Bela Palfi | |
Fullname: | Bela Palfi |
Birth Date: | 16 February 1923 |
Birth Place: | Bečkerek, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
Death Place: | Zrenjanin, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia |
Position: | Midfielder |
Youthyears1: | 1938–1941 |
Youthclubs1: | AK Vojvodina Zrenjanin |
Years1: | 1941–1944 |
Years2: | 1945–1946 |
Years3: | 1946–1948 |
Years4: | 1948 |
Years5: | 1948–1953 |
Years6: | 1953–1954 |
Clubs6: | Spartak Subotica |
Caps1: | 83 |
Goals1: | 27 |
Caps3: | 30 |
Goals3: | 5 |
Caps4: | 5 |
Goals4: | 2 |
Caps5: | 73 |
Goals5: | 5 |
Caps6: | 24 |
Goals6: | 7 |
Nationalyears1: | 1948–1951 |
Nationalteam1: | Yugoslavia |
Nationalcaps1: | 3 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Manageryears1: | 1959–1963 |
Manageryears2: | 1963–1966 |
Manageryears3: | 1966–1967 |
Manageryears6: | 1969–1975 |
Manageryears7: | 1975 |
Manageryears8: | 1978–1979 |
Manageryears9: | 1981–1983 |
Managerclubs1: | Sloboda Tuzla |
Managerclubs2: | Aris Thessaloniki |
Managerclubs3: | Hapoel Petah Tikva |
Managerclubs4: | Proleter Zrenjanin |
Managerclubs5: | Radnički Kragujevac |
Managerclubs6: | Kavala |
Managerclubs7: | Panachaiki |
Managerclubs8: | Egaleo |
Managerclubs9: | Priština |
Bela Palfi (Serbian: Бела Палфи, Hungarian: Pálfi Béla; 16 February 1923 – 9 September 1995) was a Yugoslav footballer of Hungarian ethnicity who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager. With FK Partizan he won national championship (1947) and Yugoslav Cup (1947). With Red Star Belgrade he won 2 national championships (1951, 1953) and three Yugoslav Cups (1948, 1949, 1950).
He played with Újvideki AC in the Hungarian championship during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II.[1] [2] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.[3]
He started his coaching career in Zrenjanin, then he coached FK Sloboda Tuzla in their first seasons in the Yugoslav First League (1959–60 and 1962–63), then he worked in Greece, later took charge of FK Proleter Zrenjanin in the First League in 1969 and also coached Priština.[4] when the club accomplished promotion for the first time to the Yugoslav First League.[5]