Ferencvárosi TC
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| Full name | Ferencvárosi Torna Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Fradi, Zöld Sasok (Green Eagles) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | May 3, 1899 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Stadion Üllői Út, Budapest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 18,100 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Dámosy Zsolt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Imre Gellei | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | Magyar NB 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005-06 | 6th in Hungarian Borsodi Liga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ferencvárosi Torna Club (FTC), perhaps better known as Ferencváros, nicknamed as Fradi, is one of the most popular Hungarian sports clubs, founded in 1899. Their stadium is situated in Ferencváros (hence the name), District IX of Budapest. Their colours are green and white.
The biggest part of the club is the football team, the fans call them Zöld Sasok (Green Eagles).
This team is well-known, by Hungarians. Their arch rival is Újpest, although they have lots of other rivals: Debrecen, MTK, Kispest Honvéd, Ajax Amsterdam (Holland), Vasas SC and they're not in friendship with Millwall either.
The Team has a magazine named 100% Fradi, which is popularly read by the fans of the Green Eagles.
FTC also has a women's handball club, a men's ice hockey club, a men's water polo club, and a men's cycling club. In all, FTC football team is the top club.
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[edit] Football
FTC participated in all the first division championships since the start of Hungarian Football Championships in 1901 until the 2006/07 season in which they were relegated for not meeting the financial criteria that the league requires. They are now playing in NB2, the Hungarian second division.
Ferencváros was the first - and till this day the only - Hungarian team to qualify for the UEFA Champions League group phase in 1995 by beating Anderlecht in the qualifying matches.
Since the 1990s, the club has had problems with its unruly fans expressing nationalistic and anti-Semitic sentiments.
In July of 2006, the clubs was removed from the Borsodi Liga as punishment for its continued financial troubles. [1] It marks the first time the club has ever been relegated from the top division.
[edit] Ferencváros Scandals
At present Ferencváros is going through a moral crisis, which has brought on a financial crisis as well. The team has lost its marketing value due to the continuous scandals surrounding it.
- On 25 July 2001, before the Ferencváros versus Hajduk Split Champions League qualifier, a group of Ferencváros fans attacked a group of Hajduk supporters drinking peacefully in a pub. One Hajduk fan was stabbed.
- On 30 May 2003 Ferencváros played its last match of the season. Their opponents were Debreceni VSC. The Ferencváros supporters took the champions title for granted, but after a very poor performance, their hopes were shattered. When the match was over, the fans ran onto the pitch and beat up the Debrecen players. One of the fans "jump-kicked" the coach of Debrecen in the kidneys. Some of the Ferencváros players were also injured in the incident.
- On 30 September 2004 before the UEFA Cup match against Millwall, Ferencváros supporters attacked the Millwall fans. The two groups fought in downtown Budapest on the Vörösmarty tér. During the brutal fight, one Ferencváros fan used a knife to stab two Millwall fans. Large hunting knives were on open sale outside of the ground, in full view of the police, who took no action to prevent their sale to Ferencvaros fans. The police afforded the Millwall fans no protection whatsoever. They were left to protect themselves, which they did, although heavily outnumbered.[2] Inside the ground, Millwall's black players were subjected to racist abuse and "monkey chanting" for the duration of the entire match. The then, Millwall chairman, Theo Paphitis was at the match and was himself spat on and threatened. A furious Paphitis flew the injured Millwall fans home to London at his own expense. UEFA threatened to ban Ferencváros from ever playing in the competition again, but backed down and only imposed a fine. Millwall were completely exonerated.[3][4]
- On 11 May 2005 in the final of the Hungarian Cup against Sopron, the Ferencváros players became so aggressive that three of the players received red cards. If a fourth red card had been issued the match would have been over. The Ferencváros captain Péter Lipcsei began to run amok with the consent of the coach Csaba László, who was shouting; "Break his leg!" from the bench. After losing the match the Ferencváros players and their coach showed their contempt by ignoring the medal ceremony.
- On 25 July 2006 the biggest scandal yet in living memory of Hungarian football hit Ferencváros. The 28-time Hungarian champion was excluded from the Hungarian National Premier League and demoted to the second division after a long debate at the Hungarian Football Federation's (MLSz) classification licensing committee. The club had failed to meet financial and other requirements. After the announcement hundreds of furious "Fradi" fans, fueled by pro-Ferencváros hooligans, heeded the call of the FTC Supporters’ Association and gathered in front the stadion and clubhouse on Üllői út in Budapest’s District 9. Most demonstrators blamed the greedy and self-satisfied management for growing fat while doing nothing for the club. Some fans even stormed into the clubhouse, while hooligans had a field day vandalizing the nearby underground station. Legendary and current team members also blamed the irresponsible financial management for letting Hungary's most famous club go down the drain, despite having scooped up more than half a billion Hungarian Forints (based on the Hungarian national bank www.mnb.hu on July 28, $1=HUF 213.50/EUR1=HUF 270) when it was worth far more than today for becoming the first (and to this day the only) Hungarian football club qualifying for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League. Ferencváros captain Péter Lipcsei and Flórián Albert - Hungary’s only ‘FIFA World Cup Golden Shoe’ award (1962) and ‘European Footballer of the Year’ award (with Ferencváros in 1967) - blamed the last two presidents János Furulyás and Miklós Ináncsy for the catastrophe, adding that for the past five years neither had been capable of using their wide professional and political influence to find a charismatic investor to keep the club on its feet. All is uncertain about Ferencváros, except that for the first time in the club's 107-year existence it will start the next season in the Hungarian second division.
[edit] Current Squad
As of August 12, 2006 (Note: squad is according to the team's official website)
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[edit] Honours
- Inter-Cities Fairs Cup
- 1965 1-0 vs. Juventus F.C.
¹ More than any other Hungarian club
[edit] Legendary Players
 Florián Albert |
Zoltán Czibor |
Jenő Dalnoki |
Ferenc Deák |
Zoltán Ebedli |
Sándor Kocsis |
László Kubala |
| Dezső Novák |
Tibor Nyilasi |
György Sárosi |
Imre Schlosser |
Zoltán Varga |
Zoltan Gera |
[edit] Coaches
| Imre Gellei (2005-) |
Csaba László (2004-05) |
Attila Pintér (2004) |
József Garami (2002-03) |
| János Csank (2000-01) |
 Stanko Poklepović (1999-2000) |
József Mucha (1999) |
Marijan Vlak (1999) |
| Tibor Nyilasi (1997-98) |
Zoltán Varga (1996-97) |
József Mucha (1996) |
Dezső Novák (1994-96) |
| Tibor Nyilasi (1990-94) |
Gyula Rákosi (1987-1990) |
Jenő Dalnoki (1985-87) |
Géza Vincze (1984-85) |
| Dezső Novák (1980-83) |
Zoltán Friedmanszky (1978-80) |
Jenő Dalnoki (1973-78) |
Dezső Novák (1973) |
| Ferenc Csanádi (1970-73) |
Jenő Dalnoki (1970) |
Géza Kalocsay (1970) |
Károly Lakat (1967-69) |
| Sándor Tátrai (1966) |
Oszkár Vilezsál (1965) |
József Mészáros (1961-65) |
Sándor Tátrai (1958-61) |
| Árpád Csanádi (1957) |
Károly Sós (1953-56) |
Ferenc Deák (1952) |
Gábor Urbancsik (1951) |
| Miklós Vadas (1950) |
Antal Lyka (1948-50) |
Zoltán Opata (1947) |
Lajos Dimény (1946-47) |
| Gábor Urbancsik (1945-46) |
Pál Szabó (1945) |
Alfréd Schaffer (1943-44) |
István Tóth Potya (1943) |
| Lajos Dimény (1939-42) |
György Hlavay (1938-39) |
Emil Rauchmaul (1937-38) |
József Sándor (1937) |
| Sándor Bródy (1937) |
Zoltán Blum (1930-37) |
István Tóth Potya (1926-30) |
[edit] Retired Numbers
- 2 Tibor Simon, defender, 1985-1999
[edit] Trivia
- At Famousteams.com, FTC has been voted the most popular football team ever, although the vote is not final and is not representative.
[edit] External links
- (Hungarian) Official website
- Ferencvárosi Torna Club Forum (In English)
- Fansite Hungarian, German
- (English) Fans of FTC - Videoblog
