Marked for Peter Botka
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match1 Oct 2026
2‑1 against Zurich, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Attila Lisztes was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.72, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Peter Botka takes the afternoon — 8.03
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Peter Botka provided it, and the 8.03 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market5 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Haladas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Attila Lisztes and Haladas agree another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Janos Fiola was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match3 Oct 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Haladas and Debrecen, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Haladas supporters have found a favourite in Peter Botka
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Peter Botka has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Attila Lisztes
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Haladas
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Akos Gulacsi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Kevin Mondovics was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Haladas, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Janos Fiola called up by his country
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Haladas that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Haladas will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market14 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tamas Kleinheisler leaves Haladas the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Haladas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Haladas
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Haladas are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Akos Gulacsi in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Haladas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The young player of the month award goes to a 18-year-old at Haladas who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Kevin Mondovics named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Kevin Mondovics is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
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Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
Haladas say no — this time
The offer from Fehervar for Janos Nikolic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Janos Fiola commits to Haladas for another 2 years.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Akos Gulacsi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Janos Fiola falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
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Triumph
Squad3 Aug 2026
Janos Fiola was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Nagy and Haladas agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Zsolt Kleinheisler has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match1 Aug 2026
Haladas get the job done against Vasas
A 1‑0 win over Vasas, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Janos Fiola asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.