The 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (known as the K&H férfi kézilabda liga for sponsorship reasons) is the 68th season of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, Hungarian premier Handball league.
Team information As in the previous season, 14 teams played in the 2018–19 season. After the 2017–18 season, Váci KSE and Orosházi FKSE were relegated to the 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. They were replaced by two clubs from the 2017–18 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B; Mezőkövesdi KC and Vecsés SE.
Team Location Arena Capacity Balatonfüredi KSE Balatonfüred Balatonfüredi Szabadidőközpont 712 Budakalász FKC Budakalász Budakalászi Sportcsarnok 400 Ceglédi KKSE Cegléd Gál József Sportcsarnok 1,046 Csurgói KK Csurgó Sótonyi László Sportcsarnok 1,200 Dabas KK Dabas OBO Aréna 1,920 DVTK-Eger Eger Kemény Ferenc Sportcsarnok 875 Ferencvárosi TC Budapest, IX. ker Elek Gyula Aréna 1,300 Gyöngyösi KK Gyöngyös Dr. Fejes András Sportcsarnok 1,500 Komlói BSK Komló Komlói Sportközpont 800 Mezőkövesdi KC Mezőkövesd Városi Sportcsarnok 850 SC Pick Szeged Szeged Újszegedi Sportcsarnok 3,200 Tatabánya KC Tatabánya Földi Imre Sportcsarnok 1,000 Vecsés SE Vecsés Városi Sportcsarnok (Monor) 1,030 Veszprém KC Veszprém Veszprém Aréna 5,096
Personnel and kits Following is the list of clubs competing in 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their president, head coach, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.
Team President Head coach Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor(s) Balatonfüred László Csima István Csoknyai Erima tippmix, Sennebogen, 77 Elektronika, Kinizsi Bank Budakalász Gábor Hajdu Gyula Forgács adidas tippmix, CYEB, Vizes Nyolcas Cegléd István Borsos László Jakab 2Rule tippmix, Csurgó János Varga József Bencze hummel tippmix, PriMont, Dráva-Coop Dabas Csaba Prohászka Győző Tomori hummel tippmix, OBO, DVTK-Eger Róbert Szabó Edmond Tóth 2Rule tippmix, SBS, MátraMetál, Hesi Ferencváros Gábor Kubatov Attila Horváth Nike tippmix, Budapest Gyöngyös Zsolt Marczin Csaba Konkoly hummel B. Braun, tippmix, HE-DO Komlói BSK Szabolcs Szigeti Bálint Klivinger Zeus tippmix, Sport36 Komló Mezőkövesd Róbert Rapi Dániel Buday Erima tippmixPro Szeged Nándor Szögi Juan Carlos Pastor adidas MOL, tippmix, Pick, OTP Bank Tatabánya László Marosi Vladan Matić Jako tippmix, Grundfos Vecsés Attila Seres Damir Stojanović Unit tippmix, Toyota Kovács, Hotel Stáció, Pátria Takarék Veszprém Gábor Kálomista David Davis hummel Veszprém, Telekom, tippmix, XIXO
Managerial changes Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in table Replaced by Date of appointment Mezőkövesd Péter Drizner Mutual consent End of 2017–18 season Pre-season Dániel Buday 1 July 2018 Veszprém Ljubomir Vranjes Sacked 1 October 2018 2nd István Gulyás 2 October 2018 Vecsés Károly Nagy Sacked 2 October 2018 14th Damir Stojanović 3 October 2018 Veszprém István Gulyás End of caretaker spell 9 October 2018 2nd David Davis 9 October 2018
League table
Schedule and results In the table below the home teams are listed on the left and the away teams along the top.
Finals Team 1Team 2Game 1Game 2MOL-Pick Szeged (1) 51–62 Telekom Veszprém (2) 24–35 27–27
Game 1
Game 2
Telekom Veszprém won the Finals, 62–51 on aggregate.
2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság IChampionTelekom Veszprém26th title Sterbik, Mikler (goalkeepers), Blagotinšek, Gajić, Ilić, Jamali, Lékai, Mačkovšek, Mahé,Manaskov, Marguč, L. Nagy (c), Nenadić, Nilsson, Štrlek, Terzić, Tønnesen, R. Toft HansenHead coach: David Davis, Assistant coach: Carlos Pérez
Season statistics
Top goalscorers
Rank PlayerTeam Goals Matches1 Miloš VujovićTatabánya 180262 Igor MarkovićKomlói BSK 161253 Gábor AncsinFerencváros 144244 Marko VasićCsurgó 122215 Aleh AstrashapkinCsurgó 119246 Dominik MáthéBudakalász 11526 Ádám TóthBudakalász 115268 Petar TopićBalatonfüred 113269 Rolandas BernatonisDVTK-Eger 1092310 Srećko JerkovićKomlói BSK 10724
Attendances Updated to games played on 19 May 2019. Source: League matches: NB I 2018/2019 Attendance numbers without Final matches.
Pos Team 1MOL-Pick Szeged 25,900 3,200 (vs. Veszprém) 1,000 (vs. Mezőkövesd)1,992+22,74% 2Telekom Veszprém 25,347 5,000 (vs. Szeged) 550 (vs. Komló)1,949−22,75% 3RotaChrom Dabas 16,650 2,000 (two matches) 800 (vs. Tatabánya)1,281−1,46% 4Grundfos Tatabánya KC 12,600 1,200 (three matches) 700 (vs. Cegléd)969+2,87% 5HE-DO B. Braun Gyöngyös 12,200 1,400 (two matches) 600 (four matches)938+20,10% 6Csurgói KK 10,600 1,200 (vs. Szeged) 500 (vs. Eger)815+4,35% 7Sport36-Komló 9,900 900 (four matches) 700 (nine matches)762−7,41% 8DVTK-Eger 9,875 875 (five matches) 500 (two matches)760+6,84% 9Mezőkövesdi KC 9,207 800 (seven matches) 400 (two matches)708+15,50%1 10Balatonfüredi KSE 8,750 1,100 (vs. Veszprém) 250 (vs. Komló)673+21,48% 11Ceglédi KKSE 7,880 880 (vs. Veszprém) 350 (vs. Tatabánya)606+15,87% 12Ferencvárosi TC 5,800 1000 (vs. Veszprém) 300 (four matches)446+7,47% 13Vecsés SE 4,750 1,000 (vs. Szeged) 150 (vs. Budakalász)365+93,12%1 14CYEB Budakalász 2,860 220 (thirteen matches) ／220+1,38% Total 162,3195,000 (VESZ vs. SZEG)150 (VECS vs. BFKC) 892+5,31%
Number of teams by counties Pos.County (megye) No. of teams Teams 1 Pest 4 Budakalász FKC, Dabas KK, Ceglédi KKSE and Vecsés SE 2 Heves 2 DVTK-Eger and Gyöngyösi KK Veszprém 2 Balatonfüredi KSE and Telekom Veszprém 4 Baranya 1 Komlói BSK Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén 1 Mezőkövesdi KC Budapest (capital) 1 Ferencvárosi TC Csongrád 1 MOL-Pick Szeged Komárom-Esztergom 1 Tatabánya KC Somogy 1 Csurgói KK
See also 2018–19 Magyar Kupa 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B 2018–19 Nemzeti Bajnokság II
References
External links Hungarian Handball Federaration hetmeteres.hu