Ferencvárosi TC (sports club) explained

Ferencvárosi TC
Full Name:	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
Nickname:	Ferencváros, FTC and Fradi,
Short Name:	FTC
Colours:	Green and white
Chairman:	Gábor Kubatov
Website:	fradi.hu

Ferencvárosi Torna Club founded in 1899, is a major Hungarian multi-sport club based in Ferencváros district of Budapest, Hungary. The well-supported men's football team is the most popular team in the country.^[1] The parent multisport club Ferencvárosi TC divisions include women's football, women's handball, men's futsal,^[2] men's ice hockey, men's handball, men's water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, wrestling, curling and swimming teams, some of which are highly successful.

Departments

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Team sports

• Football:
  • men's football (since 1899)
  • women's football (since 2004)
• Handball:
  • men's handball (since 1950)
  • women's handball (since 1950)
• Water polo:
  • men's water polo (since 1904)
  • women's water polo
• Ice hockey:
  • men's ice hockey (since 1928)
  • women's ice hockey
• Nine-pin bowling (since 1948)
• Curling (since 2008)
• Synchronized swimming (since 2015)

Individual sports

• Athletics (since 1903)
• Boxing (since 1910)
• Canoeing (since 1955)
• Cycling (since 1910)
• Gymnastics (since 1904)
• Fencing (1904–1915, 1922–1945, since 2017)
• Swimming (since 1904)
• Skating (since 2019)
• Triathlon (since 2015)
• Wrestling (since 1912)

Dissolved departments

• Basketball
  • women's basketball (1993–2000, 2010–2012)

Sport facilities

The football team plays in Groupama Aréna^[4] in Ferencváros, Budapest. The handball teams play in the Elek Gyula Aréna. The boxing, cycling, fencing and wrestling departments play in the FTC-MVM Népligeti Sportközpont.^[5] The ice hockey team play in the Tüskecsarnok, the water polo team play at Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, the women's football team play at Kocsis Sándor Sportközpont, the short track speed skating department play at Gyakorló Jégcsarnok, the curling team play at Kamaraerdei Curling Club, the canoeing department using facilities at ELTE Vízisporttelep.^[6]

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters

Supporters of Ferencváros are mainly from the capital city of Hungary, Budapest. However, the club is popular all over Hungary.

Notable supporters

• László Aradszky, singer
• Fecó Balázs, singer and songwriter
• Imre Bajor, actor
• Zsolt Baumgartner, racing driver
• Gyula Bodrogi, actor
• István Bujtor, actor, director, producer and screenplay writer
• Zsuzsa Csala, actress
• Károly Eperjes, actor
• Bertalan Farkas, cosmonaut
• Tivadar Farkasházy, humorist, author, and journalist
• Károly Frenreisz, singer and songwriter
• Gyula Grosics, footballer
• László Helyey, actor
• Ferenc Karinthy, novelist, playwright, journalist, editor and translator
• Zoltán Kocsis, pianist, conductor and composer
• László Komár, singer
• János Koós, singer
• István Kovács, boxer
• Kati Kovács, singer, performer, lyricist and actress
• András Kozák, actor
• Peter Leko, chess player
• Péter Máté, singer, composer, and pianist
• Erika Miklósa, coloratura soprano
• Zoltán Mucsi, actor
• Feró Nagy, singer and musician
• Gyula Ortutay, ethnographer and politician
• András Rédli, fencer
• Imre Sinkovits, actor
• Gyula Szabó, actor
• István Tarlós, politician
• Gábor Wéber, racing driver and commentator

Friendships

The fans have friendships with fans of Rapid Wien^[7] and Panathinaikos, and as all three play in Green the alliance is nicknamed the "Green Brothers". They also have friendly relations in Hungary with fans of Zalaegerszeg and in Poland with Śląsk Wrocław and Bałtyk Gdynia.

Rivalries

See also: Budapest derby, Ferencvárosi TC–Újpest FC rivalry and Örökrangadó. Ferencváros have rivalry with several teams from Budapest including MTK Budapest, Újpest, Honvéd, Vasas SC, and several provincial clubs such as Debrecen and Diósgyőr.

The biggest rivalry is with Újpest, which dates back to the 1930s when Újpest won their first Hungarian Football League title. Since then, the fixture between the two teams attracts the most spectators in the domestic league.^[8] The matches between the two teams often end in violence which causes big trouble for the Hungarian football. The proposal of personal registration was refused by both clubs.

The fixture between Ferencváros and MTK Budapest FC is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary, which dates back as early as the 1903 football season when Ferencváros first won the Hungarian League. In the following three decades either Ferencváros or MTK Budapest won the domestic league.

Bp. Honvéd are also considered fierce rivals as the clubs are in very close proximity to each other and in the past frequently competed for honours.

Honours

Active departments

Football (men's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC.

• Hungarian Championship^[9]
  • Winners (35) (record): 1903, 1905, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1948–49, 1962–63, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1975–76, 1980–81, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
• Hungarian Second League
  • Winners (1): 2008–09
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (24) (record): 1912–13, 1921–22, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1955–58, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2021–22
• Hungarian Super Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (6) (record): 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2015, 2016
• Hungarian League Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 2012–13, 2014–15
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (defunct, predecessor of UEFA Cup)
  • Winners (1): 1964–65
• Mitropa Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 1928, 1937
• Challenge Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (1): 1908–09

Water polo (men's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (men's water polo).

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (26) (share record): 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1944, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (23) (record): 1923, 1924, 1926, 1949, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1996, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
• LEN Champions League
  • Winners (1): 2018–19
• LEN Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (4) (record): 1974–75, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1997–98
• LEN Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 1978, 1980, 2018, 2019
• LEN Euro Cup
  • Winners (2): 2016–17, 2017–18

Ice hockey (men's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (ice hockey).

• Hungarian Championship

• • Winners (31) (record): 1950–51, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
• Hungarian Cup

• • Winners (15) (record): 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 2019–20
• Hungarian Super Cup:
  • Winners (3): 1993–94, 2020–21, 2022–23
• Panonian League

• • Winners (1): 2002–03
• Erste Liga

• • Winners (2): 2018–19, 2019–20

Handball (women's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (women's handball).

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (13): 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2014–15, 2020–21
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (15): 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2016–17, 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (3) (record): 1977–78, 2010–11, 2011–12
• EHF Cup
  • Winner (1): 2005–06

Football (women's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (women's football).

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (5): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (6) (record): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021

Handball (men's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (men's handball).

• Hungarian Second League
  • Winners (3): 1970, 2008–09, 2016–17
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winner (1): 1963

Inactive departments

Basketball (women's)

See main article: Ferencvárosi TC (women's basketball).

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winner (1): 1996–97
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winner (1): 1995–96

International honours

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1928	Mitropa CupWinners
1930	Mitropa CupSemi-finals
1934	Mitropa CupSemi-finals
1935	Mitropa CupFinal
1937	Mitropa CupWinners
1938	Mitropa CupFinal
1939	Mitropa CupFinal
1940	Mitropa CupFinal
1962–63	Inter-Cities Fairs CupSemi-finals
1964–65	Inter-Cities Fairs CupWinners
1967–68	Inter-Cities Fairs CupFinal
1970–71		European CupFinal
1971–72	UEFA CupSemi-finals
1974–75	Cup Winners' CupFinal		Cup Winners' CupWinners
1977–78		Cup Winners' CupWinners	Cup Winners' CupWinners
1978–79		Cup Winners' CupFinal	Cup Winners' CupFinal
1979–80			Cup Winners' CupWinners
1988–89	Mitropa CupSemi-finals		European CupSemi-finals
1993–94		Cup Winners' CupFinal
1994–95			LEN CupFinal
1995–96		Champions LeagueGroup stage (4th)
1996–97		Champions LeagueSemi-finals	LEN CupFinal
1997–98			Cup Winners' CupWinners
2000–01		Champions LeagueSemi-finals
2001–02		Champions LeagueFinal
2004–05		EHF CupSemi-finals
2005–06		EHF CupWinners	LEN CupSemi-finals
2006–07		Cup Winners' CupSemi-finals
2010–11		Cup Winners' CupWinners
2011–12		Cup Winners' CupWinners
2014–15		Cup Winners' CupSemi-finals
2016–17			Euro CupWinners
2017–18			Euro CupWinners
2018–19			Champions LeagueWinners
2020–21			Champions LeagueFinal
2021–22			Champions LeagueThird place
2022–23		Champions League Final
2023–24				European CupSemi-finals

Notable former players

Olympic champions

A Ferencvárosi Torna Club olimpiai bajnokainak listája

• Antal Kocsis, boxing
• István Molnár, water polo
• Jenő Dalnoki, football
• Dezső Fábián, water polo
• György Kárpáti, water polo
• Éva Novák, swimming
• Ilona Novák, swimming
• Miklós Szilvási, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Károly Szittya, water polo
• Katalin Szőke, swimming
• Miklós Ambrus, water polo
• László Felkai, water polo
• Dezső Gyarmati, water polo
• Dezső Novák, football
• Zoltán Varga, football
• Mihály Hesz, canoe sprint
• István Juhász, football
• Miklós Páncsics, football
• Lajos Szűcs, football
• Zoltán Magyar, gymnastics
• György Gerendás, water polo
• András Sike, wrestling (Greco-Roman)
• Teslim Fatusi, football
• Zoltán Kósz, water polo
• Bulcsú Székely, water polo
• Danuta Kozák, canoe sprint
• Shaoang Liu, short track speed skating

Presidents

List of the presidents of the Ferencvárosi TC:^[10]

• 1899–1920: Ferenc Springer
• 1920–1923: Aladár Mattyók
• 1923–1931: Ernő Gschwindt
• 1931–1944: Béla Mailinger (executive president)
• 1937–1944: Béla Usetty
• 1944: Andor Jaross
• 1945–1950: Adolf Nádas (executive president)
• 1948–1950: Ferenc Münnich
• 1950–1951: Árpád Nöhrer
• 1951–1952: István Száraz
• 1953–1955: Béla Komoretto
• 1956–1958: Károly Weidemann
• 1958–1962: János Bédi
• 1962–1965: Aladár Végh
• 1966–1971: István Kalmár
• 1971–1981: János Harót (executive president)
• 1971–1980: Lajos Lénárt
• 1980–1985: Tibor Losonci (executive president)
• 1981–1988: Imre Kovács
• 1985–1990: Károly Hargitai (executive president)
• 1988–1989: Ferenc Szabó
• 1989–1990: István Debreczeny
• 1990–1994: Lajos Harza
• 1991–1998: István Szívós (executive president)
• 1994–1997: Péter Szerdahelyi
• 1997–1998: Benedek Fülöp
• 1998–2001: József Torgyán
• 1999: Máté Fenyvesi (executive president)
• 2001–2006: János Furulyás
• 2006: Miklós Inácsy
• 2006–2007: Zsolt Dámosy
• 2007–2010: György Rieb
• 2010–2011: Miklós Kovács
• since 2011: Gábor Kubatov

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Median's survey. 2006. Median. 20 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20151124073529/http://median.hu/object.6e93b549-282b-4c37-8a94-f1250cc999a5.ivy. 24 November 2015. dead.
2. Web site: Top 11 football clubs with futsal sections. futsallfeed.com. 2020-04-08.
3. Web site: Ferencvárosi TC - Szakosztályok. www.fradi.hu. hu. 2023-02-14.
4. Web site: Groupama Aréna. fradi.hu. 22 January 2023.
5. Web site: FTC-MVM Népligeti Sportközpont. fradi.hu. 22 January 2023.
6. Web site: További létesítmények. fradi.hu. 22 January 2023.
7. Web site: Rettet Ferencváros! Mentsük meg a Fradit!. nso.hu. 23 February 2011.
8. Web site: The Budapest Derby. 20 July 2011. Football Derbies. 2 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20080929085935/http://www.footballderbies.com/honours/index.php?id=136. 29 September 2008. dead.
9. Web site: List of champions. RSSSF.
10. Web site: tempofradi.hu. A Ferencvárosi Torna Club elnökei. 2023-02-01. www.tempofradi.hu. hu.