Újpesti Torna Egylet jégkorong szakosztály (Újpesti Torna Egylet ice hockey department) is a ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 club from Újpest

Újpest

Újpest may refer to:*Újpest, a district of Budapest, Hungary.*Újpest FC, a football team based in Újpest....

, Budapest

Budapest

Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...

, Hungary

Hungary

Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...

. Újpesti TE is one of the sport clubs in Hungary that are part of Újpesti TE sport society

Újpesti TE

Újpesti Torna Egylet is a Hungarian sports society, based in Újpest, Budapest. The club, which was founded in 1885, includes sports sections that represent the club at ice hockey, water polo, women's volleyball, athletics, wrestling, judo, mud wrestling, flatwater canoeing/kayaking, karate, youth...

. The Club was founded in 1885, while the ice hockey department was founded in 1930 and refounded in 1955. During its history, the club had won 13 titles of national champions.

Újpest is infamous as being the club of Attila Ambrus

Attila Ambrus

Attila Ambrus is notorious for committing a string of robberies in Hungary. He was born in a Székely Hungarian family in Fitod, a small village in eastern Transylvania, Romania, right outside Miercurea Ciuc....

, the "Whiskey Robber".

Former Names

• Bp. Dózsa SE (1955–1956)
• Újpesti TE (1956–1957)
• Újpesti Dózsa SC (1957–1991)
• Újpesti TE (since 1991)

Honours

• Hungarian League:
  • Winners (13) : 1958, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988

• Hungarian Cup (Ice Hockey):
  • Winners (9) : 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990

Famous players

• János Ancsin
• Attila Ambrus
  Attila Ambrus
  Attila Ambrus is notorious for committing a string of robberies in Hungary. He was born in a Székely Hungarian family in Fitod, a small village in eastern Transylvania, Romania, right outside Miercurea Ciuc....
  
   - the "Whiskey Robber"
• György Buzás
• István Hircsák
  István Csák
  István Csák, also known as Hircsák was a Hungarian ice hockey and field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics....
  
  
• Branislav Fabry
  Branislav Fabry
  Branislav Fábry is a Slovak professional ice hockey player who played with HC Slovan Bratislava in the Slovak Extraliga. He now plays for KLH Chomutov in the First National Hockey League. He also played for HC Znojemští Orli in the past....
  
  
• Aleksandr Maltsev
  Aleksandr Maltsev
  Aleksandr Nikolayevich Maltsev is a retired Soviet ice hockey right winger.Maltsev played for Dynamo Moscow in the Soviet League for 530 games from 1967 to 1984...
  
  
• Sergei Svetlov
  Sergei Svetlov
  Sergei Aleksandrovich Svetlov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for HC Dynamo Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988....
  
  
• Valeri Vasiliev
  Valeri Vasiliev
  Valeri Ivanovich Vasiliev was a Russian ice hockey defenceman, who competed for the USSR. An eight-time Soviet all-star, Vasiliev was captain of the national team, for which he played 13 years. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow.Vasiliev played on nine Soviet gold medal teams at the IIHF World...
  
  
• Jindrich Kokrment
• Sergei Mylnikov
  Sergei Mylnikov
  Sergei Aleksandrovich Mylnikov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League and National Hockey League. He played for Traktor Chelyabinsk, SKA Leningrad, and briefly for the Quebec Nordiques...
  
  
• Balázs Ladányi
  Balázs Ladányi
  Balazs Ladanyi is a Hungarian professional ice hockey player.-Austrian Hockey League:-References:...
  
  
• Jan Krulis
• Ferenc Szamosi
  Ferenc Szamosi
  Ferenc Szamosi is a Hungarian ice hockey and field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics....
  
   (player & headcoach)
• Vitaly Davydov
  Vitaly Davydov
  Vitaly Semenovich Davydov is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He was born in Moscow, and played his entire club career for HC Dynamo Moscow. He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963.-External links:...
  
   (headcoach)
• Józef Voskár
• Ján Zlocha

External links

Official website