Győri ETO FC

Football club infobox
clubname = Győri ETO FC


fullname = Győri Egyetértés Torna Osztály Football Club
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founded = 1904
ground = Stadion ETO, Győr
capacity = 20'000 Under construction
chairman = Tibor Klement
manager = Sándor Egervári
league = Hungarian League
season = 2007-08
position = 3rd
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Győri ETO FC, "Győri Egyetértés Torna Osztály Football Club" (literally: "Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr"), is a Hungarian sports club from Győr, a mid-size town in the north-west of the country. In 1904 the club was founded as "Győri Vagongyár ETO" and has undergone many name changes since. The colours of the club are green and white.

Naming history

*1994: "Győri ETO FC"
*1992: "Rába ETO FC Győr"
*1985: "Győri ETO FC"
*1965: "Rába ETO Győr"
*1957: "Győri Vasas ETO"
*1957: "Magyar Wilhelm Pieck Vagon- és Gépgyár ETO Győr"
*1954: "Wilhelm Pieck Vasas ETO SK Győr"
*1953: "Vasas SE Győr"
*1952: "Győri Vasas"
*1950: "Győri Vasas SC ETO"
*1904: "Győri Vagongyár ETO"

Football

The football (soccer) team of the club plays its home matches in the Stadion ETO, which has a capacity of about 16 000. By 2008 it is to be replaced by ETO Park which is designed to hold 20 000 spectators. The football players hitherto have won three national championships (1963, 1982, 1983) and four times the Hungarian Cup (1965, 1966, 1967, 1979). In the European Cup 1964-65 the team, as "Vasas ETO Györ", progressed all the way to the semifinals, being stopped there by Eusebio's SL Benfica.

Current squad

"As of February 24th, 2008"

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Honours

*Hungarian Championship: 1963, 1982, 1983
*Hungarian Cup: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1979

Notable managers

* Károly Fogl II
* Nándor Hidegkuti
* Lajos Baróti
* Ferenc Szusza
* József Kiprich

Notable players

* Károly Palotai
* Gyula Hajszán
* Peter Vermes
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* Miklós Fehér
* Tamás Priskin
* Sulejman Demollari

Other departments

Győri ETO has several successful departments, eg., the handball teams won many national championships. The men's team also won the EHF Cup in 1986 as "Rába Vasas ETO Győr". Particularly well known these days are the handball ladies, playing as "Győri ETO Kézilabda Club" (en. "handball club"), which made it in 2006 into the final of the Women's EHF Cup Winner's Cup and in 2007 into the semifinals of the Women's EHF Champions League.

Links

* [http://www.eto.hu Official Website of the Club]