Budapest Honvéd FC
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clubname = Budapest Honvéd |
fullname = Budapest Honvéd<br />Football Club |
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founded = 1909 |
ground = [[Bozsik Stadion]],<br/>[[Budapest]] |
capacity = 13,500 |
chairman = {{flagicon|USA}} [[George Hemingway]] |
manager = {{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gábor Pölöskei]] |
league = [[Hungarian League]] |
season = [[Hungarian National Championship I 2007-08|2007-08]] |
position = 8th |
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'''Budapest Honvéd FC''' is a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[sports club]] from [[Budapest]] best known for its [[football (soccer)|football]] team. Originally formed as ''Kispest AC'', they became ''Kispest FC'' in 1926 before reverting to their original name in 1944. The team enjoyed a golden age during the 1950s when it was renamed ''Budapest Honvéd SE'' and became the [[Military of Hungary|Hungarian Army]] team. The club’s top players from this era, [[Ferenc Puskás]], [[Sándor Kocsis]], [[József Bozsik]] and [[Zoltán Czibor]], formed the nucleus of the legendary [[Hungary national football team|Hungarian]] team known as the [[Golden Team|''Mighty Magyars'']] and helped the club win the [[Hungarian League]] four times during the 1950s. During the 1980s and early 1990s the club enjoyed another successful period, winning a further eight [[Hungarian League]] titles. They also won league and cup doubles in 1985 and 1989. In 1991 the club was renamed ''Kispest Honvéd FC'' and adopted it’s current name in 2003.
When the club was originally formed in 1909 it also organised teams that competed in [[fencing]], [[cycling]], [[gymnastics]], [[wrestling]], [[Athletics (track and field)|athletics]], [[boxing]] and [[tennis]]. Later the Honvéd family was extended to include a [[water polo]] team, now known as ''Domino-BHFC'' and a [[Team Handball|handball]] team that were [[EHF Champions League|European Champions]] in 1982.
==History==
===Kispest AC===
The club was founded on [[August 10]], [[1908]] as ''Kispest Athletic Club'' by Dr. Balint Varga, a teacher. However the club’s earliest members could not agree on a club constitution until [[August 3]], [[1909]] and this is generally recognised as the club’s foundation date. When the club was originally formed, Kispest was still a village, distinct from the city of [[Budapest]]. During the first three decades of it’s existence, the club was little more than a village team and enjoyed only moderate success, winning a single [[Hungarian Cup]] in 1926. During the 1930s the team included [[Rezső Rozgonyi]] and [[Rezső Somlai]] who both represented [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] at the [[1934 FIFA World Cup squads|1934 World Cup]] and [[Ferenc Puskás I]], the father of [[Ferenc Puskás]], and later a coach at the club during the 1940s.
===Budapest Honvéd SE===
In 1943 both [[Ferenc Puskás]] and [[József Bozsik]] made their debut for ''Kispest FC'' and between 1947 and 1948 the club was coached by the legendary Hungarian coach [[Béla Guttman]]. However the club’s golden age really began in 1949 when it was taken over by the Hungarian Ministry of Defence and it became the [[Military of Hungary|Hungarian Army]] team. The man behind the take over was [[Gusztáv Sebes]], the coach of the [[Hungary national football team|national team]]. Sebes was inspired by the [[Austria national football team|Austrian]] ''Wunderteam'' and the [[Italy national football team|Italy]] team that won two [[FIFA World Cup|World Cups]] in the 1930s. Both teams were predominantly drawn from one or at most two clubs and Sebes wanted a similar system in Hungary.
In January 1949 when Hungary became a [[People's Republic of Hungary|communist state]], the resulting nationalisation of football clubs gave Sebes the opportunity. The two biggest Hungarian clubs at the time were [[Ferencvárosi Torna Club|Ferencváros TC]] and [[MTK Hungária FC]]. However while the secret police, the [[State Protection Authority|ÁVH]] took over MTK, Ferencváros was considered unsuitable because of it’s [[right-wing]] and nationalist traditions. Sebes turned instead to ''Kispest AC''. The Kispest name was dropped as the village was absorbed into District XIX of [[Budapest]] and the club was renamed ''Budapest Honvéd SE''. The name derives from [[Honvédség]], the name of the Hungarian Army, and the word ''honvéd'', which literally means ''defender of the homeland'' is also used to refer to an army [[Private (rank)|private]].
===The Mighty Magyars===
The ''Kispest AC'' team already included [[Ferenc Puskás]] and [[József Bozsik]] but army conscription now enabled Honvéd to recruit [[Sándor Kocsis]], [[Zoltán Czibor]] and [[László Budai]] from Ferencváros, [[Gyula Lóránt]] from [[Vasas SC]] and the goalkeeper [[Gyula Grosics]]. Sebes was effectively able to use Honvéd as a training camp for the [[Hungary national football team|national team]]. During the early 1950s these Honvéd players formed the backbone of the legendary [[Golden Team|''Mighty Magyars'']], helping [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] become [[Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics|Olympic Champions]] in 1952, [[Central European International Cup|Central European Champions]] in 1953, defeat [[England national football team|England]] twice and reach the [[1954 FIFA World Cup Final|1954 World Cup final]].
===European Cup===
Honvéd itself also benefited, winning the [[Hungarian League]] in 1949-50, 1950, 1952, 1954, and 1955. The club’s reputation spread beyond [[Hungary]] and on [[December 13]], [[1954]] they played [[Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.|Wolves]], the reigning [[Football League|English League]] champions, in a prestige friendly. Honvéd were leading 2-0 at half-time, but eventually lost 3-2. It was games like this that led to establishment of the [[UEFA Champions League|European Cup]] in 1955.
In 1956 Honvéd qualified for the second [[European Cup 1956-57|European Cup]] competition and in the first round they were drawn against [[Athletic Bilbao|Atlético Bilbao]]. Honvéd lost the away leg 2-3, but before the home leg could be played, the [[1956 Hungarian Revolution|Hungarian Revolution]] had collapsed back in [[Budapest]] and the [[Soviet Union]] had invaded. The players decided against going back to [[Hungary]] and arranged for the return game with Atlético to be played at the [[King Baudouin Stadium|''Heysel Stadium'']] in [[Brussels]]. However early in the game the Honvéd goalkeeper was injured and, with no substitutes permitted, [[Zoltán Czibor]] had to go into goal. Despite drawing 3-3 they went out 6-5 on aggregate.
===Honvéd World Tour===
Elimination from the [[European Cup 1956-57|European Cup]] left Honvéd in limbo. The players, declining to return to [[Hungary]], summoned their families from [[Budapest]] and, despite opposition from [[FIFA]] and the now [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-controlled [[Hungarian Football Federation]], [[Béla Guttmann]] organised a fundraising tour of [[Italy]], [[Portugal]], and [[Spain]]. Among the most notable matches were a 5-5 draw with a Madrid XI and a 4-3 win over [[FC Barcelona|CF Barcelona]]. Honvéd declined a [[Mexico|Mexican]] offer of [[right of asylum|political asylum]] and an invitation to join their national league and instead accepted an offer to play in a tournament in [[Brazil]] with [[Clube de Regatas do Flamengo|CR Flamengo]] and [[Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas|Botafogo]]. By now [[FIFA]] had declared the team illegal and banned them from using the Honvéd name. After returning to Europe, the players parted ways. Some, including [[József Bozsik]], [[László Budai]], [[Gyula Lóránt]] and [[Gyula Grosics]], returned to [[Hungary]] while others, including [[Zoltán Czibor]], [[Sándor Kocsis]] and [[Ferenc Puskás]], found new clubs in [[Western Europe]]. Czibor and Kocsis eventually signed for [[FC Barcelona]] while Puskás joined [[Real Madrid]].
===The Post-Revolution era===
The defection of [[Zoltán Czibor]], [[Sándor Kocsis]] and [[Ferenc Puskás]] severely weakened Honvéd and in 1957 they only avoided relegation after the [[Hungarian Football Federation]] decide to expand the first division. Despite the emergence of [[Lajos Tichy]] and [[Lajos Kocsis]], the post-[[1956 Hungarian Revolution|Revolution]] era was not kind to Honvéd. There only successes came in the [[Mitropa Cup]] in 1959, when they beat [[MTK Hungária FC]] in the final 6-5 on aggregate, and in 1964 when they won the [[Hungarian Cup]].
===The Second Golden Age===
In 1980 with [[Lajos Tichy]] as coach and a squad that included [[Imre Garaba]], Honvéd won their first [[Hungarian League]] title in twenty five years. During the 1980s and early 1990s players such as [[Kálmán Kovács]], [[Lajos Détári]], [[János Mátyus]], [[Béla Illés]], [[Gábor Halmai]] and [[István Vincze]] helped Honvéd win another seven titles. They also won league and cup doubles in 1985 and 1989 and won the [[Hungarian Cup]] and in 1996.
===Kispest Honvéd FC===
In 1991 the club revived the ''Kispest'' name and became ''Kispest Honvéd FC''. However the name change marked the beginning of a decline in the club’s fortunes. In 2003 they were relegated, but they returned to the first division the following season. However, Kispest Honvéd Sports Circle Ltd, the company that owned the club, owed millions of [[Hungarian forint]]s in taxes and in October 2004 went into [[liquidation]]. The company practiced a policy that treated it’s players as self-employed contractors rather than employees and as result, significantly reduced the club’s tax burden. However the tax authorities objected and were supported by the courts, leaving the club in arrears with no means of paying them. Rival directors argued over who owed how much tax and eventually the [[Hungarian League]] intervened. As a result a new club, ''Budapest Honvéd FC'', was formed and allowed to take the place of ''Kispest Honvéd FC'' in the first division on the condition that the tax debt was paid off.
==Honours==
===Football===
*'''[[Hungarian League]]: 13'''
**1949-50, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993
*'''[[Hungarian Cup]]: 6'''
**1926, 1964, 1985, 1989, 1996, 2007
**Runner-up 2008
*'''[[Mitropa Cup]]: 1'''
**1959
*'''[[Trofeo Ciudad de Vigo]]: 1'''
**1974
===Handball===
*'''[[EHF Champions League|European Champions]]: 1'''
**1982
*'''[[European Club Championship]] Finalists:''' 1
**1982
===Water Polo===
*'''European Champions League'''
**''Runners Up'' 2002
*'''Hungarian Cup: 6'''
**1953, 1954, 1958, 1959, 1979, 1999
== Current squad 2007/08 ==
''As of [[June 6]], [[2008]].
{{Football squad start}}
{{Football squad player|no=1|nat=Hungary|name=[[Iván Tóth]]|pos=GK}}
{{Football squad player|no=4|nat=CMR|name=[[Edouard Ndjodo]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=5|nat=Ivory Coast|name=[[Angoua Brou Benjamin]]|pos=DF}}
{{Football squad player|no=7|nat=Hungary|name=[[Gellért Iváncsics]]|pos=MF}}
{{Football squad player|no=9|nat=HUN|name=[[Attila Dobos]]|pos=MF}}
{{Football squad player|no=11|nat=Hungary|name=[[Róbert Zsolnai]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=13|nat=SEN|name=[[Dieng Cheikh Abass]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=15|nat=Hungary|name=[[András Debreceni]]|pos=DF}}
{{Football squad player|no=16|nat=Hungary|name=[[Dávid Gyenes]]|pos=GK}}
{{Football squad player|no=17|nat=HUN|name=[[László Horvéth]]|pos=MF}}
{{Football squad player|no=18|nat=CIV|name=[[Guie Gneki Abraham]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=19|nat=BRA|name=Diego|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad mid}}
{{Football squad player|no=20|nat=SER|name=[[Mico Smiljanic]]|pos=DF}}
{{Football squad player|no=21|nat=HUN|name=[[Zoltán Hercegfalvi]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=22|nat=Hungary|name=[[Balázs Rabóczki]]|pos=GK}}
{{Football squad player|no=23|nat=Hungary|name=[[Vincze Zoltán]]|pos=DF}}
{{Football squad player|no=24|nat=Hungary|name=[[László Bojtor]]|pos=FW}}
{{Football squad player|no=25|nat=Hungary|name=[[Attila Fritz]]|pos=MF}}
{{Football squad player|no=26|nat=Hungary|name=[[Ferenc Kocsis]]|pos=FW|}}
{{Football squad player|no=28|nat=Hungary|name=[[Ferenc Szöllősi]]|pos=MF}}
{{Football squad player|no=29|nat=Hungary|name=[[Ákos Takács]]|pos=DF|}}
{{Football squad player|no=66|nat=Hungary|name=[[Tamás Filó]]|pos=DF|}}
{{Football squad player|no=71|nat=LBR|name=[[George Gebro]]|pos=FW|}}
{{Football squad player|no=79|nat=MOZ|name=[[Genito]]|pos=MF|}}
{{Football squad end}}
===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=––|nat=Hungary|name=[[Gábor Koós]]|pos=FW|other=on loan to [[BFC Siófok]]}}
{{Fs end}}
=== 2008/09 Summer transfers ===
==== In: ====
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[András Debreceni]] - [[Kecskeméti FC]] ''(return from loan)''
*{{flagicon|Cameroon}} [[Edouard Ndjodo]] - [[Ferencvárosi TC]] ''(return from loan)''
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Balázs Rabóczki]] - [[Vitesse|S.B.V. Vitesse]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Béla Maróti]] - [[Kaposvári Rákóczi FC]]
==== Out: ====
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Tibor Pomper]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Balázs Berdó]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Pascal Borel]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Zsolt Bárányos]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Yusuf-Muri Adewunmi]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Veledar Becir Esad]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Gábor Koós]] ''(on loan to [[BFC Siófok]])''
=== 2007/08 Winter transfers ===
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==== In: ====
*{{flagicon|Liberia}} [[George Gebro]] - [[Ethnikos Achnas]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Róbert Zsolnai]] - [[Debreceni VSC]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Tamás Filó]] - [[FC Tatabánya]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Veledar Becir Esad]] - [[AC Martina Calcio]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Ákos Takács]] - [[Vejle Boldklub]]
*{{flagicon|GER}} [[Yusuf-Muri Adewunmi]] - [[Artmedia Bratislava]]
==== Out: ====
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[József Mogyorósi]] - [[Diósgyőri VTK]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Mihály Tóth]] - [[Panachaiki]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Richárd Ráthy]] - FC Dabas
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Szabolcs Schindler]] - [[BFC Siófok]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Balázs Tóth]] - [[Vasas Budapest]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[József Magasföldi]] - [[BFC Siófok]]
*{{flagicon|HUN}} [[András László]] - [[Kecskeméti TE]]
=== Retired numbers ===
{{main article|Retired numbers in football (soccer)}}
<big>'''10'''</big> – {{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Ferenc Puskás]], [[Football (soccer) positions#Deep-lying forwards|Deep-lying forward]] (1939-1956) (Since July 2000)<br />
==Selected Former Players==
{|
|valign="top"|
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[József Bozsik]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[László Budai]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Zoltán Czibor]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Détári]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gábor Egressy (footballer)|Gábor Egressy]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Imre Garaba]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gyula Grosics]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gábor Halmai]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Miklós Herczeg]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Béla Illés]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Kocsis]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Sándor Kocsis]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Antal Kotász]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Kálmán Kovács]]
|
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gyula Lóránt]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} {{flagicon|France}} [[István Nyers]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Ferenc Machos]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[János Mátyus]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} {{flagicon|Romania}} [[Vasile Miriuţă]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Ferenc Puskás I]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Ferenc Puskás|Ferenc Puskás II]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Rezső Rozgonyi]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Rezső Somlai]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Tichy]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Sándor Torghelle]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[István Vincze]]
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Krisztián Vadócz]]
|}
''see also {{cl|Budapest Honvéd FC footballers}}''
==Selected Former Managers==
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Ferenc Puskás I]]:194x-47, 1948-51
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Béla Guttmann]]: 1947-48, 1957
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Jenő Kálmár]]: 1952-56
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Gyula Lóránt]]: 1962-63
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[József Bozsik]]: 1966-67
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Tichy]]: 1976-82
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Imre Komora]]: 1982-86, 1987, 1997-98, 1999
*{{flagicon|Finland}} [[Martti Kuusela]]: 1992-94
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Lajos Détári]]: 2002
*{{flagicon|Italy}} [[Aldo Dolcetti]]: 2005-2007
*{{flagicon|Hungary}} [[Attila Supka]]: 2007-2008
''see also {{cl|Budapest Honvéd FC managers}}''
==Trivia==
The British pop group [[Half Man Half Biscuit]] have a song entitled 'I Was A Teenage Armchair Honved Fan'
==Sources==
*''Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football'': Jonathan Wilson (2006) [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752869078]
*''50 Years of the European Cup and Champions League'': Keir Radnedge (2005) [http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1844425290]
==External links==
*[http://www.honvedfc.hu Budapest Honvéd FC- Official site]
*[http://www.voiceoftheturtle.org/show_article.php?aid=150 ''Puskás on Puskás'' Rogan Taylor and Klara Jamrich (1998)]
*[http://www.rsssf.com/tablesm/mit59.html Mitropa Cup 1959]
*[http://wform.red-one.hu/dominobhse/a_klub Domino BHSE]
*[http://www.prowaterpolo.com/water-polo-hungary-cup.htm Hungary Water Polo Cup]
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