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Kecskeméti TE
Full name	Kecskeméti TE
Founded	1911
Ground	Széktói Stadion; Kecskemét,; Hungary; (Capacity: 6.300)
Owner	Pál Rózsa, János Versegi
Manager	Tomislav Sivić
League	NB I
2008-09	5th

Kecskeméti TE (officially Kecskeméti Testedző Egyesület (Kecskemét Gymnastics Club)) is a club, most famous for its football team. It hails from Kecskemét, Bacs-Kiskun, Hungary and is currently competing in the NB I, the top league of Hungarian football.

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1911. From 1945 the team used to play its matches near the local railway station. In 1967 the team reached the semifinals in the Hungarian Cup. KSC was the other club in town, which was founded in 1972. The two teams became arch rivals in the second and third league until their merger in 1999. KTE was always supported by local workers during these years.

The first years of the third millennium brought confusion and many troubles to the football in Kecskemét. But this was over in 2006 when Pál Rózsa and János Versegi became the chairmen of KTE. They started to build a strong and successful club, with great support from Dr. Gábor Zombor, mayor of Kecskemét. The promotion to NB I was finally archieved in 2008, and KTE became the first football club from the city of Kecskemét to play in the Hungarian first league.

Several thousands of citizens attend matches nowadays. The local enthusiasm is much greater than the Hungarian average.

[edit] Stadium

Kecskeméti TE plays its home games at Széktói Stadion. With 4,300 seats, and standing room for 2,000 in the standing-only sections it is also the largest football stadium in Kecskemét. It was built in 1962. In 2002 it was completely renovated. The lighting installation consists of 128 floodlights mounted on 4 masts of height 38m, the average vertical illuminance is 1200 lx.

[edit] Current squad

No.	Position	Player
2	DF	Balázs Koszó
3	DF	Robson Souza
5	DF	István Farkas
6	MF	Viktor Tölgyesi
7	FW	Tibor Montvai
8	MF	Zsolt Koncz
9	FW	Marcell Balog
10	MF	Vladan Savić
11	FW	Csaba Csordás
12	MF	Norbert Némedi
15	DF	Attila Gyagya
16	DF	Pál Urbán

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Aleksandar Alimpijević
18	FW	Francis Litsingi (on loan from Újpest FC)
22	MF	István Bagi
23	FW	Ádám Hegedűs
26	DF	Lajos Bertus
27	FW	Mbengono Ondoa Yannick
31	GK	Attila Fischer
32	GK	Gábor Dvorschák (on loan from Újpest FC)
33	GK	Filip Lăzăreanu
36	DF	Szabolcs Schindler
88	FW	Botond Birtalan (on loan from Liberty Salonta)