What you need to know about Hódmezővásárhelyi FC:
- Football in Hódmezővásárhely dates back to 1912, and the club's greatest success was winning bronze in NB II in both 1982 and 1983.
- Since 2016, the 2019-20 season is the only campaign in which HFC did not play in the third tier.
- In the previous season Hódmezővásárhely finished third behind Békéscsaba and ESMTK, the club's best third-tier placing since 2000
- The team is currently 12th and most recently lost 2-0 at home to Gyula
- The team's top scorer is Márton Gréczi with 9 goals
- HFC have won only three league matches this season, the second-lowest total in the championship
- The team's acting head coach is Róbert Szűcs, who replaced Krisztián Antal on the bench in September
- Kevin Török and Péter Tóth are part of the Hódmezővásárhely squad, and both previously spent time at the Honvéd academy
Previous meetings:
Honvéd II and Hódmezővásárhely met in the NB III Alföld group in both the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons. The two home games first produced a 5-1 Kispest win and, a year later, a 0-0 draw, while the meetings in Vásárhely both ended in one-goal home victories.
The two sides met again in the 2017-18 season after almost 10 years. We first drew 1-1 away, then won 3-0 at home with goals from Lukács, Tömösvári and Kabangu.
The following season we ended our winless run in Vásárhely, when a brace from Milán Májer and a goal from Norbert Szendrei earned us three points. At the end of the season, however, our excellent home run against HFC came to an end after a 2-1 defeat at our temporary home in Csepel.
In the season following Hódmezővásárhely's promotion, both matches produced a Kispest goal-fest: we won 4-1 at home and 5-2 away. The latter match is also interesting because Kevin Török started for Honvéd II at the time, while among the goalscorers Barna Benczenleitner and Noel Keresztes are now members of Honvéd's first team.
Our current player Balázs Rácz also knows what it is like to score against Hódmezővásárhely, as his brace earned us a 3-1 away win in 2021. Unfortunately, since then we have gone five matches without beating the South Great Plain side.
Our most recent trip to Hódmezővásárhely came in May this year, when a Benedek Simon goal gave us the lead in the 36th minute. Although former academy player Kevin Török equalised, Zana scored in the 74th minute to keep all three points at home.
The two teams met in Kispest in Round 2 of this season. We took an early lead when, after Vernes's shot, the ball rebounded out off the post and went into the net off Donát Dóra, but Guth rescued a point for the visitors late on.
Budapest Honvéd FC II.–Hódmezővásárhelyi FC 1–1 (1–0)
Honvéd II.: Molnár M. – Bakó, Szabó T. (Simon Sz., 57.), Horváth B., Gáspár (Szabó Á., 93.), Hancz, Polák (Sebestyén, at half-time), Vernes (Benkő, 76.), Kalocsány, Nagy Z., Kocsis G. (Vojtko, 57.)
Head coach: Zsolt Laczkó
Goals: Dóra D. - own goal (6.), and Guth (79.)
Honvéd II–Hódmezővásárhely 1–1 (highlights):
NB III South-East group, Round 17
November 24 (Sunday) 13:00
Hódmezővásárhelyi FC–Budapest Honvéd FC II.
Hódmezővásárhelyi Városi Stadion
