MTK Budapest

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MTK Budapest

Full name	Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest
Short name	MTK
Founded	16 November 1888; 135 years ago (1888-11-16)
Colours	Blue and white
Chairman	Tamás Deutsch
Website	www.mtk.hu

Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre (Hungarian for "Hungarian Circle of Physical Practitioners") is a multi-sports club from Budapest, founded in 1888.^[1] It has sections for football, handball, basketball, volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, fencing, canoeing, boxing, wrestling, swimming, rowing, karate, taekwondo, sailing, speed skating, skiing, table tennis, tennis and chess.

Departments

Team sports

• Football:
  • men's football (since 1888)
  • women's football (since 2004)
• Handball:
  • women's handball (1946–1975, 1993–2000, since 2013)
• Basketball:
  • women's handball (1945–1997, since 2011)
• Volleyball:
  • women's volleyball (since 1947)

Individual sports

• Athletics (since 1888)
• Boxing (1893–1914, 1922– , since 1951)
• Bridge (since 1933)
• Canoeing (since 1951)
• Chess
• Gymnastics
• Fencing (since 1908)
• Judo (since 2019)
• Karate (since 2010)
• Rowing (1895–1942, since 1947)
• Rhythmic gymnastics (since 2011)
• Swimming (1892–1958, since 1962)
• Skating
• Taekwondo (since 1989)
• Tennis (1930–, 1947–, since 1991)
• E-sports

Dissolved departments

• Auto-motor (1926–1953)
• Bandy
• Basketball
  • men's basketball
• Button football
• Cycling
• Field hockey
• Futsal
• Handball
  • men's handball (1924–1958)
• Ice hockey
• Sailing
• Skiing
• Water polo
• Weightlifting (1934–?, 195?–?, 196?–1966)
• Wrestling

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters

Notable supporters

• Sándor Demján,^[2] businessman and entrepreneur
• Károly Gesztesi, actor
• Zoltán Zelk, poet
• Gábor Várszegi, musician and businessman

Rivalry

See also: Budapest derby and Örökrangadó

The fixture between MTK Budapest FC and Ferencvárosi TC is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. The first fixture was played in the 1903 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary.

Honours

Active departments

Football (men's)

Main article: MTK Budapest FC

• Hungarian Championship^[3]
  • Winners (23): 1904, 1907–08, 1913–14, 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19, 1919–20, 1920–21, 1921–22, 1922–23, 1923–24, 1924–25, 1928–29, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1950, 1953, 1957–58, 1986–87, 1996–97, 1998–99, 2002–03, 2007–08
• Hungarian Second League
  • Winners (4): 1994–95, 2011–12, 2017–18, 2019–20
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (12): 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1913–14, 1922–23, 1924–25, 1931–32, 1951–52, 1968, 1996–97, 1997–98, 1999–00
• Hungarian Super Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 2003, 2008
• Hungarian League Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 2012–13, 2014–15

• Mitropa Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 1955, 1963
• Štefánik Tournament (defunct)
  • Winner (1): 1933

Basketball (women's)

Main article: MTK (basketball team)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (10): 1953, 1956, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1988–89, 1990–91
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (8): 1955, 1961–62, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1972

Football (women's)

Main article: MTK Hungária FC (women)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (8): 2004–05, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2017–18
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (4): 2005, 2010, 2013, 2014

International honours

season	men's football	women's basketball
1955	Mitropa Cup Winners
1959	Mitropa Cup Final
1961–62	Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Semi-finals
1962–63	Mitropa Cup Winners	European Cup Semi-finals
1963–64	Cup Winners' Cup Final

Notable former players

Olympic champions

Az MTK olimpiai bajnokainak listája

• Zoltán Halmay, swimming
• Richárd Weisz, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Márton Homonnai, water polo
• Ferenc Keserű, water polo
• Jenő Brandi, water polo
• Kálmán Hazai, water polo
• László Papp, boxing
• Imre Hódos, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Róbert Antal, water polo
• Nándor Hidegkuti, football
• Imre Kovács, football
• Mihály Lantos, football
• Péter Palotás, football
• József Zakariás, football
• Gyula Török, boxing
• Lajos Dunai, football
• István Sárközi, football
• Ildikó Tordasi, fencing (foil)
• Botond Storcz, canoe sprint
• Katalin Kovács, canoe sprint

Presidents

List of the presidents of the MTK Budapest:^[4]

• 1889–1891: Lajos Vermes
• 1892–1898: Gyula Porzsolt
• 1899–1903: Antal Heteés
• 1905–1944: Alfréd Brüll
• 1945–1949: Zoltán Vass
• 1951–1953: János Somogyi
• 1953–1954: Lajos Kovács
• 1954–1956: István Tóth
• 1959–1963: István Dénes
• 1963–1969: Ferenc Bánhalmi
• 1969–1971: György Krekács
• 1971–2000: János Fekete
• 2001–2002: István Harcsár
• 2002–2003: Csaba Szecső
• 2004–2010: György Hunvald
• since 2010: Tamás Deutsch

References

1. "MTK Budapest". worldfootball.net. Archived from the original on 2021-10-11. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
2. "Híres MTK-sok". mtkcsalad.hu. 5 February 2023. Archived from the original on 26 September 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
3. "List of champions". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 2023-02-03. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
4. mtk.hu. "Az MTK elnökei". www.mtk.hu (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 2023-02-02. Retrieved 2023-02-01.

External links

• Official website