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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés 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.
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Match3 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Diosgyor
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Diosgyor are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Álex Vallejo 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 118% of everything Diosgyor earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Branko Vrgoč
“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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
Diosgyor march on in the cup
MTK Budapest are out and Diosgyor go through, 0‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Match26 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Márk Tamás obliged against MTK Budapest. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Diosgyor.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gábor Megyeri decides it from twelve yards
1 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Diosgyor
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Márk Tamás delivers — 7.83
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Márk Tamás scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Yohan Croizet-Kollár 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco Lund 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Diosgyor have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Csaba Szatmári, and the manager let it.
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Market17 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Diosgyor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marco Lund 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ákos Kecskés 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Diosgyor cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Bekescsaba will be the happier side with the point.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Branko Vrgoč knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Branko Vrgoč trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad3 Aug 2026
Márk Tamás has been here 8 seasons
267 appearances across 8 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ante Roguljić and Diosgyor agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marco Lund 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 Diosgyor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Diosgyor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ákos Kecskés 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.
Market3 Aug 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.