Vasas SC

Vasas SC
Full name Budapesti Vasas Sport Club
Founded 16th of March 1911
Ground Stadion Rudolf Illovszky,
Budapest
(Capacity: 18,000)
Chairman László Markovits
Manager Marijan Vlak
League Soproni Liga (Level I)
2010-11 11th
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

Vasas SC is one of Hungary's major sports clubs. Most of its facilities are situated in Budapest's 13th district in the north of the town. Members of the Hungarian Union of Iron Workers founded the club as Vas-és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja, the "Sport Club of Iron and Steel Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club colours are red and blue.

The club is internationally best known for its successful football and water polo departments, which have won many national and international competitions. But also athletes from other departments have won many Olympic gold medals as well as international and national championships.

The club’s women's handball team has for 15 times been crowned Hungarian champions, and in 1982 won the Handball European Cup.

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Naming history

Departments

The club is active in the following sports:

Athletics, basketball (women), boxing, chess, fencing, football, handball (women), ice skating, rowing, skiing, tennis, touring, volleyball (women), water polo (men / women) and wrestling,

Football

Vasas' football team belongs to the highest Hungarian football league and was the dominating force in Hungarian football during the 1960s. In the 2006/07 season Vasas finished 5th.

In 2006 the club would have been relegated as penultimate, but could retain its place as rivals Ferencvarosi TC were ousted instead due to financial irregularities. This would have been Vasas' second relegation in this decade.

The team plays its home matches in the Rudolf Illovszky Stadium, which has a capacity of 18,000.

Honours

Selected former players

Selected former managers

Current squad

As of 9 November, 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Péter Halasi
2 DF László Szűcs
3 DF Dušan Mileusnić
4 DF Gábor Kocsis
5 DF Haris Mehmedagić
6 DF Gábor Kovács
7 MF Dávid Kulcsár
8 MF Szabolcs Bakos
9 FW Gergö Beliczky
10 MF Zsolt Bárányos
11 FW Jusuf Dajic
13 DF Gábor Kocsis
14 MF Lazar Arsić
15 DF Máté Katona
16 DF Zsolt Merczel
17 FW Marko Simic
No. Position Player
19 MF Miloš Jokić
21 MF Csaba Ferkó
22 DF Gábor Polényi
23 DF Artur Papizsanszkij
24 FW Ádám Balla
26 MF Balázs Farkas
27 MF Zoltán Farkas
28 MF Péter Simek
30 GK Luboš Ilizi
33 FW Kasali Casal
36 DF József Gáspár
55 DF László Sütő
87 DF Jurica Pranjić
88 FW Bradley Hudson-Odoi
92 GK Róbert Ambrusics

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1973–74 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1. Round Sunderland AFC 0–2 0–1 0–3
1981–82 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1. Round Enosis Neon Paralimni FC 8–0 0–1 8–1
2. Round Standard Liége 0–2 1–2 1–4
1986–87 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1. Round FK Velež Mostar 2–2 2–3 4–5

UEFA Intertoto Cup

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1987 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group 1 Carl Zeiss Jena 0–2 2–2
Group 1 Aarhus GF 2–1 0–1
Group 1 FC Lausanne-Sport 5–3 1–2
1990 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group 8 First Vienna FC 0–0 1–0
Group 8 Aarhus GF 0–2 0–2
Group 8 Gefle IF 1–1 0–2
1996 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group 10, 1st game Lierse SK 2–0
Group 10, 2nd game Gaziantepspor 2–3
Group 10, 3rd game Narva Trans 4–1
Group 10, 4th game FC Groningen 1–1
1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group 7, 1st game Östers IF 4–1
Group 7, 2nd game FC Universitate Riga 3–0
Group 7, 3rd game Istanbulspor AS 0–2
Group 7, 4th game Werder Bremen 2–0
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1. Round Union Luxembourg 4–0 3–1 7–1
2. Round Neuchâtel Xamax 1–0 2–0 3–0
3. Round Polonia Warszawa 1–2 0–2 1–4
2005 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1. Round FK ZTS Dubnica 0–0 0–2 0–2

UEFA Cup

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1971–72 UEFA Cup 1. Round Shelbourne FC 1–0 1–1 2–1
2. Round St. Johnstone FC 1–0 0–2 1–2
1975–76 UEFA Cup 1. Round SK Voest Linz 4–0 0–2 4–2
2. Round Sporting CP 3–1 1–2 4–3
3. Round FC Barcelona 0–1 1–3 1–4
1980–81 UEFA Cup 1. Round Boavista FC 0–2 1–0 1–2
2000–01 UEFA Cup Qualifying Round FK Ventspils 3–1 1–2 4–3(aet)
1. Round AEK Athens FC 2–2 0–2 2–4

UEFA Champions League

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away Aggregate
1957–58 European Cup Preliminary Round CDNA Sofia 6–1 1–2 7–3
1. Round BSC Young Boys 2–1 1–1 3–2
Quarter-finals Ajax Amsterdam 4–0 2–2 6–2
Semi-finals Real Madrid CF 2–0 0–4 2–4
1961–62 European Cup Preliminary Round Real Madrid CF 0–2 1–3 1–5
1962–63 European Cup Preliminary Round Fredrikstad FK 7–0 4–1 11–1
1. Round Feyenoord Rotterdam 2–2 1–1 3–3 (Playoff 0–1)
1966–67 European Cup 1. Round Sporting CP 5–0 2–0 7–0
2. Round Internazionale FC 0–2 1–2 1–4
1967–68 European Cup 1. Round Dundalk FC 8–1 1–0 9–1
2. Round Valur KF 6–0 5–1 11–1
Quarter-finals SL Benfica 0–0 0–3 0–3
1977–78 European Cup 1. Round Borussia Mönchengladbach 0–3 1–1 1–4

Men's water polo

Hungary is acknowledged the world over as a powerhouse of water polo. The water polo department of Vasas belongs to the leading ones in the country.

Honours

Women's handball

Main article: Vasas SC (Women's handball)

Honours

Other sports

Athletes of the club have won 40 Olympic gold medals (2006) and more than 1,000 Hungarian National Championship titles, making Vasas one of the most successful Hungarian sports clubs. There are only 29 countries which won more golds at the Summer Olympics (though some of the 40 wins were in team sports with athletes from other Hungarian clubs).

Trivia

János Kádár, HSWP First Secretary and Hungarian leader from 1956 until 1988, was a supporter of Vasas. A working-class man, Kádár had played in the team when young and was it's president for a short period in the mid-50s (when, after being released from prison, Kádár was party secretary in Budapest 13th district, where the team is based). During the 60s, it was not uncommon to see Kádár in the crowd during Vasas games. Unlike some of his Eastern Europe counterparts, though, Kádár did not used his position to favor his team, nor did he aloud Hungarian officials to interfere in football as was common in other bloc countries.

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