Egri FC is a Hungarian
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
club, based in
Eger
Eger ( , ; ; also known by other alternative names) is the county seat of Heves County, and the second largest city in Northern Hungary (after Miskolc). A city with county rights. Eger is best known for its castle, thermal baths, baroque build ...
. The club's colours are red and blue. They played five times in the
first league, however there were two years in the recent past (2003–05) when the city of Eger had no adult football team. The team was refounded in 2005 and they played in lower divisions.
In 2011, the club won the
Nemzeti Bajnokság III
Nemzeti Bajnokság III (''NBIII'', ''National Championship III'') is the third tier of Hungarian football (from the autumn of 1997 till the spring of 2005, NB III was the fourth tier, the third was NB II).
The tier contains 3 groups (west, cente ...
, so in the 2011–12 season they play in the
second league. In 2011–2012 Eger won the
Nemzeti Bajnokság II
NB II, currently known as the Merkantil Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the second tier of Hungarian football. At the end of the 2004–05 season, the tournament format was changed from one division of 14 teams to two divisions: ''Keleti ...
so they promoted to the first league.
Ownership
In 2013, 75% of the shares of the club were bought by
John P. Marshall.
Managers
* Antal Simon (June 2011 – Feb 13)
*
Ferenc Mészáros (March 2013 – May 13)
* Csaba Vojtekovszki (May 2013–)
External links
Egri FC fan site
Football clubs in Hungary
2005 establishments in Hungary
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