Szombathelyi Haladás

Haladás

Full name	Szombathelyi Haladás
Nickname(s)	Hali
Founded	1919
Ground	Rohonci úti Stadion (under reconstruction)
Capacity	9,500
Chairman	Béla Illés
Manager	Géza Mészöly
League	NB I
2014–15	NB I, 14th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Szombathelyi Haladás [sombɒt.hɛji hɒlɒdaːʃ], is a Hungarian football club based in Szombathely. 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 Hungarian Cup 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 Hungarian Cup Haladás played in the final against Újpest. The club lost 2–1 after extra time. In January 2002 Haladás appointed Lázár Szentes as the new coach of the club.^[1] In the 2001–02 season Haladás was facing relegation problems.^[2] In August 2003 Lajos Détári resigned as coach of the club.^[3] In October 2003 former Zalaegerszeg championship-winner coach Péter Bozsik was appointed as the coach of the club.^[4] 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 Arsenal a pre-season friendly match in Szombathely. The match finished 1–1.^[5]

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 Europa League.

In the Europa League 2009-10 season Haladás played against Irtysh Pavlodar in the first round. The first leg finished 1–0 thanks to Krisztián Kenesei's goal in the 79th minute.^[6] In the second leg the result was 2–1 to Irtysh, which meant that Haladás could play in the second round.^[7] In the second round Haladás played the Swedish club Elfsborg. In the first leg Haladás lost 3–0,^[8] while at home. During the second leg, Haladás drew with Elfsborg which caused them to be knocked out of the tournament.^[9]

Colours, badge, and nicknames

The colours of the club are green and white. This combination is very common in Hungarian League since Ferencváros, Győr, Kaposvár, Paks have the same colour combination.

Manufacturers and shirt sponsors

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

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
−2008	Legea	Strabag
2008–2011		Contact Zrt.
2011–2012		Contact Marketing Zrt. / Sopron Bank
2012–2013		Contact Marketing Zrt.
2013–2014		—
2014–2015		AGS sport 23
2015–	adidas	Swietelsky

Stadiums and Facilities

Haladás play at the Rohonci Street Stadium situated in Szombathely, Hungary. Its capacity is 9,500 and it was built in 1923. It hosted the hammer throw events for the IAAF World Athletics Final as the Stade Louis II in Monaco is too small.

Players

As of 21 February 2016.^[10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Gábor Király (vice-captain) 3 DF Zoltán Fehér 4 DF Gábor Jánvári 6 DF Stef Wils 7 MF Gergő Gyürki 8 FW Ádám Dudás 10 FW Leandro Martínez 11 FW David Williams 14 MF Bálint Gaál 15 MF Bence Iszlai 17 MF Patrik Nagy 20 MF Thomas Wils 23 DF Szabolcs Schimmer 24 DF Zsolt Angyal

No. Position Player 25 MF Ante Batarelo 26 DF Márk Jagodics 27 MF Lóránt Kovács 31 MF Márió Németh 35 DF Predrag Bošnjak 44 GK Márton Gyurján 66 GK Dániel Rózsa 70 FW Roland Ugrai 77 FW Zoltán Medgyes 79 MF Péter Halmosi (captain) 80 MF Balázs Petró 89 FW Saša Popin 90 DF Máté Katona

Honours

• Hungarian League
  • Third place (1): 2008–09
• Hungarian Cup
  • Runners-up (3): 1974–75, 1992–93, 2001–02

Season results

Domestic													International		Manager
League										Cup	League Cup	Super Cup
No.	Season	MP	W	D	L	GF–GA	Dif.	Pts.	Pos.				Competition	Result
39.	1989-90	30	9	6	15	33-46	−13	33	15th				Did not qualify
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
40.	1991-92	30	7	8	15	27-42	−15	22	13th				Did not qualify
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
41.	1993-94	30	5	9	16	28-48	−20	19	15th				Did not qualify
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
42.	1995-96	30	8	8	14	30-48	−18	32	12th				Did not qualify
43.	1996-97	34	10	10	14	39-42	−3	40	10th				Did not qualify
44.	1997-98	34	9	9	16	38-47	−9	36	13th				Did not qualify
45.	1998-99	34	10	6	18	39-54	−15	36	14th				Did not qualify
46.	1999-00	32	8	8	16	37-53	−16	32	13th				Did not qualify
47.	2000-01	14	3	4	7	14-24	−10	13	7th				Did not qualify
48.	2001–02	38	9	13	16	48-71	−23	40	11th	R			Did not qualify
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
49.	2003–04	32	4	11	17	19–63	−44	23	12th				Did not qualify		Détári, Gujdár
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
50.	2008–09	30	16	5	9	44–29	+15	53	3rd	R16	G.S.		Did not qualify		Csertői
51.	2009–10	30	10	9	11	46–49	−3	39	8th	R16	G.S.		Europa League	2QR	Róth
52.	2010–11	30	11	8	11	42–36	+6	41	8th	R16	S.F.		Did not qualify		Róth, Csertői
53.	2011–12	30	9	11	10	39–37	+2	38	8th	R16	1st G.S.				Aczél, Artner
54.	2012–13	30	11	11	8	36–27	+9	44	8th	R32	G.S.				Artner
55.	2013–14	30	12	10	8	37–31	+6	46	6th	R16	R16
56.	2014–15	30	7	4	19	26–53	−27	25	14th						Artner, Szentes [11] ^1, Mészöly[12]
57.	2015–16	33	13	11	9	33–37	-4	50	5th						Mészöly
58.	2016–17	0	0	0	0	0-0	0	0	TBD						Mészöly
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Notes

• Note 1: Attila Kuttor as interim manager ^[13][14]

European Cup history

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1975–76	UEFA Cup Winners' Cup	1. Round		Valletta	7–0	1–1	8–1
		2. Round		SK Sturm Graz	1–1	0–2	1–3
1981–82	Mitropa Cup			NK Osijek	4–2	0–3
				AC Milan	0–1	0–2
				TJ Vítkovice	2–2	1–6
1988	UEFA Intertoto Cup	Group 5		BSC Young Boys	3–1	0–4
		Group 5		DAC Dunajská Streda	0–0	0–3
		Group 5		IFK Norrköping	0–1	0–0
2009–10	UEFA Europa League	1. Round		Irtysh Pavlodar	1–0	1–2	2–2(a)
		2. Round		Elfsborg	0–0	0–3	0–3

Managers

• Károly Soós (1947–48, 1948–50)
• Iuliu Bodola (1951–53)
• Dezső Novák (July 1, 1987 – June 30, 1988)
• László Dajka (1998–99)
• Lázár Szentes (Jan 3, 2002 – June 11, 2002)
• Róbert Glázer (June 20, 2002 – April 24, 2003)
• Lajos Détári (March 29, 2003 – Aug 26, 2003)
• Péter Bozsik (2003–04)
• Tamás Artner (08/07/2005–21/06/2007)
• Aurél Csertői (21/06/2007–15/09/2009)
• Antal Róth (16/09/2009–23/07/2010)
• Aurél Csertői (23/07/2010–16/10/2010)
• Zoltán Aczél (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–present)

References

1. "New coach at Haladás". UEFA. 2 January 2002.
2. "Hungary round-up: No joy for Haladás". UEFA. 10 May 2002.
3. "Détári takes leave of Haladás". UEFA. 27 August 2003.
4. "Bozsik takes Haladás reins". UEFA. 8 October 2003.
5. "Haladás waiting for bubble to burst". UEFA. 9 September 2008.
6. "Haladás 1–0 Irtysh". UEFA. 2 July 2009.
7. "Irtysh 2–1 Haladás". UEFA. 9 July 2009.
8. "Elfsborg 3–0 Haladás". UEFA. 16 July 2009.
9. "Haladás 0–0 Elfsborg". UEFA. 23 July 2009.
10. Szombathelyi Haladás 2015/16, vaol.hu
11. "Haladás: Szentes Lázár az új vezetőedző – hivatalos". Nemzeti Sport. 21 October 2014.
12. "Haladás: Mészöly az edző – pénzről szó se esett, Halmosiék maradnak". nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). 2015-05-05. Retrieved 2015-05-05.
13. "Haladás: Szentes távozott, Jagodics és Szekér tartotta az edzést". Nemzeti Sport. 20 April 2015.
14. . Nemzeti Sport. 21 April 2015 Horváth nem vállalta, Kuttor az ideiglenes edző http://www.nemzetisport.hu/labdarugo_nb_i/haladas-horvath-nem-vallalta-kuttor-az-ideiglenes-edzo-2408743title=Haladás: Horváth nem vállalta, Kuttor az ideiglenes edző Check |url= value (help). Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Official website (Hungarian)
• Szombathelyi Haladás on Facebook