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 of 64,305 inhabitants in northwestern Hungary, in the Central Transdanubian region. It is the capital of Komárom-Esztergom County. Location The city is lo ...

. 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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Miskolc Miskolc ( , , ; Czech language, Czech and sk, Miškovec; german: Mischkolz; yi, script=Latn, Mishkoltz; ro, Mișcolț) is a city in northeastern Hungary, known for its heavy industry. With a population of 161,265 (1 Jan 2014) Miskolc is the ...

Győr Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia region, and – halfway between Budapest and Vienna – situated on one of ...

. 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 The 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság III is Hungary's third-level football competition. Three teams were relegated including Szigetszentmiklós, Dunaújváros PASE, and Ajka from the 2015–16 Nemzeti Bajnokság II. On 28 March 2017, Tatabánya we ...

season.

European cup history

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

UEFA Intertoto Cup

UEFA Cup

Selected former managers

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1957–1962 * Gyula Grosics 1963 * Gábor Kléber 1964–1965 *

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1966 * László Hári 1967–1968 *

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1968–1969 *

1970–1974 * József Gelei 1974–1975 * Tivadar Monostori 1975 * Ede Moór 1975–1976 * Tivadar Monostori 1977–1979 *

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1979–1980 *

1980–1982 * Jenő Dalnoki 1982–1984 * István Bacsó 1984–1985 *

1985 * Miklós Temesvári 1985–1988 *

1988–1990 * Barnabás Tornyi 1990–1991 * Gyula Rákosi 1991–1992 * Károly Csapó 1992 * Ferenc Ebedli 1997–1998 * Bálint Tóth −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 László Dajka 2008–2009 * P. László Nagy 2009–2011 *

2011–2012 * Aurél Csertői 2012–2013 * P. László Nagy 2013 * Péter Bozsik 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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