The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as
MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the
Hungarian Football Association
The Hungarian Football Federation (HFF) (, ) is the governing body of football and futsal in Hungary. It organizes the Hungarian league and the Hungary national team. The MLSZ is responsible for the Hungarian football league system, the men's an ...
'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the
Hungarian League Hungarian may refer to:
* Hungary, a country in Central Europe
* Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946
* Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary
* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the ...
.
Besides all of the professional clubs of Hungary numerous amateur sides take part every year. These have to qualify through local cup competitions.
The most successful participant in the Magyar Kupa has been
Ferencváros
Ferencváros (, ) is the 9th district of Budapest (), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
History
The developmen ...
with 24 wins, followed by local rivals
MTK with 12 cups. The current holder is
Paks
Paks is a small town in Tolna (county), Tolna county, in the south of Hungary, on the right bank of the Danube River, 100 km south of Budapest. Paks as a former agricultural settlement is now the home of the only Hungarian Paks Nuclear Pow ...
, having won their 1st title in 2024.
History
Although the first
Hungarian League Hungarian may refer to:
* Hungary, a country in Central Europe
* Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946
* Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary
* Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the ...
match was played in
1901
December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038.
Summary
Political and military
1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...
, the first Hungarian Cup match was played eight years later in
1910
Events
January
* January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.
* January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, t ...
between
MTK Budapest FC
Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club or shortly MTK is a professional Association football, football club based in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary. The club currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. The club's colours are blue ...
and
Budapesti TC
Budapesti Torna Club was a Hungarian sports club in Budapest and the first football club in the country. Its football team were the winners of the first two seasons of Nemzeti Bajnokság I, in 1901 and 1902.
History
The club was founded on 21 ...
. The first era of the Magyar Kupa was dominated by the same clubs as in the Hungarian League:
MTK Budapest FC
Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club or shortly MTK is a professional Association football, football club based in Józsefváros, Budapest, Hungary. The club currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. The club's colours are blue ...
and
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
. In the 1910s MTK won four trophies, while Ferencváros only one. However, in the 1920s Ferencváros won three other titles, whereas MTK two cups. The only club able to interrupt the
Ferencvárosi TC-MTK Budapest FC rivalry was
Kispesti AC in
1926
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.
In the 1930s, new clubs finally broke through to win the Hungarian Cup, and two of them were from outside Budapest. In
1930
Events
January
* January 15 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. This is the closest moon distance at in recent history, and the next one will be on J ...
Bocskai FC
Bocskai Football Club was a Hungarian football club from the town of Debrecen
Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, regio ...
and in
1934
Events
January–February
* January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established.
* January 15 – The 8.0 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake, Nepal–Bihar earthquake strik ...
Soroksár FC
Soroksár Futball Club was a Hungarian football club from the town of Pesterzsébet.
History
Soroksár Futball Club debuted in the 1932–33 season of the Hungarian League and finished twelfth.
Name Changes
*1911–1913: Soroksári Athle ...
. The traditional clubs (MTK and Ferencváros) won three trophies: Ferencváros in
1933
Events
January
* January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand.
* January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...
and
1935
Events
January
* January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims.
* January 12 – Amelia Earhart ...
, and MTK in
1932
Events January
* January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel.
* January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...
.
The 1940s were dominated by Ferencváros by winning the cup in a three consecutive seasons:
1941–42,
1942–43, and
1943–44. Ferencváros's dominance was interrupted by
Szolnoki MÁV FC
Szolnoki MÁV FC is a Hungarian football club, from the city of Szolnok. In 2010 it gained promotion to the National Championship.
Crest and colours
The colours of the club are blue and white.
Manufacturers and shirt sponsors
The following ...
by winning the
1940–41 season.
Due to the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 4 November 1956; ), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was an attempted countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the policies caused by ...
, the Magyar Kupa was held only three times in the 1950s. Three Budapest clubs could win in the 1950s:
Budapesti Bástya,
Budapesti Vasas SC
Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest.
Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...
, and
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
. The 1960s were dominated by
Rába ETO Győr by winning the cup in three consecutive seasons: 1965, 1966, and 1967. In
1969
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Újpesti Dózsa SC became cup winners for the first time after losing five finals.
The 1970s were dominated by Budapest clubs. Ferencváros won four times, Újpest won twice, and Vasas SC won once. However, the
1976–77 season was won by
Diósgyőri VTK
Diósgyőri Vasgyárak Testgyakorló Köre, more commonly Diósgyőri VTK () is a professional Association football, football club, part of the Hungarian sports club from Diósgyőr district of Miskolc. Founded in 1910 by the local working clas ...
. This was the first time when the cup finals was in a
round-robin tournament
A round-robin tournament or all-play-all tournament is a competition format in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & ...
.
In the 1980s,
Újpesti Dózsa SC won three trophies, while
Budapest Honvéd SE could lift the cup twice. In the 1990s
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
won the cup four times. In
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
Events January
* January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers.
* January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...
Debreceni VSC
Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a Hungarian professional football club based in Debrecen that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the first tier of Hungarian football. They are best known internationally for reaching the group stages of the U ...
won their first cup trophy.
In the early 2000s, the Magyar Kupa was dominated by Debrecen by winning three trophies in
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
,
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
,
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
. Debrecen's dominance was interrupted by Újpest in 2002, and Ferencváros in 2003, and 2004 while Honvéd could win the cup in 2007 and in 2009 Other non-Budapest cup winners were Videoton in 2006 and Sopron in 2005.
In the 2010s, the dominance of the non-Budapest clubs continued. Debrecen managed to clinch the cup twice in the 2011–12 and in the 2012–13 seasons while Kecskemét could lift the trophy in the 2010–11 season. However, Újpest surprisingly won the 2013–14 season while the rebuilt Ferencváros in 2014–15
season.
Austro-Hungarian Challenge Cup Finals
Magyar Kupa Finals
Notes:
*
Note 1: In 1912,
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
did not play and lost by
Walkover
John Baxter Taylor and William Robbins (athlete)">William Robbins to refuse to race in protest.
A walkover, also W.O. or w/o (originally two words: "walk over"), is awarded to the opposing team/player, etc., if there are no other players avail ...
.
*
Note 2: Final from 1956 held in 1958.
*
Note 3: Final from 1977 played in
Group-Format.
Statistics
Performances by club
Notes:
*
Note 4: Includes Ferencváros FC
*
Note 5: Includes MTK, MTK-VM, Hungária and Bástya.
*
Note 6: Includes Újpesti Dózsa and Újpesti TE.
*
Note 7: Includes Kispesti AC and Kispest-Honvéd.
*
Note 8: Includes Vasas ETO Gyõr and Rába Vasas ETO Gyõr.
*
Note 9: Includes Vasas SC, Budapesti Vasas SC
*
Note 10: Includes Diósgyőri MÁVAG SC
*
Note 11: Includes FC Fehérvár and Videoton FC.
*
Note 12: Includes Pécsi MFC.
*
Note 13: Includes Szolnoki MÁV SE
*
Note 14: A team from
Cluj-Napoca
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,
Romania
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.
Performances by county
''As of 15 May 2025''
Top scorers in the Final

The following football players scored at least three goals in the Magyar Kupa final. There have been only one player who scored four goals in one single match in the final of
1932–33,
József Takács
József Takács (30 June 1904 – 3 September 1983) was a Hungarian international footballer who earned 32 international caps between 1923 and 1933, scoring 26 goals. He was also selected in Hungary's squad for the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he ...
.
Four goals
*
József Takács
József Takács (30 June 1904 – 3 September 1983) was a Hungarian international footballer who earned 32 international caps between 1923 and 1933, scoring 26 goals. He was also selected in Hungary's squad for the 1924 Summer Olympics, but he ...
(
Ferencváros FC) (
1932–33)
Hat-trick
*
Vilmos Kohut
Vilmos "Willy" Kohut (17 July 1906 – 18 February 1986) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a striker for Ferencvárosi TC, French team Olympique Marseille and the Hungary national team. Kohut got 25 caps and 14 goals for the Hun ...
(
Ferencváros FC) (
1927–28)
*
Pál Teleki
Count Pál János Ede Teleki de Szék (1 November 1879 – 3 April 1941) was a Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1920 to 1921 and from 1939 to 1941. He was also an expert in geography, a uni ...
(
Bocskai FC
Bocskai Football Club was a Hungarian football club from the town of Debrecen
Debrecen ( ; ; ; ) is Hungary's cities of Hungary, second-largest city, after Budapest, the regional centre of the Northern Great Plain Regions of Hungary, regio ...
) (
1929–30)
*
Pál Zilahi
Pál is a Hungarian masculine given name, the Hungarian version of Paul. It may refer to:
* Pál Almásy (1818–1882), Hungarian lawyer and politician
* Pál Bedák (born 1985), Hungarian boxer
* Pál Benkő (1928–2019), Hungarian-American c ...
(
III. Kerületi TVE) (
1930–31)
*
György Sárosi
György Sárosi (; 5 August 1912 – 20 June 1993) was a Hungarian footballer. Sárosi was a complete footballer renowned for his versatility and technique among other things, and he played in several positions for Ferencváros and the Hungary ...
(
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
) (
1932–33)
*
Béla Várady
Béla Várady (12 April 1953 – 23 January 2014) was a Hungarian football forward who played for Hungary in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
Club career
A club legend with Vasas SC
Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest. ...
(
Vasas SC
Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest.
Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...
) (
1972–73
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)
*
József Horváth (
Újpesti Dózsa) (
1974–75)
*
János Görgei
János is a masculine Hungarian given name. It originates from the Hebrew name Johanan and is thus a variant of the English name John.
People
Notable people with the name include:
* János Aczél (mathematician) (1924–2020), Hungarian-Ca ...
(
Diósgyőri VTK
Diósgyőri Vasgyárak Testgyakorló Köre, more commonly Diósgyőri VTK () is a professional Association football, football club, part of the Hungarian sports club from Diósgyőr district of Miskolc. Founded in 1910 by the local working clas ...
) (
1976–77)
*
Péter Lipcsei
Péter Lipcsei (born 28 March 1972 in Kazincbarcika) is a Hungarian football manager and former professional player, who played as a midfielder.
International career
Lipcsei made his debut for the Hungary national team in 1991, and gained 58 ...
(
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...
) (
1994–95)
*
Dorge Kouemaha
Dorge Rostand Kouemaha (born 28 June 1983) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Kouemaha joined Greek side Aris in January 2005 from Victoria United Limbé as actual topscorer of the Cameroonian Leagu ...
(
Debreceni VSC
Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club is a Hungarian professional football club based in Debrecen that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the first tier of Hungarian football. They are best known internationally for reaching the group stages of the U ...
) (
2007–08)
*
Foxi Kethevoama (
Kecskeméti TE
Kecskeméti Testedző Egyesület, commonly known as Kecskeméti TE or simply Kecskemét, is a sports club based in Kecskemét, Hungary. It is most famous for its Association football, football section which competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II ...
) (
2010–11
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)
Venues

*In the list below are included all the stadiums, inclusive the stadiums from finals with 2 or 3 legs.
Referees in the Final
''As of 30 May 2017.''
See also
*
Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system.
Twelve ...
References
External links
Hungary - List of Cup Finals RSSSF.com
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Hungary
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