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{{Short description|Hungarian football club}}
{{about|the men's football club|the sports club|MTK Budapest|other uses|MTK Budapest (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox football club
| clubname = MTK Budapest
| image = MTK logo.svg
| image_size = 190px
| alt = MTK logo
| fullname = Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club
| short name = MTK
| nickname = 
| founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1888|11|16}}
| ground = [[Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion]]
| capacity = 5,322
| chairman = [[Tamás Deutsch (politician)|Tamás Deutsch]]
| manager = [[Dávid Horváth (footballer)|Dávid Horváth]]
| league = [[Nemzeti Bajnokság I|NB I]]
| season = [[2024–25 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|2024–25]]
| position = NB I, 5th of 12
| website = {{official URL}}
| current = 2025–26 MTK Budapest FC season
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{{MTK Budapest sections}}'''Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club''', often abbreviated to '''MTK''', is a professional [[Association football|football]] club based in [[Józsefváros]], [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]. The club currently plays in the [[Nemzeti Bajnokság I]]. The club's colours are blue and white. As one of the most successful Hungarian football clubs, MTK has won the [[Hungarian League]] 23 times and the [[Hungarian Cup]] 12 times. The club has also won the [[Hungarian Super Cup]] twice. In 1955, as ''Vörös Lobogó SE'', they became the first Hungarian team to play in the [[European Cup 1955–56|European Cup]] and in 1964 they finished as runners-up in the [[UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1963–64|European Cup Winners' Cup]] after losing to [[Sporting Clube de Portugal]] in the final. 

The club founded the Sándor Károly Football Academy in 2001. The Academy also has a partnership agreement with English club [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]]. MTK was established by the Hungarian Jewish community.

==History==
{{Main article|History of MTK Budapest FC}}
MTK Budapest first entered the Nemzeti Bajnokság in the [[1903 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1903]] season. In the subsequent season, MTK won their first domestic title. Between 1913 and 1914 and 1924–25, MTK dominated Hungarian football by winning ten titles in a row.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hungary football championship |url=https://eu-football.info/_tournaments.php?id=100 |access-date=2022-12-27 |website=eu-football.info |language=en |archive-date=27 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221227101526/https://eu-football.info/_tournaments.php?id=100 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Club identity and supporters==
MTK Budapest was founded on 16 November 1888 by members of Budapest’s assimilated Jewish middle class as Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre (“Circle of Hungarian Body‐Trainers”).<ref name="Hadas 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Hadas |first1=Miklós |last2= |first2= |date=2000 |title=Football and Social Identity: The Case of Hungary in the Twentieth Century |url=https://www.scribd.com/document/638234434/Football-and-Social-Ident-ity-The-Case-of-Hungary-in-the-Twentieth-Century |journal=The Sports Historian |volume=20 |issue=2 |publisher= |pages= |doi=10.1080/17460260009443368 |access-date=18 June 2025}}</ref> Right from its foundation, MTK Budapest sought to promote “universal Hungarianhood” and modern athletics free from local or conservative constraints, and deliberately cast itself as a modern, cosmopolitan alternative to local, parochial clubs in Hungary.<ref name="Hadas 2000"/> From its earliest years, the club drew support from Budapest’s downtown bourgeoisie and assimilated Jewish community, positioning itself in cultural opposition to local rivals like [[Ferencváros]], whose fan identity emerged more from working- and lower-middle-class districts.  From the 1890s through the 1930s, MTK emerged as one of Hungary’s dominant teams, winning multiple national titles.<ref name="Hadas 2000"/> Its historic rivalry with Ferencváros (whose supporters had increasingly embraced right-wing, nationalist and antisemitic sentiments) accentuated MTK’s reputation as the “Jewish” or liberal club in Budapest.<ref name="Mortimer Dec 2021">{{cite news |last=Mortimer |first=Tomasz |date=8 December 2021 |title=Hungary’s Football Ultras: Far Right, Not For Fidesz |url=https://balkaninsight.com/2021/12/08/hungarys-football-ultras-far-right-not-for-fidesz/ |work=[[Balkan Insight]] |location= |publisher= |access-date=18 June 2025}}</ref><ref name="Reynolds 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Reynolds |first1=David A. J. |last2= |first2= |date=4 November 2016 |title=Football And Fifty-six: Identity And Restoration |url=https://hungarianreview.com/article/20161121_football_and_fifty-six_identity_and_restoration/ |journal=Hungarian Review |volume=7 |issue=6 |publisher= |pages= |doi= |access-date=18 June 2025}} </ref>

Immediately after World War 2 in 1949, under Hungary’s new Communist regime, MTK was forcibly taken over by the [[State Protection Authority|ÁVH state security service]] and underwent a series of name changes; from Textiles SE (1950) to Bástya SE (1951) and Vörös Lobogó SE (1952), that aligned it with [[Stalinist]] state institutions. Although the club achieved on-field success during this era, winning multiple league titles and becoming the first Hungarian side to play in the European Cup (1955), its links to the secret police alienated most of its traditional fan base and massively disrupted the emotional bonds between club and supporters, a situation which lasted well beyond the Stalinist period.<ref name="Mortimer Dec 2021"/><ref name="Reynolds 2016"/> 

Since the early 2000s however, MTK’s supporter culture has remained notably free of any far-right influence, standing in sharp contrast to several other Hungarian clubs.<ref name="Mortimer Dec 2021"/> A 2021 study confirmed that, among major Hungarian teams, MTK’s fanbase is one of the few without significant extremist elements, reinforcing its longstanding image as the city’s liberal, most cosmopolitan side.<ref name="Mortimer Dec 2021"/>

==Crest and colours==

===Manufacturers and shirt sponsors===
The following table shows in detail MTK Budapest FC kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;margin-left:1em"
! Period
! Kit manufacturer
! Shirt sponsor
|-
| −2007
| rowspan=10 | [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]]
| Fotex
|-
| 2007–2008
| Fotex / Sándor Károly Akadémia
|-
| 2008–2009
| Sándor Károly Akadémia
|-
| 2009–2010
| Duna Takarék / Sándor Károly Akadémia
|-
| 2010–2011
| Duna Takarék
|-
| 2011–2012
| Duna Takarék / Sándor Károly Akadémia
|-
| 2012–2013
| [[National Blue Trail|Országos Kéktúra]]
|-
| 2013–2017
| panzi pet
|-
| 2017–2018
| Work Service
|-
| 2018–present
| Prohuman
|}

==Stadia and facilities==
[[File:MTK stadion. Fortepan 1051.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion (1947)]]]]
{{Main article|Hungária körúti stadion|Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion (1947)|Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion|Lantos Mihály Sportközpont}}
MTK Budapest's first stadium was opened in 1912. The first match it hosted was against MTK Budapest's main rival [[Ferencvárosi TC (football)|Ferencváros]] on 31 March 1912. The final result was 1–0 to MTK.

MTK Budapest's second stadium was built in 1947 shortly after the end of the [[World War II]]. The club remained there until 2014 , when it was demolished in order to construct a brand new stadium on its place.

[[File:Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium aerial.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The newly built stadium]]
[[Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion]] is a [[multi-purpose stadium]] in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stadiumdb.com/designs/hun/nandor_hidegkuti_stadion|title=Nándor Hidegkuti Stadion|date=10 February 2015|publisher=Stadium Database|access-date=3 July 2015|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311211832/http://stadiumdb.com/designs/hun/nandor_hidegkuti_stadion|url-status=live}}</ref> It was renamed after the famous MTK Budapest and [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]] footballer [[Nándor Hidegkuti]]. 

Lantos Mihály Sportközpont is a multi sport centre located in [[Zugló]], Budapest. It was built in 1896. It has a capacity of 3,500 (2,500 seated).It was home to Budapest Micro Club, MTK Maccabi, Rower-Veled Érted Se, [[Vörös Meteor Egyetértés SK]], Zuglói Kinizsi SE.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mtk.hu/letesitmenyek/mtk-lantos-mihaly-sporttelep|title=MTK Lantos Mihály Sportközpont|date=10 February 2015|publisher=MTK.hu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.magyarfutball.hu/hu/stadionok/adatlap/398/lantos_mihaly_sportkozpont|title=MTK Lantos Mihály Sportközpont|date=10 February 2015|publisher=MTK.hu|access-date=3 July 2015|archive-date=3 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703235715/http://www.magyarfutball.hu/hu/stadionok/adatlap/398/lantos_mihaly_sportkozpont|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Rivalry==
{{see also|Budapest derby|Örökrangadó}}

The fixture between MTK Budapest FC and [[Ferencvárosi TC]] is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. The first fixture was played in the [[1903 Nemzeti Bajnokság I]] season. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary.

==Honours==

===Domestic===
*'''[[Nemzeti Bajnokság I]]'''
**'''Winners (23)''': [[1904 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1904]], [[1907–08 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1907–08]], [[1913–14 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1913–14]], [[1916–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1916–17]], [[1917–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1917–18]], [[1918–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1918–19]], [[1919–20 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1919–20]], [[1920–21 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1920–21]], [[1921–22 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1921–22]], [[1922–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1922–23]], [[Nemzeti Bajnokság I 1923-24|1923–24]], [[1924–25 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1924–25]], [[1928–29 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1928–29]], [[Nemzeti Bajnokság I 1935-36|1935–36]], [[1936–37 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1936–37]], [[1951 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1951]], [[1953 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1953]], [[1957–58 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1957–58]], [[1986–87 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1986–87]], [[1996–97 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1996–97]], [[1998–99 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1998–99]], [[2002–03 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|2002–03]], [[2007–08 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|2007–08]]
**Runners-up (20): [[1909–10 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1909–10]], [[1910–11 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1910–11]], [[1911–12 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1911–12]], [[1912–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1912–13]], [[1925–26 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1925–26]], [[1927–28 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1927–28]], [[1930–31 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1930–31]], [[1932–33 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1932–33]], [[1939–40 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1939–40]], [[1948–49 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1948–49]], [[1949–50 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1949–50]], [[1952 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1952]], [[1954 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1954]], [[1955 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1955]], [[1957 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1957]], [[1958–59 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1958–59]], [[1962–63 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1962–63]], [[1989–90 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1989–90]], [[1999–2000 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|1999–2000]], [[2006–07 Nemzeti Bajnokság I|2006–07]]
*'''[[Magyar Kupa]]'''
**'''Winners (12)''': [[1909–10 Magyar Kupa|1909–10]], [[1910–11 Magyar Kupa|1910–11]], [[1911–12 Magyar Kupa|1911–12]], [[1913–14 Magyar Kupa|1913–14]], [[1922–23 Magyar Kupa|1922–23]], [[1924–25 Magyar Kupa|1924–25]], [[1931–32 Magyar Kupa|1931–32]], [[1951–52 Magyar Kupa|1951–52]], [[1968 Magyar Kupa|1968]], [[1996–97 Magyar Kupa|1996–97]], [[1997–98 Magyar Kupa|1997–98]], [[1999–2000 Magyar Kupa|1999–2000]]
**Runners-up: [[1934–35 Magyar Kupa|1934–35]], [[1975–76 Magyar Kupa|1975–76]], [[2011–12 Magyar Kupa|2011–12]]
*'''[[Szuperkupa]]'''
**''' Winners (3):''' 1997, 2003, 2008

===International===
*'''[[Mitropa Cup]]'''
**'''Winners (2):''' [[1955 Mitropa Cup|1955]], 1963
**Runners-up: [[1959 Mitropa Cup|1959]]
*'''[[European Cup Winners' Cup]]'''
**Runner-up: [[1963–64 European Cup Winners' Cup|1963–64]]
*'''[[Inter-Cities Fairs Cup]]'''
**Semi-finalist: [[1961–62 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup|1961–62]]

===Friendly===
*'''[[Štefánik Tournament in Bratislava]]'''
**''' Winners:''' 1933

==Players==
===Current squad===
{{updated|25 June 2025}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mtkbudapest.hu/hu/csapatok |title=First team squad |publisher=MTK Budapest FC Official Website |website=mtkbudapest.hu |access-date=25 June 2025 |language=hu}}</ref>
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no= 1|nat=HUN|name=[[Patrik Demjén]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no= 2|nat=HUN|name=[[Benedek Varju]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 3|nat=HUN|name=[[János Szépe]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 4|nat=GEO|name=[[Ilia Beriashvili]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 5|nat=HUN|name=Roland Lehoczky|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no= 6|nat=HUN|name=[[Mihály Kata]]|pos=MF|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 8|nat=HUN|name=[[Márk Kosznovszky]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no= 9|nat=HUN|name=Rajmund Molnár|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=HUN|name=[[István Bognár]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=BIH|name=[[Marin Jurina]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=HUN|name=Adrián Csenterics|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=HUN|name=Artúr Horváth|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=HUN|name=Imre Széles|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=16|nat=HUN|name=Péter Törőcsik|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=SVK|name=[[Róbert Polievka]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=HUN|name=[[Krisztián Németh]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=HUN|name=Mátyás Kovács|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=HUN|name=István Átrok|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=HUN|name=[[Zsombor Bévárdi]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=CZE|name=[[Jakub Plšek]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=25|nat=HUN|name=[[Tamás Kádár]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=26|nat=HUN|name=Gergő Szőke|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=HUN|name=Patrik Kovács|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=28|nat=HUN|name=Patrik Szűcs|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=29|nat=HUN|name=József Balázs|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=30|nat=HUN|name=[[Zsombor Gruber]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=31|nat=HUN|name=Domonkos Bene|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=  |nat=HUN|name=Sámuel Bakó|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=  |nat=HUN|name=Ádin Molnár|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=  |nat=HUN|name=Noel Kenesei|pos=FW}}
{{Fs end}}

===Out on loan===
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=  |nat=HUN|name=Gábor Stumpf|pos=MF|other={{small|at [[Budafoki MTE|Budafok]] [[Nemzeti Bajnokság II|NB II]] until 30 June 2026}}}}
{{Fs player|no=  |nat=HUN|name=Botond Herczeg|pos=FW|other={{small|at [[Budafoki MTE|Budafok]] [[Nemzeti Bajnokság II|NB II]] until 30 June 2026}}}}
{{Fs end}}

==Non-playing staff==

===Board of directors===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position
! Name
|-
|President || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Tamás Deutsch (politician)|Tamás Deutsch]]
|-
|Club director || {{flagicon|HUN}} {{flagicon|DEN}} [[József Jakobsen]]
|-
|President of committee || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Iván Serényi]]
|-
|Member of the presidency || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Péter Deutsch]]
|-
|Member of the presidency || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[János Somogyi]]
|-
|Member of the presidency || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[László Domonyai]]
|-
|Member of the supervising committee || {{flagicon|HUN}} István Molnár
|-
|Member of the supervising committee || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Péter Stern]]
|-
|Member of the supervising committee || {{flagicon|HUN}} [[István Putics]]
|}
<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mtkbudapest.hu/hu|title=Az MTK Budapest Labdarúgó Zrt. hivatalos honlapja|website=www.mtkbudapest.hu|access-date=23 January 2021|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119053200/https://www.mtkbudapest.hu/hu|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Management===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position !! Name
|-
|Head coach|| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[Dávid Horváth (footballer)|Dávid Horváth]]
|-
|Assistant coach || {{flagicon|HUN}} Tamás Petres 
|-
|Goalkeeper coach|| {{flagicon|HUN}} [[József Andrusch]]
|-
|Fitness coach|| {{flagicon|HUN}} András Szabó 
|-
|Masseur || {{flagicon|HUN}} János Kiss
|-
|Masseur || {{flagicon|HUN}} István Dömök
|-
|Club doctor || {{flagicon|HUN}} Imre Dreissiger
|-
|Club doctor || {{flagicon|HUN}} Dániel Kincses
|-
|Technical manager || {{flagicon|HUN}} Mihály Horváth
|-
|Physiotherapist || {{flagicon|HUN}} Péter Sipos
|-
|Kit Manager || {{flagicon|HUN}} Gábor Máté

|}

<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mtkbudapest.hu/szakmai-stab |title=Archived copy |access-date=11 August 2015 |archive-date=10 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210130409/http://mtkbudapest.hu/szakmai-stab |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of MTK Budapest FC managers]]
*[[List of MTK Budapest FC seasons]]
*[[MTK Budapest FC in European football]]
*[[Örökrangadó]]
*[[Vörös Meteor Egyetértés SK]]

==Sources==
*''Behind The Curtain&nbsp;– Travels in Eastern European Football'': Jonathan Wilson (2006) [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752869078 Behind the Curtain: Travels in Football in Eastern Europe: Amazon.co.uk: Wilson, Jonathan: 9780752869070: Books]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{commons category}}
*{{official website|http://www.mtkbudapest.hu}} {{in lang|hu|en}}
*[https://archive.today/20071218073219/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/UCL/news/Kind=1/newsId=336519.html Article on MTK] at UEFA.com
*[https://www.rsssf.org/ec/ec195556det.html European Cup 1955–56]
*[https://int.soccerway.com/teams/hungary/mtk-hungaria-fc/ Soccerway profile]
*[http://www.magyarfutball.hu/hu/csapat/4 Matches, old tickets, ground photos] at magyarfutball.hu

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