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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Dániel Balla breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match31 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win for Tiszakécske
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Tiszakécske are no longer polite ones.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at Tiszakécske
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.
Squad2 Nov 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ádám Szekér 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 ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.28 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Tiszakécske had the best player on the pitch.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Barnabás Barkóczi
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Barnabás Barkóczi has come out of that comparison in the side, and Tiszakécske have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Half-satisfied: Zoltan Sallai on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Dániel Balla out for 89 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tiszakécske will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Tiszakécske
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Tiszakécske are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Tiszakécske are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ádám Bódi runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Barnabás Barkóczi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 34 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout26 Oct 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 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Zoltan Sallai to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Márton Szép
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Tiszakécske told Márton Szép something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
99 days out for Dániel Balla after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tiszakécske will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Tiszakécske
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tiszakécske are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Desmond Esery is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The decline has begun for Ádám Bódi
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 36 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Tiszakécske is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Jovan Živković did the work nobody counts — 6.64
10 combined actions and 6.64. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
The leaders are next for Tiszakécske
Budafoki MTE top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Match17 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Csákvár defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
107 days out for Dániel Balla after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Tiszakécske will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bence Sós 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
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Márton Zámbó is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. David Dibusz 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Szabolcs Nikolic 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Everybody at Tiszakécske saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 38 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Zsombor Takács
“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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Myke Bouard Ramos has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tiszakécske will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Bence Sós talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Tiszakécske know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Dániel Balla out for 115 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tiszakécske will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Bence Pataki: 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.” Tiszakécske have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Márton Szép is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bence Sós 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 202% of the Tiszakécske income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
Squad5 Oct 2026
József Varga pulls a muscle — 14 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 14 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Tiszakécske had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
A one-man rearguard from Ágoston Kiss
There were 14 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Dániel Balla out for 123 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tiszakécske will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Bence Sós and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑2 to Honved, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Ádám Bódi
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Dávid Szabó
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Tiszakécske will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Zoltan Sallai left the room before anybody could ask which.
Looking ahead28 Sep 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Kecskeméti TE in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Not in the side at kick-off and the story of it by the end. Tiszakécske were going nowhere until he came on, and half an hour was all he needed.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Márton Szép, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
6 new faces, and Tiszakécske are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Half-satisfied: Zoltan Sallai on the draw
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Vasas came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad21 Sep 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Tiszakécske has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market21 Sep 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ágoston Kiss’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
Dávid Szabó 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Jovan Živković 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Ajka. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dominik Szoboszlai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match12 Sep 2026
A 1‑0 win over Ajka, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Lucas beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Zsombor Takács and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Tiszakécske support went home talking about one name.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 11 in, 6 out at Tiszakécske
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 11 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lokomotiv Plovdiv have kept their man, and Tiszakécske go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Barnabás Barkóczi 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The clock did what Szeged-Csanád GA would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Tiszakécske training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ádám Szekér 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Barnabás Barkóczi is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Márton Szép wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Tiszakécske will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Márton Zámbó
“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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Uneasy
Match26 Aug 2026
Puskas Akademia ended it 2‑3. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.70 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Bence Sós and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Tiszakécske asked and Djoliba said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ádám Bódi
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Tiszakécske are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
A loan move for Samuel Ezekiel is in the works
Tiszakécske have made the call to Ikorodu City. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jovan Živković 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. Jovan Živković has, at Tiszakécske, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Market24 Aug 2026
László István 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 Tiszakécske can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bence Sós 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 Tiszakécske this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Tiszakécske spend $280.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $280.0K for Barnabás Barkóczi, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Match22 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Kozármisleny, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Radnik Surdulica have kept their man, and Tiszakécske go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The formation has left Jovan Živković behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Tiszakécske will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Market24 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Tiszakécske, another week without a signature from Jovan Živković.
Market24 Aug 2026
He is 19, and nobody at Tiszakécske signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Vasas 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 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Bence Sós 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Dávid Szabó 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
ETO Győr have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Myke Bouard Ramos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match15 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Szeged-Csanád GA came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Andraz Janza rejects the move
Tiszakécske had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at NK Domzale, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bence Sós and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Tiszakécske asked and NK Osijek said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ádám Bódi
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Roland Nagy 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daniel Sallai 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. Krisztian Fiola 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andras 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Lucas
7.25, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Tiszakécske had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Bekescsaba will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Tiszakécske were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ádám Gyenes, 20, steals the show — 7.63
Marked 7.63 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Age has not caught József Varga yet — 7.83
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Ádám Bódi beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bence Sós commits to Tiszakécske for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bence Sós 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 terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 20 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Bence Sós's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to NK Osijek: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Luca Meirelles is in the works
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Andraz Janza is in the works
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The dugout
The view from the dugout