We close 2024 against Vasas

Supporter information:

• The match kicks off at 17:00 on Saturday, November 30 at the Bozsik Aréna

• You can also purchase tickets online at jegy.honvedfc.hu

• In person, you can do the same on Thursday at the Kispesti Futball Ház (opening hours: 16:00-20:00), and on Friday at the Bozsik Aréna ticket offices (opening hours: 14:00-19:00)

• On matchday, the Bozsik Aréna ticket offices open three hours before kick-off, at 14:00

• We will broadcast the match live on our YouTube channel

• This will be the final competitive match of the 2024 calendar year; the next league round will not be played until February 9

What you need to know about Vasas FC:

Founded: 1911

Club colours: red and blue

Current league position: 3rd

Top-flight league titles: 6x (1957, 1960/1961, 1961/1962, 1965, 1966, 1976/1977)

Hungarian Cup winners: 4x (1955, 1973, 1981, 1986)

Most recent match: Szeged (1-0, win)

Head coach: Attila Pintér

Record: 8 wins, 1 draw, 5 defeats, 25 goals scored, 20 conceded

• Vasas have won each of their last five league matches, making them the team in the best form in the championship
  
  
• The team's top scorer is Milán Tóth with 7 goals; last season he was joint leading scorer in the Merkantil Bank Liga
  
  
• Three coaches have sat on the red-and-blues' bench during the season: the sporting management dismissed Zoltán Gera after Round 4, he was temporarily replaced by acting head coach András László, and from the second half of September Attila Pintér took charge of the Angyalföld side.
  
  
• Two former Honvéd players feature for Vasas: Botond Baráth won the championship in Kispest in the 2016-17 season, while Barnabás Németh began his career at the Magyar Futball Akadémia.
  
  
• From our squad, Szilveszter Hangya, Zsombor Bévárdi, Richárd Vernes and Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas have all played for the red-and-blues, while our head coach Zsolt Laczkó also represented Vasas as a player.
  
  
• Counting league and Hungarian Cup matches, this will be the 200th competitive meeting between the two teams.
  
  

Previous meetings:

The rivalry between Honvéd and Vasas has an enormous history in the annals of Hungarian football.

• The anniversary of the first league meeting is very close, as we first faced Vasas on December 3, 1916, drawing 1-1 at the MTK ground, with Zoltán Túri scoring our goal. A year earlier, in the League Championship, we beat Vasas 1-0 with a goal from Lajos Szűcs.
  
  
• The first Kispest league victory came in 1919, when Rudolf Jeny's goal gave us a 1-0 win over our Budapest rivals.
• The first emphatic Kispest away success came in 1931, when we thrashed the red-and-blues 5-0 on their own ground. Lajos Kormos scored twice, while István Lukács, Lajos Keresztes and Imre Serényi also found the net.
  
  
• In 1946 and 1953 fate paired us with Vasas in the Evening Cup. The former brought a 4-2 Kispest victory, while Vasas won the latter. Ferenc Puskás also scored in the 4-2 match; with 19 goals, he is the highest scorer in the history of this fixture.

• Between 1950 and 1956 we produced our longest unbeaten league run against Vasas, going 13 matches without defeat. During that period our record was 9 Kispest wins and 4 draws, including a 4-4 draw and a 6-1 Kispest victory.
  
  
• The first Honvéd-Vasas cup final was played in 1955. The Angyalföld side won 3-2, then also beat us in the 1974 final in another high-scoring match, 4-3.
  
  
• One year after the Match of the Century, supporters travelling to Angyalföld witnessed one of the highest-scoring encounters, as Honvéd, led by Sándor Kocsis and Lajos Tichy, returned home from Fáy utca with a 6-3 victory.
  
  
• In 1964, 85,000 spectators saw Lajos Tichy's magic and Honvéd's comeback live: Vasas still led 3-2 in Kispest in the 86th minute, then came two flashes from Tichy, first in the 87th and then in the 89th minute, and the match ended in a 4-3 Honvéd win.
  
  
• In 1975 at the Népstadion we beat Vasas 2-1 in the Tournament of Champions with goals from István Weimper and Lajos Kocsis. Honvéd won not only the match but the tournament as well.
  
  
• Between 1981 and 1984 we beat Vasas in six consecutive matches. In those games we scored 14 goals and conceded only 3.
  
  
• We first met the red-and-blues in the second division in the 2003-04 season. We won 1-0 at home and drew 1-1 away. Our goals were scored by István Borgulya and Gábor Vén.

• A special situation arose in the 2012-13 season, as Vasas faced Honvéd II in league action in the Eastern group of NB II. The Angyalföld side won both matches.
  
  
• In the season of our most recent league title, we played Vasas three times in NB I, but managed to win only at home, losing both away matches.

• We hosted Vasas at the Bozsik Aréna for the first time in 2022, when a late brace from Nenad Lukics decided the match and gave us a 2-0 win. That season we won both league matches played in Angyalföld.

Budapest Honvéd – Vasas FC | 2-0 | (0-0) | OTP Bank Liga | Round 15 | MLSZTV

• Last season we met our rivals twice. In November 2023 Vasas won 3-0, with Soma Novothny, András Radó and Zsombor Berecz scoring their goals, while in May we also suffered two red cards, which Milán Tóth punished with two goals and Áron Doktorics with one.
  
  
• We have already faced Vasas this season, in early July at the second stop of our pre-season programme. The first 45 minutes went excellently, as goals from Zalán Kerezsi and Alex Szabó put us 2-0 ahead, but in the second half Milán Tóth scored twice before M Sándor Hidi decided the contest in favour of the visitors.

• Interestingly, Zsolt Laczkó's coaching career in Kispest partly began against Vasas, as he started as Honvéd II coach with a 3-2 win in the NB III South-East group. Richárd Vernes, who has played for both Honvéd and Vasas, also scored in that match.

The Honvéd-Vasas rivalry in numbers: 

NB I: 180 matches, 65 wins, 45 draws, 70 defeats

NB II: 4 matches, 1 win, 1 draw, 2 defeats

Hungarian Cup: 15 matches, 5 wins, 3 draws, 7 defeats

Friendlies: 34 matches, 17 wins, 4 draws, 13 defeats

Other tournaments (Evening Cup, League Championship, Winter Cup, Tournament of Champions): 5 matches, 3 wins, 0 draws, 2 defeats

Overall league record (first teams): 184 matches, 66 wins, 46 draws, 72 defeats

Competitive matches (first teams): 204 matches, 74 wins, 49 draws, 81 defeats

Reserve-team NB II and NB III matches: 6 matches, 2 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats, plus the record of two Honvéd II.-Vasas matches: 2 matches, 2 defeats

Complete overall record: 246 matches, 93 wins, 55 draws, 98 defeats

Goal difference: 443:417

Merkantil Bank Liga, Round 15:

Budapest Honvéd FC – Vasas FC

November 30, Saturday, 17:00

Bozsik Aréna