőri Stadionrekonstrukciós Ltd. and Ministry of Human Resource (in Hungarian: Emberi Erőforrások Minisztériuma) signed the contract in connection with the reconstruction of the new stadium...The new stadium will be able to host 15,325 spectators. There will be 19 skyboxes, 13 buffets." ( Wikipedia ).

www.NB1.hu

http://www.nemzetisport.hu

 Team's official web site: http://dvtk.eu/http://dvtk.eu/

OtpBankLiga Day 1 review

During the weekend day 1 of the OtpBankLiga took place, here's the complete set of results:

No surprises in the first round of the league if you consider Videoton not at their last season standards right now. Newly promoted Bekescsaba went close to a stunning victory against Debrecen, up 2-1 they saw their opponent coming back and in the last minute, thanks to a freekick by Korhut, securing a very important away victory. Last minute goal for Ferencvaros as well with new comer Sestak, sealing the 3 points and bringing a convincing 0-2 success back home, they definitely look like one the favourites for final victory. Defeat for Vasas in their first game in NB1 after the promotion, the Budapest team got the lead but couldn't hold it long as Diosgyor scored twice ( Grumic - Gruz's own goal ) and won the game 2-1.
Three points for MTK as well thanks to Torghelle, as they hope to repeat the last brilliant season. Scoreless tie between Ujpest and Paksi, they will get a chance to do better next round.

Highlights:
Ujpest-Paksi
MTK-Puskas FC
Diosgyor-Vasas
Honved-Videoton
Haladas-Ferencvaros
Bekescsaba-Debrecen


Therefore the first ranking of the season in quite simple, top of the table for Fradi because of goals difference, followed by Debrecen, Diosgyor, Honved and MTK.

Next round will be played in the weekend of the 25th and 26th of  July. Two Budapest derbies will fire the passion: MTK-Honved and Vasas-Ujpest, top of the table clash between Ferencvaros and Diosgyor. The full schedule:

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Day1

Today is the day the OTP Bank Liga kicks off, a new format that hopefully will attract more interest and set the bar higher.

Here's the matches spread between today and tomorrow:

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Teams ID: Debreceni VSC

Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a Hungarian League professional football club, based in Debrecen.^[1] They are best known internationally for reaching the group stages of the UEFA Champions League 2009–10 season.^[2] Debrecen have been the most successful club since 2000 by winning the Hungarian League seven times.






The team plays in a 20.000 seats stadium : The Nagyerdei Stadion
"Debrecen played their home matches between 1989 and 2014 at the Stadium Oláh Gábor út, which has a capacity of 12,500. After winning the first Nemzeti Bajnokság I trophy, it was found that the stadium did not meet UEFA stadium criteria. Therefore, the most important UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League matches had to be played either at the Ferenc Puskás Stadium as in 2009-10 UEFA Champions League group stage and the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League group stage.

On 1 May 2014, the Nagyerdei stadium was opened with an inauguration ceremony." ( Wikipedia )

Team's official website: https://www.dvsc.hu/https://www.dvsc.hu/

Teams ID: Budapest Honvéd FC

"Budapest Honvéd FC (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt ˈhonveːd ɛf tseː] is a Hungarian sports club from Budapest best known for its football team. Honved means the Homeland Defence. Originally formed as Kispest AC, they became Kispest FC in 1926 before reverting to their original name in 1944. The team enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s when it was renamed Budapest Honvéd SE and became the Hungarian Army team. The club's top players from this era, Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik and Zoltán Czibor, formed the nucleus of the legendary Hungarian team known as the Mighty Magyars and helped the club win the Hungarian League four times during the 1950s" ( Wikipedia )


The team plays in a 10.000 seats stadium, the Bozsik Stadion.
"On 20 November 2014, it was revealed that the reconstruction is going to start in 2015 and it will be finished in 2016. The Bozsik stadium is the property of the Hungarian state, namely the National Sportcentre. The capacity of the new stadium will be 9,000 and there will be 900 VIP seats, 350 skyboxes, and 100 square metre mixed zone for the press." ( Wikipedia )

Team's official website: http://www.honvedfc.hu/http://www.honvedfc.hu/

Teams ID: Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE

We start this section called Teams ID where we will present the 12th partecipants in the 2015-2016 OTP Bank Liga.
We start off, in strictly alphabetic order with Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE:

 "Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE is a football (soccer) club from the south-east Hungarian town Békéscsaba. The club was founded in 1912 as Előre Munkás Testedző Egyesület. The colours of the club are lilac and white. The club achieved its greatest success in 1988 when it won the Hungarian Cup competition, defeating Honved Budapest 3-2 in the final." (Wikipedia)

"Until the end of 2004/05 the club spent a total of 25 seasons in the first Hungarian division, the Nemzeti Bajnokság I.. In the season 2008/09 the club is part of the second division, the NB II." (Wikipedia)


The team plays in a 13.000 seats stadium, the Stadion Kórház Utcai.

"On 4 December 2013, it was announced that Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE will have 800 million HUF to spend on the reconstruction of the stadium.
On 16 December 2014, according to the Magyar Közlöny Békéscsaba 1912 Előre SE will have 1 billion 125 million HUF to spend on the reconstruction of the new stadium. In 2015, 565 million HUF were assigned for the reconstruction" ( Wikipedia )

http://1912elore.hu/site/

Team's official website: http://1912elore.hu/site/http://1912elore.hu/site/

Europa League preliminary round

Yesterday was EL preliminary round day for 3 hungarian teams.

Strong of the 3-0 home victory obtained in the first leg, Debrecen had the easiest task,  still they were on the edge of messing it all up by losing 2-0 to Sutjeska but still getting to the next round where Skonto FC from Latvia is waiting for them. HIGHLIGHTS

It went definitely better for Ferencvaros, dominating a stunned GoAheadEagles 4-1 adding up to the 1-1 of the first leg. Fradi on to the next round where they will face FK Željezničar from Bosnia.
HIGHLIGHTS

Started well MTK against Vojvodina in Novi Sad taking the lead after few minutes, unfortunately the Serbian side came back very strong getting a well deserved 3-1 victory which sends them through. HIGHLIGHTS



Here the complete set of scores:
http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuropaleague/index.html


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OTP Bank Liga

For the season 2015-2016 we will follow the Hungarian Football league with scores, highlights and news!

Twelve teams will start the season in the top tier of magyar football, defending champions Videtoton will face hard time try to secure the second title in a row, as Ferencvaros came up as serious contendents after defeating the team from Székesfehérvár for 3-0 in the SuperCup few days ago.

HIGHLIGHTS

Debrecen, MTK and Ferencvaros will be busy with Europa League preliminary round during the week against respectively, Sutjeska, Vojvodina and GoAheadEagles.

Day 1 is schedule for Saturday July the 18 at 5pm:

Honved-Videoton looks like one of the biggest games of the round, we will follow it with updates from our twitter account, Bekescsaba will face top team Debrecen in their first game after promotion from second division. No Budapest derbies are scheduled, but there will be plenty of it during the season.



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