Hungary national football team
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| Team colours
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| Current coach
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| Lothar Matthäus, 2004-
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| Most capped player
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| Ferenc Puskás: 84
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| First International
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Austria 5 - 0 Hungary
(Vienna, Austria 12 October, 1902)
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| Largest win
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Tsarist Russia 0 - 12 Hungary
(?, Russia; 14 July, 1912)
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Hungary 13 - 1 France
(Budapest, Hungary; 12 June, 1926)
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| Largest defeat
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Hungary 0 - 7 England
(Budapest, Hungary; 10 June, 1908)
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Germany 7 - 0 Hungary
(Köln, Germany; 6 April, 1941)
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| World Cup
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Finals appearances: 9 (First: 1934)
Best result: Runners-up 1938, 1954
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| European Championships
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Finals appearances: 2 (First: 1964)
Best result: 3rd place, 1964
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The Hungary national football team is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation. Hungary have reached the World Cup final twice, losing to Italy 4-2 in 1938 and 3-2 to West Germany in 1954, despite beating them 8-3 earlier in the competition.
The match between Austria and Hungary in Vienna in 1902 was the first international match played between two non-British European countries.
Hungary was the first team to beat England at home, famously winning 6-3 at Wembley in 1953. They beat England 7-1, this time in Budapest a year later, in 1954. This is still England's record defeat.
Hungary had a run of 29 matches unbeaten between 14 May 1950 and 4 July 1954, when they lost the World Cup final to Germany. This was a record for nearly 40 years, until Argentina put together a string of 31 unbeaten matches from 1991 to 1993.
Hungary won the Olympic gold medal three times, in 1952, 1964, and 1968. Today, Hungary are a lesser force and haven't qualified for a World Cup since 1986, or for the European Championships since 1972.
World Cup record
- 1930 - Did not enter
- 1934 - Quarter-finals
- 1938 - Runners up
- 1950 - Did not enter
- 1954 - Runners up
- 1958 - Round 1
- 1962 - Quarter-finals
- 1966 - Quarter-finals
- 1970 - Did not qualify
- 1974 - Did not qualify
- 1978 - Round 1
- 1982 - Round 1
- 1986 - Round 1
- 1990 - Did not qualify
- 1994 - Did not qualify
- 1998 - Did not qualify
- 2002 - Did not qualify
European Championship record
- 1960 - Did not qualify
- 1964 - Third place
- 1968 - Did not qualify
- 1972 - Fourth place
- 1976 - Did not qualify
- 1980 - Did not qualify
- 1984 - Did not qualify
- 1988 - Did not qualify
- 1992 - Did not qualify
- 1996 - Did not qualify
- 2000 - Did not qualify
- 2004 - Did not qualify
Famous players
