Gergő Fazekas (born 31 October 2003) is a Hungarian

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player who plays for

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and the Hungary national team.

Career

Club

In the 2018/19 season, Gergő played for the first time in the second division in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. He was not even 15 years old when he made his debut. In his first senior season, he scored 26 goals in 10 games. In 2020, when the league was interrupted due to the

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, Gergő was the second best scorer of his team leading the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B with 77 goals in 15 matches. They were promoted to the top flight for the following season, where, as his team's top scorer, he scored 125 goals in 23 matches for the association that finished in seventh place in

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. In addition, they finished fourth in the

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. In 2022, the team reached the final of the

, but were defeated there by

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. In November 2021, it was announced that he would continue his career at

from the summer of 2022. They signed a 4-year contract with him. For the first two years of his contract, he is loaned to Polish side

. In Plock in the summer of 2022, during the preparation, he suffered a serious shoulder injury. He had surgery, then made his comeback in February 2023 after 6 months of rehabilitation. One of Gergő's most memorable matches of the 2023/24 season in the

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is the group match against

, in which he scored seven goals from seven shots, taking a leading role in

's 37-30 victory. In November 2024,

bought him from the

team and signed a contract with him until 2029.

National team

He was 9th with the Hungarian team at the 2021 Youth European Championship. He was called up to the Hungary national team for the first time in October 2021 by the then national team head coach

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. He was included in the large squad of the

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, but in the end he did not become a member of the narrow squad. On March 19, 2022, he made his international debut in the national team, (selected by Chema Rodríguez) in

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against

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. He participated in the 2023 Junior World Championship, where Hungary won the silver medal. He also participated in the

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as a member of the

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. (5th place, 8 matches / 18 goals). He also participated in the

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, where the Hungarian team finished 10th (5 matches / 10 goals). He also participated in the

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as a member of the

. (8th place, 7 matches / 14 goals).

Personal life

His father,

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, is a former handball player who played in the Hungary national team. His brother,

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, is also a professional handball player who plays as a left back.

Honours

National team

* Junior World Championship: ** :

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Club

;Veszprém KKFT Felsőörs *

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**: 2022 ;Wisła Płock *

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: **: 2024, 2025 **: 2023 *

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**: 2023, 2024 **: 2025 *

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** : 2024

Individual

* Hungarian Adolescent Handballer of the Year: 2019 * Hungarian Youth Handball Player of the Year: 2021

References

External links

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at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fazekas, Gergő 2003 births Hungarian male handball players Living people Handball players from Budapest Handball players from Veszprém County Expatriate handball players in Poland Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Wisła Płock (handball) players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Hungarian expatriate handball players Veszprém KC players 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen