János Kovács
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-03-13)13 March 1919
Place of birth Timișoara, Kingdom of Romania
Date of death 1982 (aged 6263)
Place of death Oradea, Romania
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
CAM Timișoara
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
CAM Timișoara
Craiova
Prahova Ploiești
Paris
1937–1938 Crișana Oradea
1938–1940 Prahova Ploiești
1941–1943 Nagyváradi AC[lower-alpha 1] 60 (40)
1945 Libertatea Oradea
Arad
1947 Stăruința Satu Mare
1947–1948 Prahova Ploiești
1948–1953 IC Oradea[lower-alpha 2] 26 (16)
Total 86 (56)
International career
1943 Hungary 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

János Kovács (13 March 1919 – 1982) was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Kovács played for several Hungarian clubs located in Romania, such as Nagyváradi AC, where he won the 1943–44 Nemzeti Bajnokság I and later with the same club but under a different name, IC Oradea, he won the 1948–49 Divizia A.[1][2][3][4]

International career

On 6 June 1943, János Kovács played his only match for Hungary, being used by coach Kálmán Vághy in a friendly which ended with a 4–2 victory against Bulgaria.[5][6]

Honours

Nagyváradi AC

IC Oradea

Notes

  1. The statistics for the 1940–41 Nemzeti Bajnokság II season are unavailable.[1]
  2. Only the statistics for the 1948–49 Divizia A season are available.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 János Kovács at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. 1 2 3 "Romania National Champions". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  3. "János Kovács (Timisoara March 13, 1919 – Oradea 1982)". magyarfutball.hu (in Hungarian).
  4. ""Everestul" fotbalului bihorean" [The "Everest" of Bihor football] (in Romanian). Bihon.ro. 23 April 2020. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  5. "János Kovács". eu-football.info.
  6. "Bulgaria 2-4 Hungary". eu-football.info.
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