Short name DVSC Capacity 1,800 League Nemzeti Bajnokság I Location Debrecen, Hungary | Founded 1948 President Vilmos Köstner Head coach Tone Tiselj | |
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Full name Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club Arenas Hódos Imre Sportcsarnok, Debrecen | ||
Debreceni Vasutas Sport Club, commonly abbreviated DVSC, is a Hungarian women's handball club from Debrecen, that plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I.
Contents
- History
- Kit manufacturers and Shirt sponsor
- Current squad
- Transfers 2017 2018
- Domestic competitions
- European competitions
- Recent seasons
- In European competition
- Notable coaches
- References
On 27 June 2011 the club have agreed on a one-year sponsorship deal with a local shopping mall Fórum, and since then the team is officially known as DVSC-Fórum Debrecen.
History
Nicknamed Loki, the team was founded in 1948 as a department of the multi-sports club Debreceni VSC. Seven years later they have won their first ever Hungarian championship title after beating two of their three opponents in the championship final, including title holders Csepeli SK. However, this achievement remained the lone success of the club for a long time, after they got relegated in 1959 and spent the subsequent twenty years in the second division.
Promoted back in 1979, their brightest period came under the management of Ákos Komáromi, between the late eighties and mid-nineties, during which time they won the Hungarian championship, five Hungarian cups and two consecutive EHF Cups. The latter one is an exceptional success, no other teams have ever defended their title in the EHF Cup.
In the following years the club lost many of their key players and their financial options narrowed as well, which resulted a significant setback. The team were on the brink of bankruptcy, when András Gellén, a businessman and die-hard DVSC fan took over the club in May 2009.
Gellén had his own conception, that built solely on Hungarian players and promoted the youngsters. To fulfil the club's long term plans, he also invested into a new arena for the handball academy, which was finished in January 2011 and cost around €1.4 million.
In the second part of 2011, however, DVSC faced a heavy financial crisis as Gellén could not pay the wages, and as a result, many of the first team players left. Gellén eventually sold his 63.3% share to the city of Debrecen for a nominal fee of 10 Hungarian Forint, that now owns 96.4% of the club. The city worked out a long term project, which similarly to the club's former intention wants to build on home-grown players. The budget in the first season is expected to be around 100 million Forint (approximately €330,000), which may grow to 150–180 million (€500,000–600,000) in the coming years to ensure Debrecen to achieve a podium finish and to qualify to a European cup again. Balázs Makray took the chairman duties, who faced the similar situation in 1999 when he took over the local football club, and for the 2000s he made Debreceni VSC one of the dominant team in the Hungarian league.
Kit manufacturers and Shirt sponsor
The following table shows in detail Debreceni VSC kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors by year:
Current squad
Squad for the 2016–17 season
Bold: Player has got adults capped.
GK-Goalkeeper, W-Winger, LW-Left Winger, RW-Right Winger, P-Pivot (Line Player), BP-Back, LB-Left Back, CB-Center Back, RB-Right Back.
Transfers 2017-2018
Domestic competitions
Nemzeti Bajnokság I (National Championship of Hungary)
Magyar Kupa (National Cup of Hungary)
European competitions
EHF Cup Winners' Cup
EHF Cup
Recent seasons
In European competition
Source: kézitörténelem.hu