Spring restart against Budafok

Club

Published: 02/09/2025, 02:15 PMReading time: 5 min

Information, facts and figures – everything you need to know about the match against Budafok.

The Merkantil Bank Liga wakes from a winter break of more than two months, and on Sunday we host Budafok in our first competitive match of the year.

Supporter information:

The match kicks off at 17:00 on 9 February (Sunday) at the Bozsik Aréna
You can buy tickets online at the following link. https://jegy.honvedfc.hu/
In person, tickets are available at Kispesti Futball Ház (Thursday, 16:00–20:00) and at the Bozsik Aréna ticket office (Friday, 14:00–19:00).

We will broadcast the match live on our YouTube channel.
We look forward to seeing you at Lipták Grund from 15:30, where of course you can also meet Leo. Alongside the sporting contests, this time we will also have a new game for the children. The winners will receive Honvéd gifts.

What you need to know about Budafoki MTE:

Founded: 1912

Club colours: red and black

Current league position: 8th

League record: 5 wins, 6 draws, 4 defeats (21 points) Goal difference: 22:25 (-3)

League form: W-L-L-D-D

Away: 3rd place, 3 wins, 3 draws, 1 defeat

Head coach: Márk Nikházi

Top scorer: Ádám Merényi (6)

Major achievements: 2019-20: 2nd place in NB II, 2023-24: Hungarian Cup runners-up

Our opponents have conceded the third-most goals in the league, and among the teams in the top half of the table they are the only side with a negative goal difference.

Although Budafok have already scored in both the first and second minute this season, almost one third of their goals have come after the 80th minute.

In terms of combined goals and assists, Róbert Rétyi is Budafok's most productive player, with 3 goals and 4 assists this season

Our opponents have not received a red card this season, but they do have a player who has collected 7 yellow cards in 15 rounds (Dominik Sztojka).

Márk Nikházi's side have played the second-most draws in the league (6).

Budafok have played 16 competitive matches this season, but have kept a clean sheet in only one of them.

The team's captain is Dávid Kovács, who has been a BMTE player since 2017, while Bálint Oláh has spent the most minutes on the pitch, playing every match in full this season.

Story of the current season:

Several key players left Budafok during the summer, but among others they also signed a defender from us in Dávid Kálnoki-Kis. They began the season against us with a 3-3 draw, then beat Kisvárda away. In Round 4 they suffered a heavy 5-0 home defeat against Kazincbarcika, after which head coach László Dajka resigned and Márk Nikházi initially took over on an interim basis. It was the 36-year-old coach's first head-coaching role, and it went so well that after a few rounds he was confirmed permanently. No wonder, as he remained unbeaten in each of his first eight league matches. Budafok were meanwhile eliminated from the Hungarian Cup by Ferencváros, while their good league run ended in November at Szentlőrinc. Even so, they finished the calendar year on a positive note with a 2-1 win in Szeged on 1 December. The team did not lose a match during the winter preparations, and there were few changes to the squad: three players left, while goalkeeper Gellért Dúzs joined them from us on a six-month loan. In their most recent friendly they won 5-2 in Tatabánya.

Squad:

Budafok have several former Honvéd players: András Horváth was a member of our championship-winning side in 2016-17, while Dávid Kálnoki-Kis can call himself a Hungarian Cup winner with Honvéd. In addition, the on-loan Gellért Dúzs has so far kept goal for Honvéd in 40 competitive matches, while Krisztofer Szerető previously spent time in Kispest as an academy player. From our current squad, Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas also represented Budafok from 2017 to 2022, scoring 27 goals during that period and progressing with the south-Buda club all the way from NB III to NB I.

In the recent past Attila Lőrinczy, Krisztián Adorján, Dávid László and István Soltész represented both clubs as players, while László Dajka did so as a coach.

Head-to-head history:

To reach the beginning of the shared history of the two clubs, we have to travel back 91 years. We met Budafok in a friendly, which ended in an 8-5 Kispest victory. Over the next seven years the sides tested themselves in two more friendlies, producing first a 5-1 Kispest win and then a 2-2 draw. In 1974 we won 2-0 in the Hungarian People's Republic Cup through goals from Sándor Pintér and Mihály Kozma, and 11 years later László Dajka's goal in the 106th minute secured Kispest's progress. The good run ended in 1996, again in a cup match, when Budafok celebrated a 4-3 win. After a long gap, in 2019 we visited Budafok for a friendly at the BMTE Sports Ground; unlike the high-scoring clashes in the fixture, the net did not move and the match ended 0-0.

The sides met in the top flight in the 2020-21 season. One day before Christmas Eve, three points went under the Christmas tree in a behind-closed-doors match, as we came from behind to win 2-1 in Budafok through goals from Dániel Gazdag and Norbert Balogh. In February 2021 the teams played another eventful match; unfortunately Budafok had reason to celebrate this time, as Sebestyén Ihrig-Farkas, now one of our players, scored the visitors' winner late on (2-3). The third instalment again took place on Promontor utca, when Mezghrani's thunderbolt gave us a one-goal victory.

The two teams met only once in a friendly over the next two years, which Budafok won 1-0.

We have met Budafok three times in NB II so far: in autumn 2023 we hosted them for the first time at the new Bozsik Aréna and, although we led twice, the match ultimately ended in a draw.

Honvéd–Budafok 2–2 (highlights):

Last April we suffered a 1-0 away defeat, while in the opening match of the current season we played out an eventful 3-3 draw in Budafok.

Budafok–Honvéd 3–3 (highlights)

Record against Budafoki MTE:

Friendlies: 6 matches, 3 wins, 2 draws, 1 defeat, goal difference: 19:11

Hungarian Cup: 3 matches, 2 wins, 0 draws, 1 defeat, goal difference: 8:6

League: 6 matches, 2 wins, 2 draws, 2 defeats, goal difference: 10:10

Our last 5 competitive matches against Budafok:

28. 07. 2024 Budafok–Honvéd 3–3 (Our scorers: Holman, Keresztes, Kerezsi)

31. 03. 2024 Budafok–Honvéd 1–0

28. 09. 2023 Honvéd–Budafok 2–2 (Our scorers: Kerezsi, Kerezsi)

02. 05. 2021 Budafok–Honvéd 0–1 (Our scorer: Mezghrani)

13. 02. 2021 Honvéd–Budafok 2–3 (Our scorers: Gazdag, Bőle)

Statistics and facts:

Our highest-scoring league match against Budafok was played in July 2024 (3-3)

Our biggest win against the south-Buda side came in 1939, when we won a friendly 5-1.
Zalán Kerezsi has scored the most goals in competitive matches in this fixture (3).

Among our new signings, Dominik Csontos scored the first goal of his career against Budafok, while Ákos Baki scored his most recent goal to date against them.

Referee:

Ádám Pillók will referee Sunday's match. The official, who celebrated his 37th birthday in recent days, will take charge of his eighth Honvéd match; most recently he refereed our 2-2 cup draw against Paks in November 2023.

Expectations:

Our forward Patrik Pinte, who joined in January and is preparing for his first competitive match in red and black, spoke to our YouTube channel.