Kispest future hangs by a thread

No guarantees
Although the Budapest-based club sent their entry form to the Hungarian Professional League, regulations state that Kispest must show that they can guarantee at least 70 per cent of the their budget for next season, which they currently can not do. Club president László Koncz said: "We could not make enough money from nothing."

13 first division titles
Originally the team of the Hungarian army, Kispest have won the first division title on 13 occasions, as well as the Hungarian Cup five times and were considered one of the greatest teams in Hungary during their heyday of the 1950s when they won five of those 13 titles. However, with the European Champion Clubs' Cup not being initiated until 1955/56, their dominance at home was not extended abroad.

'Magnificent Magyars'
A large section of the great Hungarian national side of that decade, known as the 'Aranycsapat' or the 'Magnificent Magyars', also played for Kispest, including Ferenc Puskás, the nation's greatest-ever player, as well as Gyula Grosics, Gyula Lóránt, József Bozsik, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and László Budai.

Name change
The club, founded in 1909 and formerly known as Kispest AC (1909-49) and then Honvéd SE (1949-91), continued to produce a series of outstanding players such as Lajos Tichy, Lajos Kocsis, Lajos Détári and Béla Illés, but failed to win a title for 25 years until they were crowned champions for the sixth time in 1980. In a six-year period between 1983 and 1989, they then went on to win five more titles before collecting their last crown in 1993, 43 years after their first.