Kiskundorozsmai Egységes Sportkör is a semi-professional football club based in Kiskundorozsma, Csongrád-Csanád County, Hungary, that competes in the Megyei Bajnokság I, the fourth tier of Hungarian football.
History The football club was founded in 1925 in Kiskundorozsma—which has a population of 12,000 today and is administratively part of Szeged—under the name Kiskundorozsmai Egységes Sportkör, and the team’s official colors became green and white.
Throughout its history, the club has mostly competed in the first division of the Csongrád County regional league i.e. Megyei Bajnokság I. The team enjoyed its heyday in the mid- to late 1990s.
The beginning of its major rise came in the 1993–94 season, when the team won the gold medal in Csongrád County, thereby earning the right to compete in the Alföld group of NBIII for the 1994–95 season. During the fall season of NB III, the team’s performance was still modest; with 18 points, they were in 12th place. However, they improved by spring and added another 26 points to their total. With this, the rookie squad confidently secured its place in NB III (10th place, 44 points). The following season (1995–96), the Kiskundorozsma team finished first in the NB III league, leaving everyone else behind (20 wins, 4 draws, 6 losses), thereby earning the right to compete in Nemzeti Bajnokság II. But the success story didn’t end there, as thanks to the reorganization and expansion introduced by the MLSZ, the top eight teams from the two-group NBII season of 1996–97 were able to advance to the second tier of Hungarian soccer. The significantly strengthened KESK ultimately succeeded in doing so, and thus, within a few years, the small club found itself in the second division after starting out in the regional league. Since local business owners and sponsors could no longer support a second-division team, the club had to expand its reach to Szeged as well, which led to a change in the team’s name; the club began the 1997–98 second-division season (NB I/B) under the name Szeged-Dorozsma, and its home games were held at the Felső-Tisza Stadium, home of the historic SZEAC (founded in 1899 by immigrants from Jögelő), which was already in its death throes at that time. The further-strengthened team held its own here as well, remaining in contention for promotion to the top division for a long time, but ultimately managed only a 5th-place finish (13 wins, 9 draws, 6 losses), falling 4 points short of the 2nd-place spot that would have secured a promotion playoff berth.
Unfortunately, this division was already too high a level for the club; the leadership at the time was unable to keep up with what could be described as overly rapid growth, both organizationally and financially, so in the 1998–99 season, the team began competing under the name Szeged LC (since they would only receive funding from the Szeged municipal government if they transferred ownership of the team to the city) and advanced to the top tier of Hungarian soccer (PNB), while the Kiskundorozsma team, which had earned promotion to the second division on its own merits, was relegated to the third division of the regional league.
Fortunately, our team quickly bounced back after that setback and fought their way back into the county’s first division within a few years. In the 2006–07 season, our adult team finished 14th, the youth team 6th, the junior team 5th, and the preparatory team 9th.
This season, the senior team is currently in 2nd place, but due to Balástya’s commanding lead, we will not be able to secure promotion to NB III this year.
Regarding the current situation, it’s worth noting that there is a demand for soccer in Kiskundorozsma; our current attendance figures in the county league exceed those of Szeged (Tisza Volán) in NB III. The short-term goal is therefore to significantly increase the size of our youth teams within two years, thereby ensuring a continuous and high-quality flow of players up through the ranks, which will enable the senior team to achieve stable NB III performance based on its own player pool within two to three years.
Current roster sizes (April 2008): 38 pre-junior, 24 junior, 19 youth, and 18 adult players.
Name changes
1925–?: Kiskundorozsmai Egységes Sportkör ?–1948: Dorozsmai FC 1946– merger with Dorozsmai Lemezgyár 1948–1951: Dorozsmai Kunsági MTE 1951: Dorozsmai Vörös Lobogó 1951-1952: Dorozsmai Kunsági MTE 1952: fusion with Szegedi Postás 1953: left Szegedi Postás 1953–1954: Dorozsmai Vörös Lobogó 1954–1955: Dorozsmai Előre 1955–1959: Dorozsmai SK 1959–?: Dorozsmai MEDOSZ ?–?: Dorozsmai KSK ?–?: Szegedi Egységes SE ?–1997: Kiskundorozsmai Egységes Sport Kör 1997–1998: Szeged-Dorozsma FC 1998–2025: Kiskundorozsmai Egységes Sport Kör 2025–present: Clean Star Complex Dorozsma
Honours League Nemzeti Bajnokság III: Winners (1): 1995–96
External links Official website of Kiskundorozsmai ESK Profile on Magyar Futball
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