2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

This article is about a football league season. For other sports, see 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (disambiguation).

The 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, is the 118th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga for sponsorship reasons. Ferencváros were the defending champions having won their twenty-ninth Hungarian championship last season. As in the previous season, 12 teams compete for the championship title, playing 33 rounds. The fixtures were published on 14 June 2016.^[3]

Nemzeti Bajnokság I

Season	2016–17
Dates	16 July 2016 – 27 May 2017
Champions	Honvéd
Relegated	MTK Gyirmót
Champions League	Honvéd
Europa League	Videoton Vasas Ferencváros
Matches played	198
Goals scored	518 (2.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Márton Eppel (16 goals)
Biggest home win	Honvéd 5–0 MTK Paks 5–0 Mezőkövesd
Biggest away win	Gyirmót 0–4 Videoton Gyirmót 0–4 Honvéd Mezőkövesd 1–5 Honvéd
Highest scoring	Ferencváros 6–2 Diósgyőr Újpest 4–4 Diósgyőr
Longest winning run	5 games[1] Honvéd
Longest unbeaten run	10 games[1] Újpest
Longest winless run	12 games[1] Gyirmót
Longest losing run	8 games[1] Gyirmót
Highest attendance	11,760[2] Ferencváros 3–3 Újpest (24 September 2016)
Lowest attendance	316[2] MTK 1–0 Haladás (7 August 2016)
Total attendance	537,893[2]
Average attendance	2,717[2]
← 2015–16 2017–18 → All statistics correct as of 30 May 2017.

Teams

Puskás Akadémia and Békéscsaba finished the 2015–16 season in the last two places and thus were relegated to NB II division.

The two relegated teams were replaced with the top two teams in 2015–16 NB II, champion Gyirmót and runner-up Mezőkövesd, each having the required licence for top-division play.

Stadium and locations

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their location, stadium and stadium capacity.

Team	Location	Stadium	Capacity	Ref
Debrecen	Debrecen	Nagyerdei Stadion	20,340	[4]
Diósgyőr	Miskolc	Diósgyőri Stadion 1	9,345	[5]
	Mezőkövesd	Városi Stadion	5,000	[6]
	Debrecen	Nagyerdei Stadion	20,340	[4]
Ferencváros	Budapest (Ferencváros)	Groupama Aréna	23,700	[7]
Gyirmót	Győr	Ménfői úti Stadion	4,000	[8]
Haladás	Sopron	Káposztás utcai Stadion 2	5,300	[9]
Honvéd	Budapest (Kispest)	Bozsik József Stadion	10,000	[10]
Mezőkövesd	Mezőkövesd	Városi Stadion	5,000	[6]
MTK	Dunaújváros	Eszperantó úti Stadion	12,000	[11]
	Budapest (Józsefváros)	Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion 3	5,322	[12][13]
Paks	Paks	Fehérvári úti Stadion	6,150	[14]
Újpest	Budapest (Újpest)	Illovszky Rudolf Stadion	9,000	[15]
		Szusza Ferenc Stadion 4	13,501	[16]
	Kecskemét	Széktói Stadion	6,300	[17]
Vasas	Budapest (Angyalföld)	Illovszky Rudolf Stadion 5	9,000	[15]
		Szusza Ferenc Stadion	13,501	[16]
Videoton	Felcsút	Pancho Aréna 6	3,816	[18]

Notes

• Note 1: Diósgyőr's original stadium, Diósgyőri Stadion (1939) was demolished in 2016, while their proposed stadium, Diósgyőri Stadion is under construction. Therefore, Diósgyőr played their home matches in Városi Stadion and Nagyerdei Stadion.
• Note 2: Haladás's original stadium, Rohonci úti Stadion was demolished in 2016, while their proposed stadium, Haladás Sportkomplexum is under construction. Therefore, Haladás played their home matches at the Káposztás utcai Stadion, in Sopron.
• Note 3: MTK's original stadium, Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion (1947) was demolished in 2014, while their proposed stadium, Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion was opened on 22 October 2016.
• Note 4: Újpest's original stadium, Szusza Ferenc Stadion was renovated.
• Note 5: Vasas's original stadium, Illovszky Rudolf Stadion (1960) was demolished, while their proposed stadium, Illovszky Rudolf Stadion is under construction.
• Note 6: Videoton's original stadium, Sóstói Stadion (1967) was demolished in 2016, while their proposed stadium, Sóstói Stadion is under construction.

Debrecen	Diósgyőr	Ferencváros	Gyirmót
Nagyerdei Stadion	Diósgyőri Stadion	Groupama Aréna	Ménfői úti Stadion
Capacity: 20,340	Capacity: 9,345	Capacity: 23,700	Capacity: 4,000
Haladás	Budapest Budapest teams : Ferencváros Honvéd MTK Újpest Vasas Debrecen Videoton Paks Diósgyőr Haladás Gyirmót Mezőkövesd Location of teams in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I Ferencváros Honvéd MTK Újpest Vasas Location of Budapest teams		Honvéd
Káposztás utcai Stadion			Bozsik József Stadion
Capacity: 5,300			Capacity: 10,000
Mezőkövesd			MTK
Városi-Stadion			Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion
Capacity: 5,000			Capacity: 5,322
Paks	Újpest	Vasas	Videoton
Fehérvári úti Stadion	Szusza Ferenc Stadion	Illovszky Rudolf Stadion	Pancho Aréna
Capacity: 6,150	Capacity: 13,501	Capacity: 9,000	Capacity: 3,816

Personnel and kits

Following is the list of clubs competing in 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, with their manager, captain, kit manufacturer and shirt sponsor.
Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager		Captain		Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
		Name		Name
Debrecen		András Herczeg		Dániel Tőzsér	adidas	TEVA
Diósgyőr		Tamás Bódog		None	Nike	Borsodi
Ferencváros		Thomas Doll		Dániel Böde	Nike	Magyar Telekom
Gyirmót		István Urbányi		Attila Simon	Jako	Alcufer
Haladás		Géza Mészöly		Péter Halmosi	adidas	Swietelsky
Honvéd		Marco Rossi		Patrik Hidi	Macron	–
Mezőkövesd		Mikuláš Radványi		Dávid Hegedűs	adidas	Cronus, Zsóry
MTK		Zsolt Tamási		József Kanta	Nike	Panzi Pet
Paks		Aurél Csertői		Tamás Báló	Jako	–
Újpest		Nebojša Vignjević		Szabolcs Balajcza	Joma	–
Vasas		Michael Oenning		András Debreceni	adidas	Alprosys
Videoton		Henning Berg		Roland Juhász	adidas	MOL

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Videoton	Ferenc Horváth	Contract terminated	End of 2015–16 season	Pre-season	Henning Berg	5 May 2016[19]
Gyirmót	Ferenc Bene				István Urbányi	16 June 2016[20]
Diósgyőr	Sándor Egervári	Resigned	26 June 2016		Ferenc Horváth	30 June 2016[21]
Debrecen	Elemér Kondás	Mutual consention	25 July 2016	10th	András Herczeg	25 July 2016[22]
Debrecen	András Herczeg	Caretaker	7 August 2016	4th	Leonel Pontes	8 August 2016[23]
MTK	Vaszilisz Teodoru	Mutual agreement	20 December 2016	11th	Zsolt Tamási	20 December 2016
Mezőkövesd	Attila Pintér	Signed by Puskás Akadémia	22 December 2016	5th	Tomislav Sivić	27 December 2016
Diósgyőr	Ferenc Horváth	Sacked	2 March 2017	10th	Zoltán Vitelki	2 March 2017
Diósgyőr	Zoltán Vitelki	End of caretaker spell	13 March 2017	11th	Tamás Bódog	2 March 2017
Mezőkövesd	Tomislav Sivić	Sacked	2 May 2017	8th	Mikuláš Radványi	2 May 2017
Debrecen	Leonel Pontes		22 May 2017	9th	András Herczeg	22 May 2017[24]

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Honvéd (C)	33	20	5	8	55	30	+25	65	Qualification for the Champions League second qualifying round
2	Videoton	33	18	8	7	65	28	+37	62	Qualification for the Europa League first qualifying round[a]
3	Vasas	33	15	7	11	50	40	+10	52
4	Ferencváros	33	14	10	9	54	44	+10	52
5	Paks	33	11	12	10	41	37	+4	45
6	Haladás	33	12	7	14	42	46	−4	43
7	Újpest	33	10	12	11	47	51	−4	42
8	Debrecen	33	11	8	14	42	46	−4	41
9	Mezőkövesd	33	10	10	13	39	54	−15	40
10	Diósgyőr	33	10	7	16	39	58	−19	37
11	MTK (R)	33	8	13	12	26	36	−10	37	Relegation to the Nemzeti Bajnokság II
12	Gyirmót (R)	33	5	9	19	21	51	−30	24

Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian), Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Goal difference; 4) Goals scored; 5) Head-to-head points; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Fairplay; 9) Draw.^[25]
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Ferencváros qualified for the Europa League first qualifying round by winning the 2016–17 Magyar Kupa.

Positions by round

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33
Honvéd	2	4	6	3	3	5	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	3	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Videoton	9	8	11	9	7	7	6	4	4	4	2	3	2	3	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Vasas	4	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	3	3
Ferencváros	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	3	4	3	2	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	3	3	4	4
Paks	7	6	8	10	10	9	10	11	11	9	10	11	12	11	10	10	11	9	8	8	7	7	5	6	6	5	6	7	7	6	5	5	5
Haladás	11	11	9	7	6	4	3	3	3	3	4	2	4	5	5	6	5	6	7	7	8	8	6	5	5	6	4	5	5	5	6	6	6
Újpest	12	12	7	5	4	3	4	5	6	6	6	6	6	8	8	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	7	7
Debrecen	6	5	4	8	9	11	11	8	8	10	11	8	7	6	6	5	6	5	5	5	5	5	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10	10	8	8
Mezőkövesd	8	10	5	4	5	6	7	7	7	8	7	7	9	7	7	8	8	8	10	10	11	9	10	9	9	9	9	9	11	8	8	9	9
Diósgyőr	3	3	3	6	8	8	8	10	10	12	12	12	11	12	12	11	9	11	9	9	10	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	9	9	10	10
MTK	10	9	12	12	11	10	9	9	9	7	8	9	8	9	9	9	10	10	11	11	9	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	9	11	11	11	11
Gyirmót	5	7	10	11	12	11	12	12	12	11	9	10	10	10	11	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12

Source: mlsz.hu (in Hungarian)
  = Leader;   = 2016–17 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round;   = Relegation to 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II

Results

In the first 22 rounds each team plays against every other team home-and-away in a round-robin format. In the remaining 11 rounds, the first six placed teams from the previous season will play six matches at home and five matches away, and the other six teams will play five matches at home and six matches away.

Rounds 1–22 Home \ Away DEB DIÓ FER GYI HON MEZ MTK PAK HAL ÚJP VAS VID Debrecen — 3–0 0–0 4–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–1 2–1 1–2 0–1 Diósgyőr 1–3 — 2–3 1–0 0–3 1–1 2–3 2–0 2–1 2–1 1–1 2–0 Ferencváros 3–1 6–2 — 2–0 3–2 2–2 1–1 1–2 3–1 3–3 1–2 0–0 Gyirmót 1–2 1–0 0–1 — 0–4 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–0 0–4 Honvéd 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–0 — 1–0 5–0 3–1 2–1 1–1 2–1 1–2 Mezőkövesd 0–1 3–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 — 1–0 1–3 3–0 0–2 0–2 2–1 MTK 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 0–1 — 1–2 0–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 Paks 1–1 2–1 0–0 0–0 1–1 5–0 0–0 — 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 Haladás 1–0 3–1 2–0 0–1 1–1 1–1 1–1 3–1 — 0–2 1–0 1–1 Újpest 2–0 4–4 0–1 3–1 0–2 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 — 2–2 3–4 Vasas 3–1 3–0 2–2 1–1 2–0 4–0 3–2 1–0 2–3 0–1 — 1–1 Videoton 5–1 1–2 1–1 4–0 3–0 2–0 2–0 5–1 3–0 5–1 1–2 — Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Rounds 23–33 Home \ Away DEB DIÓ FER GYI HON MEZ MTK PAK HAL ÚJP VAS VID Debrecen — — — 2–1 2–5 — 0–0 1–3 4–2 1–0 — — Diósgyőr 1–3 — — — 2–0 2–2 — — — 3–1 2–1 — Ferencváros 0–0 1–1 — — — 3–1 — — 3–1 2–0 1–2 — Gyirmót — 1–1 2–3 — — — 1–0 — — — 1–2 0–1 Honvéd — — 2–1 1–0 — — 2–1 2–0 — — — 1–0 Mezőkövesd 2–1 — — 1–1 1–5 — — 3–2 — 1–3 — — MTK — 0–0 1–3 — — 2–0 — — 0–0 — 1–0 1–1 Paks — 0–1 3–1 3–0 — — 1–1 — — — — 0–0 Haladás — 2–0 — 1–2 0–1 4–2 — 2–0 — — 2–2 — Újpest — — — 2–2 1–1 — 1–2 1–1 2–1 — — 0–3 Vasas 2–3 — — — 1–0 1–1 — 0–3 — 2–3 — — Videoton 3–2 2–0 4–1 — — 1–1 — — 2–0 — 1–2 — Source: Hungarian Football Federation (in Hungarian) Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Season statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Márton Eppel	Honvéd	16
2	Marko Šćepović	Videoton	13
3	Enis Bardhi	Újpest	12
4	László Bartha	Paks	11
	Dániel Böde	Ferencváros	11
	Davide Lanzafame	Honvéd	11
	David Williams	Haladás	11
8	Danko Lazović	Videoton	10
9	Sándor Torghelle	MTK	9
	Bálint Gaál	Haladás (7) Vasas (2)	9
11	Marco Djuricin	Ferencváros	8
	Róbert Feczesin‡	Videoton	8
	Zoltán Gera	Ferencváros	8
	Gábor Molnár	Mezőkövesd	8

Updated to games played on 27 May 2017^[26]

‡ Feczesin was transferred to Jeonnam Dragons on 6 January 2017.

Hat-tricks

Name	For	Against	Round	Result	Date
Zoltán Gera	Ferencváros	Gyirmót	28th	2–3	22 April 2017[27]
Márk Koszta	Honvéd	Debrecen	32nd	2–5	20 May 2017[28]

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Ferencváros	48,493	11,760	5,198	6,928	−10.5%†
2	Diósgyőr	31,179	8,052	2,472	4,454	+27.1%†
3	Vasas	26,939	5,045	2,832	3,848	+99.7%†
4	Debrecen	21,261	4,091	1,685	3,037	+0.9%†
5	Újpest	18,300	3,500	1,500	2,614	−7.4%4
6	Mezőkövesd	14,448	3,248	1,215	2,064	+34.9%1
7	Honvéd	14,051	2,832	1,180	2,007	+17.3%†
8	Videoton	13,673	3,112	1,423	1,953	−1.8%5
9	Haladás	13,245	4,138	1,118	1,892	−32.4%2
10	Gyirmót	13,013	4,200	800	1,859	+36.0%1
11	Paks	11,102	4,217	623	1,586	+21.7%†
12	MTK	4,768	1,183	316	681	−12.5%3
	League total	33,266	11,760	316	2,694	+3.5%†

Updated to games played on 17 July 2016
Source: League matches: NB I 2016/2017 / NB I 2015/16: attendances, NB II 2015/16: attendances
Notes:
1: Team played last season in NB II
2: Haladás play their home matches in Káposztás utcai Stadion (Sopron), because Rohonci úti Stadion is under reconstruction
3: MTK played their home matches in Eszperantó úti Stadion (Dunaújváros), because Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion is under reconstruction until Round 13 (2016.10.22.)
4: Újpest play their home matches in Illovszky Rudolf Stadion, because Szusza Ferenc Stadion is under reconstruction
5: Videoton play their home matches in Pancho Arena (Felcsút), because Sóstói Stadion is under reconstruction

Number of teams by counties

	County		No. teams	Teams
1		Budapest (capital)	5	Ferencváros, Honvéd, MTK, Újpest and Vasas
2		Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén	2	Diósgyőr and Mezőkövesd
3		Fejér	1	Videoton
		Győr-Moson-Sopron	1	Gyirmót
		Hajdú-Bihar	1	Debrecen
		Tolna	1	Paks
		Vas	1	Haladás

See also

• 2016–17 Magyar Kupa
• 2017 Magyar Kupa Final
• 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság II
• 2016–17 Nemzeti Bajnokság III