Vasas SC

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Vasas SC
Full name	Vasas Sport Club
Founded	1911
Ground	Stadion Rudolf Illovsky, Budapest
Capacity	18,000
Chairman	János Jámbor
Manager	Géza Mészöly
League	Hungarian League
2005-06	15th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Vasas SC is a Hungarian football club from Budapest. The club's colours are red and blue.

The football club is one of the 15 sections of the Vasas Sport Club, that was founded at Tököli street 53, Budapest, on the 16th of March, 1911. The founders were the Hungarian Association of Iron Workers, hence the name is from, that is the Hungarian word for "someone that works with metals". Besides football, the club currently operates the following sections:

- Men and Women waterpolo

- Women handball

- Women volleybal

- Wrestling

- Boxing

- Fencing

- Tennis

- Athletics

- Chess

- Women Basketball

- Skiing

- Ice Skating

- Rowing

- Touring

Sportsmen and sportswomen of the club have collected 40 Olympic gold medals so far (2006) and more than 1,000 Hungarian National Championship titles, being on of the most successful Hungarian Clubs.

Due to the plenty supporters from the workers class and the support Vasas SC has received from the communist regime, it is still considered as a left-wing club, however in the recent years they havent shown any expression towards any political ideas.

Contents 1 Vasas SC Football Club 2 Current news, results 3 Honours 4 Selected Former Players 5 Selected Former Managers 6 Men Waterpolo 7 External links

[edit] Vasas SC Football Club

[edit] Current news, results

Team

Péter Bali, Zsolt Balog, Miklós Balogh, Ádám Bogdán, Csaba Borszéki, Zoltán Fehér, Ákos Harnisch, Péter Kincses, Károly Kiss, Dániel Kollár, Gábor Kovács, Csaba Ködöböcz, János Lázok, Árpád Majoros, Balázs Mogyoróssy, Tamás Nagy, Zsolt Nagy, Gábor Németh, Norbert Németh, Péter Odrobéna, Péter Pandur, Zoltán Pintér, Tamás Skita, Tamás Tandari, András Tóth, Mariusz Unieryzsky

[edit] Honours

• Hungarian League
  • Winners (6): 1957, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1977
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (4): 1955, 1973, 1981, 1986

• Mitropa Cup
  • Winners (7): 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1970, 1983

[edit] Selected Former Players

• László Kubala
• Franz Platko
• Gusztáv Sebes
• Gyula Lóránt
• Rudolf Illovszky
• Kálmán Mészöly
• Pál Berendi

[edit] Selected Former Managers

• Béla Guttmann:1945

[edit] Men Waterpolo

• Hungarian League
  • Winners (13): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988-89
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (14): 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
• Hungarian Super Cup
  • Winners (2): 2001, 2006
• Champions Cup:
  • Winners (2): 1979-80, 1984-85
• Cupwinners Cup
  • Winners (3): 1985-86, 1994-95, 2001-02

[edit] External links

• (Hungarian) Official website