Újpesti TE
Sports club in Budapest, Hungary
Újpesti TE Full name Újpesti Torna Egylet Nickname Lilák (Purples) Dózsa Short name UTE Founded 16 June 1885; 139 years ago (1885-06-16 ) Colours Purple and white Chairman István Őze Website Újpesti TE
Újpesti Torna Egylet (Újpesti TE or UTE) is a Hungarian sports society, based in Újpest , Budapest . The club, which was founded in 1885, includes sports sections that represent the club at ice hockey , men's water polo , women's volleyball, athletics, wrestling , judo , mud wrestling , flatwater canoeing/kayaking , karate , youth football, boxing , modern pentathlon , shooting , gymnastics , triathlon , swimming , and fencing . There is a leisure section and a section for the club's fans called 'circle of friends' (baráti kör).
The football team Újpest FC is also a part of the Újpesti TE family.
Departments
Team sports
Football:
Ice hockey:
Volleyball:
Curling
Individual sports
Athletics (since 1903)
Boxing (since 1926)
Canoeing (since 1951)
Gymnastics
Fencing (since 1922)
Footgolf
Judo
Karate
Modern pentathlon (since 1962)
Shooting
Swimming (since 1910)
Skating
Taekwondo (since 2005)
Triathlon (since 1991)
Wrestling
E-sports
Dissolved departments
Water polo:
Volleyball:
Handball:
men's handball
women's handball
Supporters and rivalries
Újpest supporters in the Ferenc Puskás Stadium on 25 May 2014
Supporters
Supporters of Újpest are mainly from the fourth district of Budapest , the eponymous Újpest . Due to the success in the 1970s, the club gained supporters from all over Budapest and the country.
Notable supporters
Rivalries
Ferencváros -Újpest derby at the Albert Stadion on 1 April 2011
Újpest are in rivalry with several teams from Budapest including Ferencváros , MTK Budapest , Budapest Honvéd and several provincial clubs such as Debrecen and Diósgyőr . Since Újpest have been the third most successful club of the Hungarian Football history by winning 20 Hungarian League titles and 9 Hungarian Cup titles and the most successful Hungarian club in the European football competitions in the 1970s every club in the Hungarian League wants to defeat them.
The rivalry with Ferencváros dates back to 1930s when Újpest won their first Hungarian League title. Since then the fixture between the two teams attracts the most spectators in the domestic league.[ 6] The matches between the two team often ends in violence which causes big trouble for the Hungarian football. The proposal of personal registration was refused by both clubs.
Honours
Active departments
Hungarian Championship [ 7]
Winners (20) : 1929–30 , 1930–31 , 1932–33 , 1934–35 , 1938–39 , 1945 , 1945–46 , 1946–47 , 1959–60 , 1969 , 1970 , 1970–71 , 1971–72 , 1972–73 , 1973–74 , 1974–75 , 1977–78 , 1978–79 , 1989–90 , 1997–98
Hungarian Second League :
Winners (2) : 1904, 1911–12
Hungarian Cup
Winners (11) : 1969 , 1970 , 1974–75 , 1981–82 , 1982–83 , 1986–87 , 1991–92 , 2001–02 , 2013–14 , 2017–18 , 2020–21
Hungarian Super Cup (defunct)
Winners (3): 1992, 2002, 2014
Ice hockey (men's)
Hungarian Championship :
Winners (13) : 1957–58, 1959–60, 1964–65, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1987–88
Hungarian Cup :
Winners (9) : 1964–65, 1965–66, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1984–85, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90
Peace Cup:
Winners (5) : 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962
Volleyball (women's)
Hungarian Championship
Winners (10): 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1989–90
Hungarian Cup
Winners (12): 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87
Inactive departments
Water polo (men's)
Hungarian Championship
Winners (26) (record): 1930 , 1931 , 1932 , 1933 , 1934 , 1935 , 1936 , 1937 , 1938 , 1939 , 1941 , 1942 , 1945 , 1946 , 1948 , 1950 , 1951 , 1952 , 1955 , 1960 , 1967 , 1985–86 , 1990–91 , 1992–93 , 1993–94 , 1994–95
Hungarian Cup
Winners (19): 1929, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1939, 1944, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1975, 1990–91, 1992–93
Volleyball (men's)
Hungarian Championship
Winners (13): 1955, 1957, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1989–90, 1990–91
Hungarian Cup
Winners (8): 1952, 1955, 1957, 1961–62, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1988–89
Handball (men's)
International honours
Olympic champions
István Barta , water polo
Olivér Halassy water polo
Endre Kabos fencing (sabre)
János Németh water polo
Mihály Bozsi , water polo
Károly Kárpáti , wrestling
György Kutasi water polo
Miklós Szilvásy , wrestling
Dezső Gyarmati , water polo
Dezső Lemhényi water polo
Miklós Martin water polo
György Vízvári water polo
János Urányi , canoe sprint
László Fábián , canoe sprint
Ágnes Keleti , gymnastics
Mihály Mayer , water polo
Imre Polyák , wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Paula Marosi , fencing (foil)
Ildikó Rejtő , fencing (foil)
Ferenc Bene , football
Zoltán Dömötör , water polo
Gyula Zsivótzky , athletics (hammer throw)
Antal Dunai , football
László Fazekas , football
László Nagy , football
Ernő Noskó , football
Tibor Cservenyák , water polo
László Sárosi , water polo
Norbert Növényi , wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Tamás Darnyi , swimming
Attila Mizsér , pentathlon
Bence Szabó , fencing (sabre)
László Csongrádi , fencing (sabre)
Péter Farkas , wrestling (Greco-Roman)
Kinga Czigány , canoe sprint
Éva Dónusz , canoe sprint
Erika Mészáros , canoe sprint
Krisztián Berki , gymnastics (pommel horse)
Danuta Kozák , canoe sprint
Sándor Tótka , canoe sprint
Presidents
List of the presidents of the Újpesti TE:[ 8]
References
External links
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