Ferencvárosi TC (sports club)

Ferencvárosi TC

Full name	Ferencvárosi Torna Club
Nickname	Ferencváros, FTC and Fradi, Zöld Sasok (Green Eagles) zöld-fehérek (The green and whites)
Short name	FTC
Founded	3 May 1899; 124 years ago (1899-05-03)
Colours	Green and white
Chairman	Gábor Kubatov
Website	fradi.hu

Active departments of FTC
Football (men's) Football B (men's) Football (women's) Handball (men's) Handball (women's) Water polo (men's) Water polo(women's) Ice hockey (men's) Ice hockey (women's) Nine-pin bowling Curling Synchronized swimming Athletics Boxing Canoeing Cycling Gymnastics Fencing Skating Swimming Triathlon Wrestling

Closed departments of FTC
Basketball (women's)

Ferencvárosi Torna Club founded in 1899, is a major Hungarian multi-sport club based in Ferencváros district of Budapest, Hungary. The well-supported men's football team is the most popular team in the country.^[1] The parent multisport club Ferencvárosi TC divisions include women's football, women's handball, men's futsal,^[2] men's ice hockey, men's handball, men's water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, wrestling, curling and swimming teams, some of which are highly successful.

Departments

As of 14 February 2023^[3]

Team sports

• Football:
  • men's football (since 1899)
  • women's football (since 2004)
• Handball:
  • men's handball (since 1950)
  • women's handball (since 1950)
• Water polo:
  • men's water polo (since 1904)
  • women's water polo
• Ice hockey:
  • men's ice hockey (since 1928)
  • women's ice hockey
• Nine-pin bowling (since 1948)
• Curling (since 2008)
• Synchronized swimming (since 2015)

Individual sports

• Athletics (since 1903)
• Boxing (since 1910)
• Canoeing (since 1955)
• Cycling (since 1910)
• Gymnastics (since 1904)
• Fencing (1904–1915, 1922–1945, since 2017)
• Swimming (since 1904)
• Skating (since 2019)
• Triathlon (since 2015)
• Wrestling (since 1912)

Dissolved departments

• Basketball
  • women's basketball (1993–2000, 2010–2012)

Sport facilities

The football team plays in Groupama Aréna^[4] in Ferencváros, Budapest. The handball teams play in the Elek Gyula Aréna. The boxing, cycling, fencing and wrestling departments play in the FTC-MVM Népligeti Sportközpont.^[5] The ice hockey team play in the Tüskecsarnok, the water polo team play at Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, the women's football team play at Kocsis Sándor Sportközpont, the short track speed skating department play at Gyakorló Jégcsarnok, the curling team play at Kamaraerdei Curling Club, the canoeing department using facilities at ELTE Vízisporttelep.^[6]

Supporters and rivalries

Supporters

Supporters of Ferencváros are mainly from the capital city of Hungary, Budapest. However, the club is popular all over Hungary.

Notable supporters

Friendships

The fans have friendships with fans of Rapid Wien^[7] and Panathinaikos, and as all three play in Green the alliance is nicknamed the "Green Brothers". They also have friendly relations in Hungary with fans of Zalaegerszeg and in Poland with Śląsk Wrocław and Bałtyk Gdynia.

Rivalries

Ferencváros have rivalry with several teams from Budapest including MTK Budapest, Újpest, Honvéd, Vasas SC, and several provincial clubs such as Debrecen and Diósgyőr.

The biggest rivalry is with Újpest, which dates back to the 1930s when Újpest won their first Hungarian Football League title. Since then, the fixture between the two teams attracts the most spectators in the domestic league.^[8] The matches between the two teams often end in violence which causes big trouble for the Hungarian football. The proposal of personal registration was refused by both clubs.

The fixture between Ferencváros and MTK Budapest FC is called the Örökrangadó or Eternal derby. It is the oldest football rivalry in Hungary, which dates back as early as the 1903 football season when Ferencváros first won the Hungarian League. In the following three decades either Ferencváros or MTK Budapest won the domestic league.

Bp. Honvéd are also considered fierce rivals as the clubs are in very close proximity to each other and in the past frequently competed for honours.

Honours

Active departments

Football (men's)

• Hungarian Championship^[9]
  • Winners (34) (record): 1903, 1905, 1906–07, 1908–09, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, 1912–13, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1931–32, 1933–34, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1940–41, 1948–49, 1962–63, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1975–76, 1980–81, 1991–92, 1994–95, 1995–96, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23
• Hungarian Second League
  • Winners (1): 2008–09
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (24) (record): 1912–13, 1921–22, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1932–33, 1934–35, 1941–42, 1942–43, 1943–44, 1955–58, 1971–72, 1973–74, 1975–76, 1977–78, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2021–22
• Hungarian Super Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (6) (record): 1993, 1994, 1995, 2004, 2015, 2016
• Hungarian League Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 2012–13, 2014–15
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (defunct, predecessor of UEFA Cup)
  • Winners (1): 1964–65
• Mitropa Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (2): 1928, 1937
• Challenge Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (1): 1908–09

Water polo (men's)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (24): 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1944, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1968, 1987–88, 1989–90, 1999–00, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2021–22
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (22) (record): 1923, 1924, 1926, 1949, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1988–89, 1989–90, 1996, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• LEN Champions League
  • Winners (1): 2018–19
• LEN Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (4) (record): 1974–75, 1977–78, 1979–80, 1997–98
• LEN Super Cup
  • Winners (4): 1978, 1980, 2018, 2019

Ice hockey (men's)

• Hungarian Championship:
  • Winners (29) (record): 1950–51, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1963–64, 1966–67, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1977–78, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1983–84, 1988–89, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97, 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Hungarian Cup:
  • Winners (15) (record): 1967–68, 1968–69, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1982–83, 1989–90, 1990–91, 1991–92, 1994–95, 2019–20
• Panonian League:
  • Winners (1): 2002–03
• Erste Liga:
  • Winners (2): 2018–19, 2019–20

Handball (women's)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (13): 1966, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–00, 2001–02, 2006–07, 2014–15, 2020–21
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (13): 1967, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2016–17, 2021–22
• EHF Cup Winners' Cup (defunct)
  • Winners (3) (record): 1977–78, 2010–11, 2011–12
• EHF Cup
  • Winner (1): 2005–06

Football (women's)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winners (5): 2014–15, 2015–16, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winners (6) (record): 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021

Handball (men's)

• Hungarian Second League
  • Winners (3): 1970, 2008–09, 2016–17
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winner (1): 1963

Inactive departments

Basketball (women's)

• Hungarian Championship
  • Winner (1): 1996–97
• Hungarian Cup
  • Winner (1): 1995–96

International honours

Notable former players

Olympic champions

A Ferencvárosi Torna Club olimpiai bajnokainak listája

Presidents

List of the presidents of the Ferencvárosi TC:^[10]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ferencvárosi Torna Club.

• Official website