Sára Pusztai

Sára Pusztai
Sára Pusztai of Beşiktaş (2024)
Personal information
Date of birth (2001-11-16) 16 November 2001 (age 23)[1]
Place of birth Debrecen, Hungary
Position(s) Midfielder[1]
Team information
Current team
 Oud-Heverlee Leuven
Youth career
2010–2012 Püspökladányi LE
2012–2014 Loki Focisuli Debrecen KSE
2014–2016 Ferencváros
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Ferencváros 3 (0)
2017 →Kóka FNLA 11 (1)
2017–2023 Ferencváros 62 (16)
2024 Beşiktaş 11 (4)
2024– Oud-Heverlee Leuven
International career‡
2016–2018 Hungary U17 9 (7)
2018–2019 Hungary U19 12 (3)
2019– Hungary 21 (7)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 August 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 29 October 2024

Sára Pusztai[2] (born 16 November 2001) is a Hungarian women's football midfielder who plays for Oud-Heverlee Leuven in the Belgian Super League, and the Hungary women's national team.[3][4]

Club career

Hungary

Pusztai started her career at Loki Focisuli in Debrecen, and first participated in futsal competitions with boys and then with girls. She continued playing futsal with the Ferencváros, but she also focused on big-field football and validated her talent in age group championships. In the 2015-16 U17 championship, she scored 17 goals, and took a silver medal in 19 games. Thanks to her outstanding performance, she was able to continue training in the senior team the following season. At the age of 15 years and three days, she made her debut in the top flight on 19 November 19 2016 against Újpest FC in the 2016–17 season.[5]

She started her next season as a loan player at Kóka FNLA, where she also scored her first top-flight goal. After eleven games,her parent club called her back, and they expected her to be a regular player for the rest of the season. One year later, she played an important role in her team's championship title, and started as a starter in her club's 2019–20 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying round matches against Slovan Bratislava from Slovakia,[6] Anenii Noi from Moldova,[7] and Spartak Subotica from Serbia.[8] In the 2020–21 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds, she contributed two goals to a 6–1 success against Racing Union Luxembourg,[9] however, the defeat against Pomurje from Slovenia marked the end of the qualifiers for Ferencváros.[10] She appeared in the 2021–22 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds aginst Czarni Sosnowiec from Poland,[11] and Vllaznia from Albania.[12] At the 2023–24 UEFA Women's Champions League qualifying rounds, she played against Kiryat Gat from Israel,[13] and Spartak Myjava from Slovakia, where she scored one goal.[14]

Turkey

Mid January 2024, she moved to Turkey, and joined the Istanbul-based club Beşiktaş to play in the second half of the 2023-24 Super League season.[15] On 20 February 2024, she suffered rupture of muscle bundles that caused her to stay away one month from the pitch.[16] She scoored four goals in eleven matches played. By August 2024, she left Turkey for Belgium.[15]

Belgium

On 23 July 2024, Pusztai was announced at OH Leuven, signing a one-year contract to play in the 2024–25 Belgian Super League.[17][16]

International career

Hungary U17

Pusztai played in the national U17 team at the UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship qualification of 2017, scoring one goal each against Azerbaijan,[18] and Serbia,[19] as well as of 2018, scoring one goal against Bulgaria.[20]

Hungary U19

She was admitted to the national U19 team for the UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship matches. She played at the 2019 qualification, scoring one goal each against Moldova,[21] North Macedonia ,[22] and Serbia.[23] At the 2020 qualification, she scored two goals each against Turkey,[24] and Kosovo.[25]

Hungary

As a member of national team, Pusztai took part at the [[2020 Turkish Women's Cup took part at the 2020 Turkish Women's Cup, where her team becam the runner-up.[26] She was part of the national team, which ranked fourth at the 2023 Cyprus Women's Cup.[27]

Since 2019, she has appeared in the national team 21 times and scored 7 goals.

International goals

No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 5 September 2022 Victoria Stadium, Gibraltar  Gibraltar 9–0 12–0 Friendly
2. 7 October 2022 Letná Stadion, Zlín, Czech Republic  Czech Republic 2–2 3–3
3. 3–2

Honours

Clıb

Hungarian Women's National Championship
Ferencváros
Chanpions (4): 2018–19, 2020–21,[28] 2021–22, 2022–23
Runners-up (2): 2016–17, 2017–18
Hungarian Women's Cup
Ferencváros
Champions (4): 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021

International

Hungary women's national football team
Turkish Women's Cup
Runners-up (1): 2020

References

  1. ^ a b Sára Pusztai at Soccerway. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  2. ^ "PUSZTAI SÁRA" (in Hungarian). MLSZ adatbank. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ Sára Pusztai – UEFA competition record (archive)
  4. ^ "Sára Pusztai". Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
  5. ^ "JET-SOL Liga Női NB I 12. forduló" (in Hungarian). AdatBank. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
  6. ^ "Slovan Bratislava (SVK) 1-3 Ferencváros (HUN)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 2-0 Anenii Noi (MDA)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 10 August 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  8. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 2-2 Spartak Subotica (SRB)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  9. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 6-1 Racing Union (LUX)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  10. ^ "ŽNK Mura (SVN) 4-1 Ferencváros (HUN)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 18 November 2020. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  11. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 2-1 Czarni (POL)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 17 August 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  12. ^ "Vllaznia (ALB 0-0 (3-1p) Ferencváros (HUN)". UEfa Women's Champions League. 20 August 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  13. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 2-2 (1-3p) Qiryat Gat (ISR)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 6 September 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  14. ^ "Ferencváros (HUN) 7-0 Spartak Myjav (SVK)". UEFA Women's Champions League. 9 September 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  15. ^ a b "Sara Pusztai" (in Turkish). Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  16. ^ a b "Sara Pusztai". Soccer Donna. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  17. ^ "Sára Pusztai tekent bij OH Leuven Women". ohleuven.com.
  18. ^ "Azerbaijan 0-3 Hungary". UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship. 8 October 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  19. ^ "Hungary 1-9 Serbia". UEFA Women's U-17 Championship. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  20. ^ "Bulgaria 0-5 Hungary". UEFA Women's U-17 Championship. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  21. ^ "Moldova 0-6 Hungarı". UEFA Women's U-19 Championship. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  22. ^ "Hungary 9-0 North Macedonia". UEFA Women's U-19 Championship. 6 October 2018. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  23. ^ "1-1 Hungary". UEFA Women's U-19 Championship. 9 April 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  24. ^ "Turkey 0-2 Hungary". UEFA Women's U-19 Championship. 2 October 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  25. ^ "Hungary 6-1 Kosovo". UEFA Women's U-19 Championship. 5 October 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  26. ^ "Törökországi tornával kezdi az évet a női A-válogatott" (in Hungarian). Válogatottak. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  27. ^ "Női A-válogatott: a románok ellen kezdjük a Ciprus Kupát" (in Hungarian). Válogatottak. 15 February 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  28. ^ "Női NB I: szoros mérkőzésen nyert, és bajnok a Ferencváros". Nemzeti Sport (in Hungarian). 26 May 2021. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
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