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| Full name | Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club | ||
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| Short name | MTK | ||
| Founded | 16 November 1888; 137 years ago (1888-11-16) | ||
| Ground | Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion | ||
| Capacity | 5,322 | ||
| Chairman | Tamás Deutsch | ||
| Manager | Dávid Horváth | ||
| League | NB I | ||
| 2024–25 | NB I, 5th of 12 | ||
| Website | mtkbudapest | ||
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Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club, often abbreviated toMTK, is a professionalfootball club based inJózsefváros,Budapest,Hungary. The club currently plays in theNemzeti Bajnokság I. The club's colours are blue and white. As one of the most successful Hungarian football clubs, MTK has won theHungarian League 23 times and theHungarian Cup 12 times. The club has also won theHungarian Super Cup twice. In 1955, asVörös Lobogó SE, they became the first Hungarian team to play in theEuropean Cup and in 1964 they finished as runners-up in theEuropean Cup Winners' Cup after losing toSporting 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 clubLiverpool. MTK was established by the Hungarian Jewish community.
MTK Budapest first entered the Nemzeti Bajnokság in the1903 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.[1]
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”).[2] 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.[2] 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 likeFerencváros, 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.[2] 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.[3][4]
Immediately after World War 2 in 1949, under Hungary’s new Communist regime, MTK was forcibly taken over by theÁVH 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 withStalinist 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.[3][4]
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.[3] 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.[3]
The following table shows in detail MTK Budapest FC kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:
| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
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| −2007 | 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 | Országos Kéktúra | |
| 2013–2017 | panzi pet | |
| 2017–2018 | Work Service | |
| 2018–present | Prohuman |
MTK Budapest's first stadium was opened in 1912. The first match it hosted was against MTK Budapest's main rivalFerencváros 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 theWorld War II. The club remained there until 2014 , when it was demolished in order to construct a brand new stadium on its place.
Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion is amulti-purpose stadium inBudapest,Hungary.[5] It was renamed after the famous MTK Budapest andHungary footballerNándor Hidegkuti.
Lantos Mihály Sportközpont is a multi sport centre located inZugló, 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.[6][7]
The fixture between MTK Budapest FC andFerencvárosi TC is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. The first fixture was played in the1903 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Position | Name |
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| President |  Tamás Deutsch |
| Club director |  József Jakobsen |
| President of committee | Iván Serényi |
| Member of the presidency | Péter Deutsch |
| Member of the presidency | János Somogyi |
| Member of the presidency | László Domonyai |
| Member of the supervising committee | István Molnár |
| Member of the supervising committee | Péter Stern |
| Member of the supervising committee | István Putics |
| Position | Name |
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| Head coach | Dávid Horváth |
| Assistant coach | Tamás Petres |
| Goalkeeper coach | József Andrusch |
| Fitness coach | András Szabó |
| Masseur | János Kiss |
| Masseur | István Dömök |
| Club doctor | Imre Dreissiger |
| Club doctor | Dániel Kincses |
| Technical manager | Mihály Horváth |
| Physiotherapist | Péter Sipos |
| Kit Manager | Gábor Máté |
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