Budapesti Torna Club was a
Hungarian sports club
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in
Budapest
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and the first football club in the country. Its
football
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team were the winners of the first two seasons of
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system.
Twelve ...
, in 1901 and 1902.
History
The club was founded on 21 January 1897. It was the first official football club to be founded in Hungary, and would soon be followed by many others. On 18 September that year it played the first official match in Hungarian history, between two internal teams, the blue-white one and the red-white one, with the former winning 5–0.
On 31 October it played the first international match of a Hungarian club, when it played against Austria's
Vienna Cricket and Football Club in
Vienna
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, losing 2–0.
It was one of the founders of the Hungarian football leagues, the Nemzeti Najnokság, and the winner of its first two editions.
After 1925 the club played only in the amateur leagues and it was dissolved during season 1945–46.
Honours
*
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system.
Twelve ...
:
1901,
1902
*
Hungarian Cup Runner-up:
1909–10
Name changes
*1885–1945: Budapesti Torna Club
*1935: merger with Budapest SE
*?: exit from Budapest SE
Managers
*
Emil Rauchmaul (1930-1931)
References
External links
Profile
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Football clubs in Budapest
Defunct football clubs in Hungary
1885 establishments in Hungary
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