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Gergő Fazekas
Gergő Fazekas
	Fazekas in 2024
Personal information
Born	31 October 2003 (age 21); Budapest, Hungary
Nationality	Hungarian
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Centre Back
Club information
Current club	Wisła Płock
Number	24
Youth career
Years	Team
2014–2018	Éles KISE
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2018–2022	Veszprém KKFT Felsőörs
2022–2024	ONE Veszprém
2022–2024	→ Wisła Płock (loan)
2024–	Wisła Płock
National team
Years	Team
2022–	Hungary
Medal record
Junior World Championship

Gergő Fazekas (born 31 October 2003) is a Hungarian handball player who plays for Wisła Płock and the Hungary national team.

Career

Club

In the 2018/19 season, Gergő played for the first time in the second division in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. He was not even 15 years old when he made his debut. In his first senior season, he scored 26 goals in 10 games. In 2020, when the league was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gergő was the second best scorer of his team leading the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B with 77 goals in 15 matches. They were promoted to the top flight for the following season, where, as his team's top scorer, he scored 125 goals in 23 matches for the association that finished in seventh place in Nemzeti Bajnokság I. In addition, they finished fourth in the Hungarian Cup. In 2022, the team reached the final of the Hungarian Cup, but were defeated there by Telekom Veszprém.^[1] In November 2021, it was announced that he would continue his career at Telekom Veszprém from the summer of 2022.^[2] They signed a 4-year contract with him. For the first two years of his contract, he is loaned to Polish side Wisła Płock.^[3] In Plock in the summer of 2022, during the preparation, he suffered a serious shoulder injury.^[4] He had surgery, then made his comeback in February 2023 after 6 months of rehabilitation.^[5] One of Gergő's most memorable matches of the 2023/24 season in the EHF Champions League is the group match against Telekom Veszprém, in which he scored seven goals from seven shots, taking a leading role in Wisła Płock's 37-30 victory.^[6] In November 2024, Wisła Płock bought him from the Telekom Veszprém team and signed a contract with him until 2029.^[7]

National team

He was 9th with the Hungarian team at the 2021 Youth European Championship. He was called up to the Hungary national team for the first time in October 2021 by the then national team head coach István Gulyás.^[8] He was included in the large squad of the 2022 European Men's Handball Championship,^[9] but in the end he did not become a member of the narrow squad. On March 19, 2022, he made his international debut in the national team, (selected by Chema Rodríguez) in Gummersbach against Germany.^[10] He participated in the 2023 Junior World Championship, where Hungary won the silver medal.^[11] He also participated in the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship as a member of the Hungary men's national handball team. (5th place, 8 matches / 18 goals). He also participated in the 2024 Paris Olympics, where the Hungarian team finished 10th (5 matches / 10 goals).

Personal life

His father, Nándor Fazekas, is a former handball player who played in the Hungary national team. His brother, Máté Fazekas, is also a professional handball player who plays as a left back.

Honours

National team

Junior World Championship:
- Silver: 2023

Club

Veszprém KKFT Felsőörs

Magyar Kupa
- Silver: 2022

Wisła Płock

Polish Superliga:
- Gold: 2024
- Silver: 2023
Polish Cup
- Gold: 2023, 2024
Polish Supercup
- Gold: 2024

Individual

Hungarian Adolescent Handballer of the Year: 2019^[12]
Hungarian Youth Handball Player of the Year: 2021^[13]

References

^ "MAGYAR KUPA - Férfi - Négyes döntő - Mérkőzések" [HUNGARIAN CUP - Men - Final Four - Matches]. kezilabda-kupa.hu (in Hungarian).
^ "A magyar utánpótlás egyik legígéretesebb tehetsége a Telekom Veszprémben" [He is one of the most promising talents of the Hungarian youth team at Telekom Veszprém]. handballveszpremshop.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "A Telekom Veszprém külföldi nagycsapathoz adja kölcsön fiatal magyar tehetségét" [Telekom Veszprém lends its young Hungarian talent to a major foreign team]. origo.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Raport Medyczny – Gergő Fazekas" [Medical Report – Gergő Fazekas]. sprwislaplock.pl (in Polish). 2 August 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Kézilabda: élesben is bemutatkozott a Plockban a Veszprém kölcsönjátékosa" [Handball: the loan player from Veszprém made a live appearance in Plock]. nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). 6 February 2023.
^ "Fazekas Gergő remekelt, kikapott a Veszprém a Wisla Plocktól" [Gergő Fazekas excelled, Veszprém lost to Wisla Plock]. origo.hu (in Hungarian). 7 December 2023. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
^ "Fazekas Gergő nem tér vissza Veszprémbe" [Gergő Fazekas will not return to Veszprém]. Veszprém Handball Club (in Hungarian). 31 October 2024. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
^ "Apáról fiúra száll a válogatottság: meghívót kapott a legendás magyar kapus fia" [The national team is passed down from father to son: the son of the legendary Hungarian goalkeeper received an invitation]. Sportal.hu (in Hungarian). 30 September 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Men's EHF EURO 2022 Official Squad Lists" (PDF). EHF. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Fazekas Gergő ott mutatkozott be a válogatottban, ahol megszerette a kézilabdát" [Gergő Fazekas introduced himself to the national team where he fell in love with handball]. utanpotlassport.hu (in Hungarian). 7 April 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Nagy falat volt a házigazda, vb-ezüstérmes a magyar U21-es férfi kézilabda-válogatott" [The host had a big bite, the Hungarian U21 men's handball team won the World Cup silver medal]. Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 2 July 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
^ "Megválasztották az év magyar kézilabdázóit" [The Hungarian handball players of the year were chosen]. origo.hu (in Hungarian). 10 February 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2022.
^ "Kézilabda: Bánhidi Bence és Márton Gréta az év játékosai" [Handball: Bence Bánhidi and Gréta Márton are the players of the year]. NSO.hu (in Hungarian). 9 February 2022. Retrieved 26 November 2022.