Football Club Sopron

Full name	Football Club Sopron
Founded	1921
Dissolved	2008
Ground	Káposztás utca, Sopron (Capacity: 5,300)
Chairman	Antonio Righi
League	Soproni Liga (NB1) (Level 1)
Soproni Liga 2007/08	15th
Home colours Away colours

FC Sopron, was a Hungarian football club from the town of Sopron, near the Austrian border. It was founded in 1921 as Soproni Postás. The club's home stadium is Stadion Városi with a capacity of 5,300..

With the beginning of the season 2007/08 Lajos Détári was appointed for being the head coach. After Antonio Righi bought the club Détári was fired (without getting paid for his work) and replaced by now head coach Vincenzo Cosco. In January 2008 their license was withdrawn by the league over unpaid taxes and payments. It was agreed that they would remain in 1. Liga for 2007/08 with 0 points for the season, all points being awarded to their opponents. It finally went to bankruptcy and was dissolved.

Contents 1 Ownership 2 2008 January 3 Achievements 4 Naming history 5 Notable former players 6 The last team (2007/08) 7 European cup history 8 UEFA Intertoto Cup 9 UEFA Cup 10 External links

[edit] Ownership

The club, which as commercial entity is called AZ FC Sopron Futball Sportszolgáltató KFT., is 79% owned by Antonio Righi. He bought the club from László Máriusz Vizer in 2007. 21% of the club are held by Sopron MJV Önkormányzata.

[edit] 2008 January

The club was dissolved in January 2008.

[edit] Achievements

The club won the Hungarian Cup in 2005.

[edit] Naming history

  1921: Sopron   Soproni Sport Egyesület  1945: Soproni Postás   Soproni Postás Sport Egyesület  1991: Soproni TSE   Soproni Távközlési Sport Egyesület  1994: MATÁV Sopron   Magyar Távközlési Vállalat Sport Club Sopron  1998: MATÁV Sopron   Magyar Távközlési Vállalat Football Club Sopron 

• 2000: MATÁV Compaq Sopron Magyar Távközlési Vállalat Football Club Compaq Sopron
• 2002: MATÁV Sopron Magyar Távközlési Vállalat Football Club Sopron
• 2005: Sopron Football Club Sopron
• 2008: ------

[edit] Notable former players

• Iván Balaskó
• Szabolcs Huszti
• Zoltán Petö
• Luigi Sartor
• Giuseppe Signori
• Danilo Belic

[edit] The last team (2007/08)

No. Position Player 12 GK Ákos Fentős 38 GK Márk Heinrich 3 DF Christiano Galliani 8 DF László Reinhardt 19 DF Zoltán Fehér 29 DF Sándor Csikós 30 DF Cosmin Giura 34 DF Attila Farkas DF Predrag Pocuca 83 MF Norbert Zana 9 / (1)

No. Position Player 85 MF Csaba Ködöböcz MF Fabricio Deffo MF Sándor Károlyi 9 FW Danilo Belić 10 / (3) 14 FW Orlando Aquino 23 FW Botond Birtalan 26 FW Jimmy Jones Tchana 10 / (2) FW Dávid Németh FW László Legoza

[edit] European cup history

[edit] UEFA Intertoto Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2004	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1. Round		FK Teplice	1-0	1-3	2-3
2006	UEFA Intertoto Cup	2. Round		Kayserispor	3-3	0-1	3-4

[edit] UEFA Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2005-06	UEFA Cup	2. Qualifying Round		FC Metalurh Donetsk	0-3	1-2	1-5

[edit] External links

• (Hungarian) Official website

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