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The native form of this personal name is Bene Ferenc. This article uses the Western name order.

Personal information
Ferenc Bene
Full name	Ferenc Bene
Date of birth	December 17, 1944(1944-12-17)
Place of birth	Balatonújlak, Hungary
Date of death	February 27, 2006 (aged 61)
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Forward
Senior career¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1961–1978	Újpesti Dózsa	417 (303)
National team
1962–1979	Hungary	076 0(36)
Teams managed
1992–1993	Újpest FC
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Men's Football
Olympic medal record
Gold	1964 Tokyo	Football

Ferenc Bene (Balatonújlak, December 17, 1944 – Budapest, February 27, 2006) was a Hungarian football (soccer) player of Újpesti Dózsa, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. He was the top scorer of the tournament (12 goals in 5 matches).

Bene played his first international match against Yugoslavia on October 14, 1962, and his last against Czechoslovakia on September 12, 1979. He obtained 76 caps and scored 36 goals. He was bronze medallist at the European Championship of 1964, and a quarter-finalist at the World Cup of 1966 (at the latter event he was the best scorer of the Hungarian national team). Bene was named Footballer of the Year in 1969. He died after a lengthy treatment following a fall at the end of 2005. His son Ferenc Bene jr. is also a former player, currently working as a coach

He played for the following teams:

Újpesti Dózsa (1961-1978)
Volán FC (1978-79, 1983-84)
Sepsi-78, Finland (1981-82)
Soroksári VOSE (1984)
Kecskeméti SC (1985)

v • d • e Hungary squad – 1964 European Nations' Cup Third Place

GK Szentmihályi • DF Ihász • DF Mátrai • DF Mészöly • DF Novák • DF Sárosi • MF Nagy • MF Rákosi • MF Sipos • MF Solymosi • FW Albert • FW Bene • FW Farkas • FW Fenyvesi • FW Komora • FW Tichy • FW Varga • Coach: Baróti

v • d • e Hungary squad – 1966 FIFA World Cup

1 Szentmihályi • 2 Káposzta • 3 Mátrai • 4 Sóvári • 5 Mészöly • 6 Sipos • 7 Bene • 8 Varga • 9 Albert • 10 Farkas • 11 Rákosi • 12 Fenyvesi • 13 Mathesz • 14 I. Nagy • 15 Molnár • 16 Tichy • 17 Szepesi • 18 Ihász • 19 Puskás • 20 A. Nagy • 21 Gelei • 22 Géczi • Coach: Baróti

v • d • e Hungary squad – UEFA Euro 1972 Fourth Place

GK Géczi • GK Rapp • DF Bálint • DF Fábián • DF Péter Juhász • DF Páncsics • MF Albert • MF István Juhász • MF Kocsis • MF Kovács • MF Kozma • MF Kű • MF Szőke • FW Bene • FW Dunai II • FW Szűcs • FW Zámbó • Coach: Illovszky

v • d • e UEFA Euro top scorers

1960: Galić / Heutte / Ivanov / Jerković / Metreveli / Ponedelnik · 1964: Bene / Novák / Pereda · 1968: Džajić · 1972: G.Müller · 1976: D.Müller · 1980: Allofs · 1984: Platini · 1988: van Basten · 1992: Bergkamp / Brolin / Larsen / Riedle · 1996: Shearer · 2000: Kluivert / Milošević · 2004: Baroš · 2008: Villa

Újpest FC – Managers

Weisz (1920–22) · Holits (1922–24) · Hlavay (1924–25) · Holits (1925–26) · Pozsonyi (1926–28) · Bányai (1928–32) · Tóth (1932–34) · Jánossy (1934–37) · Sternberg (1937–38) · Guttmann (1938–39) · Mészáros (1939–40) · Takács (1940–43) · Lutz (1943) · Kertész (1943–44) · Takács (1945) · Jávor (1945–47) · Guttmann (1947) · Vincze (1947–48) · Sós (1948) · I. Balogh (1948–49) · Ember (1949–50) · Kemény (1949–50) · Opata (1950–51) · Jávor (1951–54) · Kolozsvári (1954) · Bukovi (1955–56) · S. Balogh (1957–58) · I. Balogh (1958–59) · Szűcs (1959–60) · Fenyvesi (1960–61) · Kalocsay (1961–62) · Szűcs (1962–63) · Szusza (1963–65) · S. Balogh (1965–66) · Baróti (1967–71) · Kovács I. (1971–73) · Szűcs (1973) · Pál Várhidi (1974–80) · Szusza (1980–81) · Temesvári (1981–85) · Göröcs (1985–88) · Varga (1988–90) · Kovács (1990–92) · Bene (1992–93) · Garami (1993–96) · Nagy (1996–97) · Várhidi (1997–99) · Glázer (1999) · Várhidi (2000) · Kisteleki (2000–01) · Glázer (2002) · Molnár (2002) · Szabó (2002–03) · Sarlós (2003) · Mezey (2003) · Mészöly (2004–06) · Bicskei (2006) · Billen (2006) · Urbányi (2006–08) · Szentes (2008–09) · McStay (2009–)

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