Marked for András Eördögh
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Crisis
Match28 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Kecskeméti TE
Position 16 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match26 Dec 2026
7 matches without a win for Kecskeméti TE
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Kecskeméti TE are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Dec 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Ruslan Stepaniuk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bálint Szabó was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Dec 2026
0‑2 to Mezőkövesd, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Andras Szoboszlai to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Match5 Dec 2026
4 matches without a win for Kecskeméti TE
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Kecskeméti TE are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ruslan Stepaniuk 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Kecskeméti TE can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Bálint Szabó 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
BVSC-Zugló left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” András Eördögh and Kecskeméti TE agree another 3 years.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
Csákvár next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Varga
“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.
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Crisis
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ruslan Stepaniuk and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joey Groenbast commits to Kecskeméti TE for another 3 years.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bálint Szabó is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bálint Szabó
“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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kecskeméti TE told Bálint Szabó something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Kecskeméti TE take on the side everybody is chasing
Honved arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Ruslan Stepaniuk 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Kecskeméti TE training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bálint Szabó is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match7 Nov 2026
A point taken on 95 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Bence Varga
“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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Lazar Majstorović is 20, and Kecskeméti TE have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Match7 Nov 2026
It needed Marko Lekić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Ajka, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Market9 Nov 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ilann Petrisot arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ilann Petrisot has, at Kecskeméti TE, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bálint Szabó and Kecskeméti TE agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ruslan Stepaniuk 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bálint Szabó 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Milán Papp
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kecskeméti TE told Milán Papp something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to András Eördögh, and the manager let it.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Szeged-Csanád GA next, and one man in the Kecskeméti TE dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Milán Papp knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kecskeméti TE, and both men came out saying it was fine.