Hungarian football club
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Chart showing Újpest's finishing positions since the first ever Hungarian league season of 1901
Football club
Újpest FC B Full name Újpest Football Club "B" Nickname(s) Lilák ("Purples") Founded 2007 as Újpest FC B Ground H-1044 Budapest, Megyeri út 13.
Budapest League ()
Újpest Football Club (Hungarian pronunciation:
[ˈuːjpɛʃt] ) is a
Hungarian professional
football club, based in
Újpest ,
Budapest , that competes in
Nemzeti Bajnokság I .
Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the
Hungarian League in
1905 and has been relegated only once since then. The club has been a member of the first division for 108 consecutive years. Újpest have been Hungarian champions twenty times, in addition to winning the
Magyar Kupa eleven times and the
Szuperkupa three times. In international competitions, Újpest are two-times winners of the
Mitropa Cup and winners of the 1930
Coupe des Nations . They also reached the semi-finals of the
European Cup 1973–74 and the
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1961–62 , and were runners-up in the
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 1968–69 .
Since 1922, their home ground has been the
Szusza Ferenc Stadion in
Újpest . Their biggest rivalry is with fellow Budapest-based club
Ferencváros , with whom they contest a
local derby .
Újpest is part of the
Újpesti TE family. The club includes other sports sections that represent the club at
ice hockey and
waterpolo .
History
Újpest was founded in 1885.
[1] At that time,
Újpest did not belong to
Budapest . Újpest played their first
Nemzeti Bajnokság I match in the
1905 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. In the
1910–11 season, they were relegated.
[2] Újpest won their first Hungarian league title in the
1929–30 season.
[3]
At international level, Újpest's most successful period was in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the
1968–69 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup , they were beaten in the final by
Newcastle United . In the
1973–74 European Cup , they reached the semi-finals and were eliminated by
Bayern München .
[4]
Crest and colours
On 3 July 2017, Újpest announced that they changed their crest.
[5] After a years of protests by supporters, and legal actions by
UTE , the parent club, the management has decided to restore the traditional crest on 4 July, 2022.
[6]
Naming history
1885: Újpesti TE (Újpesti Torna Egylet)
1926: Újpest FC (Újpest Football Club) (due to the introduction of professional football)
1945: Újpesti TE
1950: Bp. Dózsa SE (Budapesti Dózsa Sport Egyesület)
1956 : Újpesti TE (during the Hungarian revolution)
1957: Ú. Dózsa SC (Újpesti Dózsa Sport Club)
1991: Újpesti TE
1998: Újpest FC
Manufacturers and shirt sponsors
The following table shows in detail Újpest FC kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:
Period
Kit manufacturer
Shirt sponsor
adidas
–
Budapest Bank
Umbro
ConCorde telecom
Havasi Kft.
2003–2006
Puma
Walton
2006–2007
–
2007–2009
DHL
2009–2010
Radisson Blu
2010–2011
Birdland Golf & SPA Resort
2011–2012
GDF Suez
2012–2016
–
2016–2017
Joma
–
2017–2018
Gallica
Current sponsorships:
Joma ,
Coca-Cola ,
Microsoft , Acquaworld Budapest, Ramada Resort Budapest, Puebla ticket, Karzol Trans, Szókép Nyomdaipari Kft.,
Lamborghini
Stadium
Újpest's home stadium is
Szusza Ferenc Stadion , which has been their home since the opening on 17 September 1922. It was known as Megyeri úti stadium until it was named after the club's legendary player,
Ferenc Szusza in October 2003. After the renovations, which took place in 2000 and 2001, the ground can hold 13,501 spectators.
[7]
Ownership
On 3 December 2008, it was revealed by
BBC Sport that the
Premier League club
Wolverhampton Wanderers were considering an alliance with Újpest.
Jez Moxey , the
Chief executive officer of the club said: "We have had some initial discussions in Budapest with the officials of Ujpest. We touched on the issues of loaning players, academies and sharing of best practice on and off the field."
[8]
Újpest approached
Roland Duchâtelet to become the owner of the club. Although Duchâtelet refused the club's offer, he suggested his son to be the proprietor of Újpest.
[9]
Roland Duchâtelet is the owner of the
Carl Zeiss Jena and former owner of the
Standard Liège ,
[10]
AD Alcorcón
[11] and
Charlton Athletic
[12]
On 19 October 2011,
Roderick Duchâtelet , former director of
Germinal Beerschot , bought 95% of the shares of the City Budapest Zrt.
[13]
Roderick Duchâtelet said that he intends to bring back the glory of the 1970s.
[14]
On 27 October 2011, Csaba Bartha, managing director of Újpest, confirmed that the club received 150 million
Hungarian forint from
Roderick Duchâtelet .
[15]
In January 2022, Duchatelet was about to sell Újpest and found possible buyers. An agreement was also signed in January 2022 in which it was stated that the buyers should pay the remaining sum by the end of June. However, due the financial unpredictability caused by the Russo-Ukrainian War, the buyers could not transfer the remaining sum. Therefore, Újpest is still owned by the Belgian entrepreneur.
[16]
On 27 April 2023, it was announced on Nemzeti Sport that Interactive Brokers Group, owned by
Thomas Peterffy , is interested in purchasing the club.
[17]
On 3 February 2024, it was revealed that Duchatelet would like to sell the club to Hungarian investors.
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21] On 6 February 2024,
Roderick Duchâtelet sold the club to
MOL .
[22]
[23]
[24]
On 21 March 2024, the club was officially purchased by the MOL Group.
[25]
[26] Balázs Benczédi was elected as the managing director of the club. The price of the acquisition was around 15 million euros.
[27]
[28]
[29]
Supporters
Újpest supporters in the
Ferenc Puskás Stadium on 25 May 2014
Supporters of Újpest are mainly from the fourth district of
Budapest , the
eponymous
Újpest . Due to the success in the 1970s, the club gained supporters from all over Budapest and the country.
Famous supporters
Rivalries
Ferencváros -Újpest derby at the
Albert Stadion on 1 April 2011
Újpest are in rivalry with several teams from Budapest including
Ferencváros ,
MTK Budapest ,
Budapest Honvéd and several provincial clubs such as
Debrecen and
Diósgyőr . Since Újpest have been the third most successful club of the
Hungarian Football history by winning 20 Hungarian League titles and nine
Hungarian Cup titles, and the most successful Hungarian club in the
European football competitions in the 1970s, every club in the Hungarian League wants to defeat them.
The rivalry with
Ferencváros dates back to 1930s when Újpest won their first Hungarian League title. Since then the fixture between the two teams attracts the most spectators in the domestic league.
[35] The matches between the two team often ends in violence which causes big trouble for the Hungarian football. The proposal of personal registration was refused by both clubs.
Honours
Domestic
Nemzeti Bajnokság I :
Winners (20) :
1929–30 ,
1930–31 ,
1932–33 ,
1934–35 ,
1938–39 ,
1945 Spring ,
1945–46 ,
1946–47 ,
1959–60 ,
1969 ,
1970 Spring ,
1970–71 ,
1971–72 ,
1972–73 ,
1973–74 ,
1974–75 ,
1977–78 ,
1978–79 ,
1989–90 ,
1997–98
Nemzeti Bajnokság II :
Winners (2) : 1904, 1911–12
Magyar Kupa :
Winners (11) :
1969 ,
1970 ,
1974–75 ,
1981–82 ,
1982–83 ,
1986–87 ,
1991–92 ,
2001–02 ,
2013–14 ,
2017–18 ,
2020–21
Szuperkupa :
Winners (3) : 1992, 2002, 2014
International
Friendly
Players
Current squad
As of 14 February 2024
[36]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under
FIFA eligibility rules . Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Club officials
Board of directors
As of 21 December 2022
[37]
Management
As of 24 April 2024
[38]
Position
Name
Manager
Géza Mészöly
Assistant manager
Patrik Lengyel
Assistant manager
Péter Víg
Goalkeeping coach
József Andrusch
Fitness coach
Bogdan Belesinanin
Fitness coach
Bogicevic Milos
Physiotherapist
Jovetic Aleksandar
Physiotherapist
Milovanovic Zarko
Club doctor
Iván Kollár
Masseur
József Kádár
Masseur
Kálmán Hénap
Video analyst
Samu Varga
Kit manager
Gergő Király
Technical manager
Babett Zsitva
Notable foreign players
See also
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