Századok – 2023
2023 / 4. szám - FUTBALLPÁLYÁK, KÉNYSZERPÁLYÁK - Csillag Péter: Az erdélyi labdarúgás kérdései a második bécsi döntés után (1940–1945)
KL ERDÉLYI LABDARÚGÁS KÉRDÉSEI A MÁSODIK BÉCSI DÖNTÉS UTÁN (1940-1945) ISSUES OF FOOTBALL IN TRANSYLVANIA AFTER THE SECOND VIENNA AWARD (1940-1945) By Péter Csillag SUMMARY The Second Vienna Award, proclaimed on 30 August 1940, led to the emergence of a particular situation in Hungarian football: the territories annexed to Hungary from Romania in Székelyföld, Northern Transylvania and the Partium both enlarged the sport’s territorial network and redrew the existing relations.The junction of the mother county and the newly returned parts in terms of football organisation pointed beyond the administrative and sports-organisational framework, providing excellent opportunities for expressing intellectual-cultural unity and for communicating political messages. In the background, however, fissures emerged, partly as a result of the inequality between the power centre at Budapest and the Transylvanian football life that depended on financial assistance. A vital aspect of the topic is, moreover, the gradual marginalization and suppression of those clubs and sports-personalities in Transylvania which had Jewish background. A symbolic moment of the period examined here is the year 1944, when the Athletic Club of Nagyvárad (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club, NAC) won the Hungarian National Championship, with the Athletic Club of Kolozsvár (Kolozsvári Atlétikai Club, KAC), which had won the silver medal in the National Cup, finishing in third place. 682
