2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

For the handball leagues, see 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (men's handball) and 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball).

The 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, was the 111th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons. The season began 27 July 2012^[2] and ended on 2 June 2013.^[2] Debrecen were the defending champions having won their sixth Hungarian championship last season.

Nemzeti Bajnokság I

Season	2012–13
Dates	27 July 2012 – 2 June 2013
Champions	Győr
Relegated	Siófok Eger
Champions League	Győr
Europa League	Videoton Honvéd Debrecen
Matches played	217
Goals scored	575 (2.65 per match)
Top goalscorer	Adamo Coulibaly (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Győr 6–0 Pápa Videoton 6–0 Siófok
Biggest away win	Újpest 0–6 Paks
Highest scoring	Honvéd 5–3 Rákóczi
Longest winning run	7 games Győr[1]
Longest unbeaten run	22 games Győr[1]
Longest winless run	15 games Eger[1]
Longest losing run	9 games Eger[1]
← 2011–12 2013–14 →

Overview

The championship was contested by 16 teams, and Győri-ETO won the title under headcoach Attila Pintér, for the fourth time in their history.

Although the team from Rába-coast lost their first game 4-1 at the home of defending champions Debreceni VSC, Győr then went on an 18-game undefeated streak, winning 13 of those encounters. Győr defeated Budapest-giants Újpest and Ferencváros in back-to-back victories, confirming their championship against the latter on the 12th of May, after a 1-0 victory.

Győr's road to glory was largely uncontested, apart from Videoton applying some pressure, however, even the Fehérvár-club finished 10 points off of Győr.

Teams

Zalaegerszegi TE and Vasas SC finished the 2011–12 season in the last two places and thus were relegated to their respective NB II divisions.

The two relegated teams were replaced with the champions of the two 2011–12 NB II groups, Eger of the East Group and MTK of the West Group. MTK made their immediate comeback to the league, while Eger returned to the competition for the first time since the 1986–87 season.

Stadia and locations

Budapest

Budapest teams:
Ferencváros
Honvéd
MTK
Újpest

Debrecen

Videoton

Győr

Kaposvár

Kecskemét

Pápa

Paks

Pécs

Miskolc

Siófok

Szombathely

Eger

Location of teams in 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their location, stadium and stadium capacity.^[3][4]

Team	Short name[5]	Location	Stadium	Capacity
Budapest Honvéd FC	Honvéd	Budapest	Bozsik József Stadion	9,500
Debreceni VSC	Debrecen	Debrecen	Oláh Gábor utcai stadion	10,200
Diósgyőri VTK	Diósgyőr	Miskolc	Diósgyőri Stadion (1939)	11,398
Egri FC	Eger	Eger	Szentmarjay Tibor Városi Stadion	6,000
Ferencvárosi TC	Ferencváros	Budapest	Albert Flórián Stadion	15,804
Győri ETO FC	Győr	Győr	ETO Park	15,600
Kaposvári Rákóczi FC	Rákóczi	Kaposvár	Rákóczi Stadion	7,000
Kecskeméti TE	Kecskemét	Kecskemét	Széktói Stadion	6,320
Lombard-Pápa TFC	Pápa	Pápa	Perutz Stadion	5,500
MTK Budapest FC	MTK	Budapest	Hidegkuti Nándor stadion	7,515
Paksi SE	Paks	Paks	Fehérvári úti stadion	4,400
Pécsi MFC	Pécs	Pécs	PMFC Stadion	7,000
BFC Siófok	Siófok	Siófok	Révész Géza utcai stadion	6,500
Szombathelyi Haladás	Haladás	Szombathely	Rohonci úti stadion	9,500
Újpest FC	Újpest	Budapest	Szusza Ferenc stadion	13,501
Videoton FC	Videoton	Székesfehérvár	Sóstói stadion	14,300

Personnel and kits

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2012–13 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their manager, captain, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.^[4]
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Debrecen	Elemér Kondás	Péter Szakály	adidas	TEVA
Diósgyőr	Zoltán Kovac	José Juan Luque	Nike	–
Eger	Ferenc Mészáros	Petr Knakal	Legea	Formidus
Ferencváros	Ricardo Moniz	Mark Otten	Nike	Grupama Garancia
Győr	Attila Pintér	Saša Stevanović	Puma	Audi, Qaestor
Haladás	Tamás Artner	Péter Tóth	Legea	Sopron Bank, Contact Zrt.
Honvéd	Marco Rossi	Szabolcs Kemenes	Givova	—
Rákóczi	László Prukner	István Bank	Toti Sport	Regale Klíma
Kecskemét	Ferenc Horváth	Vladan Savić	Jako	Phoenix Mecano, Bertrans
MTK	József Garami	József Kanta	Nike	Fotex, Sándor Károly Akadémia
Paks	Tomislav Sivić	Tamás Kiss	Jako	MVM-Atomerőmű
Pápa	László Kovács	Lajos Szűcs	Jako	Lombard
Pécs	Gábor Márton	Levente Lantos	Puma	Matias
Siófok	Károly Horváth	Tibor Nyári	Puma	AVE, Femol '97
Újpest	Marc Lelièvre	Krisztián Vermes	Puma	—
Videoton	José Manuel Gomes	György Sándor	Nike	MOL

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Honvéd	Attila Supka	Contract expired[6]	Summer 2012	Pre-season	Marco Rossi	1 June 2012[7]
Pécs	Olivér Mink	Contract expired[8]	Summer 2012	Pre-season	Attila Supka	1 June 2012[8]
Újpest	Marc Lelièvre	Caretaker	Summer 2012	Pre-season	Jos Daerden	1 June 2012[9]
Diósgyőr	Lázár Szentes	Contract expired[10]	Summer 2012	Pre-season	Tibor Sisa	14 June 2012[11]
Rákóczi	Tibor Sisa	Contract expired[12]	Summer 2012	Pre-season	László Prukner	14 June 2012[13]
Paks 2	Károly Kis	Mutual agreement[14]	1 August 2012	11th	Tomislav Sivić	30 August 2012[15]
Ferencváros	Lajos Détári	Mutual agreement[16]	20 August 2012	9th	Ricardo Moniz	21 August 2012[17]
Pápa 3	Ferenc Bene	Mutual agreement[18]	27 August 2012	15th	Gyula Zsivoczky	1 September 2012[19]
Kecskemét 4	László Török	Resigned[20]	17 September 2012	14th	Ferenc Horváth	28 September 2012[21]
Diósgyőr	Tibor Sisa	Resigned[22]	22 November 2012	9th	Lázár Szentes	22 November 2012[22]
Pécs	Attila Supka	Sacked[23]	4 January 2013	14th	Gábor Márton	5 January 2013[24]
Videoton	Paulo Sousa	Mutual agreement[25]	7 January 2013	4th	José Manuel Gomes	20 January 2013[26]
Egri FC	Antal Simon	Sacked	14 February 2013	15th	Ferenc Mészáros	8 March 2013[27]
Újpest	Jos Daerden	Mutual agreement	5 March 2013	11th	Marc Leliévre	5 May 2013[28]
Diósgyőr	Lázár Szentes	Mutual agreement	16 April 2013	9th	Zoltán Kovác	17 April 2013[29]
Pápa	Gyula Zsivoczky	Mutual agreement	6 May 2013	14>th	László Kovács	7 May 2013[30]
Pápa	László Kovács	Mutual agreement	27 May 2013	14th	Bálint Tóth	27 May 2013[31]

Notes

² Between 1 and 30 August Csaba Máté was the caretaker manager of Paks.

³ Between 27 August and 1 September László Kovács was the caretaker manager of Pápa.

⁴ Between 17 and 28 September István Szabó was the caretaker manager of Kecskemét.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Győr (C)	30	19	7	4	57	33	+24	64	Qualification for Champions League second qualifying round
2	Videoton	30	16	6	8	52	24	+28	54	Qualification for Europa League first qualifying round
3	Honvéd	30	15	7	8	50	36	+14	52
4	MTK	30	15	6	9	43	30	+13	51
5	Ferencváros	30	13	10	7	51	36	+15	49
6	Debrecen	30	14	4	12	47	36	+11	46	Qualification for Europa League second qualifying round
7	Kecskemét	30	12	8	10	42	42	0	44
8	Haladás	30	11	11	8	36	27	+9	44
9	Újpest	30	11	8	11	40	42	−2	41
10	Diósgyőr	30	9	11	10	31	39	−8	38
11	Kaposvári Rákóczi	30	10	7	13	35	38	−3	37
12	Pécs	30	10	7	13	33	44	−11	37
13	Paks	30	8	11	11	40	38	+2	35
14	Pápa	30	7	7	16	26	46	−20	28
15	Siófok (R)	30	7	4	19	31	61	−30	25	Relegation to Nemzeti Bajnokság II
16	Eger (R)	30	3	6	21	25	67	−42	15

Source: mlsz.hu (in Hungarian)
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd overall wins; 3rd goal difference; 4th head-to-head points; 5th head-to-head goal difference; 6th head-to-head away goals scored; 7th fair-play points; 8th drawing of lots^[32]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
Győr	16	15	9	7	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Videoton	8	5	8	5	5	5	4	5	5	7	7	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Honvéd	6	1	1	1	1	4	5	4	4	5	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	8	6	6	7	7	6	6	5	4	4	4	3	3
MTK	3	3	6	4	3	1	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	4	4
Ferencváros	10	10	5	9	10	9	8	8	7	6	5	5	8	6	7	7	6	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	6	5	6	6	5	5
Debrecen	1	6	3	2	2	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	5	5	5	5	5	4	6	5	5	6	6
Kecskemét	9	9	12	13	14	15	14	15	14	11	8	7	6	9	10	11	12	13	10	13	10	11	9	7	7	7	7	7	8	7
Haladás	2	2	2	3	7	7	9	7	9	9	12	12	14	12	12	10	11	9	9	10	11	12	10	8	10	10	8	8	7	8
Újpest	12	16	14	11	11	12	13	11	8	8	9	10	9	11	8	8	10	11	12	11	8	10	12	11	8	8	9	9	9	9
Diósgyőr	5	7	4	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	4	8	7	8	9	9	7	6	7	7	6	6	8	9	12	11	11	10	10	10
Kaposvári Rákóczi	15	8	10	8	8	8	11	14	13	13	11	9	11	7	6	6	8	10	11	9	12	8	11	12	11	12	12	12	11	11
Pécs	4	4	7	10	9	11	12	10	11	10	10	11	10	10	11	14	14	12	13	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12
Paks	11	12	11	12	13	10	7	9	10	12	14	14	13	14	14	13	9	7	8	8	9	9	7	10	9	9	10	11	12	13
Pápa	7	11	13	14	15	14	10	12	15	15	13	13	12	13	13	12	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Siófok	13	13	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15
Eger	14	14	15	15	12	13	15	13	12	14	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16

	Leader
	2013–14 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round
	Relegation to 2013–14 Nemzeti Bajnokság II

Updated to match(es) played on 1 June 2013. Source: mlsz.hu (in Hungarian)

Results

Home \ Away	DEB	DIÓ	EGE	FTC	GYŐ	HAL	HON	KEC	MTK	PAK	PÁP	PÉC	RÁK	SIÓ	UTE	VID
Debrecen		2–0	3–0	2–3	4–1	2–0	4–1	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–0	4–1	2–1	4–1	0–1	2–1
Diósgyőr	3–3		1–0	2–2	0–3	1–1	3–1	2–1	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	0–1	2–1	2–1	2–1
Eger	1–0	0–1		2–2	2–3	1–2	1–3	0–2	0–3	2–2	1–1	2–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–4
Ferencváros	2–1	2–0	4–0		1–1	2–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	2–2	4–1	3–2	2–2	4–2	2–1	0–1
Győr	2–0	2–0	2–1	1–0		1–1	0–0	5–1	1–0	3–4	6–0	1–0	2–1	2–1	3–2	1–1
Haladás	1–0	0–0	4–2	0–0	1–1		1–1	1–1	3–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	0–0	2–1	2–0	0–1
Honvéd	2–2	2–1	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1		0–0	1–2	3–3	2–0	0–1	5–3	2–0	2–2	0–4
Kecskemét	0–0	1–1	3–1	2–2	5–2	2–1	2–1		1–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–2	3–1	1–0	1–5
MTK	3–1	2–0	3–0	4–2	1–3	0–1	1–0	3–1		1–0	2–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–1	3–2
Paks	1–2	1–0	0–1	1–3	0–0	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–0		2–0	2–3	1–2	4–1	2–2	1–1
Pápa	1–0	2–2	6–1	0–3	1–1	1–0	2–1	0–2	0–2	0–0		1–2	3–0	0–1	0–1	1–0
Pécs	2–3	2–1	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–2	0–3	0–1	2–1	1–3	2–0		0–2	2–1	1–3	0–0
Kaposvári Rákóczi	1–0	1–1	0–0	1–0	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–3	0–0	1–0	3–0	1–1		3–0	0–0	0–2
Siófok	0–2	3–0	4–3	0–0	2–3	0–3	0–1	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–1		0–1	1–3
Újpest	0–0	1–1	3–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–4	2–1	1–1	0–6	1–1	4–2	1–0	4–2		0–1
Videoton	3–1	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	2–1	0–1	2–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–2	2–1	6–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on 2 June 2013. Source: mlsz.hu (in Hungarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top goalscorers

Including matches played on 1 June 2013; Source: MLSZ

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Adamo Coulibaly	Debrecen	18
2	Dániel Böde	Ferencváros	17
3	Péter Kabát	Újpest	13
	Nemanja Nikolić	Videoton	13
5	Roland Varga	Győr	12
6	Gergely Délczeg	Honvéd	10
	Attila Simon	Paks (7) Pécs (3)	10
8	János Lázok	Paks	9
	József Kanta	MTK	9
	Goran Marić	Pápa	9
	Norbert Németh	Eger	9

Hat-tricks

Name	For	Against	Round	Result	Date
Adamo Coulibaly	Debrecen	Pécs	4th	3–2	18 August 2012
Tamás Koltai	Győr	Diósgyőr	6th	3–0	1 September 2012
Attila Simon	Paks	Siófok	7th	4–1	15 September 2012
Patrik Tischler	MTK	Eger	7th	3–0	15 September 2012
Roland Varga	Győr	Pápa	9th	6–0	28 September 2012
Vilmos Melczer	Siófok	Eger	17th	4–3	1 December 2012
János Lázok4	Paks	Újpest	18th	6–0	2 March 2013
Dániel Böde	FTC	Siófok	23rd	4–2	13 April 2013
Adamo Coulibaly	Debrecen	Siófok	25th	4–1	27 April 2013
Leandro Martínez	Honvéd	Újpest	27th	4–2	11 May 2013

• ⁴ Player scored 4 goals

Attendance

Top 15 attendances (single match) Rank Game Date Home team Away team Attendance 1 19 10 March 2013 Ferencváros Újpest 16,000 2 27 12 May 2013 Győr Ferencváros 13,700 3 1 27 July 2012 Diósgyőr Újpest 9,952 4 4 19 August 2012 Újpest Ferencváros 9,827 5 11 21 October 2012 Debrecen Diósgyőr 9,500 6 23 14 April 2013 Győr Videoton 9,400 7 14 11 November 2012 Ferencváros Debrecen 7,943 8 3 11 August 2012 Diósgyőr Eger 7,000 9 12 28 October 2012 Ferencváros Győr 6,100 Source:[33]

NB1 attendances (average) Rank Team Total Matches Average 1 Ferencváros 67,131 11 6,103 2 Diósgyőr 60,549 10 6,055 3 Debrecen 46,000 11 4,182 4 Újpest 33,440 9 3,716 5 Haladás 33,047 9 3,672 6 Győr 37,500 11 3,409 7 Videoton 37,454 11 3,405 8 Pécs 24,500 9 2,722 9 Rákóczi 22,000 11 2,000 10 Honvéd 16,000 9 1,833 11 Kecskemét 18,333 10 1,833 12 Pápa 15,300 9 1,700 13 MTK 16,200 11 1,437 14 Paks 15,350 11 1,395 15 Siófok 8,950 9 995 16 Eger 4,550 9 506 Source:[33]

Last updated: 4 April 2013