Csepel SC () is a Hungarian

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based in

Csepel Csepel (german: Tschepele) is the 21st district and a neighbourhood in Budapest, Hungary. Csepel officially became part of Budapest on 1 January 1950. Location Csepel is located at the northern end of Csepel Island in the Danube, and covers ...

, the XXI district of

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, which is on an island in the

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in the south of the city. The club was formed in 1912 as ''Csepeli Torna Klub'' ("gymnastics club").

The Csepel SC football department

Csepel SC have won the Hungarian football championship four times. They became champions of the following seasons; 1941/42, 1942/43, 1947/48 and 1958/59. The football department of the club was dissolved after 2001/02 season. The team then played in the second division. Its homeground is the Béke téri Stadion, which has a capacity of 12.000. Until its relegation at the end of the 1996/97 season Csepel SC spent 51 season in the first division and remains to-date (2007), eighth in the all-time table of the first division.

Details to the History of Csepel SC

In its only participation in European Champions' Cup (in 1960) Csepel SC was eliminated in the qualification round by Fenerbahçe SK of

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. In 1981 Csepel was runner-up in the

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behind Tatran Presov. The last notable success was fourth place in the national league in 1982/83. In 2000 the football department of the club was merged with the first team of the second division club

III. Kerületi TVE III. kerületi Torna- és Vívóegylet - formerly also known as ''III. Kerületi TUE'' or ''III. Kerületi TTVE'' - is a Hungarian association football, football club based in Óbuda in the III district (''kerületi'') of Budapest. It was founde ...

from

Óbuda Óbuda was a town in Hungary that was merged with Buda and Pest on 17 November 1873; it now forms part of District III-Óbuda-Békásmegyer of Budapest. The name means ''Old Buda'' in Hungarian (in German, ''Alt-Ofen''). The name in Bosnian, C ...

in the III. district in the north of Budapest. The joint team played for the next two seasons under the name of Csepel SC in Csepel. The junior teams remained separated. Csepelcivertanlegi5

At the end of the 2001/02 season the football department of Csepel SC was dissolved. Beginning with the season 2003/04 the former partners from Óbuda resumed senior football under the name of ''III. Kerületi TUE'' and commenced activities with many players from former teams and its own youth in the fourth division. In that year the team remained undefeated and was promoted to the third division (NBIII), where it is still playing today (2007/08). Of importance, currently, are the

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, and

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departments of the club. Also the handball and

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sections are of historic significance.

UEFA Champions League

Record by country of opposition

*''Correct as of 5 July 2010'' P – Played; W – Won; D – Drawn; L – Lost

Naming history

* 1912 – Csepeli TK * 1932 – Csepel FC * 1937 – Weisz-Manfréd FC Csepel * 1944 – Csepel SC * 1947 – Csepeli Mukás TE * 1950 – Csepeli Vasas * 1958 – Csepeli SC * 1993 – Csepel SC-Kordax * 1996 – Csepel SC * 2004 – Csepel FC

The Csepel SC basketball department

The basketball department of Csepel SC had its glory days at the decades of '70s and '80s where it won all its domestic titles and participated almost every year in the European competitions.

Honours

Total Titles: 8

Domestic competitions

* Hungarian Championship **Winners (3): 1972, 1973, 1989 *

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**Winners (5): 1971, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1985

Important athletes

The club has bred Olympic champions including

András Balczó András Balczó (born 16 August 1938) is a retired Hungarian modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1960, 1968 and 1972 Olympics in the individual and team events and won three gold and two silver medal; he missed only one medal, finishing four ...

, Tibor Berczelly, Aladár Gerevich, Károly Fatér, and

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. * Laszlo Klauz,

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, 1980s, runner-up at the 1989 world championship (Greco-Roman, super-heavyweight), eight national championships. *

György Kolonics György "Kolo" Kolonics (4 June 1972 – 15 July 2008) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who won two gold and two bronze medals at four Summer Olympics. He also won a record fifteen gold medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. He die ...

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, 1991 – 2007, Two Olympic gold and two bronze in C2 and C1 with György Kozmann and Csaba Horváth, fifteen gold medals at World Championships. * Ferenc Németh,

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, 1954-1960s, Two gold medals (individual and team) at the 1960 Olympics. * György Pásztor, ice hockey player and Officer of the

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References

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