Zeidler Miklós: Sporting Spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2000)

Vasas (Ironworkers’) Sports Clcjb

(No. 58 Fáy utca, district XIII)

No other Hungarian sports club is likely to have been obliged to move house as often as Vasas. Established in 1911, the association played its first games on Hungária út, then on the sandy pitch of BKVT on Thököly út. It was only in the second half of the 1920s that Vasas became a club based in and representing the district called Angyalföld, a move that athletes and supporters rooted in the Zugló quarter of Budapest found hard to accept. It did no good that Vasas was a guest on sufferance at the Tahi utca base of the Angyalföld SC. For that reason Vasas continued to play most of its games on the football fields of the clubs Postás, Millenary and Hungária in Zugló. When Vasas was relegated to lower divisions in the late twenties, its footballers moved back to the Thököly út facility. Meantime, the club had its own stadium built in central Angyalföld in Béke utca, a street running parallel to the meadow called Tarnai-rét, the site of the association’s current sports centre. Although the earth mounds surrounding the pitch provided standing room for 15,000 spectators, and the wooden grandstand had a seating capacity of 1,800, the complex as a whole was by no means an impressive sight. Shells falling on it during World War II having reduced the Béke-út centre to rubble, the team had to

The Vasas-stadiüm in Fáy gtca

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