Béla Pálfi

Bela Palfi
Personal information
Full name	Bela Palfi
Date of birth	16 February 1923
Place of birth	Bečkerek, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Date of death	9 September 1995 (aged 72)
Place of death	Zrenjanin, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1938–1941	AK Vojvodina Zrenjanin
Senior career*
Years	Team
1941–1944	Újvideki AC
1945–1946	Spartak Subotica
1946–1948	Partizan
1948	Spartak Subotica
1948–1953	Red Star Belgrade
1953–1954	Spartak Subotica
International career
1948–1951	Yugoslavia
Managerial career
1959–1963	Sloboda Tuzla
1963–1966	Aris Thessaloniki
1966–1967	Hapoel Petah Tikva
	Proleter Zrenjanin
	Radnički Kragujevac
1969–1975	Kavala
1975	Panachaiki
1978–1979	Egaleo
1981–1983	Priština
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Yugoslavia
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bela Palfi (Serbian Cyrillic: Бела Палфи, Hungarian: Pálfi Béla; 16 February 1923 – 9 September 1995) was a Yugoslav footballer of Hungarian ethnicity who was part of Yugoslavia national football team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup. He later became a manager. With FK Partizan he won national championship (1947) and Yugoslav Cup (1947). With Red Star Belgrade he won 2 national championships (1951, 1953) and three Yugoslav Cups (1948, 1949, 1950).

Biography

He played with Újvideki AC in the Hungarian championship during the Hungarian occupation in the World War II.^[1]^[2] He was also part of Yugoslavia's squad for the football tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but he did not play in any matches.^[3]

He started his coaching career in Zrenjanin, then he coached FK Sloboda Tuzla in their first seasons in the Yugoslav First League (1959–60 and 1962–63), then he worked in Greece, later took charge of FK Proleter Zrenjanin in the First League in 1969 and also coached Priština.^[4] when the club accomplished promotion for the first time to the Yugoslav First League.^[5]

References

^ Béla Pálfi stats at nela.hu
^ Nincs új a nap alatt Archived 2014-01-04 at the Wayback Machine at Magyar Szo online, 1-12-2005, retrieved 4-1-2014 (in Hungarian)
^ "Béla Pálfi". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Treneri – Razvoj at FSG Zrenjanin, retrieved 10-9-2014 (in Serbian)

External links

Béla Pálfi at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)

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[1] Béla Pálfi stats at nela.hu

[2] Nincs új a nap alatt Archived 2014-01-04 at the Wayback Machine at Magyar Szo online, 1-12-2005, retrieved 4-1-2014 (in Hungarian)

[3] "Béla Pálfi". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[5] Treneri – Razvoj at FSG Zrenjanin, retrieved 10-9-2014 (in Serbian)

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