Bálint Máté Vécsei (born 13 July 1993) is a Hungarian professional

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who plays as a

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for Hungarian club Paksi SE.

Club career

He started playing football at the Kazinczy Ferenc elementary school in

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. Since his father is a geography-physical education teacher, he immediately fell in love with football. Vécsei started his career in the Kazincbarcikai SC's youth team.

Budapest Honvéd

On 28 July 2008, Budapest Honvéd signed him. On 11 May 2011, he played his first

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match against Győri. In the 2012–13 season of the Hungarian League Vécsei played 28 matches and scored four goals.

Bologna

On 18 August 2015, he was signed by the

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club Bologna F.C. 1909. At the same time he was loaned to

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Lugano

On 13 July 2016, Vécsei joined Swiss club

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on a season-long loan deal. During his time at Lugano he provided a man of the match performance against FC Sion with two goals, in the 77th and 92nd minute.

Ferencváros

On 29 December 2019, he signed to Hungary with Ferencváros. Officially available to the club on 1 January 2020. On 16 June 2020, he became champion with Ferencváros by beating

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at the

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on the 30th match day of the

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season. On 5 May 2023, he won the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I with

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, after

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lost 1–0 to Honvéd at the Bozsik Aréna on the 30th matchday.

Vissel Kobe

On 2 September 2023, it was announced that Vécsei has joined Vissel Kobe and was given squad number 6. In November 2023, Vécsei became

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champion with Kobe. On 30 December 2023, it was officially announced that

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did not want to lengthen their contract with Vécsei.

Paks

On 14 May 2025, he won the

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with

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after beating

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4–3 on penalty shoot-out.

International career

On 27 March 2023, he scored his first goal against

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in a 3–0 victory for Hungary in the

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at the

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. In an interview with Bence Szabó, published in Sportrádió Hazafutás, he said that he wants to play at the

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Career statistics

Club

International

:''Scores and results list Hungary's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vécsei goal''.

Honours

Ferencvárosi TC *

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: 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22, 2022–23 *

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: 2021–22 Vissel Kobe *

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References

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