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 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 ...

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 c ...

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

1920 German football championship The 1920 German football championship, the 13th edition of the competition, was won by 1. FC Nürnberg, defeating SpVgg Fürth 2–0 in the final. It was the first edition of the championship after the First World War and was staged six years af ...

. Next he played three seasons with

Eintracht Frankfurt Eintracht Frankfurt e.V. () is a German professional sports club based in Frankfurt, Hesse. It is best known for its football club, which was founded on 8 March 1899. The club currently plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of the German footb ...

. He also played with German sides

FC Wacker München FC Wacker München is a German association football club of about 200 members based in the Sendling borough of Munich, Bavaria. At their zenith in the 1920s the ''Blue Stars'' twice reached the semi-finals of the German Championship. After Worl ...

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 Fußball ...

, Planitzer SC and Polish side

Ruch Chorzów Ruch Chorzów () is a Polish professional association football, football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. It is one of the most successful football teams in Poland, having won fourteen List of Polish football champions, Polish Championship ...

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International career

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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 (, ), 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 ...

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

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Southern German championship The Southern German football championship () was the highest association football competition in the southern Germany, established in 1898. The competition was disbanded in 1933 with the rise of the Nazis to power. While no senior Southern German ...

** 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

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