Budapesti Honvéd SE is a basketball club based in

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. With 33 Hungarian Championships and 17 Hungarian Cups won from the 1950s to the 1990s, it is the most successful team in the Hungarian national basketball league. The club was relegated from the 1st division in 2001, but continued as an amateur club in the 3rd division. Between 2004 and 2022 they have played in the 2nd division.

History

The team was founded in 1950. In their first season they finished 3rd (with equal points as the champions, MAFC, and the runner-up, Vasas). Over the following 18 seasons they won 17 championships (in 1956 they finished unbeaten as runner-up because of the

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). From 1951 to 1960 they lost only one match, going unbeaten from 18 October 1954 to 6 October 1960. Between 1970 and 1975 they won two more championships, but between 1976 and 1986 they dominated again, winning every championship during this period. In the next 6 seasons they finished once as runner-up and twice in 3rd place. In 1992, the third-placed team ''Budapesti Honvéd'' merged with the fourth-placed team ''Tungsram'' and they once again dominated the championship: in the next five seasons they won four championships (two as ''Danone Honvéd'' for sponsorship reasons). In 1998 they finished as runner-up as the last Budapest-based club to win a medal in the Hungarian basketball league. In 1999 and 2000 they finished in 10th place. In 2001 they finished 11th in the regular season. Subsequently they were relegated in the playout. In the FIBA European Champions Cup they finished 3rd in

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and played in the quarter-finals in 1958–59. Thereafter they were less successful. Five Honvéd-players were on the runner-up national team in the EuroBasket 1953 and on the winning team in the

EuroBasket 1955 The 1955 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1955, was the ninth FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA. Eighteen national teams affiliated with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) enter ...

Honors

* Hungarian Championship: 33 **''Winners'': 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1992–93, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1996–97. **''Runners-up'': 1956, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1986–87, 1995–96, 1997–98. **''3rd place'': 1951, 1988–89, 1991–92. *

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: 17 **''Winners'': 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1991. **''Runners-up'': 1965, 1970, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1985, 1990, 1996, 1997. **''3rd place'': 1952, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1995.

Current players

Notable players

* Tibor Remai *

János Simon János Simon (; 1 March 1929 – 31 October 2010) was a Hungarian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Budapest-Budafok. Simon was part of the Hungarian basketball team, whi ...

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Tibor Czinkán Tibor Czinkán (10 August 1929 – 20 December 2013) was a Hungarian basketball player who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially kn ...

* László Hódi * Kornél Dávid *

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* Tómas Holton

External links

*
Fibaeurope.com, 1991–93

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