Marked for Jonathan Levi
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 49. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Dec 2026
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Dec 2026
Ferencvaros beaten on the continent
0‑2 against Basel, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad14 Dec 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Veljko Birmančević
10 goals and a season average of 7.29 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Istvan Fiola has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. David Szoboszlai has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Match12 Dec 2026
A 1‑0 win over Honved, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
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Player ratings
Kristoffer Zachariassen was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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The dugout
Naby Keïta left out for the big one
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
Veljko Birmančević damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match7 Dec 2026
44 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.92, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A season average of 7.43 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Mariano Gómez 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Ferencvaros and Fehervar in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 4‑2, and it was Lenny Joseph’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ferencvaros.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
49 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The match ball belongs to Franko Kovačević, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match14 Nov 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Debrecen, and it could have been more.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ádám Nagy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Lenny Joseph at his very best
Marked 9.14. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Ferencvaros.
Match14 Nov 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Debrecen. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
57 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ferencvaros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match9 Nov 2026
First, on 35 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Match5 Nov 2026
Ferencvaros beaten on the continent
0‑2 against Jagiellonia, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Match7 Nov 2026
No end in sight to Ferencvaros's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ferencvaros has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dénes Dibusz and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Dénes Dibusz
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.29 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Peter Fiola has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Ferencvaros may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Mariano Gómez 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Laszlo Gulacsi commits to Ferencvaros for another 3 years.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Ferencvaros
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Ferencvaros can tell you which week it ends in.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Laszlo Gulacsi, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
The big one: Haladas come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Ferencvaros will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ferencvaros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match22 Oct 2026
A European night to remember for Ferencvaros
0‑0 against Jagiellonia, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jonathan Levi 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ádám Nagy was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ádám Nagy beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ákos Kecskés gets it from the manager
“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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Upbeat
Squad19 Oct 2026
80 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ferencvaros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ferencvaros are at home on the road
6 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Up for the corner, and Ádám Nagy delivers — 7.35
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ádám Nagy scored, was marked 7.35, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jonathan Levi 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Lenny Joseph. 3‑1 against Diosgyor, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Jonathan Levi was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.97. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match17 Oct 2026
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Lenny Joseph in the middle of it, and Diosgyor unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 70. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
96 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match1 Oct 2026
1‑1 against Basel, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Veljko Birmančević was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.01 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match3 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Ferencvaros
The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad5 Oct 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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 Ferencvaros this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Ferencvaros training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ádám Nagy 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Veljko Birmančević. 2‑0 against Bekescsaba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Triumph
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ferencvaros lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nobody wants to play Ferencvaros right now
10 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Ferencvaros can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ferencvaros keep winning on the road
5 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2‑0 win over Honved, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.20, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Triumph
Squad21 Sep 2026
34 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ferencvaros lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match19 Sep 2026
9 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.
Match17 Sep 2026
2‑0 against Dinamo Batumi, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Veljko Birmančević was at the centre of the description.
Match19 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.81, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dénes Dibusz 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bence Ötvös reaches 200 appearances
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
In brief
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The dugout
The form table has caught Jonathan Levi
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Squad
6 new faces, and Ferencvaros are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Triumph
Match5 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 8‑1 against Paksi, and it could have been more.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.46 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad7 Sep 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match5 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ferencvaros have 6 straight wins of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Ujpest would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 4 out at Ferencvaros
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
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Triumph
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Benevento had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Ujpest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody wants to play Ferencvaros right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marked 7.74 at 18, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Door shut on Kirian
Ferencvaros asked and Las Palmas said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Aug 2026
The fee is $1.1M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Debrecen drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The offer went to Ujpest this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros offered $830.0K; Haladas said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
4‑0, and Franko Kovačević took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Ferencvaros tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros asked and Espanyol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad3 Aug 2026
470 appearances across 13 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Ferencvaros know what they have.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Zsombor Gruber, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.95
A mark of 7.95 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Debrecen for Ádám Varga 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mariano Gómez wants continental football; whether Ferencvaros can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.