2015–16 Újpest FC season explained

The 2015–16 season was Újpest Football Club's 110th competitive season, 104th consecutive season in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I and 130th year in existence as a football club.

Club:	Újpest FC
Season:	2015–16
Manager:	Nebojša Vignjević
Chairman:	Roderick Duchâtelet
Stadium:	Ferenc Szusza Stadium
League:	OTP Bank Liga
League Result:	6th
Cup1:	Hungarian Cup
Cup1 Result:	Runners-up
League Topscorer:	Mbaye Diagne (11)
Season Topscorer:	Enis Bardhi (12)
Highest Attendance:	8,445 (vs Ferencváros, 09 September 2015)
Lowest Attendance:	1,048 (vs Paks, 20 April 2016)
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Prevseason:	2014–15
Nextseason:	2016–17

First Team Squad

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Squad No.	Name	Nationality	Position	Date of Birth (Age)
Goalkeepers
1	Szabolcs Balajcza		GK	1979 7, df=yes
23	Dávid Banai		GK	1994 5, df=yes
32	Zoltán Kovács		GK	1984 10, df=yes
Defenders
2	Tibor Nagy		RB	1991 8, df=yes
3	Jonathan Heris		CB / DM	1990 9, df=yes
4	Dávid Kálnoki-Kis		CB / RB	1991 8, df=yes
5	Róbert Litauszki		CB / LB / RB	1990 3, df=yes
13	Dávid Mohl		LB / LM	1985 4, df=yes
15	Ákos Kecskés		CB	1996 1, df=yes
30	Péter Bauer		CB	1998 3, df=yes
Midfielders
6	József Windecker		DM	1992 12, df=yes
8	Balázs Balogh		DM / LB / LM	1990 6, df=yes
14	Gábor Nagy		RM / AM / CM	1985 10, df=yes
18	Bojan Sanković		DM / CM	1993 11, df=yes
20	Souleymane Diarra		CM	1995 1, df=yes
21	Benjamin Balázs		LW / AM / RW	1990 4, df=yes
26	Benjámin Cseke		LM	1994 7, df=yes
27	Bence Pávkovics		CM	1997 3, df=yes
29	Enis Bardhi			1995 7, df=yes
88	Attila Filkor		CM / DM / AM	1988 7, df=yes
Strikers
7	Kylian Hazard		AM	1995 8, df=yes
9	László Lencse		CF	1988 7, df=yes
11	Mihailo Perović			1997 1, df=yes
17	Viktor Angelov			1994 3, df=yes
19	Nemanja Andrić		LW / RW	1987 6, df=yes
22	Péter Kabát		CF / AM / SS	1977 9, df=yes
25	Zoltán Gere			1997 6, df=yes
28	János Lázok			1984 10, df=yes

Transfers

In

Summer

Player	Nationality	Position	Age	Moving from	Transfer fee	Date
Zoltán Gubacsi		Right back	19	Soproni VSE	End of loan	30 June 2015
Dávid Kálnoki-Kis		Centre back	23	MTK Budapest FC	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Zoltán Kovács		Goalkeeper	30	FC Dinamo București	Free transfer	1 July 2015
József Windecker		Defensive midfielder	22	Győri ETO FC	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Dániel Sallói		Centre forward	19	Sporting Kansas City	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Attila Filkor		Centre midfielder	27	A.C. Milan	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Kylian Hazard		Attacking midfielder	19	S.V. Zulte Waregem	Unknown^[2]	1 July 2015
Patrik Tóth		Centre forward	18	Újpest FC U20		1 July 2015
Dávid Mohl		Left back	30	Pécsi MFC	Free transfer	16 July 2015
Bence Pávkovics		Central midfielder	18	Pécsi MFC	Free transfer	17 July 2015
Souleymane Diarra		Right midfielder	20	Wydad Casablanca	Unknown^[3]	26 August 2015
Benjamin Balázs		Attacking midfielder	25	FK Teplice	Unknown^[4]	28 August 2015
Nemanja Andrić		Left winger	28	Győri ETO FC	Free transfer^[5]	31 August 2015

Winter

Player	Nationality	Position	Age	Moving from	Transfer fee	Date
Péter Bauer		Defender	17	Újpest FC U20	Free transfer^[6]	8 January 2016
Viktor Angelov			21	FK Metalurg Skopje	Free transfer^[7]	24 January 2016
Zoltán Gere			18	Újpest FC U20	Free transfer^[8]	8 February 2016
János Lázok			31	Vasas SC	Free transfer^[9]	8 February 2016

Out

Summer

Player	Nationality	Position	Age	Moving to	Transfer fee	Date
Berat Ahmeti		Forward	20	KF Vllaznia Shkodër	Free transfer	5 June 2015
Dávid Hudák		Defender	22	ŠK Slovan Bratislava	End of loan	30 June 2015
Kim Ojo		Forward	26	K.R.C. Genk	End of loan	30 June 2015
Nemanja Andrić		Midfielder	28	Győri ETO FC	End of loan	30 June 2015
János Nagy		Defender	22	BFC Siófok	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Filip Stanisavljević		Midfielder	28	AÓ Plataniá	Free transfer	1 July 2015
Darwin Andrade		Defender	24	Standard Liège	£1.40m	3 July 2015
Rodrigo Rojo		Midfielder	26	Centro Atlético Fénix	Unknown	6 July 2015
Loïc Nego		Defender	24	Charlton Athletic F.C.	End of loan	10 July 2015
Asmir Suljić		Midfielder	23	Videoton FC	Unknown^[10]	28 August 2015
Viktor Vadász		Defender	29	Unknown	Released^[11]	31 August 2015

Winter

Player	Nationality	Position	Age	Moving to	Transfer fee	Date
Gyula Forró		Defender	27	Puskás Akadémia FC	Free transfer^[12]	13 January 2016
Dániel Sallói		Forward	19	Sporting Kansas City	Free transfer^[13]	15 January 2016
Mbaye Diagne		Forward	24	Tianjin Teda F.C.	£1.43m^[14]	4 February 2016
Falaye Sacko		Defensive midfielder	20	Vitória S.C.	Free transfer^[15]	4 February 2016

Loan In

Summer

Player	Nationality	Position	Age	Loaned From
Benjámin Cseke		Left midfielder	21	MTK Budapest FC
Mbaye Diagne^[16]		Centre forward	23	Juventus FC
Ákos Kecskés^[17]		Centre back	19	Atalanta B.C.
Tibor Nagy^[18]		Right back	24	MTK Budapest FC

Winter

Loan Out

Winter

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos.	Name	OTP Bank Liga		Hungarian Cup		Total		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	Szabolcs Balajcza	31	0	4	0	35	0	0	2
2	DF	Tibor Nagy	8 (1)	0	3	0	11 (1)	0	4	0
3	DF	Jonathan Heris	24	0	6	0	30	0	8	1
4	DF	Dávid Kálnoki-Kis	22	1	5	0	27	1	3	1
5	DF	Róbert Litauszki	29 (1)	1	7	0	36 (1)	1	9	0
6	MF	József Windecker	9 (3)	1	2	0	11 (3)	1	1	0
7	MF	Kylian Hazard	26 (3)	3	3 (4)	1	29 (7)	4	1	0
8	MF	Balázs Balogh	29 (1)	4	8	4	37 (1)	8	2	0
9	FW	László Lencse	12 (1)	3	3	2	15 (1)	5	0	0
11	FW	Mihailo Perović	3 (5)	3	2 (1)	2	5 (6)	5	0	0
13	DF	Dávid Mohl	27 (3)	1	4 (2)	2	31 (5)	3	4	0
14	MF	Gábor Nagy	9 (2)	0	5	2	14 (2)	2	4	0
15	DF	Ákos Kecskés	7 (2)	0	6	0	13 (2)	0	2	0
17	FW	Viktor Angelov	5 (5)	0	0 (3)	0	5 (8)	0	2	0
18	DF	Bojan Sanković	20 (2)	1	8	0	29 (2)	1	4	0
19	MF	Nemanja Andrić	19 (6)	4	5 (2)	3	24 (8)	7	2	0
20	MF	Souleymane Diarra	7 (3)	0	3 (1)	0	10 (4)	0	7	0
21	MF	Benjamin Balázs	11 (2)	0	2 (3)	1	13 (5)	1	1	0
22	FW	Péter Kabát	1 (13)	1	5 (2)	7	6 (15)	8	2	0
23	GK	Dávid Banai	0 (1)	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0
25	FW	Zoltán Gere	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
26	MF	Benjámin Cseke	4 (12)	0	7 (1)	3	11 (13)	3	2	0
27	MF	Bence Pávkovics	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
28	DF	Zoltán Gubacsi	0	0	0 (2)	0	0 (2)	0	0	0
29	MF	Enis Bardhi	23 (6)	6	4 (3)	6	27 (9)	12	4	0
32	GK	Zoltán Kovács	2	0	5	0	7	0	0	0
88	MF	Attila Filkor	3 (4)	0	2 (2)	0	5 (6)	0	0	0
align="left"	-	FW	János Lázok	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Loaned Out
24	FW	Patrik Tóth	1 (5)	1	1	1	2 (5)	2	1	0
No longer in team
25	DF	Viktor Vadász	1 (2)	0	0	0	1 (2)	0	0	0
99	MF	Asmir Suljić	5	0	0 (1)	3	5 (1)	3	1	0
17	DF	Gyula Forró	3 (1)	0	3	0	6 (1)	0	1	0
30	FW	Dániel Sallói	7 (5)	1	4 (1)	6	11 (6)	7	2	0
9	FW	Mbaye Diagne	13 (1)	11	0 (2)	0	13 (3)	11	5	0

Top scorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

Last updated on 1 May 2016

width=60	Position	width=60	Nation	width=60	Number	width=150	Name	width=80	OTP Bank Liga	width=80	Hungarian Cup	width=80	Total
1		29	Enis Bardhi	6	6	12
2		9	Mbaye Diagne	11	0	11
3		8	Balázs Balogh	4	4	8
4		22	Péter Kabát	1	7	8
5		19	Nemanja Andrić	4	3	7
6		30	Dániel Sallói	1	6	7
7		11	Mihailo Perović	3	2	5
8		9	László Lencse	3	2	5
9		7	Kylian Hazard	3	1	4
10		13	Dávid Mohl	1	2	3
11		26	Benjámin Cseke	0	3	3
12		99	Asmir Suljić	0	3	3
13		24	Patrik Tóth	1	1	2
14		14	Gábor Nagy	0	2	2
15		18	Bojan Sanković	1	0	1
16		6	József Windecker	1	0	1
17		5	Róbert Litauszki	1	0	1
18		4	Dávid Kálnoki-Kis	1	0	1
19		21	Benjamin Balázs	0	1	1
/	/	/	Own Goals	2	1	3
			TOTALS	44	44	88

Overall

Games played	43 (33 OTP Bank Liga, 10 Hungarian Cup)
Games won	18 (11 OTP Bank Liga, 7 Hungarian Cup)
Games drawn	15 (13 OTP Bank Liga, 2 Hungarian Cup)
Games lost	10 (9 OTP Bank Liga, 1 Hungarian Cup)
Goals scored	88
Goals conceded	42
Goal difference	+46
Yellow cards	70
Red cards	4
Worst discipline	Jonathan Heris (8, 1)
Best result	14–1 (A) v Vértessomlói KSK – Hungarian Cup – 12-08-2015
Worst result	0–3 (A) v Videoton – OTP Bank Liga – 19-09-2015
	0–3 (H) v Videoton – OTP Bank Liga – 30-04-2016
Most appearances	Balázs Balogh (38 appearances)
Top scorers		Enis Bardhi (12 goals)
Points	46/99 (46.4%)

Notes and References

1. Web site: First Team Squad of Újpest FC. Újpest FC.
2. Web site: Kylian Hazard, new player of Újpest FC. 27 June 2015. Újpest FC.
3. Web site: Souleymane Diarra, new player of Újpest FC. 26 August 2015. Újpest FC.
4. Web site: Reinforcement came from Czech Republic. 26 August 2015. Újpest FC.
5. Web site: Nemanja Andrić returns. 31 August 2015. Újpest FC.
6. Web site: Péter Bauer is now professional. 8 January 2016. Újpest FC.
7. Web site: We have proven a striker. 24 January 2016. Újpest FC.
8. Web site: Our new sign: Zoltán Gere. 8 February 2016. Újpest FC.
9. Web site: Our new sign: János Lázok. 8 February 2016. Újpest FC.
10. Web site: Asmir Suljić, has gone. 28 August 2015. Újpest FC.
11. Web site: Viktor Vadász takes off the purple. 31 August 2015. Újpest FC.
12. Web site: Gyula Forró changes colours. 13 January 2016. Újpest FC.
13. Web site: Dániel Sallói has gone.. 15 January 2016. Újpest FC.
14. Web site: Mbaye Diagne has gone.. 4 February 2016. Újpest FC.
15. Web site: Falaye Sacko has gone.. 4 February 2016. Újpest FC.
16. Web site: Mbaye Diagne, new player of Újpest FC. 15 August 2015. Újpest FC.
17. Web site: Ákos Kecskés turns purple. 30 August 2015. Újpest FC.
18. Web site: We are strengthen the right side of the defend with Tibor Nagy. 31 August 2015. Újpest FC.