2014–15 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball) explained

The 2014–15 Nemzeti Bajnokság I is the 64th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungary's premier Handball league.

Team information

The following 12 clubs compete in the NB I during the 2014–15 season:

Team	Location	Arena	Capacity
Békéscsabai ENKSE	Békéscsaba	Városi Sportcsarnok	2,300
Debreceni VSC	Debrecen	Hódos Imre Sportcsarnok	1,800
Dunaújvárosi KKA	Dunaújváros	Dunaferr Sportcsarnok	1,200
Érd NK	Érd	Érd Aréna	2,200
Alba Fehérvár KC	Székesfehérvár	KÖFÉM Sportcsarnok	1,200
Ferencvárosi TC	Budapest	Elek Gyula Aréna	1,300
Győri ETO KC	Győr	Egyetemi Csarnok Audi Aréna	3,036 5,554
Mosonmagyaróvári KC SE	Mosonmagyaróvár	Mosonszolnok Sportcsarnok	500
MTK Budapest	Budapest	Elektromos csarnok	600
Siófok KC	Siófok	Beszédes József Sportcsarnok	550
Szeged KKSE	Szeged	Újszegedi Sportcsarnok	3,200
Váci NKSE	Vác	Városi Sportcsarnok	800

Personnel and kits

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2014–15 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their president, head coach, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.

Team	President	Head coach	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor(s)
Békéscsaba	Károly Szabó	György Avar	Erreà	EUbility Group Kft., Budapest Bank
Debrecen	Vilmos Köstner	József Varga	Erima	TvP, Aquaticum
Dunaújváros	István Szemenyei	Eszter Mátéfi	hummel	Vertikál Zrt.
Érd	Norbert Tekauer	Edina Szabó	Erima	Nagycsaládosok Országos Egyesülete
Fehérvár	Imre Balassi	Botond Bakó	hummel	Strabag
Ferencváros	Gábor Kubatov	Gábor Elek	Nike	Rail Cargo Hungaria, Aegon
Győr	Ernő Kelecsényi	Ambros Martín	adidas	Audi, MVM
Mosonmagyaróvár	Dr. Gábor Tenk	Kálmán Róth	adidas	—
MTK Budapest	Tamás Deutsch	Attila Horváth	Nike	—
Siófok	János Fodor	Vladimir Golovin	hummel	proPannonia
Szeged	Dr. Zsolt Kovács	György Marosán	Erima	Exicom
Vác	Erika Kirsner	Katalin Ottó	Erima	IPress Center

Regular season

Standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
1		22	21	0	1	691	448	+243	42
2		22	20	1	1	735	507	+228	41
3		22	14	1	7	584	522	+62	29
4		22	13	1	8	582	518	+64	27
5		22	12	2	8	656	588	+68	26
6		22	12	1	9	509	518	−9	25
7		22	10	0	12	567	615	−48	20
8		22	8	0	14	555	662	−107	16
9		22	7	1	14	509	580	−71	15
10		22	5	2	15	538	597	−59	12
11		22	4	2	16	542	628	−86	10
12		22	0	1	21	483	768	−285	1

	Championship Playoff
	5th – 8th Placement
	Relegation Round

Pld - Played; W - Won; D - Drawn; L - Lost; GF - Goals for; GA - Goals against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

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Békéscsaba		31–28	29–28	18–33	24–22	26–32	22–33	32–21	29–23	25–32	33–25	32–26
Debrecen	32–29		32–38	28–23	26–21	21–42	20–35	27–25	30–19	31–30	34–29	18–19
Dunaújváros	33–17	30–22		23–22	25–20	19–28	22–28	25–21	31–24	24–26	39–20	27–20
Érd	32–15	25–24	18–24		21–21	25–32	23–28	26–23	29–26	30–28	39–17	29–23
Fehérvár	25–20	23–20	23–19	20–25		19–30	19–27	26–24	29–25	30–26	38–25	17–13
Ferencváros	42–27	32–17	38–24	27–18	33–28		24–21	32–19	33–26	28–28	45–16	32–20
Győr	35–17	30–16	27–19	32–27	29–21	31–26		39–20	38–17	34–20	31–19	36–21
Mosonmagyaróvár	35–25	26–27	21–22	29–32	19–21	22–35	21–28		21–21	25–25	30–20	27–25
MTK Budapest	34–27	27–28	23–27	20–23	19–20	26–32	22–31	26–25		29–37	34–21	25–23
Siófok	38–26	30–28	20–21	24–23	29–20	28–38	23–29	33–26	40–24		44–21	27–23
Szeged	26–27	21–29	20–41	20–33	20–22	24–43	16–38	29–36	27–27	21–39		27–39
Vác	27–24	30–29	23–23	16–26	19–24	22–31	13–31	21–22	27–25	32–29	27–19

Championship playoff

Teams in bold won the playoff series. Numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's original playoff seeding. Numbers to the right indicate the score of each playoff game.

Semifinals

1st leg

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2nd leg

FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária won series 2–0 and advanced to the final.----Győri Audi ETO KC won series 2–0 and advanced to the final.

Final

• 1st leg

• 2nd leg

FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária won Championship final series 2–0.

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Team roster: 3 Anita Cifra (P) 4 Adrienn Szarka (LW) 6 Orsolya Vérten (LW) 7 Melinda Tóth (LW) 8 Zita Szucsánszki (CB) 12 Melinda Szikora (GK) 14 Rea Mészáros (P) 19 Mónika Kovacsicz (RW)

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22 Viktória Lukács (RW) 23 Zsuzsanna Tomori (RB) 25 Nerea Pena (LB) 27 Katarina Tomašević (GK) 32 Ágnes Kocsis (CB) 45 Noémi Háfra (CB) 48 Dorottya Faluvégi (RW) 98 Piroska Szamoránsky (P) Head coach: Gábor Elek

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5th – 8th placement

Standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts
5		6	6	0	0	165	149	+16	16
6		6	3	0	3	140	147	−7	9
7		6	3	0	3	166	157	+9	8
8		6	0	0	6	154	172	−18	1

Pld - Played; W - Won; D - Drawn; L - Lost; GF - Goals for; GA - Goals against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

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Békéscsaba		29–36	22–23	27–29
Debreceni VSC	31–27		22–17	25–26
Fehérvár KC	28–27	27–22		23–30
Siófok	25–22	31–30	24–22

Relegation round

Standings

	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Diff	Pts	Qualification or relegation
9		6	5	0	1	179	140	+39	14
10		6	4	0	2	160	137	+23	11
11		6	3	0	3	159	158	+1	8	Relegation to 2015–16 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B
12		6	0	0	6	131	194	−63	1

Pld - Played; W - Won; D - Drawn; L - Lost; GF - Goals for; GA - Goals against; Diff - Difference; Pts - Points.

Schedule and results

In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.

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Mosonmagyaróvár		27–24	22–15	20–26
MTK Budapest	21–28		43–28	23–22
Szeged KKSE	19–33	23–27		23–35
Vác	32–30	30–21	34–23

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Updated to games played on 24 May 2015.

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Nerea Pena	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária	163
2	Gabriella Tóth	Mosonmagyaróvári KC SE	161
3	Anita Bulath	Dunaújvárosi Kohász KA	154
4	Annamária Orbán	Siófoki KC-Galerius Fürdő	152
5	Tamara Tilinger	Fehérvár KC	147
6	Zita Szucsánszki	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária	146
	Zsuzsanna Tomori	FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária	146
8	Dóra Hornyák	IPress Center-Vác	144
9	Ildikó Erdősi	Siófoki KC-Galerius Fürdő	140
10	Krisztina Triscsuk	Dunaújvárosi Kohász KA	137

Source: http://noinb1.keziszovetseg.hu/pr_adatbank/program/pr_02_01.asp_id=1

Number of teams by counties

	County (megye)		No. teams	Teams
1		Budapest	2	Ferencváros and MTK
		Fejér	2	Dunaújváros and Fehérvár KC
		Győr-Moson-Sopron	2	Győri ETO and Mosonmagyaróvár
		Pest	2	Érd and Vác
5		Békés	1	Békéscsaba
		Csongrád	1	Szeged KKSE
		Hajdú-Bihar	1	Debreceni VSC
		Somogy	1	Siófok

NB I clubs in 2014–15 European competitions

• Győri Audi ETO KC

Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
EHF Champions League	Group C	Lokomotiva	32–23	26–15	1st
		IK Sävehof	35–23	38–21
		Viborg HK	22–20	30–25
	Group 2	Baia Mare	29–23	26–18	2nd
		Larvik HK	25–26	19–21
		Metz	31–27	27–20
	QF	Vardar	27–27	18–24	45–51

• FTC-Rail Cargo Hungária

Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
EHF Champions League	QT-SF	Dalfsen	23–23		2nd
	QT-F	HC Leipzig	38–39 (pen.)
Cup Winners' Cup	QR3	ŽORK Jagodina	40–23	35–21	75–44
	L16	Tertnes HE	44–27	41–26	85–53
	QF	Blomberg-Lippe	34–25	33–33	67–58
	SF	Midtjylland	23–30	29–31	52–61

• Érd

Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
EHF Cup	QR3	SPONO Nottwil	33–18	32–21	65–39
	L16	Remudas	30–22	31–23	61–45
	QF	Esbjerg	28–20	29–28	57–48
	SF	Rostov-Don	24–28	28–32	52–60

• Dunaújvárosi Kohász KA

Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
EHF Cup	QR3	Vardar II	28–20	30–15	58–35
	L16	Rostov-Don	28–29	19–28	47–57

• Siófoki KC-Galerius Fürdő

Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
Cup Winners' Cup	QR3	Metalurg	36–14	26–17	62–31
	L16	Hypo NÖ	25–20	22–30	47–50

Final standing

1 Since 2014–15 Magyar Kupa both finalists Győri Audi ETO KC and FTC-Rail Cargo Hungaria qualified for the 2015–16 EHF Champions League Group Phase and Qualification Round, the EHF Cup Winners' Cup spot was passed to cup third Siófoki KC-Galerius Fürdő. 2 Following 2014–15 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B Eastern Group champions Gödi SE have declined the promotion due to financial reasons, MTK Budapest maintained its top division membership.

External links

• Hungarian Handball Federaration

Notes and References

1. Web site: Results . 2014-12-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141224221804/http://noinb1.keziszovetseg.hu/pr_adatbank/program/pr_02_01.asp . 2014-12-24 . dead .
2. Web site: 5–8th placement Results . 2015-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150614033436/http://noinb1.5-8.keziszovetseg.hu/pr_adatbank/program/pr_02_01.asp . 2015-06-14 . dead .
3. Web site: Relegation round Results . 2015-04-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304123757/http://noinb1.9-12.keziszovetseg.hu/pr_adatbank/program/pr_02_01.asp . 2016-03-04 . dead .