Magyar Posztógyári SE is a defunct professional football club based in Csepel, Budapest, Hungary.
History The Hungarian Cloth Factory, one of the most significant plants in the Hungarian wool industry, was founded in 1920 by the Weiss family and the Pesti Magyar Kereskedelmi Bank. The factory began production using the former equipment of the Losonc Cloth Factory, including a spinning mill, a dyeing plant, and a finishing plant; it then expanded in the 1920s by putting into operation looms dismantled from the factories in Bratislava and Banská Bystrica. In 1933, the spinning mill was spun off as the Csepel Comb Spinning Mill, but in terms of production, it continued to meet the needs of the parent company; its independence was dissolved after World War II, in 1945.
As part of the Weiss Group, the company was placed under state administration in 1946; it was then nationalized in 1948 and split into two separate entities. The newly established Hungarian Cloth Factory and the Csepel Combing Mill were transferred at that time from the jurisdiction of the Heavy Industry Center to that of the Ministry of Light Industry, and in 1950 they were merged to form the Hungarian Cloth Factory National Corporation. In 1963, its defined scope of operations was “the production of wool, man-made fiber, and synthetic combed slivers; combed wool, man-made fiber, and synthetic yarns, as well as carded wool yarns; and combed and carded wool fabrics.” Although the factory endeavored to keep pace with changing market demands in the 1970s and 1980s, its privatization was unsuccessful, and it was liquidated in 1996.
The soccer team of the sports club, founded in 1930, began competing in the Company Championship; however, in 1931–32, it withdrew from the company league and continued playing in Division V of the Budapest Sub-Association. Although the factory club was known primarily for its boxers rather than its soccer players, by the end of the 1930s the soccer team had also advanced to the Amateur First Division, and between 1942 and 1944 they were members of NB III. They began the postwar period in BLASZ Division II, gradually working their way up to NB III in 1948 and, in the fall of 1950—the pinnacle of the team’s league performance—to NB II.
Magyar Posztó won the Bíró Dezső group of the 1949–50 Nemzeti Bajnokság III season and gained promotion to the second division. However, Magyar Posztó could spend only one season at the second level and were relegated back to the third division after finishing in the 14th position of the 1950 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season.
The club’s management, which had once seen better days, did not give up on its dreams of reaching the NB, but its desperate pursuit of results did not pay off.
Magyar Posztó never made it back to the NB league. In the 1976–77 season, the team withdrew from the BLSZ Second Division championship, and there are no records of its participation in senior league play after that. In the late 1970s, Csepel’s youngest age group, the “preparatory” team—led by András Szekeres, the former three-time champion Csepel goalkeeper (who served as the national team coach of Togo in 1975–76)—held its training sessions on the team’s field. Name changes Magyar Posztógyári Sport Egyesület: 1930 – 1945 Csepeli MaDISz: 1945 – 1946 Csepeli Posztó: 1946 – 1948 1948: merger with Csepeli Barátság Magyar Posztó SE: 1948 – 1951 Vörös Lobogó Magyar Posztó SK: 1951 – 1957 Magyar Posztó SE: 1957 – ?
Honours League Nemzeti Bajnokság III: Winners (1): 1949–50
Seasons The highest league that Magyar Posztógyári SE have ever played was the third division. SeasonTierClub's namePositionPts1981–827Magyar Posztógyári SE2 / 16391980–816Magyar Posztó0 / 121979–806Magyar Posztó4 / 13261978–795Magyar Posztó15 / 16111977–786Magyar Posztó12 / 16231976–775Magyar Posztó SE0 / 161974–755Magyar Posztó SE5 / 16311973–745Magyar Posztó SE8 / 16301972–736Magyar Posztó SE2 / 16441971–726Magyar Posztó SE4 / 16341970–716Magyar Posztó SE10 / 16311970 tavasz6Magyar Posztó SE4 / 161919696Magyar Posztó SE7 / 163019686Magyar Posztógyári SE4 / 163919676Magyar Posztó SE6 / 142819665Magyar Posztó SE14 / 141319656Magyar Posztó1 / 144019645Magyar Posztó SE13 / 16271963 ősz5Magyar Posztó SE2 / 16201962–634Magyar Posztó SE14 / 16181961–624Magyar Posztó SE15 / 16211960–614Magyar Posztógyári SE2 / 16421959–604Magyar Posztó SE3 / 16411958–594Magyar Posztó3 / 16371957–584Magyar Posztó SE6 / 204219564Magyar Posztó SE2 / 164519553Magyar Posztó13 / 162019544Vörös Lobogó Magyar Posztó1 / 154219533Vörös Lobogó Magyar Posztó16 / 161119523Vörös Lobogó Magyar Posztó12 / 141919513Vörös Lobogó Magyar Posztó3 / 12291950 ősz2Magyar Posztó SE14 / 16121949–503Magyar Posztó SE1 / 16461948–493Magyar Posztó SE3 / 18411947–483Csepeli Posztó4 / 16411946–473Csepeli Posztó4 / 15401945–463Csepeli MaDISz1 / 14451944–453Magyar Posztógyári SE0 / 121943–443Magyar Posztó SE9 / 16281942–433Magyar Posztó SE11 / 14221941–424Magyar Posztó SE6 / 14291940–414Magyar Posztó SE13 / 13131939–403Magyar Posztó6 / 14321938–393Magyar Posztó SE9 / 14211937–383Magyar Posztó SE4 / 14331936–374Magyar Posztó SE3 / 15401935–364Magyar Posztó SE7 / 13241934–355Magyar Posztó SE4 / 12331933–345Magyar Posztó SE6 / 13271932–336Magyar Posztó SE6 / 11171931–326Magyar Posztógyári SE8 / 911
External links Profile on Magyar Futball
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