# 2018–19 Diósgyőri VTK season

The 2018–19 season will be Diósgyőri VTK's 53rd competitive season, 8th consecutive season in the OTP Bank Liga and 108th year in existence as a football club.

## First team squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | HUN | Erik Bukrán |
| 4 | DF | HUN | Márk Tamás |
| 6 | MF | HUN | Mátyás Tajti |
| 7 | FW | HUN | Gábor Makrai |
| 8 | MF | KOS | Florent Hasani |
| 9 | FW | HUN | Patrik Bacsa |
| 10 | FW | HUN | Richárd Vernes |
| 11 | DF | SVK | Martin Juhar |
| 14 | MF | HUN | Dávid Márkvárt |
| 15 | MF | HUN | Barnabás Tóth |
| 17 | DF | UKR | Serhiy Shestakov |
| 18 | MF | HUN | Borisz Tóth |
| 20 | MF | HUN | Bence Szabó |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | DF | HUN | Tamás Géringer |
| 22 | GK | CRO | Ivan Radoš |
| 23 | MF | HUN | Dávid Forgács |
| 25 | DF | SRB | Dušan Brković |
| 28 | MF | CRO | Tomislav Mazalović |
| 33 | DF | HUN | Kristóf Polgár |
| 48 | DF | SRB | Dejan Karan |
| 50 | DF | HUN | Bence Bárdos |
| 81 | DF | HUN | Patrik Ivánka |
| 91 | FW | SRB | Branko Mihajlović |
| 94 | DF | HUN | Gábor Eperjesi |
| 99 | GK | HUN | Botond Antal |

## Transfers
### Summer

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | MF | HUN | Mátyás Tajti (from Atlético Malagueño) |
| 10 | FW | HUN | Richárd Vernes (from Zalaegerszeg) |
| 11 | MF | SVK | Martin Juhar (from Zbrojovka Brno) |
| 14 | MF | HUN | Dávid Márkvárt (from Puskás Akadémia) |
| 20 | MF | HUN | Bence Szabó (loan from Videoton) |
| 24 | FW | ROU | István Fülöp (loan return from Sepsi) |
| 28 | MF | CRO | Tomislav Mazalović (from Inter Zaprešić) |
| 33 | DF | HUN | Kristóf Polgár (from Szombathelyi Haladás) |
| 79 | FW | HUN | József Varga (from Diósgyőr U-19) |
| 91 | FW | SRB | Branko Mihajlović (from Hapoel Petah Tikva) |
| — | MF | HUN | Balázs Szabó (loan return from Siófok) |
| — | FW | HUN | Gábor Boros (loan return from Kazincbarcika) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 6 | MF | ESP | Diego Vela |
| 10 | FW | HUN | Roland Ugrai (to Atromitos) |
| 11 | MF | HUN | Balázs Szabó (loan to Balmazújváros) |
| 14 | FW | HUN | Zsolt Óvári (loan to Balmazújváros) |
| 16 | FW | GRE | Nikolaos Ioannidis (to Marítimo) |
| 20 | MF | HUN | Attila Busai |
| 21 | DF | HUN | Gergő Kocsis (loan return to Dunajská Streda) |
| 24 | FW | ROU | István Fülöp (to Sepsi) |
| 27 | FW | SVK | Ákos Szarka (to Gyirmót) |
| 74 | MF | HUN | Patrik Ternován (loan to Balmazújváros) |
| — | FW | HUN | Gábor Boros (loan to Budafok) |

### Winter

| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | MF | CMR | Ismaila Ousman (from AS Fortuna) |
| 14 | FW | HUN | Gábor Boros (loan return from Budafok) |
| 21 | MF | HUN | Tamás Géringer (from Diósgyőr II) |
| 29 | DF | CMR | Yannick Ndzoumou (from AS Fortuna) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 5 | DF | HUN | Zoltán Lipták (to Gyirmót) |
| 19 | DF | HUN | Tibor Nagy |
| 94 | DF | HUN | Gábor Eperjesi (to Mezőkövesd) |

## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

    Last updated on 19 May 2019.
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | OTP Bank Liga | OTP Bank Liga | Hungarian Cup | Hungarian Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| 1 | GK | HUN | Erik Bukrán | 10 | -20 | 10 | -20 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | HUN | Márk Tamás | 29 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | CMR | Ismaila Ousman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | MF | HUN | Mátyás Tajti | 31 | 5 | 29 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | HUN | Gábor Makrai | 8 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | MF | KOS | Florent Hasani | 33 | 8 | 31 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| 9 | FW | HUN | Patrik Bacsa | 29 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | HUN | Richárd Vernes | 30 | 9 | 28 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | MF | SVK | Martin Juhar | 27 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | HUN | Dávid Márkvárt | 27 | 2 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | HUN | Barnabás Tóth | 14 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | MF | UKR | Serhiy Shestakov | 29 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | HUN | Borisz Tóth | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | HUN | Bence Szabó | 25 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | HUN | Tamás Géringer | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | GK | CRO | Ivan Radoš | 5 | -11 | 2 | -5 | 3 | -6 |
| 23 | DF | HUN | Dávid Forgács | 8 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | DF | SRB | Dušan Brković | 33 | 2 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 27 | MF | HUN | Dániel Prosser | 12 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | MF | CRO | Tomislav Mazalović | 15 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | DF | CMR | Yannick Ndzoumou | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | DF | HUN | Kristóf Polgár | 15 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 48 | DF | SRB | Dejan Karan | 23 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | DF | HUN | Bence Bárdos | 9 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 70 | FW | HUN | Kristóf Korbély | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 91 | FW | SRB | Branko Mihajlović | 27 | 4 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 92 | DF | HUN | Donát Orosz | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 94 | DF | HUN | Gábor Eperjesi | 6 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 99 | GK | HUN | Botond Antal | 21 | -30 | 21 | -30 | 0 | 0 |
| Players no longer at the club: ||||||||||
| 5 | DF | HUN | Zoltán Lipták | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | FW | HUN | Roland Ugrai | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | GRE | Nikolaos Ioannidis | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | DF | HUN | Tibor Nagy | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 20 | MF | HUN | Attila Busai | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

### Top scorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.
    Last updated on 19 May 2019
| Position | Nation | Number | Name | OTP Bank Liga | Hungarian Cup | Total |
| 1 | | 11 | Richárd Vernes | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | | 8 | Florent Hasani | 7 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | | 6 | Mátyás Tajti | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | | 91 | Branko Mihajlović | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | | 27 | Dániel Prosser | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | | 7 | Gábor Makrai | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | | 14 | Dávid Márkvárt | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | | 25 | Dušan Brković | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 | | 9 | Patrik Bacsa | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | | 15 | Barnabás Tóth | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | | 11 | Martin Juhar | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | | 48 | Dejan Karan | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | | 70 | Kristóf Korbély | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 | | 19 | Tibor Nagy | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| / | / | / | Own Goals | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| | | | TOTALS | 35 | 8 | 43 |

### Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches. Players with 1 card or more included only.
    Last updated on 19 May 2019
| Position | Number | Name | OTP Bank Liga | OTP Bank Liga | Hungarian Cup | Hungarian Cup | Total (Hu Total) | Total (Hu Total) |
| GK | 1 | Erik Bukrán | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 4 | Márk Tamás | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 (5) | 1 (1) |
| MF | 5 | Ismaila Ousman | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 6 | Mátyás Tajti | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 (8) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 8 | Florent Hasani | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 (0) |
| FW | 9 | Patrik Bacsa | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (7) | 0 (0) |
| FW | 10 | Richárd Vernes | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 (9) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 11 | Martin Juhar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 14 | Dávid Márkvárt | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 (7) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 15 | Barnabás Tóth | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (4) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 17 | Serhiy Shestakov | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 19 | Tibor Nagy | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 20 | Bence Szabó | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 (2) | 1 (1) |
| GK | 22 | Ivan Radoš | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 23 | Dávid Forgács | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 25 | Dušan Brković | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (7) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 27 | Dániel Prosser | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) |
| MF | 28 | Tomislav Mazalović | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 48 | Dejan Karan | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 (7) | 1 (1) |
| DF | 50 | Bence Bárdos | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 (0) |
| DF | 94 | Gábor Eperjesi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (3) | 0 (0) |
| GK | 99 | Botond Antal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 (0) |
| | | TOTALS | 75 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 82 (75) | 3 (3) |

### Overall

| Games played | 36 (33 OTP Bank Liga and 3 Hungarian Cup) |
| Games won | 12 (10 OTP Bank Liga and 2 Hungarian Cup) |
| Games drawn | 8 (8 OTP Bank Liga and 0 Hungarian Cup) |
| Games lost | 16 (15 OTP Bank Liga and 1 Hungarian Cup) |
| Goals scored | 44 |
| Goals conceded | 63 |
| Goal difference | -19 |
| Yellow cards | 82 |
| Red cards | 3 |
| Worst discipline | Richárd Vernes (9 , 0 ) |
| Worst discipline | Mátyás Tajti (9 , 0 ) |
| Worst discipline | Dejan Karan (7 , 1 ) |
| Worst discipline | Dávid Márkvárt (9 , 0 ) |
| Best result | 3–0 (H) v Újpest - Nemzeti Bajnokság I - 19-05-2019 |
| Worst result | 0–7 (A) v Ferencváros - Nemzeti Bajnokság I - 02-03-2019 |
| Most appearances | Dušan Brković (33 appearances) |
| Most appearances | Florent Hasani (33 appearances) |
| Top scorer | Richárd Vernes (9 goals) |
| Points | 43/108 (39.81%) |
Last updated: 19 May 2019 Source:

## Nemzeti Bajnokság I
### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 8 | Paks | 33 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 33 | 46 | −13 | 39 | |
| 9 | Kisvárda | 33 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 48 | −12 | 38 | |
| 10 | Diósgyőr | 33 | 10 | 8 | 15 | 36 | 57 | −21 | 38 | |
| 11 | MTK (R) | 33 | 10 | 4 | 19 | 42 | 56 | −14 | 34 | Relegation to the Nemzeti Bajnokság II |
| 12 | Szombathelyi Haladás (R) | 33 | 8 | 6 | 19 | 31 | 51 | −20 | 30 | Relegation to the Nemzeti Bajnokság II |

### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 19 May 2019. Source: NB1

### Results by round

| 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 |
| Ground | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | L | D | L | L | W | D | D | L | L | L | L | L | L | W | W | D | D | W | D | W | W | L | L | W | L | L | L | D | W | L | W | D | W |
| Position | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 |