Vasas SC

Vasas

Full name	Vasas Sport Club
Founded	16 March 1911 (1911-03-16)
Ground	Stadion Rudolf Illovszky, Budapest
Ground Capacity	18,000
Chairman	László Markovits
Manager	Karoly Szanyo
League	Nemzeti Bajnokság II
2013–14	3rd
Home colours Away colours

Activ departments of Vasas
Football	Handball	Basketball (Men's)
Basketball (Women's)	Ice Hockey	Water Polo
Volleyball	Athletics	Swimming
Canoe/kayak	Boxing	Fencing
Tennis	Wrestling	Gymnastic
Ski	Aerobic	Chess

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 was relegated in 2012.

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

Naming history

• 1911: Vas-és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja
• 1943: Kinizsi Vasas Budapest
• 1944: Nemzeti Kinizsi Budapest
• 1945: Budapesti Vasas SC
• 1948: Budapesti Vasas SE
• 1957: Budapesti Vasas SC

Departments

The club is active in the following sports:

Athletics, basketball, 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

• 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

• European Champions Club Cup
  • Semi-finalists (1): 1958

Former managers

Current squad

As of 17 September, 2014.

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Soma Lékai 3 DF László Tamás 4 DF Alexander Kékesi 6 DF Tamás Grúz 7 DF Szilveszter Hangya 8 FW Martin Ádám 9 MF Zsombor Berecz 10 FW Mohamed Remili 13 FW István Ferenczi 14 DF Csaba Preklet 15 MF Mátyás Gál 16 MF Dániel Nagy 17 DF Dávid Görgényi

No. Position Player 19 FW János Lázok 20 FW Krisztián Kenesei 21 MF Gábor Bori 23 MF Máté Vida 27 MF Attila Menyhárt 28 FW Krisztofer Takács 29 FW Benedek Murka 31 GK Bence Hermány 33 GK Gábor Németh 77 MF Péter Czvitkovics 89 DF András Debreceni 93 MF Patrik Vass

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	6–0	5–1	11–1
		Quarter-finals		S.L. 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

• Hungarian League
  • Winners (17): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (15): 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2009
• Hungarian Super Cup
  • Winners (2): 2001, 2006
• Champions Cup:
  • Winners (2): 1979–80, 1984–85
• Cup winners Cup
  • Winners (3): 1985–86, 1994–95, 2001–02

Women's handball

Honours

• Hungarian League
  • Winners (15): 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1991–92, 1992–93
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (11): 1969, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
• Champions Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1981–82
  • Finalist (5): 1977–78, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1992–93, 1993–94
• Cup winners Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1987–88
• EHF-Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1984–85
• City-Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1994–95

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).

• István Kozma was a wrestling champion in 1964 and 1968
• László Papp was a boxing champion in 1952 and 1956 - also in 1948 being member of Vasas.

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 its president for a short period in the mid-1950s (when, after being released from prison, Kádár was party secretary in Budapest 13th district, where the team is based). During the 1960s, it was not uncommon to see Kádár in the crowd during Vasas games. Unlike some of his Eastern Europe counterparts, though, Kádár did not use his position to favor his team, nor did he allow Hungarian officials to interfere in football as it was common in other bloc countries.

External links

• (Hungarian) Official website
• (Hungarian) Official website (football team)
• (Hungarian) Unofficial fan-site (team sports)

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