Vasas SC
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| Full name | Budapesti Vasas Sport Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 16th of march 1911 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stadion Rudolf Illovszky, Budapest (Capacity: 18,000) |
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| Chairman | János Jámbor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Géza Mészöly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Hungarian League (Level I) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | 10th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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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[edit] 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
[edit] 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,
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Selected former players
László Kubala- Franz Platko
- Gusztáv Sebes
- Gyula Lóránt
- Rudolf Illovszky
- Kálmán Mészöly
- Pál Berendi
- János Farkas
- György Orth
- József Takács
- Laszlo Kiss
- László Sárosi
- Dezső Bundzsák
- Péter Török
- Gyula Szilágyi
- Lajos Csordás
- Béla Kárpáti
- Antal Szentmihályi
- Béla Várady
[edit] Selected former managers
- Béla Guttmann (1945)
- Lajos Baróti (1953–57, 1972–74)
- Franz Platko
- Gusztáv Sebes
- Dezső Bundzsák
- Rudolf Illovszky
- Kálmán Mészöly
- Döme Frontz
- Tibor Gallowich
- Lajos Csordás
[edit] Current squad
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[edit] European Cup history
[edit] UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 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 |
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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 |
[edit] UEFA Intertoto Cup
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 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 |
[edit] UEFA Cup
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 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 |
[edit] UEFA Champions League
| Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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| 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 |
[edit] 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.
[edit] Honours
- Hungarian League
- Winners (15): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008
- Hungarian Cup
- Winners (14): 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
- 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] External links
- (Hungarian) Official website
- (Hungarian) Official website (football team)