Foundation of the club

 

In 1904, members of the singing and social circle of the Magyar Vagon- és Gépgyár formed the Egyetértés Torna Oztály, i.e. ETO, dealing with "soccer ball", which soon welcomed practitioners of other sports: in the first four decades, table tennis, athletics, wrestling, rowing, cycling, Athletes from the boxing, chess, shooting, tennis, hiking, gymnastics, swimming-water polo and fencing divisions enhanced the club's reputation. They chose green and white as their color, which has changed several times over time, but one thing has remained constant: the wagon factory has been a reliable supporter behind the ETO footballers since the beginning.

Prehistoric age of ETO

In the club's early days the team played in the district championship. The first notable success was achieved in the Hadi CUP in which all top teams except Ferencváros strated. Suprisingly ETO finished second place behind MTK, made up of excellent players. The year 1926 brought the turning point in Hungarian football, with the introduction of professionalism, ten teams made up the league and fourteen made up the second division. At the ETO, they did not agree to the conditions of playing, so the team continoued to play in the amateur league.

 First time in the NB I

The team played in the first league for the first time in 1937/38, when they won against Diósgyőr in the promotion battle. With the lead of Károly Fogl the team was not very successful, because they lost many matches, and they only won three games. At the end of the year, the team relegated and cannot come back to the first league until the end of WorldWar II.

The main change in the life of the team came in the season 1948/49. Lajós Baróti who arrived from Szeged to Győr, broke his leg and after that, the directors asked him to be the coach of team. Under his leadership, the team improved and reached a middle position in the table. In the beginning of 50's, Imre Kovács took the control of ETO. With his help the team reached the sixth position. The legends of this era was: Dombos, Fehérvári, Pális, Pesti, Palotai, Kárpáti, Kalmár, Kertesi, Gőcze, Józsa. Unfortunately the team relegated in the middle of the 50's, because by the decision made by HFF, in 1955 four teams relegated from the first league. After a three year break, talented players became part of the team, like: Szentmihályi, Palotai, Keglovich

 

Great result in the Champions League

 

The team achieved a great result in the CL in the season 1964/65. We won two times against Chemie Leipzig, after that, our team beat Lokomotiv Sofia, and for the qualification to the top four, ETO won against DWS Amsterdam. In the semifinal, we met with the famous Benfica. The match was played in the Népstadion, but the portugese team stopped us. Nevertheless, from hungarian point of view, this is the best result so far, which no one can surpass it until now.

During the 60's, ETO had a great series in the Hungarian Cup. The team won the cup three times in a row - 1965, 1966 and 1967, so ETO become a regular participant of the KEK competition. Teams like Fiorentina, Braga, Standard Liege and Milan came to Győr to play match in the cup series. Tóth introduced himself to the national team, Palotai and Orbán became olympic champion in Tokyo, and Keglovich won an olympic gold medal in Mexico city.

 

Era of József Verebes

With the signing of József Verebes, the most successful era of ETO has began. In 1981/82 ETO reached more than hundred goals in the championship and revolutionized the hungarian football with its Dutch-style game. In these times more than 20.000 people visited the arena regularly. In the next year, the club can defend the title against the big clubs from the capitaly city. These were unforgettable moments for the fans and also for the players. The first era of József Verebes brought two more silver medals and one bronze in the next years.

Players who won two championships: Burcsa Győző, Csonka Gyula, Hajszán Gyula, Hannich Péter, Hlagyvik Gábor, Kovács László, Magyar Lajos, Mile Sándor, Póczik József, Szabó Ottó, Szentes Lázár, Szijártó László. Players who won one championship: Füzi Géza, Glázer Róbert, Gyurmánczy Attila, Hornyák Béla, Kiss Csaba, Koltai István, Onhausz Tibor, Palla Antal, Pardavi Károly, Rezi Lajos, Szepesi László, Turbék István, Varga József, Vági János, Wunder András.

 

90's

After difficult times, József Verebes came back to Győr in 1993. In the first year the team reached the ninth position an after the fifth position. Verebes gave opportunity to many ETO players to play in the national team, like Kuttor, Csertői, Klausz, Ivanics and Herczeg. Due to the unsuccessful participation in the national team and in the club at the end of 1994 József Verebes was sacked by the club

In the next years László Győrfi, József Póczik and Sándor Haász were the coaches of team and the club retained its position in the first league. 

In 1997, István Reszeli Soós were signed and the club also brought Bertalan Bicskei as technical director. They achieved a nice results in their first year.

2000's

In the season of 2005/06 ETO reached the ninth position and one year later the thirteenth. In 2007 the stadium was renovated with the aim to reach nice result in a professional infrastructure. In 2007/08 ETO won a bronze medal with Sándor Egervári, so they qualified to the internation competitions.

In 2008/09 ETO the team reached the eighth position in the league and Péter Bajzát became the top goalscores. In this season ETO played in the semifinal of Hungarian Ligakupa

ETO started the 2009/10 season with coach Attila Pintér. The team were unbeatable for nineteen games and won a bronze medal in the league. After this season ETO played in the Europa League and beat opponents like Nitra, Atyraut and Montpellier. In the playoff Dinamo Zagreb stopped us, but it was a great result for us and for the hungarian football as well.

ETO won its fourth gold medal in 2013. The team won against Ferencváros in a home game, so they became champions three weeks before the end of the championship. One year later ETO won a silver medal in the hungarian championship.

Present

In 2015 the team was on the verge of disbanding and remained without owner and main sponsors. Radical changes have been made in the upcoming years and now ETO is fighting to get back in the first league with talented, mainly home-grown players.