Wekerletelepi Sport Club was professional football club based in Wekerletelep, Kispest, Hungary.
History In the 1910s, several of the outlying soccer fields in Budapest and its suburbs had a very bad reputation. The Újpest-Rákospalotai AK, or simply URAK, field in Rákospalota was the most notorious, while in the south, referees and visiting teams would have preferred to avoid matches in Wekerletelep. WSC first came into the spotlight in 1917, when one of three controversial matches in a league round was held in Kispest.
When Tibor Gallowich arrived in Wekerletelep in August 1940, the WSC was in the fourth division. The club had high expectations for Gallowich, and he delivered the success they had hoped for. Even then, they were well aware of his magical abilities—few could motivate the players the way he did. By then, he had already served as captain of both ILSZ and MILL, enjoyed the successful patronage of Gyurka Sárosi, and heroically led Tatabánya, Nemzeti SC, Kispest, Csepeli TK, Budafok FC, BSzKRT, WMFC, and Zuglói SE; he was coaching Vasas when he was approached by Wekerletelep. It was no trouble for Gallowich to work for two or even three clubs at once—soccer was his life. He didn’t hesitate this time either.
During the 1940–1941 season, he led the WSC youth team to the district championship title, while the “first” team won the championship in the Eastern Group of the fourth division (Budapest I). He parted ways with Vasas before the end of the season, in mid-April 1941, to take over as head coach of the NB II team BLK in May (while continuing his work at WSC, of course). Although the August 22 issue of *Nemzeti Sport* reported that Gallowich, “the distinguished coach, had parted ways with WSC,” he quickly changed his mind—he did not leave Wekerletelep.
At the start of the new season, the sports paper’s report on the “miracle team” and its “miracle coach” was right on time. “On the field, Coach Tibor Gallowich is working with the goalies, while elsewhere players are heading the ball, kicking, and passing. There are adults, juniors, and kids out there. There are plenty of Eskimos and not enough—balls. The coach dreams of having fifteen balls for a single practice. Wekerletelep, however, has yet to produce even a single true patron. Yet anyone who were to make a modest contribution to the budding soccer players of Wekerletelep would find joy here —wrote Nemzeti Sport in its September 16, 1941, article titled “Soccer Grows Here.” – The rag ball, swept away by this mechanized age, is still thriving in Wekerletelep. Of course, it’s cobbled together from scraps of stockings; it’s soft, doesn’t bounce, and if we add that it’s very dirty, we’ve described it well enough. The children are juggling. That is, they keep lifting the ball with one foot for as long as they can. And they can keep it up. One of them, a skinny, dark-skinned boy, has already surpassed two hundred, and I strongly suspect he only stops at 238 because he’s tired. Otherwise, he could keep going.”
Wekerletelep SC won the Mátra group of the 1941–42 Nemzeti Bajnokság III season and gained promotion to the second division. In their first season of the second division, they played in the Wessleényi group. Weekerletelep finished in the fifth position in the 1942–43 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season.
Name changes Wekerletelepi Sport Club: 1913 – 1919 Kispesti Állami Munkástelepi TE: 1919 Wekerletelepi Sport Club: 1919 – 1945 Wekerletelepi Munkás Testedző Egyesület: 1945 Wekerletelepi SC Barátság: 1945 – 1946 Wekerletelepi SC: 1946 – 1949 1948: merger with Szondi SC Férfiruhaipari WSC: 1949 – 1951 Vörös Lobogó Férfiruhagyár SK: 1951 – 1956 1956: reestablished Wekerletelepi SC: 1956 – 1957 1957: merger with XIX.ker. Tatarozó Építők WSC Építők: 1957 – 1958 Kispest-Wekerletelepi SC: 1958 – 1960 Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC: 1960 – 1970
Honours League Nemzeti Bajnokság III: Winners (1): 1941–42
Seasons The highest league that Wekerletelepi SC have ever played was the third tier. SeasonTierClub's namePositionPts19707Postajavító14 / 1419696Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC14 / 161619686Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC9 / 162719675Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC13 / 162419665Postajavító WSC13 / 142019655Postajavító WSC6 / 142719646Postajavító WSC2 / 16461963 ősz6Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC4 / 16201962/19635Postajavító Wekerletelepi SC9 / 16281961/19625Postajavító WSC8 / 16311960/19615Postajavító WSC9 / 16301959/19605Postajavító WSC5 / 15341958/19595Kispest-Wekerletelepi SC12 / 16141957/19585K. Wekerletelepi SC6 / 163319565Férfiruhagyár0 / 1619555Férfiruhagyár0 / 1619545Vörös Lobogó Férfiruhagyár5 / 112119534Vörös Lobogó Férfiruhagyár15 / 16719524Férfiruhaipar14 / 161819514Vörös Lobogó Férfiruhagyár11 / 1219504Férfiruhaipari WSC11 / 1691949/19504Férfiruhaipari WSC14 / 16171948/19494Wekerletelepi SC11 / 15211947/19483Wekerletelepi SC14 / 16161946/19473Wekerletelepi SC5 / 14301945/19462Wekerletelepi SC Barátság10 / 16191945 2Wekerletelepi MTE7 / 12251944/19452Wekerletelepi SC7 / 1681944/19452Wekerletelepi SC0 / 111943–442Wekerletelepi SC8 / 15261942–432Wekerletelepi SC5 / 14281941–423Wekerletelepi SC1 / 16541940/19414Wekerletelepi SC1 / 13361939/19403Wekerletelepi SC9 / 13201938/19393Wekerletelepi SC4 / 14311937/19382Wekerletelepi SC11 / 14201936/19372Wekerletelepi SC11 / 12151935/19362Wekerletelepi SC7 / 13271934/19352Wekerletelepi SC3 / 12281933/19342Wekerletelepi SC6 / 12211932/19333Wekerletelepi SC3 / 14341931/19324Wekerletelepi SC2 / 16431930/19315Wekerletelepi SC1 / 14391929/19304Wekerletelepi SC9 / 12211928/19293Wekerletelepi SC14 / 16131927/19283Wekerletelepi SC7 / 17411926/19273Wekerletelepi SC3 / 14351925/19263Wekerletelepi SC7 / 14271924/19253Wekerletelepi SC7 / 14251923/19243Wekerletelepi SC6 / 15331922/19233Wekerletelepi SC6 / 15261921/19224Wekerletelepi SC1 / 16601920/19212Wekerletelepi SC13 / 14111919/19202Wekerletelepi SC8 / 17361918/19192Wekerletelepi SC12 / 12111917/19183Wekerletelepi SC2 / 8151916/19173Wekerletelepi SC5 / 14151913/19143Wekerletelepi SC6 / 9
External links Profile on Magyar Futball
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