Vasas SC (men's water polo)

Vasas Sport Club

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Founded	1945 (1945)
League	OB I
Based in	Budapest, Hungary
Arena	Komjádi Swimming Pool Capacity: 1,800
Colors
President	László Szabó
Head coach	László Földi
Website	vasassc.hu

Activ departments of Vasas
Football	Handball	Basketball (Men's)
Basketball (Women's)	Ice Hockey	Water Polo
Volleyball	Athletics	Swimming
Canoe/kayak	Boxing	Fencing
Tennis	Wrestling	Gymnastic
Ski	Aerobic	Chess

The Vasas SC water polo team is a department of the Budapest-based sports association Vasas SC. One of the most successful teams in the country, they have won the Hungarian Championship 17 times and the Hungarian Cup 15 times. The club also had major successes on continental level as they won the LEN Euroleague (formerly European Champions Cup), Europe's premier water polo competition two times and took the LEN Cup Winners' Cup title on three occasions as well.

Starting from the 2010–11 season, the club is officially known as TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA due to sponsorship reasons.

Naming history

• 1945–1949: Vasas SC
• 1950–1956: Budapesti Vasas (Bp. Vasas)
• 1957–1991: Vasas SC
• 1991–2002: Vasas-Plaket
• 2002–2004: Vasas-Plaket-Euroleasing
• 2004–2010: TEVA-VasasPlaket
• 2010–2012: TEVA-Vasas-UNIQA
• 2012–2013: TEVA-Vasas
• 2013–2014: LACTIV-VasasPlaket
• 2014–present: VasasPlaket

Honours

Domestic competitions

• Országos Bajnokság I

Winners (18) : 1947, 1949, 1953, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988–89, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2011–12

Runners-up (18) : 1945, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1984–85, 1989–90, 1991–92, 1993–94, 1994–95, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1997–98, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2010–11

• Magyar Kupa

Winners (15) : 1947, 1961, 1971, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1991–92, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1997, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2004, 2005, 2009

Runners-up (9) : 1975, 1985, 1992–93, 1994–95, 1996, 1999–00, 2002–03, 2006, 2008

European competitions

• LEN Champions League / European Cup

Winners (2) : 1979–80, 1984–85

• LEN Cup Winners' Cup

Winners (3) : 1985–86, 1994–95, 2001–02

Runners-up (1) : 2002–03

• LEN Super Cup / European Super Cup

Winners (1) : 1985

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2014–15 season

№	Player	Pos.
1	Botond Barabás	GK
	Máté Bóbis
	Gergely Burián
	Antun Goreta
	Tamás Gyárfás, Jr.
	Dávid Hőna
	Norbert Juhász-Szelei
	Kristóf Szeif Kiss
	Toni Németh
	Tamás Sedlmayer
	Ádám Steinmetz
	Bálint Takács
	Kristóf Várnai
	Zoltán Vereczkey
14	Bernát Tihanyi	GK
	Nikolas Lajkó	GK
Coach: László Földi

Technical staff

• Head Coach: László Földi
• Coach: Csaba Mátéfalvi
• Coach: György Kenéz
• Youth Coach: Lajos Pecz
• Youth Coach: Ákos Váradi
• Youth Coach: György Kenéz, Jr.
• Team Doctor: Attila Szűcs, MD

Squad changes for the 2014–15 season

In

• Tamás Gyárfás, Jr. (from OSC)
• Máté Bóbis (from Ferencváros)
• Bernát Tihanyi (from Pécsi VSK)
• Antun Goreta (from VK Jug)
• Norbert Juhász-Szelei (from Kaposvár)
• Nikolas Lajkó (from Kaposvár)
• Zoltán Vereczkey (from KSI SE)
• Kristóf Szeif Kiss (from UVSE)

Out

• Draško Brguljan (to OSC)
• Miklós Csapó (to Ferencváros)
• Gergely Katonás (to Ferencváros)
• Dániel Angyal (to Eger)
• Ádám Manhercz (to Szeged)
• Krisztián Manhercz (to Szeged)
• Viktor Bendes (to )
• Tibor Fazekas (to )

Recent seasons

Rankings in OB I

P.	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15
1					1																		1	1	1	1		1
2	2					2		2		2	2	2	2	2				2	2	2	2	2					2
3		3							3								3
4															4	4													4
5				5			5																							5
6			6
7
8																															8

In European competition

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1999-00	LEN Cup	Quarter Final	ÚVMK-Bau System Eger	8-4	7-6	15–10
		Semi Final	Conad Pescara	-	3-9	–
2000-01	LEN Cup	Quarter Final	C.N. Barcelona	6-5	7-7	13–12
		Semi Final	Mladost Zagreb	7-12	4-11	11–23
2001-02	LEN Cup Winners' Cup Winner	Quarter Final	SV Cannstatt	9-7	11-10	20–17
		Semi Final	NC Vouliagmeni	10-8	7-7	17–15
		Final	Mladost Zagreb	6-3	5-7	11–10
2002-03	LEN Cup Winners' Cup Runners-up	Quarter Final	Jadran Herceg Novi	5-5	5-4	10–9
		Semi Final	CN Sabadell	9-6	4-6	13–12
		Final	Posillipo Napoli	10-10	3-4	13–14
2003-04	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group B)	Olympiacos	8–8	8–4	1st
			Barceloneta	7–6	4–7
			Partizan	9–7	8–5
		Quarter Final	Honvéd	6-7	8-8	14–15
2004-05	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group A)	Jug Dubrovnik	8–8	10–12	2nd
			Olympic Nice	10–9	6–5
			Niš	11–6	7–6
		Quarter Final	Pro Recco	6-10	8-9	14–19
2005-06	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group B)	Jug Dubrovnik	10–6	9–13	2nd
			Marseille	12–10	9–13
			Olympiacos	9–9	8–7
		Quarter Final	Savona	6-5	16-18	22–23
2006-07	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group C)	Pro Recco	8–9	10–11	2nd
			Šturm 2002	13–9	11–10
			Eger	12–6	7–8
		Quarter Final	Jug Dubrovnik	11-10	7-9	18–19
2007-08	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group C)	Jug Dubrovnik	11–8	7–8	1st
			Honvéd	8–8	6–5
			Panionios	13–8	10–8
		Quarter Final	Primorac Kotor	6-7	8-6	14–13
		Semi Final (F4)	Jug Dubrovnik	6–11
		Bronze match (F4)	Mladost	8–6
2008-09	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group D)	Partizan	7–8	7–9	2nd
			Eger	11–10	9–7
			Marseille	16–6	10–6
		Quarter Final	Pro Recco	8-11	10-9	18–20
2009-10	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group B)	Jug Dubrovnik	11–8	11–11	3rd
			Panionios	14–7	10–11
			Primorac Kotor	5–8	7–9
2010-11	LEN Euroleague	Preliminary round (Group A)	Jadran Herceg Novi	8–12	10–11	2nd
			Primorac Kotor	7–6	9–8
			Szeged	11–10	9–9
		Main round (Group B)	Pro Recco	7–9	6–12	4th
			Mladost	8–9	7–8
			Primorje	12–12	6–13
2011-12	LEN Champions League	Preliminary round (Group C)	Partizan	10–10	5–9	2nd
			Eger	13–9	8–5
			Szeged	12–9	12–12
		Quarter Final	Jug Dubrovnik	16-9	8-12	24–21
		Semi Final (F4)	Pro Recco	5–12
		Bronze match (F4)	Mladost	7–11

Notable former players

• Jenő Brandi ( 1936 Berlin ) 45-49
• István Molnár ( 1936 Berlin ) 45-47
• István Szívós ( 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne ) 45-46, 49-56
• László Jeney ( 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne ) 45-55
• Mihály Bozsi ( 1936 Berlin ) 48
• Kálmán Markovits ( 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne ) 50-62
• Antal Bolvári ( 1952 Helsinki, 1956 Melbourne ) 62-63
• Péter Rusorán ( 1964 Tokyo ) 69-72
• Tamás Faragó ( 1976 Montreal ) 69-84
• Gábor Csapó ( 1976 Montreal ) 73-84
• György Kenéz ( 1976 Montreal ) 74-85
• Zoltán Kósz ( 2000 Sydney ) 76-97, 01-04
• Attila Vári ( 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens ) 94-02

• Tamás Varga ( 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing ) 94-96, 00-04
• Ádám Steinmetz ( 2004 Athens ) 00-08, 11-
• Bulcsú Székely ( 2000 Sydney ) 01-02
• Norbert Madaras ( 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing ) 01-04
• Dániel Varga ( 2008 Beijing ) 01-10
• Barnabás Steinmetz ( 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens ) 03-09, 10-12
• Tamás Kásás ( 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing ) 03-04
• Dénes Varga ( 2008 Beijing ) 05-10
• Norbert Hosnyánszky ( 2008 Beijing ) 06-07, 08-10
• Gábor Kis ( 2008 Beijing ) 08-10
• Gergely Kiss ( 2000 Sydney, 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing ) 10-12
• Miho Bošković ( 2012 London ) 10-12

Coaches

• Mihály Bozsi (1947 – 1956, 1962 – 1965)
• István Szívós (1957 – 1959)
• Dezső Gyarmati (1971 – 1972, 1988)
• Péter Rusorán (1973 – 1976, 1979 – 1981, 1983 – 1986)
• György Kenéz (1988 – 1990)
• Gábor Csapó (1992 – 1993)
• Tamás Faragó (1995 – 2000)
• József Somossy (2000 – 2003)
• Zoltán Kásás (2003 – 2004)
• László Földi (2004 – present)

External links

• Official website (Hungarian)
• Vasas SC on Facebook