Ferenc Ilyés (born 20 December 1981) is a retired Hungarian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player.

Career

Club

Born in

Odorheiu Secuiesc Odorheiu Secuiesc (; , ; ) is the second largest municipality in Harghita County, Transylvania, Romania. In its short form, it is also known as ''Odorhei'' in Romanian and ''Udvarhely'' in Hungarian. The Hungarian name of the town "Udvarhely" mean ...

into an ethnic Hungarian family, Ilyés started to play handball for his hometown club. He was spotted by the scouts of

SC Pick Szeged SC Pick Szeged is a Hungary, Hungarian professional handball club from Szeged, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball), K&H férfi kézilabda liga and the EHF Champions League. The current name of the club is OTP Bank - Pick Szege ...

, and the talented left back signed a contract with the Tisza-side team in 2000. His playing minutes were limited in the early times, so he moved to Makói KC on loan to get more experience. He returned to Szeged as a more mature player and immediately became a regular team member.He played in Szeged until 2007, when he switched to domestic rivals MKB Veszprém KC. With them he has won the

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in 2008. After his contract ran out in 2009, he moved to

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outfit

TBV Lemgo TBV Lemgo is a handball club from Lemgo, Germany, and is competing in the Handball-Bundesliga. History The ascent to one of the best German handball clubs was slow but steady. In the year the Bundesliga was founded, the club was still in the O ...

on a two-year deal. He took the

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title with the German team in 2010, after beating Kadetten Schaffhausen in the finals. On 14 January 2011 it was announced that Ilyés signed a three-year contract with his former club, Veszprém, and will re-join the record champions in the summer. However, a year later he was certified for the Polish team

Wisła Płock Wisła Płock Spółka Akcyjna (Wisła Płock S.A.), commonly referred to as Wisła Płock (), is a Polish professional football club based in Płock, Masovian Voivodeship. They will compete in the Ekstraklasa in the 2025–26 season after wi ...

. From the 2013/14 season, he played again in the colors of

, with which he won the EHF Cup in 2014. Joined the Grundfos Tatabánya KC in the summer of 2016. He retired from Grundfos Tatabánya KC in the summer of 2021 and became manager of the club. Grundfos Tatabánya KC retired the 18th field number of Ilyés.

International

He made his debut in the Hungarian national team on 27 December 2003 against the

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. His first major tournament was the 2004 European Championship in

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. He participated on another five

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(2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) and was also present on four

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(2007, 2009, 2011, 2019). His best result on international level is a fourth place, which he achieved at the

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and at the

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. He was the captain of national team between 2011 and 2019.

Personal life

His sister is the former international handball player

Annamária Ilyés Annamária Ilyés (; born 9 July 1980) is a former Hungarian-Romanian international handballer. Career Club Born in Odorheiu Secuiesc in Socialist Republic of Romania, Communist Romania into an Hungarians in Romania, ethnic Hungarian family, ...

; their mother Magdalena Mikloș represented Romania in the same sport.

Honours

Club

;Pick Szeged *

** :

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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 ...

** : 2007 ** : 2002,

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

, 2004, 2005, 2006,

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

** : 2001 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

** : 2006 ** : 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2014,

;MKB Veszprém KC *

** : 2008 * EHF Champions Trophy ** : 2008 *

** :

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

** : 2009,

** : 2008 ;TBV Lemgo *

** :

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

;Wisła Płock * Superliga ** : 2013 *

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** : 2013 ;Grundfos Tatabánya KC *

**:

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

** :

Individual

* Golden Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012) * Hungarian Best Defensive Player Of The Year: 2008, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2018

References

External links

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Ferenc Ilyés player profile on MKB Veszprém official websiteFerenc Ilyés career statistics at Worldhandball
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ilyes, Ferenc 1981 births Living people Sportspeople from Odorheiu Secuiesc Hungarian male handball players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Székely people SC Pick Szeged players Expatriate handball players in Poland Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Handball-Bundesliga players Veszprém KC players Wisła Płock (handball) players Tatabánya KC players Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Romanian male handball players 21st-century Romanian sportsmen 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen