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Steady
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
After 9 games, ETO Győr finally taste it again
The first defeat in 9 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Kisvárda; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Kisvárda, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ETO Győr, another week without a signature from Vladyslav Kochergin.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabi Caschili was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every ETO Győr game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tiszakécske runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout2 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at ETO Győr
Dominik Farkas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Daniel Štefulj named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Daniel Štefulj 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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Upbeat
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match26 Oct 2026
ETO Győr refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 22 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, ETO Győr do not lose
9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for ETO Győr, 1‑0 the final word against Debrecen in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudiu Bumba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Željko Gavrić was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.10. 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.
Match26 Oct 2026
ETO Győr at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 3, 22 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at ETO Győr
Dominik Farkas 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Bence Kleinheisler could afford to be generous.
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Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
László Vingler: 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.” ETO Győr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match17 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, ETO Győr do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Samuel Petráš for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. ETO Győr will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at ETO Győr
Daniel Štefulj 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Željko Gavrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout19 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with MTK Budapest leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dominik Farkas is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at ETO Győr
Daniel Štefulj and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
The big one: MTK Budapest come into view
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. ETO Győr will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Máté Kiss is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Barnabás Bíró
“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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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
Dominik Csorba damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Match4 Oct 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation ETO Győr did not have in the autumn.
Squad5 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 ETO Győr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rajmund Tóth 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.
Match4 Oct 2026
ETO Győr get the job done against ZTE
A 2‑0 win over ZTE, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Claudiu Bumba was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Milán Vitális was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.22. 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
94% of the income goes out in wages at ETO Győr
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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Upbeat
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dominik Csorba
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ETO Győr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match28 Sep 2026
ETO Győr refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 15 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vladyslav Kochergin 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
Whatever happens, ETO Győr do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Match26 Sep 2026
Nyíregyháza made ETO Győr work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Željko Gavrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.94, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Bence Kleinheisler could afford to be generous.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. ETO Győr lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at ETO Győr
Daniel Štefulj 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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Bence Kleinheisler chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match19 Sep 2026
Point won or two lost for ETO Győr?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Paksi? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Market21 Sep 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Claudiu Bumba may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market21 Sep 2026
The name of Željko Gavrić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. ETO Győr say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the ETO Győr squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
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Upbeat
Squad14 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dominik Csorba
40 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. ETO Győr lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Sep 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
ETO Győr 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nyíregyháza have kept their man, and ETO Győr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match12 Sep 2026
Puskas Akademia made ETO Győr work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at ETO Győr training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Željko Gavrić 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Marked 7.87 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, ETO Győr had the best player on the pitch.
Squad14 Sep 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 ETO Győr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
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 ETO Győr, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
Karcag come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ETO Győr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
ETO Győr close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 11 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Željko Gavrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Senna Miangué slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Senna Miangué is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Market7 Sep 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at ETO Győr
Dominik Farkas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Senna Miangué named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Senna Miangué 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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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Vladyslav Kochergin had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Martin Ádám
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. ETO Győr have done the hard part with Austria Wien, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Daniel Štefulj 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.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. BVSC-Zugló have kept their man, and ETO Győr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for ETO Győr, 1‑0 the final word against Ferencvaros in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Bence Kleinheisler, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Match22 Aug 2026
ETO Győr win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 94th minute. Ujpest will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zorya come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ETO Győr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 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 ETO Győr, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at ETO Győr
Daniel Štefulj 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Željko Gavrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Nfansu Njie’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to ETO Győr.
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Uneasy
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Nyíregyháza come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ETO Győr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Puskas Akademia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at ETO Győr
Daniel Štefulj and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Željko Gavrić 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Márton Szép again, and this time the name on the line is Tiszakécske. ETO Győr are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to MFK Ruzomberok: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Deian Boldor does not fit this one
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Market
The Milán Vitális story refuses to die
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Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
Ferencvaros come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and ETO Győr did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. ETO Győr have done the hard part with Puskas Akademia, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Štefulj and ETO Győr agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Vladyslav Kochergin 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.
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Puskas Akademia have kept their man, and ETO Győr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Akos Nagy joins the ETO Győr first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akos Nagy is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Akos Szalai 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Kleinheisler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Uneasy
Market3 Aug 2026
ETO Győr say no — this time
The offer from USM Alger for Ahmed Nadhir Benbouali 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Vladyslav Kochergin has, at ETO Győr, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Senna Miangué and ETO Győr agree another 3 years.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 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 ETO Győr this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at ETO Győr
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Željko Gavrić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and ETO Győr go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Szentlőrinc have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Alex Lacza. The answer from ETO Győr has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at ETO Győr, another week without a signature from Vladyslav Kochergin.
In brief
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Market
49 months and counting on Željko Gavrić
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The dugout
Daniel Štefulj asks for a word with the manager
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict