Egri VK

Egri Vizilabda Klub

Founded	24 September 1910 (1910-09-24)
League	OB I
Based in	Eger, Hungary
Arena	Aladár Bistkey Swimming Pool Capacity: 3,000
Colors
President	Attila Bárány
Head coach	György Gerendás
Website	egrivizilabda.hu

Egri Vízilabda Klub (English: Water Polo Club of Eger) is a Hungarian water polo club based in Eger. One of the dominant teams in the country since the late 2000s, Eger won the national championship in 2011,2013,2014 and came in second in 2012. They also collected the gold medal in the Hungarian cup in 1972 and 2007. Beside the domestic successes they also finished runners-up in the LEN Cup in 2008.

Starting from summer 2010 the club is known as ZF Eger after its main sponsor ZF Friedrichshafen.^[1]

Honours

Domestic competitions

Országos Bajnokság I (National Championship of Hungary)

Champions (3): 2010–11, 2012–13, 2013–14

Runners-up (6): 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2015–16, 2016–17

Third place (5): 1964, 1969, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2014–15

Magyar Kupa (National Cup of Hungary)

Winners (4): 1972, 2007, 2008, 2015

Finalist (6): 1970, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2016

European competitions

LEN Champions League

Fourth place (1): 2016–17

LEN Euro Cup

Runners-up (1): 2007–08

Current squad

Season 2016–2017^[2]

№	Nat.	Player	Birth Date	Position	L/R
1		Branislav Mitrović	(1985-01-30) January 30, 1985	Goalkeeper	R
2		Dániel Angyal	(1992-03-29) March 29, 1992	Guard
3		Ádám Decker	(1984-02-29) February 29, 1984	Guard	R
4		Uroš Čučković	(1990-04-25) April 25, 1990	Guard
5		Norbert Hosnyánszky	(1984-03-04) March 4, 1984	Centre Back	R
6		Bálint Lőrincz	(1994-03-10) March 10, 1994
7			(1990-12-21) December 21, 1990		R
8		Gergő Kovács	(1995-09-02) September 2, 1995
9			(1990-02-16) February 16, 1990	Wing	R
10			(1990-10-09) October 9, 1990		L
11		Krisztián Bedő	(1993-05-04) May 4, 1993	Centre Forward
12		Balázs Hárai	(1987-04-05) April 5, 1987	Centre Forward	R
13		Barnabás Biros	(1997-06-05) June 5, 1997
14		Boldizsár Csiszár	(1997-03-03) March 3, 1997	Goalkeeper

Staff

Technical Staff
Chairman	Attila Bárány
Executive Director	dr. Gábor Seress
President of Society	dr. Ulrich Diller

Head Coach	Norbert Dabrowski
Assistant Coach	Márton Petrovai

Transfers (2017-18)

Source: vizipolo.hu

In:

Marko Avramović (from Ferencváros)
Strahinja Rašović (from Barceloneta)
Angelos Vlachopoulos (from Posillipo)

Out:

Miloš Ćuk (from Szolnoki Dózsa)
Balázs Erdélyi (to Orvosegyetem)
Boris Vapenski (to CC Ortigia)

Recent seasons

Rankings in OB I

P.	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
1																											1		1	1
2																								2	2	2		2				2	2
3																						3	3								3
4																					4
5	5	5
6															6
7			7				7						7			7	7			7
8								8		8									8
9					9	9			9		9			9				9
10												10
11				11

In European competition

Participations in Champions League (Champions Cup, Euroleague): 12x
Participations in Euro Cup (LEN Cup): 3x

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate

2005-06	LEN Cup	Last 16	Spartak Volgograd	12-8	8-9	20–17
2005-06	LEN Cup	Quarter-final	Leonessa	10-8	7-10	17–18

2006-07	Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group C)	Pro Recco	10–10	5–10	3rd
			Šturm 2002	14–13	11–11
			Vasas	8–7	6–12

2007-08	Euroleague	elimination in Second qualifying round
2007-08	LEN Cup Finalist	Last 16	CSM Oradea	14-9	12-14	26–23
		Quarter-final	Szeged	5-1	8-11	13–12
		Semi-final	Budva	11-9	9-9	20–18
		Final	Šturm 2002	6-8	7-12	13–20

2008-09	Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group D)	Partizan	7–7	9–11	3rd
			Vasas	7–9	10–11
			Marseille	9–9	9–9

2009-10	Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group D)	Pro Recco	7–11	8–8	2nd
			Šturm 2002	10–7	5–5
			Sintez Kazan	11–8	6–8
		Quarter Final	Partizan	4-12	5-10	9–22

2010-11	Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group D)	Jug Dubrovnik	9–10	10–15	4th
			Barceloneta	8–10	9–10
			Primorje Rijeka	6–11	4–7

2011-12	Champions League	Preliminary round (Group C)	Partizan	12–8	6–9	4th
			Vasas	5–8	9–13
			Szeged	9–10	3–6

2012-13	Champions League	Preliminary round (Group A)	Schuurman	13–4	17–6	3rd
			Vouliagmeni	10–9	8–11
			Spartak Volgograd	8–6	7–10
			Waspo Hannover	16–5	13–4
			Ligamus Tbilisi	27–5	12–4
		Last 16	Crvena zvezda	8-8	6-13	14–21

2013-14	Champions League	Preliminary round (Group A)	Barceloneta	5–11	5–9	6th
			Jug Dubrovnik	8–10	11–16
			Olympiacos	12–11	5–13
			Primorje Rijeka	6–11	7–20
			Pro Recco	7–8	9–14

2014-15	Champions League Fifth place	Preliminary round (Group A)	Barceloneta	11–6	7–7	2nd
			AN Brescia	10–5	7–3
			Olympiacos	10–9	6–8
			Pro Recco	4–12	9–11
			Radnički Kragujevac	7–6	11–12
		Quarter Final (F6)	Jug Dubrovnik	8–10
		5th-6th place (F6)	Szolnoki Dózsa	8–7

2015-16	Champions League Sixth place	Preliminary round (Group A)	Barceloneta	6–5	6–6	2nd
			Olympiacos	8–8	7–8
			Spandau 04	10–7	15–8
			Primorje Rijeka	12–12	7–8
			Jadran Herceg Novi	8–7	11–11
		Quarter Final (F6)	Jug Dubrovnik	6–8
		5th-6th place (F6)	Barceloneta	6–10

2016-17	Champions League Fourth place	Preliminary round (Group A)	Jug Dubrovnik	6–5	6–10	2nd
			Pro Recco	7–11	4–9
			Barceloneta	10–9	6–10
			Partizan	8–4	9–8
			Waspo Hannover	10–7	12–11
		Quarter Final (F6)	AN Brescia	6–4
		Semi Final (F6)	Szolnoki Dózsa	5–7
		Bronze match (F6)	Pro Recco	6–15

Notable former players

Péter Biros

Olympic champions

István Hevesi (1945–1951) - 6 year 1956 Melbourne
Miklós Ambrus (1950–1952) - 2 year 1964 Tokyo
András Bodnár (1952–1961) - 9 year 1964 Tokyo
Dénes Pócsik (1954–1978) - 24 year 1964 Tokyo
Norbert Madaras - junior years 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing
Zoltán Szécsi (2004–2005, 2007–2013) - 7 year 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing
Tamás Märcz (2006–2007) - 1 year 2000 Sydney
Péter Biros (2007–2016) - 9 year 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing
Gábor Kis (2004–2008, 2010–2011) - 5 year 2008 Beijing
Norbert Hosnyánszky (2010–2012, 2014– ____) - 2008 Beijing
Branislav Mitrović (2014–____) - 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Miloš Ćuk (2014–2017) - 3 year 2016 Rio de Janeiro

Coaches

György Gerendás (2004 – 2014)
Norbert Dabrowski (2014 – present)

References

↑ "ZF-Eger: Itt a 2010-2011-es játékoskeret" (in Hungarian). Egri VK official website. 10 June 2010. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
↑ "Biros helyett, Biros – itt a ZF-Eger végleges kerete". egrivizilabda.hu.

External links

Official website (in Hungarian)
Egri VK on Facebook

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