Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) explained

Országos Bajnokság I
Sport:	Water Polo
Pixels:	280px
Country:	Hungary
Confed:	LEN (Europe)
Teams:	14
Relegation:	Országos Bajnokság I/B
Domestic Cup:	Magyar Kupa
Confed Cup:	LEN Champions League LEN Euro Cup
Champ Season:	2023–24
Most Champs:	Ferencváros (26 titles)
Tv:	M4 Sport
Current Season:	2023–24 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)

Országos Bajnokság I (en|Nationwide Championship I, commonly abbreviated OB I) is the highest level water polo league for men in Hungary, that is administered and supervised by the Hungarian Water Polo Federation. Since 2009, after signed a four-year sponsorship contract with telecommunications company Vodafone, the competition is officially known as Vodafone OB I.^[1]

Current teams

The following 14 clubs compete in the OB I during the 2022–23 season:

Team	Home city	Pool
BVSC	Budapest (XIV. ker)	Szőnyi úti Uszoda
Eger	Eger	Bitskey Aladár Uszoda
Ferencváros	Budapest (IX. ker)	FTC uszoda, Népliget
Bp. Honvéd	Budapest (XIX. ker)	Kőér utcai Uszoda
Kaposvár	Kaposvár	Csík Ferenc Sportuszoda
KSI	Budapest	Széchy Tamás Uszoda
Miskolc	Miskolc	Kemény Dénes Sportuszoda
OSC	Budapest (XI. ker)	Nyéki Imre Uszoda
PVSK	Pécs	Abay Nemes Oszkár Sportuszoda
Szeged	Szeged	Tiszavirág Sportuszoda
Szentes	Szentes	Dr. Rébeli Szabó József Sportuszoda
Szolnok	Szolnok	Tiszaligeti Uszoda
UVSE	Budapest (IV. ker)	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda
Vasas	Budapest (XIII. ker)	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda

Previous winners

1904: Balaton
- 1905: Balaton 1906: Magyar Úszó Egylet
  - - 1907: Magyar Úszó Egylet 1908: Magyar Úszó Egylet 1909: Magyar Úszó Egylet 1910: Ferencváros
    - 1911: Ferencváros 1912: Ferencváros 1913: Ferencváros 1914-16 – Not held due to WW I
1917: MAFC
- - - - 1918: Ferencváros 1919: Ferencváros 1920: Ferencváros 1921: Ferencváros 1922: Ferencváros 1923: III. Kerület
        
        1924: III. Kerület 1925: Ferencváros 1926: Ferencváros 1927: Ferencváros 1928: III. Kerület 1929: MAC
1930: Újpest
- - - - 1931: Újpest 1932: Újpest 1933: Újpest 1934: Újpest 1935: Újpest 1936: Újpest 1937: Újpest 1938: Újpest 1939: Újpest 1940: BSE
        
        1941: Újpest 1942: Újpest 1943: MAC 1944: Ferencváros 1945: Újpest 1946: Újpest 1947: Vasas
        
        1948: Újpest 1949: Vasas 1950: Újpest 1951: Újpest 1952: Újpest 1953: Vasas 1954: Szolnok
        1955: Újpest 1956: Ferencváros 1957: Szolnok 1958: Szolnok 1959: Szolnok 1960: Újpest 1961: Szolnok 1962: Ferencváros 1963: Ferencváros 1964: Szolnok 1965: Ferencváros 1966: BVSC
  - 1967: Újpest 1968: Ferencváros 1969: OSC
    - - 1970: OSC 1971: OSC 1972: OSC 1973: OSC 1974: OSC 1975: Vasas 1976: Vasas 1977: Vasas 1978: OSC 1979: Vasas 1980: Vasas 1981: Vasas 1982: Vasas 1983: Vasas 1984: Vasas 1984/85: BVSC 1985/86: Újpest 1986/87: BVSC 1987/88: Ferencváros 1988/89: Vasas 1989/90: Ferencváros 1990/91: Újpest 1991/92: Tungsram
        
        1992/93: Újpest 1993/94: Újpest 1994/95: Újpest 1995/96: BVSC 1996/97: BVSC 1997/98: BVSC 1998/99: BVSC 1999/00: Ferencváros 2000/01: Bp. Honvéd
        2001/02: Bp. Honvéd 2002/03: Bp. Honvéd 2003/04: Bp. Honvéd 2004/05: Bp. Honvéd 2005/06: Bp. Honvéd 2006/07: Vasas 2007/08: Vasas 2008/09: Vasas 2009/10: Vasas 2010/11: Eger
        
        2011/12: Vasas 2012/13: Eger 2013/14: Eger 2014/15: Szolnok 2015/16: Szolnok 2016/17: Szolnok 2017/18: Ferencváros 2018/19: Ferencváros 2019/20 – Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic

Notes

1914–16: Cancelled due to war.
2019–20: Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

Name changes

Budapesti Honvéd SE (Bp. Honvéd): 1949 Budapesti Honvéd SE, 1999 Honvéd-Spartacus, 2000 Honvéd Domino, 2001 Domino-BHSE, 2007 Domino-Honvéd, 2010 Grupama Honvéd, 2013 Racionet Honvéd, 2018 Bp. Honvéd
Ferencvárosi TC (FTC): (1904 Ferencvárosi TC, 1950 EDOSZ, 1951 Bp. Kinizsi, 1957 Ferencváros, 1989 FTC-Törley, 1993 Ferencváros, 1994 FTC-Vitasport, 1996 FTC-Vitalin, 1999 FTC-Thomas Jeans, 2000 FTC-Mirato, 2001 FTC-VMAX, 2003 Jégcsillag-FTC, 2004 Betonút-FTC, 2006 FTC-Aprilia, 2008 FTC-Fisher Klíma, 2012 Széchenyi Bank-FTC, 2014 Ferencváros, 2015 FTC-PQS Waterpolo, 2018 FTC-Telekom Waterpolo)
Újpesti TE (UTE): 1891 Újpesti TE, 1950 Bp. Dózsa, 1957 Újpesti Dózsa, 1990 Újpest, 1993 UTE-Primavera, 1994 UTE-Office & Home, 1998 UTE-Taxi2000, 1999 UTE-Santal-Taxi2000, 2000 UTE-Humet, 2002 UTE-Taxi2000, 2004 UTE-VB Leasing, 2006 UTE-Óbuda-Újlak, 2007 Uniqa-UTE, 2010 Újpest)

Performances

By club

width=190	Club	width=90; style="background:gold	Winners	width=85; style="background:silver	Runners-up	width=80; style="background:#cc9966	Third place	width=405	Winning years
	26	16	7	1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1948, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1960, 1967, 1986, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995
Ferencváros	26	13	21	1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1944, 1953, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1988, 1990, 2000, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Vasas	18	19	5	1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
Szolnok	10	6	6	1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1964, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021
BVSC	7	9	6	1966, 1985, 1987, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
OSC	7	7	5	1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978
Bp. Honvéd	6	2	11	2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Magyar Úszó Egylet	4	1	1	1906, 1907, 1908, 1909
III. Kerületi TVE	3	9	5	1923, 1924, 1928
Eger	3	6	6	2011, 2013, 2014
Magyar AC	2	6	9	1929, 1943
Balaton	2	1	-	1904, 1905
MAFC	1	4	-	1917
BSE	1	2	1	1940
Tungsram	1	1	1	1992
MTK Budapest	-	6	9	-
Postatakarékpénztár	-	1	-	-
Óbudai TE	-	1	-	-
Vörös Meteor	-	1	-	-
Szentes	-	1	-	-
Szeged	-	-	7	-
Budafok-Kistétény	-	-	1	-
Nemzeti SC	-	-	1	-
Bp. Spartacus	-	-	1	-

The bolded teams are currently playing in the 2021-22 season of the Hungarian League.

Most seasons

See main article: List of Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo) clubs. The number of seasons that each team (in alphabetical order) has played in the top division from 1904 until 2021–22. A total of 61 teams had competed in at least one season at the top division. Ferencváros is the only teams to have played in the top division in every season since the league's inception in its modern form.

111: Ferencváros
87: Újpest
85: Eger
74: Vasas
71: BVSC, Szolnok
61: Bp. Honvéd
56: OSC
52: Szentes
44: Szeged
42: Bp. Spartacus
38: Tungsram
36: MTK Budapest
31: Tatabánya
24: III. Kerület
23: MAC
20: Nemzeti SC
18: MAFC, KSI
17: Magyar Úszó Egylet
16: Csepel, Pécsi VSK
12: Szegedi Úszó Egylet
11: BEAC, Debrecen
10: Kaposvár
9: BSE
8: BKV Előre, Bp. Vörös Meteor, UVSE
7: Miskolc
5: Hódmezővásárhely, Kecskemét
3: Balatoni Úszó Egylet, Óbuda TE, Vívó és Atlétikai Club, Volán, Cegléd, Neptun VSC, AVUS
2: Gamma SE, BBTE, Erzsébeti TC, Marosvásárhelyi SE, Tipográfia NyTE, Szegedi MTE, Szegedi Dózsa, Szent István University, Fehérvár Póló SE
1: Postatakarékpénztár, Szegedi VSE, Közalkalmazottak SE, Angyalföldi Sportiskola DSE, Eszterházy Károly University, YBL Waterpolo Club

The teams in Bold participate in the 2021–22 OB I.

Format

As we can see from the chart the number of teams in the Hungarian First Division changed a lot and continuously. The league started in 1904 with four teams and with the formation of teams the league expanded continuously. Currently, there are 14 teams in the first division.

Season	Number of teams
from 1904 to 1905	4 teams
in 1906	2 teams
from 1907 to 1908	1 team
from 1909 to 1918	2 teams
from 1919 to 1920	4 teams
from 1921 to 1922	5 teams
in 1923	6 teams
from 1924 to 1925	7 teams
in 1926	6 teams
from 1927 to 1928	7 teams
from 1929 to 1933	9 teams
from 1934 to 1936	8 teams
from 1937 to 1938	9 teams
from 1939 to 1942	10 teams
from 1943 to 1944	11 teams
in 1945	8 teams
	11 teams
	12 teams
	10 teams
	12 teams
	10 teams
	12 teams
	10 teams
	12 teams
	14 teams
	12 teams
	10 teams
	12 teams
	13 teams
	12 teams
	11 teams
	13 teams
	12 teams
from 2012–13 to 2014–15	14 teams
from 2015–16 to 2020–21	16 teams
from 2021–22 to present	14 teams

Hungarian clubs in European competitions


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width=45	!	Winning year(s)	width=35	!	width=30	!	width=40	!	Winning year(s)	width=30	!	width=25	!	width=40	!	Winning year(s)	width=30	!	width=25
Orvosegyetem	2	1973, 1979	2	1	0		0	0	0		1
Vasas	2	1980, 1985	1	6	0		0	3	3	1986, 1995, 2002	1
Honvéd	1	2004	3	0	0		0	1	0		1
Újpest	1	1994	2	1	3	1993, 1997, 1999	0	0	0		0
Ferencváros	1	2019	0	1	2	2017, 2018	2	1	4	1975, 1978, 1980, 1998	1
Szolnok	1	2017	0	1	0		0	1	0		0	0
Budapesti VSC	0		1	1	0		0	1	0		2
Szeged	0		0	0	1	2009	1	2	0		0	0
Eger	0		0	1	0		1	0	0		0	0
Debrecen	0		0	0	0		0	1	0		0	0
Bp. Spartacus	0		0	0	0		0	0	0		1
TOTAL		8 title		9	10	6 title		4	9	7 title		7

External links

Hungarian Water Polo Federaration
OB I at waterpoloworld.com

Notes and References

Web site: Egy csapatban a legjobbak – Négyéves főtámogatói szerződést írt alá a Vodafone a Magyar Vízilabda Szövetséggel. Vodafone Official Website. 21 January 2009. 18 May 2011. hu. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002170417/http://www.vodafone.hu/sajto/sajtokozlemenyek/2009-01-21-egy-csapatban-a-legjobbak. 2 October 2011. dead.