Péter Szabó (13 April 1899 – 21 September 1963) was a Hungarian

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manager and player.

Club career

Born in Budapest, Szabó played with MTK Budapest FC where he won three consecutive championships. In 1919 he moves abroad and joins Austrian side

Wiener AF Wiener AF or WAF was a football club which played in Austria. It dissolved in 2004. History The club was established at the end of the 1909–10 season after most of the first-team squad of Wiener AC (known as WAC) left the club to form a new cl ...

, but after making only one appearance in the 1919–20 Austrian football championship he, along his former MTK and national team teammate

Alfréd Schaffer Alfréd Schaffer (13 February 1893 – 30 August 1945) was a Hungarian international footballer. He is recorded as having played for a record number of clubs: 21 in a 15-year career which lasted from 1910 to 1925. Career Born in Budapest, he ...

sign with German side

1. FC Nürnberg 1. Fußball-Club Nürnberg Verein für Leibesübungen e. V., often called 1. FC Nürnberg (, en, 1. Football Club Nuremberg) or simply Nürnberg, is a German association football club in Nuremberg, Bavaria, who currently compete in the 2. Bund ...

. Szabó played a total of 43 games for Nurnberg and won the

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. Next he played three seasons with

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. He also played with German sides FC Wacker München,

Chemnitzer BC Chemnitzer BC was a German association football club playing in Chemnitz, Saxony. The club was established 2 December 1899 as ''Chemnitzer Sportclub Britannia'' and was a founding member of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußbal ...

, Planitzer SC and Polish side

Ruch Chorzów Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish association football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland: fourteen-time national champions, and three-time winners of the Polish Cup. Currently the team play ...

.Peter Szabo
at Worldfootball

International career

Péter Szabó made 12 appearances for the

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between 1916 and 1919.Peter Szabo
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Coaching career

Peter Szabó had a long coaching career that includes clubs from Turkey, Germany and Hungary.

Honours

MTK Budapest *

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 ...

**Champion: 1916–17, 1917–18, 1918–19 1. FC Nürnberg * German Championship ** Champion:

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* Southern German championship ** Champion: 1920 *

Kreisliga Nordbayern The Kreisliga Bayern (English: ''District league Bavaria'') was the highest association football league in the German Kingdom of Bavaria and, later, the state of Bavaria from 1909 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the introduction of the Bezi ...

**Champion: 1920 Eintracht Frankfurt *

Kreisliga Nordmain The Kreisliga Nordmain (English: ''District league North Main'') was the highest association football league in parts of the German state of Hesse and the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau from 1919 to 1923. The league was disbanded with the introd ...

** Champion: 1920–21 ** Runner-up: 1921–22 Chemnitzer BC * Mitteldeutscher Pokal ** Winner: 1927 1. FC Köln *

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**Runner-up: 1958–59

References

Sources

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Péter Szabó
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