Péter Kovacsics (born 13 June 1994) is a Hungarian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player who plays for

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 ...

and the Hungary national team.

Career

Club

Péter spent his junior years at Csurgói KK, where he also made his debut in

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 ...

in the 2012/13 season. He scored 27 goals in 16 games. In the 2014/15 season, he played on loan at

Balatonfüredi KSE Balatonfüredi Kézilabda Sport Egyesület is a Hungarian handball club from Balatonfüred, that currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball), Nemzeti Bajnokság I. The team won promotion to the top division in 2007 and achieved th ...

, replacing Bendegúz Bóka, who was recovering from leg surgery. He scored 46 goals in 26 games. Here he made his debut in the

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, where he scored 5 goals. In 2015, he moved to Gyöngyösi KK. He transferred to

in the summer of 2018. In the 2022/23 season, he reached fourth place in the league and reached the

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

round of 16 with the team. He scored 35 goals in 15 matches in the

National team

He was 10th with the Hungarian team at the 2013 World Youth Championship and 9th at the 2014 Junior European Championship. He made his debut in the

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on November 4, 2020, in the Eurocup match against the

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: Hungary-Spain 32–29. (Péter did not score in the match). He was included in the large squad of the

2021 World Men's Handball Championship The 2021 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 27th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and held in Egypt from 13 to 31 January 2021. Starting with this edition, the World Championship was expanded from 24 teams to 32. I ...

, but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad. He was also a member of the

2022 European Men's Handball Championship The 2022 European Handball Federation, EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 15th edition of the tournament and the second to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted in two countries – Hungary and Slovakia – from 13 to 30 Janua ...

squad, but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad. He was a member of the traveling squad for the

2023 World Men's Handball Championship The 2023 World Men's Handball Championship, IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 28th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It was held in Poland and Sweden from 11 to 29 January 2023. Denmark men's national handba ...

for the first time in a world tournament, but he did not play in a single match at the World Championship. He was included in the large squad of the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship, but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad. He was included in the large squad of the

2025 World Men's Handball Championship The 2025 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 29th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It was held in Croatia, Denmark and Norway from 14 January to 2 February 2025. This edition marked the first time the world cha ...

, but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad.

Personal life

He has an older brother, Ferenc, he is also a professional handball player, playing on the same position, left wing. His older sister,

Anikó Kovacsics Anikó Cirjenics-Kovacsics (born 29 August 1991) is a retired Hungarian handballer who most recently played for Ferencvárosi TC and the Hungarian national team. She started to play at the young age of 10. She signed to Győri ETO KC in 2006 ...

also used to play handball representing Hungary on various international tournaments before her retirement was announced in 2024.

Honours

Club

;Csurgói KK *

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Magyar Kupa 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'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

**:

;Ferencvárosi TC *

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References

External links

Péter Kovacsics
at EHF
Péter Kovacsics
at MKSZ {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacsics, Péter Hungarian male handball players Living people 1994 births People from Nagyatád Sportspeople from Somogy County 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen