- Vasas SC
Football club infobox
clubname = Vasas SC
fullname = Budapesti Vasas Sport Club
nickname =
founded = 16th of march 1911
ground =Stadion Rudolf Illovszky ,Budapest
capacity = 18,000 | chairman =János Jámbor
manager = Géza Mészöly
league =Hungarian League (Level I)
season = 2007-08
position = 10th
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leftarm2=FFFFFF|body2=FFFFFF|rightarm2=FFFFFF|shorts2=FFFFFF|socks2=FFFFFFVasas SC (pronounced: "vaashash"). is one of Hungary's major sports clubs. Most of its facilities are situated in
Budapest 's 13th district in the north of the town. Members of the "Hungarian Union of Iron Workers" founded the club as "Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja", the "Sport Club of Iron and Steel Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club colours are red and blue.The club is internationally best known for its successful football and
waterpolo departments, which have won many national and international competitions. But also athletes from other departments have won many Olympic gold medals as well as international and national championships.Also world famous tha women's handball team . 15 times Hungarian champions,1982 European Cup Winner . 4 more final .
Naming history
* 1911 Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja
* 1943 Kinizsi Vasas Budapest
* 1944 Nemzeti Kinizsi Budapest
* 1945 Budapesti Vasas SC
* 1948 Budapesti Vasas SE
* 1957 Budapesti Vasas SCDepartments
The club is active in the following sports:
Athletics,
basketball (women),boxing ,chess ,fencing , football,handball (women),ice skating , rowing,skiing ,tennis ,touring ,volleyball (women),waterpolo (men / women) andwrestling ,Football
Vasas' football team belongs to the highest Hungarian football league and was the dominating force in Hungarian football during the 1960s. In the 2006/07 season Vasas finished 5th.
In 2006 the club would have been relegated as penultimate, but could retain its place as rivals
Ferencvarosi TC were ousted instead due to financial irregularities. This would have been Vasas' second relegation in this decade.The team plays its home matches in the Rudolf-Illovszky-Stadium, which has a capacity of 18 000.
Honours
*
Hungarian League
** Winners (6): 1957, 1961, 1962, 1965, 1966, 1977
*Hungarian Cup
** Winners (4): 1955, 1973, 1981, 1986*
Mitropa Cup
** Winners (7): 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1965, 1970, 1983* European Champions Club Cup
** Semi-Finalists (1): 1958Selected former players
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László Kubala
*Franz Platko
*Gusztáv Sebes
*Gyula Lóránt
*Rudolf Illovszky
*Kálmán Mészöly
*Pál Berendi
*János Farkas
*György Orth
*József Takács
*Laszlo Kiss
*László Sárosi
*Dezső Bundzsák
*Péter Török
*Gyula Szilágyi
*Lajos Csordás
*Béla Kárpáti
*Antal Szentmihályi
*Béla Várady Selected former managers
*
Béla Guttmann (1945)*
Lajos Baróti (1953-57, 1972-74)
*Franz Platko
*Gusztáv Sebes
*Dezső Bundzsák
*Rudolf Illovszky
*Kálmán Mészöly
*Döme Frontz
*Tibor Gallowich
*Lajos Csordás Current squad
Men's waterpolo
Hungary is acknowledged the world over as a powerhouse of waterpolo. The waterpolo department of Vasas belongs to the leading ones in the country.
Honours
* Hungarian League
** Winners (15): 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1989, 2007, 2008
* Hungarian Cup
** Winners (14): 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005
* Hungarian Super Cup
** Winners (2): 2001, 2006
* Champions Cup:
** Winners (2): 1979-80, 1984-85
* Cup winners Cup
** Winners (3): 1985-86, 1994-95, 2001-02Other sports
Athletes of the club have won 40 Olympic gold medals (2006) and more than 1,000 Hungarian National Championship titles, making Vasas one of the most successful Hungarian sports clubs. There are only 29 countries which won more golds at the Summer Olympics (though some of the 40 wins were in team sports with athletes from other Hungarian clubs).
*István Kozma was a wrestling champion in 1964 and 1968
*László Papp was a boxing champion in 1952 and 1956 - also in 1948 being member of Vasas.External links
* [http://www.vasassc.hu/ Official website]
* [http://www.vasasbp.hu/ Official website (football team)]
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