Pál Fischer (born 29 January 1966 in

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) is a Hungarian retired

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player.

Career

After playing initially with

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 ...

between 1984 and 1991. Fischer managed to be Hungarian national champion and

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top scorer in 1992, a year after returning from a year-long loan at

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where he was already Dutch

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champion in 1990. After this successful period he moved to

BFC Siófok Bodajk FC Siófok, generally shortened to BFC Siófok, is a Hungarian football club based in Siófok, a small town on the shores of Lake Balaton. The club was founded in 1921 as ''Siófok SE''. The word ''Bodajk'' in the club's name stems from ...

but after a year he signed with Kispest Honvéd where he was Hungarian champion again in 1993. Afterwards he returned to BFC Siofók in 1993, joined Soproni LC in 1994 before moving to

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in 1995 where he settled for two seasons. In 1997, he emigrated again, this time to play with

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club

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. After one season in

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he returned to Hungary and played with

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, III. Kerületi TUE and Magyargéc before retiring in 2003.

National team

He was part of the Hungary team that participated in the

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. Fischer was part of the Hungarian national team and played a total of 19 matches from 1988 until 1992.

Honours

Club

;Ajax *

: 1989–90 ; Ferencváros *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: 1990–91 ;Honvéd *

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: 1992–93

Individual

top goalscorer: 1991–92 (16 goals, together with Ferenc Orosz)

External links

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