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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
Patrik Demjén decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match25 Nov 2026
Debrecen through in the cup
A 0-0 win over Ujpest, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match30 Nov 2026
Debrecen up to position 3
35 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad30 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 100 days on the sidelines for Péter Kristóf, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match28 Nov 2026
Diosgyor left with the points after a 1-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
348% of the income goes out in wages at Debrecen
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Triumph
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Álex Bermejo: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Debrecen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match14 Nov 2026
Debrecen cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 2-1 win over Ferencvaros, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad16 Nov 2026
3 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Stephen Odey 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.
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Upbeat
Match10 Oct 2026
Debrecen make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Debrecen have 3 straight wins of it.
Match10 Oct 2026
Bekescsaba made Debrecen work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad12 Oct 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.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Donát Bárány
“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.
Match19 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Ujpest defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jonathan Lima 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 Debrecen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
Bence Batik hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Debrecen can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Donát Pálfi told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Donát Pálfi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Debrecen.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Honved will be the happier side with the point.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Fran Manzanara 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 Debrecen, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A first senior shirt for Dénes Szakál
Every debut is a small story about the future: Dénes Szakál, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.