The Hungarian football league system is a series of connected leagues for club

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. This system has hierarchical format with

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between leagues at different levels.

History

The governing body of football in Hungary, the

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, was founded in 1901. The five founding clubs were

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Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros wa ...

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, and

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Present system

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