2018 Magyar Kupa (men's water polo)

The 2018 Magyar Kupa (known as the BENU Férfi Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons), was the 92nd edition of the tournament.

2018 Magyar Kupa

Hungarian Cup
The Császár-Komjádi Swimming Stadium hosted the Final4.
Country	Hungary
Date	26 October – 16 December
Teams	17
Champions	Ferencváros (18th title)
Runners-up	Miskolc
Top goal scorer(s)	Dénes Varga (23 goals)
← 2017 2019 →

Participating clubs

The following 17 teams qualified for the competition:

Országos Bajnokság I the 16 clubs of the 2017–18 season
Ferencváros Szolnok Eger OSC	BVSC Miskolc Bp. Honvéd Debrecen	Kaposvár Pécsi VSK Szentes Vasas	AVUS Tatabánya UVSE Szeged
Országos Bajnokság I/B the first club of the 2017–18 season
KSI

Schedule

The rounds of the 2018 competition are scheduled as follows:[1]

Round	Draw date and time	Matches
Preliminary round	17 October 2018	27–28 October 2018
Quarter-finals	5 November 2018	17–18 November 2018
Final four	26 November 2018	15–16 December 2018

Preliminary round

The preliminary round ties were scheduled for 26–28 October 2018.

Number of teams per tier entering this round

Országos Bajnokság I	Országos Bajnokság I/B	Total
16 / 16	1 / 19	17 / 17

Group A

Tournament was played at Abay Nemes Oszkár Sportuszoda, Pécs.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	3	3	0	0	51	18	+33	9
BVSC-Zugló MKB Euroleasing	3	2	0	1	28	24	+4	6
PVSK-Mecsek Füszért	3	1	0	2	25	32	−7	3
UVSE	3	0	0	3	15	45	−30	0

Group B

Tournament was played at Tiszaligeti uszoda (Vizilabda Aréna), Szolnok.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Szolnoki Dózsa	3	3	0	0	31	15	+16	9
Budapesti Honvéd SE	3	2	0	1	34	27	+7	6
Kaposvári VK	3	1	0	2	27	38	−11	3
VasasPlaket	3	0	0	3	16	28	−12	0

Group C

Tournament was played at Bitskey Aladár uszoda, Eger.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
ZF-Eger	4	4	0	0	64	31	+33	12
Debrecen	4	2	1	1	44	41	+3	7
AVUS	4	2	0	2	40	42	−2	6
Metalcom-Szentes	4	1	1	2	41	49	−8	4
KSI SE	4	0	0	4	27	53	−26	0

Group D

Tournament was played at Szegedi Sportuszoda, Szeged.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
FTC-Telekom	3	3	0	0	46	22	+24	9
PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	3	2	0	3	40	29	+11	6
Szegedi VE	3	1	0	2	21	38	−17	3
Tatabányai VSE	3	0	0	3	22	40	−18	0

Quarter-finals

The quarter-final matches were played on 17 and 18 November 2018.

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Budapesti Honvéd SE (I)	12–19	BVSC-Zugló MKB Euroleasing (I)	5–11	7–8
Debrecen (I)	10–26	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC (I)	5–12	5–14
Szolnoki Dózsa (I)	11–19	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda (I)	4–12	7–7
ZF-Eger (I)	17–27	FTC-Telekom (I)	9–12	8–15

Final four

The final four was held on 15 and 16 December 2018 at the Császár-Komjádi Swimming Stadium in Budapest, II. ker.[2]

	Semi-finals				Final
	15 December, 14:00
	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	7
					16 December, 16:00
	FTC-Telekom	11
					FTC-Telekom	10
	15 December, 15:45
					PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	4
	BVSC-Zugló MKB Euroleasing	8
	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	9

Semi-finals

15 December 2018 (2018-12-15) 14:00 (CET)	Report	A-HÍD OSC Újbuda	7–11	FTC-Telekom	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 1,200[3] Referees: Fodor, Petik
		Score by quarters: 3–2, 1–5, 2–3, 1–1
		Manhercz, Ranđelović 2	Goals	Dé. Varga 5

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15 December 2018 (2018-12-15) 15:45 (CET)	Report	BVSC-Zugló MKB Euroleasing	8–9	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 800[3] Referees: Vogel, Marnitz
		Score by quarters: 2–2, 3–3, 2–3, 1–1
		Török, Létay 2	Goals	Stojanović 4

Final

16 December 2018 (2018-12-16) 16:00 (CET)	Report	FTC-Telekom	10–4	PannErgy-Miskolci VLC	Komjádi Béla Sportuszoda, Budapest Attendance: 1,400[4] Referees: Kun, Csanádi
		Score by quarters: 4–2, 2–1, 2–1, 2–0
		Dé. Varga 4	Goals	Bowen 2

Final standings

Team FTC-Telekom Waterpolo PannErgy-Miskolci VLC A-HÍD OSC Újbuda BVSC-Zugló MKB Euroleasing

2018 Magyar Kupa Winner[4] Ferencvároi TC 18th title Gárdonyi – S. Mitrović, Dé. Varga (c), Sedlmayer, Mezei, Vámos, Jakšić Reserves: Younger, Német, Kállay, Sz. Jansik, Gór-Nagy, Pohl, Vogel (goalkeeper) Head Coach: Zsolt Varga, Technical Director: György Gerendás

See also

• 2018–19 Országos Bajnokság I (National Championship of Hungary)
• 2018 Szuperkupa (Super Cup of Hungary)

References

1. "2018. évi férfi és női Magyar Kupa Versenykiírása." (in Hungarian), Magyar Vizilabda Szövetség. Retrieved on 25 September 2018.
2. "Eger draw OSC and Szolnok take on Fradi in BENU Hungarian Cup last four". waterpolo.hu. 26 November 2018.
3. "Férfi vízi: az FTC és a Miskolc jutott a Magyar Kupa-döntőbe". nso.hu. Nemzeti Sport. 15 December 2018.
4. "Férfi vízi MK: 22 év után kupagyőztes a Ferencváros". nso.hu (in Hungarian). 16 December 2018.

External links

• Hungarian Water Polo Federaration