FC Tatabánya is a Hungarian

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club based in

Tatabánya Tatabánya (; german: Totiserkolonie; sk, Banská Stará) is a City with county rights, city with county rights of 64,305 inhabitants in northwestern Hungary, in the Central Transdanubian region. It is the capital of Komárom-Esztergom County. L ...

. They play their home games at Stadion Gyula Grosics.

History

The ''Tatabányai Sport Klub'' was founded on February 6, 1910 by Ferenc Frei, a mining engineer. At this time several Hungarian towns outside of

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had formed football clubs –

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. The First World War weakened the team, but in the 1920s the team was still without a doubt the most popular in Tatabánya. Professionalism was introduced into the

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, but the team couldn't afford this, and stuck with amateur players. After the end of the Second World War in 1947 the team reached the first division. On 28 March 2017, Tatabánya were disqualified from the 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság III season.

European cup history

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Intertoto Cup

UEFA Cup

Selected former managers

* Károly Lakat 1957–1962 *

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1963 *

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1964–1965 *

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1966 * László Hári 1967–1968 *

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1968–1969 * Károly Lakat 1970–1974 *

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1974–1975 *

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1975 * Ede Moór 1975–1976 *

1977–1979 *

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1979–1980 * Károly Lakat 1980–1982 *

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1982–1984 * István Bacsó 1984–1985 * Károly Lakat 1985 * Miklós Temesvári 1985–1988 *

1988–1990 * Barnabás Tornyi 1990–1991 *

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1991–1992 *

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1992 * Ferenc Ebedli 1997–1998 *

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−1999 *

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1999–2001 * Ferenc Ebedli 2001 * László Kovács 2001– * József Török −2003 *

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2004 * Tibor Sisa 2004–2007 * Barnabás Tornyi 2007 * Ferenc Mészáros 2007 *

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2007 *

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and

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2008–2009 * P. László Nagy 2009–2011 *

2011–2012 *

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2012–2013 * P. László Nagy 2013 *

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2013–2014 * Gyula Plotár 2014 ''(caretaker)'' * Attila Miskei 2014–

External links

Club FC Tatabánya squad
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Official site
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Turul Ultrái Official site

Detailed international matches list

References

Tatabanya Tatabánya 1910 establishments in Hungary

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