2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

The 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, is the 118th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons. Ferencváros were the defending champions having won their twenthy-ninth Hungarian championship last season. As in the previous season, 12 teams compete for the championship title, playing 33 rounds. The fixtures were published on 14 June 2016.[3]

Nemzeti Bajnokság I
Season2016–17
ChampionsHonvéd
RelegatedMTK
Gyirmót
Champions LeagueHonvéd
Europa LeagueVideoton
Vasas
Ferencváros
Matches played198
Goals scored518 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorerMárton Eppel (16 goals)
Biggest home winHonvéd 5–0 MTK
Paks 5–0 Mezőkövesd
Biggest away winGyirmót 0–4 Videoton
Gyirmót 0–4 Honvéd
Mezőkövesd 1–5 Honvéd
Highest scoringFerencváros 6–2 Diósgyőr
Újpest 4–4 Diósgyőr
Longest winning run5 games[1]
Honvéd
Longest unbeaten run10 games[1]
Újpest
Longest winless run12 games[1]
Gyirmót
Longest losing run8 games[1]
Gyirmót
Highest attendance11,760[2]
Ferencváros 3–3 Újpest
(24 September 2016)
Lowest attendance316[2]
MTK 1–0 Haladás
(7 August 2016)
Total attendance537,893[2]
Average attendance2,717[2]
All statistics correct as of 30 May 2017.

Teams

Puskás Akadémia and Békéscsaba finished the 2015–16 season in the last two places and thus were relegated to NB II division.

The two relegated teams were replaced with the top two teams in 2015–16 NB II, champion Gyirmót and runner-up Mezőkövesd, each having the required licence for top-division play.

Stadium and locations

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their location, stadium and stadium capacity.

Team Location Stadium Capacity Ref
Debrecen Debrecen Nagyerdei Stadion 20,340 [4]
Diósgyőr Miskolc Diósgyőri Stadion 1 9,345 [5]
Mezőkövesd Városi Stadion 5,000 [6]
Debrecen Nagyerdei Stadion 20,340 [4]
Ferencváros Budapest (Ferencváros) Groupama Aréna 23,700 [7]
Gyirmót Győr Ménfői úti Stadion 4,000 [8]
Haladás Sopron Káposztás utcai Stadion 2 5,300 [9]
Honvéd Budapest (Kispest) Bozsik József Stadion 10,000 [10]
Mezőkövesd Mezőkövesd Városi Stadion 5,000 [6]
MTK Dunaújváros Eszperantó úti Stadion 12,000 [11]
Budapest (Józsefváros) Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion 3 5,322 [12][13]
Paks Paks Fehérvári úti Stadion 6,150 [14]
Újpest Budapest (Újpest) Illovszky Rudolf Stadion 9,000 [15]
Szusza Ferenc Stadion 4 13,501 [16]
Kecskemét Széktói Stadion 6,300 [17]
Vasas Budapest (Angyalföld) Illovszky Rudolf Stadion 5 9,000 [15]
Szusza Ferenc Stadion 13,501 [16]
Videoton Felcsút Pancho Aréna 6 3,816 [18]
Notes
Debrecen Diósgyőr Ferencváros Gyirmót
Nagyerdei Stadion Diósgyőri Stadion Groupama Aréna Ménfői úti Stadion
Capacity: 20,340 Capacity: 9,345 Capacity: 23,700 Capacity: 4,000
Haladás
Budapest
Budapest teams :
Ferencváros
Honvéd
MTK
Újpest
Vasas
Videoton
Paks
Gyirmót
Mezőkövesd
Location of teams in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I
Location of Budapest teams
 Honvéd
Káposztás utcai Stadion Bozsik József Stadion
Capacity: 5,300 Capacity: 10,000
Mezőkövesd MTK
Városi-Stadion Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion
Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,322
Paks Újpest Vasas Videoton
Fehérvári úti Stadion Szusza Ferenc Stadion Illovszky Rudolf Stadion Pancho Aréna
Capacity: 6,150 Capacity: 13,501 Capacity: 9,000 Capacity: 3,816

Personnel and kits

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their manager, captain, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.
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
Name Name
Debrecen András Herczeg Dániel Tőzsér adidas TEVA
Diósgyőr Tamás Bódog None Nike Borsodi
Ferencváros Thomas Doll Dániel Böde Nike Magyar Telekom
Gyirmót István Urbányi Attila Simon Jako Alcufer
Haladás Géza Mészöly Péter Halmosi adidas Swietelsky
Honvéd Marco Rossi Patrik Hidi Macron –
Mezőkövesd Mikuláš Radványi Dávid Hegedűs adidas Cronus, Zsóry
MTK Zsolt Tamási József Kanta Nike Panzi Pet
Paks Aurél Csertői Tamás Báló Jako –
Újpest Nebojša Vignjević Szabolcs Balajcza Joma –
Vasas Michael Oenning András Debreceni adidas Alprosys
Videoton Henning Berg Roland Juhász adidas MOL

Managerial changes
Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment
Videoton Ferenc Horváth Contract terminated End of 2015–16 season Pre-season Henning Berg 5 May 2016[19]
Gyirmót Ferenc Bene Contract terminated End of 2015–16 season István Urbányi 16 June 2016[20]
Diósgyőr Sándor Egervári Resigned 26 June 2016 Ferenc Horváth 30 June 2016[21]
Debrecen Elemér Kondás Mutual consention 25 July 2016 10. András Herczeg 25 July 2016[22]
Debrecen András Herczeg Caretaker 7 August 2016 4. Leonel Pontes 8 August 2016[23]
MTK Vaszilisz Teodoru Mutual agreement 20 December 2016 11. Zsolt Tamási 20 December 2016
Mezőkövesd Attila Pintér Mutual agreement,

contract with Puskás

 22 December 2016 5. Tomislav Sivić 27 December 2016
Diósgyőr Ferenc Horváth Sacked 2 March 2017 10. Zoltán Vitelki 2 March 2017
Diósgyőr Zoltán Vitelki Caretaker 13 March 2017 11. Tamás Bódog 2 March 2017
Mezőkövesd Tomislav Sivić Sacked 2 May 2017 8. Mikuláš Radványi 2 May 2017
Debrecen Leonel Pontes Sacked 22 May 2017 9. András Herczeg 22 May 2017[24]

League table
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Honvéd (C) 33 20 5 8 55 30 +25 65 Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2 Videoton 33 18 8 7 65 28 +37 62 Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[lower-alpha 1]
3 Vasas 33 15 7 11 50 40 +10 52
4 Ferencváros 33 14 10 9 54 44 +10 52
5 Paks 33 11 12 10 41 37 +4 45
6 Szombathelyi Haladás 33 12 7 14 42 46 −4 43
7 Újpest 33 10 12 11 47 51 −4 42
8 Mezőkövesd 33 10 10 13 39 54 −15 40
9 Debrecen 33 11 8 14 42 46 −4 41
10 Diósgyőr 33 10 7 16 39 58 −19 37
11 MTK Budapest (R) 33 8 13 12 26 36 −10 37 Relegation to the Nemzeti Bajnokság II
12 Gyirmót (R) 33 5 9 19 21 51 −30 24
Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Fairplay; 9) Draw.[25]
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. Ferencváros qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2016–17 Magyar Kupa.

Positions by round
Team ╲ Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233
Honvéd246335565555544443221222121111111
Videoton9811977644423232222112111212222222
Vasas412211111111111111333333333334433
Ferencváros121122222234323334444444445443344
Paks768101091011119101112111010119887756656776555
Haladás11119764333342455656778865564555666
Újpest12127543456666688777666677777667777
Debrecen654891111881011876656555558888888101088
Mezőkövesd810545677787797788810101191099999118899
Diósgyőr333688810101212121112121191199101111111111111110991010
MTK1091212111099978989991010111191091010101010911111111
Gyirmót571011121112121211910101011121212121212121212121212121212121212
Source: mlsz.hu (in Hungarian)
  = Leader;   = 2016–17 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round;   = Relegation to 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II

Results

In the first 22 rounds each team plays against every other team home-and-away in a round-robin format. In the remaining 11 rounds, the first six placed teams from the previous season will play six matches at home and five matches away, and the other six teams will play five matches at home and six matches away.

Rounds 1–22
Home \ Away DEB DIÓ FER GYI HON MEZ MTK PAK HAL ÚJP VAS VID
Debrecen — 3–0 0–0 4–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–2 0–1
Diósgyőr 1–3 — 2–3 1–0 0–3 1–1 2–3 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0
Ferencváros 3–1 6–2 — 2–0 3–2 2–2 1–1 1–2 3–1 3–3 1–2 0–0
Gyirmót 1–2 1–0 0–1 — 0–4 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–4
Honvéd 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 — 1–0 5–0 3–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–2
Mezőkövesd-Zsóry 0–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 — 1–0 1–3 3–0 0–2 0–2 2–1
MTK Budapest 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–1 — 1–2 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–0
Paks 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–0 0–0 — 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–1
Szombathelyi Haladás 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 — 0–2 1–0 1–1
Újpest 2–0 4–4 0–1 3–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 — 2–2 3–4
Vasas 3–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–2 1–0 2–3 0–1 — 1–1
Videoton 5–1 1–2 1–1 4–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 5–1 3–0 5–1 1–2 —
Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Rounds 23–33
Home \ Away DEB DIÓ FER GYI HON MEZ MTK PAK HAL ÚJP VAS VID
Debrecen — — — 2–1 2–5 — 0–0 1–3 4–2 1–0 — —
Diósgyőr 1–3 — — — 2–0 2–2 — — — 3–1 2–1 —
Ferencváros 0–0 1–1 — — — 3–1 — — 3–1 2–0 1–2 —
Gyirmót — 1–1 2–3 — — — 1–0 — — — 1–2 0–1
Honvéd — — 2–1 1–0 — — 2–1 2–0 — — — 1–0
Mezőkövesd-Zsóry 2–1 — — 1–1 1–5 — — 3–2 — 1–3 — —
MTK Budapest — 0–0 1–3 — — 2–0 — — 0–0 — 1–0 1–1
Paks — 0–1 3–1 3–0 — — 1–1 — — — — 0–0
Szombathelyi Haladás — 2–0 — 1–2 0–1 4–2 — 2–0 — — 2–2 —
Újpest — — — 2–2 1–1 — 1–2 1–1 2–1 — — 0–3
Vasas 2–3 — — — 1–0 1–1 — 0–3 — 2–3 — —
Videoton 3–2 2–0 4–1 — — 1–1 — — 2–0 — 1–2 —
Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian)
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Márton Eppel Honvéd 16
2 Marko Šćepović Videoton 13
3 Enis Bardhi Újpest 12
4 László Bartha Paks 11
Dániel Böde Ferencváros 11
Davide Lanzafame Honvéd 11
David Williams Haladás 11
8 Danko Lazović Videoton 10
9 Sándor Torghelle MTK 9
Bálint Gaál Haladás (7)
Vasas (2)		 9
11 Marco Djuricin Ferencváros 8
Róbert Feczesin‡ Videoton 8
Zoltán Gera Ferencváros 8
Gábor Molnár Mezőkövesd 8

Updated to games played on 27 May 2017[26]

‡ Feczesin was transferred to Jeonnam Dragons on 6 January 2017.

Hat-tricks
Name For Against Round Result Date
Zoltán Gera Ferencváros Gyirmót 28th 2–3 22 April 2017[27]
Márk Koszta Honvéd Debreceni VSC 32nd 2–5 20 May 2017[28]

Attendances
Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Ferencváros 48,493 11,760 5,198 6,928 −10.5%†
2 Diósgyőr 31,179 8,052 2,472 4,454 +27.1%†
3 Vasas 26,939 5,045 2,832 3,848 +99.7%†
4 Debrecen 21,261 4,091 1,685 3,037 +0.9%†
5 Újpest 18,300 3,500 1,500 2,614 −7.4%4
6 Mezőkövesd 14,448 3,248 1,215 2,064 +34.9%1
7 Honvéd 14,051 2,832 1,180 2,007 +17.3%†
8 Videoton 13,673 3,112 1,423 1,953 −1.8%5
9 Haladás 13,245 4,138 1,118 1,892 −32.4%2
10 Gyirmót 13,013 4,200 800 1,859 +36.0%1
11 Paks 11,102 4,217 623 1,586 +21.7%†
12 MTK 4,768 1,183 316 681 −12.5%3
League total 33,266 11,760 316 2,694 +3.5%†

Updated to games played on 17 July 2016
Source: League matches: NB I 2016/2017 / NB I 2015/16: attendances, NB II 2015/16: attendances
Notes:
1: Team played last season in NB II
2: Haladás play their home matches in Káposztás utcai Stadion (Sopron), because Rohonci úti Stadion is under reconstruction
3: MTK played their home matches in Eszperantó úti Stadion (Dunaújváros), because Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion is under reconstruction until Round 13 (2016.10.22.)
4: Újpest play their home matches in Illovszky Rudolf Stadion, because Szusza Ferenc Stadion is under reconstruction
5: Videoton play their home matches in Pancho Arena (Felcsút), because Sóstói Stadion is under reconstruction

Number of teams by counties
County No. teams Teams
1 Budapest (capital)5Ferencváros, Honvéd, MTK, Újpest and Vasas
2 Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén2Diósgyőr and Mezőkövesd
3 Fejér1Videoton
Győr-Moson-Sopron1Gyirmót
Hajdú-Bihar1Debrecen
Tolna1Paks
Vas1Haladás
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See also

References
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