Our team finished the autumn campaign of the Merkantil Bank Liga in excellent fashion and, three points ahead of Vasas, can look forward to the spring continuation of the league from first place. Based on the statistics, Honvéd were not only successful but did so – we believe it is fair to say without being immodest – while producing the most spectacular attacking football in the league.
During the fifteen autumn rounds, we ended the weekend at the top of the table on 8 occasions. The team’s consistency is shown by the fact that after the 15 rounds we were third only 3 times and second 4 times at the end of a matchday – we never dropped off the podium. This consistency could be one of the keys to promotion in the continuation.
Free-scoring attacking football and the most goals
No team in the league was more productive in attack than ours. Our team scored the most goals in the championship, 31 in total. This scoring rate (more than 2 goals per match) shows that Tamás Feczkó’s side played brave, attacking football throughout the autumn. Two players share the club’s top-scorer title, each contributing 7 goals to the team’s success: Ákos Zuigeber and Dominik Csontos.
Continuity in the squad
During the autumn season Tamás Feczkó gave opportunities to a total of 30 players, underlining the depth of the squad and the importance of rotation. Two footballers, however, stood out from the rest in terms of minutes played: our two 'iron men', Dominik Csontos and Tomás Tujvel, played every single minute (all 1,350 available minutes) across the 15 autumn matches. Interestingly, Csontos was not only a pillar of the defence – as noted above – but with 7 goals also shared the club’s top-scorer honours. In addition, he plays an important role at set pieces, with our 23-year-old defender also providing three assists. Our team could therefore head into the winter break from an excellent position and with encouraging performances behind them as they prepare for the spring continuation.
This happened during the week (December 15 — December 21)
100 years ago:
Kispesti AC – financial balance sheet from a century ago
On December 16, 1925, Kispesti AC’s annual financial balance sheet was published, offering an interesting insight into the club’s situation at the time. The association’s annual net income was 97,282,930 crowns, which placed it ninth among the First Division clubs.
The figure clearly reflects Kispesti AC’s stable, though not outstanding, economic position in the Hungarian top flight of the era. By the mid-1920s the club was already a regular participant in the First Division, and although its financial strength was not among the greatest, its operation nevertheless rested on secure foundations.
This financial result is a snapshot of a period when Hungarian football was still taking shape and clubs’ revenues depended primarily on match attendances and the support of their local communities. For Kispesti AC, the net income of 97 million crowns is not merely a statistic but also a memory of an era – proof that the club was already an important player in Hungarian football at that time.
50 years ago:
Off-season battles on the indoor court – Honvéd in the Képes Sport Cup
Even after the league season ended, supporters were not left without football: during the off-season, Budapest’s Körcsarnok and Szeged’s Újváros sports hall hosted the matches of the Képes Sport indoor football cup. The tournaments, played indoors in a special atmosphere, offered teams an excellent opportunity to stay in shape.
Bp. Honvéd were drawn into the Szeged group, but the competition did not go successfully for the Kispest side. The red-and-whites lost all three of their matches and were therefore unable to challenge for qualification.
Honvéd first suffered a heavy 7–2 defeat against Rába ETO, then lost 4–2 to Békéscsaba. In the final group match they were also beaten by hosts Szeged, this time 4–1.
