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

reach the theoretical speed of a hundred kilometres per hour or more, hosted great competitions and yielded decent profits until it went bankrupt overnight in the wake of the reconstruction of the Millenary Track in 1928. The wooden track was disassembled the same year and the space thus vacated made it possible to enlarge the seating capacity of the terraces to reach 28,000. During the reconstruction work that followed World War II, an artificial ice rink and a handball field were added to the facility. The Megyeri út stadium, which has a capacity of 22,000 at present, is ripe for another thoroughgoing renovation.

Kispest-Honvéd

(Nos. 1-3 Újtemető utca, district XIX)

The first sports field of Kispest AC, a club founded in 1909, was hardly larger than a sizeable meadow. Then in 1913 the so-called Sárkánybarlang, or Dragon’s Lair, was opened at the end of Sárkány utca (Dragon Street), a field that was only given a grandstand with a seating capacity of 6,000 after many a year. The terraces were somewhat enlarged in the mid-thirties, but a more respectable grandstand, one seating as many as 25,000 fans, was only added in the fifties at the time the football team of Honvéd, with such players on its side as

Bozsik Stadium in Kispest.

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