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- The native form of this personal name is Bene Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.
| Ferenc Bene |
| Personal information |
| Full name |
Ferenc Bene |
| Date of birth |
December 17, 1944(1944-12-17) |
| Place of birth |
Balatonújlak, Hungary |
| Date of death |
February 27, 2006 (aged 61) |
| Place of death |
Budapest, Hungary |
| Height |
1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) |
| Playing position |
Forward |
| Club information |
| Current club |
deceased |
| Senior clubs1 |
| Years |
Club |
App (Gls)* |
| 1961-78 |
Újpesti Dózsa |
417 (303) |
| National team |
| 1962-79 |
Hungary |
76 (36) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)
|
Ferenc Bene (Balatonújlak, December 17, 1944 – Budapest, February 27, 2006) was a Hungarian football (soccer) player of Újpesti Dózsa, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He was the top scorer of the tournament.
Bene played his first international match against Yugoslavia on October 14, 1962, and his last against Czechoslovakia on September 12, 1979. He obtained 76 caps and scored 36 goals. He was bronze medallist at the European Championship of 1964, and a quarter-finalist at the World Cup of 1966 (at the latter event he was the best scorer of the Hungarian national team). Bene was named Footballer of the Year in 1969. He died after a lengthy treatment following a fall at the end of last year.
He played for the following teams:
- Újpesti Dózsa (1961-1978)
- Volán FC (1978-79, 1983-84)
- Sepsi-78, Finland (1981-82)
- Soroksári VOSE (1984)
- Kecskeméti SC (1985)
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