Mezőkövesdi Kézilabda Club is a Hungarian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

club from

Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesd is a town in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén county, Northern Hungary. It lies from Miskolc and from Eger. History The area has been inhabited since the Great Migration. It is likely that the first Hungarian settlement was formed here sh ...

, that played in the

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, "National Championship"), also known as NB I, is the top level of the Hungarian football league system. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga after its title sponsor OTP Bank. UEFA currently ranks the league 28th ...

, the top level championship in Hungary.

Crest, colours, supporters

Naming history

Kit manufacturers and Shirt sponsor

The following table shows in detail Mezőkövesdi Kézilabda Club kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:

Kits

Supporters and rivalries

The supporters of the club are based in

, in

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén ( hu, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye, ; sk, Boršodsko-abovsko-zemplínska) is an administrative county (Counties of Hungary, comitatus or ''megye)'' in north-eastern Hungary (commonly called "Northern Hungary"), on the bord ...

, Hungary. *Mezőkövesdi KC's arch-rival is the neighbouring club

Eger-Eszterházy SzSE Eger-Eszterházy SzSE (Hungarian: Eger-Eszterházy Szabadidő és Sportegyesület) currently known as QHB-Eger for sponsorship reasons, is a Hungarian handball club from Eger, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top level championship ...

and games between the clubs are considered as the " Bükkaljai derbi". *Mezőkövesdi KC's arch-rival is the neighbouring club

Gyöngyösi KK Gyöngyösi Kézilabda Klub is a Hungarian handball club from Gyöngyös, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top level championship in Hungary. The current name of the club is B, Braun Gyöngyös due to sponsorship reasons. Cres ...

and games between the clubs.

Sports Hall information

*Name: – Városi Sportcsarnok *City: –

*Capacity: – 850 *Address: – 3400 Mezőkövesd, Kavicsos tó út 9.

Management

Team

Current squad

:''Squad for the 2022–23 season''

Technical staff

* Head Coach: Péter Drizner * Masseur: Ágnes Póta Lázárné

Transfers

:''Transfers for the 2022–23 season'' ;Joining ;Leaving * Kristóf Csörgő (CB) to

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 ...

Previous Squads

Top Scorers

Honours

Recent seasons

*Seasons in ''

'': 9 *Seasons in '' Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B'': 7 *Seasons in ''

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 ...

'': 8

EHF ranking

Former club members

Notable former players

* Ádám Bajorhegyi * János Bécsi * László Fekete * Patrick Gyuris * Gábor Hajdú *

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* Károly Juhász * Attila Kotormán * Szilveszter Liszkai *

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* Péter Pallag * Gábor Pálos * István Rosta * Miklós Rosta *

Ákos Sándor Ákos is a Hungarian name. Today, it is mainly a masculine given name. It may refer to: Middle Ages * Ákos (clan), a medieval Hungarian clan ** Ákos (chronicler) (d. after 1273) ** Ernye Ákos (d. after 1275) Given name * Ákos Buzs� ...

* István Szepesi * Marko Vasić * Nikola Džono * Faruk Halilbegović * Stanko Stanković * Stanislav Nakhaenko * Artsiom Selvasiuk * Henrique Pedro Martins * Alencar Cassiano Rossoni * Rudolf Ćužić * Jure Kozina * Matija Pavlović *

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* Mate Volarević * Marko Vukić * Saeid Pourghasemi * Atsushi Mekaru * Filip Krivokapić * Mirko Vujovic * Aleksey Grigoriev * Dušan Bozoljac *

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* Goran Đukić * Stefan Ilić * Igor Milicevic * Milos Mojsilov * Petar Papić * Predrag Rodić * Darko Trivković * Nebojsa Vojinovic * Lukas Gamrat * Marian Kleis * Marek Kovácech * Michal Melus * Tomáš Szűcs

Former coaches

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mezokovesdi KC Handball clubs in Hungary Sport in Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County