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Hungary vs Soviet Union Euro 1980 qualifying match report

Date, kick-off time:	Wednesday, 11 October 1978, 18:00 (UTC+01:00)
National teams, score:	Hungary - Soviet Union 2:0
Competition:	UEFA Euro 1980 Qualifying, Group 6
Referee:	Walter Eschweiler, Euskirchen / West Germany
Attendance, venue:	35 000, Népstadion, Budapest
Goals:	1:0 (26') Béla Váradi, 2:0 (60') László Szokolai

Hungary national football team line-up in match Nr.533

Managed by association captain Ferenc Kovács
Player	Caps	Age	Club
Béla Katzirz	1	25	Pécsi Munkás SC, Pécs
Győző Martos	15	28	Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest
István Kocsis	9	29	Bp Honvéd SE, Budapest
Zoltán Kereki	29	25	Szombathelyi Haladás VSE, Szombathely
Sándor Lukács	9	27	Bp Honvéd SE, Budapest
József Pál	2	27	Bp Honvéd SE, Budapest
György Tatár 87'	2	26	Diósgyőri VTK, Miskolc
Sándor Pintér 80'	37	28	Bp Honvéd SE, Budapest
László Szokolai 86'	2	26	Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest
86' László Gyimesi	2	21	Bp Honvéd SE, Budapest
István Kovács 69'	8	25	Vasas SC, Budapest
69' László Fekete 75'	14	24	Újpesti Dózsa SC, Budapest
Béla Váradi	29	25	Vasas SC, Budapest

Soviet Union national team line-up in match Nr.249

Managed by head coach Nikita Simonyan
Player	Caps	Age	Club
Yuriy Degteryov 42'	14	29	Shakhtyor, Donetsk
42' Nikolay Gontar	5	29	Dinamo, Moscow
Anatoliy Konkov	47	29	Dinamo, Kiev
Vasiliy Zhupikov	9	24	Torpedo, Moscow
Aleksandr Makhovikov	11	27	Dinamo, Moscow
Aleksandr Bubnov	10	23	Dinamo, Moscow
Aleksandr Berezhnoy	7	20	Dinamo, Kiev
Leonid Buryak 65'	30	25	Dinamo, Kiev
65' Georgiy Yartsev	3	30	Spartak, Moscow
Vladimir Bessonov 20'	11	20	Dinamo, Kiev
Vladimir Gutsaev	6	25	Dinamo, Tbilisi
Vagiz Khidiyatullin 13'	4	19	Spartak, Moscow
Oleg Blokhin	59	25	Dinamo, Kiev

Match stats

National team	Players	Average caps	Average age	Clubs	Goals	Cautions	Expulsions
Hungary	13	12.231	26.221	7	2	3	0
Soviet Union	13	16.615	25.549	6	0	2	0

Comments

Zsorzsinju Hungary - Other notes posted 09.08.2011 02:32:51

Hungary: Pintér Sándor (link:

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Zsorzsinju Hungary - posted 23.11.2014 18:11:04

Hungary team (link:

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Hungary vs Soviet Union post-match head-to-head

Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals	Points/Match
16	5	4	7	26 - 19	0.875
Hungary v Soviet Union match-by-match record

Hungary matches

Previous match:

UEFA Euro 1980 Qualifying

Finland vs Hungary 2-1

Helsinki, Wednesday 20 September 1978

Next match:

UEFA Euro 1980 Qualifying

Greece vs Hungary 4-1

Thessaloniki, Saturday 28 October 1978

Hungarian national team matches

Soviet Union matches

Previous match:

Friendly International

Turkey vs Soviet Union 0-2

Ankara, Thursday 5 October 1978

Next match:

Friendly International

Japan vs Soviet Union 1-4

Tokyo, Sunday 19 November 1978

Soviet football team international record

Hungary top scorers

1. Ferenc Puskás (1945 - 1956) - 84 goals
2. Sándor Kocsis (1948 - 1956) - 75 goals
3. Imre Schlosser (1906 - 1921) - 58 goals
... Béla Váradi (1972 - 1978) - 11 goals
... László Szokolai (1978) - 1 goal

(correct as of October 11, 1978)

all-time Hungary top goalscorers

Brief match report

Wed. 11 Oct 1978
Népstadion, Budapest
Hungary 2-0 Soviet Union
Goals: Váradi 26, Szokolai 60

Hungary: Katzirz, Martos, Kocsis, Kereki, Lukács, Pál, Tatár, Pintér (c), Szokolai (Gyimesi 86), Kovács (Fekete 69), Váradi. Managed by Kovács.
Booked: Fekete 75, Pintér 80, Tatár 87.

Soviet Union: Degteryov (Gontar 42), Konkov (c), Zhupikov, Makhovikov, Bubnov, Berezhnoy, Buryak (Yartsev 65), Bessonov, Gutsaev, Khidiyatullin, Blokhin. Managed by Simonyan.
Booked: Khidiyatullin 13, Bessonov 20.

Att: 35 000
Ref: Eschweiler (West Germany)