The profile of Ferentsvaros, rival of Olympiakos in the Conference League

A team with a name as heavy as history, but not a correspondingly glorious present will stand in his way Olympiakou in the Conference League. The reason for the Ferentsvaroschampion of Hungary last season.

The team that was founded in 1899based in Budapest and playing at “Ferencvaros Stadium” (23,700 spectators), has won the league 34 times and the Cup a further 24 times, while also winning the Exhibitions Cup in 1965 and being a Cup Winners’ finalist ten years later.

This year, after eliminated in the first qualifying round of the Champions League by Klaksvik from the Faroe Islands with 0-3 home and 0-0 away, continued in the Conference League where they eliminated Shamrock Rovers from Ireland (4-0, 0-2), Hamrun from Malta (2- 1, 1-6) and Zalgiris from Lithuania (3-0, 0-4). In the group stage they were undefeated and qualified with two wins over Czaukarytski (3-1, 1-2) and four draws against Fiorentina (1-1, 2-2) and Ghent (1-1, 0-0).

The team is coached by the Serbian legend who played for Lazio, Inter Milan and Red Star, Dejan Stankovic. The left back from Ecuador Cristian Ramirez, the Danish midfielder Kristoffer Zachariasen, the winger from Mali Adama Traore stand out in its roster, while its captain is the 34-times international with Hungary goalkeeper Denes Dibouz.

In the current league it is after 17 matches second with 33 points, at -1 from the leader Paks, having a record of 10 wins, 3 draws and 4 losses. The season there is now on a winter break and the league will start again on February 3, i.e. a few days before the first match against Olympiakos (15/2).

THE Ferentsvaros had eliminated Panathinaikos in 1965 in the first round of the Champions League with 0-0 and 3-1. They also eliminated Olympiakos in 1996 in the first round of the UEFA Cup with a 3-1 home win and a 2-2 draw in the second leg. In 1998 he was eliminated by OFI in the first round of the same competition with a 2-1 victory in Hungary which… was overturned 3-0 in Heraklion, while in 1999 in the same competition but in the second round he was eliminated by AEK with a 4-2 victory at home and lost 4-0 in Athens.