Magyar Pamut Sport Cclub is a deunct professional football club based in Budapest, Hungary.
History The club, founded in 1927, used a color scheme that was highly unusual in soccer—one reminiscent of Palermo, Italy. According to the legend, during the club’s early years of hardship, Róbert Szurday, the company’s director, managed to procure a set of uniforms from somewhere for the cotton industry association—which had originally been committed to Vasas’s red-and-blue colors—but when it turned out that the appearance of the donated uniforms didn’t match their vision, practicality prevailed: they hastily changed the club’s colors rather than go to the trouble of ordering new jerseys.
In contrast to 1947, when Magyar Pamut played a friendly match against the Hungarian national team—featuring Ferenc Rudas, Mihály Nagymarosi, Ferenc Szusza, and Ferenc Puskás (losing 5–0 at the Megyeri út stadium)— the club competed in NB II until 1951—and even won a bronze medal in the second division in 1950—but in later years it had to adapt to the rough-and-tumble realities of the lower leagues.
Over the past forty years, the team’s best finish in Budapest’s First Division was a sixth-place finish in 1969, in a league whose roster alone is like a trip back in time: Csillaghegyi MTE, XV. District Növényolaj, Sashalmi Electronic Measuring Instruments Factory, Rákoskeresztúr MTE, Tools and Machine Parts, Honvéd Ságvári SE, Karhatalmi Dózsa, Budapest Red Meteor, Hungarian Crane and Shipyard, Chinoin, Óbuda Goldberger, Újpest Thread Factory, Duna Shoe Factory, Óbuda Cotton Industry, Zugló Porcelain, Budapest Waterworks, Aluminum. Those were different times; the capital’s soccer scene was buzzing, sports complexes in Újpest were practically side by side, and the legend of Budapest’s championships grew every weekend on Blaha Lujza Street with another colorful episode. Take, for example, the story of János Balogh, the soccer-hating cashier, immortalized by Zoltán Kőrösi—the writer who passed away in 2016—in his short story *Magyar Pamut* (*Hungarian Cotton*), which offers a glimpse into the life of a family living next to the soccer field.
The Magyar Pamut soccer team disbanded at the end of the 1991–1992 season, following the closure of the factory. However, at the initiative of former center-half Károly Varga, members of the old squad have been gathering every year for some time now—sometimes in larger numbers, sometimes in smaller ones—to relive the glories of days gone by and the humorous mishaps of the past, onion-topped bread with lard in hand, on the sidelines of the field so dear to them.
Name changes ? – 1951: Magyar Pamutipari Sport Club 1951 – 1957: Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut SK 1957 – 1992: Magyar Pamut SC
Honours League Nemzeti Bajnokság III: Winners (1): 1948–49
Seasons The highest league that Magyar Pamut SC have ever played was the third division. SeasonTierClub's namePositionPts1991–925Magyar Pamut SC10 / 16261990–915Magyar Pamut SC8 / 16281988–895Magyar Pamut16 / 16171984–855Magyar Pamut SC15 / 16191983–845Magyar Pamut SC13 / 16271982–835Magyar Pamut SC9 / 16281981–826Magyar Pamut1 / 16481980–815Magyar Pamut SC4 / 15391979–805Magyar Pamut5 / 16341978–795Magyar Pamut10 / 16251977–786Magyar Pamut12 / 16241974–756Magyar Pamut SC0 / 161973–746Magyar Pamut6 / 15321972–736Magyar Pamut10 / 16251971–725Magyar Pamutipari SC15 / 16171970–715Magyar Pamut SC14 / 162319705Magyar Pamutipar SC9 / 161319695Magyar Pamutipari SC6 / 183919685Magyar Pamut SC8 / 183919675Magyar Pamutipar SC11 / 162719665Magyar Pamut SC5 / 143019655Magyar Pamut SC4 / 143219645Magyar Pamut SC9 / 162819635Magyar Pamut2 / 16211962–634Magyar Pamut SC9 / 16301961–624Magyar Pamutipari SC7 / 16331960–614Magyar Pamutipari SC5 / 16361959–604Magyar Pamut SC3 / 16421958–593Magyar Pamut SC15 / 16181957–583Magyar Pamut SC5 / 163719573Magyar Pamut SC3 / 81419563Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut4 / 143119553Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut11 / 162319543Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut11 / 162419533Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut11 / 162719523Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut10 / 142119512Vörös Lobogó Magyar Pamut14 / 141619502Magyar Pamut SC3 / 16201949–502Magyar Pamut SC10 / 16261948–493Magyar Pamut SC1 / 18481947–483Magyar Pamutipari SC2 / 16481946–473Magyar Pamut SC2 / 15411945–462Magyar Pamut SC8 / 142619452Magyar Pamutipari SC8 / 12201944–452Magyar Pamutipari SC9 / 1681944–452Magyar Pamutipari SC0 / 121943–442Magyar Pamut SC15 / 16171942–432Magyar Pamut SC9 / 12211941–423Magyar Pamut SC3 / 16401940–413Magyar Pamut SC7 / 12231939–403Magyar Pamut SC4 / 13301938–393Magyar Pamutipar6 / 15291937–382Magyar Pamutipar SC10 / 14221936–372Magyar Pamut SC3 / 13321935–362Magyar Pamut SC5 / 13271934–352Magyar Pamutipari SC5 / 12231933–343Magyar Pamutipari SC1 / 14341932–334Magyar Pamutipari SC2 / 16451931–325Magyar Pamutipari SC1 / 12351930–315Magyar Pamutipari SC3 / 1436
External links Profile on Magyar Futball
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