SUPPORTER INFORMATION:
- The match will take place on Sunday, 25 May, from 17:45.
- We would like to draw our supporters’ attention to the fact that all 200 previously announced exchange tickets have been taken. Those who were unable to exchange their tickets for the away sector can therefore watch the match from the home sector shown on their originally purchased ticket. Jegymester can no longer accept additional requests.
- The stadium gates will open at 16:45.
- Honvéd supporters can travel to the match as part of an organised bus service. The buses will pick up passengers at Lipták Grund PUB, Puskás F. u. 1, Budapest District XIX. They depart at 15:45 and will take supporters to the away entrance of the Illovszky Rudolf Stadion on Fáy utca in Budapest District XIII.
- After the match, Honvéd supporters will be transported back from the same location.
- Honvéd supporters arriving by car can park most easily in Csizma utca and Frangepán utca in Budapest District XIII (on the section between Béke út and Hajdú u.), close to the away entrance of the Illovszky Rudolf Stadion.
- Further information is available in the following article: https://www.honvedfc.hu/hirek/szurkoloi-informacio-a-vasas-elleni-merkozesre/2025-05-21
- M4 Sport will show the match as part of its multi-match coverage, while the entire season finale can be followed on m4sport.hu.
What you need to know about Vasas:
Founded: 1911
Club colours: red-blue
Current league position: 3rd
League record: 16 wins, 3 draws, 10 defeats
Goal difference: 45:33
League form: W-W-L-W-L
At home: 11 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats (1st)
Head coach: Attila Pintér
Most goals: Milán Tóth (14 goals)
Major honours: 6x Hungarian champions, 4x Hungarian Cup winners
Summary of the current season:
Vasas currently sit third in the Merkantil Bank Liga and still have a mathematical chance of promotion, despite losing almost a third of their matches this season.
Attila Pintér’s side have outstanding home form, having won each of their last nine matches at the Illovszky Rudolf Stadion. The red-and-blues won their most recent league game 1–0 in Szeged.
Players connected with both clubs:
Zsombor Bévárdi, Szilveszter Hangya, Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas and Richárd Vernes previously played for Vasas, while Dominik Földi was an academy player with the Angyalföld club. Hangya reached the cup final in 2017, while Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas won the NB II championship with the Budapest side in 2022.
There are familiar faces in the Vasas squad as well: Botond Baráth from our 2016/17 championship-winning team, as well as former academy players Barnabás Németh and Balázs Feledy, now play for the Budapest club.
Previous meetings:
Sunday will be the 186th time the first teams of the two clubs meet in a league match.
- The first league meeting between the two teams was played on 3 December 1916, when we drew 1–1 at MTK’s ground; our goal was scored by Zoltán Túri.
- Kispest had to wait until 1919 for its first win, when Rudolf Jeny’s goal gave us a 1–0 victory over our Budapest rivals.
- The first emphatic Kispest away victory came in 1931, when we thrashed the red-and-blues 5–0. Lajos Kormos scored twice, while István Lukács, Lajos Keresztes and Imre Serényi also found the net.
- Between 1950 and 1956 we produced our longest unbeaten league run against Vasas, going 13 matches without defeat. During that period the record was nine Kispest wins and four draws, including a 4–4 draw and a 6–1 Kispest victory.
- The first Honvéd–Vasas cup final was played in 1955. Angyalföld won 3–2, and then also beat us in a high-scoring 1974 final, 4–3.
- One year after the Match of the Century, supporters in Angyalföld saw one of the highest-scoring games in the fixture, as Honvéd, led by Sándor Kocsis and Lajos Tichy, returned home from Fáy Street with a 6–3 victory.
- In 1964, 85,000 spectators witnessed Lajos Tichy’s magic and a Honvéd comeback live: in the 86th minute Vasas still led 3–2 in Kispest, 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.
- Between 1981 and 1984 we beat Vasas in six consecutive matches. We scored 14 goals in those games and conceded only three.
- We first met the red-and-blues in the second tier 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.
- In the season of our most recent championship title we played Vasas three times in NB I, but only managed a win at home, losing both away matches.
- We first hosted Vasas at the Bozsik Aréna in 2022, when a late brace from Nenad Lukic decided the match and gave us a 2–0 win. That season we also won both league matches in Angyalföld: in the summer of 2022 through Ennin and Lukic, and in spring 2023 through a Lukic goal, winning first 2–1 and then 1–0.
Budapest Honvéd – Vasas FC | 2-0 | (0-0) | OTP Bank Liga | Round 15
Vasas FC – Budapest Honvéd | 0-1 | (0-0) | OTP Bank Liga | Round 26
- Last season we met our rivals twice. In November 2023 Vasas won 3–0 through goals from Soma Novothny, András Radó and Zsombor Berecz, while in May we also suffered two red cards, and Milán Tóth punished us with two goals and Áron Doktorics with one.
- We last faced the Angyalföld side at the end of November, when Noel Keresztes’s goal gave us a 1–0 win.
Budapest Honvéd FC - Vasas FC 1-0, Merkantil Bank Liga, Round 15 - highlights
- We have so far visited Vasas four times at the New Illovszky Rudolf Stadion, with a record of two wins and two defeats.
Our last 5 matches against Vasas:
2024/25: Honvéd–Vasas 1–0 (Our scorer: Keresztes)
2023/24: Honvéd–Vasas 0–3
2023/24: Vasas–Honvéd 3–0
2022/23: Vasas–Honvéd 0–1 (Our scorer: Lukic)
2022/23: Honvéd–Vasas 2–0 (Our scorer: Lukic 2x)
Our league record against Vasas:
NB I: 180 matches, 65 wins, 45 draws, 70 defeats, goal difference: 301:290
NB II: 5 matches, 2 wins, 1 draw, 2 defeats, goal difference: 3:7
Referee:
Sunday’s derby will be refereed by Tamás Bognár, who most recently took charge of our 2–1 win over Gyirmót in April. Bognár has previously officiated a winning league decider and a cup final for us, and in competitive matches this will be the 50th time he has taken charge of a Honvéd fixture.
MERKANTIL BANK LIGA 2024/25, ROUND 30
25 May 2025 (Sunday), 17:45
VASAS FC–BUDAPEST HONVÉD
Illovszky Rudolf Stadion
