Vasas SC

Full name	Budapesti Vasas Sport Club
Founded	16th of march 1911
Ground	Stadion Rudolf Illovszky, Budapest (Capacity: 18,000)
Chairman	János Jámbor
Manager	Géza Mészöly
League	Soproni Liga (Level I)
2008–09	10th
Home colours Away colours

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.

Contents 1 Naming history 2 Departments 3 Football 3.1 Honours 3.2 Selected former players 3.3 Selected former managers 4 Current squad 5 European Cup history 6 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 7 UEFA Intertoto Cup 8 UEFA Cup 9 UEFA Champions League 10 Men's water polo 10.1 Honours 11 Women's handball 11.1 Honours 12 Other sports 13 External links

[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
• Gábor Bardi
• 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

As of 25 September 2009.

No. Position Player 1 GK Ákos Tulipán 2 DF Balázs Villám 5 MF Péter Szűcs 6 DF Gábor Kovács 7 MF Balázs B. Tóth 8 MF Szabolcs Bakos (on loan from Felcsút) 10 MF Cedomir Pavicevic 11 FW János Lázok 12 GK Attila Bartos 14 MF Tamás Tandari 15 MF Máté Katona 17 MF Dávid Görényi 19 FW Petar Divić 20 MF Dániel Dékány 23 MF Péter Kincses

No. Position Player 24 MF László Imrik 25 MF Sasa Dobric 27 DF Zsolt Balog 29 FW László Szűcs 30 GK Zoltán Végh (on loan from Újpest) 31 MF Roland Mundi 32 MF József Piller 34 FW Attila Marton 36 DF József Gáspár 37 DF Đorđe Mrdjanin 38 FW Péter Szilágyi (on loan from Debreceni) 39 FW Bencze Balogh 43 MF Márton Kovács 77 MF Mohamed Remili (on loan from Újpest)

[edit] European Cup history

[edit] UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
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
		2. Round		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
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
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
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 (16): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008, 2009
• 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] Women's handball

[edit] Honours

• Hungarian League
  • Winners (15): 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1991-92, 1992-93
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (11): 1969, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
• Champions Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1981–82
  • Finalist (5): 1977-78, 1978-79, 1981–82, 1992-93, 1993-94
• Cup winners Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1987-88
• EHF-Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1984-85
• City-Cup
  • Finalist (1): 1994-95

[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)
• (Hungarian) Unofficial fan-site (team sports)

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