Barnabás Varga
Personal information
Date of birth (1994-10-25) 25 October 1994
Place of birth Szombathely, Hungary
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Ferencváros
Number 19
Youth career
2009–2010 Illés Akadémia[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2016 SV Eberau
2016–2019 SV Mattersburg II 57 (51)
2016–2019 SV Mattersburg 16 (1)
2019–2020 SV Lafnitz 29 (11)
2020–2022 Gyirmót 58 (26)
2022–2023 Paks 31 (26)
2023– Ferencváros 10 (8)
International career‡
2023– Hungary 7 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 October 2023, 8:00 (UTC)

Barnabás Varga (born 25 October 1994) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Ferencváros and Hungary national team as a forward.

Club career

With 26 goals for Paks, Varga was the top scorer of the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season.

Ferencváros

On 1 June 2023, he moved to then defending champions, Ferencváros.[2]

On 6 August 2023, he scored his first goal in the 2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season against Fehérvár FC at the Sóstói Stadion.[3] On 27 August, he scored a hat-trick in a 6–1 victory over former club Paks in the fifth game day of the league season.[4] He followed this up with another hat-trick in the club's next league match, a 6–2 win over Zalaegerszeg on 3 September.

On 22 October 2023, he was injured in a Nemzeti Bajnokság I match against Diósgyőri VTK.[5] Ferencváros manager, Dejan Stanković, said that Varga paid for his matches in the national team.[6][7] Therefore, he had to miss the UEFA Europa League match against K.R.C. Genk.[8]

In an interview with M4 Sport, Gábor Kubatov, the president of Ferencváros, said that he is happy that he had been convinced to purchase the top scorer of the 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I season. However, Kubatov was hesitating during the aummer of 2023 to sign or not to sign Varga.[9]

International career

On 27 March 2023, Varga made his first appearance as a substitute for the Hungary national team in an UEFA Euro qualifying match against Bulgaria.[10] Three games later, he scored his first goal in the third qulifying group stage match against Lithuania.[11]

On 7 September 2023, he scored the first Hungarian goal in a 2–1 victory against Serbia national football team in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match at the Stadion Rajko Mitic in Belgrade, Serbia.[12]

On 14 October 2023, he scored the first Hungarian goal in a 2–1 victory over Serbia at the Puskás Aréna in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying match.[13][14]

On 25 October.2023, it was revealed that Varga would not play against Bulgaria and Montenegro in the UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying due to injury.[15]

Personal life

In an article, published on Nemzeti Sport, Gábor Thury said that Varga is a player who reached his peak at the end of his career.[16] Varga was about to give up his career in his early 20s, when he received an offer from SV Mattersburg.

He resides in a small village, Szentpéterfa, located close to the Austrian border. In an interview published on Nemzeti Sport, he said that when he retires he wants to spend his life there.[17]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 22 October 2023[18]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[lower-alpha 1] Europe Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Lafnitz 2016–17 Austrian Bundesliga 11100–111
2017–18 0000–00
2018–19 5000–50
2018–19 Austrian 2. Liga 14400–144
2019–20 15711–168
Total 451211–4613
Gyirmót 2019–20 Nemzeti Bajnokság II 5100–51
2020–21 241213–2515
2021–22 Nemzeti Bajnokság I 291310–3013
Total 582623–6029
Paks 2022–23 Nemzeti Bajnokság I 312623–3329
Ferencváros 2023–24 Nemzeti Bajnokság I 980010[lower-alpha 2]91917
Career total 143725710915888
  1. ↑ Includes Austrian Cup, Magyar Kupa
  2. ↑ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, eight appearances and nine goals in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

As of match played 17 October 2023[19]
Scores and results list Hungary's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Varga goal.[19]
List of international goals scored by Barnabás Varga
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
120 June 2023Puskás Aréna, Budapest, Hungary Lithuania1–02–0UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying
27 September 2023Red Star Stadium, Belgrade, Serbia Serbia1–12–1
314 October 2023Puskás Aréna, Budapest, Hungary1–02–1
417 October 2023Darius and Girėnas Stadium, Kaunas, Lithuania Lithuania2–22–2

References

  1. 1 2 Profile at WorldFootball, worldfootball.net
  2. ↑ "Hungarian national team top scorer joins Fradi". fradi.hu. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  3. ↑ "Fehérvár vs. Ferencváros - 6 August 2023 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2023-08-06.
  4. ↑ "Ferencváros vs. Paks - 27 August 2023 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 2023-08-27.
  5. ↑ Nemzet, Magyar (2023-10-23). "Sztankovics Varga Barnabás sérüléséről: Megfizette a válogatottság árát". Sztankovics Varga Barnabás sérüléséről: Megfizette a válogatottság árát (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  6. ↑ István, Kocsmár-Tóth (2023-10-23). "Ilyen nincs! Sérülés miatt kellett lecserélni a magyar válogatott alapemberét". index.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  7. ↑ "Dejan Sztankovics: „Varga Barnabás megfizeti az árát, hogy rengeteg meccset játszik"". Sportal.hu (in Hungarian). 2023-10-22. Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  8. ↑ nemzetisport.hu (2023). "Ekl: Varga Barna kihagyhatja a Genk elleni meccset - NSO". www.nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  9. ↑ "Kubatov: Örülök, hogy meggyőztek Varga Barnabás leigazolásáról". telex (in Hungarian). 2023-12-14. Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  10. ↑ "„Akár a külföld is benne lehet" – az NB I gólkirályjelöltje Bognár Györggyel még magasabb fokozatba kapcsolt". m4sport.hu (in hungarian). 25 April 2023.
  11. ↑ "Sallai bomba, Varga első góllal tette emlékezetessé litvánok elleni meccsét". sport365.hu (in Hungarian). 20 June 2023. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  12. ↑ UEFA.com. "Serbia-Hungary | European Qualifiers 2024". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-09-09.
  13. ↑ nemzetisport.hu (2023). "Ahogy köll: itthon is megvertük a szerbeket - NSO". www.nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  14. ↑ UEFA.com. "Hungary-Serbia | European Qualifiers 2024". UEFA.com. Retrieved 2023-10-15.
  15. ↑ nemzetisport.hu (2023). "FTC: az Eb-selejtezőkön sem játszhat már Varga Barnabás - NSO". www.nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-10-25.
  16. ↑ nemzetisport.hu (2023). "Későn érő klasszis – Thury Gábor jegyzete - NSO". www.nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-12-22.
  17. ↑ nemzetisport.hu (2023). "Mindenhol jó, de legjobb otthon! – Varga Barnabás karácsonya Szentp". www.nemzetisport.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 2023-12-24.
  18. ↑ "Barnabás Varga". Soccerway. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  19. 1 2 "Varga, Barnabás". National Football Teams. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
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