Újpesti TE


Újpesti Torna Egylet 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'.
The football team Újpest FC is also a part of the Újpesti TE family.

Departments

Team sports

Individual sports

  • Athletics
  • Boxing
  • Canoeing
  • Gymnastics
  • Fencing
  • Footgolf
  • Judo
  • Karate
  • Modern pentathlon
  • Shooting
  • Swimming
  • Skating
  • Taekwondo
  • Triathlon
  • Wrestling
  • E-sports

Dissolved departments

  • Water polo:
  • * men's water polo
  • Volleyball:
  • * men's volleyball
  • Handball:
  • * men's handball
  • * women's handball

Supporters and rivalries

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

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. 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

Football (men's)

Ice hockey (men's)

Volleyball (women's)

  • Hungarian Championship
  • *Winners : 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1985–86, 1986–87, 1989–90
  • Hungarian Cup
  • *Winners : 1961–62, 1962–63, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1975, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1986–87

Inactive departments

Water polo (men's)

Volleyball (men's)

  • Hungarian Championship
  • *Winners : 1955, 1957, 1957–58, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62, 1962–63, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1989–90, 1990–91
  • Hungarian Cup
  • *Winners : 1952, 1955, 1957, 1961–62, 1964, 1973, 1975, 1988–89

Handball (men's)

Notable former players

Olympic champions

Presidents

List of the presidents of the Újpesti TE:
  • 1885–1887: János Goll
  • 1887–1892: Lajos Mády
  • 1892–1897: Béla Csepcsányi
  • 1897–:
  • –1903:
  • 1903–1905: Arnold Kada
  • 1905–: Mór Oszmann
  • 1909–: Samu Blum
  • 1910–: Lehel Héderváry
  • 1914–: Ödön Kálmán
  • 1919–1925: János Szücs
  • 1925–1942: Lipót Aschner