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{{Short description|Hungarian footballer (1893–1969)}}
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{{Hungarian name|Czeizler Lajos}}
{{Infobox football biography
|name = Lajos Czeizler
|image = Lajos Czeizler, born 1893 (cropped).jpg
|caption = 
|fullname = Lajos Czeizler
|birth_date = {{birth date|1893|10|5|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Heves]], [[Austria-Hungary]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1969|5|6|1893|10|5|df=yes}}
|death_place = 
|position = [[Goalkeeper (association football)|Goalkeeper]]
|years1 = 1921–1923
|clubs1 = [[Dunakanyar-Vác FC|Vác]]
|caps1 = 19
|goals1 = 0
|manageryears1 = 1923–1926
|managerclubs1 = [[ŁKS Łódź|ŁKS]]
|manageryears2 = 1927–1928
|managerclubs2 = [[Udinese Calcio|Udinese]]
|manageryears3 = 1928–1930
|managerclubs3 = [[Faenza Calcio|Faenza]]
|manageryears4 = 1930–1931
|managerclubs4 = [[S.S. Lazio|Lazio]] (youth)
|manageryears5 = 1935–1936
|managerclubs5 = [[ŁKS Łódź|ŁKS]]
|manageryears6 = 1940
|managerclubs6 = [[Västerås SK Fotboll|Västerås]]
|manageryears7 = 1942–1948
|managerclubs7 = [[IFK Norrköping]]
|manageryears8 = 1949–1952
|managerclubs8 = [[A.C. Milan|Milan]]
|manageryears9 = 1953
|managerclubs9 = [[Calcio Padova|Padova]]
|managerclubs10 = [[Italy national football team|Italy]]
|manageryears10 = 1953–1954
|managerclubs11 = [[U.C. Sampdoria|Sampdoria]]
|manageryears11 = 1954–1957
|managerclubs12 = [[ACF Fiorentina|Fiorentina]]
|manageryears12 = 1957–1959
|managerclubs13 = [[ACF Fiorentina|Fiorentina]] 
|manageryears13 = 1960–1961
|manageryears14 = 1963–1964
|managerclubs14 = [[S.L. Benfica|Benfica]]
}}
'''Lajos Czeizler''' (5 October 1893 – 6 May 1969) was a Hungarian [[Association football|football]]er and coach. With 11 major titles altogether, he remains one of the most successful football coaches of all time.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}

==Career==
Czeizler was born in a [[Jews|Jewish]] family in [[Heves]], [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forward.com/culture/392813/how-the-holocaust-swept-away-european-jewish-soccer/|title=How The Holocaust Swept Away European Jewish Soccer|work=[[The Forward]]|first=Dave|last=Rich|date=25 January 2018|access-date=27 January 2018}}</ref> He played as [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]] with [[Dunakanyar-Vác FC|Vác]] in the Hungarian championship between 1921 and 1923.<ref>[https://nela.hu/nch_pid.php?id=8667 Lajos Czeizler]{{Dead link|date=June 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at nela.hu</ref>

He began his coaching career in the 1920s in Poland, in [[ŁKS Łódź|Łódzki Klub Sportowy]], where he had between 1923 and 1926 his first coaching experience. After this he spent his first years in Italy, coaching the second division sides of [[Udinese Calcio|Udinese]] and [[Faenza Calcio|CA Faenza]] and from 1930 to 1931 the youth of [[S.S. Lazio]].

From 1935 to 1936 he is coaching ŁKS again before moving to Sweden where his first engagement was in 1940 with [[Västerås SK Fotboll|Västerås SK]]. In the Between 1942 and 1948 he had his greatest successes with [[IFK Norrköping]]. There he achieved between 1943 and 1948 a record five championships and two national cups in 1943 and 1945.<ref>http://www.svenskfotboll.de/</ref> When he led Norrköping to the 1948 championship he became the oldest coach in Sweden to achieve this title. He was then aged 54 years, 8 months and 1 day. The record has since been lost to trainer [[Conny Karlsson (footballer)|Conny Karlsson]] with [[Helsingborgs IF]].

After his time in Sweden he returned to Italy where he led [[A.C. Milan]] in 1951 to [[1950–51 Serie A|championship honours]] and a win in the [[Latin Cup]], an annual tournament of the best teams from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy&nbsp;– an important contest in the absence of any other European competition. He coached the [[Italy national football team|Italy national team]] in the [[1954 FIFA World Cup]]. In the season 1961 he coached [[ACF Fiorentina|Fiorentina]] until January,<ref>[http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&c=1&f=11755&p=4#page/1/mode/2up Domani Hidegkuti a Firenze (Corriere dello Sport, n. 261, data=2 novembre 1960)]</ref><ref>[http://dlib.coninet.it/bookreader.php?&c=1&f=8887&p=1#page/4/mode/2up Hidegkuti responsabile unico della Fiorentina (Corriere dello Sport, n. 22, data=25 gennaio 1961)]</ref> and later, in June, this club won the [[Coppa Italia]], defeating Lazio 2–0 in the final.

In the 1963–64 season he took [[S.L. Benfica]] to their fourth double of [[1963–64 Primeira Divisão|championship]] and [[1963–64 Taça de Portugal|cup]] of Portugal, and set a club record of 103 goals in 26 league matches.<ref>{{cite journal |date=11 May 2010 |title=Glorioso Benfica |trans-title=Glorious Benfica |language=pt |journal=[[Record (Portuguese newspaper)|Record]] |location=Portugal |publisher=Edisport |page=66}}</ref>

==Honours==
'''IFK Norrköping'''
* [[Allsvenskan]]: 1942–43, 1944–45, 1945–46, 1946–47, 1947–48
* [[Svenska Cupen]]: 1943, 1945

'''Milan'''
* [[Serie A]]: 1951
* [[Latin Cup]]: 1951

'''Benfica'''
* [[Primeira Liga]]: 1963–64
* [[Taça de Portugal]]: 1963–64

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Italy Squad 1954 World Cup}}
{{Latin Cup winning managers}}
{{Serie A winning managers}}
{{Primeira Liga winning managers}}
{{Taça de Portugal winning managers}}
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