The Széchenyi University ice hockey team are MEFOB champions for the 2023/24 season!

Following last year’s silver medal, the SZE team went on to win this year’s final against the University of Physical Education by a margin of more than 10 goals.

This year, the University of Győr fielded two teams. The members of Team 1 are: Botond Fekete, Balázs Vojnits, Mátyás Odnoga, Balázs Takács, Barnabás Majoross, Bence Makovics and Benedek Madácsi. The line-up for Team 2 is as follows: Levente Geosits, Géza Wührl, János Máté Szűcs, Nándor Róth, István Tamás Farkas, Sebestyén Csata and Dániel Csölle

Compared with the previous edition, more teams – thirteen in total – entered the MEFOB; Óbuda University, for example, was represented by three teams, whilst the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, the BGE and Széchenyi University also fielded two teams each.

At the Óbuda Ice Rink, 3×3 ice hockey took centre stage all day long. Alongside the university tournament, the final matches of the McDonald’s 3×3 youth championship and the Erste 3×3 adult series were played on Saturday.

The SZE first team began their matches shortly before five o’clock, defeating first the Óbuda University team and then the Semmelweis University team by a large margin. As group winners, they have now progressed to the semi-finals.

Although events were taking place on three rinks simultaneously at the Óbuda Ice Rink, they were running in parallel with the other leagues. This meant that Győr’s second team did not take to the ice for the first time until just after half past seven in the evening. What’s more, they were up against last year’s champions, the TE Erste Liga players. They came within a whisker of pulling off a stunning victory; although the margin was only a couple of goals, they ultimately came up short. BME’s first team were next up, and perhaps the disappointment of the previous match took its toll on the lads’ performance; they failed to secure a victory here either, meaning SZE II did not progress any further.

After that, however, it was clear that SZE’s first team would have to beat BGE Two to reach the final. The lads played with great enthusiasm and pulled away very quickly; the final result was never in doubt for a single minute, and they didn’t give their opponents a single chance. They carried on with the same momentum and secured a commanding victory against the University of Physical Education team, thereby avenging the defeat suffered by SZE’s second team.

The results were announced at 10 pm, when Zoltán Kovács, technical vice-president of the Hungarian Ice Hockey Federation, presented the team with their gold medals.

Anyone familiar with the UNI GYŐR ETO HC squad will have quickly noticed that the Széchenyi István University team consists of almost the same players, supplemented by university students from Győr who play in lower divisions. But there were familiar faces in the other university teams too, such as László Horváth, who was brought up in Győr and is now studying and playing at Semmelweis University, or Bendegúz Jábor, who plays for the Győr team in the Andersen League and the EUHL, and who scored goals for BGE, and Ádám Kiss, who carried the BME team on his shoulders.

Well done, lads!

Come on, UNI GYŐR!

Come on, UNI GYŐR ETO HC!**