Szombathelyi Haladás (), is a Hungarian football club based in

Szombathely Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...

. ''Haladás'' is the Hungarian word for ''progress''. The club, which was founded in 1919, plays its home games at Rohonci úti Stadion which has a capacity of 9,500 (5,430 seats). The club colours are green and white. Haladás reached the

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final in the years 1975, 1993 and 2002. Since its first promotion in 1936 the club has spent 51 seasons in the first division of the Hungarian league, the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (NB I).

History

The yoyo years

Since 1919 the club have been famous for their yoyo between the Hungarian First Division and the Hungarian Second Division. The club were unable to strengthen their stay in the first league which resulted a continuous yoyo effect.

The 2000s

In the 2001–02 season of the

Haladás played in the final against

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. The club lost 2–1 after extra time. In January 2002 Haladás appointed Lázár Szentes as the new coach of the club. In the 2001–02 season Haladás was facing relegation problems. In August 2003

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resigned as coach of the club. In October 2003 former

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championship-winner coach

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was appointed as the coach of the club. In the 2006–07 season of the Hungarian Second Division the club missed out on promotion to the first division because of an 11 points deduction for the use of ineligible players. BFC Siófok was promoted in the place of Haladás. In the 2008 Haladás won the Hungarian Second Division which resulted the promotion of the club to the first division. In 2008 Haladás played with

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a pre-season friendly match in

. The match finished 1–1. In the 2008–09 season Haladás reached the best rank ever in the history of the team. The club won the bronze medal and got the right to start the qualification rounds in the

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. In the Europa League 2009–10 season Haladás played against

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in the first round. The first leg finished 1–0 thanks to

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's goal in the 79th minute. In the second leg the result was 2–1 to Irtysh, which meant that Haladás could play in the second round. In the second round Haladás played the Swedish club

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. In the first leg Haladás lost 3–0, while at home. During the second leg, Haladás drew with Elfsborg which caused them to be knocked out of the tournament.

2010s

Szombathely were eliminated from the round of 16 of the 2018–19 Magyar Kupa by Mezőkövesd SE on 0–1 aggregate. In the

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season Haladás finished 12th and they were relegated to the

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to compete in the 2019–20 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season.

2020s

The 2019–20 Nemzeti Bajnokság II was abandoned due to the

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. Haladás finished the season on the 17th place thus avoiding relegation to the

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Colours, badge, and nicknames

The colours of the club are green and white. This combination is very common in

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since

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Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of t ...

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have the same colour combination.

Manufacturers and shirt sponsors

The following table shows in detail Szombathelyi Haladás kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:

Stadium

Szombathelyi Haladás play their home matches at the Rohonci úti Stadion situated in

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. The capacity of the old stadium was 9,500. It was built in 1923 and it was demolished in 2015. It hosted the

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events for the

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as the

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is too small. Currently Haladás play their home matches in Sopron. On 8 November 2017, the Haladás Sportkomplexum was opened. The first official match was played between Haladás and

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in the 2017-18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season.

Honours

** Winners (10): 1938–39, 1941–42, 1944–45, 1961–62, 1972–73, 1980–81, 1990–91, 1992–93, 1994–95, 2007–08 ** Runners-up (1): 2002–03 *

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** Runners-up (3): 1974–75,

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, 2001–02

Players

''As of 5 August, 2022.''

In European football

Managers

* István Mészáros (1942–43) * Károly Soós (1947–48, 1948–50) * Iuliu Bodola (1951–53) * József Albert (1966) and (1969) * László Sárosi (1974–79) *

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(01/07/1987–30/06/1988) * László Dajka (1998–99) * Lázár Szentes (03/01/2002–11/06/2002) * Róbert Glázer (20/06/2002–24/04/2003) *

(29/03/2003–26/08/2003) *

(2003–04) * Tamás Artner (08/07/2005–21/06/2007) *

Aurél Csertői Aurél Csertői (born 25 September 1965 in Győr) is a Hungarian football player and manager. Coaching career FC Fehérvár (Videoton FC) (2004-2006) Csertői won a bronze medal in the Hungarian National Championship I 2005-06 season. ...

(21/06/2007–15/09/2009) *

Antal Róth Antal Róth (born 14 September 1960 in Komló Komló (, german: Kumlau, hr, Komlov) is a town in Baranya county, Hungary. The name of the settlement is derived from the local crop of hops (komló), an ingredient of beer. By the 18th century a ...

(16/09/2009–23/07/2010) *

(23/07/2010–16/10/2010) *

Zoltán Aczél Zoltán Aczél (born 13 May 1967) is Hungarian football manager and a former player who played as a defender. He is the manager of III. Kerületi. His previous clubs include Hungarian football clubs such as Újpest FC, BFC Siófok, Vác-� ...

(16/10/2010–14/12/2011) * Tamás Artner (19/12/2011–17/10/2014) * Lázár Szentes (17/10/2014–20/04/2015) * Attila Kuttor (21/04/2015–05/05/2015) * Géza Mészöly (05/05/2015–30/08/2017) * Bálint Pacsi (30/08/2017-12/11/2017) *

Michal Hipp Michal Hipp (born 13 March 1963) is a Slovak football manager and a former player. Playing career Hipp began his football career in his native village Horná Kráľová. When he was twelve years old, he started playing in the youth team and th ...

(13/11/2017–15/09/2018) * Ferenc Horváth (27/09/2018–30/06/2019) * Attila Supka (11/07/2019–29/10/2019) * Szilárd Desits (29/10/2019–30/12/2019) *

János Mátyus János Mátyus (born 20 December 1974) is a Hungarian former professional association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their ...

(30/12/2019–31/05/2021) * Szabolcs Németh (04/06/2021–)

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Szombathelyi Haladas Football clubs in Hungary Association football clubs established in 1919 1919 establishments in Hungary