| Full name | Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest FC |
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| Founded | 1888 | ||
| Ground | Stadion Hidegkuti Nándor, Budapest (Capacity: 12,700) |
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| Chairman | Tamás Deutsch | ||
| Manager | József Garami | ||
| League | Nemzeti Bajnokság II | ||
| 2010-11 | 15th (relegated) | ||
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MTK Budapest FC or just MTK is a football club from Budapest, Hungary. The team plays in the second 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 FC.
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About a dozen sport loving citizens decided on 16 November 1888 in a cafe in Budapest to form the Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre (Circle of Hungarian Fitness Activists). Many founding fathers were members of the Hungarian aristocracy and the wealthy Jewish community of the capital. The colours of the club became blue and white, and it had 31 members by the end of the same year. The club's first divisions offered sporting possibilities only for fencing and gymnastics. As football was spreading far and wide in Hungary also the club established its football division on 12 March 1901. The first public football match of the Blues was a 0–0 draw against BTC, which later became Hungarian champions in 1901 and 1902. MTK started to play football in the 2nd league in 1902, but a year later the club got the chance to play in the first league. The first year brought the club a 3rd place and it did not take long for the Blues to win the first championship, which happened a year later in 1904.
The first president of the club became a well-to-do entrepreneur, his vice a close friend of him who turned out to be an excellent sport oriented organiser. His name was Alfréd Brüll who became the club's legendary and respected president from 1905 until the 1940s. Before the introduction of professional football MTK was the most successful Hungarian team. Prior to the Second World War the team managed to win 15 Hungarian League titles and gained 7 Hungarian Cup victories. During the professional era the team could not repeat the same performance but still won 2 championships. Due to the participation of many Jewish figures in the club, it had the reputation of being a "Jewish" team beginning in the 1930s and 1940s, [1] a phenomenon that continues to the present.[2]
In 1949 when Hungary became a communist state, MTK were taken over by the secret police, the ÁVH, and subsequently the club became known as Textiles SE. They then became Bástya SE, then Vörös Lobogó SE, which means Red Banner or Red Flag, and then finally back to MTK. Despite this turmoil, the 1950s proved a successful era for the club and with a team coached by Márton Bukovi and including Péter Palotás, Nándor Hidegkuti, Mihály Lantos and József Zakariás, they won three Hungarian League titles, a Hungarian Cup and a Mitropa Cup. In 1955, as Vörös Lobogó SE, they also became the first ever Hungarian team to play in a European Cup. On September 7, 1955 at the Népstadion, Palotás scored a hat-trick as they beat RSC Anderlecht 6–3 in the first leg of the first round and thus became the first player to score a hat-trick in a European Cup game.
MTK also played a major role in the success of the legendary Hungary team known as the Mighty Magyars. While 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. In 1953 Hidegkuti would exploit this position to great effect as he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6–3 at Wembley Stadium. In addition Mihály Lantos and József Zakariás provided the Mighty Magyars with a solid defence. During the early 1950s these MTK players helped Hungary become Olympic Champions in 1952, Central European Champions in 1953, defeat England twice and reach the 1954 World Cup final. They absorbed Egyetértés VM After the first half of 1974–75 season. They were relegated to the Second League twice in 1980–81 season after finishing 17th or second from last and in 1993–94 season after finishing 16th or last.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1963–64 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Preliminary Round | PFC Slavia Sofia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–1 | |
| 1. Round | Motor Zwickau | 2–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | |||
| Quarter-finals | Fenerbahçe SK | 2–0 | 1–3 | 3–3 (playoff 1–0) | |||
| Semi-finals | Celtic Glasgow | 4–0 | 0–3 | 4–3 | |||
| Final | Sporting CP |
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| 1969–70 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1. Round | 1. FC Magdeburg | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2(aet) | |
| 1976–77 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | 1. Round | Sparta Prague | 3–1 | 1–1 | 4–2 | |
| 2. Round | FC Dinamo Tbilisi | 1–0 | 4–1 | 5–1 | |||
| Quarter-finals | Hamburger SV | 1–1 | 1–4 | 2–5 | |||
| 1998–99 | UEFA Cup Winners' Cup | Qualifying Round | GÍ Gøta | 7–0 | 3–1 | 10–1 | |
| 1. Round | SV Ried | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 | |||
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1985 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 11 | PFC Chernomorets Burgas | 5–1 | 2–1 | ||
| Group 11 | IK Start | 3–0 | 3–3 | ||||
| Group 11 | FC Aarau | 3–1 | 1–1 | ||||
| 1986 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 1 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 0–0 | 3–3 | ||
| Group 1 | NEC Nijmegen | 2–2 | 3–1 | ||||
| Group 1 | FC Liége | 5–2 | 0–3 | ||||
| 1988 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 10 | Karlsruher SC | 2–1 | 1–1 | ||
| Group 10 | FK Vojvodina | 1–0 | 0–5 | ||||
| Group 10 | Grazer AK | 0–1 | 1–1 | ||||
| 1990 | UEFA Intertoto Cup | Group 4 | SK Slovan Bratislava | 0–2 | 0–2 | ||
| Group 4 | Vejle BK | 0–1 | 1–4 | ||||
| Group 4 | IFK Norrköping | 4–3 | 0–2 |
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1961–62 | Inter-Cities Fairs Cup | 1. Round | RC Strasbourg | 10–2 | 3–1 | 13–3 | |
| 2. Round | 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig | 3–0 | 0–3 | 3–3(playoff 2–0) | |||
| Quarter-finals | RFK Novi Sad | 2–1 | 4–1 | 6–2 | |||
| Semi-finals | Valencia CF | 3–7 | 0–3 | 3–10 | |||
| 1978–79 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | FCU Politehnica Timişoara | 2–1 | 0–2 | 2–3 | |
| 1989–90 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | FC Dynamo Kyiv | 1–2 | 0–4 | 1–6 | |
| 1990–91 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | FC Lucerne | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | |
| 1993–94 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | KR Reykjavik | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | |
| 2. Round | KV Mechelen | 1–1 | 0–5 | 1–6 | |||
| 1997–98 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | Alanya Vladikavkaz | 3–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | |
| 2. Round | Croatia Zagreb | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | |||
| 1999–00 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | Fenerbahçe SK | 0–0 | 2–0 | 2–0 | |
| 2. Round | AEK Athens FC | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2(a) | |||
| 2000–01 | UEFA Cup | Qualifying Round | Jokerit FC | 1–0 | 4–2 | 5–2 | |
| 1. Round | PFC CSKA Sofia | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–2(a) | |||
| 2. Round | FC Nantes Atlantique | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–3 | |||
| 2003–04 | UEFA Cup | 1. Round | Dinamo Zagreb | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–3 | |
| 2007–08 | UEFA Cup | 1. Qualifying Round | FC MIKA | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2(a) |
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 1955–56 | European Cup | 1. Round | RSC Anderlecht | 6–3 | 4–1 | 10–4 | |
| Quarter-finals | Stade Reims | 4–4 | 2–4 | 6–8 | |||
| 1958–59 | European Cup | Preliminary Round | Polonia Bytom | 3–0 | 3–0 | 6–0 | |
| 1. Round | BSC Young Boys | 1–2 | 1–4 | 2–6 | |||
| 1987–88 | European Cup | 1. Round | FC Steaua Bucureşti | 2–0 | 0–4 | 2–4 | |
| 1997–98 | UEFA Champions League | 1. Qualifying Round | Pyunik Yerevan | 4–3 | 2–0 | 6–3 | |
| 2. Qualifying Round | Rosenborg BK | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–4 | |||
| 1999-00 | UEFA Champions League | 2. Qualifying Round | ÍBV | 3–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | |
| 3. Qualifying Round | Croatia Zagreb | 0–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | |||
| 2003–04 | UEFA Champions League | 2. Qualifying Round | HJK Helsinki | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–2 | |
| 3. Qualifying Round | Celtic Glasgow | 0–4 | 0–1 | 0–5 | |||
| 2008–09 | UEFA Champions League | 2. Qualifying Round | Fenerbahce SK | 0–5 | 0–2 | 0–7 |
See also: Category:MTK Hungária FC footballers
See also: Category:MTK Hungária FC football managers